Queen visits The Garden of Remembrance in Central Dublin

"In a hugely symbolic gesture reflecting a new era in relations between the countries, the British monarch bowed her head as she laid a wreath at the memorial for those who died fighting for Irish freedom, before observing a minute’s silence."

story via Irishtimes.com

story via BCC News

Africa's Super Park - Photo - Frans Lanting

Photograph by Frans Lanting

"Namibia's civil war started in 1966 and lasted 22 years. In 1990, when Namibia at last gained independence from South Africa, it was one of the first countries in the world to write protection of the environment into its constitution. It was as if Namibians recognized that having fought for the land beneath their feet, they were now profoundly responsible for it."

Namibia's Coastal Parks - story via National Geographic

Filter Bubbles: personalization algorithms

Filters Bubbles, a term coined by Eli Pariserm, is basically the culmination of personalization algorithms that are present though out the internet; most notably on sites as Google, facebook, and twitter. These algorithms take note of habits on the internet and attempt to create a web experience that is curtailed to your likes and interests. Sounds like a good thing perhaps, but as explained the inherently mathematical algorithms degrade the diversity of information and isolate the user from potential useful or insightful information.

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Film: North Korean FIlm Madness

Editors of Vice magazine get the hesitant okay to visit North Korea. The experience proves to be a strange mix of accommodating hospitality and over-watching suspicion. A rare look into the insular socialist "utopia".

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Story via CNN.com

Art Talk: via VBS.tv

Great link to watch segments about contemporary and upcoming artist as brought to you buy VBS.tv, the broadband video network of Vice magazine.

Art Talk via vbs.tv

Artist Ai Wei Wei "UPDATE" Still missing, but present in Flash Graffiti

Outspoken human rights activist, artist Ai Wei Wei is still report missing since his April 3 arrest by the Chinese government, apparently under "economic" charges.

Though even in his absence, Ai Wei Wei's influence perpetuates. Flash Graffiti artist Cpak Ming projected an image of Wei Wei on the barracks of The People's Liberation Front.

"The People's Liberation Army in Hong Kong has taken the unprecedented step of saying it "reserves its legal right" to act over what it says was a breach of Hong Kong law when activists campaigning in support of Ai Weiwei projected the detained artist's image onto a wall at the PLA barracks in Admiralty."

full story - via LexisNexis News

Cpak Ming - Flash Graffiti Gallery - via facebook