August 2011
“In 2009, we calculate, major corporate CEOs took home 263 times the pay of...”
– Executive Excess 2011: The Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging - IPS
Quoted from The Book of Tea
Dream on, sway and frolic while you may in the gentle breezes of summer. To-morrow a ruthless hand will close around your throats. You will be wrenched, torn asunder limb by limb, and borne away from your quiet homes. The wretch, she may be passing fair. She may say how lovely you are while her fingers are still moist with your blood. Tell me, will this be kindness? It may be your fate to be...
Oh the irony..
A BBC reporter takes us to the rooms of the secret services in Tripoli and shows e-mail intercepts. Many of mails of people with foreign names and addresses in the UK. So.. how do you intercept e-mails? You might need software and hardware, to start with. There were instructions in English — I don’t think Libyans wrote them.
First the West sells then goes about tsk-tsk-tsk, what an...
“Berlin is not the only city in Germany facing the problem. On Wednesday morning...”
– Berlin’s burning cars a hot topic in forthcoming elections | The Guardian
“Obedient”? No, Düsseldorf is not obedient, if this could characterize any city. Obedient my arse. It’s affluent. Affluent and generally content. When people are generally content and occupied with...
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WatchJeffrey Zeldman - The Medium Comes of Age (by Codeworks Ltd)
A great keynote that goes all over the place, makes great points and managed to make me see a few things in a new light.
Global Rich List →
For a bit of perspective, albeit not relative to the location you live in but quite relative to the world you live in.
What a difference 20 years make
I spent time inspecting Tripoli on Google Maps, trying to recall places and turning names in my head. Hoping that the sound will bring back memories. And then I got to the square with the old cathedral. It currently looks like this, and from about the same angle, 20 years ago, it looked like this. I might not recognise a lot of places if I ever go there again.
“However, a spokesman for Mr Kamprad said he had long admitted flirting with...”
– BBC News - Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad’s Nazi ties ‘went deeper’
Of course not! His head is most probably full of tax evasion thoughts.
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“Our chart maps Steve Job’s distinguished career. The minister of magic is no...”
– The Economist
I think you might find a chart explaining the use of an apostrophe much more useful.
Doku über die Tea-Party →
Interesting.
By the way, many Americans don’t seem to understand the meaning of Socialism at all.
“As a reporter for Bloomberg News in Frankfurt, named Aaron Kirchfeld, put it to...”
– It’s the Economy, Dummkopf! | Vanity Fair
“Due to the developments in the last 10 years, a similar job in Germany pays...”
– It’s the Economy, Dummkopf! | Vanity Fair
Simple Invoices | An Open Source, Web-Based... →
The title says it.
“Extracting good text and image content from clients is perhaps the number one...”
– Six Valuable Things Web Design Clients Won’t Tell You
And what a difficult extraction it is!
How LED lights could speed up the internet →
“By 2050, there will be 60m more men of marriageable age than women in China and...”
– The decline of Asian marriage: Asia’s lonely hearts | The Economist
Go manage that.
“Der Ruf nach hormonellen Verhütungsmitteln kam niemals von den potentiellen...”
– Verhütung? Frauensache! « mädchenblog
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WatchSeems like I found a way to massively overload you with music, which luckily appears in one compact piece, perfectly fit to ignore. My kind of spamming… There’s either some sick moon outside or someone hung a lamp right before my window.. Anyway, ladies, take it away.
WatchYes and there are projects for the dead And there are projects for the living… Thought I must confess sometimes I get confused by that distinction… And I just throw myself into the arms Of that which would betray me. I guess to see how far Providence Will stoop down just to save me. And it’s all because, still waters run, Run deep in me… ‘Cause...
“Prime Minister says those who went on the rampage in England suffered from a...”
– a @BBCBreaking tweet.
Yes, Cameron, they learned that by looking at the establishment.
“Nostalgia is a trap, there’s no question about that. It’s based on the idea that now is always terrible. So there’s always a sense that if you could have lived in a different time, things would have been more pleasant. One thinks back, for instance, to Gigi, and you think, well, this is Belle Époque Paris, they have horses and carriages and gas lamps and everything is beautiful. Then you...
