raises and waves with hands!!! I wanna know, what blogs you read!!!
me, 98% out of 100 non-LJ blogs are about software and web2.0 stuff :D unless you like to turn into a software hobby tester like me, I don't think, they are that interesting to you!
but for political and other stuff, currently the site I follow, has two awesome debates , that I follow:
Blueprint for power The German feuilletons spent the spring debating the relationship between architecture and morality.
After a visit to the Beijing Olympic Stadium by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Guido Mingels, writing for Das Magazin on 25.04.2007, described Bejing as an "Elysium for star architects." De Meuron told an interviewer that it would be stupid and cowardly not to build for China on the grounds that it has no democracy. Albert Speer, the son of Hitler's architect, who has years of experience building for China including the planning for two car cities, Antin near Shanghai and Chanchun, took an apolitical stance in the TV magazine Kulturzeit on 24.05.07: "I think of architects in general and our office is particular as service providers. (...)
Notes on a post-secular society Both religious and secular mentalities must be open to a complementary learning process if we are to balance shared citizenship and cultural difference. By Jürgen Habermas
A "post-secular" society must at some point have been in a "secular" state. The controversial term can therefore only be applied to the affluent societies of Europe or countries such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where people's religious ties have steadily or rather quite dramatically lapsed in the post-War period.
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Date: 2008-07-06 06:48 pm (UTC)I wanna know, what blogs you read!!!
me, 98% out of 100 non-LJ blogs are about software and web2.0 stuff :D
unless you like to turn into a software hobby tester like me, I don't think, they are that interesting to you!
but for political and other stuff, currently the site I follow, has two awesome debates , that I follow:
Blueprint for power
The German feuilletons spent the spring debating the relationship between architecture and morality.
After a visit to the Beijing Olympic Stadium by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Guido Mingels, writing for Das Magazin on 25.04.2007, described Bejing as an "Elysium for star architects." De Meuron told an interviewer that it would be stupid and cowardly not to build for China on the grounds that it has no democracy. Albert Speer, the son of Hitler's architect, who has years of experience building for China including the planning for two car cities, Antin near Shanghai and Chanchun, took an apolitical stance in the TV magazine Kulturzeit on 24.05.07: "I think of architects in general and our office is particular as service providers. (...)
http://www.signandsight.com/features/1721.html
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Notes on a post-secular society
Both religious and secular mentalities must be open to a complementary learning process if we are to balance shared citizenship and cultural difference. By Jürgen Habermas
A "post-secular" society must at some point have been in a "secular" state. The controversial term can therefore only be applied to the affluent societies of Europe or countries such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where people's religious ties have steadily or rather quite dramatically lapsed in the post-War period.
http://www.signandsight.com/features/1714.html
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or sightandsight has linked summaries to cool other countries articles:
The Disadvantages of
an Elite Education
Our best universities have forgotten
that the reason they exist is to make
minds, not careers
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.html
from this issue:
http://www.signandsight.com/features/1718.html