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Foodfight: Berlin - Unterfriedrichshein vs. Ostkreuzberg
After two years of a break the annual water / food fight between the two (former) Berlin “districts of Kreuzberg” and Friedrichshain was taken out again this weekend.
Almost a thousand combatants gathered around the “Oberbaumbruecke” that connects the two neighborhoods. The “battle” goes back to the 1990s when the Senate of Berlin in an administrative reform combined the two neighborhoods into one township/voting district most likely to block the left wing PDS party from getting a broader representation in government.
Within this battle only “weapons” like water, flour and everything that is wet, soft, splashy or slippery are allowed. According to that motto popular weapons included addle eggs, rotten vegetables or…
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Image: The difference between Socialism and Capitalism
The essential difference between Socialism and Capitalism - simply explained.
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Quote of the day: Beyond Good and Evil
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.
And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
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Rants’n Raves: Euro 2008 Football (soccer) championship
Been sitting around this afternoon watching the semifinals of the Euro 2008 football championship via the Internet (there is no post on this site how to use a proxy to watch German TV from the US - go look somewhere else). Have to admit that I normally never watch football or golf or TV in general since they’ve replaced most of the interesting stuff with game shows, but today I made an exception.
So I’m sitting here nibbling on Lieber’s Kosher Winkies (that’s what my Deli had for sweets - not bad anyway, but full of artificial flavors) and watching parts of that game - the Germans win and there’s that big huha going on, everybody’s celebrating - besides the Turks of course - and dancing people anywhere as if they would have contributed to the result.
Then what would you expect German TV to do - interview some players, the coach, your grand uncle who knows everything about soccer - NO WAY!
They go straight ahead for some political schmoozing and…
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Animation: A cultural guide to the UK
A short animation by James Houston who has just graduated from the Glasgow School of Art. The video so far made it through to the semi finals at the “2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards” within the Motion Graphics category.
James Houston is aiming this “‘cultural guide” at all citizen of the United Kingdom explaining…
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Credit Crunch - Graffiti Street Art by Syd TV
The topic of the credit crisis and the issues for people are becoming more and more popular in the UK. This video shows Syd.TV creating a graffiti on this topic together with clips of prominent participants and news reporting…
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Quote of the day: The constant struggle between the rich and the poor
Any city however small, is divided at least into two, one the city of the poor, the other the city of the rich.
These are hostile to each other.
Plato, Politeía, 370 BC
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Animation: Paranoland
Paranoland is the story about a fictitious country where people don’t trust each other and always expect the worst, until it happens. Maybe it’s not that fictitious anymore…
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Humor: A Patent on how to propose marriage
This is definitely the best patent application we’ve seen for a long time. A patent on how to propose marriage.
We’re sure you will already start smiling if you look at the drawing but wait until you read the patent application…
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Cartoon: Voting machines
It’s said that the electoral process in democracies has three important parts.
What happens before the voting - who you can vote for and how these are selected and can communicate, the voting itself, and what happens afterwards once the votes have been cast.
Well I guess that means one down.
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