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I just saw that folksinger Joan Baez is singing in the Zitadelle Spandau today (tickets). Unfortunately I won’t be there.* However I would like to say at this place that I wish Joan Baez wouldn’t need to sing on such occasions as on a concert of the operation cease fire.

Another remark: the Zitadelle Spandau as being a former fortress of the 16th century is also not such a pleasant location but the more it is important that there are nice concerts.

->Joan Baez singing the answer is blowing in the wind

*addendum: I actually managed to go to the concert and arrived there in the last minute. She sang very nicely about strange stories. Interestingly the core of a folk music concert (it was my first folk music concert) seems to be that the audience sometimes forms a choir. After the “more” some more images which are sometimes a bit blurry, since my camera is not so lightsensitive.

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No cockroach mutants..;) – just antenna of a TV news station which is apparently rather on the dark side of the rain bow..:)

Some few more images from the NMI07 party yesterday evening on the roof terrace of the academy of sciences after the click.

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I am currently at the NMI 2007 conference which runs from morning till night – if one includes the after hour work, like a boat trip on Berlin waters, which took place last night (just one photo from the boat trip – funny to watch the Hauptbahnhof from this perspective):

Berlin Hauptbahnhof with its claddings
which broke in a storm

Arnold Böcklin “Medusa” – image source from wikipedia

MEDUSALEM. Researchers from Israel found out that our Internet galaxy has in its center a Medusa head (they call it actually a Medusa model), i.e. a head which grows snakes instead of hair.

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riddle: what is this?

you don’t need much fantasy….

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Recently activist(s)/vandalist(s)/artist(s) (?) cut out the “Alice” of the posters which belong to a product branding or advertising campaign by Hansenet.

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I just found this link about the upcoming meeting on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, which will soon take place in Boston.

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Just some images from an interesting architectural application of solar cells.
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The Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities at the University of Virginia recently presented at a press conference in Rome the virtual city project rome reborn 1.0:

Visitors to virtual Rome will be able to do even more than ancient Romans did: They can crawl through the bowels of the Colosseum, filled with lion cages and primitive elevators, and fly up for a detailed look at bas-reliefs and inscriptions atop triumphal arches.

“This is the first step in the creation of a virtual time machine, which our children and grandchildren will use to study the history of Rome and many other great cities around the world,” said Bernard Frischer of the University of Virginia, who led the project.

The $2 million simulation will be used by scientists to run experiments – such as determining the crowd capacity of ancient buildings – and as a scholarly journal that will be updated at each new discovery of one of Rome’s marvels.

(citation from physorg)