… even without the twin towers and despite the collapse of Lehman’s investment bank New York seems still to be the place. It is something different that gives this city the flavor. And 9-1 has added something heroic to the city.

Source: rocketboom

From Vienna, litlle wooly biest gets ready for its trip to Hawaii.

From Amberg, Norbert Huber, Biest Athlete of the first moment, at the Powerman in Zofingen, 9th place overall. He is a tough biest, congratulations.

My plan was to withdraw for three days to get our website done. But the conditions made me flee the place. I felt displaced, couldn’t focus. 

I came back the same day after a car drive of almost 8 hours, friends say that I’m crazy. This might well be the case in this case

Birds are brilliant brains. For decades science underestimated them. Analyzing their brain, they badly misjudged it. The massive forebrain and cortex they interpreted as stem ganglia, a brain structure and formation that may not allow more than a vegetative state of being. How wrong we have been. How wrong may we still be in our judgment of other beings. The paradigm of Darwin’s pyramid makes us blind and arrogant. Listen to Einstein’s talk. Einstein gives us all reasons to reconsider our position.

Einstein, the African grey parrot, has a vocabulary of more than 200 words and sounds; she can perform nearly half on cue. At least, this is what we know about her, perhaps there is much more than that.