The artist Nikolai Lamm made an infographic illustrating the most popular words in songs over the past fifty years, reports Codesign. In the project "The History of Music", Lamm studied the top lines of songs of the Billboard hit parade, starting in 1960. Lamm visualization represents each song in the form of a colored rectangle in a column meaning a year.

Designer Michael Allen from New York presented his new Alphaboney project, in which all the letters of the Latin alphabet (as well as a point and a comma) were shaved on the author’s beard. Allen took 2 years to create this alphabet. The project began back in 2011, when the designer tried to choose the letter A. “The idea appeared from a playful conversation with colleagues-designers,” said Michael Allen Codesign .

The former broker Andrew Greene, which is the prototype of one of the heroes of the film “Wolf with Wall Street”, Martin Scorsese, sued Paramount Pictures and Red Granite Pictures for distorting his image in the picture. About this writes The Hollywood Reporter .

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Publishing house PediaPress is going to print the contents of the entire English-language Wikipedia, reports The Guardian . According to the publisher's calculations, the content of the English-language Wikipedia of 4 million articles should fit into a thousand volumes (1,200 pages each). The articles will be printed along with illustrations in a three-column page layout.

Pepsi has launched a new Unbelievable advertising campaign, in which amateur vines become part of outdoor advertising, writes PSFK . The company offers users to shoot “incredible” six -second videos with a mention of a soft drink, which will subsequently be shown on British billboards. To participate in the action, it is necessary to remove an interesting video using the Vine application and add a hashtag #liveFornow to it.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is creating a center for the development of combat robots, CNews reports . Head of Government Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the creation of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Main Research and Testing Center for Robotics”.

The collective blog Habrahabr was disconnected from the Google Analytics service. Community founder Denis Kryuchkov wrote about this on Twitter. So we (so far only @habrahabr ) have become too big for Google Analytics. They took it and turned off the statistics without any notifications. — deniskin (@deniskin) February 19, 2014 Google did not notify the site about the disconnection from GA.

Tech startup Condition One has released an interactive trailer for the first film designed to be viewed using Oculus Rift virtual reality glasses. Zero Point Official Trailer from Condition One on Vimeo . The web version of the movie trailer does not have the full capabilities of a trailer for virtual reality glasses and provides the viewer with a limited viewing angle within which he can change the camera angle.

Samsung has released a commercial for the Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 tablet, in which it parodied the famous iPad Air “with a pencil” ad . The commercial begins in much the same way as the iPad Air ad. Behind the pencil there is also an Apple tablet. However, it turns out that behind the tablet lies another one - the Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1.

Google has announced the transition to a new desktop version of Google Maps by default for all users, Tech Crunch reports . At the previous Google I/O developer conference in the spring of 2013, a new Google Maps interface was announced, but it was still possible to switch between the new and old versions of maps. For now, Google will only automatically show the new interface, although most users still prefer the old version.

On February 19, game developer and publisher Bethesda Softworks announced the conditions for participation in beta testing of the new part of the Doom shooter series. According to the published announcement, only those gamers who pre-ordered the game Wolfenstein: The New Order will receive an invitation to beta testing of Doom. She will come to them with a special insert with an access key to beta testing of the new Doom.

Former MIT employee Fong Qiu brought the remote Flappy Bird into the real world. She created a physical version of the game in a regular cardboard box, writes Sploid . The result of the girl’s efforts can be seen in the video. To implement the DIY version of Flappy Bird, Qiu needed the following kit: an Arduino platform, two servo motors, a reed switch and magnets. Flappy Bird's gameplay in the box is just as challenging as the original game.

Swedish political parties will take part in a StarCraft 2 tournament ahead of the European Parliament elections in May. According to Onlinegamer Sverige , the competition, called PolitikerStarcraft, will begin on April 13, 2014. The organizers of the event invited all Swedish parties to the tournament, including the Pirate Party and the Women's Initiative. However, only eight of them will make it into the final PolitikerStarcraft bracket.

The producer of the films “Viy 3D” and “Only Girls in Sports” Oleg Teterin proposes that Russians be allowed into torrents only with a passport. This became known from a letter to the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, writes the Izvestia newspaper. The producer asks to make these amendments to the legislation of the Ministry of Culture in order to protect films from pirated resources.