Priznanje Berberu

Slikar Mersad Berber proglašen je počasnim članom Ruske akademije umjetnosti. Ceremonija primanja u članstvo Akademije održana je prije par dana u Moskvi u okviru svečanosti obilježavanja 250. godišnjice osnivanja te akademije.Sama proslava godisnjice uvrštena je u 63 svečana datuma u čijem obilježavanju ucestvuje i UNESCO.

Podrska Feralu

Gradjani Medveščaka su organizovali potpisivanje peticije kojom izražavaju svoju podrsku poznatom političkom i kulturnom tjedniku Feral Tribune.
Feral Tribune je morao zaustaviti izlaženje zbog finansijskih dugova. U gotovo 15 godina izlaženja pokazao se kao primjer nezavisnog novinarstva za što su dobili mnoge međunarodne nagrade.
Građani mogu uplatiti svoj novac na žiroračun Feral Tribune i tako pomoći smanjenju pola miliona duga.

Easy

Things I learned from movies

1. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.
2. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving.
3. The ventilation system of any building is a perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building without difficulty.
4. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.
5. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window of any building in Paris.
6. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
7. When paying for a taxi, never look at your wallet as you take out a note - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.
8. A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of a football stadium.
9. Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.
10. One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at one.
11. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.
12. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

Sade

Bloopers

Actual student bloopers collected by teachers:
*The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked, "Am I my brother's son?"
*Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.
*Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.
*The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.
*Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
*Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
*Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.
*Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."
*Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.
*Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.
*In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.
Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.
*Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah."
*It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.
*The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet.Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
*Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe.
*Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
*Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands.
*The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.
*Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. She was a moral woman who practiced virtue. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.
*The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine.
*Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.
*The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.

Europa za pravo na privatnost

Od 2004. Europski parlament se nateze s americkim Departmentom of Homeland Security (DHS) oko broja informacija koje tajne agencije prikupljaju o putnicima na prekookeanskim letovima. Black budget agencije znaju tridesetak informacija o svakom putniku (istoriju letova koje je putnik propustio, čime se hranio, mjesto na kome je sjedio, broj kilometara provedenih u letu… ili takve 'vitalne informacije', kakva je putnikova e-mail adresa).
Iz tih informacija može se konstruisati prilično iscrpan licni profil koji se dodiruje takvih privatnih pitanja kakva su rasna ili etnička pripadnost, politička mišljenja, religijska ili filozofska uvjerenja, pripadnost sindikatima, zdravstveno stanje ili informacije o seksualnom životu...
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),organizacija za odbranu 'digitalnih prava', podnijela prijavu protiv DHS-a po pitanju ko točno može pristupiti proslijeđenim informacijama,te kako i gdje se one cuvaju.Informacije se čuvaju četrdeset godina i proslijeđjene su nepoznatom broju federalnih, državnih, lokalnih i stranih agencija.
- Vlada se priprema dati 'ocjenu rizika' vezanu za milione građana, procjenu koja će ih označiti do kraja života – rekao je EFF-ov viši savjetnik David Sobel. Niko neće biti u prilici saznati informacije o 'ocjeni' ili osporiti njenu tačnost. Bruce Schneider,specijalista za sigurnost je rekao:
- Postoji nešto ne-američko vezano uz vladin program koji koristi tajne kriterije kako bi sastavljao dosijee o nedužnim građanima i potom te dosijee prosljeđivao raznovrsnim agencijama, sve to bez ikakvog nadzora. Takvu stvar bi očekivao od bivšeg Sovjetskog Saveza ili Istočne Njemačke ili Kine. Sve to ne čini nas nimalo sigurnijima od terorizma.

Focus

Movie quotes

I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. - Groucho Marx (Duck Soup)
All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work. - Steve Martin (Bilko)
Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love. - Woody Allen (Annie Hall)
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm a schizophrenic and so am I. - Bill Murray (What about Bob)
You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater. - Mike Myers (Austin Powers: Goldmember)
You know what the trouble about real life is? There's no danger music - Jim Carrey
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. - Dan Aykroyd (The Blues Brothers)
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! - Eddie Murphy (Shrek)

Konfliktne vrijednosti

Francuski predsjednik Nicolas Sarkozy se zalaže za kvote koje će odrediti koliko imigranata može ući u zemlju te koje obrazovanje i zanimanje moraju imati, a uveo je i stroge mjere prema njima (selekcija, praćenje i sl. ). Njegov otac je kao mađarski imigrant došao u Francusku. Pál Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa dobio je francusko državljanstvo nakon sto je dugo imao status ''osobe bez državljanstva''. Sarkozyjeva žena Cécilia Ciganer-Albeniz je iz špansko-jevrejske porodice i nema francuskih predaka. Sarkozy je nekoliko puta u svojim govorima isticao kako djecu ne bi trebalo odgajati u strogo republikanskom duhu niti odvajati religiju i državu. Njegova majka Andree Mallah je Jevrejka koja je prešla na katoličanstvo.
Dick Cheney, američki potpredsjednik, želi ustavom zabraniti bilo kakve istopolne zajednice, a ima kćer lezbejku. Mary je u dugogodišnjoj vezi sa svojom partnericom i nedavno su dobile dijete. Otac i kći imaju izvrstan odnos, kako poslovni tako i privatni.

Pripadnik hrvatske ekstremne desnice Mladen Schwartz u jednoj osobi objedinjuje Jevreja i nacistu. On porice holokaust i tvrdi da u Drugom svjetskom ratu nije ubijeno 6 miliona Jevreja već ''samo'' njih 300,000. Schwartz nosi dužnost predsjednika Jevrejskog odbora za slobodnu Hrvatsku i predsjednika stranke Hrvatske nove desnice.

Cornflake girl

Next Harry Potter

Izdavač J.K. Rowlingove misli da je pronašao dostojnu zamjenu za Harrya Pottera. Radi se o liku dječaka arheologa iz knjige 'Tunnels' autora Roderick Gordo i Brian Williamsa. Ta knjiga ima sve: dječaka arheologa, dobre vile, izgubljeni svijet i veoma zanimljivo putovanje u središte zemlje - rekao je Cunningham. Početkom 90-ih Cunningham je napravio revoluciju na tržištu knjiga otkrivši J.K. Rowling, čija je serija o Potteru do sada prodana u više od 325 miliona primjeraka sirom svijeta, što je autorici donijelo zaradu od preko milijardu dolara.

Tornado u Bosni?

Nagle klimatske promjene koje se osjete svuda u svijetu, za posljedicu bi mogle imati pojavu tornada u BiH, tvrde klimatolozi. Prošle godine je prvi tornado zabilježen u sjevernoj Dalmaciji. Moskva biljezi 33C , a Banja Luka je u maju bila najtopliji grad Europe. Najtopliji dio ljeta trebalo bi da bude krajem jula i pocetkom augusta. Protekla jesen u Europi bila je najtoplija u posljednjih 1000 godina, a zima ove godine najtoplija u posljednjih 150 godina. Klima u BiH će biti kao na sjeveru Grčke, predvidja se.

"Wise" break

#Strong enough to kill a bear, but made for children.
#An elephant never forgets, but that's why God invented roofies.
#Every Wikipedia article should be prefaced with, "People who enjoy editing encyclopedias as a hobby pretty much agree that:..."
#What is knowledge? The answer schools don't want you to know, assuming it's true that you can really know that you know, once you know.

#SCUBA Emergency or Troubled Marriage: "There's too much pressure.""I need some air!""Are those crabs?"

Führer Stadt

Adolf Hitler je i dalje počasni građanin Bad Doberana, grada koji će biti domacin godišnjice G8 susreta. Tokom nacističke prevlasti, više od 4 000 gradova je odlikovalo Hitlera kao počasnog građanina. Nakon 1945. većina je poništila takvu počast, ali ne i Bad Doberan. Oni su više vremena u komunizmu proveli pokušavajući zaboraviti prošlost nego suociti se s njom.

Koga je jos briga za fudbal...

Engleska dokumentarna serija The Real Football Factories detaljno prikazuje problematiku nogometnog huliganizma. Serija je je nastavak igranog filma Football Factory, snimljenog po istoimenom hit romanu Johna Kinga. Dokumentarac analizira sve najsurovije huliganske grupe u Europi, pa tako i u epizodi „The Balkans“ analizira navijačku scenu u Hrvatskoj i Srbiji, posebno Bad Blue Boyse, Torcidu, Grobare i Delije.

Pa da vidimo ciji su huligani bolji...

Brothers in Arms

LEGENDE BH & EX-YU SPORTA, Part 12.

Djurdjica Bjedov je bila jedina plivacka zlatna olimpijska medalja ikad za Yugoslaviju (Mexico 1968). 100m prsno - zlato i novi olimpijski rekord, 200m prsno - srebro. Svi se sjecamo kako je sa nevjericom primila vijest da je stigla prva...Prije toga njen najbolji rezultat bio je trece mjesto na europskom prvenstvu u njenoj grupi. Na Olimpijadu u Mexico otputovala je prije svega kao član štafete 4 x 100 m mješovito (?).“Plava” štafeta nije ni stigla do finala.

FASCINATING PEOPLE, Part 12

Pierre Trudeau was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada between 1968 and 1984.He was a charismatic figure who dominated the Canadian political scene and aroused passionate reactions. Admirers praise the force of Trudeau's intellect. They salute his political acumen in preserving national unity and establishing the Charter of Rights and Freedoms within Canada's constitution. Detractors fault Trudeau for poor administrative practices, arrogance, and lack of understanding of Canada outside Quebec. Nevertheless, few would dispute that Trudeau was a towering figure who helped redefine Canada. Trudeau led Canada through some of its most tumultuous times and was often the centre of controversy. Known for his flamboyance, he dated celebrities, sometimes wore sandals in the House of Commons, was accused of using an obscenity during debate there, and once did a pirouette behind the back of Queen Elizabeth II.

...I'll be watching you!

Each time a Google user searches the Web, the company gathers information about that customer's tastes and interests that could potentially be used by third parties such as advertisers. It has more than 60 percent of the world's Web search business.Google shares general user statistics but is adamant it never shares personal data outside the company."We are exploring ways to redesign cookies and to reduce their expiration," Google states. "We plan to make an announcement about privacy improvements for our cookies in the coming months. National data retention policies of individual European nations vary from six months to 24 months, depending on the country. Google wants to cut that time in half. However, U.S.Department of Justice has called for a 24-month data retention period.