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The videos of Gaddafi's demise have been a great shock for me. The images themselves were not the most shocking, though, the real shock came from the concert of congratulations that accompanied the news of Gaddafi's death. I would have like to read consternation, outrage, condemns and reproving. Not even stopping long on such supremacist uncouthness as Clinton's "hilarity" (we came, we saw, he died [1], you can compare this impromptu spontaneous reaction to her sober official statement [2]), how can a man be lynched and all our leaders deliver victorious speeches and manifest outright satisfaction?
I do not want to delve much into the political issues, which are complex but more importantly, are really not the point. I would just summarize here what may be can be agreed upon by most.
Images and even videos showing the fall of Gaddafi bear a mention or another along the lines of "content is potentially offensive or inappropriate. Viewer discretion is advised."
When Nabe got 33, he went to Jerusalem to get baptised. A mystical move which he recounted in an essay, L'âge du Christ:
Google started, less than a couple of weeks ago(i), a revolutionary service: its social networking platform Google+.
Today is Elena's 30th birthday!
There is little echo in the international press of the recent events in Spain, be it the growing mass gatherings [2], or some cases of its violent repression by the police [1]. This is a bit strange as the events are both important and notable. Since the demonstrations are pacific and their demands are mainly against political corruption and decency in the conduct of power, I have only positive feelings about it. Today, we went in Munich to support the indignados, themselves supporting the core movement in Spain.
We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.
"I can report to the American people and to the world" announces the president of the United States, Barack Obama... What? That they have cured cancer? Landed on Mars? Achieved room-temperature superconductivity? Solved the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? At least lifted the embargo on Cuba?
I was looking for a representative masterpiece of minimalism for my list of favourite songs. I have settled for Mad Rush
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This is the technology we shall be using on laussy.org from now on. We initially used own-cooked php scripts, then later upgraded to a dedicated weblog engine, WordPress, but as we later relied increasingly on MediaWiki that is powering the rest of our web, there came a strong urge of uniformity and homogeneity.