the guardian: "new from mcdonald's: the mcafrika burger (don't tell the 12m starving)".

but we haven't forgotten that "hunger talks start with lobster and foie gras", anyway.

both links via freerepublic [1, 2].

süddeutsche zeitung: "jeder hält mich für einen republikaner. ich habe eine ganze dekade lang einen ölmulti gespielt, ich trage einen stetson, wenn ich lust dazu habe, und ich bin texaner. das ist alles. die republikaner schicken mir heute noch briefe, ob ich nicht werbung für sie machen will. ich sage denen jedes mal: 'lasst mich in ruhe mit eurer gottverdammten bullenscheiße!' die republikaner waren und sind dafür verantwortlich, dass die reichen reicher und die armen ärmer werden. sie sind dafür verantwortlich, dass die soziale balance in amerika zerstört ist. vielleicht können wir auch noch ein bisschen über den religiösen fanatismus reden, mit dem sie das land überziehen?"

larry hagman (known as "dallas"-crock j. r. ewing) makes a clean sweep of with some assumptions about america (and especially texas), with its republican presidents ("the dangerous" reagan and "the dangerous and dumb" bush jr.) and certainly with himself (via betablogger).

hey, i did not know antville.medien.uni-weimar.de, yet!

freememes links: thisisamagazine, tigermagazine, transporter.

if they just would spare me the pop-up-auto-resize windows...

southpark goes austria: "rohling", a 14 minute animation in "southpark"-style (via michi.tv).

village voice: “angry white men” by eric demby.

"the success of a handful of books that assail the bush administration as hypocritical, incompetent, and corrupt has demarcated a groundswell of americans who desire truth about their leaders amid the dearth of critical and official information that is today's mainstream media. it's a demographic large enough that any politician or pollster would identify it as pivotal in an election: 'stupid white men' by michael moore now has 500,000 copies in print and is still number five on the new york times top 10; '9-11' by noam chomsky has 205,000 in print; and 'the best democracy money can buy' by investigative journalist greg palast, published by an indie british press, just sold its paperback rights to american publisher penguin putnam for an undisclosed amount".

obviously there is hope for america and thus hope for the world.

i warmestly can recommend michael moore's book. it's fun to read and then you get hold of the wrong end of your own laughter.

it's probably more valuable than hardt and negri's "empire"... (but latter is more beautiful in the shelf, though).

immer (noch) aktuell: die goldenen regeln für schlechtes html.

hey, guess what? today i've read a little bit scripting.com again after a while.

shouldn't have done it, though. dave is in teenage mode, wants to report about a book he does not want to read because the author does not deserve the money and commands "withdraw!" to get in touch with him. oy, is this funny.

coincidentally, i took another look at an old website i did two years ago and found out that it is still the same (from a structural point of view), still maintained with radio userland which is a product by dave winer...

is scripting.com the mouthpiece of a simple software salesman?

i think if it is, there is too much talk about software salesmen, indeed.

popo.at found out that austrian chancellor schüssel has a twin brother!

btw. what about the upcoming elections in germany?

the source code of some of the 5k award entries (hypercard, how nice!) remind me of these ancient c64 hacks: lines containing strange chars and symbols and when you entered them suddenly there was hellzapoppin' rainbow colors pandemonium on the monitor (which was a telly, most of the time, btw).