The Crisis of Credit Visualized
My concussion and various broken bones are getting better by the day, and I went back to properly reading and learning for Uni – I hope to have finished the book my diploma thesis will be about (still Being No One by Thomas Metzinger) in 2-3 weeks. Anyway, something completely different: The financial crisis explained [...]
Konkordanz
This is a German post, the first one in this blog. Sorry to all my English readers. It is however an issue concerning strictly Swiss politics only, and one that I have trouble expressing in English, due to mainly the difficulty to translate the terms that have been thrown around in the political discussion lately. [...]
Samuel Schmid is leaving
Disclaimer: Swiss politics, so many links lead to German pages. Samuel Schmid, member of the Swiss Federal Council (Bundesrat), is stepping back as per December 31th, as he just announced 10am this morning. It was, as sad to say as it is, inevitable. The SVP, which was Schmids party until the end of last year, [...]
Movie Plot Terrorist Threat #6666: Twitter!
The terrorists were all over World of Warcraft, now they’re all over Twitter, according to this Wired article: Scenario 1: Terrorist operative “A” uses Twitter with… a cell phone camera/video function to send back messages, and to receive messages, from the rest of his [group]… Other members of his [group] receive near real time updates [...]
Sarah Palin, the Accessorizer
Apart from her being rather incompetent (“cramming a lot of information”, as if, she just doesn’t find her way around the notes others have prepared for her), Sarah Palin apparently really likes fashion. And hairdressers. And makeup. According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue [...]
Swiss RFID Referendum: Nearly There!
We’re nearly there, but the referendum against biometric Swiss passports is still lacking 4’500 signatures, and there’s only a few days left. So if you haven’t printed, signed, and sent in a signature sheet yet, please do so now! In short, again, the reasons why I think biometric passports as per the current proposal are [...]
Help! Terrorists in World of Warcraft!
Avast, me hearties! I played me fair share o’ World o’ Warcraft, enough t’ know ‘t’s incredibly addictive, an’ enough t’ know ‘t’s nay good fer me when I do. Which, I guess, won’t avast me from tryin’ ou’ Wrath o’ th’ Lich King an’ th’ new Davy Jones’ locker Knight class anyway when ‘t [...]
Stop RFID in Swiss Passports!
The Swiss government has decided that our passports, like a few before ours, should store data on RFID chips. Meaning, the following data would be stored in that chip: fingerprints a digital photograph all the data that’s also available in printed form (name, gender, date of birth, eye color, and so on) All this data [...]
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