[monochrom] 19.06.2009 - Ein schwarzer Freitag :-(
- jamie thomas wegen der verbreitung von 24 musikstücken über P2P zu 1,9 millionen dollar verurteilt: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Millionenstrafe-im-US-Filesharing-Prozess--/meldung/140751 - deutscher bundestag verabschiedet gesetz für websperren: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Bundestag-verabschiedet-Gesetz-fuer-Web-Sperren--/meldung/140746 - Ajatollah Chamenei bezeichnet regime-gegner als feinde der demokratie http://www.orf.at/090619-39499/index.html es ist zum heulen ...
[monochrom] Geonames / The countries of the world in their own languages and ...
I can't stop spending hours and hours on this site... The countries of the world in their own languages and scripts; with official names, capitals, flags, coats of arms, administrative divisions, national anthems, and translations of the countries and capitals into many languages) to get to the meat of the site, a collection of links to various pages: Days, Months, Planets, Mountains, etc.; a huge list of languages with each name given in the original (with transliteration where appropriate); various other random items (including a small set of famous people: it's fun to see the varying forms of Charlemagne); an Alphabets section; and finally a set of Glossaries, with a few hundred English words translated into, well, everything (divided into manageable sets: Albanian|Greek|Armenian, American|Polynesian, Asian, Balto-Slavic, Basque|Caucasus, Celtic, Constructed, etc.). http://www.geonames.de/Link (via http://www.languagehat.com/archives/003527.phpLanguagehat) -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/06/geonames-countries-of-world-in-their.htmmonochrom at 6/19/2009 12:52:00 PM
[monochrom] UK Cabinet Secretaries' Notebooks from World War Two
The UK Government National Archives have released the Cabinet Secretaries' Notebooks from World War Two. These notes give a few brief snippets about the views of Churchill and his war cabinet to events of WWII. There is, for example, a transcript of a meeting on the 15th June 1942, discussing reprisals for German Massacre of a Czechoslovakian Village. Churchill favored the summary execution of Nazi leaders by http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2006/january/january1/war_crimes.htmElectric Chair at this meeting. Another meeting was a discussion of how to come to terms with the American policy of segregation to its http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2006/january/january1/troops.htm'coloured' troops. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2009/default.htmLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/06/uk-cabinet-secretaries-notebooks-from.htmmonochrom at 6/19/2009 01:04:00 PM
[monochrom] Construction Begins on Spaceport America
After years of planning, ground is officially being broken in New Mexico for the world's first interstellar airport. http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-06/construction-begins-spaceport-americaLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/06/construction-begins-on-spaceport.htmmonochrom at 6/19/2009 01:14:00 PM
Re: [monochrom] 19.06.2009 - Ein schwarzer Freitag :-(
ja, der hat´s in sich der 19.06.2009: US-Filesharing-Prozess: 1,92 Mio. Dollar für 24 Songs http://futurezone.orf.at/stories/1605475/ oder Zeitungsverleger fordern Zugriff auf IP-Adressen http://futurezone.orf.at/stories/1605579/ gf On Fr, 19.06.2009, 11:23, Rainer Fuegenstein wrote: - jamie thomas wegen der verbreitung von 24 musikstücken über P2P zu 1,9 millionen dollar verurteilt: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Millionenstrafe-im-US-Filesharing-Prozess--/meldung/140751 - deutscher bundestag verabschiedet gesetz für websperren: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Bundestag-verabschiedet-Gesetz-fuer-Web-Sperren--/meldung/140746 - Ajatollah Chamenei bezeichnet regime-gegner als feinde der demokratie http://www.orf.at/090619-39499/index.html es ist zum heulen ...
[monochrom] A History of War (in Food) Stop-Motion
Food Fight. Schönes Stop-Motion Video. Food Fight is an abridged history of American-centric war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination in this chronologically re-enacted smorgasbord of aggression. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-yldqNkGfo peace, --ab.
