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</description><title>MonKai</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @monkai)</generator><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>"Dazu hat die kenianische Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Wangari Muta Maathai mal eine schöne Geschichte..."</title><description>“Dazu hat die kenianische Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Wangari Muta Maathai mal eine schöne Geschichte erzählt: Als Kind ist sie immer zum Holzholen geschickt worden. Einen bestimmten Baum sollte sie dabei bloß nicht anrühren, obwohl er keine Früchte trug und ganz kahl dastand. Dann sind westliche Entwicklungshelfer ins Dorf gekommen und haben den vermeintlich nutzlosen Baum gefällt - der mit seinen Wurzeln das Grundwasser gehalten hatte. Nun war es weg. Die Entwicklungshelfer hatten die Einheimischen nicht mal gefragt.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Herbert Grönemeyer im &lt;a href="http://www.taz.de/index.php?id=archivseite&amp;dig=2007/06/06/a0217"&gt;Interview mit der taz&lt;/a&gt; am 06.06.07.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/43439004</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/43439004</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:47:15 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>10 Most Amazing Ghost Towns</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/qMuNoAybnbt8h66uJ9ctozHl_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oddee.com/item_96462.aspx"&gt;10 Most Amazing Ghost Towns&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/43416785</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/43416785</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:19:22 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Ernie &amp; Bert = HipHop Headz!</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/21OH0wlkfbc&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/21OH0wlkfbc&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Ernie &amp; Bert = HipHop Headz!</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/43115453</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/43115453</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:29:19 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Ich war in Dresden. Es war ein schöner Sommerabend an der Elbe....</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/qMuNoAybnbl07ao5FKTHq94W_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Ich war in Dresden. Es war ein schöner Sommerabend an der Elbe. Der Mond stand über der Frauenkirche…</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/42765188</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/42765188</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:59:58 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>… auf dem gegenüberliegenden Ufer ist ein Open Air-Kino...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/qMuNoAybnbl06iqzkrZ1PN2m_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;… auf dem gegenüberliegenden Ufer ist ein Open Air-Kino aufgebaut. An dem Abend haben sie keinen Film bekommen…</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/42765161</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/42765161</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:59:22 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>… also hat stattdessen R.E.M. gespielt. Wunderbar. Danke,...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/qMuNoAybnbl05rhxxw3aA7eg_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;… also hat stattdessen R.E.M. gespielt. Wunderbar. Danke, Dresden! :-)</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/42765128</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/42765128</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:58:40 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Summer Music</title><description>&lt;p&gt;If you like an easy breeze, Manu Chao-like summer vibe, check out &lt;a href="http://aurgasm.us/2008/07/dobacaracol/"&gt;DobaCaracol&lt;/a&gt; from the consistently great music blog &lt;a href="http://aurgasm.us/"&gt;aurgasm&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, if you don’t know them already, I recommend “The Bird and the Bee”, for example, their Bee Gees cover &lt;a href="http://elbo.ws/mp3s/?q=the+bird+and+the+bee+how+deep+is+your+love&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;sort="&gt;“How Deep is Your Love”&lt;/a&gt; - enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/42612638</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/42612638</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:25:55 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>from The Big Picture | Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/qMuNoAybnbf2jlm0nD4YP4NY_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;from &lt;a href="http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/07/headline-of-t-1.html"&gt;The Big Picture | Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/42242964</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/42242964</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:19:04 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Best Open Source projects</title><description>&lt;a href="http://sourceforge.net/community/cca08-finalists"&gt;Best Open Source projects&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;For a good overview of mature open source software, head on over to the finalists of the 2008 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nominees include my favorites&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;OpenOffice.org, &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PortableApps.com &lt;br/&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;in 12 categories including&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Most Likely to Be the Next $1B Acquisition&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Most Likely to Change the World&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Most Likely to Be Accused of Patent Violation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Most Likely to Get Users Sued &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/41854952</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/41854952</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:05:39 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>"… large numbers of people who identify themselves as religious believers do not in fact..."</title><description>“… large numbers of people who identify themselves as religious believers do not in fact believe the doctrines of their relilgions but only belive in belief as a desirable goal. To belong to a religion, you do not have to believe. … Belief is difficult, but belief in belief is easy.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Freeman Dyson in a review of Daniel Dennett’s book &lt;i&gt;Breaking the Spell&lt;/i&gt; in the New York Review of Books of June 22, 2006.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/41755320</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/41755320</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:22:23 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>"Grabe einen Toten aus und befrage die Made, die an seinem Fleische nagt: Was der Pfaff am Grabe..."</title><description>“Grabe einen Toten aus und befrage die Made, die an seinem Fleische nagt: Was der Pfaff am Grabe versprochen, hat sie eingelöst - das Leben nach dem Tode. Wäre sie begabt zu Glück, sie wäre dankbarer Christ. Wäre sie Mensch, sie wollte Papst werden. Wäre sie Philosoph, sie würde Tinte scheißen, die vom Tod als einem Festmahl kündet. Der Mensch, der Christ, der Philosoph aber, sie alle sind im Gegensatz zu unserer Made totunglücklich: weil sie leben und die Glückseligkeit erst im Tode erwarten. Sie sind unglücklich, weil sie der Tote sein wollen und nicht die Made!”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;G.W.F.Hegel, zitiert von Robert Menasse in der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom 27.06.03&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/41746431</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/41746431</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:21:01 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>"Und da lauert die Gefahr für die [katholische] Kirche. An die Stelle des Sakralen, des Numinosen..."</title><description>“Und da lauert die Gefahr für die [katholische] Kirche. An die Stelle des Sakralen, des Numinosen tritt: von sich selbst begeisterte Begeisterung. Gesucht wird die kontingenzvernichtende seelische Bewegtheit, die schlichte Botschaft: “Alles wird gut!” - irgendwie, irgendwann. Jemand wird’s richten. Habemus papam.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Peter Fuchs am 19.08.05 in der Frankfurter Rundschau.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/41745809</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/41745809</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:09:43 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Merriam-Webster unveils new dictionary words</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/07/07/national/a114607D83.DTL&amp;hw=webster&amp;sn=001&amp;sc=1000"&gt;Merriam-Webster unveils new dictionary words&lt;/a&gt;: Pop quiz: What is a “mondegreen”? And how is it related to Jimi Hendrix?</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/41630643</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/41630643</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:42:23 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>From Riding a Wave with Dustin Humphrey - Shoot The Blog comes...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/qMuNoAybnb7lo2k8MCiHDCYF_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;From &lt;a href="http://blog.photoshelter.com/2008/07/riding-a-wave-with-insights-dopamine.html"&gt;Riding a Wave with Dustin Humphrey - Shoot The Blog&lt;/a&gt; comes one of the strangest mentions/pictures of Jack Kerouac I’ve ever seen…</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/41616637</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/41616637</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:52:21 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>DJ Earworm creates great music mashups! Check out...</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://monkai.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/40815409/qMuNoAybnayt2a21o0hfTp8C&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://djearworm.com/"&gt;DJ Earworm&lt;/a&gt; creates great music mashups! Check out Madonna’s Like a Virgin vs. Cher’s Believe vs. Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There’s a twisted version of &lt;a href="http://djearworm.com/stairway-to-bootleg-heaven.htm"&gt;Stairway to (Bootleg) Heaven&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://djearworm.com/over-the-confluence-of-giants-steely-dan-queen-david-bowiepat-metheny-group-steve-miller-band-common.htm"&gt;Steely Dan vs. Queen vs. David Bowie vs. Steve Miller vs. Common&lt;/a&gt; and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/40815409</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/40815409</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:09:00 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Charles Cumming’s The 21 Steps tells a short story using...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/qMuNoAybnaynqx0drisP6WiH_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Charles Cumming’s &lt;a href="http://wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week1/"&gt;The 21 Steps&lt;/a&gt; tells a short story using Google Maps.</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/40802297</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/40802297</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:40:49 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.html"&gt;The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;The last thing an elite education will teach you is its own inadequacy:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It makes you incapable of talking to people who aren’t like you.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It creates a false sense of self-worth: You learn to think of yourself in terms of numerical rankings.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It’s profoundly anti-intellectual, meaning it’s opposed to being passionate about ideas.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/40670442</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/40670442</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:07:21 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree - Chronicle.com</title><description>&lt;a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i34/34b01701.htm"&gt;America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree - Chronicle.com&lt;/a&gt;: High-school students who are fully qualified to attend college are increasingly unlikely to derive enough benefit to justify the often six-figure cost and four to six years (or more) it takes to graduate.</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/40670124</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/40670124</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:04:10 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Wired: The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory"&gt;Wired: The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete&lt;/a&gt;: “All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.”</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/40669951</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/40669951</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:02:39 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Wired: The Rise of Crowdsourcing</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/crowds.html"&gt;Wired: The Rise of Crowdsourcing&lt;/a&gt;: The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R &amp; D.</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/40669769</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/40669769</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:00:33 +0200</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
