unpredictable conspiracy

.. no conspiracy here .. but unpredictably just too less time at the moment to research and write .. nevertheless .. as a quick update ..
Tonite starts the club transmediale – this year’s event named Unpredictable – and in a few days then also the transmediale 08 under the title conspire (

Documentary: House of Saud

These days I had the luck to see the documentary ‘House of Saud’ by filmmaker Jihan El-Tahri. A BBC/ARTE/PBS/NHK production, which first has been aired in 2004.Saudi Arabia—one of the United States’ most important allies for more than sixty years—is home to vast oil fields and a wealthy, often extravagant, monarchy.

Until 9/11, most Americans …

p2p microfinance

.. what an excellent idea!
kiva.org works on the basis of a free loan by a private lender to the very poor, who plan or have some business to develop, but would almost have no chance to lend from a normal bank. The website is personalizing the contact between the lender and the entrepreneur …

minor instincts / shock doctrine

The recent new book – and accompanying film – of Naomi Klein causes already a lot of discussion. And it is good that there are (semi*) open places like the Guardian mini-site to provide this.
Sorrily I haven’t read the book, thus I can’t really decide on some raised detail information, also I can’t …

picidae – breaking through the wall / ZONE INTERDITE – unveiling some blind spots

A cool project currently has been set up and continues developing to deliver access to blocked and censored sites, which have been blocked for political reasons, via so called ‘pici-servers’. ... The World Wide Web, the nervous system of a simultaneous communication and the platform for global data exchange, is quite a diverse heterogeneous …

tracing the exchange on level: background visibility

0xdb database did their presentation about a week or two ago here in Berlin, but just now they put out a bigger announcement of their recent stunning development.

What does 0xdb stand for?There are different theories about this. Some people have remarked that 0xdb is the hexadecimal notation of the decimal number 219, and …

fluid graffiti

Temporary graffiti (aka driptxt via wooster collective) produced by sms txting and projection under the artist’s motto: ... don’t use your mobile phone to escape your surroundings, use it to engage it and speak out … – for more info see >>> txtualhealing – could be one of the works which might make …