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This so called Egyptian Uprising really got me. I've been in vagually similar states myself: academic debates, protest marches and demonstrations, defending the hainburger au (a floodplain forest on the boundaries of Vienna), then also experiences in civil war guatamala and clandestine Honduras. One BBC interviewee described it as spirituality. It comes close.
Masses on the streets for days with mutual just causes. Neighbors, strangers, students, soldiers and vegetable vendors (yes, I also mean Mohammed Bouazizi).
What do they do. We think of them as chanting. But that is only some of them part of the time.
The rest of the time they were talking to eachother.
Maybe they organised by facebook, texted through twitter. But the rest, the big stuff, what made and will make the difference:
was word of mouth.
Communicating and sharing the essence of being with strangers, students, soldiers and vegetable vendors.
That is what, together with their glory and happiness, they have ahead of us.
[ ...more ] posttime: 2/13/11; 12:48:10 AM
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| Primitive Studios Vienna - Relaunch |
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My good friend Lupo Plainer gave the Primitive Studios a work-over: now it has excellent, WAI 1,2, and 3 conform code - and an even better appearance to boot. (The original Site was also his design.) So if you need a sound studio in Vienna, take a look at Primitive Studios.
Then again, if you need a standards-conform website, that still looks good: contact Lupo & me.
[ ...more ] posttime: 2/23/09; 11:24:37 AM
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| Vielfach - the cool new modular shelving system |
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My friends Florian Harmer & Christian Thurner have gone in production with a great new modular shelving system that looks and is, well - way cool: the vielfach system The 4 different sized shelf-squares (einfach, zweifach, dreifach & vierfach) can be stuck together in literaly thousands of ways, either stand-alone or wall-mounted.
Vielfach is german for "multiple", "multiplicative", or "in many cases" - and thus quite self-descriptive.
[ ...more ] posttime: 6/13/08; 12:46:35 AM
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| PHP Security Blog |
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Bernd has opened a new blog on PHP security. After years of expertise in the sector he has chosen to share his experience with the programming community - and with us;-). There would nbemuch more I could tell you about him and his work, but I'm never sure what is confidential and what not, as much of his stuff is published under pseudonyms. Best you go there yourself, or subscribe the PHP Security Feed
[ ...more ] posttime: 11/4/07; 5:50:44 PM
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| Ich verstecke Menschen |
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Ich verstecke Menschen (I hide people) is a project by Anthony Wagner in coop. with Austrian artists, cultural inititiativs and NGOs. Ich verstecke Menschen is an impetus generated by pressure of reality - triggered by the subhuman treatment of non-Austrians by Austrians. Ich verstecke Menschen tells empathy with the prosecuded.
Ich verstecke Menschen ist ziviler Ungehorsam. Ich verstecke Menschen ist ein leistbarer Beitrag zur Menschlichkeit für alle. Ich verstecke Menschen ist ein öffentliches Bekenntnis. Ich verstecke Menschen ist eine Anlaufstelle, für Menschen, die versteckt werden wollen. Ich verstecke Menschen ist mutig und gut. Ich verstecke Menschen zeigt Empathie mit den Verfolgten.
Have a look
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| niemand ist allein | | 4/23/2008 |
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 Niemand versteckt Menschen. Ich verstecke Menschen ist eine Aktion von Anthony Wagner. Ein durch Realitätsdruck entstandender Impuls. Ausgelöst durch den unmenschlichen Umgang mit Nicht- ÖsterreicherInnen. Beim Verfolgen der Österreichischen Asyl- und Aufenthaltspolitik, wuchs in Anthony Wagner das Verlangen Teil der Gegenbewegung zu werden. Eine Bewegung, die aus allen Menschen besteht, die wollen, dass die humanitären Rechte in ihrer ganzen Strahlkraft fester Bestandteil der österreichischen Zivilgesellschaft werden. Ein Wunsch auf den die Politik mit Strafverfolgung reagiert. Das bedeutet, dass wir heute möglicherweise Menschen verstecken, aber morgen vielleicht schon Menschen verstecken, die Menschen verstecken. Und darum sollten wir endlich deutlich gehört werden.
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| Boing Boing | | 2:46PM at |
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Inside the world's most-studied forest. 
I'm currently attending the Marine Biological Laboratory's 10-day science journalism fellowship. As part of that, I get to do some hands-on science experiments and get a better perspective on how the work of science is done and how data is collected. Along with five other fellows, I spent last weekend collecting A LOT of data in Massachusetts' Harvard Forest—3,500 acres of extremely well-documented wilderness.
All this week, I'll be posting some of the highlights from my trip—videos and photos that will introduce you to the Harvard Forest, how science is done in the field, and to some of the key ideas that I'm learning during my time here.
This will be the central access point for all those posts. Check back every day to see what's new.
In This Series:
Scientific Research in a Forest
How Past Land Use Affects the Current Landscape
  
How past land use affects the current landscape. 
Do you see how the ground level is higher on the left-hand side of this photo? To the right of the stone wall, the ground distinctly drops by a foot or more.
That wall is more than 200 years old. It marks the border between what was once a plowed field (on the left) and grazing pasture (on the right). Today, this site is woodland—part of the Harvard Forest, the most-studied forest in the world. But for generations, this land was farmed by Jonathan Sanderson and his descendants. And, even two centuries later, you can still see the way different uses of the land changed the land.
For instance, the ground level is higher on the left because plowed fields erode more easily. This site is on a slight slope. Water runs downhill, toward the right hand corner of the photo. As it did that, it carried bits of plowed field along with it—sediment that washed up against the stone wall and stayed there. Over many years, the effect changed the level of the land.
This isn't necessarily a catastrophic thing. But it is change. I spent last weekend in the Harvard Forest, participating in science in a hands-on way as part of the Marine Biological Laboratory's science journalism fellowship. One of the things I learned during my stint in the forest: The past ain't past. History is recorded in geology and ecology as surely as it's recorded in books. Very cool stuff!
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