Today is Sunday

Posted on January 26, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

I was walking to the office, earlier today. An experience, astonishing as exhausting, saw this walk to the office as the longest ever; 3 hours, instead of 20 minutes. Farther from home than from the office, I was attracted. Attracted by a force that has been magnetic ever since in my life; music. While walking [...]

All Are Equal (With Some Exceptions?)

Posted on January 23, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

While I appreciate the first steps of the new US administration to close secret prisons and detention camps, something about the executive orders strikes me as not quite right. According to the article, the executive orders signed on Thursday by Obama, [...] allow Mr. Obama to reinstate the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation operations in the [...]

Inauguration 2009

Posted on January 21, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

It was on Super Tuesday when I landed in New York last year, February 5, 2008. The air at Penn Station was charged with politics and so, on the train from New York to Washington DC, people were talking about politics on their mobile phones and groups spontaneously formed to discuss the latest news. At [...]

Earth & Moon: Could the Moon be Right?

Posted on January 15, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

During my first weeks in Washington DC, I read a blog post on fish that have developed both female and male reproductive systems found in the Potomac river (from where, I believe, the city takes its water). As the author writes, [...] the pollution we’ve poured into the river is probably to blame for creating [...]

Earth & Moon on Humanity

Posted on January 11, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

Earth: Sister, humans are worrying me. Moon: I know, I have been following their evolution. Earth: I would like to help. Moon: Just let them evolve a little longer. Earth: But I don’t want to let them go. Moon: You know, my dear, I wonder if they deserve you. new fadeshow(fadeimages, 302, 220, 0, 10000, [...]

Do You Spend or Save?

Posted on January 9, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

From the Office of the President-Elect, the Dramatic action article, To get people spending again, 95% of working families will receive a $1,000 tax cut. (change.gov) I certainly lack understanding of the big picture as well as the little details. However, I’m uneasy with this idea. On one side, I wonder whether $1,000 tax cut [...]

The Value of No Value: The Power of Scale

Posted on January 2, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

In my home country, mobile service providers have delivered over 106 million short (SMS) and multimedia (MMS) messages over New Year’s Eve (NZZ). Think about this number, it is interesting. Switzerland has a population of 7,689,100 (Wikipedia, 2008 estimate); 13.78 messages per capita. The country counts 8.4 million mobile phone subscriptions (Wikipedia, Q2 2008); 12.62 [...]

NYE. Resolutions. 2009.

Posted on January 1, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

The minute I’m writing this sentence it is midnight in my home country. People all over the world have already said and will say it many million times in the next few hours: Happy New Year. And so, I wish all the very best for 2009 and beyond, in particular to those of you back [...]

 

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