macslash, macnn. "hotline software closes its doors" – and the crowd is cheering, maybe rightfully: "a young prodigy who was manipulated by cynical businessmen" or "a dishonest larcenist" – it doesn't matter which description one chooses, fact is, hotline is adam hinkley. and salon already had the story in 1999.
"...doch sein herz weitete sich zu einem saftigen steak und er ließ ein wenig von seiner stulle ab und spendete mir worte." – hermes, fm4.orf.at.
"...und dank groovendem bass zum arschwackeln einladend." – der standard.
wenn jetzt noch im musikteil des falter jemand von "der gelben wolke" seines "jesus" schreibt, dann hat der herr makotter entweder sehr gut bei der wiener musik-kritik abgeschaut oder eben seinen eigenen schreibstil etablieren können. vielleicht liest er das ja nach seinem urlaub, dann werd' ich's wissen...
voice-family: ""}"";... it's crazy what web designer's have to do for cross-browser compatible style-sheets: css layout techniques. don't fix other people's bugs – as if!
yes, i need some distraction. i need to laugh sometimes even in times of bigger grief. and vice versa. not to forget but to intensify emotions. life is at least tragicomedy. satire and parody have to remind us about that, in good and in bad times. who said fools have to be serious, anway?
no, what happened to karl-heinz stockhausen is not right. nor acceptable. it's a typical over-reaction. and probably typical for german "high culture" intellctuals. i hope they get conscious again, soon.
the register: "top web design firm deepend goes under".
puns are urging me, but i resist. friends of christine are among the fired staff. apparently, the terror-shaken markets have its effect on the already doddering new economy...
games people play pt. ii: spaced penguin (via oliver wrede). addictive!
self-overestimation has a finger in every pie these days: bush jr. nominated for nobel peace prize – subject to the condition that he solves the terrorism conflict peacefully. whatever that means, it's such a nonsense! do these northern light intellectuals really think they could educate the us cowboy like that?
ghandi was never awarded the prize. does that explain anything?
"apostroph ist, was ihr draus macht" – ein fall für die apostroph-gruselgalerie: du schein'st es ja nicht kapiert zu haben, fanta...
games people play: duden besserwisserspiel.
meanwhile back in the jungle: assoziations-blaster was offline (7 – 11 september 2001).
hey, what a cool feature: p3k.org wrapped into web-blaster.
last night i watched a documentary about the german constitutional court, a bunch of eight judges, being something like an ultimate instance of adjucation (nevertheless it's not a divine power and it made some remarkably bad decisions as well).
although the court is not involved in any trial about germany's role in the upcoming war actions (at least at the moment), one of the judges (which seem to be very deliberate and smart people, btw. – as far as i can tell) said something very insightful about the difficulties to find the right sentence on controversal issues: you have to argue with the other judges, to wriggle with their arguments, to step into the "purgatory of decision making" – because there is so much at stake.
now back to the war mongers in the us and europe: many leaders recently were empowered by parliament or senate to have exclusive control over military action to be taken. they don't have to negotiate about controversial issues with anyone of their staff anymore (although they still can).
reminder: the overall tenor in mainstream media and the public concerning what to do with the terrorists (and especially the countries that became suspects of nurturing terror) was "act now, negotiate later".
i think this was the wrong approach. sure, there was a lot of action to be taken immediately to prevent further attacks (aka defense). sure you defend yourself! but concerning the upcoming raids of the oh so "civilised western world", this "purgatory of decision making" would have been more than just necessary. for the media, for the public and especially for politicians. not despite – but because there is so much at stake.