Well, you can recycle them, I guess. But it’s better to create something rather than destroy: sculpture, installation or maybe… a real Buddhist temple?

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U.S. presidential candidate from the Democratic Party Barack Obama this November once again became the main hero of the Vibe Magazine, appearing on the cover of the publication for the third time in the past year. Vibe Magazine focuses on African-American urban youth and is predominantly devoted to such topics as R & B and hip-hop music, actors and other famous people.

Inside, you can see more photos made by Terry Richardson for the magazine, as well as covers with Barack Obama from other U.S. publications such as Rolling Stone, GQ and Time Magazine.

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This concept of a digital canvas and a palette was designed by Yana Klimava in Canada. The concept includes an electronic palette, screen for painting (digital canvas), a charger and brushes and tools for mixing paints. See some more photos inside!

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Eight years ago, in 2000 «Wassup?» video advertising Budweiser beer, won the Grand Prix at the Cannes advertising festival. In those days, there were no large-scale video-hostings in the Internet, but the audience of the Wassup? clip could be compared with today’s most popular videos on YouTube. Видео передавалось по электронной почте и файлообменным сетям, и по сей день является самым успешным примером вирусного маркетинга. Video was transmitted via e-mail and file-sharing networks, and is still the most successful example of on-line marketing. Later, Wassup? also spawned a whole wave of parodies.

And now, after 8 years of the Republicans in the White House, the video characters are back and ask the eternal question: «Wassup?» In response, another character says: «Change. That’s wassup.» We’ll remind that the main slogan of the U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama campaign is the phrase «Change We Can Believe In».

In this video creators of the remake from the Obama’s electoral headquarters criticize all the current problematic issues – from Iraq to health problems and of course the financial crisis.

Inside, you can see the original videos «Budweiser. True.»  from 2000. It was created by DDB Chicago for Bud Lights.

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«Rubik’s Cube» (originally known as «Magic cube», hung. Bűvös kocka) – mechanical puzzle, invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erne Rubik.

This jigsaw is a plastic cube, made up of 26 smaller cubes that can rotate around the axes, invisible from the outside. Each of the nine squares on each side of the cube is painted in one of six colors and is usually located in the following pairs opposite each other: white-yellow, blue-green, red-orange. Turning the sides of the cube allows one to set the colored squares in many different ways. The task of the player is to put it in a state where every facet is made up of squares of one color.

In addition to the traditional 6-color cube 3 × 3 × 3, there are 2 × 2 × 2, 4 × 4 × 4 and 5 × 5 × 5 cubes, cubes with images on the sides; «hybrids» made up of several cubes, options with a tetrahedron and rounded angles. Pics of these weird cubes can be found inside the post.

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The Italian company Lamborghini made a special gift to the traffic police of the Italian city, Bologna -  the sports car Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Polizia Stradale was presented to the local police force.

It should be noted that this was the third police Gallardo presented by the supercar manufacturers Lamborghini to Italian policemen.

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Over the weekend Iran attempted to assemble the world’s largest ostrich-meat sandwich at a food festival in Tehran, as part of a bid to promote healthy eating and Iran’s fledgling ostrich farming business. About 1,500 cooks used about 1,000kg (2,200lbs) of ostrich meat to make the 1,500m (4,920ft) long sandwich (BBC).

However, when the Guinness Book of Word Records officials came forward to verify the record, they found out that people had already started to eat the sandwich. The whole record virtually disappeared in a few minutes. Thus, when you feel sorry for yourself that you have to limit the number of your dinners at the restaurants, think about Iranians for a while…

While many complain about the strictness of the laws on intellectual property in the U.S., European courts have once again proved – all could have been much worse. Last reminder came from Germany in respect of the right to create thumbnails of the images. The German court has decided that it infringes the copyrights of the creators of the image.

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Vitali Klitschko successfully returned to professional boxing after four years of absense. The fight between the Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko and Samuel Peter of Nigeria for the WBC title ended in the 8th round with the Klitschko’s victory.

Now in the collection of brothers Vladimir and Vitali Klitschko there are three titles: IBF and WBO titles held by Vladimir Klitschko and the new WBC title of Vitali Klitschko.

The only title in the heavyweights, which is not in the hands of the brothers Klitschko, is the WBA one, held by the Russian boxer Nikolai Valuev, who is reportedly waiting for one of the brothers to participate in a post-Soviet duel.

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Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder has visited the most closed country in the world and here are some of the photos he made there.

North Korea – a country of morning freshness and brutal tyranny. Taekwondo and the Juche ideas were born there. For a foreigner to get into North Korea is very difficult, particularly for a photographers – it is prohibited to make photos almost everywhere in the country.

All visitors, even more so, photographers in North Korea are necessarily accompanied by members of the local special services. Therefore, the majority of images below that show nation’s poor condition and underdevelopment were made secretely.

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