Archives for 22 December 2002

De The New York Times heeft een mooi overzicht van de 7 voorstellen voor de herbouw van de WTC-torens. Audio en video netjes gecombineerd.

Pearl Jam’s “Save You”, filmed in Seattle, November 18th at Chop Suey.

How to Be SoopaFamous your current name, brad walker, no longer exists.you must now pick a one word name that has no significance whatsoever to yourself or anything you’re about. from now on, you will be referred to as xanthus. if you feel the urge, you can add a random number to the end to increase the “mystery.” how about 17? great, you are now xanthus17.

simple. you’ll see one word at the top of the following page. you have sixty seconds to write about it. as soon as you click ‘go’ the page will load with the cursor in place. don’t think. just write. go

Zoek de verschillen.

Maar na dit bericht zou ik het al zeker niet meer van Nestle drinken: “The multinational coffee corporation, Nestle, is demanding a $6m (£3.7m) payment from the government of the world’s poorest state, Ethiopia, as the country struggles to combat its worst famine for nearly 20 years. The money is compensation for an Ethiopian business which the previous military government nationalised in 1975. It could feed a million people for a month, according to Oxfam. The cash-strapped Ethiopian government has offered to pay $1.5m to settle the claim, but yesterday Nestle, which bought the firm’s German parent company in 1986, was standing by its demand, insisting it was a “matter of principle” Ronduit schandalig. Nog een ander verhaal over Nestle en het boycotten van hun producten. Heeft te maken met borstvoeidng en waarom Nestle dit tegengaat (lijkt me nogal logisch)