Ode to the Internet

After the last year's Nobel Prize for Peace mistake Obama, I expect this year a lot more freaky things to happen. But try to understand me right, I have nothing against Obama, just find it funny winning Nobel prize for peace, because you haven't made war. (although the definition of "peace" allows it). The eskimos also have no offensive ideas to fire some "rotten" part of the world, but they usually don't get anything..
This year, We, the People of the World have our favorite candidate - the Internet . Internet reflects us, our intentions and for the first time, we don't seem to be the "bad guys". We ran to search justice for the middle east (although it wasn't quite our job), we helped Haiti and we done many many good things.. And despite of the fact that this doesn't have direct relationship with the peace, it's quite fair to give the Nobel Prize for Peace to all of us, who try to bring back the harmony. It sounds idealistic, but it is not. It's just fair. Therefore VOTE FOR INTERNET. :)

p.s. Another interesting story about the Internet: Internet access is 'a fundamental right'

Recommendation: see the "findings in detail". There I found the lines:
"Germans are also the least frequent users of social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace, with only 18 per cent saying they enjoy spending time on these sites." :) …. which is the pure truth…

running@11p.m.

running@11p.m&rain. some of those everyday-miracles, which happen once in a month. sometimes once in a lifetime. such activity you won't write in your CV (although this is far more unique than programming in Java). if unlucky enough to have boyfriend/girlfriend, he/she won't ask you why, because it is not an argue-starter or a coolness-measurement. your cat will still think you're boring and your imaginary friends will open the next beers while you pass them by in sneakers. there's nothing special about running@11p.m. except.. the streets, the rain and the pedometer detecting movement.

afterlife

Finally,

yesterday night I finished playing "World of Goo" :) Amazing play. I particularly like the graphics, how the physics machine behind worx and the challenges, of course. Here some screenshots:







Near a month late, the BBC pearls for December 2009:

• Zulu king wins South Africa bull-killing case
• Reading while rolling Cuba's famous cigars (and imagine reading while smoking the Cuba's famous cigars)
• Fast forward to the past
• Singapore birds sent to market party (the same procedure for the cockroaches may increase the degree of socializing them... just a suggestion)
• Rising seas "clue" in sunken world of Orkney (why do I have the feeling, they are solving the wrong problem?)
• Unholy row over New Zealand Mary and Joseph billboard
• Christkind (Father Christmas, Santa Claus, the spirit of Christmas, Christ itself... and now, the Christkind.. the whole family invades!)
• Switzerland geologist on trial for 'causing quakes' (he must have escaped from the forces and hidding himself in Haiti.. it's not funny! serious!)
• "Boat" could explore Saturn moon (it is not actually a boat.. and it won't actually swim in water.. but journalism, you know..)
• Man jailed for eating rare tiger (I just couldn't make reference to the article from November: "Two man jailed after beating crocodile with bamboo sticks"..)
• Swedish Christmas straw goat burnt
• HP computers are racists
• The official choir of the European Organization for Nuclear Research is to record a song dedicated to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
• "Oldest duck" Edwina dies aged 22 (poor Edwina...)

And as we mentioned the afterlife... Since we all know that it is a cubicle, hopefully this cubicle is equipped with a Mac and fast Internet connection.. Pray..

Sincerely mines,
z

the black list

The movies you better never watch (in order to preserve your sanity)*:

A Hole In My Heart (2004, Lukas Moodysson)
Gummo (1997, Harmony Korine)
Hotel (2001, Mike Figgis)
Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch)
Racconti di Canterbury, I (1972, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Taxidermia (2006, Gyorgy Palfi)
Tetsuo - the Iron Man (1989, Shinya Tsukamoto)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989, Peter Greenaway)
Requiem For A Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky)
4 (2005, Ilya Khrjanovsky)
Edipo re (1967, Pier Paolo Pasolini)**

* not ordered by the degree of damages
** as well as every other movie from Pasolini, I suppose..