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Why are you getting all worked up about fifty thousand people dying from an earthquake? Every single day 25,000 children die from easily preventable diseases . Every single day 24,000 people die from hunger . Do they not count?

Natural disasters happen. We can’t prevent them, and ultimately they kill very few people. Hunger and disease problems in developing countries? That one is directly our fault. We literally created that catastrophe with our aggressive foreign policies, thus we ignore it. If you want to actually help the world, don’t waste your money on Sri Lanka. Focus on curing poverty and stopping our first world governments from continually kicking down any nation that tries to climb out of that poverty.

if you want to see a poor hilarious guy performing in front of his webcam then you must watch this flash movie: numanuma.swf (4.5mb .swf-file). but beware, it’s mean, loud and addictive!

today was a reeeealy slow day at work, so i was catching up with the posts on boingboing.net . while checking out the entries on the latest web-zen pos t i found this marvelous penguin game , a holiday greeting from macromedia.com. it seams that i’ve been really lucky, because managed to impress the “judges”, i made 29.4 points.

can you beat me? leave a comment!

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**update: **i should have practiced more!

in case you need some nice music to get into the x-mas mood you must listen to the border brass - tijuana christmas ! just perfect to light some candles and sing along (the .mp3’s are tagged very bad, but if you burn them on a disc no-one will notice :-)

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it’s good that i’ve never been much of a gamer, or else i couldn’t resist in going and buying the psp after reading this review on engadget …

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update: whoa! the psp works very nice with the mac and wifi . must. resist. must. resist.

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want to listen to some cool tunes, including funk, cool hip-hop and other more than delicious tunes? then wefunkradio.com is perfect for you. like xeni noted , it’s a brillinat mixture of tunes and very hard to turn off, once you tuned in into it’s live-stream .

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my mother recently gave me schotts sammelsurium , a very funny book.

in case you want to be a brilliant conversation-partner at your next diner party i recommend that you get that book. it’s a overly extensive list of things one should know. things to know like: the thickness of ice needed to carry you, a car or a lorry, how to tie a sari, a list of european cities with metro, some shakespearean curses, the longest word in english and other stuff to know. it’s a fabulous reading and you should get is asap :-)

if you liked “my” address book plugin , then you might dig this script posted on osxhints.com.

it enables you do do a quick google-lookup of any person in your address book, with a single click on the phonenumber of the desired person. (and can easily be adapted for other search engines, which might in the end enable me to throw together a “look-up-person-on-tel.search.ch-and-merge-info-with-already-in-addressbook”-script. but that’s another story for another day.

good night.

shannon has posted a small article on a very creative use of a bridge piercing . if you’re mildly interested in piercings and also like a wee bit of “industrial design” then you should give it a go and read it here .

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in case you think my pictures don’t deserve your time, then point you browser to casey kelbaughs slideshow (7.7mb .mov-file) of the pictures he took on a trip to brazil. those are really nice!

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