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Maggie Taylor is a digital image artist and photographer working in Gainesville, Florida who uses a flatbed scanner in place of a traditional camera. “This body of work is my attempt to create a dreamlike world inhabited by everyday objects which take on new meanings unique to each viewer.” Her work is both playful and

I’m very dissappointed that LEGO have discontinued their Vision Command robotics camera! I hope its because they are bringing out a better one soon, as the LEGO Robotics Invention System Kit I got Pieter last year isn’t complete without it. This amazing LEGO rubiks cube solver robot could not have been possible without the cam.

Elektronik Supersonik Zlad (video) The tiny Eastern European republic of Molvania was disqualified from the Eurovision Song Contest this year. Zladko “Zlad” Vladcik was to perform his very popular techno-ballad, “Elektronik – Supersonik” – described as “a melodic fusion combining hot disco rhythms with cold war rhetoric”. However, the 23-year-old singer was arrested at Istanbul’s

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