Belgrade, Serbia

Belgrade, Serbia

Serbia decides to build its virtual self

Looks like we decided to cut the crap with the real world and enter the virtual one. Ministry of Diaspora together with Marketing Srbija magazine bought a piece of land in virtual world called Second life, an advanced social network service allowing you to choose the looks of your virtual

Belgrade Mayor Dies

As the discussion continues on the hate speech that occured in the Parliament of Serbia, today when I turned on my PC to read the news, a very sad thing has shocked me. The mayor of Belgrade, mr. Nenad Bogdanovic, has died after a long illness. I think that for

Parliament Wars, Episode I: The Gypsy Menace

INTRODUCTION: B92.net->English->News Insults bring parliament session to halt 25 SEPTEMBER 2007 | 16:59 | SOURCE: BETA BELGRADE—Today’s session of the Parliamentary Board for Kosovo was marked by a heated argument between its two members. Marko Jakšić of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and Vladan Batić of the Christian Democratic

Applied Nostalgia

Recent visit to Yahti.com reminded me of a great exhibition opened in Belgrade on 14th of September in Progres Gallery – Primenjena nostalgija, Applied nostalgia in English and Nostalgia Aplicada in Portuguese. For those of you who can’t make it to the exibition en vivo in Belgrade or Lisboa, there

Vlade Divac’s farewell party

The stage has been set and the party marking Vlade’s farewell from professional basketball is about to start. Unlike many famous sportists who just make a farewell game and maybe donate some amount of money to their favorite charity upon their retirement, Divac has something else in mind. He has

Ratko Mladic: the sitcom

Director: Uros Tomic, Writer Pavle Vuckovic, music and animation: LoOney (thx Sasha for sending the link) Hm, I still don’t know exactly what to think about this. First of all, I like that the authors are clearly implying about governments involvement in hiding Ratko Mladic. Bold and provocative statement coming

Serbian developers discover serious security breach

Some time ago, Serbian Ministry of education decided to give parents the access to information on their kids’ school grades. What they did was basicaly allowed every parent who applied to get a code and then log on to an online secure portal where they could see just how much

Fighting signal with noise: Turbo Folk Idol

Turbo folk music is all about creating noise, not so much the incredibly trashy sound, but in it’s very core and essence. It is designed to destroy brain cells more effectively than most advanced weapons today, without harming the natural environment, pretty much like the new Russian vacuum bomb. We

Fighting Noise with Signal: Military drills

Last week there’s been a lot of noise in Belgrade. First, there was a Military academy students central celebration in front of the state parliament building. I object to joining the army as much as the next guy, which means I don’t. To paraphrase the words of the great Bill

Basketball is bad for our health

Another ‘sports’ section post that has a little to do with sports. National assembly of Serbia recently decided that they don’t want to hold sessions if the national TV doesn’t broadcast their work live. Yesterday they were supposed to disscuss the signing of the Kyoto protocol, after Croatia, Bosnia and


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