1.) Job interview preparation update ( Read more... )

1.) If you're curious about the 24th of October, I was here (because I was in Stuttgart for a seminar that weekend ( Read more... )

but here's a *great* article I really need to share ( Read more... )

I have to say post-Midnight Oil Peter Garrett mystifies me. I cannot for a minute believe that he didn't believe passionately in the things he sang about for 25 years. If fame, wealth or groupies ;-) were what he was really after, there'd have been easier, less controversial ways to achieve all of that - even in the 80s, angry left-wing ( Read more... )

No, he's not going to fix everything that's wrong with the world.

But at least now we have a chance that *maybe*, some things are going to get handled a *little* bit better.

May not be enough. We'll see. But it's a chance.

I'm leafing through my yellowed, brittle Guardian copies again. I've just found yet another article about the health problems caused by baby food companies aggressively encouraging poorly educated mothers in third world countries to give up breastfeeding in favour of feeding their babies formula (by making it appear as if formula is a safer, better ( Read more... )

Some pages from Mohiro Kitoh's current manga series, Bokurano ( Read more... )

Actually, I'm not. Will be back (lurking or even posting, we'll see) when I have some energy left for that - probably late next week. (It's the problem with procrastination: when you finally *stop* procrastinating you have to put everything you have into the work you should have been doing while you were procrastinating ( Read more... )

here's one more bit of news. We've been demonstrating again, this time in Wiesbaden, the Hessian capital. There were about 8000 people there. I spent most of my three hours at the demo hanging around the group of archaeology students who were carrying this banner ( Read more... )

- From the Department of the Wonderfully Weird: They're playing an organ piece in a church in Halberstadt that will last 639 years because the composer wanted it to be played 'as slowly as possible': http://www.fr- ( Read more... )