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...beta form, the addictive, low-tech time waster was introduced just last month and has quickly amassed a worldwide cult following. Created by a programmer with the screen name ~fsk who claims to be from the small European country of Slovenia, the digital amusement first showed up Sept. 23 on deviantART, an online community of artists, designers, photographers and art lovers . "This is a project I did for illustration class," states ~fsk in a brief intro. "It's not a game, it's a toy... there are no goals to achieve and there is no score...
...This is the wasteful - some say, shameful - side of the European Union's wine regime: when vineyards produce more than they're able to sell, the E.U. hands out subsidies to turn the surplus into industrial alcohol. The cash is supposed to be be reserved for exceptionally difficult years, but "crisis distillation subsidies" have been paid out three times since 2001. At €500 million a time, it's a hugely expensive way to deal with a market imbalance. And the European Commission is determined that it should stop. In June, the Commission published proposals for sweeping changes...
...early 1990s, they are even forbidden from using their grapes to make table wine; the only production allowed in Bordeaux is of high-quality appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC). "They tied their own hands behind their back," says Christopher Carson, former ceo of the European arm of drinks firm Constellation, who played a key role in bringing Australian wine to the U.K. Over the course of 15 years, he watched the market share of Australian wines soar from about 1% to more than 21% now - five percentage points ahead of the French - as British drinking habits...
...touch walls to release scents.”A fellow visitor commented that some of the sweat smelled “surprisingly good.” Tolaas deliberately chose scents that played with the olfactory perceptions of nationalities—was the strange lemon smell of panel #3 faintly European? Was #9 Indian? Forced to engage with a smell and no image, visitors conjure up fuzzy images that are refused confirmation in the white walls surrounding them.Bruce Nauman allows viewers to see in the dark with the help of infrared technology in “Mapping the Studio (Fat Chance...
Laurence Henry Tribe was born on Oct. 10, 1941 in Shanghai, China to parents George and Polia, members of the Eastern European Jewish diaspora that populated parts of eastern China...