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Friday, April 21, 2023

Czechia against poverty

 “Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart.”


"I am in a relationship with the internet. It is in my mind, and my mind is in it, and it causes feelings in my body. Good feelings and crazy-making feelings"-feelings  




PRAGUE, April 16 (Reuters) - Thousands of Czechs demonstrated in Prague's central square on Sunday, calling on the government to quit as they protested over high inflation and energy prices. Police did not give estimates of the size of the protest, named "Czechia against poverty".3 hours ago

In his American Prospecteditorial, "What Comes After Neoliberalism?", Robert Kuttner declares "we’ve just about won the battle of ideas. Reality has been a helpful ally…Neoliberalism has been a splendid success for the top 1 percent, and an abject failure for everyone else"



A BORED teenager "broke the internet" in one of the most infamous hacking attacks of all time - turning him overnight into one of the world's most wanted men.

Michael Calce was just 15 when he brought down the biggest sites on the web, became the target of an FBI manhunt, and landed himself in prison.

LIFE HACKS, THEN YOU DIE I was FBI’s most wanted hacker ‘Mafiaboy’ – I’m now terrified cyber attacks can bring down entire CITIES



The ultimate prison literature is a 40-foot-long, 4-inch-wide scroll written in the Bastille in 1785. This strange, sublime gem? The 120 Days of Sodom -  prison literature  


Taste Atlas! Great Food Exploration Idea - [interesting site, map]
Tragedies on K2: "Fatal Altitude" (National Geographic) - [wow video]
K2 "Bottleneck" Climbing 8350 meters (Death Zone) - [wow video]
Riding Japan's Spaceship-like Train in Tokyo - [cool video]
Bosozoku: Absurd Car Style Created by Kamikaze Pilots - [cool video]
Tiny Food: great art portfolio - [cool art]
Grzegorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz - [fun video]
John Cleese thanks everyone on the planet for his award - [fun video]
World's Most Useless Megaprojects - [Abandoned, video]
Mind-Blowingly Brilliant Billboards - [wow graphics]
Jobs Of The Future - [cool infographic]
Leslie Gulch, Oregon: One of the Most Spectacular Geologial Formations - [images]
New York's Most Hated Highway is Falling Apart - [wow video]
Craziest Moving Sculpture - [wow art]
"Ancora qui" one of the last songs by Ennio Morricone - [music, video]
Doomsday Clock (with the full chart) - [interesting, wiki]
Modern And Extinct Giant Animals - [wow inforgaphic]
Philips Crazy "Ski Slope" Cassette Deck - [cool video]
Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber - [art]
An unusual player for a forgotten ‘70s music format - [geek, video]
History of the Space Shuttle in Great Pics - [wow space]
Walk in Heavy Snowstorm - Sapporo, Hokkaido - [cool video]
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie - Gannet Gets Fired - [fun video]
Weird "Animal Core" by Kate Clark - [wow art]
Onboard of the Rally Japan 2022: Awesome, More - [wow video]
The Most Futuristic Motorhome in the World, full tour - [wow video] 
Turning The Titan Missile Key: Mind-Boggling Detail - [wow video]
Rare unseen California 1940s in color - [wow video]
Pistols Underwater 1: An Investigation - [cool video]
Pistols Underwater 2: Bullets at 27,000fps - [neat video]
G.E.M. Gloria "Revelation" Music Video - [epic video]
"Gold Diggers of 1933" Epic Scene - "Shadow Waltz" - [wow video]
John Wayne's 1930 "Big Trail" - first widescreen movie - [wow video]
That Mitchell and Webb Look - Corner Shop - [fun video]
Buster Scruggs Story: Brilliant Western by The Coen Brothers - [wow video]
Harold Lloyd's Wonderful Comedy & Stunts - [fun video]
ABBA "The Name Of The Game" (ABBA Special TBS '78) - [nice video]