After starting in London and then spreading to various other European Cities, the Atheist Bus Campaign is a private-sponsor funded project created to make people aware of the rather high probability that there is indeed no god:
Photo by benteka/Flickr
The campaign created quite a stir and currently the organizers are raising more money to fund similar projects. Which leads me to the point of this very entry. In Vienna it was planned to have an adapted German message cruising the city on buses of the “Wiener Linien“, the municipal transportation service.
Only turns out it won’t be so, according to the website of the Austrian bus-campaign [DE]. Seems like Wiener Linien, usually not so shy about ads on their vehicles, refused the banners. There’s no official statement yet as to why they did, but according to organizer Niko Alm a written statement is expected later today.
I’m not terribly surprised, really, but I’m looking forward to the ensuing hilarity.
Being the culture vultures that my girlfriend and I undoubtedly are, we decided to check out the release performance of Tosca’s new studioalbum “No Hassle”. Within the framework of the Vienna City Fest, the concert was scheduled to be played in a church. And it was free. But as it is the case so often with things that cost no money, they take a toll on other things. Namely people’s precious time and patience.
I won’t go into details, but there are a few things to note:
People who invite all their friends to queue with them, instead of going to the back of the line, are assholes. Sorry, but there’s just no other way to say it.
People in queues tend to talk so much crap, I was somewhat sorry I don’t usually bring earplugs to concerts.
Churches look big from the outside, but I guess all that shit like altars, candles and whatnot take up a lot of space, so in fact, only a very limited number of people actually go into a church.
So no, even though we queued for more than 45 minutes, we weren’t even near getting in. And we were probably in the first half of the line.
Things did get a bit unruly once the nice lady with the tickets walked past the people in line yelling that the church was full. I snapped a few pictures of the mob demanding entry, and somehow felt a bit thrown back in time. You know, when there was still an active interest in churches. I shot a little movie, but with my movie-shooting skills, it turned out like shit, so here’s just two pictures:
Beware of the mob formed by electronica-afficionados denied their god-given right (ha!) to listen to a free ambient performance!
Even though we didn’t get to hear the new album, I still think it was a moderately fun thing to do on a Friday night. From a sociological perspective, it was a hoot.
Hello dear and faithful readers! It’s been a while but I’m back with fantastic news. Now, you’ve seen the words typed out by myself on here often enough, but I’m sure you were always thinking that it’s just a tad impersonal. No real handwriting and stuff. Right?
Well, even if you didn’t, I don’t care. Because I’ve just created my very own personal handwriting font. Check it out!
Now isn’t that the proverbial shit? Of course, when it comes to designing, meaning doing stuff with graphics that go beyond cropping (and even that tends to pose serious problems sometimes), I’m absolutely hopeless. So the good people at YourFonts.com simply helped me with creating my own fonts. How? They did all the fucking work, that’s how. Go and make your own now. Go!
Ever heard of “divinipotent”, “exlineal” or “famigerate”? Well, neither have I. Until today, when I was made aware of Save the Words. Created by Oxford Press, the site displays a number of words so unknown, they might even go extinct. If you find a word you like, you register and adopt it. It is then your duty to start using that word as often as possible, in order to keep it from dying.
I of course registered and adopted the word “magophony”, which describes “the slaying of priests or magi”. Apt choice in these times of clerical turmoil, I might add.
I even received a certificate (which contains a grammatical error):
As a bonus, you can buy a t-shirt with your new adopted word printed right on it. So, don’t be an aquabib and start adopting now!
Ever since seeing Jean Ziegler in “We feed the world”, I’ve been something of an admirer. Tonight he’ll be appearing on Austrian TV in a discussion on globalization, corporate practices and of course the financial crisis. (#)
Another one of the participants will be one Klaus Werner-Lobo, who’s recently written a book about above mentioned corporate practices called “Uns gehört die Welt” (The world belongs to us). Now, I’ve read Naomi Klein’s “No Logo”, so I’m not sure whether there’s a whole lot left that could surprise me regarding that topic, but I’d be interested to find out.
And as Helge writes in his entry on the subject, there’s a chance I’ll get a volume directly from the publisher, if I’m quick enough, that is.
See, that’s how conscious I am of the topic, I won’t even BUY a book that deals with buying.
Update: Woohoo, I won!
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