since December 2002 i have been collecting press reports about migrants who have died trying to reach Europe for the noborder website. at the time of writing this the list has grown to 179 incidents with a total of 2009 reported fatalities and an even higher number of people missing who most likely have died […]

i have never really understood the appeal of second life. don’t really like the esthetics and never really got the concept of hanging out in some fantasy world that makes no sense whatsoever (if you really need that you should probably just head over to dubai). now i have been musing about energy consumption here […]

there is an amazing post about sewer systems under the big cities of Europe, America and Australian over at BDLGBLOG (amazing pictures as well!). It argues that the complexities of these sewer/tunnel systems is best being understood as more or less complex mathematical systems (knot theory): Manchester’s storm overflow sewers, the rumor goes, are actually […]