Looks like Lula from Brazil is the new hero. More than a 100000 people in Davos and protests against the war finally starting in Germany too. The churches are getting active and Goldie Hawn said something on TV. It's strange how much the Germans and the French love each other right now. They should go out together more often! When they had their 40 years of friendship-party the other day you could see them standing in the rain in front of the Dome in Paris. They were soaked, but they stood together. Those idiots! The Rolling Stones will play their first free show ever since 33 years ago on February the 6th in Los Angeles. They wanna protest against Bushie and his politics considering the climate. Associated Press reports, the First Meeting of 9/11 Commission Will Be Closed to the Public "Aides to the commission's chairman, Republican Thomas H. Kean, and vice chairman, Democrat Lee Hamilton, said the panel will convene privately in Washington on Monday." And The Guardian (London) found out that "the US military has drawn up detailed plans to secure and protect Iraq'soilfields to prevent a repeat of 1991 when President Saddam set Kuwait's wells ablaze." A lot of secret talks going on!

a lot of discussion about the new model which salon.com is using. In an open letter, salon.com had to say: "You can pay our low subscription price (as little as 5 cents a day) or you can click through a multiple-screen advertisement. " It sounds reasonable. I wonder whether it works.

The Bloggies 2003 can be found here! I love the Bazima Chronicles from Brooklyn!

Heart First Records I was out drinking, watching socer and finally winning the glorious, glorious quiz-game at the Intertank where I also met Flo of Heart First Records. Looks he's still around doing the same great little record-label.

-Lotus-Milk-com is a beautiful site consisting of poetry and pictures. Even the basic-version shows how can you still do art on the web without doing something big and flashy. -The boys of Propagandhi linked me and we're already counting the visitors from over there. So, there must be some true fans of glorious progressive trash out there. By the way, if there's one thing that Propagandhi can't do (and there is a lot that they CAN do!), it must be playing soccer. Some interesting talk going on about a very special tour I can't talk about yet, but it would be a killer! -For some reason I downloaded this ballad about this guy who died on 9/11(MP3 / 1.2MB). It gave me the creeps! failureispossible.com has it up.