Still up to 25.11 the annual festival for cocktail robotics, the “Roböxotica”, takes place in Vienna.

A festival for people building cocktails mixing robots.

via: Cory Doctorow
© Richard Wientzek

Men as a factory organism.

Chalkboard “Men as an industrial palace” (1926)

Created by the doctor and author Fritz Kahn (1888-1968).

via: finkbuilt

One blogpost for Burma!

A revolution of aesthetics, consequently an aesthetic revolution, appears to me to be the only
reasonably
answer on a, time and space and person formatting, “Great Design Guide”
of the system.
Since we do not live for a long time any more in the Postmodernism, but still in the
Pop Modern age.

While taking another cup of tea and strewing a little bit of pepper on my five minute egg, those traditional components of a continental breakfast cause some heretical thoughts with me.
Tea. Pepper. Globalization.
I ask Zara: “What do you think about? Was globalization not always there in history?” She considers and I take one, politically correct, local strawberry jam for my toast. “Yes”, you’d think so. “For example the Old Silk Road or the Englishmen with their East India Company. Nevertheless this was all global trade “. Now I give her some honey. “Well, as long as we globalize the world, it was all right for most people. But since the former colonies turn the tables, globalisation is suddenly disagreeable and the globalization slashers are announced”. The phone rings. Before I hurry out of the room, she still explains “In my opinion thus associations like Attac are the new conservatives or something worse anyway”.

see this video of former Web 1.0 in 1994

Wrong world! More and more often businessmen, conservative German parties, institutes call for lifetime state subsidy.
Does ” the power ” hide once again behind a left position? Or does the left represent a conservative idea and doesn’t notice? If a left position means: enlightenment, departure from the immaturity and initiative - and if conservative means: preserve of the existing to protect the established - then lifetime state subsidy is conservative, because it spares the enterpriser’s incomes.

“I Don’t Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing”
James Brown “Foundations of Funk“

Web 2.0 is not the name of another www or a certain internet technology, but it is the advancement of the internet to a more active participation of the users. This also has changed the meaning of the internet. Because web 2.0 accelerates the individuation of the communication. In blogs and podcasts, or on MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, a.s.o. everybody has the possibility to present himself. The buzzword “Web 2.0″ was formed by Dale Dougherty (O’Reilly) and Craig Cline (MediaLive). They developed the term during a meeting in the year 2004. Then in 2005 Tim O’Reilly wrote an article in which he explained the concept closer. In it`s beginning the World Wide Web were static sides, many of them put in for a long time consistently. This “Web 1.0” was on the one side the content, provided for the web, and on the other side the consumers, receiving this information. Now this classical casting, between suppliers on one side and consumers on the other side, has got in staggering. Weblogs put their own contributions in the net, contents are not provided any more centrally by media and then spread to the people, but decentralised by people, combining with each other.
Web 2.0 now is blogging, RSS, Aiax, Wikipedia, MySpace, Xing, Youtube, networks and communities …
The fact that the Internet allows an interaction, goes back to the original idea of the internet. Already with the www at the beginning of the 1990s, the idea was to create a worldwide place for information and dialog.

Muhammad Yunus has founded one of the most successful developing projects for the poorest people.
The Grameen -Bank is specified on microcredits: “Microcredit is the extension of small loans to enterpreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. It has proven to be an effective and popular measure in the ongoing struggle against poverty, enabling those.”

The economic professor from Bangladesch who has received in 2006 the Peace Nobel Prize comes from one of the poorest countries of the world, Bangladesch. It is important to him that people become independent, but not to receivers of alms. According to his opinion alms take the initiative from the people.
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