maandag 31 december 2012
zondag 30 december 2012
zaterdag 29 december 2012
o no i jus created "own" VHS chique .. a Retroblast
DATA LIFE - ELEKTRONIK SCHLEIFE - YOUNG DELAY- SAME BEAST - LOL-FI
SCRATCH BUG - A DO-DO-CROWD - AND SO ON-LINE
vrijdag 28 december 2012
365 days
THE PROJECT Hello! 365 days of cool and strange and often obscure audio selections. Some words to describe the material featured would be... Celebrity, Children, Demonstration, Indigenous, Industrial, Outsider, Song-Poem, Spoken, Ventriloquism, and on and on and on. The best thing to do is to simply listen. Unlike a blog/journal/website consisting of one or a small group of contributors, 365 Days has over 200 people sharing from their stash of aural treasures. This site is mirrored at WFMU and we thank you for downloading, listening and sharing with others this material. Yours, The 365 Days ProjectMORE
woensdag 26 december 2012
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donderdag 20 december 2012
Music for the Party After No One Will Have Hangover Anymore: - IPUT, NahTe53
See all of you in the Other World!
woensdag 19 december 2012
dinsdag 18 december 2012
The Cloud, the State, and the Stack: Metahaven in Conversation with Benjamin Bratton
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We agree. Isn’t Anonymous itself an example, if not the clearest one, of this? All their videos are on YouTube. Anonymous, as opposed to the cyber-vegetarians of yesterday’s “critical media,” are the biggest all-you-can-eat omnivores of the internet… Otherwise your point is very clear.
BB
As someone who very much appreciates a lot of what the two groups do, let me speak somewhat critically of Anonymous and WikiLeaks. My points are somewhat obvious and not meant to heap scorn. Anonymous does some interesting things, but the 4chan angry teenager roots also steer them off into predictable dead-ends. Their YouTube videos seem straight out of a 1999 videogame about “Hackers in Cyberspace vs. The Man.” Nevertheless, they are a clear example of what a Cloud Polis might look like, and to me much of what they do is about clearing the way for something more substantial to emerge. Hopefully their model of Cloud Polis is one among many, because in the constitution of deep alternatives, it’s not only about subverting and liquifying Oedipalized power, it’s also about knowing what to do with power once you have it, how to compose with it. WikiLeaks is a method and ethos raised to the level of an ideology—Assange’s interview in e-flux with Hans Ulrich Obrist is great, by the way—but it’s not clear what the next move might be, even if Assange were free to move about. Open it all up? OK. Everyone will see what’s really happening? OK. This is a basic Enlightenment aspiration, but the idea that once the primal evil is exposed the public will not tolerate it is insufficient to say the least. Even as they evade and escape legal harrassment, I don’t see alternative architectures other than an anarchist tabula rasa, and some fragile and absolutist paranoias. Building what is next is perhaps not Assange’s job, I understand. But I am sorry, it’s obvious that a world without authority and opacity is entropic; it would have no music (or very bad music). It’s not only not possible, it’s not desirable. A field without solid lines cannot sustain interesting forms of tension for very long. I am more interested in the very long expanse of composable time than in any purifying first principles regarding the legitimacy of authority. By the way, apropos of nothing, “cyber-vegetarianism” is always a great phrase. Thank you.
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MH
We agree. Isn’t Anonymous itself an example, if not the clearest one, of this? All their videos are on YouTube. Anonymous, as opposed to the cyber-vegetarians of yesterday’s “critical media,” are the biggest all-you-can-eat omnivores of the internet… Otherwise your point is very clear.
BB
As someone who very much appreciates a lot of what the two groups do, let me speak somewhat critically of Anonymous and WikiLeaks. My points are somewhat obvious and not meant to heap scorn. Anonymous does some interesting things, but the 4chan angry teenager roots also steer them off into predictable dead-ends. Their YouTube videos seem straight out of a 1999 videogame about “Hackers in Cyberspace vs. The Man.” Nevertheless, they are a clear example of what a Cloud Polis might look like, and to me much of what they do is about clearing the way for something more substantial to emerge. Hopefully their model of Cloud Polis is one among many, because in the constitution of deep alternatives, it’s not only about subverting and liquifying Oedipalized power, it’s also about knowing what to do with power once you have it, how to compose with it. WikiLeaks is a method and ethos raised to the level of an ideology—Assange’s interview in e-flux with Hans Ulrich Obrist is great, by the way—but it’s not clear what the next move might be, even if Assange were free to move about. Open it all up? OK. Everyone will see what’s really happening? OK. This is a basic Enlightenment aspiration, but the idea that once the primal evil is exposed the public will not tolerate it is insufficient to say the least. Even as they evade and escape legal harrassment, I don’t see alternative architectures other than an anarchist tabula rasa, and some fragile and absolutist paranoias. Building what is next is perhaps not Assange’s job, I understand. But I am sorry, it’s obvious that a world without authority and opacity is entropic; it would have no music (or very bad music). It’s not only not possible, it’s not desirable. A field without solid lines cannot sustain interesting forms of tension for very long. I am more interested in the very long expanse of composable time than in any purifying first principles regarding the legitimacy of authority. By the way, apropos of nothing, “cyber-vegetarianism” is always a great phrase. Thank you.
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maandag 17 december 2012
What is Next Nature?
Today, the human impact on our planet can hardly be underestimated. Climate change, synthetic biology, mass urbanization – ‘We were here’ echoes all over. Although many people have tried to improve our relationship with nature, few have asked the elementary question ‘what is nature?’.
This website will radically shift your notion of nature. Our image of nature as static, balanced and harmonic is naive and up for reconsideration. Where technology and nature are traditionally seen as opposed, they now appear to merge or even trade places.
We must no longer see ourselves as the anti-natural species that merely threatens and eliminates nature, but rather as catalysts of evolution. With our urge to design our environment we create a ‘next nature’ which is unpredictable as ever: wild software, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us!
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zondag 16 december 2012
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vrijdag 14 december 2012
donderdag 13 december 2012
Hacktivists Ghost Shell dump 1.6m log-in details on web
The group gathered the data during a series of attacks on Nasa, the FBI, the European Space Agency and many other government agencies and contractors.
Included in the dump were log-in names, passwords, email addresses and CVs, plus the contents of online databases.
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Hungarian Student Rallies Gather Pace
Hungary’s undergraduate students Wednesday continued demonstrating against the government’s heavy-handed move to cut state subsidies for university tuition, saying the government snubbed them.
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Europe cannot afford to lose its best scientists
Back in 2000, the European Union heads of state and government set themselves the target of becoming the “world’s most dynamic knowledge-based economy by 2010”.
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Do my cats see ghosts?
For over a year I moved already in an older house (a kind barn / farm). I actually feel quite well here. Still, I had in the beginning a strange, strange feeling when I entered the first floor (especially the room under the roof, where there is the bedroom). My cats started then from time to time, to behave "abnormally", ie, one could think they would "see" someone or something, and then act scared. Perhaps other cats or pet owners here know this phenomenon?
I'm curious what you think of them...
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woensdag 12 december 2012
The Image Object Post-Photoshop
In the Post-Internet climate, it is assumed that the work of art lies equally in the version of the object one would encounter at a gallery or museum, the images and other representations disseminated through the Internet and print publications, bootleg images of the object or its representations, and variations on any of these as edited and recontextualized by any other author. […] For objects after the Internet there can be no “original copy.”[ Vierkant, Artie. The Image Object Post-Internet, 2010. ]
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dinsdag 11 december 2012
Anonymous Hungary's gift to students!
DoS attacks struck Tuesday night Rózsa Hoffmann website for international hacker group Anonymous. The Secretary of State for Education website has begun to recover, the website is "down for maintenance".
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maandag 10 december 2012
Sham II: New fighting machine of Syria rebels
"As Syria's rebels work to overthrow the tank-equipped Assad regime, they've learned that it helps to have tanks of their own. They deserve bonus points for integrating video game technology. This is no exaggeration. Have a look at the opposition forces' "100 percent made in Syria" armored vehicle, the Sham II. Named for ancient Syria and assembled out of spare parts over the course of a month, the Sham II is sort of rough around the edges, but it's got impressive guts. It rides on the chassis of an old diesel car and is fully encased in light steel that's rusted from the elements. Five cameras are mounted around the tanks outside, and there's a machine gun mounted on a turning turret. Inside, it kind of looks like a man cave. A couple of flat screen TVs are mounted on opposite walls. The driver sits in front of one, controlling the vehicle with a steering wheel, and the gunner sits at the other, aiming the machine gun with a Playstation controller." VIA & VIA
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National Cultural Memorials
The National Foundation of the Arts (NMA) can not let it go without saying a word about the recent years cultural changes. A number of important institutions with rich heritage are closing/transforming as a result of those very changes.
All the spaces who’s fate are up for closure are by the NMA named National Cultural Memorials and the ceremony of lightning candles recalls the past.
The memorial has been inaugurated at the following locations:
Dorottya Gallery, Budapest
Duna Gallery, Budapest
ICA-D Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
Next inauguration of the Memorial:
Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, 06. 12. 2012 Thursday 19h
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zondag 9 december 2012
The antidemocratic makeover of the cultural scene in Hungary
Recent legislative steps in Hungary point towards the authoritarian transformation of the institutional structures and funding system of cultural life, by giving an ultra conservative artist group close to the right-wing government, the Hungarian Academy of Arts, an unassailable position of power. As a result of these decisions, the government has endangered the long term autonomy, professionalism and democratic procedures of Hungarian contemporary art.
The government established the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA) as the preeminent authority in the field of arts through the new constitution or Fundamental Law, which came into force on 1 January, 2012. The Academy, which was originally founded as a private association in 1992, is made up of artists strongly loyal towards the government. In order to be accepted as a member, the Academy requires a commitment to the nation, a certain “national feeling.” In 2011 the Hungarian Academy of Arts was transformed into a public body, in a process lacking the minimum of transparency, and was provided straight off with a considerable amount of funding and its own a grandiose headquarters. In November the government further extended the cultural political role of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, endowing the organization with unprecedented power, including exclusive right of decision making over the contemporary cultural infrastructure – and a gigantic budget at the expense of the whole of the Hungarian cultural scene.
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The government established the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA) as the preeminent authority in the field of arts through the new constitution or Fundamental Law, which came into force on 1 January, 2012. The Academy, which was originally founded as a private association in 1992, is made up of artists strongly loyal towards the government. In order to be accepted as a member, the Academy requires a commitment to the nation, a certain “national feeling.” In 2011 the Hungarian Academy of Arts was transformed into a public body, in a process lacking the minimum of transparency, and was provided straight off with a considerable amount of funding and its own a grandiose headquarters. In November the government further extended the cultural political role of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, endowing the organization with unprecedented power, including exclusive right of decision making over the contemporary cultural infrastructure – and a gigantic budget at the expense of the whole of the Hungarian cultural scene.
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zaterdag 8 december 2012
Black Metal Theory
Not black metal. Not theory. Not not black metal. Not not theory. Black metal theory. Theoretical blackening of metal. Metallic blackening of theory. Mutual blackening. Nigredo in the intoxological crucible of symposia.
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The original coupon queen
The article continued: 'On [$12.50] she manages to feed herself, her husband, her four-year-old twins and even the family cat. The job takes considerable doing.'
'Mrs. Williams is an avid student of grocery ads and shop windows. She limits herself to one shopping expedition a week, at which she weights every penny against the family’s full week appetite.'
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vrijdag 7 december 2012
donderdag 6 december 2012
Open letter to artist Barbara Kruger
Criticism is raining down on Danske Bank, one of the largest financial institutions in Northern Europe, for their latest marketing campaign ‘A new normal demands New Standards’. How and why this campaign ever saw the light of day is a big question for people in Denmark. For some, the ‘why’ overshadows the ‘how’, which for us has become the most pressing question in these past few weeks.
Danske Bank called on the advertising agency Mensch and artist-photographer Peter Funch, co-owner of Gallery V1 to produce the campaign. The gallery is celebrating its 10 year anniversary and is presenting, among others, famed artist and political activist Barbara Kruger, whose work has become emblematic with a practice of institutional critique and political awareness in a world where machinations, as she would call it, have lulled us to sleep with consumerism and false beliefs.
Barbara Kruger has felt the embrace of the mainstream she calls out, and she would probably claim that there is no out, other than what you carve, with the very same weapons used by the market.
The advertising industry has always had an especially acute sense for the latest, greatest and hottest in culture when it comes to appropriating its iconography for marketing. It is a means to an innovational end – namely branding. And it has also become a more or less accepted fact that this also means disarming everything that could serve as a threat to corporate entities.
The latest advertisement from Danske Bank seems to defy the myth that advertisement cannot go too far, and almost becomes a parody. The campaign was released on top of the medias lessened interest in what could rightfully be called the greatest theft ever to have been committed in Denmark, the ‘permanent’ loan amounting to the sum of 4 billion in U.S dollars, to which the bank answered with this hated campaign: that this loan was permanent and would not be repaid. It is ironic that if anything, the billboards and commercials succeed in waking the ever dormant feelings of dissent.
woensdag 5 december 2012
First mind-controlled, bone-mounted robotic arms to be implanted in 2013
A postdoctoral student has developed a technique for implanting thought-controlled robotic arms and their electrodes directly to the bones and nerves of amputees, a move which he is calling "the future of artificial limbs". The first volunteers will receive their new limbs early in 2013.
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Meeting with Pussy Riot Members in Hiding
As Moscow bans video clips by Pussy Riot, the Russian media celebrates the end of the protest band. But some of the women have gone underground and are using a hidden apartment as their headquarters. They plan to continue their fight.
"My name is Tomcat. Nice to meet you," the young woman says. She is standing in a derelict mansion on the banks of the Moskva River.
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"My name is Tomcat. Nice to meet you," the young woman says. She is standing in a derelict mansion on the banks of the Moskva River.
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Are We Becoming Cyborgs?
SINCE broadband began its inexorable spread at the start of this millenium, Internet use has expanded at a cosmic rate. Last year, the number of Internet users topped 2.4 billion — more than a third of all humans on the planet. The time spent on the screen was 16 hours per week globally — double that in high-use countries, and much of that on social media. We have changed how we interact. Are we also changing what we are?
We put that question to three people who have written extensively on the subject, and brought them together to discuss it with Serge Schmemann, the editor of this magazine. The participants: Susan Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Oxford. She has written and spoken widely on the impact of new technology on users’ brains. Maria Popova, the curator behind Brain Pickings, a Web site of “eclectic interestingness.” She is also an M.I.T. Futures of Entertainment Fellow and writes forWired and The Atlantic. Evgeny Morozov, the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom . He is a contributing editor to The New Republic .
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We put that question to three people who have written extensively on the subject, and brought them together to discuss it with Serge Schmemann, the editor of this magazine. The participants: Susan Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Oxford. She has written and spoken widely on the impact of new technology on users’ brains. Maria Popova, the curator behind Brain Pickings, a Web site of “eclectic interestingness.” She is also an M.I.T. Futures of Entertainment Fellow and writes forWired and The Atlantic. Evgeny Morozov, the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom . He is a contributing editor to The New Republic .
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dinsdag 4 december 2012
Sir Tim Berners-Lee flags UN net conference concerns
Sir Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of the world wide web - is the latest voice to raise concerns about a meeting of communication tech regulators in Dubai.
He spoke of concerns that some attendees would push for a UN agency to "run the internet" rather than leaving it to groups already "doing a good job".
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf has also highlighted the issue on Google's site.
But the UN agency itself is playing down suggestions of a power-grab.
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He spoke of concerns that some attendees would push for a UN agency to "run the internet" rather than leaving it to groups already "doing a good job".
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf has also highlighted the issue on Google's site.
But the UN agency itself is playing down suggestions of a power-grab.
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maandag 3 december 2012
Julian Assange: A Call to Cryptographic Arms
INTRODUCTION: A CALL TO CRYPTOGRAPHIC ARMS This book is not a manifesto. There is not time for that. This book is a warning. The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not been properly recognized outside of national security circles. It has been hidden by secrecy, complexity and scale. The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization. These transformations have come about silently, because those who know what is going on work in the global surveillance industry and have no incentives to speak out. Left to its own trajectory, within a few years, global civilization will be a postmodern surveillance dystopia, from which escape for all but the most skilled individuals will be impossible. In fact, we may already be there. While many writers have considered what the internet means for global civilization, they are wrong. They are wrong because they do not have the sense of perspective that direct experience brings. They are wrong because they have never met the enemy. No description of the world survives first contact with the enemy. We have met the enemy. Over the last six years WikiLeaks has had conflicts with nearly every powerful state. We know the new surveillance state from an insider's perspective, because we have plumbed its secrets. We know it from a combatant's perspective, because we have had to protect our people, our finances and our sources from it. We know it from a global perspective, because we have people, assets and information in nearly every country. We know it from the perspective of time, because we have been fighting this phenomenon for years and have seen it double and spread, again and again. It is an invasive parasite, growing fat off societies that merge with the internet. It is rolling over the planet, infecting all states and peoples before it. What is to be done?
comments from #artcriticism Is Trending on Twitter, And The Conversation Is Not So Bad
Barbara Visser wished for a ghostwriter when tasked when writing a “positive” txt about art. @wdwcentrum #artcriticism
— Nat Muller (@nat_muller) November 28, 2012
#artcriticism Barbara Visser: “Am I the only one of my tribe here?” before spotting few others in the audience. Believe me we tried, dear B!
— defneayas (@defneayas) November 28, 2012
Barbara Visser: “This has to be a two-way dialogue” #artcriticism
— defneayas (@defneayas) November 28, 2012
@hragv questions #artcriticism being a marketing tool: writers should be creative and play with the system! — Witte de With(@WDWcentrum) November 28, 2012
Ew. RT @gregorg: without [our] #artcriticism “the general audience does not have the tools” to understand the institutions’ projects. — Paddy Johnson (@artfagcity) November 28, 2012
Latimer: “Language comes first. Medium is priority. Style is character. Current criticism is suffering from lack of style.” “#artcriticism
— defneayas (@defneayas) November 28, 2012
Marc Ruyters:the art critic killed himself,marketing is to blame (yes with lack of vision), art world has lost audience 1/2 #artcriticism
— Nat Muller (@nat_muller) November 28, 2012
1/2 #artcriticism @wdwcentrum Marc Ruyters: writers need specific skills. Amen! — Nat Muller (@nat_muller) November 28, 2012
Comments at @wdwcentrum #artcriticism do not make art critics look good. Marketing is to blame for the suicide of the art critic? #bullshit — Paddy Johnson (@artfagcity) November 28, 2012
@artfagcity marketing is too often becoming perceived role of critics. critic’s job to transcend the PR binder. cool mission if you ask me. — visitor design (@visitordesign) November 28, 2012
@artfagcity @wdwcentrum If you take the view that the art journalist is marketed as the art critic, then yes—it obfuscates market & academic — Artypes (@Artypes) November 28, 2012
@artfagcity “It would be sad to say the situation is just hopeless”-Maarten Doorman — Witte de With(@WDWcentrum) November 28, 2012
@artfagcity and as ‘individual personality’ moves closer toward ‘media industry,’ *marketing* means many things. — visitor design (@visitordesign) November 28, 2012
@artfagcity That marketing comment was from one person. #artcriticism
—Hrag (@hragv) November 28, 2012
Speakers agree #artcriticism is to select, contextualize, look a lot, not only embrace enthusiasm about art but about language, fearlessness
— defneayas (@defneayas) November 28, 2012
Do artcritics not realize that we need more arguments and more deepening articles? They only talk about the why of #artcriticism :s
— tiesch (@tiestenbosch) November 28, 2012
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zondag 2 december 2012
Anti-drone NYC street artist arrested
Essam Attia is NYC street artist who posted fake NYPD posters "reassuring" people about the ubiquitous surveillance of the department, especially via drones. The NYPD surveilled him, tracked him down and arrested him. Heck of a way to prove a point. here
Lenin commemorative plaque unveiled
A blue plaque commemorating Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's time in Bloomsbury in 1908 was unveiled on Friday 30th November at his former lodgings - 36 Tavistock Place (formerly 21 Tavistock Place).
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zaterdag 1 december 2012
Mary Smith earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at sleeping workers windows.
Mary Smith earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at sleeping workers windows.
A Knocker-up (sometimes known as a knocker-upper) was a profession in England and Ireland that started during and lasted well into the Industrial Revolution and at least as late as the 1920s, before alarm clocks were affordable or reliable. A knocker-up’s job was to rouse sleeping people so they could get to work on time.
The knocker-up used a truncheon or short, heavy stick to knock on the clients’ doors or a long and light stick, often made of bamboo, to reach windows on higher floors. Some of them used pea-shooters. In return, the knocker-up would be paid a few pence a week. The knocker-up would not leave a client’s window until sure that the client had been awoken.
There were large numbers of people carrying out the job, especially in larger industrial towns such as Manchester. Generally the job was carried out by elderly men and women but sometimes police constables supplemented their pay by performing the task during early morning patrols.
Photograph from Philip Davies’ Lost London: 1870 - 1945.
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Dortmund fans turn Bayern’s stadium yellow
German football fans perpetrated a plucky midnight raid on the stadium of arch-rivals Bayern Munich.
A group of Borussia Dortmund fans broke into the iconic stadium - acknowledged as one of the finest sporting venues in the world - and plastered their own club's logo on the walls of a VIP suite.
Then, they pulled off a masterstroke of both guts, ingenuity and technical knowhow as they switched the stadium's famous external lighting from red - as it is for Bayern matches - to Dortmund's famous yellow.
vrijdag 30 november 2012
What listening to a story does to our brains
In 1748, the British politician and aristocrat John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich used a lot of his free time for playing cards. One of the problems he had was that he greatly enjoyed eating a snack, whilst still keeping one hand free for the cards.
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donderdag 29 november 2012
Liberal VVD ensure majority support for scrapping blasphemy laws
There is now majority support in parliament for an end to the ban on blasphemy because VVD Liberal MPs have thrown their weight behind the plan.
The VVD refused to support efforts to lift the ban during the life of the previous government in order not to upset the fundamentalist Christian group SGP, whose support was needed in the upper house of parliament.
The D66 Liberals and Socialist party have drawn up a private members bill to have the blasphemy laws scrapped from the statute books, news agency ANP reports. This is a 'milestone in terms of criminal law', a spokesman for D66 said.
The blasphemy legislation dates from the 1930s.
The SGP said the decision to remove the ban on blasphemy is a 'painful loss of a moral anchor and a symptom of a spiritual crisis'. The party believes the Netherlands should be governed according to Biblical principles and has three seats in the lower house of parliament.
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