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9.6.06

another one bites the dust... 

"THE RISE AND FALL of Mexican drug-law reform over the last two weeks has been, for drug legalizers, a dizzying high followed by a painfully abrupt crash. [...]

Mexico isn't the first nation to suffer side effects from America's estimated $30-billion-a-year drug war. A 2003 attempt by former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien to liberalize drug possession laws met with threats from U.S. drug czar John Walters that the tougher resulting border security could hold up U.S.-Canadian trade, and the idea soon went up in smoke."


la suite/link: brian doherty -latimes.com

...so much for moving to mexico.

yes men!!! 

the yes men strike again!

...at the International Serious Games Event in Birmingham (05/06/2006).
this time as McDonald's Interactive, introducing its 'new game' - ASC (abrupt social change) - announcement here.

well worth the read!
[lifted from world changing]

5.6.06

valle d'aosta 




driving through la valle d'aosta back to genève. backdrop: mont-blanc in all its grandeur. aosta's typical slate covered roofs. how nice to be back in italy, however briefly...