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China and the world welcome the Year of the Dragon
Once upon a time a Chinese New Year’s celebration was a strange and exotic event but today it’s part of the everyday cultural landscape. China is exporting her culture and the world is welcoming the coming of the Dragon.
FaceBOOK: No Facebook Diary
Zuckerberg & I seem to inhabit one mind. As I was trying to see the archive-like interest of my profile (&that of others), here he geeks out with a whole new F8 that introduces the timeline. Our timeline.
The Bold Italics of San Francisco
What’s going here? Fowl language, interesting characters, never a city has had such a “bold” website. Guess you have to live in San Francisco to get the point, and if you don’t, it’s okay to feel uncool.
A sneak peek at Facebook's HQ
Here at Swide we love nothing more than peeking behind the scenes to see how other people work and of course play. When we heard about Facebook's new home at the Stanford Research Park we couldn't wait to see if it resembled Douglas Coupland's Microserfs or something cooler lurked beneath.
Noisepop Festival 2009
San Francisco's most ambitious celebration of music, art and film returns on Feb 24th - March 1st 2009. We reveal this year's line-up.
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The ‘Sport of Kings’ provides some of the best all day entertainment in the world. It’s where fashion, sport, the super rich, rural tradition and of course, horses all merge in an adrenaline and champagne-fuelled spectacle that really gets the heart pumping. Swide picks for you the top 5 horse races in the world.
Canadian Ben Johnson won the gold medal in the 100m final at the 1988 Seoul Olympics with an awesome display of power with a world record time of 9.79 seconds. However three days later his urine sample tested positive for a banned substance and was stripped of his medal and record. Johnson was sent home in disgrace, but that wasn’t the end to the Johnson story.
Moto Guzzi are lining up their latest reboot of their best-selling series with the California 1400. It’s a bit of a departure form the cruiser look of previous models with a more vintage Art Nouveau style.
Known for being quite the straight faced beauty on the red carpet, Kristen Stewart was the one making us smile when she revealed details about when she stripped off with Garrett Hedlund on the set of ‘On The Road’ and how shock was replaced by being at ease…
Graceful like the women he depicted and powerful like the stories he recounted through his works, Botticelli is among the Renaissance men who changed the world forever.
When I was a child, my parents used to take me to a little village, where we would have almond “granita” and collect fresh water form a little drinking fountain, afterwards. This little place is called Scopello and it was time for me to return to my childhood and explore as an adult.
The scenario is…you are only in London for 24hrs. This doesn’t have to mean being stuck in your hotel wanting but not knowing what to do. Enlightened travellers continually ask the question - What would a Londoner do? Have no fear Luxury London is here…
There’s no need to go far afield to exotic locations to find adventure. In recent years adventures have been rediscovering urban winders right on our very doorsteps. Urban Exploration, known also as Urbex or UE, is an (often illegal) activity that explores unseen or unknown sights in the urban environment.