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The Süddeutsche Zeitung (South-German Times) has a mind-blowing online slideshow of color images taken in 1914, right before the outbreak of the horrific First World War. Can you image what it would be like if there were color photos from, say, the time of Bach or perhaps the time of Socrates? When I see the…

Waste to Waves (wastetowaves.org) has a list

I just read an article about how an aunt of North Korean dictator Kim Jon Un managed to flee to the US and was granted political asylum. She had surgery to change her appearance and lives in secret somewhere in America. Its funny, because I live in a city that is so multi-cultural, and I’ve…

In the ongoing process of rearranging my life and my living environment, I ended up having a couple file storage boxes filled with clothes hangers. The only problem is that they don’t fit into file storage boxes. Clothes hangers are a mess to deal with as everyone knows. So today I decided to see what…

There have been a couple of highly significant articles today at spiegel.de in which more and more top German political leaders are increasingly calling for the country to grant him asylum. We are talking about people like the former General Secretary of the ruling CDU party alongside with top leaders from left-opposition parties, and the…

I know there are people who don’t support Edward Snowden. The only people who don’t support him are facist bigots. Of course there are facist bigots who don’t give a fuck about human rights. What do you think is going on in America? Why do you think all this shit is going on in the…

Germany has passed a law that now makes it possible to designate a baby as neither male nor female. This puts less pressure on parents of intersex children who may feel they have to rush to have the baby operated on to make it “male” or “female”.

The importance of using a password utility such as the eminent Lastpass has been shown with yet another mass-breach of user data from a large company: this time Adobe, which had a 9.2 gigabyte file of user data including passwords stolen. Lastpass is a cross-platform password manager that integrates into web browsers. It is available…

5 injured in crash involving car thief suspect (10-30) 21:21 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — A young man who blew through a red light in a stolen Honda Accord triggered a violent four-car wreck on busy Geary Boulevard in San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon, sending all four drivers to the hospital along with a pedestrian who…

S.F. offenders repeatedly return to streets For those who wonder why San Francisco has such a problem with street people, look no further than the case of Daniel Grijalva, who most recently came to the attention of police when – while high on paint fumes – he allegedly masturbated on a downtown street in the…