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November 11th 2005 Some dreams are on the news, some not >

"...we are the first country for number of mobile phones, televisions and cars" (Berlusconi, here).

Alegher1.

I'd rather live in the first country for romantics, Nature lovers, creatives, book readers, and anticlericals.
Everybody has his dream I guess.

1. Alegher, in the milanese dialect, means more or less "what fun". But as in the best milanese style, in a very, very sarcastic way.

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August 27th 2005 sign up to Gmail, and make them richer >

Another unrelated post from the "google is scary" department.
As they say on the , you can now "Sign up for gmail".
You just have to give them your mobile phone number. "So we know that you're human".
All right, but, are they human?
(mocking voice) "...some new mobile features that will make your Google account more useful and secure"
Bullshit.
What they really mean is "so we can file your goggle account along with your real phone number, and that's gonna give our records a bloody consistency, that's GOLD for us. We have to make a lot of money with your identity and habits. We already did, but, crap, who is ever satisfied anyway?"

(still mocking voice) "It's a way to help us verify that an account is being created by a real person, and that one person isn't creating thousands of accounts".
Yeah, right. Now I know that you create spam just as an excuse to snatch more identity information from people, spy on them, build consistent records on them.

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  • Heard the alarm clock screaming with pain, / Couldn't find myself so I went back to sleep again / So fill my ears with silver / Stick my legs in plaster / Tell me lies about Vietnam. // taken from the swiss lounge: adrian mitchell

  • He’s thin and tall and you can see that his hands have been working for a long time. He’s chopping the thick mean ice in front of the church. “That’s tough work today,” I say. He stops and looks up, leaning on the long stick of the icebreaker. “Yes it is. But lookin’ at you,” he says, “I got me some new energy.” / taken from on the corner « Municipal Archive

  • Still, the clothes are fantastic. / taken from sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy: A trial

  • The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar’, to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged. Art is a way of experiencing the artfulness of an object; the object is not important." / taken from Shklovsky, "Art as Technique" via MUSINGS ON HANDKE’S PROSE

  • The summer after Hearst's trial, Star Wars was released and immediately became a pop sensation. America now preferred its captives to be self-willed self-rescuers. Rambo would soon grace movie screens; Ronald Reagan would soon be president. And Patty Hearst would go to jail, a harbinger of our new age of "personal responsibility." What was a captive supposed to do? The jury decided: she was supposed to just say no. / taken from That Girl: The Captivity and Restoration of Patty Hearst (Page 2)

  • According to researchers at Oxford University, playing the popular, classic puzzle game Tetris after a traumatic experience could significantly reduce emotional scars. / taken from Health: Tetris Wipes Out Bad Memories, Say Scientists

  • Furthermore, as anybody who recently has endured the indignity of a traffic stop can attest, police in most jurisdictions routinely inquire as to whether there are weapons in the car. (In my most recent traffic stop, the officer asked, “Are there any weapons in your car I need to know about?” “No, none that you need to know about,” was my immediate response.) / taken from Pro Libertate: "Question 46," Revisited

  • An idea has only to be something you have not thought of before to take over the mind, and all afternoon I kept hearing in my mind snatches of books which might exist in three or four hundred years. / taken from Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai, from THE CHAGALL POSITION: Relations of Notes

  • In the seventh grade I moved the family typewriter into my bedroom to begin work on my screenplay. It was a very moving romantic comedy intended to feature a monkey, Simon LeBon of Duran Duran and the well-known actress Bess Armstrong whom I’d seen in my favorite movie of the 6th grade, High Road to China. / taken from 2007 Things «

  • Most people, I would imagine, would simply drive on. She did not; she stopped the bus, followed me half a block up the street, and demanded to know why I’d been taking pictures of her, and insisted that I erase them. She was firm; I was surprised and incoherent. But after a moment of confusion, I managed to show her that I had not, as it happened, managed to catch her on film, showing her most of my pictures in the process. At first she was hostile, an avenging angel, but she relaxed as we went through my digital roll, huddling over the tiny light of my view-finder on a dark empty street. / taken from zunguzungu

  • The endgame will culminate in the creation of an Eretz Israel by which time the Palestinian entity will be the substance of myth, nurtured only in poetry and song, some tears and some faded old maps. There are not even many Mahmoud Darwish' around to write about this pain. The fountains of sadness are sprouting blood, the insane cries for help are falling on deaf ears, at this time poetry and Literature seem superfluous, including my naive post. / taken from THOUGHTS OF XANADU: What the Zionists want

  • What a pathetic group! What a lack of humanity and true pain! They were real and therefore unbelievable. No one could ever use them for the scene of a novel or a descriptive backdrop. They went by like rubbish in a river, in the river of life, and to see them go by made me sick to my stomach and profoundly sleepy. / taken from Dispatches from Zembla: "Those who suffer, suffer alone"

  • Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: "Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury – you name it." Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply. When I asked Mr Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: "Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention." / taken from Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent

  • W.'s always admired my whining, 'like a sad chimp, at the limits of its intelligence', but my depression took me beyond that, didn't it? You were silent for once, W. says. I didn't ring him, or respond to emails ... No chatter from me: that's when he knew things were really bad, says W. / taken from Spurious

  • dam's broke, / head's a / waterfall. / taken from 3quarksdaily

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