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A $10.000 Panzer

Some guy built a Panzer for around 10.000 US dollars (currently around 6400 Euro). It is only half the size of the real one, but it could be your first step in concurring the world. Link

Holland for my German friends

I have been on my way in Holland again for the last 12 Months. A lot of things happen in this small country where I was born. When I left in 2000 the country was a pretty open society where people were proud to live together with a lot of cultures. Although Holland is still…
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Dolphin ‘Moko’ saves whales

CNN Asia has a story about a Dolphin that saved two pygmy whales (a mother an a calf). A dolphin swam up to two distressed whales that appeared headed for death in a beach stranding in New Zealand and guided them to safety, witnesses said Wednesday. The actions of the bottlenose dolphin — named Moko…
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Schneier versus Brin

Bruce Schneier (of Schneier on security) posted an essay on wired about what he calls: The Myth of the ‘Transparent Society’. In his essay he tries to explain why the ‘Transparent Society’, as defined by David Brin, is a failing concept: When I write and speak about privacy, I am regularly confronted with the mutual…
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Living in a western society now has become a sin.

With unendless wisdom the vatican today declared seven new (possibly deadly) sins. These sins basically make it impossible to live in any western kind of society (if you share the negative view that we are rich because they are poor). The New “Social” Sins “Bioethical” violations such as birth control “Morally dubious” experiments such as…
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