Fancy – Stop Wars Tee

One day I got curious. I wondered how many wars there were in the world on any given day. It took three days of phone calls to various important people and places (pentagon, war dept, peace center, and a final fax from a guy in Switzerland ) and given the criteria of at least a [...]

Folk music ain’t dead yet

Sometimes you think of Italy as this exotic place where people live for music, they hug each other a lot and they dance like wild… well, that mythology belongs to the past, but sometimes it comes back to life if you are lucky.. this is one of those fortunate events that can make you feel [...]

live-2-learn: zurich

See on Scoop.it – Music4All live-2-learn: “ zurich ”… See on mysodotcom.tumblr.com

The oldest of all European motorcycle manufacturer: Benelli Le Marche

Benelli was established in Pesaro Italy in 1911 making it the oldest of all European motorcycle manufacturers still operational today. Teresa Benelli, a widow, invested all of the family capital into the business hoping it would offer stable work for her six sons: Giuseppe, Giovanni, Francesco, Filippo, Domenico and Antonio. She also sent Giuseppe and [...]

Renovating a “rustico” in Le Marche: il Gelso

The following words will describe you how the story of a renovation has started in Le Marche. You are lucky and can take profit of others experience, click on the photo, and read how the adventure has progressed. Good reading. <<The 2nd of October 2011 will be our 30th wedding anniversary. On that day Peter [...]

Switzerland | Travel To The World’s Best Places

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Let’s travel to Switzerland, particularly its famous global cities Zurich and Geneva to indulge in the first and second highest quality of life in the world. This neutral and peaceful land is a landlocked alpine country nestled in the cocoon of central Europe. Though it is one of the richest countries [...]

When is the social curation bubble going to burst?

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards French startup Pearltrees just scored another $6 million to help scale up its social curation service that helps people save, sort and share what they find on the web. But with dozens of services in play, is this a bubble waiting to pop? You just can’t move for social curation services [...]

The 147 Companies That Control Everything

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have taken a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide and analyzed all 43,060 transnational corporations and share ownerships linking them. They built a model of who owns what and what their revenues are and mapped the whole [...]

Dare to Care – In Spite Of | Late Bloomers

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards This weekend I sell my products together with two English friends at the „Market on the Farm“, just outside Basel, my hometown. The farm is beautifully set in the countryside, with horses and red Angus grazing. The surrounding forest show off their leaves’ colour from yellow, orange and blazing red. The [...]