London landmarks

After having produced its take on the suppository (that bluish skyscraper behind the London Tower), and on the Ferris wheel, now London flaunts a traumatic, post-apocalyptic interpretation of the roller coaster called the Mittal tower or something like that. Why has the most beautiful city in the world turned so cheap? Was it the influence of Disney theme parks? Or wanting to imitate the French in their obsessive quest for "la grandeur"? But I do like the Shard.

science

such people still condition the lives of millions =

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjeHOxN7s-o&feature=related

lady gaga

I don't care if lady gaga had to cancel her show in Indonesia.
I don't care if madonna is growing old.
I don't care if rihanna makes a new video tube or whatever.

Nordman---Ännu glöder solen

The beginning

. . humanity, there is no doubt, is becoming constantly “better.” . . .  Europe’s fate lies right here—with the fear of man we also have lost the love for him, the reverence for him, the hope for him, indeed, our will to him. A glimpse at man nowadays makes us tired—what is contemporary nihilism, if it is not that? . . .We are weary of man. . . .

(On the Genealogy of Morals - A Polemical Tract by Friedrich Nietzsche, I,12. From Johnstonia, http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/index.htm)