Topic: MUSIK - on May 28, 2011 at 10:46:00 AM CEST
Gil Scott-Heron, credited with inspiring rap, dies
Gil Scott-Heron, a U.S. poet and songwriter credited with helping inspire the development of rap music, has died at age 62, according to media reports on Saturday.
reuters.com wiki PLAYLIST 100 videos Mix for Gil Scott-Heron
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Topic: LEGO - on May 17, 2011 at 3:18:00 PM CEST
LEGO Technic Super-8 Movie Projector
A fully functional Super 8 Movie Projector I built with Kalle using Lego Technic. The only non-Lego parts are the lens, the reel spindles and the lamp.
The projector uses just two engines and is fully featured with automatic feeding, 24 fps, fast rewind and 120m reel capabilities. A decent LED flashlight makes it pretty amazingly bright.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on May 2, 2011 at 5:39:00 PM CEST
3 May : World Press Freedom Day 2011
21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers” is the theme of this year’s World Press Freedom Day, celebrated on 3 May, with major events in Washington DC and New York (USA), alongside local and regional events all over the world.
unesco.org .wpfd2011.org wan-ifra.org World_Press_Freedom_Day [wiki]
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Topic: War and Peace News - on May 2, 2011 at 3:19:00 PM CEST
Killing the alibi
The killing of Osama bin Laden is more of a symbolic victory for the Obama administration than a game changer for the US strategy in the "Greater Middle East".
After 10 years of pursuing al-Qaeda's leader, responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks, the US has closed a chapter, but not the book, in its war on al-Qaeda and "international terrorism".
Since the attacks on New York and Washington, "al-Qaeda central" which was being run from the Pakistani Afghan border, has mutated into a global network of affiliates.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on May 2, 2011 at 8:56:00 AM CEST
Osama bin Laden is dead
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Topic: not on frontpage - on April 27, 2011 at 9:17:00 AM CEST
Wau Holland Stiftung veröffentlicht Transparenzbericht für Wikileaks-Spenden
Dabei handelt es sich um Spenden und Ausgaben, die die Wau Holland Stiftung für das Wikileaks-Projekt gesammelt hat. Insgesamt gab es 2010 1’331’698.19 Euro Einnahmen und 401’824.62 Euro Ausgaben.
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Topic: LEGO - on April 25, 2011 at 6:34:00 PM CEST
Legotron, Mark I — 4×5 Camera made of LEGO bricks
Back in August of 2009, I blogged about having an idea of making a 4×5 out of LEGO bricks. Ten days later I’d made some serious progress on it. I started with trying to use the LEGO builder App on the computer to spec it out before I built it, but my mind wouldn’t work like that, so I threw that out and borrowed a metric tonne of LEGOs from my friend Gregory. I made a couple of rounds of prototypes that proved to work well enough for my mind to think Hello World / proof of concept. Fast forward a bit and I got really busy and left the project sitting on a desk for just ages. A big hitch in the progress, other than being busy, was that I’d built just enough of the camera to realize I had to rebuild the main body to accomodate the film holder—a part I’d forgotten to plan for.
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Topic: nuclear power - on April 23, 2011 at 10:25:00 AM CEST
Duck and Cover (1951)
Duck and Cover was a social guidance film produced in 1951 by the United States federal government's Civil Defense branch shortly after the Soviet Union began nuclear testing. Written by Raymond J. Mauer and directed by Anthony Rizzo of Archer Productions and made with the help of school children from New York City and Astoria, New York, it was shown in schools as the cornerstone of the government's "duck and cover" public awareness campaign. The movie states that nuclear war could happen at any time without warning, and U.S. citizens should keep this constantly in mind and be ever ready.
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Topic: WEB - on April 12, 2011 at 8:56:00 AM CEST
Pensioner in Georgia cuts Armenia off from internet
In a case that has attracted worldwide interest, pensioner Hayastan Shakarian is accused of forcing thousands of people in both countries offline for hours after hacking into a fibre-optic cable while digging for scrap metal. But Shakarian, a Georgian of Armenian origin, said that she was just a "poor old woman" who was not capable of committing such a crime.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on April 2, 2011 at 12:18:00 PM CEST
Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 14)
In Brega, the Libyan oil town located in the Sirte basin SSE of Benghazi, rebels are pressing on to the front line. More uniformed and better disciplined soldiers seem to be bolstering the usual disorganised opposition fighters, but neither side is currently able to claim control of the town. Rebels without proper training and equipment that weakened the oppositors at the front, are now used as backup force since their great enthusiasm is not enough and in the past days they were getting trounced by Gaddafi’s better trained and equipped soldiers. However, since Friday Apr. 1, the Associated Press has reported that only former officers and volunteers with at least a basic training are allowed to serve on the front lines: “the better organized fighters, unlike some of their predecessors, can tell the difference between incoming and outgoing fire. They know how to avoid sticking to the roads, a weakness in the untrained forces that Qaddafi’s troops have exploited. And they know how to take orders”.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on April 2, 2011 at 9:40:00 AM CEST
Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 13)
Rather than decisive, the recent handover of the operations in Libya to the NATO took place when Gaddafi’s forces seems to be more effective on their attacks to the rebels. Oppositors continue to retreat from former strongholds of Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad along Libya’s north-eastern coast Ras Lanuf has put the situation while Misratah is still under attack of loyalist troops.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on April 2, 2011 at 9:39:00 AM CEST
Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 12)
It’s somehow clear that the coalition aircraft are playing an important role not only enforcing the No-Fly Zone over Libya or protecting the civilians from being attacked by Gaddafi’s forces, but also and above all in marking the extent of the rebel’s gains or retreats. If and when allied aircraft strike loyalist forces, the oppositors are able to advance in spite of their equipment or (lack of) organisation; when, like it seemed to happen during most of Day 12, the number and intensity of strikes on ground tagets decreases, the rebels are compelled to beat a rapid eastward retreat. Some explained the series of gains and subsequent retreats as a sign that Air Power is not enough when not backed by a direct ground intervention while, in my honest opinion, at least in this theatre, it’s the opposite. For the moment, it’s not a problem of being on the ground but a problem of being compelled to strike targets within the mandate of a United Nations resolution that gives little chance for offensive or pre-emptive operations required to render Gaddafi unable to harm his own people.
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