… and everybody is talking about the next war. seems to somehow involve iran, the US, israel, the valet parkers, syria and lebanon, but there is neither real agreement about the constellation nor does anyone come up with a credible motivation for someone to attack the others or the other way around (except maybe for […]

so apparently some rather scary dudes from austria (see picture below, but generally all males from austria who are older than 50 give me the creeps) have come up with a really sick idea: set up a charter airline that specializes in deportation flights from europe to the warmer parts of this globe. if you […]

gotta love the chinese! [from ananova.com via boingboing] Technorati Tags: architecture, china, desire, modernity, urban

no, not angela merkel and or vladimir putin but a ‘mini supermarket & giftshop’ on the prinzengracht in amsterdam: not sure what to make of the name. my guess would be that the whole global warming/climate change/energy conservation hype of the last couple of month is finally showing some effects in real life and this […]

check out this absolutely gorgeous chandelier made from gummy bears by YaYa Chou (the gummy-bear fake bearskin rug is also pretty sweet (sic!)). i want one! now!

seems to me that globalization is more or less complete as of today. until today i was under the impression that half of everything comes from shenzen and the rest of the pearl river delta (also see my post about CFLs from a while ago) and the other half of things comes from other places. […]

came across this installation in front of a small internet cafe/phone shop in the Psiri in the center of Athens yesterday: when i took pictures of it a guy the indian shopkeeper of a mini market across the street came out of his shop and asked me why i was taking pictures of this ‘ugly […]