Charon's activity.log

The office you have always dreamed you can find in Austin, Texas. It belongs to Tocquigny interactive advertising agency. Flat clean surfaces, right angles, industrial look ... yum yum. Check yourself the pics.

According to NYT consumer index analysis the overall inflation between 2007 and 2008 was driven by gasoline, motor fuel, oil and quite surprisingly eggs with more than 20% increase! Wonder why paricularly eggs ...

Helvetica is 50. I like Akzidenz Grotesk a little bit more than Helvetica if I have to use one of these common, boring, uninteresting faces :] My other favourite fonts faces are Renault and Bitstream Vera.

Update!
RedHat has released new set of fonts that are metrically equivalent to the key Microsoft fonts like Arial, Courier New etc. Vivat Liberation!

1) Singapore (Singapore)
2) Copenhagen (Denmark)
3) Madrid (Spain)
4) Guangzhou (China)
5) Dublin (Ireland)
6) Curitiba (Brazil)
7) Berlin (Germany)
8) New York (U.S.)
9) Utrecht (Netherlands)
10) Vienna (Austria)
11) Warsaw (Poland)
12) London (United Kingdom)
13) Zagreb (Croatia)
14) Prague (Czech Republic)
15) Wellington (New Zealand)
16) Paris (France)
17) Stockholm (Sweden)
18) Ljubljana (Slovenia)
19) Tokyo (Japan)
20) Ottawa (Canada)
21) Harare (Zimbabwe)
22) Sofia (Bulgaria)
23) Taipei (Taiwan)
24) Cairo (Egypt)
25) Sana (Yemen)
26) Bucharest (Romania)
27) Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
28) Damascus (Syria)
29) Amman (Jordan)
30) Bern (Switzerland)
31) Manama (Bahrain)
32) Blantyre (Malawi)

Coverage at BBC and CNN.

Frilled shark which normally lives deep bellow the sea level (and thus very rarely seen alive) has been filmed.

Check it out.

Another Dekomunizace campaign:

Again, again and again ... not even a year from Czechtek, exactly a year from similar incident with protesters at communist 1st may celebration we have it again: 'Police smashed high director of the Government Office section for human rights while protesting against demonstration of neonazi Nation resistence'.

Coverage and very very illustrrative video of czech policemen 'proffessionality' at Britske listy.

Visited Kharl's blog and few other pages which were linked from it ... and got more clear picture on P. Cibulka & company as Kharl sympathises with it. But let's start debate on two quotations from the blog:

" Non-parliament parties representants did not get any opportunity to present their political opinion. " (regarding new TV political discussion)

Looks like a sort discrimination, right ? But what if I can get 1000 signatures to establish new political party, can I then blackmail TV to give me the air time as I would be non-parliament party then ? No, it is allright to show only something what is significant on TV as there obviously could not be shown everything. People have other ways how they can reach non-significant (in terms of media) parties. I don't ever want to see a debate in TV between Pravy Blok, Strana pratel piva, Balbinova poeticka strana & Nezavisla eroticka iniciativa :)

The other side is Pravy blok is actually not relevant to be presented in media either, because of talking the same stuff for 10 years. Why to repeat it again and again, that would be againts the basis of word "news". Could this be the reason why Pravy Blok gets no attention by media, couldn't it ? I remember many non-parliament parties related news in the newspapers, but none of them about Pravy blok. And by the way even to that particular debate was one of non-parliament partesy invited and was presented (besised one of the parliament parties wasn't presented!). Is this just a coincidence ... or is this the conspiracy of all those STB and KGB agents who control everything and who can't let the forces of good to win ? :)

" Voting preferences researches are one of the most efficient tools for election results manipulation. " (regarding Green party having huge growth of popularity)

This is quite cheap media blaming for Pravy Blok's chronical failure. Numbers in researches don't make the popularity. Communist party has 18%, but does this make other people to vote it ? Certainly not, this is not the way how it works. There are ideas and faces behind the numbers. And that's why Green Party has risen. And that's why Pravy Blok has failed. Green Party is a real alternative. Conspiracy, KSC, criminals everywhere, paranoia and behaving injured from anything is definitely not the real alternative simply, because almost nobody sees current situation similar way. I'm not saying all of their ideas are bad ... content is allright, but the form is an ultimate tragedy.

Just finished BBC's Global energy quiz and found out in the result I have to sort my energy out :) I had only 3 right.

I wanted to buy a danish product just as a political act (I don't think Denmark will be harmed by middle east countries boycott), but I didn't remember any danish brand besides Lego. So we searched o the Internet and ... probably the easiest way would be to buy Lurpak dairy product.

This is my opinion on row:

1. Muslims don't know how it works in western democracies - They don't know the government has no influence on what newspapers print. At least no direct influence but only the influence through laws. And that is the way to defend ... the law, not embassies burning and violence.
2. Reaction is hypocritical - As mentioned by Die Welt and others, arab newspapers and TV stations publish similar cartoons with jewish or christian themes for the long time. They say Quaran prohibits taunting other religions, but obviously they follow it. And what about mr. Ahmadinejad saying there was no holocaust ?!
3. Free speech - We are in Europe (or Denmark) and no law prohibits cartoon making here. So we don't have to care about any Muhammad or whoever portrait ban.

So support Denmark ...

Looks like CT24 is getting better and better. And it is definitely putting fresh air into stale situation on czech media scene. I was glad to see the new programme called Side effects with news paper editors, experts and viewers interative discussion about latest topics. I missed this type of relation.

More and more newspapers reprint the cartoon as free speech defense Europe-wide ... France, Spain, Italy, Netherlads, Germany etc. Definitely very good point from Die Welt: "The protests from Muslims would be taken more seriously if they were less hypocritical. When syrian TV brodcasted a show portraiting rabbis as cannibals in prime time, the imams were silent."

As announced before BBC Czech section closed down yestarday :((( Check its 67 years history here.