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Oops, something went wrong when parking this truck (this afternoon, Leiden). Amazing the thing is still hanging above the water.
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Video recorded by Linda, more video on: http://www.medialandschap.nl
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., the owner of myspace is responding to the new BBC plans to expand in the area of user created content.
This discussion is already being held for a while about what kind of television is public television, but what kind of web applications / communitiy is depending on public funding? When is something returning a cultural value that otherwise would be lost?
If public money is about making things available that otherwise would be lost it wouldn’t be so bad to build a search engine. Oh, right, commercial companies are already into this.
Great news, a new photographer has joined Slowshutter. Welcome Raquel Diniz.

A profile about the guy who is building one of the most prestigious architectual projects right now, the CCTV tower. And it is not Rem Koolhaas.
“Until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Balaklava was one of the most secret towns in Russia. 10km south east of Sevastopol on the Black Sea Coast, this small town was the home to a Nuclear Submarine Base.”
Soviet Underground Submarine Base, Pictures