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Happy birthday, Andy!

Here’s why you should refuse to pass through the “nude scanner” at the airports: Feds admitted, that they were storing images of body scans at airport checkpoints.

See: Cnet News and this Boingboing article

Ask for manual scanning in case the feds are asking you to pass through the scanner and refer to the international human rights law.

We come in peace

We come in peace, said the conquerers of the New World.
We come in peace, says the government, when it comes to colonise, regulate, and militarise the new digital world.
We come in peace, say the nation-state sized companies that have set out to monetise the net and chain the users to their shiny new devices.
We come in peace, we say as hackers, geeks and nerds, when we set out towards the real world and try to change it, because it has intruded into our natural habitat, the cyberspace. Let us explore each other’s truly peaceful intentions at this year’s Chaos Communication Congress 27C3 to be held from Monday December 27 to Thursday December 30, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.

Soon on events.ccc.de/congress/2010

“Here’s some exciting news about Quantum Entanglement and an actual proof, that materia does not exist, but the entanglement creates the space that keeps life together.” says Schrödinger’s Cat.

What a superb position!

I am very happy and proud, that Georg Greve, the former President of the Free Software Foundation Europe, was awarded with the German “Bundesverdienstkreuz” today.

My felicitation, Georg!

Tashi Delek

Ecco un esempio, dove sta la “Cultura italiana” oggi:

Il concerto Bach al Pantheon, qualche giorni fa, era interrotto per chiusura del Pantheon “puntualmente”. Che schifo! Ma magari non e una surpresa, come il Direttore generale del patrimonio culturale del ministerio dei “beni culturali” in Italia attualmente e il ex-amministratore delegato di McDonald’s Italia. Che cultura monousa!

The “Berlin way” to hinder Google maps tracking:

Track the trackers ( streetcar.fffff.at)

More about this: http://fffff.at/?s=google

@fffffat (twitter)

And here’s the “Norwegian way” of protesting for privacy:

(Read more on Boingboing)

This reminds me of a project we did in 2004, when I studies media arts at the University of arts and applied sciences, messing around with an omnidirectional video camera, recording the streets in Zurich:

I strongly recommend the following talk by Peter Eigen, ex Director at the Worl Bank in Nairobi, who talks about how to expose the corrupt.

Further let me at this point remind you of my Blog post about Neoimperialism that I wrote during my project in Malawi.

Happy 2010

Für das Neue Jahr wünsche ich

“Mehr Ausnahme vom Zustand”

Pour la nouvelle année je souhaite

“Plus d’état du siège”

For the New Year I wish

“More state on emergency”