Cute, but with a worthy message…
1600 Panda Bears, WWF (World Wildlife Fund) on Saturday in Paris to the wild – they are only made of cardboard. Each silhouette target represents a real animal. Because worldwide there are still only about 1,600 pandas, which was classified as threatened species. At the same time the panda, the symbol of the WWF, which was founded in 1961 and is one of the largest international conservation organizations.
via SPIEGEL
I’ve tried this and it’s worked well for me, requires a restart after setup…
TRIM support is coming in OS 10.7 Lion, but if you’re running Snow Leopard right now you can enable it with TRIM Enabler, which performs a little hack on your system that lets you take advantage of TRIM.
Always make sure you have a complete backup and make sure you’ve updated to 10.6.7 as this only works on the latest version. Via Lifehacker
Great poster, should be a very interesting film too, out in 2013…
Don Cheadle was recently interviewed by Vibe magazine about his plans to play Miles Davis in a new film. In the interview, Cheadle said, “Biopics are concerned with cradle to the grave depictions of a subject and character. This movie is much more expressive. And in my opinion, we’re hopefully making a movie that Miles would want to be in as opposed to it just ‘being about Miles.’”
via Miles Davis.
Check out these beautiful outdoor firepits called Modfires produced by American metal artist Brandon Williams, stunning!
Stunning industrial office conversion…
After standing vacant for nearly 30 years, the St. Louis Municipal Power House building at 1100 Clark Avenue in downtown St. Louis, opened as the new offices of Cannon Design in September 2008. In 2007, the firm purchased the 19,000 sqf building and provided all design, development, and construction management services for its restoration, renovation and adaptive reuse—an investment that represents the firm’s confidence in the future of the city of St. Louis.
via ArchDaily.
Amazing series of photos…
Intense auroral activity flooded the night with shimmering colors on February 24, captured here from a lodge near the city of Yellowknife in northern Canada. The stunning sequence (left to right) of three all-sky exposures, taken at 30 second intervals, shows rapid changes in dancing curtains of northern lights against a starry background.
via NASA
