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Heftling (2012?)
Luminous Flux (2012–) ♥
Mixtapes (2011)
27 (2010) ♥Team Armin Soyka (2010)
26 (2009) ♥
Startupwiki (2009–)
LIF (2008)
Soup (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
LIF (2008)
Soup (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
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April 13 2012
This is Cory Booker. He's the mayor of Newark, NJ.
He's passionate and eloquent, as in this moving, spontaneous answer to a question on marriage equality, but also daily on his Facebook and Twitter feeds. Since he became a city councilman, he's moved from the suburbs to various notorious low-income housing projects. He's reduced his city's crime rate, increased affordable housing and, after meeting Mark Zuckerberg at a dinner, convinced him to donate $100M to the Newark school system. He has over a million Twitter followers (four times Newark's population) – and has been known to personally go shovel people's driveways in snow storms after being alerted on Twitter.
So what did he do yesterday? Oh, he just carried a trapped neighbor out of a burning house, suffering second-degree burns and smoke inhalation in the process.
O_O
Update: He has been memed.
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December 16 2011
The nightmarish Stop Online Piracy Act hearings – Washington Post
"like a group of well-intentioned amateurs getting together to perform heart surgery on a patient incapable of moving" :-(
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December 07 2011
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The US has publicly declared it will fight discrimination against LGBT people abroad ("one of the remaining human rights challenges of our time") by using foreign aid and diplomacy to encourage reform. "Being gay is not a western invention, it is a human reality", said Hillary Clinton in Geneva.
November 22 2011
“ The U.S. political system becomes more polarized and more dysfunctional every cycle, at greater and greater human cost. The next Republican president will surely find himself or herself at least as stymied by this dysfunction as President Obama, as will the people the political system supposedly serves. ”— When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? [New York Magazine]
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sober
November 20 2011
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Rachel Maddow realizes that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is an art project. Hilarious! (via Walter)
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November 05 2011
September 27 2011
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on the drug war, trusting individuals vs. the government and how humanitarian a free-market system can be. In Part 3, they continue to talk about markets vs. regulation.
Stewart is even a little less convinced of the practical workability of Paul's libertarian ideas than I am, but there's a lot of mutual respect – I'd really love to watch a full-hour discussion between those two.
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June 13 2011
Today I saw
- Parents tossing baseballs with their kids
- A dozen couples ballroom-dancing on the pier to some guy's iPod and speakers
- People wearing Puerto Rican flags as capes (there had been a parade earlier)
- Passers-by dancing to a street choir's impromptu performance of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
- A non-heteronormative assortment of intimate couples in the park
- A semi-pro (?) basketball game on a public playground drawing a huge crowd
- And many other scenes of general merriment
It felt like I had stumbled onto a movie set where everyone was an extra in some cheesy rom-com told to act as stereotypically happy as possible.
I think all of these activities might be forbidden by law and/or general grumpiness in Vienna.
- A dozen couples ballroom-dancing on the pier to some guy's iPod and speakers
- People wearing Puerto Rican flags as capes (there had been a parade earlier)
- Passers-by dancing to a street choir's impromptu performance of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
- A non-heteronormative assortment of intimate couples in the park
- A semi-pro (?) basketball game on a public playground drawing a huge crowd
- And many other scenes of general merriment
It felt like I had stumbled onto a movie set where everyone was an extra in some cheesy rom-com told to act as stereotypically happy as possible.
I think all of these activities might be forbidden by law and/or general grumpiness in Vienna.
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May 01 2011
CNN Leaves It There – The Daily Show
Oldie, but still brilliant: A scathing indictment of CNN/24-hour news networks in general.
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April 26 2011
March 22 2011
The Daily Show: America's Freedom Packages
Also great: Odyssey Dawn, unconstitutional war (you can't say they aren't consistent in pointing out hypocrisy!)
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October 01 2010
San Francisco: The Miniature City (via Laughing Squid). More tilt/shift video
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September 21 2010
April 26 2010
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San Francisco in 1906, just days before the earthquake that, sparking a fire, destroyed probably every building you see here. (via posh_tosh)
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April 05 2010
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Collateral Murder: a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in an Iraqi suburb, including two Reuters news staff. Two
young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.
March 30 2010
“ The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority [i.e. the Tea Party movement] no matter what policies were in play. ”— The Rage Is Not About Health Care - NYTimes.com
February 27 2010
A day in the life of New York City, in miniature.
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eins23tierNovember 07 2009
Jon Stewart does a Glenn Beck impression. Hilarity ensues.
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cypher
cypherOctober 11 2009
“ Let’s be honest with ourselves here. This is about an American President reversing awful, inhumane, war-promoting policies that no American government should ever have allowed, let alone endorsed.— Why Obama deserves it « Snarkmarket
We’re Kissinger, here, or Arafat: murderers, criminals, who have astonished the world by taking the tiniest steps in the opposite direction. ”
June 05 2009
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TPM: The Day in 100 Seconds: Assalaamu Alaykum
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