More iconography than you can shake a stick at.
Archive for April, 2004
“The plan was simple, like my brother Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.” More gems at alienated.net.
Everything about Japanese pop culture you’ve ever wanted to know in one article, plus all the bits you can get arrested for in the land of the free. Ahh, mutant love…
The name Michiel Frackers doesn’t always ring a bell on the streets of Brussels, although it should. Frackers is a technology-driven Dutch innovator and one of the founders of Planet Internet, someone with extensive experience of the new media industry and an informed commentator on the knowledge economy. In an older post on his blog he lists four points essential to promoting innovation in the Netherlands, illuminating for all of the European Union.
Simply because it’s good to keep hammering the cracks in the wall: Condi Lousy, The Condi Rice Version of History and Claim vs. Fact: Rice’s Q&A Testimony Before the 9/11 Commission. Now doesn’t that make you feel better about living in a world where freedom of speech has become a cheap substitute for the right to be heard?
The real scoop on Tony Soprano’s pseudo-Italian gangster culture, from a real live pseudo-Italian American.
Minister of Consumer Affairs Freya Van den Bossche believes high-risk sporting activities should be made safer. Organisers of sports like hang gliding, skiing or mountain climbing should prepare a safety plan and provide training to neophytes. Sheesh.
From the Android Hall of Justice to Van Ness Pet Hospital. Electric cat broken? Get it fixed. Pretty cool.
The head of one of Europe’s biggest journalists’ rights organisations has said Belgium’s poor record on press freedom means it should not be the home to the EU’s main institutions.
Aiden White, who heads the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), said Belgium’s poor legal protection for journalists meant it was “quite inappropriate” that Brussels should be the home to the European Union’s three most important institutions – The Council of Ministers, The European Commission and the European Parliament.
According to the IFJ, there have been more attacks on journalistic freedom in Belgium in recent years that in any other western European country.
From Expatica.
