archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
promotional card for MR. GALILA from my growing collection of such cards thanks for the card to nat & happy 2008 to all of you out there! Technorati Tags: art
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
the second installment of Steal This Film has just been released. you can download it in 4 different resolutions) here and Torrentfreak has an interview with Jamie. By now i have seen it it numerous times (in different stages of production) and i will probably watch it again just for the sake of it (i […]
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
so 2007 is coming to an end and it is time to draw up the balance. when it comes to migrants who have died trying to reach Europe, 2007 has been an exceptional bad year even though the powers that be seem to think otherwise. Back in august the IHT quoted spanish and italian officials […]
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
so i am at my parents place (somewhere in the middle of eastern Germany some 2 hours south of Berlin) for the holidays and naturally we are talking about food most of the time. my brother just informed us of his (outrageous) plan to make Sushi for lunch. how insane is this? making sushi somewhere […]
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
yesterday a number of eastern european countries (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia & Slovenia) implemented the schengen agreement, by removing border control posts on the internal Schengen border crossings. of course this does not mean that there will be no more border controls between these countries as there will be ‘random’ border police checks up to 30km away […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
i have written about virtues of ‘the knowledge‘ and the dangers of GPS to human evolution before. now the good old BBC is running an article that actually pits the one versus the other in some kind of technology versus humans death match. the held a race through london in which a cab driver (in […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
went to see Constanza’s latest piece at the Schaubuehne in Berlin on Saturday and quite liked it. With Brickland Constanza (and the equally amazing rest of the the Dorky Park ensemble) manages to combine usual chaos with something similar to a narrative that does not get lost in 2 hours of brutal chaos. Brickland is […]
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
this photo (by rasmus kopimi) is just too good not to blog. i am not even sure when it was taken but it is timeless (or very early 21st century) anyway: guess this is also a good occasion to thank the oil of the 21st century crew for a number of highly inspiring events, royal […]
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
so i have been nosing around in some of the more obscure corners of the interwebs in the last couple of days and have come across a disturbing number of places where people are proudly proclaiming to be infidels (as in ÙƒÙّار – kuffar). See for an extremely stupid proclamation here. Now of course there […]
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
most people probably have never heard about Dennis Kucinich who seems to be running for the democratic party’s ticket to run for president of the United States of America. however it seems that he is the favorite candidate of my much respected left-wing friends in the US (or at least some of them). not sure […]
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