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Burdur'un aklimda kalan guzellikleri muhtesem Burdur-Aglasun yolu, yolun sonundaki Sagalassos Antik kenti, Burdur müzesinde sergilenen bu kente ait heykelleden ibaret. Askerlikten aklimda kalan guzellikler, bana ailemi ve sevdiklerimi gorme sansini vermesi, ve belki askerlik olmasa asla tanisamayacagim insanlarla tanismami saglamasi. Otesini ne siz sorun ne ben soyleyeyim.

... tam zamanı şimdi!

8 golü Anfield Road'da yasadim. Hakem 89. dakikada oyunu durdurmasa 9 da olurdu, 10 da olurdu. Ertesi gun havaalaninda gördügüm Besiktas'li futbolculara inanin hic kizmadim. Beni tribunde kahreden skor'u sahada bizzat yasayan adamlara kim olarak kizabilirdim ki? Futbol bloglarinda, arkadas sohbetlerinde sik sik kullanilan bir aforizma vardir. Fransiz dusunur Albert Camus der ki: "Ahlak ve zorunluluklar hakkinda ne biliyorsam, bunun cogunu futbola borcluyum" Pek cok konusulmayan, belki de gozden kacan sey Albert Camus'un bu sozu bir futbol seyircisi olarak degil, bir futbolcu olarak soyledigidir. Camus 1930 yilina kadar universite takimda kalecidir cunku. Takim olmak, basarmak, kaybetmek, yorulmak, takim arkadasina destek olmak, ona kizmak, antrenorun dediklerini yanlis bulsan da yapmak ancak yarismaci bir spor takiminin uyesi olarak edinilebilecek erdemlerdir. Halisahalarda haftasonundan haftasonuna mac yapmak degil bu bahsettigim. Kucuk veya buyuk bir takim...

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"Capitol Air" Allen Ginsberg Frankfurt-New York December 15, 1980 I don't like the government where I live I don't like dictatorship of the Rich I dion't like bureaucrats telling me what to eat I dont' like Police dogs sniffing round my feet I don't like Communist Censorship of my books I don't like Marxists complaining about my looks I don't like Castro insulting members of my sex Leftists insisting we got the mystic Fix I don't like Capitalists selling me gasoline Coke Multinationals burning Amazon trees to smoke Big Corporation takeover media mind I don't like the Top-bananas that're robbing Guatemala banks blind I don't like K.G.B. Gulag concentration camps I don't like Maoists' Cambodian Death Dance 15 Million were killed by Stalin Secretary of Terror He has killed our old Red Revolutionary for ever I don't like Anarchists screaming Love Is Free I don't like the C.I.A. they killed John Kennedy Paranoiac tanks si...

Diyarbakirspor - IBB maci sahaya giren Diyarbakir seyircisi nedeniyle 87. dakikada tatil edildi. Gecen hafta Bursa macinda olanlardan sonra Diyabakirspor'un ligdeki gelecegini ciddi ciddi tehlikede goruyorum. Bir sezonda 2 takimin ligden dustugu ligimizin marka degeri hakkinda bir iki laf etmek degil amacim. Sezen Aksu'nun harika deyimiyle " DNA’mıza kodlanmış bu ‘örtbas’ illeti " nedeniyle yine gecici cozumlerle gecistirilecek, bir kac suclu bulunup hali altina surulecek biliyorum Diyarbakirspor maclarinda vucut bulan travma. Bas bas bagiriyor, akli basinda futboldan anlayan her birey. Eger insanlarin baska yontemlerle insan haklarini aramalarini ellerinden alirsaniz, en kolay gidilebilecek, 82 darbesinin kirli kokulu ve kanli kollarinin tam anlamiyla uzanamadigi tek toplu gosteri sansi olan futbol maclari bu ve belki daha buyuk eylemlere gebe. Eger siz acilim yapiyor diyip secilmis baskanlari ellerini kelepceleyerek goz altina alirsaniz, ya da acilimi birakin, eski ...

A red helmet is not enough Michael. You also need a red car for a win .

If my ramblings about Battlestar Galactica, almost unanimous positive reviews and the awards it received haven't convinced you of the awasomeness of Battlestar Galactice, this Youtube clip must do the job. If this doesn't do the job, I suggest you try watching Young and Restless. Despite the action packed into 3 minutes from 4 seasons, I'd like to remind you that BSG is not a science fiction series. It is rather a political, personal, religious, legal, family drama set to a science fiction setting. Try it, you won't regret!

22 sene oldu hala bırakamadım :).

Dünya Kadinlar Günü ülkemiz ve dis temsilciliklerde tüm coskusuyla kutlanir, birbirimize cok sevdigimiz analarimizin erdemlerini, kimileri Atatürk inklaplarinin kadinlara getirdiklerini, kimileri Islam'in cehalet döneminde diri diri gömülen kizlari nasil kurtardigini birbirlerine anlatadursun, ülkemizin baska bir kösesinde gercekler anlatilarimizdan bagimsiz ilerlemeye devam ediyor. Birlesmis Milletler'in kadin erkek esitligi ile ilgili iki istatistiginde gururla 79. sirayi aliyoruz. Basbakan'in bir daha gitmem dedigi Davos'u düzenleyen Dünya Ekonomik Forumu'nun 128 ulkeyi kapsayan istatistiklerinde gururla 121 siradayiz, Fas ve Misir arasinda. Ayni istatistigin kadinlarin ekonomik katilimi ve firsatlari siralamasinda 119 politik katilimlarinda 109 siradayiz. Refleks tepkinin "ama kadin erkek esitligini olcmek oyle kolay birsey degil, hem bu istatistikler yanli" olacagini da hissediyorum. Degisik yontemlerin degisik sorunlari oldugu bilinen bir gercek ...

I got a hold of Philip Glass' fairly recent song cycle based on Leonard Cohen's latest poetry book the "Book of longing." I don't like the symphonic songs particularly, yet I found the album very satisfactory. I will need more time to enjoy the songs thoroughly, yet somehow I have got the feeling that Philip Glass' style of building complexity out of simple patterns matches very well with Cohen's meticulous way of re-writing of his poems, until he finds the perfect line. The website devoted for the book opens with the following lines: "I can hold in a great deal; I don’t speak until the waters overflow their banks and break through the dam. Thus I was able to delay this book well beyond the end of the 20th century. " I am very glad that the dams broke, and the waters reached Philip Glass' home in New York City. The opening song reminded me the creeping opening song "The Dead Flag Blues" from Godspeed You Black Emperor's album ...

... realy, they are very decent people... ... for Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to poop on! "...maybe it was made up by over-eager scientists, the same scientists who made up things like evolution and gravity." Unlike Triumph, these Congressman do believe in this. In the mean time, heres what the scientists think:

Please, please, please watch the Olympics. Watch Alpine skiing, if you wanna see athletic abilities couple with courage... Watch Ski Jumping, if you wanna see how mankind invented to fly without motors... Watch Skeleton, if you wanna see jet fighter pilots maneuvering without their jets... Watch Ski Cross, if you wanna see motor cross riders racing neck to neck without their bikes... Watch Biathlon, if you are into guns and ammunition... But most of all, watch Olympics to experience sportsmanship. The sportsmanship which makes the one who comes second runs to the first to share their joy... Professional sports? They can -at least during Olympics- kiss my a..

My first shot at German Harzer Käse. It is a sour milk cheese, which means all you need is Lactobacteria, which are abundant in milk already. One drains low fat, and I mean low fat %1, quark or cottage cheese, mixes with salt and baking soda, and wait 7 days for the bacteria to work their magic. Not bad for a first try. The salt was a little too much, still it was edible with walnuts, and would have made an excellent grating on Pasta alla Norma.

The disappointment I had after listening to my old favorites Massive Attack's new album Heligoland is beyond description. Take some oriental beats from Mezzanine, add a little bit industrial sounds from 100th Window, add a lot of popish tunes and you get this album. The only thing interesting about the album is the island that gives the name of the album. Check out the Wiki page . My other old-time, and as a matter of fact still one of my all-time, favorites Autechre are also back with a new album. Haven't yet listened to it. The sad thing is that they will have a concert in Berghain on the first day of my military service in Turkey...

Now the rovin' gambler he was very bored He was tryin' to create a next world war He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor He said I never engaged in this kind of thing before But yes I think it can be very easily done We'll just put some bleachers out in the sun And have it on Highway 61. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 - 1965

Jesus was a sailor, When he walked upon water...

There has been some talk in the secular/humanist blogosphere about the need for bringing the two great "magisteria" of human culture, namely the arts and sciences closer in the 21st century. I am not sure how possible this will be, especially after the usurpation of scientific methods by racist/fascist ideologies in the first half of the 20th century and the the reactionary "post-modern" zeitgeist prevailing in the arts world. What I know is possible is that an alternative set of two great "magisteria" can be brought together. I am talking about the culinary art and science. The French Chemist Hervé This has already taken few big steps in this direction. It all started one day when he was preparing cheese suffle. The recipe told one should add 4 eggs one by one. The Chemist in him told him that putting all at one should not be a problem. In the end, his hastiness spoiled the suffle. As a scientist, he set out to discover the scientific explanations for suc...

The biggest farce in the modern history, Copenhagen, also showed how little strength Europe has in the international arena. French/American International Economics professor has published a piece in Project Syndicate , which describes my point about European-Turkish relations very nicely. He argues that Europe needs Turkey, in order to be heard once more in the international stage. This article matches very well with this article published by Von Guy Verhofstadt, the leader of liberal wing in the European Parliament. He argued in his piece, again in the aftermath of Copenhagen, that Europe is bound to become the Switzerland of the world, if it continues on the track that it is going now.

Demokrasi'lerin sadece parlamento'dan ibaret oldugunu sanmak, daha dogrusu boyle oldugunu kitlelere empoze etmek, o kitleler uzerinde hegemonya kurmaya calisan yonetici sinifin bir yalanidir. Eger parlemento kitlelere acik degilse, ya da kitleleri temsil etmiyor ise kitlelerin ve kisilerin parlemento disinda haklarini aramalari onlarin temek insan haklarindan/odevlerinden biridir. Nazi Almanya'sinin yikilisindan 20 yil sonra CDU ve SDP bir koalisyon kurarlar. 2. Dunya savasi sonra yapilan anayasada olagan ustu hal ile ilgili maddeler yoktur. Muttefiklerin baskisi ile bu koalisyon anayasaya ek yaparak olagan ustu hallerde anayasal haklarin -iletisim ve seyahat ozgurlugu gibi- kaldirilabilmesini saglamak ister. Buna parlementoda sadece liberaller (FDP) karsi cikar. Parlemento'da kendilerini temsil eden hickimseyi bulamayan ogrenciler Parlemento Disi Muhalefeti kurarlar. Anayasa degisikli yine de kabul edilir, ancak bugun tum dunyada Yesiller partileri var ise bunun neden...