VBS travels to West Africa to rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by 14(!) years of civil war. Despite the United Nation’s eventual intervention, most of Liberia’s young people continue to live in abject poverty, surrounded by filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution. The former child soldiers who were forced into war have been left to fend for themselves, the murderous warlords who once led them in cannibalistic rampages have taken up as so-called community leaders, and new militias are lying in wait for the opportunity to reclaim their country from a government they rightly mistrust. America’s one and only foray into African colonialism is keeping a very uneasy peace indeed. In Part 1, Vice’s own Shane Smith provides a brief history lesson and some essential context for understanding what caused Liberia’s civil war and how things got so bad. Liberia was originally planned and founded as a homeland for former slaves back in 1821. But fast forward a bunch of years and a military coup and you find the First Liberian Civil War in 1989: yet another third-world regime change in which the US-backed opposition, led by Charles Taylor, overthrows a government unfriendly to US interests. Once in power, Taylor’s corrupt, dysfunctional government quickly finds itself under attack by local warlords, leading to the Second Liberian Civil War ten years later. From there things go from bad to total shit.

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Since Och has been on bikes and boats, I thought we just needed the air too. Turns out, I by chance got the opportunity to fly with the kind people of Kammair. They offered a trip over the harbor (the second maas grounds) and over the city. Sounds good.
Howevah, the flight initially didn’t seem to going take place. It was almost three times canceled: Once because of internal affairs, second because of carnaval (too wasted) and almost third because ..the other passengers were too heavy. Just when you thought the fat air-tax was avoided. However, Kammair offered an earlier flight and free extra passengers! Meanwhile the sun came up and the sky turned blue and we were off for 45 minutes of air:

Of course are the photos in better quality also on flickr (selection of just the bulk of photos we took). Enjoy!

Als je denkt alle goede series te hebben gezien komt gelukkig Carnivale op je pad. Deadw00t en The Wire waren natuurlijk al fantastische HBO series, deze voegt zich comfortabel in het rijtje.
Een beetje de sfeer van The Kingdom en Twin Peaks (vooral omdat die dwerg meedoet) gekruisd met Deadw00t.
Lijkt me voldoende aanbeveling om het eens te checken.

Downen maar!

(niet de meest gebruikte torrent, wel goede kwaliteit en subs)

This weekend you can sit down for an eclectic and nice story. Nina Paley intertwines her own pinkbird broken heart story with the ancient stories of the Rmayana, the habit of debating the true versions of it and the beautiful smartful songs of 1920’s jazz vocalist Annette Hanshaw -”cheeks like peaches and a voice of honey“.

Completely animated in different styles matching the storylines, this is one mesmerizing and well done love therapy. The present-day break up of animator Nina finds connects flawless with the story of Sita, a goddess separated from her Lord and husband Rama, all bound together by the heart yearnings of Anette Hanshaw.
Cartoonist Paley wants to release the animation 100% DRM-free, but in order to do so, she has to raise $50,000 to pay the holders of some of the musical compositions used in the film. So if you want to download a high definition version of Sita sings the blues, you can give a donation via Channel Thirteen, where you can see the movie in small screen too. If you want, you can even order a DVD-packaging. Plain donation support for the free release of this film can be made thru here, that is, if you want the googles to have your credit card info. Alas, I couldn’t find a Paypal donation possibility.
Official site – Download list

Bring the lassi and papadums and enjoy!

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So now we can go scuba diving on the most beautiful beaches and estuaries of our country: on Boneiru and at Saba, go there by the worlds smallest and most spectacular air strip and ikiro can go cycle up our largest mountain (887 metres), Mount Scenery, following the one road of the Island, called The Road, which is how many?! kilometres long
We have now:
an Unspoiled Queen
two volcanoes
an underwater mountain
19.180 new neighbours (how many hundred on Saba, howmanythousand on Bonaire)
speaking English, no Dutch
The Bottom
Hell’s Gate
Windwardside
St John’s
Fort Bay
Well’s Bay
Oranjestad
Mount Scenery
Mazinga Peak
Two Schools of Medicine, the Saban onebeing a University
Seven kinds of bats
The second oldest synagogue in the Western hemisphere
National parks filled with mangroves, rain forest and corals.

Yeey!

UPDATE: There is only a round table conference today, the Antilles as such do keep existing after today. It all is hopi ingewikkeld…
UPDATE: die databank staat in elk geval niet meer in de weg

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One man. One bike. One dream. To grow the biggest beard a cyclist ever had. To smash the record, Mark Beaumont must cycle eighteen thousand miles in just two hundred days. His epic journey will take him through floods, burning deserts, freezing winds, and desolate plains. The experience will push bike, body, and facial hair to the limit. It’s the ultimate endurance test. If he pulls it off, the world record will be his.

Watch Mark struggle to keep his bike, designed in Heerenveen and made in Pookiwookistan, rolling along Europe. See him blush over the compliments he recieves in India about his manly physique. How he rides the famous 90 mile straight, Australia’s longest straight road, with no hands. And his sufferings to keep his vegetarian body pedalling around the US on chicken and steaks.

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The camera makes a foto from the mirror on the lens and with special software can you dewarp the foto to use as a 360 degree panorama.

Mr Fiero, the maker from devalvr ( a browser plugin for viewing not to equalize quality panoramas) got the sublieme idea to write simular software and let that loose on the mirror helmets from the NASA smurfs from the spaceshuttles. Now you are in state to look at things the same way the nasa dude did at the moment that the foto was made.

I shall say: download and install the (307 kb) plugin here and vermake you with the panorama’s here. Helaas for our starman from hell, on the moment works de plugin alone on windows. Don’t forget to use the full screen button..

My personal favorites:

* Built to Expose at the Jopenkerk: an exhibit of skatedecks by people like Hein de Kort, Erik Kriek, Femke Hiemstra, Luuk Bode, Peter Pontiac, Angelique, Typex, Def P, Vince and Shamrock
* Exhibit ‘Jazz & bulles’ at the Kunstcentrum Haarlem: “Music for the eyes”
* work of Roel Smit will be shown also at Lijstenmakerij Keppel
* maybe interesting with the Nekschot affaire in mind: exhibit in Café De lift: ‘Wat zeur je nou? Distriminatie verstript’
And then off course the beurzen will be of special interest to attend. Next to the terraces at the Grote Markt.

Put your recommendations and favorites in the comments.

Ja ja ja het is weer raak op Och: prijzen, prijzen en nog eens prijzen!

Degene die de bovenstaande NS informatie ontcijfert heeft. Het vervolgens als eerste in de comments plempt wint, wint en wint: een enkeltje zonder datum van Rotterdam Centraal naar Gouda!

Mininova | Torrentspy 

Playlist:

1. “Get Out, Give In”
2. “Crazy”
3. “Gotta Get Home”
4. “The Spaces Between”
5. “In The Night”
6. “Play A Part”
7. “Shooting Star”
8. “You Were There”
9. “Only Wanna Love Ya”
10. “Deadman”
11. “Blackbird”
12. “Times Like These”
13. “Are You Awake?”

Prelistens

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Dit zijn harken
Ja, en dit is de zon neem ik aan, jah?
Waarom lacht ie?
DE ZON is een bal met lava, lava lacht niet, lul!
Sjonge, sjonge, SJONGE

Een kaartje zegt meer dan duizend woorden!
Vandaag in Och’s postvak-in:

Haben wir Gestern schon einen wheinende Erich Honecker Zabel auf die Television gesehen, umdas er nur einer Woche verbotene drogen hat benutzt. (Und mit der Zabel auch anderen Deutscher Männer die auch allen sagten das Sie es wel haben gewusst.) Heute abend war meine Augen gefallen auf eines Seite was mich nog so Wie mochlich nog mehr überteugt hatte von die neue frisschem Wind welchem durch Deutschland blaast.

Ich mochte nicht verraten über was die Seite dreht. Die Seite ist eine schöne. Geil aber jedoch nicht GFDA (Gefährlich fur die Arbeit). Eine wirkliche überraschung!!

Das wird ein schöne Sommer!!