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Free Books
Ruth Klüger's first book about growing up in an antisemitic society Who doesn’t want freebies? Most of all, free books? In this time of high prices and recession one after another it is nice to know that the city of Vienna is going to distribute 100,000 free books for the masses. The program...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Demonstration Friday Afternoon At the VIC
It’s fun to be sealed inside of one’s work compound because of a demonstration! Or should I say that UN organization employees in the Vienna International Centre didn’t get to leave as early as they had planned on Friday because security services closed Gate 1 due to a protest. But the...
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Published a month ago

The zombies are back
Just a short reminder. Saturday is Day Zero. Be aware. The zombies will be back. October 18, 2008: Meeting: 12 noon @ Brut Theater Karlsplatz for getting zombie make-up. And 3 PM the zombies will hit the streets and walk/crawl over to Stefansplatz. More info
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Published 2 months ago

Edward Hopper in Wien
For a moment let’s forget that yesterday was the Austrian election. Everyone in Austria and, perhaps, the whole world are waiting what’s gonna be the possible outcome. The People’s Party has a new head in the name of Josef Pröll. The right-wingers are praying that they are gonna be in the...
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Published 2 months ago

The Mustache (Part 3)
He is back! Seen along the Margaretengürtel, Fifth District, the last of the series. The Jörgi is back. He has promised he would only go to Vienna if the Austrians made him their chancellor. Your choice. Tomorrow is Election Day. So go out and vote my dear Austrian friends.
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Published 2 months ago

The Mustache (Part 2)
Somewhere in the 22nd District, the mustache touch on the Socialist Party.
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Published 2 months ago

Time Travel On 8 Bits A Day
Jason Scott will talk about time travel. A special kind of time travel: “8 Bits A Day”! Computer History, once a somewhat strange idea, has now taken the world by storm; a magazine or newsletter merely has to dip their ladle into the piles of nostalgia and older images of computing technology...
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Published 3 months ago

A Personal Journey Towards Datameaningfulness
Rachel Lovinger will give a talk at metalab about a “Personal Journey Towards Datameaningfulness”. Everything you could possibly want is out there, and soon it will all be digitized. The problem isn’t whether it exists, it’s how you find it. This is the challenge that has plagued the...
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Published 3 months ago

The Mustache (Part 1)
The world's stereotype view of Austria, along the Gürtel The Mustache and the Freedom Party leader HC Strache Once there was Hitler, an Austrian-born naturalised German who tried to rule the world, and his (in) famous mustache. That everything evil embodies him and his facial hair. That if they...
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Published 3 months ago

Taugshow #16!
++TAUGSHOW #16++ Divine Special (Paraflows 08 festival special) Wednesday, September 17, 2008 / 8:00 PM @ Metalab, Vienna We are not allowed to talk about the special guest hosts… yet! But who are our guests? /// TREVOR PAGLENTrevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer...
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Published 3 months ago