Jane Birkin's official website
Carla Bruni's official website
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Polish Chart Show
This feature is from Polish Radio, External Servic, presented by Peter Gentle.
MALOWANY CHLOPAK - Janusz Radek (Universal)
PARZYDELKO - Pustki (Pustki)
MIASTO BRZYDNIE - Pudelsi (Agora)
ALARM CYKLICZNY - Hurt (Luna Music)
BUDZIC SIE I ZASYPIAC (Z TOBA) - Dorota Miskiewicz (Sony BM
PO PROSTU PASTELOWE - Strachy Na Lachy (SP Records)
UCIECZKA Z WESOLEGO MIASTECZKA - Czeslaw Spiewa (Mystic
LESZEK MI MOWIL - Voo Voo (EMI)
KAZDEGO DNIA - Mesajah (Pink Crow)
ROSOL - Maria Peszek (Kayax)
W SPODNIACH CZY W SUKIENCE - Ania (Sony BMG)
The songs played in this week's show are listed below. Here's the link to the original webpage.
MALOWANY CHLOPAK - Janusz Radek (Universal)
PARZYDELKO - Pustki (Pustki)
MIASTO BRZYDNIE - Pudelsi (Agora)
ALARM CYKLICZNY - Hurt (Luna Music)
BUDZIC SIE I ZASYPIAC (Z TOBA) - Dorota Miskiewicz (Sony BM
PO PROSTU PASTELOWE - Strachy Na Lachy (SP Records)
UCIECZKA Z WESOLEGO MIASTECZKA - Czeslaw Spiewa (Mystic
LESZEK MI MOWIL - Voo Voo (EMI)
KAZDEGO DNIA - Mesajah (Pink Crow)
ROSOL - Maria Peszek (Kayax)
W SPODNIACH CZY W SUKIENCE - Ania (Sony BMG)
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Where's NASA's missing toolbag right now?
Find out where the toolbag is at this moment.
During STS-126 mission astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station to do repair work, but lost a bag of tools they had taken along. Capt. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper of the Navy, an astronaut on a mission to the station, was on the first spacewalk of the mission, which involves cleaning and greasing a balky rotary joint, when she discovered that a grease gun had erupted inside its tote bag. While she cleaned up that mess, the bag — containing two grease guns, scrapers and other equipment — floated irretrievably into space. NASA trains spacewalkers to tether and trap all objects they use, but it is not uncommon for the occasional bolt or single tool to be lost.
During STS-126 mission astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station to do repair work, but lost a bag of tools they had taken along. Capt. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper of the Navy, an astronaut on a mission to the station, was on the first spacewalk of the mission, which involves cleaning and greasing a balky rotary joint, when she discovered that a grease gun had erupted inside its tote bag. While she cleaned up that mess, the bag — containing two grease guns, scrapers and other equipment — floated irretrievably into space. NASA trains spacewalkers to tether and trap all objects they use, but it is not uncommon for the occasional bolt or single tool to be lost.
Figurines of World Leaders defecating
Check out this story and photos from The Telegraph...
The Santa Llucia Christmas market in Barcelona sells everything you could need for your nativity scene. Little statues of Joseph and Mary? Check. A little baby Jesus? Check. Donkeys, sheep and cows? Check. Defecating world leaders? You what?
The Santa Llucia Christmas market in Barcelona sells everything you could need for your nativity scene. Little statues of Joseph and Mary? Check. A little baby Jesus? Check. Donkeys, sheep and cows? Check. Defecating world leaders? You what?
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Pledge Drive show
Our radio station is in the Fall Pledge Drive, so there will be a bit more talk on the show today.
But also I'll finally air the interview I did with DJ Dunkelbunt at the Earthdance festival in mid-September. And a play some of his music, and some other Balkan inspired tracks, in particular from the Putumayo compilation Gypsy Groove, which is actually a pledge premium, yours with a $50 donation.
I'll have a couple of cute news items from the Czech Republic and some news from Sweden and Switzerland, plus a bulletin of world news from Radio Deutsche Welle.
Here's a link to one of the stories from Swissinfo, an indepth study of the campaign rhetoric in the U.S.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Today: Peter Fox of SEEED has a new album, we'll hear a couple of tracks. Check peterfox.de
Also, a new album from Thievery Corporation, more from Phenomden and Patent Ochsner from Switzerland, and some news and stories, and a chance to learn another Czech phrase.
Tune in at www.kmud.org
Thanks!
Looking for nice fall colors? Swissinfo has a slide show with some beautiful pictures.
Also, a new album from Thievery Corporation, more from Phenomden and Patent Ochsner from Switzerland, and some news and stories, and a chance to learn another Czech phrase.
Tune in at www.kmud.org
Thanks!
Looking for nice fall colors? Swissinfo has a slide show with some beautiful pictures.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Anti terrorism campaign in UK
"Thousands of people take photos every day," reads the advertisement being run in London's major newspapers. "What if one of them seems odd?"
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/04/london-cops-declare.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/05/remixing-the-london.html
Monday, December 24, 2007
Happy Solstice, Merry Christmas
I found this lovely seasonal picture today on boingboing.net, in an essay on Christmas in Serbia.Here's the link:
Monday, December 03, 2007
O mein Papa
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Trabant, Traband
The Trabant was a cheap car made in the German Democratic Republic. In German the car is known as Trabi, and it's now a collector's item. You can make your own (miniature) Trabant by downloading a file that you can print, cut, and fold. Here's the site: http://www.trabi-freunde.net/download.htm
Look for Trabant Bastelbogen near the bottom of the page, under the category "Sonstiges" (various). Or just click here to get the file "bastelbogen.zip"
Traband is a Czech Folk/Experimental group, featured on this week's Magic Carpet (from Radio Prague). They also have a page on Myspace where you can listen to a few samples.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
EuroBureau for May 30, 2007
A couple of fun items today that deserve an entry on this website.
First, from Radio Prague's "Magazine" is an item about the Czech prime minister visiting Pakistan.
Is that a Czech flag or a checkered one? Sometimes it's hard to tell. The controversial exhibition showcasing preserved human bodies is turning out to be a hit in Prague - and, a Czech student invents an automated fishing rod! Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
One of the diplomatic skills a prime minister needs to wield is keeping a straight face when one's hosts commit a gaffe. Now the Czech Prime Minister's manners leave a lot to be desired here in the Czech Republic - where he has been known to raise a middle finger at the opposition benches in Parliament, but abroad Mr. Topolanek is tact itself. On an official visit to Pakistan recently his motorcade went past large banners welcoming the Czech prime minister and sporting - wait for it - checkered flags - instead of the blue, red and white Czech flag. Obviously someone who was trying to ascertain what the Czech flag looked like misspelled Czech and got the checkered one instead. If the Czech Prime Minister noticed the goof he never lifted an eyebrow or cracked a joke. His hosts may have got the Czech flag wrong but the banners stated that the Pakistanis were praying for Czech progress and prosperity and like any well-mannered guest Mr. Topolanek acknowledged the spirit of good-natured hospitality. Moreover with a crucial vote on tax reform coming up, the Czech prime minister needs all the prayers he can get.
Here's the link to the Magazine website (of course the contents change each week, so look at it before June 2nd if you want to see the checkered flag).
From Insight Central Europe comes this item about an exhibition at the Bratislava City Gallery, it's called "The Pope Smoked Dope"
Switzerland's largest retailer Migros has been giving one percent of its turnover to cultural activities for the last fifty years. Here's the story on swissinfo. For instance, many of the music festivals held every summer throughout the country are partly financed by the "Kulturprozent".
While browsing swissinfo I found this image and link:
Listen to alphorn music and yodeling and classical music written with parts for alphorn, read up on alpine traditions, you can even create your own alphorn tune and send it to a friend. I think I may have to do a special about this site sometime soon.
We'll also have the last, the very last edition of "The Week Ahead" from Radio Netherlands.
And we'll include a commentary by Perro de Jong. He starts his talk with Bokito, the gorilla that broke out of his enclosure at Rotterdam's Blijdorp Zoo.
Last week we played some of the finalists in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki. If you want to know more about the artists, or the whole contest, check out the Eurovision website. In the Eurovision Shop you can listen to snippets of songs and buy the whole thing.
First, from Radio Prague's "Magazine" is an item about the Czech prime minister visiting Pakistan.
Is that a Czech flag or a checkered one? Sometimes it's hard to tell. The controversial exhibition showcasing preserved human bodies is turning out to be a hit in Prague - and, a Czech student invents an automated fishing rod! Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
One of the diplomatic skills a prime minister needs to wield is keeping a straight face when one's hosts commit a gaffe. Now the Czech Prime Minister's manners leave a lot to be desired here in the Czech Republic - where he has been known to raise a middle finger at the opposition benches in Parliament, but abroad Mr. Topolanek is tact itself. On an official visit to Pakistan recently his motorcade went past large banners welcoming the Czech prime minister and sporting - wait for it - checkered flags - instead of the blue, red and white Czech flag. Obviously someone who was trying to ascertain what the Czech flag looked like misspelled Czech and got the checkered one instead. If the Czech Prime Minister noticed the goof he never lifted an eyebrow or cracked a joke. His hosts may have got the Czech flag wrong but the banners stated that the Pakistanis were praying for Czech progress and prosperity and like any well-mannered guest Mr. Topolanek acknowledged the spirit of good-natured hospitality. Moreover with a crucial vote on tax reform coming up, the Czech prime minister needs all the prayers he can get.
Here's the link to the Magazine website (of course the contents change each week, so look at it before June 2nd if you want to see the checkered flag).
From Insight Central Europe comes this item about an exhibition at the Bratislava City Gallery, it's called "The Pope Smoked Dope"
Switzerland's largest retailer Migros has been giving one percent of its turnover to cultural activities for the last fifty years. Here's the story on swissinfo. For instance, many of the music festivals held every summer throughout the country are partly financed by the "Kulturprozent".
While browsing swissinfo I found this image and link:
Listen to alphorn music and yodeling and classical music written with parts for alphorn, read up on alpine traditions, you can even create your own alphorn tune and send it to a friend. I think I may have to do a special about this site sometime soon.
We'll also have the last, the very last edition of "The Week Ahead" from Radio Netherlands.
And we'll include a commentary by Perro de Jong. He starts his talk with Bokito, the gorilla that broke out of his enclosure at Rotterdam's Blijdorp Zoo.
Last week we played some of the finalists in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki. If you want to know more about the artists, or the whole contest, check out the Eurovision website. In the Eurovision Shop you can listen to snippets of songs and buy the whole thing.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Swiss Christian Party Attacks Eurovision Song
from swissinfo:
Christian fundamentalists are calling for Switzerland's Eurovision Song Contest entry to be banned because of its allegedly satanic content.
On Tuesday the Federal Democratic Union (FDU) handed in a 49,000-signature petition to the government condemning DJ Bobo's "Vampires Are Alive" as an affront to people's religious convictions.
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Christian fundamentalists are calling for Switzerland's Eurovision Song Contest entry to be banned because of its allegedly satanic content.
On Tuesday the Federal Democratic Union (FDU) handed in a 49,000-signature petition to the government condemning DJ Bobo's "Vampires Are Alive" as an affront to people's religious convictions.
more
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Guide to understanding rude Parisians issued
PARIS (Reuters) - You don't need to speak French to understand the Parisians. You just need to know how to gesture. Or so claims a new guide issued by French tourism officials to help foreign tourists understand Parisians with a list of commonly used gestures with meanings like "shut up".
"Blend in by using them the next time you're in Paris. People will start mistaking you for a native in no time," says the online guide issued by the Ile-de-France regional committee of tourism at www.cestsoparis.com.
Complete article from Reuters
"Blend in by using them the next time you're in Paris. People will start mistaking you for a native in no time," says the online guide issued by the Ile-de-France regional committee of tourism at www.cestsoparis.com.
Complete article from Reuters
Oslo hotel bans Cuban guests
January 5, 2007
Associated Press
Oslo — An Oslo hotel owned by the U.S.-based Hilton Hotel Corp. faced protests, a boycott and a police complaint this week after refusing to book rooms for a Cuban delegation because of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba.
The Cuban delegation, set to attend a travel fair in Oslo this month, planned to stay at the Scandic Edderkoppen Hotel in the city centre, as they had on five previous visits.
However, the 140-hotel Scandic company was bought by Hilton in March, and the Cubans were informed in December that they would have to find another hotel due to the American boycott.
On Friday, the 300,000-member Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees announced that it was boycotting all Scandic hotels in Norway, joining a wave of protests that started when the ban on Cuban guest became news on Thursday.
Associated Press
Oslo — An Oslo hotel owned by the U.S.-based Hilton Hotel Corp. faced protests, a boycott and a police complaint this week after refusing to book rooms for a Cuban delegation because of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba.
The Cuban delegation, set to attend a travel fair in Oslo this month, planned to stay at the Scandic Edderkoppen Hotel in the city centre, as they had on five previous visits.
However, the 140-hotel Scandic company was bought by Hilton in March, and the Cubans were informed in December that they would have to find another hotel due to the American boycott.
On Friday, the 300,000-member Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees announced that it was boycotting all Scandic hotels in Norway, joining a wave of protests that started when the ban on Cuban guest became news on Thursday.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Micheline Calmy-Rey elected Swiss President
Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey has been elected Swiss president for 2007, only the second woman to hold the office in the country's history.
The joint session of the two parliamentary chambers on Wednesday also named Interior Minister Pascal Couchepin vice-president.
Calmy-Rey will keep her foreign ministry portfolio when she takes over the ceremonial one-year post from Moritz Leuenberger, on January 1.
The 61-year-old Social Democrat received 147 votes (out of 192 valid votes), the poorest result in presidential elections for nearly 70 years.
However, she enjoys a high level of support among the public and regularly tops popularity polls for Swiss politicians.
more
Man-made tremor shakes Basel, Switzerland
from Swissinfo:
Drilling work for a planned geothermal power plant in Basel triggered a small earthquake on Friday that caused minor damage to buildings.
The canton Basel City prosecutor has launched an investigation to find if the company behind the Deep Heat Mining project should pay for repairs.
The tremor was felt shortly before 6pm and measured 3.4 on the Richter scale according to the Swiss Seismological Service. Normally, there are three or four earthquakes of this size annually in Switzerland.
Local police and fire departments received hundreds of phone calls from worried citizens, and some buildings suffered from cracks and broken tiles. Nobody was injured.
Basel is one of the areas in Switzerland most prone to seismic activity. In 1356, the city was almost entirely destroyed by a 6.5-magnitude earthquake.
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Drilling work for a planned geothermal power plant in Basel triggered a small earthquake on Friday that caused minor damage to buildings.
The canton Basel City prosecutor has launched an investigation to find if the company behind the Deep Heat Mining project should pay for repairs.
The tremor was felt shortly before 6pm and measured 3.4 on the Richter scale according to the Swiss Seismological Service. Normally, there are three or four earthquakes of this size annually in Switzerland.
Local police and fire departments received hundreds of phone calls from worried citizens, and some buildings suffered from cracks and broken tiles. Nobody was injured.
Basel is one of the areas in Switzerland most prone to seismic activity. In 1356, the city was almost entirely destroyed by a 6.5-magnitude earthquake.
more
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Too warm in your house?
Why not stay at the Ice Hotel in far northern Sweden?
from their website:
"Over the past seventeen years, we have built a new hotel of snow and ice every winter. It sounds like a fairy tale, but in fact, it is a dream – a dream turned into reality year after year.
ICEHOTEL is situated in the village Jukkasjärvi, 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. The heart and backbone is the River Torne flowing freely through the unspoilt wilderness. Covered with a meter thick ice layer winter time the river is the source of all our art, architecture and design. The pure water and the steady movement of the river creates the clearest ice possible."
from their website:
"Over the past seventeen years, we have built a new hotel of snow and ice every winter. It sounds like a fairy tale, but in fact, it is a dream – a dream turned into reality year after year.
ICEHOTEL is situated in the village Jukkasjärvi, 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. The heart and backbone is the River Torne flowing freely through the unspoilt wilderness. Covered with a meter thick ice layer winter time the river is the source of all our art, architecture and design. The pure water and the steady movement of the river creates the clearest ice possible."
A Christmas Goat?
from Radio Sweden:
A town north of Stockholm is hoping this year to protect its annual giant Christmas goat from vandals.
Every year the town of Gävle sets up a 13 meter tall version of the traditional straw Yule goat. And almost every year the goat has been destroyed, usually by fire, but once run over by a car, and another year having its legs cut off.
But for the 40th anniversary of the custom Sunday, local officials had this year’s goat doused in fire-resistant chemicals usually used on airplanes.
In the past, resourceful vandals have proved ingenious in outwitting guards and security cameras. Last year two vandals disguised themselves as Santa Claus and a gingerbread man and ignited the goat by firing burning arrows at it.
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A town north of Stockholm is hoping this year to protect its annual giant Christmas goat from vandals.
Every year the town of Gävle sets up a 13 meter tall version of the traditional straw Yule goat. And almost every year the goat has been destroyed, usually by fire, but once run over by a car, and another year having its legs cut off.
But for the 40th anniversary of the custom Sunday, local officials had this year’s goat doused in fire-resistant chemicals usually used on airplanes.
In the past, resourceful vandals have proved ingenious in outwitting guards and security cameras. Last year two vandals disguised themselves as Santa Claus and a gingerbread man and ignited the goat by firing burning arrows at it.
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