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The fine art of writing commentarys... |
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THE CRACKED FEATURES |
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the collected frontpage-columns and more by Georg "Head Honcho" Cracked. Updated very, very often. Promised. Because there is a lot to talk about. |
ITRYL #137: “If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things..." here |
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| EXTRAORDINARY LIVES: DJANGO REINHARDT inventor of gypsy jazz, | |
| FOOD FOR EYES how designers and experts make our food look better | |
| SEARCH ENGINE TEST we conducted an infallible test to find out the best search engine available | |
| KIDNAPPING THE CEO desperate times cry for desperate measures | |
| NOTHING IS FOR FREE never. that's rule #1. | |
| BEING LUCKY what happiness is all about, a guide | |
| THE SEVEN SINS AND THE DUDE 10 years of the greatest movie ever shot, ten years of indepth thinking and meditating on it, ten years of "The Big Lebowski" | |
| GLOBAL CRIME it is all around us, and it is a shame | |
| TERROR IN UZBEKISTAN a brutal regime in Russia's backyard | |
| GENDERBENDING BY PLASTIC PRODUCTS it's science | |
| KING KONG GOES A LONG WAY a new(?) reading of the same old story | |
| FRIENDLY FLOATEES a few thousand of them travelling the world | |
| THE ONLINE ROLE PLAYER BUSINESS MYSTIQUE what I find exciting about multi-mass-online-role-playing-games (and it is not the elves...) | |
| PROBLEM WITH CHINA it's the economy, stupid, and it is destroying the planet | |
| THE FUTURE OF EATING some facts, some ideas and some trends on one of the most important things there is: food | |
| I STILL HATE CONCERTS CONTINUED | |
| THE LIFE OF BRIAN REVISITED on a movie that couldn't be made today | |
| NEURO-SCIENCE (FICTION) what's new in brain research and some hints at the threats involved. | |
| CANNIBALISM AT SEA a short flashlight at one of history's most gruesome footnotes | |
| A STATE OF COMPLETE CONTROL modern technology and the power to the powers to control every move you make | |
| EXTRAORDINARY LIVES: DEAN MARTIN actor, singer, womanizer, the original definition of cool. | |
| THE GLOBAL VILLAGE IS SEE-THROUGH what they know about you. | |
| BIOPIRACY OVER AFRICA its robbery and those being robbed have hardly a clue of what's happened | |
| EXTRAORDINARY LIVES: JELLY ROLL MORTON hustler, roller, jewelled tooth and piano master - the original o.g. | |
| UPDATING SEXUAL DEVIANCY psychiatrists find a new look on human sexuality aside of the norm | |
| WHEN BLOGS COLLIDE with common sense | |
| THE MOST AWFUL SPAM MAIL EVER | |
| METALLICA MISTAKEN SONGLYRIC | |
| CRACKED SCIENCE PROJECT FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY | |
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EXTRAORDINARY LIVES: BUCKMINSTER FULLER Thinker, architect, artist, writer, intellectual - a man who was at least 30 years ahead of everyone else. |
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EXTRAORDINARY LIVES: HOWARD HUGHES A short look on the life and work of Howard Hughes: moviemaker, aviator, billionaire, eccentric |
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CREDIT RATINGS & HOW TO GET CREDIT Ed Brown on how banks share credit information on you and what you can do about it |
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a real-life-story of ignorance and stupidity |
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how the music industry is responsible for its own downfall |
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a short history of the usage of drugs in wars |
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Or: what about this generation, the last one and the one before? |
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| THE BEAR WITCH PROJECT | |
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ANNEX TO "MY OWN MUSICAL CHARTA" INTRODUCTION TO MY OWN MUSICAL CHARTA plain text |
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THE OSBOURNES ARE GOOD FOR THE WORLD or How the pop-business betrays itself for the good of the people |
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ERFURT SHOOTINGS AND DOUBLE STANDARDS or Why Slipknot makes you kill people. |
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| EVEN MORE REASONS WHY I STILL HATE CONCERTS |
other interesting writing on the net: |
| THAT THING ABOUT STARBUCKS |
STRATEGIES FOR EMERGING ARTISTS ... AND SUPERSTARS David Byrne's (yes, of Talking Heads) strategies for survival in the new way of music business |
| THE INTERNET HOAX |
the manual on how to produce a number one charts hit by KLF |
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controversial thoughts by Dan Simmons |
or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative |
| I STILL HATE CONCERTS |
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THE SUPERPRODUCERS |
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PHONES - a lesson for the paranoid turn it off |
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a little something about the funny movie by Kevin Smith, not that artsy shmoo-from Denkmark |
CONSUMER SOCIETY AND AUTHENCITY: The (Il)logic of Punk Practices by
Tony Lack |
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where's all the revolution in mainstream-tv gone to? |
WHAT ABOUT BARCODES AND THE 666: THE MARK OF THE BEAST? to answer that question once and for all |
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the American fear of Anthrax and its double moral |
AN OBJECTIVE OVERVIEW OF AUTOEROTIC FATALITIES okay, so no real commentary, but also unfit for the „stupid stuff on the internet“-collection |
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CAT TORTURE IN EARLIER CENTURIES a very short account of how our ancestors treated the all-beloved mice-hunters |
THE HARDCORE/PUNK GUIDE TO CHRISTIANITY do you need more reasoning that religions are stupid? |
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childhood-memories by our good friend Husbert |
Interesting revelations about food, the food-industry and your daily diet |
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LESBO VAMPIRE-HUNTER-WITCH in LOVE WITH DEMON SPEX-magazine stole this idea from us! You read it here first! |
Steve Albini tells all about the music industry - outside link |