A life sign:

I gave a presentation at a student conference here in Chemitz in late May. The conference was about Cold War Cultures, I chose to call my presentation  “MAD” or: How We Learned to Start Worrying and Fear the Bomb. You will get some brief insights on what I think was a change in perception of the Atomic Bomb and its depiction in the 50s ( Read more... )

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Less funny: Seymour Hersh's assessment on the latest phase of US Middle East policies.
From March already, doesn't mean it's not topical. Especially seeing how Iran and the US are
bringing civil war over palestine right now, and religious segregation (the new exít strategy for iraq) seems to come about in palestine (westbank for sunni fatah, gaza ( Read more... )

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Most links in this piece lead to blogs written in German. sorry for that, but that's what I've been reading ;)

Right now I am listening to Talking Heads - Fear of Music, the one record I bought in Barcelona. In a very interesting and small record store. Only selected rarities from the 60s to 80s, and a clerk who obviously had a story to tell to ( Read more... )

A wonderful city.

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As suggested by Adobe®

http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html#photoshop

Looked into it since I wanted to make a download link to Adobe® bullet-proof for a major customer.

I especially like the part where it says "The Photoshop trademark must never be used as a common verb or as a noun." Take that, freedom of speech ;)

26°C in my room, bright sunlight, green trees in front of my large windows and Panda Bear - Person Pitch (the 'Pet Sounds' of 2007!) on heavy rotation.

A nice day.

Last night Racoon and me deejayed at the best dubstep party in Chemnitz so far. Though we'll only see what it was worth at another try because we kind of surprised a Drum&Bass crowd by ' ( Read more... )

Kurt Vonnegut is dead.

So I concluded my very own Easter festivities - which started off with Skream missing a plane and thus not being present in Leipzig - by watching The Last Temptation of Christ for the first time. It's one of those (many) movies I saved for when the time felt right. Interestingly enough, by the time Jesus was crucified in this movie I had pretty ( Read more... )