oh well go on then "REVIEWs/Previews" of the year.

by :-) Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:06

a Ceann chomhairle, I think you might be interested....

The best most super footballer in the world,
on the planet, bridging the gap between fundamentalist soccer fans of the mid West USA and the fine players of Egypt who lost their World Cup bid,

is Don Ronaldo de Assis Moreira
born in Port Allegre Brazil 21/3/1980

the player known as "Ronaldino"
a.k.a. "Ronaldino Gaúcho"
a.k.a. "the Crack"

The Brazilian born plays for Barça FC where he lives and where he's staying. Having had his invite confirmed with a 150,000,000€ buy out clause which no other club can afford. so there. sin é. He has politely confirmed (yet again) that Chelsea aren't buying him.

He received the award in Zurich last night.
from FIFA after winning 640 votes.

the previous winners were-

1991 : Lothar Matthaeus, Allemagne
1992 : Marco Van Basten, Pays-Bas
1993 : Roberto Baggio, Italie
1994 : Romario, Brésil
1995 : George Weah, Liberia
1996 : Ronaldo, Brésil
1997 : Ronaldo, Brésil
1998 : Zinedine Zidane, France
1999 : Rivaldo, Brésil
2000 : Zinedine Zidane, France
2001 : Luis Figo, Portugal
2002 : Ronaldo, Brésil
2003 : Zinedine Zidane, France

by juniper berries one sandal - room 101 where precious is. Wed Dec 22, 2004 12:38

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5500265.html
google have excelled their usual behaviour by announcing that they will help digitalise a few libraries and open up that knowledge to the world, in a sort of wikipedia way in the last weeks.

Wah hey big swinging mickey mouse!

The Internet can be one of the best tools for students and humanity to extend knowledge to the poorest regions and neighbourhoods, it may assist doctors, orphans and all.

Or it may be the darkest representation of the human soul,
where children engage in abomination, where weapons are designed where "luck" is the reserve of higher mathematics and commerce consumes life and planet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 356 days a year.
and you never get to meet that someone special because they are really only an avatar.

It's your choice.
It always was your choice.

Where do you want to go today?

Worm :-
a small program which travels by using lateral wave energy, considered to be one of the smallest of God's living creatures that we can see, and many of us chop them up as kids.

by tsk tsk tsk Wed Dec 22, 2004 13:59

The German magazine "Speigel" (mirror) has chosen to go front page with the global resurgence of belief / creepiness / weirdness / myth thing as well.
Their front cover for 2004 considers the myth of the Holy Grail. You know the one, by now over 300,000,000 literate people mostly female in the ABC market have read the popular work of romantic fiction which seems to be exciting the imagination.
The Germans of course still have a long way to go to "reclaim" memory, amongst those memories they will have to come to terms with not only include the NAZI horror, which saw 6 million jews, approx 1 million european minorites and only a few thousand members of the masonic orders stripped of their national ID, citizenship, property and summarily used as slave labour, experimental material and murdered. But also the superstition and silly monkey brain stuff that led to all that. The utter stupidity of the third reich's attempts to falsify the record, to prove teutonic superiority, to dig up indiana jones style the architecture of our world. Indiana jones was though an american.

http://service.spiegel.de/digas/servlet/epaper?Q=SP&JG=2004&AG=52&SE=1

Oh Mr brown, what in jayzhus name have you done to Leonardo?

by nemo Wed Dec 22, 2004 14:11

I *do* recommend reading and if you want giving as a pressie for 2005 to your pals, a copy of "this revolution has no face". a collection of the works of the Wu Ming (chinese for no-one) collective and Luther Blisset collective.
You can download bits and bobs off the sites, or (ahem) use the search engine. It's filed away in spanish in the http://www.sindominio.net site and not to difficult to find. In italian it's hidden away in http://www.autistici.org/it/index.html and as happened with all these collectives, people argued, fell out with each other, went and did the "i've got the URL" and so, so you can still find bits and bobs on the official sites- http://www.wumingfoundation.com/ http://www.lutherblissett.net/ and you know you can download books and give them to your kids and grandparents like they *too* could have the pleasure of reading a good book before they see the movie.
You could like put that with your Leonardo and your little girlie Naomi Klein, and collected works of Marcus . My favourite was a supposed interview with Wu Ming on a park bench in Rome July 23 1999 (or was it 1998?) in which the writing collective stressed the importance of *myth* of macro-collective telling and retelling of legend to continue culture and thus stop us going back to the darkness. Where people get stripped of ID, citizenship, property, rights and are fodder for the experiments.
But you don't have to believe these myths. Same way as the kids don't have to believe they are really learning how to kill monsters or soldiers with their internet pals (or avatars) or "playstation".

by adj Fri Dec 24, 2004 04:35

So nice to see people in radical politics getting on with each other for a change.

Get it together. Or nothing will ever get any better.

by - Sat Dec 25, 2004 18:57

review of 2004 at link.

by - Sun Dec 26, 2004 18:33

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young

/ D - / Em - / A7 - / D - / G - / Am - / D - / G - /

{Refrain}
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

/ C - / Dm - / Am C / G A7 /

And so this is Christmas War is over
For weak and for strong If you want it
For rich and the poor ones War is over
The road is so long Now
And so happy Christmas War is over
For black and for white If you want it
For yellow and red ones War is over
Let's stop all the fight Now

{Refrain}

And so this is Christmas War is over
And what have we done If you want it
Another year over War is over
And a new one just begun Now
And so happy Christmas War is over
I hope you have fun If you want it
The near and the dear one War is over
The old and the young Now

{Refrain}

War is over if you want it
War is over now

The Yoko Ono / Lennon estate will not object if you download this, or ask your kids for whom you bought the MP3 to download it for you.
the chords are easy to play.
the words ought be familiar.

by % Sun Jan 02, 2005 19:46

that in the first years of the XXI century those who died from globalised terror were -
majority - Black
followed by - muslims.
followed by - Catholics (orthodox)
followed by - Catholics (roman)
followed by - Jews.
less than 1000 victims of globalised terror have belonged to other denominations but the majority of that 1000 were presbytarian anglican and mormon.