Thursday 6 February 2014
sede vacante
catagories: ๐ฎ๐น, ๐ป๐ฆ, ✝️, ๐, ๐ณ️๐, foreign policy
Wednesday 5 February 2014
caveat lector or recently improved content
monumenta germaniae historica
Coinciding with the star-studded premiere of the feature film on this courageous profiles in conservatorship, the Smithsonian is exhibiting many photographs and artefacts from its archives to enhance the portrayal of the so-called “Monuments Men.”
Tuesday 4 February 2014
personae, pandora
Conceived as sort of an electronic annual, a year book ten years ago for an elite university in a dorm room, the reigning social network has matured and seems to have come of age, established and hard-wired.
I cannot say whether the lure of the instantaneous and easy and convenient is taking away from native creativity (rather than enhancing it) or more artistic, meaningful or fulfilling pursuit—but if that is the case, I think people are still quick (mostly, at least as quick as they would be otherwise) to realise that that chance is not easily retaken, but there is more than just a change in our vocabularies or ways of coddling our own sense of indolence or procrastination in the simple fact that the Internet does not forget and reminders are lightly stirred. I believe, if used correctly, that could be a supplement rather than a liability too, but considering the current climate, telecommunication providers being prosecuted for complicity and governments being held liable for their abidance, it seems that we are not very good at self-censorship and temperance.
catagories: ๐ฅธ, ๐ง , holidays and observances, networking and blogging, revolution
Monday 3 February 2014
hors d'oeuver or hors taxes
There is an apparently flourishing business for pizza and for others in the meals on wheels service on the German side of Swiss borderlands.
catagories: ๐จ๐ญ, ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐, foreign policy
Sunday 2 February 2014
black hole or all light is mute amid the gloom
There were a lot of singular influences, like the anime feature Galaxy Express 999 (1978), where an orphaned little boy shuns technology promising immortality by having ones memories but not emotions transferred to robotic vessels, plus also other Disney productions, which discounting all fairy tales, were not really made for young audiences, like the Witch Mountain (1975) series, about telekinetic extra-terrestrial children on the lamb from the government, or Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971, compare to the Narnia or the Middle Earth sagas) which is a story about coping with evacuation during the Blitz of London during WWII and a sorceress defeats the Nazi invasion. Formative, I am grateful that kids' entertainment was not handled with kid-gloves and subject to censor and psychologists.