Live from Caracas..World Social Forum 2006
Sunday, January 29th, 2006Happening now in Caracas, Venezuela (January 24-29, 2006) also, its a polycentric Forum this year,so the Karachi bit will be in March 2006. Check this ...
Archive for January, 2006
Happening now in Caracas, Venezuela (January 24-29, 2006) also, its a polycentric Forum this year,so the Karachi bit will be in March 2006. Check this ...
Virtual Uffizi
Saturday, January 28th, 2006Virtual Uffizi: the complete catalogue of the Uffizi Gallery of Florence. The "Virtual Uffizi" web site makes available all texts and most of the images, and provides information on the Gallery and on visits, buying tickets online etc. etc. Very useful and another step in the virtual museums/gallery ...
Chinese New Year
Friday, January 27th, 2006Happy Chinese New Year to everyone..its this weekend. Gong Xi Fa Chai.. 2006 is the Year of the Dog
independent media
Friday, January 27th, 2006i think this whole google debacle and backlash highlights one thing: independent media --> and more importantly - the need for it. as we all know and can see, this is of paramount importance. essentially Google in going down this route is seriously compromising any independence it may have had. State-sponsored media - ah ...
Biting the hand that feeds it..so Bye Bye Google
Friday, January 27th, 2006is a good way of putting it. so now my hand's been bitten, my custom's going somewhere else. Bye Bye Google Bye Bye.. oh yeah and i daresay if anyone has any bright ideas re: protests outside google's offices in London - this is where they are: Belgrave House 76 Buckingham Palace ...
google and china: a vehicle of censorship
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006Google is to launch a censored version of its search engine for China. what a bunch of bloody hypocrites. google are cunts. yes i've decided. do you think we could have a version of the 'london underground are cunts' song for them? i reckon we might be able to ...
omniglot
Saturday, January 21st, 2006omniglot: a guide to written language. An interesting site. I found it while I was browsing for information on the occitan language { Provençal is a dialect of Occitan}
‘lost’ whale swims up the Thames
Friday, January 20th, 2006oh the poor thing! today the big news is a Northern Bottlenosed whale was seen swimming up the Thames under Westminster Bridge around lunchtime. i'm not sure what the latest news is, but the British Divers Marine Life Rescue group said it would help the whale if it became stranded. ...
the cannabis reclassification..rejected..
Friday, January 20th, 2006well it didn't go through..old clarke seemed to have changed his mind. Check out some more information on this here -
friday the 13th: the unluckiest day of all?
Friday, January 13th, 2006careful everyone, today is friday the 13th. how and why did this superstition come about? *Friday the 13th of October 1307 *- the day all the Templars in france were arrested by Philip IV ( called Philip the Fair and King of France from 1285-1314) on a variety of wild charges ...