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How to help the people in Burma

May 11th, 2008

With the Myanmar military regime refusing the open its borders to humanitarian aid, it’s difficult to know how to help. This might be one way:

Avaaz is raising funds for the International Burmese Monks Organization, which will transmit funds directly to monasteries in affected areas.

In many of the worst-hit areas, the monasteries are the only source of shelter and food for Burma’s poorest people. They have been on the front lines of the aid effort since the storm struck. Other forms of aid could be delayed, diverted or manipulated by the Burmese government–but the monks are the most trusted and reliable institution in the country.

This sounds as if it might work, so if you want to help the people suffering the cyclone’s aftereffects, check out Avaaz.

Free 100% legal music

May 5th, 2008

- You can get Nine Inch Nail’s latest album, The Slip, from their website here.

- Coldplay are sharing their new song ‘Violet Hill’ here.

- Jonathan Coulton has a good number of his songs available for free here (just look for the smiley faces).

- And the Fingertips blog is always good for legal downloads as well.

Follow me…

April 23rd, 2008

In order to keep track of my online activities, I’ve set up a Tumblr account where I’ll link to my travel log updates as well as anything else of interest. I’ll probably also use it as a blog-type thing once I’m back home.

> Tumble with me!

New Panic at the Disco album

March 18th, 2008

Pretty. Odd. (including weird punctuation, despite Panic having dropped the ‘!’ in their bandname) is just what the title says, especially if you expected something similar to its predecessor (which was one of my favorite and most-listened to albums of 2006). Instead you get a crazy mix of styles and instruments, whirling through the past 100 or so years of music, every song markedly different. And boy, do I love it! Because they kept what I enjoyed most - the sense of fun, of whimsy, and lyrics that make you want to actually listen. Oh yes, I’ll be bopping along to this CD for a long time…

For your listening pleasure:
Behind the Sea: www.sendspace.com/file/0j4cw4
From a Mountain in the Middle of the Cabins: www.sendspace.com/file/urdfmb

Album will be in stores March 25.

Lifesaver…

March 15th, 2008

I finally found a plugin to handle the thousands of spam comments that had completely flooded my moderation queue - many thanks, Bluetrait!

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Listening to: Oingo Boingo - Weird Science
via FoxyTunes

Music from ‘The Bubble’

January 29th, 2008

Just watched The Bubble, a movie by Israeli film maker Eytan Fox - beautiful, it shows the life of young people in modern Israel and Palestine by telling a love story between two young men, one an Israeli from Tel Aviv, the other an Arab from Nablus.

It also has a great soundtrack, including one of my favorite Bright Eyes song and covers by famous Israeli singer Ivri Lider:

Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life (video):
www.sendspace.com/file/40ash6

Ivri Lider - The Man I Love (video):
www.sendspace.com/file/b74ch3

Ivri Lider - Song to the Siren:
www.sendspace.com/file/nnr5j0

Enjoy! :)

2007 - a mix by Evamaria

December 21st, 2007

I had iTunes create an automated playlist of all tracks I had added in 2007. Then I went through the 2000+ files, picked the ones that had a special meaning (and fit onto 1 CD) and put them in chronological order. They’re not all newly released, but they’re (mostly) new to me and I love them for different reasons. I hope you’ll like them, too! :)

cover/playlist

[full size cover] [94mb .zip with all files + cover and .xml]

Tracklist with individual links on Sendspace and explanations:

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Leaving for New Zealand

October 15th, 2007

In four days I’m leaving Switzerland for about a year (return date hasn’t been set yet). First I’ll spend two weeks in California, visiting my friend Bronwyn near San Francisco, then it’s back to school in Wellington, New Zealand. You can follow my adventures abroad on my brandnew travel domain (which includes a blog, of course), InForeignParts.net.

Bye bye for now! :)

Free Burma!

October 4th, 2007


Free Burma!

Free Burma

October 1st, 2007

From here, International Bloggers’ Day for Burma on the 4th of October.

About “Free Burma!”

International bloggers are preparing an action to support the peaceful revolution in Burma. We want to set a sign for freedom and show our sympathy for these people who are fighting their cruel regime without weapons. These Bloggers are planning to refrain from posting to their blogs on October 4 and just put up one Banner then, underlined with the words “Free Burma!”.

Take part in this action for a Free Burma!

Taking part in the Free Burma! campaign is as simple as possible:
If you are a website owner or blogger you just have to post one entry on the 4th of October 2007 on your website/blog with the title/text Free Burma! and include one of the graphics from this page or from our Flickr group to sync our global voices. Please use the tag “free burma” if possible. For bloggers, our slogan is: “One blogpost for Burma”, for website owners: “One text for Burma”.

If you have no website or blog we need you even more: Please help us to spread the word while commenting on other blogs with our message/link, posting on forums, guestbooks and message boards, tell your neighbours, friends or kids and first of all: Sign our list of participants! Furthermore you can visit our Wiki for more information and organisation.

Further links:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/t.php
http://www.bpf.org/html/whats_now/2007/burma_peace.html

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