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    <description>never stop living this way.</description>
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      <title>Gfrast from the past.</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Älter werden hat auch Vorteile. Mein Liebster: Man muss sich für seine Geschmacksverwirrungen nicht mehr schämen. Wer mich halbwegs kennt, weiß es schon, für den Rest gestehe ich: Ich liebe trashigen 1990er Eurodance. Drum bin ich auch fast jeden 2. Samstag bei der 90s Party am &lt;a href="http://www.badeschiff.at/"&gt;Badeschiff&lt;/a&gt;. Diesmal wirds nicht klappen, da ich grad in Berlin sitz, und auch die Grundlsge dieses Artikels wird mir entgehen, aber für Schnellentschlossene gibts heute Abend in Wien ein echtes Schmankerl.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kewagi/4974018834/" title="Mr. President by kewagi, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/4974018834_4163cbaa55.jpg" width="468" height="468" alt="Mr. President" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Ja, richtig gelesen: &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._President"&gt;Mr. President&lt;/a&gt; spielen in Wien. Heute Abend. Und nicht irgendwo, sondern - bam! - in der Millenium City. Das wird gsnz, ganz schrecklich, bringt eine Fantastilliarde Hipster-Ironiepunkte. In diesem Sinne, viel Vergnügen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Ich muss gestehen, mir ist ein Fehler unterlaufen. &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/junicks"&gt;@junicks&lt;/a&gt; hat mich darauf hingewiesen, dass nicht Mr. President im Ganzen kommen, sondern nur der Rapper. Trotzdem schöne Trashnostalgie.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>I'm Flattrd! (August 2010)</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you. Yeah, that&amp;#8217;s a strange way to start a text, but still. You, dear reader, are awesome. After all, you take the time to consume the output I create here, and that&amp;#8217;s great. And some of you even go on and click the &lt;a href="http://flattr.com"&gt;Flattr&lt;/a&gt; buttons I&amp;#8217;ve placed conveniently next to every article. Which is amazing. If you still have no idea what this Flattr stuff is, here&amp;#8217;s a very educational video about the whole concept:&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;So, how&amp;#8217;s that turning out so far? Since April, Flattr has earned me 7,74€, which makes me a net contributor, but that&amp;#8217;s completely okay - after all, this is more an experiment in online content payment and virtual gift economies than anything else. And I&amp;#8217;m still a small fry in comparison - &lt;a href="http://tim.geekheim.de/"&gt;Tim Pritlove&lt;/a&gt; has broken the &lt;a href="http://tim.geekheim.de/2010/08/02/flattr-der-dritte-monat/"&gt;1000€ barrier&lt;/a&gt; last month, and the German newspaper &lt;a href="http://www.taz.de/"&gt;taz&lt;/a&gt; earned &lt;a href="http://blogs.taz.de/hausblog/2010/09/01/flattr-einnahmen_erstmals_niedriger/"&gt;1302€&lt;/a&gt; in August. The average worth of a single flattr click seems to be between 20 and 25 cents right now - in my case, it&amp;#8217;s an average of 32¢ per click.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And Flattr is not only lucrative, but also inspiring - while looking for a good picture for this article, I stumbled about this &lt;a href="http://www.137b.org/?p=887"&gt;wonderful hack&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://www.agli-design.de/"&gt;@aaglii&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="http://www.137b.org/"&gt;@zeitweise&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.137b.org/?p=887"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.137b.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/fltr024.jpg" width="468px;" alt="Urban economy." /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In closing, this all makes me very happy. So here&amp;#8217;s me with a happy face:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kewagi/4114540540/" title="Zigarette danach by kewagi, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2503/4114540540_7a9c571a2c.jpg" width="468" alt="Zigarette danach" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>NetzNetz für Frischlinge.</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;30.000€. Das klingt nach viel Geld. Ists auch, wenn man es zum Verprassen hat. Hier geht es aber um etwas viel Profaneres, nämlich die nackte Existenz. Zwei dutzend KünstlerInnen, von denen 10 mit jeweils 3000 Euro nach Hause gehen können, buhlten gestern um die Stimmen eines Haufens staatlich validierter NetzkünstlerInnen - darunter meine Besonderheit. Dieser spaßige Gladiatorenkampf nennt sich 'Vergabewahl für Erstprojekte' und fand heuer zum ersten Mal statt - im spannenden wie schönen Kunstraum &lt;a href="http://mmooee.org/"&gt;mo.ë&lt;/a&gt; im kulturell relevanten Wien - Ottakring.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kewagi/4970974275/" title="moë by kewagi, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4970974275_7c26e11c42.jpg" width="468" height="468" alt="moë" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Der Gedanke hinter diesem neuesten Vergabemodell aus dem Hause &lt;a href="http://netznetz.net/"&gt;NetzNetz&lt;/a&gt; macht durchaus Sinn: KünstlerInnen, die noch nicht auf jahrelange Erfahrung mit der Fördereinreichung und ein gewaltiges Netzwerk blicken können, ein Nichtschwimmerbecken bauen, in dem sie ihre Projekte nicht gegen die Giganten und Platzhirsche dieser Stadt verteidigen müssen. 24 solche Einreichungen hat es dieses Jahr gegeben - ein guter Anfang. Es wären sogar noch etwas mehr gewesen, aber die Einreichregelungen waren etwas, wie soll ich sagen... schwer verdaulich. Kollege &lt;a href="http://polymatic.blogspot.com/"&gt;Thurner&lt;/a&gt; war zwar so gut, ein &lt;a href="http://qdk.blogsome.com/kooperieren/erstprojekte-leitfaden/"&gt;Howto&lt;/a&gt; zu schreiben, aber das hat wohl leider nicht alle Interessierten erreicht. Generell war alles recht chaotisch, als ich meine Stimmen abgegeben hab - der Beamer wollte nicht, die Veranstalter wankten in verschiedenen Stufen von Burnout an mir vorbei, und kalt wars. Trotzdem waren genug Menschen da, um von einem Publikum zu sprechen, und die 'Ersties' hatten Gelegenheit, mal vor Menschen, die einem nix schulden, das Präsentieren zu üben, und das ist extrem wertvoll. Also alles in allem ein schönes erstes Mal.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kewagi/4970846277/" title="NetzNetz Ersties by kewagi, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4108/4970846277_c28417400d.jpg" width="468" height="468" alt="NetzNetz Ersties" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Das Ergebnis wird wohl in den kommenden Stunden rausfliegen - wer um Kohle bangt oder sehen will, wo das Steuergeld grad hinfliesst, wird dann wohl &lt;a href="http://netznetz.net/wiki/Vergabewahlen_2010-09-08"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; fündig werden. Ich bin jedenfalls glücklich darüber, dass ein ganzer Schwarm meiner geliebten &lt;a href="http://digitalekunst.ac.at/"&gt;KommilitonInnen&lt;/a&gt; auf dem Stimmzettel zu finden war.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;P.S.: Scheiße, es ist wirklich kalt.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;P.P.S.: Die &lt;a href="http://netznetz.net/wiki/Wahlergebnisse_Vergabewahl_2010-09-08"&gt;Ergebnisse &lt;/a&gt;der Wahl sind Online. Immerhin 2 Projekte aus meiner Klasse haben gewonnen, und Busenfreund &lt;a href="http://niij.org/"&gt;niij &lt;/a&gt;hat den wohlverdienten 2. Platz bekommen. Interessant ist, dass mit  &lt;a href="http://netznetz.net/wiki/index.php?title=Einreichung_Vergabewahl_2010_Projekt_Kalliope"&gt;Kalliope &lt;/a&gt;ein Projekt den ersten Platz gemacht hat, das einen sehr starken Bildungs/Informations/Sozial-Fokus hat. Taugt mir.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Meeting a hero.</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;If you have any interest in, synthetic mind expansion, you will know &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin"&gt;Alexander Shulgin&lt;/a&gt;. He is, without a doubt, the most important psychedelic chemist alive, and on par with &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann"&gt;Albert Hofmann&lt;/a&gt;. Shulgin and his wife Ann gave the world hundreds of active compounds and were responsible for the first advent of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA"&gt;MDMA&lt;/a&gt;. Most, if not all of the so-called &amp;#8216;Research Chemicals&amp;#8217; that are currently flooding the world are based on his research. The Shulgins are legendary, and to this day continue with their work and research. &lt;a href="http://hamiltonmorris.blogspot.com/"&gt;Hamilton Morris&lt;/a&gt;, resident psychonaut of &lt;a href="http://www.viceland.com/"&gt;Vice magazine&lt;/a&gt;, had the honor of visiting the Shulgin residence with a camera team. The visit turned into, according to Ann, &amp;#8220;the last interview [Alexander Shulgin] will ever give&amp;#8221;, and it&amp;#8217;s fantastic. This took place a few months ago, but I just now found the video.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Now well in their 80&amp;#8217;s, the Shulgins are still working - their next book, &amp;#8221;&lt;a href="http://transformpress.com/shulginindexvol1.html"&gt;The Shulgin Index&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8221;, will come out in &lt;a href="http://transformpress.com"&gt;late 2010&lt;/a&gt;, and will the the first successor to their definite works on psychedelic phenetylamines and tryptamines, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHKAL"&gt;PiHKAL&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiHKAL"&gt;TiHKAL&lt;/a&gt;, both released in the 1990s. This is one book I&amp;#8217;m really looking forward to. Shulgin&amp;#8217;s works are not only porn for chemstry nerds - they  allow us a glimpse of a great mind that has seen and experienced things most humans wouldn&amp;#8217;t even dream about.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#8217;s hoping that the Shulgins will not only share their influence on modern psychochemistry with Hoffman, but also his biblical age - Albert lived to be 102.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>The revolution will be caramelized.</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The only thing that irks me about most makers, fabbers and other 3d printers is that they use &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylonitrile_butadiene_styrene"&gt;ABS plastic&lt;/a&gt; as the source material. Not because I'm against synthetic building materials, mind you - I love the stuff. But, you see, ABS is partially made from petroleum, and we'll eventually run out of that stuff. No more 3d printing? Fear not! The fantastic folks at &lt;a href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/"&gt;Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories&lt;/a&gt; have found a solution.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/3569296311/" title="CF6k by oskay, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2225/3569296311_dee48b73c2.jpg" width="468" alt="CandyFab 6000" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This thing looks like a normal extruder, and it prints 3d objects. But it uses sugar instead of plastic. Pure evil genius. And while using sucrose brings up some new problems in design ("OMG you just ate my phone!"), it shows the direction those things will go. The &lt;a href="http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page"&gt;RepRap&lt;/a&gt; people are working hard on building a fabber that can replicate itself. Add renewable source materials to this, and all we have to fix is the energy problem before we look at unlimited goods (until entropy pisses into our cheerios). And if you're skeptical about how to power all those shiny 3d printers, I have two words for you: &lt;a href="http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/power-from-potatoes/"&gt;Potato battery&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The CandyFab page has been a bit silent lately, on account of prototype testing and tuning, but the &lt;a href="http://wiki.candyfab.org/"&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; is quite active. Here's a nice video about this sweet machine, courtesy of &lt;a href="http://tv.boingboing.net/"&gt;BoingBoing Video&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Robots are stealing our jobs - finally.</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Chances are you&amp;#8217;ve heard of &lt;a href="http://www.foxconn.com/"&gt;Foxconn&lt;/a&gt; before. The Taiwan Electronics Manufacturing Services-giant is responsible for most electronic gadgets that land in the hands of Western consumers - among their customers are companies such as Apple, Dell, HP, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Since most of the production is based in China, working conditions at their plants have been criticized a lot - especially after a &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10182824"&gt;series of suicides&lt;/a&gt; among the workers. Foxconn reacted to this by doubling worker wages and relocating factories closer to their hometowns to improve social life.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The company CEO, Terry Gou, gave an &lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-09-06/foxconn-s-gou-cuts-long-term-sales-growth-target.html"&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/"&gt;Bloomberg&lt;/a&gt; where he adressed a lot of stuff - but one item really caught my eye. He&amp;#8217;s planning to erect a couple of new factories. What&amp;#8217;s special about them is that those factories will be  fully automated - no human interaction in the production process whatsoever. What sounds even stranger is the planned location - the United States of America.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shutupyourface/105782012/" title="Factory - Welding Robots by shutupyourface, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/105782012_34afa88961.jpg" width="468" alt="Factory - Welding Robots" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Here comes the really weird part: Instead of announcing layoffs, Gou stated in the same interview that Foxconn is planning to hire 400,000 new workers - bringing the total size of the workforce to 1,3 million. The full interview isn&amp;#8217;t coming out until next week, but I&amp;#8217;m guessing the plan is to automate manual labor, and move the human workers from deep- to light-blue collar jobs, maybe with specks of white. And that&amp;#8217;s what the whole industrial revolution should have been about.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;With projects like this one, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_fabricator"&gt;fabbers&lt;/a&gt; (3d printers designed for personal use) &lt;a href="http://makerbot.com/"&gt;popping&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page"&gt;up&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://fabathome.org/"&gt;every&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.desktopfactory.com/"&gt;fucking&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.candyfab.org/"&gt;where&lt;/a&gt;, it&amp;#8217;s pretty clear that fully automated production is not the future anymore - it&amp;#8217;s the present. This is no longer a question of technology - it&amp;#8217;s now one of politics. A large workforce in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_sector_of_industry"&gt;secondary sector &lt;/a&gt; is neither desirable nor necessary anymore. But as the last decades have shown, the service and post-service industries are unable to create enough jobs for all the people who are leaving the assembly line. Still, in our economic system, those people need some form of income or support - not only because of existential reasons, but also because someone needs to buy all that shiny stuff coming out of our automated factories. Overcoming this situation is one of the biggest economic tasks of our time - on par with overcoming last-century capitalism and adapting to the changes that globalization is bringing.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Since the concept of full employment is dead and gone, we&amp;#8217;ll have to think of something new. One possible solution would be a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee#Examples_of_implementation"&gt;basic income guarantee&lt;/a&gt;. This topic is very dear to me, but I won&amp;#8217;t get into it here - that&amp;#8217;s another article, one that I intend to write rather soon. So for now, let me just say I welcome our new robotic &lt;strike&gt;overlords&lt;/strike&gt; underlings.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>FLAMMA</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I love Ikea. &lt;a href="http://monochrom.at/ikea/"&gt;Really&lt;/a&gt;. And thanks to &lt;a href="http://helmutsmits.nl/"&gt;Helmut Smit&lt;/a&gt;, we now know that all those tea candles you end up buying every time you shop for a new bed or side table will burn brightly even in the post-apocalypse. He figured out a way to turn 25,68€ worth of Ikea goods into &lt;a href="http://helmutsmits.nl/design/flamma"&gt;FLAMMA&lt;/a&gt; - a working &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_drill"&gt;bow drill&lt;/a&gt;. Seems a bit expensive, but the drill is reusable, the price includes kindling, and it&amp;#8217;s unlikely that you&amp;#8217;ll have to pay for it after civilization has crumbled anyway. (via &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/timpritlove/status/23068732819"&gt;@timpritlove&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/chrismarquardt/status/23050557600"&gt;@chrismarquardt&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/best_ikea_hack_ever_starting_a_fire__17316.asp?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+core77/blog+(Core77.com's+design+blog)"&gt;core77&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/10322228?byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0" width="468" height="351" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;


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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <category>design</category>
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      <title>Passion Pit are great.</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#8217;ve listened to the soundtrack of my last article, you might have wondered, &amp;#8216;Who is the amazing band behind that song?&amp;#8217;. Or not. In any case, &amp;#8216;Little Secrets&amp;#8217; is one of the works of &lt;a href="http://www.passionpitmusic.com/"&gt;Passion Pit&lt;/a&gt;, a Bostonian Electropop Band. And because I find them fantastically awesome, here&amp;#8217;s a video of their song Sleepyhead. You&amp;#8217;re welcome.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <category>English</category>
      <category>music</category>
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      <title>Our dirty little secret.</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;audio style="width:408px;" controls autobuffer&gt;
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&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.passionpitmusic.com/"&gt;Passion Pit&lt;/a&gt; - Little Secrets&lt;/center&gt;


&lt;p&gt;Secrets are awesome. They make us feel special, they can be shared with others as a sign of respect or trust, and they are fun - well, except for the &amp;#8216;Dark secrets of my past&amp;#8217; kind, but nothing&amp;#8217;s perfect. And they can allow us to catch a glimpse of the inner mechanics of culture.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Any upstanding hipster knows &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala_chai"&gt;Chai&lt;/a&gt; - spiced tea. Add milk and you have Chai Latte. Then, one day, probably in the early 00&amp;#8217;s, someone had the genius idea of adding a shot of espresso to this.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kewagi/4959891756/" title="Dirty Chai by kewagi, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4959891756_f06b8ba1ba.jpg" width="468" height="468" alt="Dirty Chai" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This concoction is called dirty chai. Google has known the term since 2004, but it&amp;#8217;s probably a bit older than that. It was first introduced to my by &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/astera"&gt;Astera&lt;/a&gt;, who had learned about it from &lt;a href="http://blog.seanbonner.com/"&gt;Sean Bonner&lt;/a&gt;. During early 2008, &lt;a href="http://vienna.metblogs.com/2008/04/14/dirty-tea-time/"&gt;Team Dirty Chai&lt;/a&gt; was founded to introduce the concept to little old Vienna. Back then, when ordering a dirty chai, you had to explain the concept to the barrista and earn a strange look for ordering something so frankensteinian. Today, you can walk into pretty much every coffee shop in Europa that serves chai, order a dirty version, and get it without so much as a second glance. This is, of course, awesome.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So dirty chai is definitely no longer a secret, but if you haven&amp;#8217;t tried it yet, do so. NOW. It combines all the sweet and spicy deliciousness of chai with the mystical awakening powers of espresso.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Bonus points for ordering a &amp;#8216;Double Dirty Venti Soy Chai Latte&amp;#8217; - probably the longest order for a single beverage you can use. And, yes, I&amp;#8217;m fully aware that &lt;a href="http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=419"&gt;venti is not a real word&lt;/a&gt;, but &lt;a href="http://questionablecontent.net/"&gt;Coffee Of Doom&lt;/a&gt; still hasn&amp;#8217;t opened a franchise around here, or anywhere on the planet. Maybe one day.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>20 Jahre Verspätung.</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Seit gestern fährt die Nacht-U-Bahn in Wien. Das wurde auch Zeit. Die Bilanz: 63.000 Fahrgäste, 0 Zwischenfälle. Überraschung. Nachdem dieses System seit ewigen Zeiten in Berlin perfekt funktioniert, dürfte wohl niemand überrascht sein. Aber der Wiener ist ein skeptisches und ängstliches Tier, das die Nacht eher dämonischen Mächten denn der Erdumdrehung zuschreibt, und überhaupt sind ihm Menschen, die nach der ZIB 2 noch wach  sind, suspekt. Darum fährt in jeder U-Bahngarnitur ein Polizistenpärchen mit, um nach Recht und Ordnung zu schauen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kewagi/4919451796/" title="Ubahn by kewagi, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4919451796_e372e6299b.jpg" width="468" height="468" alt="Ubahn" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Mal abgesehen davon, dass die werten &lt;strike&gt;Oberförster&lt;/strike&gt; Exekutivbeamten definitiv besser eingesetzt werden könnten, ist diese Aktion wohl der finale Beweis dafür, dass nicht mal die Wiener Linien dran glauben, dass ihre Videoüberwachung irgendwas bringt. Ausgedacht hat sich diesen ganzen Schaß die Werte Frau Vizebürgermeistern - wer jetzt verwirrt schaut, darf beruhigt sein, die Renate Brauner kennt eigentlich eh keine Sau, was wohl an der Lichtgestalt Häupl liegen muss. Jedenfalls hat die gute Renate ihr &lt;a href="http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/2010/08/25009.html"&gt;Sicherheitskonzept&lt;/a&gt; für die Nacht-U-Bahnen perfekt für genau die Menschen gestaltet, die ohnehin nie mit der U-Bahn fahren, und schon gar nicht Nachts. Mir persönlich dreht sich der Magen bei dem Gedanken um, bei der Fahrt von Party zu Party jedes Mal ein paar Kieberern zu begegnen - und wohl nicht nur mir. Wie hat es der ORF so schön &lt;a href="http://wien.orf.at/stories/467408/"&gt;formuliert&lt;/a&gt;: &amp;#8220;Jeder Zug wurde von einem Polizisten-Duo begleitet, wobei Sitzplätze rund um den Standplatz der Exekutivbeamten eher gemieden wurden.&amp;#8221; Überraschung!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Aber ich will nicht zu laut käppeln. Denn durch die Nacht-U bleibt einem zumindest am Wochenende das Wunder Nachtbus erspart, und der birgt wirklich Risiken. Hypothermie etwa, oder Kotze am Hosenboden.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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