this website is (also) being blocked by the mindless web-content filter of the wireless network at einstein kaffee in berlin. Technorati Tags: berlin, censorship, stupid

so the holland herald (KLM’s in-flight magazine) runs a story about chess boxing, which is you guessed it a combination of chess and boxing. according to the article a match of chess boxing consists of alternating rounds of chess (4 minutes each) and boxing (2 minutes each). you can win by either checkmate or knockout. […]

since i am going to iran in less than two weeks i thought it might be useful to go take the sharia exam at paradiso tonight. but as i was kind of late, i did not get a chance to participate (no more voting machines). the whole thing was about screening recordings of questions posed […]

finally managed to source a copy of beaufort (בופור) with english subtitles yesterday. had been waiting to find a version that i could understand for a while and it was definitely worth the wait. Beaufort tells the story of the last IDF unit occupying beaufort castle in Southern Lebanon in the days before the withdrawal […]

from the BBC: Monkeys kill Delhi deputy mayor – The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi died on Sunday after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys. Technorati Tags: dead people, delhi, india

spotted on the arm of some lost italian lady who strolled into the opening of the video vortex exhibition at montevideo inquiring for directions to envy. the tiles are almost the same as the ones of the mah-jong set i own: makes me slightly envious. Technorati Tags: amsterdam, fashion, mahjong, envy

because it adds a whole new layer of usefulness to www.voyantes.net: select the services you are interested in, touch the phone number of the medium of your choice in the results list and it offers to place a call: this is brilliant! makes life much much easier… Technorati Tags: desire, technology

so one thing you notice when you are in finland is how incredibly white the place is. there are almost no black (or brown) people to be seen. i think when i was in helsinki for the last time in june 2006 i saw 3 black people in 3 days. so we brought up this […]

while looking for photo material for the 4th edition of the crossing borders newsletter (which is a pretty pointless undertaking anyway as my old school anarchist friends continue to send me texts that are way to long to get any photos included in the newsletter) i came across the website of the European Union Border […]

#1: the first iphone i saw in the wild in the netherlands (o.k vincent evers’ iphone does not count because he is making a fool out of himself by riding around on a segway all the time) was carried by a 19 year old white boy who got off the train in breukelen when i […]