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Collapse Of Berlin Wall Recreated With 1000 Giant Dominoes
2:40PM Rosa Golijan | On November 9, 1989, thousands rushed through the ruins of the Berlin Wall, celebrating the unity of East and West. Twenty years later, millions across the world watched as 1000, 2.3m-tall dominoes fell marking the occasion. More »
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Windows 7 Loads Faster Than 7000 Dominoes
4:26AM Sean Fallon
Toppling 7000 dominoes to commemorate the launch of Windows 7 definitely riled up the employees at Microsoft’s Hyderabad centre in India, but they probably didn’t think it through in terms of the jokes it might generate. [Ars Technica]
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Dominoes Make the Office Fun Again for Three Minutes
11:20PM Jesus Diaz | Created for the Imagine RIT festival at the Rochester Institue of Technology, this video is a testimony of the power of dominoes—which apparently can turn on a photocopier—and office boredom. We like. [DRB] More »
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Dutch Use 4.3 Million Dominoes To Shatter All Domino-Related Records
11:00PM John Mahoney | Dominoes, always a favourite elemental for Rube Goldberg-ian device chain reactions, are unsurprisingly the name of the game at last week’s Domino Day in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. That is where Robin Paul Weijers (Mr. Domino!) and his helpers (including Dutch girls suspended on harnesses above the action like Tom Cruise stealing a NOC list) rigged up 4.5 million dominoes and then set them a-falling, artfully rendering Che Guevara, a Sarlacc pit, a Saturn V liftoff and subsequent Apollo re-entry, and oh so much more in tumbling plastic. The list of records broken is impressive. More »
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