Traveler | 4. Februar 2013
The fundraiser is over but my connection to the cause is not. I am still following the events and developments surrounding Malala Yousafzai. Now I am happy to share this snippet of her latest interview with you:
Traveler | 8. Januar 2013
The Steampunks for Malala Yousafzai fundraiser is almost over and there is still a lot of way to go to the target-amount of 500 $ which will be donated to the DIL Trust. I am in contact with some members of the board of the DIL Trust and I will of course publish the money-transfer [...]
Traveler | 12. Juli 2012
Let’s face it: Puny human politicians are more interested in lining their own pockets and legislating exactly how their billionair cronies/multi-nationals/campaign donators want them to. They have been lying to us, made false promises and screwed us over twice for decades now. Decades… how pathetic! There have been powers around which have never hidden their [...]
Traveler | 4. April 2012
Looking at this picture, the nerd in me is doing an extensive happy dance. Can you imagine any other resident of the Oval Office being this epic? Actually, I can. My heavily biased list includes both Roosevelts, Eisenhower and Kennedy.
Traveler | 27. März 2012
The rhetoric between Israel and Iran has once again reached a fever-pitch and it is not looking good right now. However, an Israeli graphics designer has used the internet to spread a powerful message: This is so beautiful, and it shows one thing: The people are tired of block-headed politicians risking everybody’s life but their [...]
Traveler | 27. Januar 2012
Traveler | 18. Januar 2012
And therefore, I share this video with you:
Traveler | 18. Dezember 2011
This has been a terrible week, mankind has lost two great thinkers. First, Christopher Hitchens passed on and today, Václav Havel followed. Václav Havel, dissident, playwright, politician, leader, central figure of the Velvet Revolution. Few people have shaped post-Cold War Europe like he did. Few have been held in such high regard by so many, [...]
Traveler | 25. November 2011
“RichardDawkins: Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don’t Watch Any News: Study – – – Huff Post Media – http://t.co/dZHwWU1T http://t.co/QEeujK2B” –http://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/139865615656689664“ And some people keep wondering why sarcasm, despair and some light misanthropy are among my favourite hobbies…
Traveler | 11. November 2011
Today is Armistice Day. In the US it’s Veterans Day and Remembrace Day in the Commonwealth nations. In Germany it also marks (for reasons that have elduded me since forever) the beginning of the Carnival Season. It starts November 11th at 11:11 am (that is 11/11, 11:11) . Why I bring up the Carnival Season [...]
I am an anthropologist and in this capacity a minor scholar of the Cthulhu Mythos and H.P. Lovecraft. I am also quite obviously heavily into Steampunk and Dieselpunk and like travelling.
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