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Why are you getting all worked up about fifty thousand people dying from an earthquake? Every single day 25,000 children die from easily preventable diseases. Every single day 24,000 people die from hunger. Do they not count?

Natural disasters happen. We can’t prevent them, and ultimately they kill very few people. Hunger and disease problems in developing countries? That one is directly our fault. We literally created that catastrophe with our aggressive foreign policies, thus we ignore it. If you want to actually help the world, don’t waste your money on Sri Lanka. Focus on curing poverty and stopping our first world governments from continually kicking down any nation that tries to climb out of that poverty.

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[via shannon, adapted with links]

read the text above again and step back a bit before flaming me or shannon! you must get the point.

it’s extremely sad for each and every person that had to die in south-east-asia or lost someone there. it’s a terrible way of dying.

but do all the newspapers make an as big fuss as they do over the people that die of hunger in africa or anywhere else in the third world? no, they dont. that’s my point. go and change the world where you can, don’t change it where you cannot.

i remember that i saw this flash linked somewhere, but i cannot remember where. yesterday evening i played it so many times that the boyfriend of my flatmate asked me if i’m insane.

but only until i showed him what i watched, then he nearly spurted his glass of milk through his nose.

if you want to see a poor hilarious guy performing in front of his webcam then you must watch this flash movie: numanuma.swf (4.5mb .swf-file). but beware, it’s mean, loud and addictive!

don’t wonder about the strange intro-screen, it’s a modified version of the original file not done by me, just mirrored on this server. sit through the intro, crank up your speakers and laugh!

today was a reeeealy slow day at work, so i was catching up with the posts on boingboing.net. while checking out the entries on the latest web-zen post i found this marvelous penguin game, a holiday greeting from macromedia.com. it seams that i’ve been really lucky, because managed to impress the “judges”, i made 29.4 points.

can you beat me? leave a comment!

[via boingboing]

update: i should have practiced more!

all those beat me!

sigi at 08.56 in the morning

raphael, he wrote some more on penguin games on the velocite-blog.

arni, he posted his picture on flickr.

my sister would have been the fastest to respond, but needs some practice :-) keep going!

2^nd update: markus and leo have a wee fight over their result over at flickr…

in case you need some nice music to get into the x-mas mood you must listen to the border brass – tijuana christmas! just perfect to light some candles and sing along (the .mp3’s are tagged very bad, but if you burn them on a disc no-one will notice :-)

[via boingboing]

it’s good that i’ve never been much of a gamer, or else i couldn’t resist in going and buying the psp after reading this review on engadget…

[via engadget]

update: whoa! the psp works very nice with the mac and wifi. must. resist. must. resist.

[via fscklog]

want to listen to some cool tunes, including funk, cool hip-hop and other more than delicious tunes? then wefunkradio.com is perfect for you. like xeni noted, it’s a brillinat mixture of tunes and very hard to turn off, once you tuned in into it’s live-stream.

[via boingboing]

my mother recently gave me schotts sammelsurium, a very funny book.

in case you want to be a brilliant conversation-partner at your next diner party i recommend that you get that book. it’s a overly extensive list of things one should know. things to know like: the thickness of ice needed to carry you, a car or a lorry, how to tie a sari, a list of european cities with metro, some shakespearean curses, the longest word in english and other stuff to know. it’s a fabulous reading and you should get is asap :-)

oh, and there is also an english version…

ps: ecto now has a nice amazon-search included (and can be yours for 30% less until christmas)

if you liked “my” address book plugin, then you might dig this script posted on osxhints.com.

it enables you do do a quick google-lookup of any person in your address book, with a single click on the phonenumber of the desired person. (and can easily be adapted for other search engines, which might in the end enable me to throw together a “look-up-person-on-tel.search.ch-and-merge-info-with-already-in-addressbook”-script. but that’s another story for another day.

good night.

[via osxhints.com]

shannon has posted a small article on a very creative use of a bridge piercing. if you’re mildly interested in piercings and also like a wee bit of “industrial design” then you should give it a go and read it here.

[via shannon’s blog]

in case you think my pictures don’t deserve your time, then point you browser to casey kelbaughs slideshow (7.7mb .mov-file) of the pictures he took on a trip to brazil. those are really nice!

[via the velocite-blog]

the first official screening of “SUICMC04 – The Movie” will be held on friday, the 17th december in the bar splendid palace from 7pm to 11pm or so. we will show the movie twice, once around 7.30pm and around 21.30pm.

you’re kindly invited to come, the event is open for all, you don’t have to be a messenger or have helped at the SUICMC04 to show up!

(click on the image to watch the trailer…)

since the upgrade of my MT-installation the integration of kungtunes an my blog was a bit flaky, i got an email whenever my itunes changed a song. this was just too much.

i’ve been looking for another solution to post my playlist on the web, but couldn’t find a good one, until i stumbled over this picture on the (excellent) command-shift-3-group on flickr. in the extensive list of programs mentioned was the itunes watcher. after a bit of googling i found the site and installed it (it’ s bit quirky, since it’s a script which needs to be configured and compiled).

so you can again spy on my musical taste, this time database-driven and quite nice. because the script works fully independent of any blog installation i made a new directory on my part of the server: /music

if you’d like to see what music i listen to, you can watch the 6 last played songs in the sidebar (click on the album to get more info) or just spy on the aforementioned subdirectory.

now i need to go an buy a new backpack.

update: i’ve just seen that the album covers are not displayed with firefox, but work perfectly with safari and IE on windows (my girlfriend uses it.) i will look into this and try to work it out…

if you’d like to see me in a suit, then you might want to check out my polyball foto set on flickr. but be warned, there are some really cheesy pictures in that set…

röme finished the movie of the suicmc04, and if you haven’t seen it already, you might want to take a look at the trailer (5.3mb .mpeg-file). we will try to organize a screening for all the helpers and other interested people, i’ll inform everybody when things become more precise.