Brilliant infographics: The World of 100

Just stumbled upon this piece at Brainpickings, which points to a brilliant infographics website named The World of 100 made by a guy named Toby Ng. It visualizes statistics of the world in percentages boiled down to what he visualizes ‘if the world were a village of a 100 people’. See a couple of great […]

Yes Men pawn Chamber of Commerce over climate change legislation

From the Boing Boing blog: The Yes Men strike again. Posing as members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, they held a press conference today to announce that the chamber would abandon its opposition to climate-change legislation now in Congress. Watch the video: And read the press release. I love these guys. UPDATE (Oct 22, […]

Brilliantly conducted web activism sacks Rush Limbaugh

The much discussed attempt by ultra-conservative radio kingpin Rush Limbaugh to buy the NFL-team St. Louis Rams crashed and burned a couple of days ago after massive criticism by the public – headed by a brilliant web activism strike initiated by Robert Greenwald and his crew at Brave New Films. Not only did they manage […]

The compelling future of human-computer interaction

Just stumbled upon this visionary video made by a guy named C. Miller, who has thought up a design for a user interface (UI) that fits, utilizes and embraces human anatomy much better than the ole’ mouse’n’cursor. Check it out and see if you get the same eagerness as me to skip 5-6 years into […]

Five simple steps to revitalize any city

I went to the Netaudio festival here in Berlin last week and listened in on some talks made by a guy named Andrew Dubber. Very interesting indeed and so are his tweets. One of the recent ones links to an absolutely magnificent 5-step list that all city authorities should read and implement. So simple and […]

NOT EVERYONE CAN SWIM

Greenpeace Denmark is organizing a huge demonstration in Copenhagen on December 12, just before the final stage of the climate summit. More than 60,000 activists are expected to participate and further to the banners made by activists themselves, Greenpeace will manufacture 3,000 banners and signs to hand out to ensure that spinning news cameras broadcast […]

The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn’t want you to see

Oh joy, how I just love to sit and watch when big greedy corporations shoot themselves so immensely in the foot – in this case fashion mogul Ralph Lauren. The following blog piece is pasted from Boing Boing, by whom Ralph Lauren and their top-notch lawyers currently – and deservedly – are being keelhauled through […]

Obama: Right city, wrong date

Denmark was surely buzzing last week when the IOC delegates met to decide where the 2016 Olympic Games were to take place. Most of the fuzz of course came because of Obama’s short visit to boost the Chicago campaign, but the otherwise popular president’s visit also stirred heavy criticism; not so much for taking active […]

Surveillance on a unimaginable scale

As if London wasn’t already the most surveyed (or should that read ‘paranoid’?) city in the world, new heavily EU-funded surveillance development measures are under way in Britain that will exceed our wildest imagination. So far, it has been reassuring for us laymen to know that even if CCTV-systems monitor and record our every move […]