Since the H5N1 cases are hitting progressively closer to home, and given the relative scarcity of bird vaccines, some people are coming up with alternative products for bird flu prevention in travelling birds. (via email from a friend).
Schlagwort-Archive: photoblogging
It’s Carnival, baby!
Yes, gentle readers, it’s that time of The year again!
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Political communication, Germany 2006.
Looking at this SPD advertisement for the upcoming regional election, I’m thinking the American administration may have finally found their master in reductionist political communication…
Speaking of political communication, in the coming weeks, I will present you, my gentle readers, with a couple of outstanding examples thereof…
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Melancholic little country.
Not always sad. But always melancholic. Taken just a couple of days after my earlier post by Xile
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No Kidding.
Just amazing what some East German private libraries hold up to this day…
Singles@Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart tried to contractually force their employees to restrain themselves from falling in love with each other. And if it weren’t for the German unions and court system they would have got their way. But then again, what’s bad for their employees must not be bad for their business – see this advertisement for a “shopping for singles” event at the local Wal-Mart.
Interestingly, their singles shopping seems to be rather popuplar – at least in theory. Two out of two people I told about this answered that they had not only heard about it, but that they actually wanted to see what it’s like at some point.
Good products solve problems. Good stores should, too. I think it is truly impressive how one private hierarchy (aka company) can be such a ideal-type display of all things good *and* abysmal about a market economy.
Clicking the image will take you to my flickr account. The picture was taken with a SE t610.
Dick Cheney’s a surfer!
Dick Cheney is probably a much cooler guy than you thought he is. After a hard day’s work of conspiring with his freshly indicted former Chief of Staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the man still has time and energy for a jam session with the legendary surf music band “The Surfaris”. Well, one of the two bands using the name, each featuring one member of the original band’s cast (info from surfkraft.de)
Alright, maybe it’s not really Cheney. It could also be Paul Johnson, a surf music veteran, who is, along with Dick Dale, one of the genre’s principal founders and pioneers. At least that’s what his introduction was on stage, and that is also what’s written in the biographical part of the band’s website. He is also credited with the first record to be tagged as “surf music” – Mr. Moto, back in 1962. I wonder if Motorola’s ad agency thought about this when they created their latest campaign… (“hello Moto?”)
As part of their current European tour, the Surfaris stopped in Wiesbaden yesterday. And someone else did too. Standing behind the guy pictured on the left I somehow couldn’t stop thinking about the song Eric Bazilian wrote for Joan Osborne – “What if God was one was of us?“
The way young housewifes bake.
Despite the title, no porn here, gentle readers. But have a look at the book on the left which I found in the “family library” of the happy couple whose wedding celebrations I attended in Bochum this weekend: a loose translation of the book’s title would be “The way young housewifes bake.” The presence of said book is particularly interesting given that the newly wed wife admitted publicly during the party that her husband is the better cook…
Oh, before I forget: It was the first time I visited Bochum. And although I haven’t seen too much of it, Herbert Grönemeyer seems to be right to claim that is a better place to be than one usually thinks.
No kidding.
Or maybe they were kidding. But the toilet did have an emergency exit.
The Future of Work.
The staff of the state-theatre Wiesbaden performing a machine-symphony…