http://ultraorange.net madness, art and world affairs Sun, 04 May 2008 20:31:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 de 1. Click player below to start the music. [audio:Elena_Kats_Chernin_Elizas_Aria.mp3] 2. Click the image to also have a closer look at the lady. 3. Study for three minutes the picnic. I know it's rude - but I would label Maestro Fragonard as a horny Kitsch painter ... http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/jean-honore-fragonard-the-swing-1767/ "You can tell me - I was brilliant during phone sex - wasn't I?!" http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/stiff-as-a-telephone/ New Scientist: 'Sexy' voice gives fertile women away The pair recorded women counting from 1 to 10 at four occasions during their menstrual cycle. They then replayed the recordings at random to male and female students and asked them to rate the attractiveness of the voices. Both ... http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/i-can-hear-your-fertility/ We are all lazy to some degree - and there is a reason why laziness is a cardinal sin: it kills. But there is laziness and laziness. We all have to learn to enjoy ourselves without guilt. The art of slowness and enjoying life is not laziness - and ... http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/learn-to-enjoy-your-lazy-inner-pig/ I can perfectly understand why men in the Middle East go gaga about Haifa Wehbe. She is hot, a great singer and simply delicious (with some help of plastic surgery - which seems very popular in the Middle East). Is plastic surgery islamic? But as usual religious ... http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/haifa-wehbe-is-too-got-for-bahrain/ BBC News:  A 'George Washington' for Europe Starting next year the European Union will get it's first "head honcho" - some sort of President of the European Councils who resides over our endless squabbles about milk quotes and that the Poles are unthankful bastards. Too be honest I don't ... http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/who-is-going-to-be-the-king-president-of-the-european-union/ The year is 1921 and Margaret Gorman from Washington D.C. is the first Miss America. Compared to today's beauty standards she isn't very sexy: she lacks full lips, hips and tits. I guess back then people only cared for inner beauty and a good character?! I am sure ... http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/the-first-miss-america-wouldnt-win-anything-today-not-even-a-sausage/ The Chinese Politburo has certainly learned it's lessons from Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany: Counter-Propaganda is important. During the recent and ongoing protests against Chinese oppression in Tibet - the Politburo was busy sending it's own message on the streets and flooding threads in Blogs and on YouTube ... http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/the-chinese-politburo-is-busy-organizing-counter-protests-all-over-the-world-and-in-cyberspace/ When you are a genius you are a genius. No matter how big or small your capabilities are - you should stand out and not try to fit in. You always can "fit in" once you are dead. Social conformity is a pest to the excellence of the human ... http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/the-fitting-in-myth/ 1. Click player below to start the music. [audio:Imogen_Moore_De_Profundis.mp3] 2. Click the image to dive into outer space. 3. Study for four minutes our moon. Some scientific theories state that without our moon our days would have been too short to evolve life. Overall it ... http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/moonwatching/ Do we care about our TV animal celebrities only because we feel guilty for killing off the rest of the species? Do we watch and say to ourselves "See, they are not all gone!" Isn't mass illusion a nice thing to clear our collective consciousness? http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/the-polar-bears-are-not-gone-yet-i-just-saw-one-on-tv/ Every May Day the same procedure here in Germany: some wacky lefties battle the Police all night, small store windows, burn cars and scream stupid slogans. Sure the slogans have been updated to reflect the currently struggle against "globalization" - but I pity these ignorant fools. This kind of ... http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/may-day-stupidity-lets-smash-something-to-show-we-care/ I always have loved London - what a great city. When London reelected "Red Ken" as it's Major I was thrilled. But after eight years Londoners wanted to kick Gordon Brown for his miserable job and kicked out good old Ken and elected the weird 'Alexander Boris de Pfeffel ... http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/boris-johnson-the-new-major-of-london-please-say-it-aint-so/ You think you are the current top dog? Remember that there always is a bigger dog out there to get you. The only way to win this game is not to indulge in it's illusion of winners and loosers. http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/the-top-dog-myth/ Even when reality disgusts you - go outside and try to enjoy it once in a while - you might find some new aspect to hate or maybe even enjoy. http://ultraorange.net/2008/05/04/go-outside-and-have-a-life/ I am now an even older fart: 41 is the current count. Next year it will be 42 - a very special number for me and a billion other Douglas Adams freaks. http://ultraorange.net/2008/04/28/happy-birthday-to-me/ Just because more roads are built doesn't mean the traffic will run smoother. http://ultraorange.net/2008/04/27/the-traffic-planning-myth/ The Day after was one of the most influential TV dramas ever made. It shook the world - and even Presidents. It is the dramatization of WWIII and a ... http://ultraorange.net/2008/04/27/the-day-after-1983-a-painful-reminder-from-the-past-and-for-the-future/ BBC: A Tribute to Rumsfeld Donald Rumsfeld and his former Boss George W. Bush are the worst public speakers ever. The must me either related or suffer from the same disease. The BBC has some of the greatest moments from Rumsfeld's war press conferences in one painful and agonizing ... http://ultraorange.net/2008/04/27/great-rumfeldian-moments/ CNN: Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail  This is a typical high-tech non-story. If this guy simply would have called someone nobody would have cared. But because he used a high-tech gizmo suddenly it's a story. I think for causing such a stupid commotion he should be ... http://ultraorange.net/2008/04/27/twitter-yourself-into-fame-and-idiocy/