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TP: Hamburg hört in Karlsruhe auf - http://www.heise.de/tp...
"Seit Jahren hebt der Bundesgerichtshof die seltsamen Urteile der Hamburger Pressekammer auf"
- Ole Begemann
Berlin Festival of Lights - http://blog.flickr.net/en...
The Flickr blog is featuring one of my photos.
- Ole Begemann
Post-Medium Publishing - http://www.paulgraham.com/publish...
"Publishers of all types, from news to music, are unhappy that consumers won't pay for content anymore. At least, that's how they see it. In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren't really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended mostly on the format? Why didn't better content cost more?"
- Ole Begemann
Meine Festnahme – Freiheit statt Angst oder eher Angst statt Freiheit | alios pad - http://www.alios.org/blog...
Unheimliche, gruselige Geschichte.
- Ole Begemann
One year after Hurricane Ike - http://www.boston.com/bigpict...
Tolle vorher/nachher-Bilder.
- Ole Begemann
FriendFeed Translator - http://thetinybit.com/Project...
Mike Chelen and rutawa liked this
Great stuff! I thought about doing something like that myself but now I don't have to.
- Ole Begemann
Version 0.2 adds a new button, and some small changes.
- Yu-Jie Lin
new url is http://userscripts.org/scripts...
- Mike Chelen
Wie man mit Inhalten anderer Geld verdient - http://www.bildblog.de/9903...
"Mathias Döpfner, der Vorstandsvorsitzende der Axel Springer AG, die "Bild" herausgibt, sagt (bezogen auf Google): 'Es kann nicht sein, dass die einen für viel Geld wertvolle Inhalte erstellen und die anderen sie kostenlos kopieren und vermarkten.' Der Satz gilt aber offenbar nur, wenn die anderen die anderen sind."
- Ole Begemann
Art Fag City » IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View - http://www.artfagcity.com/2009...
Two years ago, Google sent out an army of hybrid electric automobiles, each one bearing nine cameras on a single pole. Armed with a GPS and three laser range scanners, this fleet of cars began an endless quest to photograph every highway and byway in the free world.
- Ole Begemann
The Most Interesting New Tech Startup of 2009 - Anil Dash - http://dashes.com/anil...
"I think the most promising new startup of 2009 is one of the least likely: The executive branch of the federal government of the United States. Now, .gov websites have historically been backwaters at best, a bunch of awkwardly-designed, poorly defined sites that only met the bare requirements of a web presence. But of course the current administration is comprised in great part of digital natives, and it's remarkable how quickly they've remade the .gov world into not just a number of compelling websites, but into a broad set of platforms that are going to inspire as much technological innovation as Twitter, Facebook or the iPhone did when they unveiled their technology platforms."
- Ole Begemann
How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/...
Tolle interaktive Infografik. Macht Spaß, damit ein bisschen rumzuspielen.
- Ole Begemann
Seeing Our Culture with Fresh Eyes - O'Reilly Radar - http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
"It makes me wonder what people a hundred years from now will think of our popular fiction, our popular movies. What do we take for granted that they will find odd, and perhaps even distasteful? You can already see some obvious candidates in things that are still accepted, but barely, like smoking. How curious it is to see a movie in which everyone is puffing on a cigarette - for example, in Good Night and Good Luck, where Edward R. Murrow is shown delivering prime time television news with a cigarette between his fingers. What will people think of our enormous steak dinners and obese portions of food? That's on the cusp of changing. What will they think of our profligate use of fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources? Our assumption that the American way of life will go on forever, just as it is, much as the British thought their empire would go on forever? What about our assumptions about unlimited technological progress? Will science fiction visions of star flight or "the...
- Ole Begemann
Easy visualization with Daisy Disk - http://www.tuaw.com/2009...
Taras Brizitsky, Jesper Lind, Seth Greenblatt and 18 other people liked this
"Daisy Disk is the perfect example of one of those tools that should be built right into OS X. It's the latest in disk visualization utilities -- software that scans your hard drive and lets you know which files are being hard drive hogs (in my case, World of Warcraft - no big surprise there). But, it's the added features that turn this from basic to "wow, why didn't Apple develop something like this?""
- Arnaldo M Pereira
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Interesting, but it needs to be journaled (built into the OSX), rather than separate app, so the diagram appears instantaneously and not, as now, after 2-3mins long scanning period. Also, a $20 strictly-administrivial utility may be $10 too much, but what do I know…
- ianf ⌘
It's a nice app. But waiting 2 minutes to see a beautiful chart is too much.
- Arnaldo M Pereira
"latest" for OSX. I've been using Baobab for years. But it's all kind of gimmicky. Give me /usr/bin/du anyday.
- Andy Bakun
Andy, on its own /usr/bin/du delivers just the size of current dir, which is not very usable. Perhaps you'd care to post a one-line du args chain to display somewhat equivalent at-a-glance hierarchy of it and all subfolders?
- ianf ⌘
The visualization is beautiful and useful. But it's not worth $20 to me.
- Ole Begemann
Trick question. du *without* args displays recursive size of all dirs and subdirectories, with rollups. (however, I suggest the -h option so the sizes are more readable). If you have a lot of directories, this is obviously large, so I'm not sure how "at a glance" it is. But then, I'm not sure how "at a glance" a graphic is if you have a lot of subdirs either -- it quickly gets into...
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- Andy Bakun
Wasn't a trick, Andy, I didn't realize I was inside a leaf directory (in OSX). I stand corrected. However, in order to be usable, an at-a-glance "graphic" overview ought to be at least that of (similar to) ls -sF – a compact multicolumn printout of sorts. I once used a clone of du called diskusage, which had just that, but it's not in Darwin/OSX.
- ianf ⌘
You're doing UNIX wrong. :) It's not du's job to format output, it's du's job to measure disk usage. Try one of these
- Andy Bakun
function diskusage() { du -sh "$@" | expand | column -c $COLUMNS ; }
- Andy Bakun
function diskusage() { du -s "$@" | sort -n | expand | column -c $COLUMNS }
- Andy Bakun
function diskusage() { ( if [ -z "$*" ]; then du -s * ; else du -s "$@" ; fi ) | sort -n | expand | column -c $COLUMNS ; }
- Andy Bakun
First just shows the disk usage in columns. Second sorts by size. The third's arguments are optional and defaults to the contents of the current directory (I like this one). I just saved you $20 unless you need pretty pictures to soothe you while you're trying to recover space from your hard drive.
- Andy Bakun
Admittedly, not perfect. There is shell script floating around that prints human readable sizes (-h) and sorted; while I've thought that would be useful, I've never had enough need for it. And this works on Linux, I don't know if OSX has expand (part of coreutils) and column (part of util-linux-ng), and if the shell/terminal properly sets the $COLUMNS variable. YMMV. But what do you expect for a one-liner? :)
- Andy Bakun
Thanks, but none of them works in OSX. First one reports an error and rests in du; second enters input ">" mode; the third exists cleanly but invoking it doesn't do anything. Alas. Not my strong cup 'o tea.
- ianf ⌘
They works for me, on OS X leopard. Probably my environment is slightly different from yours, ianf.
- Arnaldo M Pereira
Really? How much more different than mine out-of-the-box env, I wonder: http://friendfeed-media.com/da8c9f8...
- ianf ⌘
ianf: it seems you've hit ^C before du outputs anything. The correct way of calling that function, is without () - hence the > sign on the last line. Go to a directory like /tmp, which supposedly have less files than / or home, and run it again. Should work.
- Arnaldo M Pereira
Yes, I did, 'cause I seem to have kowtowed to Constant Instant Orgasm Syndrome™ [you read it here first]. I'm not a heavy user of Unix, practically none of that on a desktop, and thus expecting near-instantaneous response frame of a mainframe. I'm glad it works though…… now, is the size output given in (512kB?) disc-sectors, or what? For instance: [" \\ " added manually by me] \\...
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- ianf ⌘
Number of blocks. You might want to use -hs, human readable output, with KB, MB, etc.
- Arnaldo M Pereira
Marco.org - Trust, hostility, and the human side of Apple - http://www.marco.org/122990476
"Most reasonable people would perceive Apple’s attitude toward iPhone developers as, at best, reluctant tolerance"
- Ole Begemann
Notizen aus der Maschinenhalle » Blog Archive » Bericht von der State of the Map 2009 - http://blog.geofabrik.de/?p=25
Neues aus der OpenStreetMap-Welt. Das Projekt ist und bleibt sehr interessant.
- Ole Begemann
Der etwas andere Wahl-O-Mat: Die Programme der Parteien auf einen Blick | Christoph Koch - http://www.christoph-koch.net/2009...
Die Wahlprogramme als Tag-Cloud. Schöne Idee.
- Ole Begemann
Re: Show - jeremy wohl - http://igmus.org/2008...
"Awesome script, Jeremy, thanks for providing it. Translation is a good idea but I have modified the script slightly to allow for multiple spoken languages. For instance, I speak German, English, and a little Spanish, and it is really weird to see a (usually quite bad) Google translation of an English-language review into my native German when I could just read the original English. The modification is really easy. I added an array that includes all the languages I speak at the top: NATIVE_LANGUAGE = 'de' SPOKEN_LANGUAGES = [ 'de', 'en', 'es' ] # this is new and then I changed line 157 from: if ! store[:language].empty? && store[:language] != NATIVE_LANGUAGE to: if ! store[:language].empty? && !SPOKEN_LANGUAGES.include?(store[:language]) That's it. Perhaps you'd like to integrate this into your script?"
- Ole Begemann
Songtext: Lyrics done right for the iPhone - http://songtextapp.com/
Yippieh! Songtext, my first iPhone app, is finally on sale. Seamlessly download lyrics for the songs you are playing on your iPod. $0.99. Check it out at http://songtextapp.com if you like.
- Ole Begemann
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YouTube - "Walled In!" Germany's inner border - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Very realistic animation of the Berlin Wall made by Deutsche Welle. Watch this if you want to know how insurmountable the Wall was until 20 years ago.
- Ole Begemann
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Climate Change - http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog...
"What’s the most significant corrective action the average American could take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? (...) The answer is to reduce or eliminate your consumption of animal products."
- Ole Begemann
Die Ideen der anderen - http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur...
Sehr guter und differenzierter Artikel im Tagesspiegel über die Urheberrechtsproblematik.
- Ole Begemann
TP: Verglichen mit dem Netz ist das Leben ein rechtsfreier Raum - http://www.heise.de/tp...
Lars Trieloff liked this
"'Das Internet darf kein rechtsfreier Raum sein' lautet eine wohlbekannte Floskel von Anwälten, Politikern oder Lobbyisten. Dabei ist das Internet so stark reglementiert, dass das "reale Leben", damit verglichen, wie Sodom und Gomorrha wirkt."
- Ole Begemann
Could Iran Shut Down Twitter? :: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It - http://futureoftheinternet.org/could-i...
"So it’d be trivial for the Iranian government to block access to Twitter as it could to any particular Web site, and it could even block access to some Twitter users’ feeds there while leaving others open, by simply configuring its filters to allow some Twitter urls through while filtering others. But Twitter isn’t just any particular Web site. It’s an atom designed to be built into other molecules. More than most, Twitter allows multiple paths in and out for data. Its open APIs make it trivially easy for any other Web service provider to insert a stream of tweets in or to capture what comes out."
- Ole Begemann
on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
"Set: Nature - Landscapes. Lake Valkeisjärvi (Lappajärvi, Finland)"
- A.T.
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Impressive reflection. I like that there are so many clouds in the sky. I have a (somewhat) similar photo from Sweden: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Ole Begemann
Vortrag: Alles Menschenmögliche tun? Von Kriminalität, Sicherheit und Freiheit - http://www.daten-speicherung.de/index...
Langer Text, die Lektüre lohnt sich aber.
- Ole Begemann
Opera 10 Beta Adds "Turbo Mode," Visual Tabs - http://lifehacker.com/5277059...
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Daniel Rowley, Nicholas James, Kol Tregaskes and 6 other people liked this
"Windows/Mac/Linux: A new beta of the speedy, innovative Opera web browser is available for download, bringing a visual, expandable tab bar and tab previews, server-side compression for slow connections, and many more features to your desktop."
- Alejandro
from Bookmarklet
Messing around with this presently and it's pretty snazzy. I don't think it'll take me away from Webkit but, once again, it looks like Opera's going to have another winner for Opera users. Unfortunately, the popularity of Chrome and Safari 4 are making it even more difficult for the Browser From Which All Other Browsers Are Born to make inroads to the popularity it truly deserves.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I love Opera for constantly innovating, but still can't use them. Every release I try again, but have always found it crashy.
- Sparky, a big deal
I haven't had Opera crash on me since v8 was released. Each since then has been even more stable. But, until they support multitouch gestures, I'll never use it as my primary browser.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I always hated the way Opera looked, no matter what skin I used. The new beta has made a step in the right direction and I hope it will look even better when the final comes out. But until Opera works with 1Password and Foxmarks there is little chance I'm gonna use it as my default browser.
- Ole Begemann
Ole, there used to be native skins you could download that were good even if not always accurate. I was a primary Opera browser user up until I switched to Webkit last year (at Mona's urging, no less).
- Akiva Moskovitz
the compression feature is wonderful for slow connections
- Rahul Das
I haven't had a single crash since I started using Opera 10. It's a lot more stable than the current 9.6 version.
- Alejandro
NPR: Dear Pixar, From All The Girls With Band-Aids On Their Knees - http://www.npr.org/blogs...
"Dear Pixar, Please make a movie about a girl who is not a princess."
- Ole Begemann
What should you never put in your ear?
Katie: Witch Of The West, Morgan Haley, Kol Tregaskes and 15 other people liked this
A dick?
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
A penis..
- CW™
Muffler
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
string cheese
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
country music
- nakachi
That creepy worm from Star Trek.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Someone else's ear.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Uma Thurman's foot
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Spaghetti.
- joey
The business end of a megaphone.
- Alex Scoble
a gerbil
- nakachi
Anything electric.
- CW™
The blunt
- nakachi
boobs. (from experience)
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
A knob box
- nakachi
LYNEX
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Michelle Obama's jaw line
- nakachi
Gold-plated Monster Cables.
- Akiva Moskovitz
A wet tampon
- nakachi
Hearing aid batteries.
- Trish Haley
peanut M&Ms
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Dynamite
- Mo Kargas
E.coli.
- Derrick
Sand from someone's.. nm
- Rodfather
A spider
- Nicholas James
Kate Winslet's left ear.
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
the medical textbooks say never stick anything smaller than your elbow in there
- Victor Ganata
you guys rule
- Josh Haley
A lit match.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Meth
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
RZA
- nakachi
Redman
- nakachi
GZA aaaaaaaaaaaand ODB!
- nakachi
Never put anything in your ear that refers to itself as "Big Baby Jesus"
- nakachi
ODB
- Rodfather
Shaq
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Yao Ming
- Rodfather
Your tongue.
- Alex Scoble
My tongue.
- Michael McKean
Alex Scoble's tongue.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Bushwick Bill's eye
- Rodfather
Johnny Worthington's facial hair
- nakachi
Who has that big of an ear?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Oprah's bunions
- Steve
Deez nuts
- Rodfather
Coast To Coast AM.
- Kris Roley
glue
- Josh Haley
A sonic screwdriver.
- Steven Perez
minced ham
- Christopher Harley
A podcast.
- Pete Delucchi
A baseball bat
- Mike Nayyar
Q-tip.
- CAJ, somewhere else
The one from A Tribe Called Quest, I mean.
- CAJ, somewhere else
earwig.
- Janet
Around 'ere any 'air products at all iz consideredrdrd pansy. (This is what it looks like when a Norwegian tries to do a joke with a cockney accent. Needless to say highly experimental. Sorry for the inconvenience).
- Thomas Bøhm
from BuddyFeed
Monster Cables
- Josh Haley
A candle. The wax hurts, no matter what they lady at the herb store tells you.
- Roger Benningfield
Josh, I'd say, never put a fellow countryman in your ear.
- Rick Cogley
a watermelon seed... b/c it might grow in there!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
your other ear.
- Internet's Tad
elbow
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
your tongue
- Trish Haley
Live grenade.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
I think Jack wins!
- Janet
mama told me never to put beans in my ear
- Marie is organized.
Your nose.
- Sue Radd
A pencil.
- Brandon Mendelson
A hair braid bead. One of my children a few years ago discovered it required a visit to the doctor and a v long pier of tweezers.
- David Eedle
<3
- Josh Haley
CILANTRO.
- Steven Perez
Kevin Smith.
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
The Matrix Trilogy
- Morton Fox
Boxee
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
A loaded gun.
- Lisa L. Seifert
... or spymaster
- Lisa L. Seifert
A battery
- Nicholas James
The vocal "stylings" of Linkin Park.
- Josh Haley
Sascha Baron Cohen's butt cheese
- Jim Hearts FF
++Jim for stepping it up a few notches.
- Josh Haley
Country Music
- Morgan Haley
How about Western music, Morgan? Would you say no to both kinds? :-D
- Lisa L. Seifert
Jay Leno.
- Pete Delucchi
a $500 Denon ethernet cable.
- Josh Haley
Any other fish than a Babelfish.
- Ole Begemann
It's a good time to remind everyone that all my photos are in the public domain. Here's more details:
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You can use them for any reason without giving me credit.
- Robert Scoble
I do this as my gift. I spend thousands of dollars doing my photography, but feel it's important to give them away because this industry gives me so much.
- Robert Scoble
Credit too goes to my employer, right now Rackspace, but previously Microsoft, Podtech, Fast Company, because they subsidize my efforts here.
- Robert Scoble
And we thank you very much :)
- Simon Wicks
That's a very 'Scoble-like' thing to do. Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
Wish Scott Bourne did the same, he is a real tight-bastard when it comes to his photographs.
- David Lloyd
I'd say that is a very Google like thing to do. Now if we only knew what your secret sauce was... :-)
- Ivan Stegic
Ivan: Yeah, but if it had been Google, the pictures would all be in beta!! :)
- Jim Connolly
Wow! So will you ever give your equipment away for free too?
- Andrew Acomb
Andrew: nope. Keep in mind that almost none of my photos have been processed. 60% of the beauty of Ansel Adams photos was done in the darkroom so you can, indeed, consider my work "beta."
- Robert Scoble
You shall be henceforth known as "Noble Scoble" in my books ;). Seriously, thanks for your generosity.
- Colin Clarke
Is there a link to your photos? I'd love to check them out!!
- Brian J. Reeves
I don't really know that your shots need much processing. You have good equipment, so things are always razor-sharp, but you also have a natural eye for composition. Plus, you tend toward the editorial mode of expression. In fact, irrespective of who's paying your way, I could make the case that you're a journalist - as much an honest evaluator as Mike Arrington or Dave or Louis. So...
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- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
I love the public domain!
- Steve McLelland
Brian: http://www.flickr.com/scoblei... is where my photos are.
- Robert Scoble
awesome, that's the right spirit, thanks for doing the decent thing.
- Tweet Feeds
Gee thanks...and this is why we get crap like this https://friendfeed.com/rodfath... I should stage a friendfeed protest against Robert's photo copyright policy.
- Alex Scoble
Nice!
- Hutch Carpenter
Robert, very generous! Thanks!
- Scott Loftesness
All I gotta say is OHRAH Scoble! I'm in the Navy and its good to see the Navy getting all the great support. :)
- Colide81 (James)
from fftogo
James: when great organizations open up their greatness is revealed. I'm glad I had this opportunity.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I went out on a similar trip to yours about 10 years ago - USS Constellation CV-64 - now retired. A former captain of the Connie took us out - we got the red carpet treatment! He commanded the Connie at Yankee Station during the Vietnam War - from January 1966 - December 1966. I'll never forget the COD landing - and departure - and the night landings out by the "meatball". Like you, I came away with a new found respect for all on-board. An amazing experience! Fly Navy Jets!
- Scott Loftesness
Scott: one of the people who was touring with us was a former F-18 pilot who flew on the Constellation. He had lots of stories and added a lot to the tour.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: This is truly a great thing, and this thread clearly shows just how much your efforts are appreciated.....Well done mate!
- Clifford Kennedy
thanks your photos are wonderful
- Patrizia Filippetti
Robert: That's great to know. You do great work in that regard, and its good to see how much you give back to the people who appreciate your work. I've know a few great bands who did things like this, and I have to say, they were (are) some of the best marketers ever. Nice Job. :-) Thanks!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
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It would be nice if Flickr actually allowed you to put them into the public domain. Why Flickr does not have a public domain option by the way: http://www.flickr.com/help...
- Thomas Hawk
Rob and Tom are good blokes
- David Lloyd
Good move. Thanks, I did not know but I appreciate it.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Why public domain and not Creative Commons? Just curious.
- Blake
Where can all your photos be found scoble? Are they all on your flickr page? thanks!
- Jason Pollock
Jason: yup, all on Flickr. I am paying for a SmugMug account too, but haven't moved them over there yet.
- Robert Scoble
My account is http://www.flickr.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I used one of your photos that you took at TechCrunch HQ for a blog post I did (I didn't ask you though). Just though I might let you know, and that I really appreciate that you're doing this :-)
- Michael Forian
Robert: Wish I had time to take one of your pics to create a motivation poster out of it. Slap a big GENEROSITY title followed by "Giving away all your images for free"
- Mark Essel
That's indeed very generous of you, Robert. I wonder, though, if you've had any problems regarding people's rights to pictures of themselves. I don't know the legal situation in the US but at least in many parts of Europe people have considerable rights to their pictures when they are being photographed. I could imagine problems if you as the photographer put a photo in the public...
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- Ole Begemann
The only photos I don't let everyone have are one's in newspapers, magazines, clients websites... it's a contractual thing. Then again - they don't belong to me either - even though I took them. Oh, one more thing: I'm not a professional photographer - so it's not like anyone wants my photos other than to share a picture of themselves! *giggle* Feel free to take, use, abuse, and enjoy any of my photos here, on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
- Arleen Anderson
Arleen: I even give my photos to the newspapers. My photos of John Edwards with his mistress could have sold and brought me some nice change, but I gave them to them too. That photo has been on TV dozens of times. Ole: in America you are allowed to use photos of people you take in public for non commercial reasons. So, if someone wanted to use these photos in an ad they would need to...
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- Robert Scoble
You and your crazy get-rich-quick schemes, Rob!
- David Lloyd
You should at least get credit! check this out: http://worldsgreatphotos.blogspot.com
- Lawrence Jose Sinclair
Good stuff - I just looked at your Flickr stream and posted 4 of yours here: http://godsgolfball.blogspot.com - that's Capt Beefhearts music prod. co name!
- Lawrence Jose Sinclair
Berlin Carnival of Cultures 2009 – Set on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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My pictures from Berlin's annual celebration of the cultural richness of its people. Highly recommended if you can make it next year.
- Ole Begemann
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Today was the annual Carnival of Cultures parade in Berlin. Amazing as always. It's definitely worth a visit. Each year at Whitsunday.
- Ole Begemann
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