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Congratulations, Georg Greve!

April 28th, 2010


Bundesverdienstkreuz_MaleI am very happy and proud, that Georg Greve, the former President of the Free Software Foundation Europe, was awarded with the German “Bundesverdienstkreuz” today.

My felicitation, Georg!

Georg Greve

Georg Greve

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Tibetan Independence Day

March 10th, 2010

Che scemo! Concerto al Pantheon interrotto per chiusura

March 9th, 2010

Ecco un esempio, dove sta la “Cultura italiana” oggi:

Il concerto Bach al Pantheon, qualche giorni fa, era interrotto per chiusura del Pantheon “puntualmente”. Che schifo! Ma magari non e una surpresa, come il Direttore generale del patrimonio culturale del ministerio dei “beni culturali” in Italia attualmente e il ex-amministratore delegato di McDonald’s Italia. Che cultura monousa!

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Expose your private parts to avoid Google tracking

February 10th, 2010

The “Berlin way” to hinder Google maps tracking:

Track the trackers ( streetcar.fffff.at)

More about this: http://fffff.at/?s=google

@fffffat (twitter)

And here’s the “Norwegian way” of protesting for privacy:
Tracking_Google_Norwegia
(Read more on Boingboing)

This reminds me of a project we did in 2004, when I studies media arts at the University of arts and applied sciences, messing around with an omnidirectional video camera, recording the streets in Zurich:

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TED talk by Peter Eigen about exposing the corrupt

February 9th, 2010

I strongly recommend the following talk by Peter Eigen, ex Director at the Worl Bank in Nairobi, who talks about how to expose the corrupt.

Further let me at this point remind you of my Blog post about Neoimperialism that I wrote during my project in Malawi.

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“état de siège”

December 31st, 2009
Happy 2010

Happy 2010

Für das Neue Jahr wünsche ich

“Mehr Ausnahme vom Zustand”

Pour la nouvelle année je souhaite

“Plus d’état du siège”

For the New Year I wish

“More state on emergency”

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Eid al-Fitr – عيد الفطر

September 19th, 2009

Ramadan Karim – رمضان كري

August 21st, 2009

Peace

March 26th, 2009

«As long as humans act upon personal responsibility, injustice will not be nurtured»

World March for Peace and Nonviolence

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Congratulations, Mr. Wagner!

March 22nd, 2009

Roland Wagner is the new world record holder in 50 meters freestyle with a spectaculous time of 00:00:00 ! Congratulations, Mr. Wagner!

Roland Wagner, Champion Wletrekord

Links:
Roland Wagner
Cabaret Voltaire
Tagesanzeiger

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