Diaspora core developer team’s recent email plea for donations has been getting bad response. Diaspora raised about $200 000 through Kickstarter a little over a year ago. Some people seem to think it’s just a scam that they are looking for some more money.
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Anti-capitalist protesters have been demonstrating at Wall Street already for 13 days. The group of protesters gathered on September 17.
“Occupy Wall Street” protests were inspired by the Arab Spring, particularly the protests in Cairo. Slow-news-day.net hasn’t found out any clear estimates on the number of protesters from the internet sources, but it would seem it’s at least hundreds. Read more »
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Although it doesn’t look as much, London’s museum ship Cutty Sark is to be opened to public in spring 2012. That’s at least what the Cutty Sark Trust promises.
The pictures by slow-news-day.net were taken from behind the fence in Greenwich London on the 7th of August. You can check out the better views from the picture diary on the Cutty Sark museum homepage. Read more »
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The terrorist attack in Norway has been linked to far right ideologies. According to annual terrorism report by European police agency Europol there were no right-wing affiliated attacks in EU Countries in 2010.
The same report (released in April 2011) tells us that “The professionalism of right-wing propaganda shows that right-wing extremist groups have the will to enlarge and spread their ideology, and still pose a threat in EU Member States.” Read more »
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How to ruin a heavy metal classic Fear of the Dark? Play it in a stadium bathing in hot summer sun. Read more »
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Life Before the Dinosaurs is a blog by Art, who’s seven years old. Art dictates the heavy paleontology stuff to his mom, who does the tedious work of typing. Read more »
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Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins, with Levin and Harrison
A Scarcity of Miracles (A King Crimson ProjeKct)
Is A Scarcity of Miracles friends tinkering or the new incarnation of prog rock band King Crimson? In the view of band’s legitimate self-skipper Robert Fripp, apparently something in between, because it is designated the genus of King Crimson ProjeKct. However, this project sounds to be a well-balanced band. Read more »
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There’s a new predator swimming in the waters of online music streaming, named Grooveshark. Similar to Pandora service offered in the US and Spotify that is only available in some European countries, Grooveshark is available around the world. The service launched in 2007 but after several development versions it began to grow rapidly during the past year. Read more »
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Last week True Finns party came out with their declaration against discrimination. Let’s take a look at the text first and then amuse ourselves a bit. Read more »
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Finnish web store selling army gear has put out a funny item, a Nazi Card. And now they’re temporarily out of them. Hilarious.
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