There is justice, in my local pub, after the first goal, the chorus of drunken Austrians was chanting, Bruno, Bruno, Bruno..........

From La Gazetta: DORTMUND (Germania), 4 luglio 2006 - La più bella! Fantastica! Straordinaria! L'Italia cucina la Germania. La trascina ai supplementari. Colpisce pali, traverse. E travolge i padroni di casa in trenta minuti da leggenda. Poi quel capolavoro di Grosso e l'invenzione di Ale Del Piero, così come sognava Gattuso.

Photos show, revenge T-shirts on sale, German desk-delinquent/killer as we say (Schreibtischtaeter) Minister Schnappauf and the collective guilt chain of command, sorted by hierarchy Edmund Stoiber, Angela Merkel. Forza Marcello Lippi, forza azuri.

For the past 30 days much of the planet will be glued to radios and TV’s as a festival of football unites diverse people from Angola to Australia and from Sweden to Saudi Arabia. Much to my annoyance as I'm not football crazy...

But how do you choose who to cheer for when your own team isn’t playing (or if they didn’t qualify!!! What about the coolest flag design (probably Brazil)? Maybe the best holiday destination or food?

(Régine, if you are reading this...Sorry!)

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 2005:

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, "check it dont wreck it" would be it!
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth...Don't worry about the future...Do one thing every day that scares you...blah blah blah blah...AND MOST OF ALL...

...MAKE SURE YOU PLUG THE MICROPHONE INTO THE MIC SOCKET AND NOT THE PHONES SOCKET WHEN YOU GIVE AN INTERVIEW!

GoogleEarth Image
Originally uploaded by christoph b..

Google Earth's images consist of a number of satellite images taken at various times. It is an ultimate challenge to find out, when exactly a certain picture has been taken. When I first tried Google Earth a couple of days after its launch, I noticed, the city of Bern, Swiss Capital, was not included in high resolution map yet.

After a couple of months though, I found out, that Bern had been added to the high resolution images.

Soon after, I began to wonder, at what time the picture had been taken.

Calling all media artists, producers, curators, organizations and individuals working with electronic or digital technologies...

After the jam-packed Season of Media Arts NODE.London is moving quickly forward to its next stage. Building on its success at raising the visibility for media arts and its networks, this visioning and networking event asks, what will the future of NODE.London look like?

From Vol. IV of "The Lives or the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints" by the Rev. Alban Butler, the 1864 edition published by D. & J. Sadlier, & Company. Photos: Advertisement/ female for Phillips TV poster and Wayne Rooney for Nike.

ST GEORGE, MARTYR (ABOUT THE YEAR 303)
Feast: April 23
St George is honoured in the Catholic Church as one of the most illustrious martyrs of Christ. The Greeks have long distinguished him by the title of The Great Martyr, and keep his festival a holiday of obligation. There stood formerly in Constantinople five or six churches dedicated in his honour, the oldest of which was always said to have been built by Constantine the Great, who seems also to have been the founder of the church of St. George, which stood over his tomb in Palestine. Both these churches were certainly built under the first Christian emperors. In the middle of the sixth age, the Emperor Justinian erected a new church in honour of this saint at Bizanes, in Lesser Armenia: the Emperor Mauritius founded one in Constantinople. It is related in the life of St. Theodorus of Siceon that he served God a long while in a chapel which bore the name of St. George, had a particular devotion to this glorious martyr, and strongly recommended the same to Mauritius when he foretold him the empire. One of the churches of St. George in Constantinople, called Manganes, with a monastery adjoining, gave to the Hellespont the name of the Arm of St. George. To this day is St. George honoured as principal patron, or tutelar saint, by several Eastern nations, particularly the Georgians. The Byzantine historians relate several battles to have been gained, and other miracles wrought, through his intercession. From frequent pilgrimages to his church and tomb in Palestine, performed by those who visited the Holy Land, his veneration was much propagated over the West. St. Gregory of Tours mentions him as highly celebrated in France in the sixth century.1 St. Gregory the Great ordered an old church of St. George, which was fallen to decay, to be repaired.2 His office is found in the sacramentary of that pope and many others.3 St. Clotildis, wife of Clovis, the first Christian king of France, erected altars under his name; and the church of Chelles, built by her, was originally dedicated in his honour. The ancient life of Droctovaeus mentions, that certain relics of St. George were placed in the church of St. Vincent, now called St. Germaris, in Paris, when it was first consecrated. Fortunatus of Poitiers wrote an epigram on a church of St. George, in Mentz. The intercession of this saint was implored especially in battles and by warriors, as appears by several instances in the Byzantine history, and he is said to have been himself a great soldier. He is, at this day, the tutelar saint of the republic of Genoa; and was chosen by our ancestors in the same quality under our first Norman kings. The great national council, held at Oxford in 1222, commanded his feast to be kept a holiday of the lesser rank throughout all England.4 Under his name and ensign was instituted by our victorious king, Edward III, in 1330, the most noble Order of knighthood in Europe, consisting of twenty-five knights besides the sovereign. Its establishment is dated fifty years before the knights of St. Michael were instituted in France by Louis XI; eighty years before the Order of the Golden Fleece, established by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy; and one hundred and ninety years before the Order of St. Andrew was set up in Scotland by James V. The emperor Frederic IV instituted, in 1470, an Order of knights in honour of St. George; and an honourable military Order in Venice bears his name.5