today i applied for my 5th indian visa in 3 years or so. apart form having to pay a €50 fee you also have to include 2 recent passport pictures with each application. that means that the G.O.I now has no less than 10 passport photos of mine, which makes me wonder what the hell […]
if you ask me this is the most arrogant, most pretentious & most stupid advertising slogan i have come across in a long while … … never liked the brand anyway (except when i was a 14 and i do not have fond memories of that period of my life). Technorati Tags: fashion, stupid
it is incredible how extremely stupid IDF commanders can be (i guess it makes no sense of complaining about their lack of sensibility as that is a trait of character that seems to disqualify anyone from becoming a military commander). Looks like today they managed to stage a repeat of the April 18, 1996 Qana […]
just found this postcard (i think it is originally form a series of postcards) when i was emptying my paper recycling bin. makes me very sad & angry.. Technorati Tags: lebanon, war
there is another quite brilliant posting by Sonya Knox on the Siege of Lebanon group blog. this passage really made me think of a picture i took in beirut last june: A shipment of hundreds of towels arrived today to the Nasra school in Achrafieh. Hundreds of hundreds, bagged-up by the dozen, creating a small […]
so it looks like counting dead people becomes one of the main threads woven through this blog. i have mentioned my own and other people’s efforts before and now i came across this simple yet powerful visualization of the proportionality of deaths resulting from the conflict between Israel en Hezbullah. The page is maintained by […]
was watching the live stream of the tagesthemen (the late edition of the main news show of the ARD) earlier this evening. after a rather helpless interview with the german foreign minister again avoided to tell the Israelis their completely unjustified attacks on Lebanese civilians) they had a bit about the final of this years […]
looks like the current situation in lebanon has lead to an explosion in the number of blogs from lebanon in the last couple of days, which of course means that there is more interesting stuff out there than anyone can read without becoming a social outcast… my absolute favorite is this blog with black and […]
… but finally i managed to read an article posted by Rana Dasgupta on the reader-list a while ago. this is the very first article about zidane’s head-butt in the worldcup final that actually makes sense to me. you can find Rana’s englsih translation here and the french original by Dany Laferrière here.
actually i am sick of a number of things at the moment. has a lot today with what the media reporting, but this evening i am particularly sick of how the media are reporting. around 2000h yesterday evening the germen news-portal spiegel online had a breaking news alert on top of their frontpage: why is […]