BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Pope hits out at consumer culture also see ”Crimes of fashion”
Pope Benedict XVI has attacked popular culture and consumerism in a formal address to tens of thousands of young Roman Catholics.
The pontiff also warned that natural resources were being squandered, in the speech in Sydney, Australia.
The pope is visiting the [...]
Plato: For the greater good.
Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.
Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner [...]
”Oshare-Kei” is a sub-set of Visual Kei that began to appear in Japan around 2001. Oshare means “stylish” or “fashionable”. (the literal translation is “fashion conscious”) Visual Kei is a music genre that began in the late 1980s and was popular during the Japanese “Band Boom” of 1988 - 1998. It was the vocalist of [...]
Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical
discovery inspired millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died.
He was 102. Hofmann died Tuesday at his home in Burg im Leimental,
said Doris Stuker, a municipal clerk in the village near Basel where
Hofmann moved following his retirement in 1971. For decades after LSD
was banned in [...]
Shibuya-kei is a sub-genre of Japanese pop music which originated in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. It is best described as a mix between jazz, pop, and electropop. The word for Shibuya is suffixed with the Japanese word kei, meaning “affiliation”, to form Shibuya-kei, which roughly translates to “Shibuya style”.
Initially, the term was applied to [...]
Wood is highly ecological, since trees are a renewable resource. If you cut down a tree, another will grow in its place. And if you cut down the new tree, still another will grow. And if you cut down that tree, yet another will grow, only this one will be a mutation [...]
Donkey owners in the Kenyan town of Limuru are up in arms over an order from the municipal authorities that their animals must wear nappies.
The council said the measure would come into effect on 16 July to ensure the town’s streets are kept clean. But recent press coverage and outrage from the town’s residents has [...]
Verlede Woensdag het ek vir ‘n vinnige dop na die Bohemian gegaan, Soos dit maar gaan met die tipe van ding drink ek vir Huyser Burger en Angola Badprop raak.Die twee was reeds ‘n hele klomp dubbel brandys en coke sterk to ek by hulle aansluit.
Die gesprek het gegaan oor die nuwe Halloween movie wat [...]
