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Ladybug2 Picnic: Google Streetview Cars Rocking Ladybug2 Spherical Camera

Published: July 30, 2007, 8:28 am

Tags: Camera Cars, Google, Google Streetview, Ladybug2 Picnic, Original, Top

We've noticed small red cameras up on the top of those Chevy Cobalt camera cars gathering pictures from coast to coast for Google Streetview, and now an astute tipster has shown us which cameras those are: the Ladybug2 by Point Grey Research. It's a spherical digital camera, and a tantalizing tidbit of information is that the thing shoots video at

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Visiting the amusement park

Published: August 13, 2007, 5:59 am

Tags: Amusement Park, Amusement Parks, Amusementpark, Amusementparks, Great America, Greatamerica, Picnic, Picnics, Roller Coaster, Roller Coasters, Rollercoaster, Rollercoasters

for had their annual company picnic. This year, it was held at Great America, an amusement park about an hour South of San Francisco. You might have seen the park featured in the movie Beverly Hills Cop III. While amusement parks were not really my parents' cup of tea (and, with five kids, would have been an expensive proposition anyway), I did

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Canadian officials worried about picnic food

Published: August 30, 2007, 10:41 am

Tags: Canada, Canadian Health Officials, Canadianhealthofficials, Community Picnic, Food Contamination, New Brunswick, Picnics

the annual Brantville Picnic in New Brunswick might want to read this. Several people who attended the community picnic have become sick, with upset stomachs, nausea, and vomiting. But another thing that is worrying officials is that some of the possibly contaminated food wasn't eaten at the event, it was packaged so people who attended

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Picnic file synchronizer released

Published: September 4, 2007, 3:00 pm

Tags: Bonjour, Picnic, Slingshot, Syncing

SoftwareWe last mentioned Picnic when the beta was released in June; now Objectpark software is shipping version 1. Picnic is a utility designed to allow you to synchronize folders you specify between two Macs on the same local network. By using Bonjour it requires little or no setup. Unfortunately, I see two major downsides to Picnic. First,

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Joe Driscoll

Published: September 6, 2007, 8:56 am

Tags: Electric Picnic, Joe Driscoll, Musical Interlude

out this chap at the Picnic. Joe Driscoll is his name and he possesses some serious skills. Effortless genre fusion is the name of the game here. Shades of hip hop, reggae, roots and jazz are interspersed throughout each and every song. Quite the feel good smorgasbord: Joe Driscoll - "Origin Myth"Joe Driscoll - "Ridum"Check him out:

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An Electric Odyssey - The Sunday

Published: September 5, 2007, 11:53 am

Tags: Electric Picnic

Mass as Gaeilge... Freaked out hippies... The excellence of Mixmaster Mike... The pathetic indifference of limbs... Miscellaneous meanders and the sublime Body & Soul... Chinwags and oxygen bars... A partial glimpse at Sonic Youth... Thou Shalt Always Enjoy Le Sac Vs Pip... A blinding Fujiya & Miyagi... The ramblings of Mani... "Thirty sheets

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An Electric Odyssey - The Saturday

Published: September 5, 2007, 7:24 am

Tags: Electric Picnic

to see them perform at the Picnic. They seem totally relaxed pre-Bodytonic set, and we wish them the best of luck... There was no need. Their set is an absolute banger, a typically seamless smorgasbord of inspired tune selection. Bucky and these lads, the definitive Galway buzz. By 3.00pm it is all over, and I am spent. So spent that I miss

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An Electric Odyssey - The Friday.

Published: September 5, 2007, 5:51 am

Tags: Electric Picnic

To the inner sanctum of the Picnic we meander. This meandering brings us to our first act of the festival, and an unexpected joy at that. His name is Joe Driscoll, a New Yorker residing in the UK. He plays in a tent with a small stage and a clutter of clich d shmoke paraphernalia. Multi-instrumentalism, quality beatboxing, intricate layering,

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Home From The Picnic

Published: September 3, 2007, 2:39 pm

Tags: Electric Picnic

Oh dear. The weird post-festival dreams have already started. The latest one involved a Portuguese table quiz, speed dating whilst being chased by a grizzly bear, and the following creature coming to life:So worth it though. Goodbye for now blogosphere! A Lemsip and a perilous couch coma await...

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The Electric Picnic Cinema. Etc.

Published: August 30, 2007, 5:38 am

Tags: Plan 9 From Outer Space, Electric Picnic

Daft Punk's Electroma in the Picnic Cinema. It shall screen Sunday at 10.45am (according to Nialler).Personally, I simply cannot understand how this movie is not shown every year. Genius:"We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I will spend the rest of our lives!" The wisest of mantras. And so we part for the weekend. The

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The Fantasy of Owen Pallett

Published: August 27, 2007, 8:19 am

Tags: Electric Picnic, Musical Interlude

days until the Picnic. I really want to see Final Fantasy (aka Owen Pallett). I really want to see him do this:Mercurial Mariah Carey cover buzz. Perfect festival fare... Also worth checking out is the newest podcast of Nialler. An Electric Picnic special, it features a lovely Pallett track called "This is the Dream of Win and Regine".I'm

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Pre-Order Booze... For Electric Picnic

Published: August 20, 2007, 7:56 pm

Tags: Electric Picnic, Booze

Electric Picnic on-site off-license. Huzzah to thee!Thanks to some uniquely Irish initiative from those organising folks in Stradbally, at this year's Picnic the epic festival slab-haul becomes a thing of the past. 48 cans of Dutch Mould no longer need to be dragged from transport depot to jaded tent erection (tee hee). How is this possible?

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Rituparno Ghosh’s ‘Last Lear’ team had a blast in Toronto

Published: September 20, 2007, 7:43 am

Tags: Bollywood News, Lear, Shakespeare, Picnic, Wearing, Ghosh, Arjun, Limos, Sarani

Lear” team had a picnic in Toronto. “All of us from the ‘Last Lear’ team were completely cut off from the festival crowd because we were put up at the Royal York because Amit-da (Amitabh Bachchan) wanted to stay there. But there was stunning solidarity among us,”

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The Sims: Real-People Sims Fully Realizes Your Cruel God Aspirations

Published: October 1, 2007, 1:38 pm

Tags: Actors, Picnic 2007, The Sims

While real-life Donkey Kong looks fun and real-life Tetris looks silly, playing this version of The Sims, which was set up at this weekend's Picnic 2007 in Amsterdam, just looks dumb. Unless you can make those two get their white underwear off, that is. [vpro]

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Shuck it yourself : Picnic at Hog Island Oyster Farm

Published: October 18, 2007, 1:38 pm