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Zum Glück habe ich letzte Woche nachts um 5 noch den Fernseher angemacht, sonst wäre mir dieses Gespräch mit Eugen Drewermann, den ich bis dahin noch gar nicht kannte, entgangen.
Thema der Sendung: Wer liebt und leidet in uns? Es geht um “die großen Themenstellungen der Menschen: Tod und Liebe, Verzweiflung und Angst, Vertrauen und Hoffnung, Suchen und Scheitern”, Drewermann spannt einen riesigen Bogen und trifft.
 
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The marriage of reason and nigtmare that has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambigious world. Across the communications landscape move the spectres of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermo-nuclear weapons systems and soft-drink commercials co-exists in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudo-events, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century – sex and paranoia. [...]
J.G. Ballard, Introduction to Crash, 1995

I recently discovered pandora.com. Its ist really WOW.
Enter a song/band name and the flash based player starts streaming in 128 KB/s quality.
The player then determines a similiar song which comes next.
By rating the songs thumbs up/down your “style” of music is refined and the next song chosen accordingly.
Its really really great to discover new music. And its not mainstream music!
You can also share “radio” stations. I just started one with Chemical Brothers