Dubai Star War Mashup

Please excuse the poor translation. My French isn’t very good.

Only on Fubiz, here is “The Dark Lens”, a new series of fan images set in the Star Wars universe. Using this set design, the battles don’t seem out of place on our world. The shoot was done in Dubai by the photographer Cédric Delsaux.

En exclusivité pour Fubiz, voici “The Dark Lens”, une nouvelle série d’images issues de l’univers Star Wars pour Amusement. Avec cette mise en scène, les combats n’ont jamais paru si vrais que sur Terre. Un shooting réalisé à Dubaï par le photographe Cédric Delsaux.

via Start Wars | Fubiz™.

Other Watchmen Games Even Less Appropriate Than Heroclix – ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

This is rad.

While we admit that the logo they came up with is actually pretty brilliant, we here at ComicsAlliance were pretty shocked by last week’s announcement that “Watchmen,” Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’; deeply cerebral work about the nature of super-heroics in “real-world” situations, would now be represented as tiny plastic HeroClix figures.

via Other Watchmen Games Even Less Appropriate Than Heroclix – ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews.

Sagem Orga outs SIMFi, a SIM card/WiFi router hybrid

Sagem’s SIMFi is one of those ideas that you wish you had come up with yourself. The concept is pretty straightforward: they’ve created a SIM card with an embedded WiFi radio, so provided you have a suitable data plan, the card itself puts out a WiFi signal instead of relying on the phone. For anyone who’s ever needed internet access on a laptop, with no other tools besides the phone in their pocket, this is a potential godsend.

via Sagem Orga outs SIMFi, a SIM card/WiFi router hybrid.

Wall St. Helped Greece to Mask Debt Fueling Europe’s Crisis – NYTimes.com

Goldman-Sachs

This morning I awoke to see this story on the front page of the New York Times.

Basically, this is all due to Greece’s desire to gain inclusion into the EU. Membership requires achieving certain macroeconomic targets like budget deficits, rate of inflation, social welfare spending. They are basically the same kinds of economic targets the IMF sets for countries that need big development loans.

Wall Street tactics akin to the ones that fostered subprime mortgages in America have worsened the financial crisis shaking Greece and undermining the euro by enabling European governments to hide their mounting debts.

So Goldman and a few other big banks approached Greece and gave them an equity line of credit to pay off their credit card debt — only instead of putting up the house as collateral Greece put up large revenue generating public works projects like toll roads and airports.

And thus Greece was able to mock-up their economic stats and trick the rest of the EU into thinking they were undertaking the measures that were necessary to guarantee its admission.

Will Brussels take action? And if so, what are they going to do?

via Wall St. Helped Greece to Mask Debt Fueling Europe’s Crisis – NYTimes.com.