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September 28, 2009

voter turnout

Turnout of voters during the recent elections in Germany. (source)

Map of Federal German States in 1957. Blue = West, Red = East
(source)
Harambee, harambee, tuimbe pamoja… yeah, right. WTF.
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September 24, 2009

on knife sharpening

I assume that about 99% of all knives and pangas sold in Kenya are Made in China. The remaining 1% are probably imported kitchen knives and/or multitools from the US and Europe.
Everyone who owns a knife probably knows that a dull/blunt knife is almost useless, so there’s a knife sharpening service available in most places [...]

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September 8, 2009

#youknowyourKenyan

A Twitter meme, started by Alen Wekesa (@iAlen), a Kenyan resident in Tanzania, on how to know you’RE Kenyan.
In chronolocigal order, just because some of them are so true. Incomplete, mixed-up list as of 08. September, lunch time, RTs (re-tweets) not included. Enjoy + pls feel to add some more, either via a comment or [...]

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September 6, 2009

How do you say FRESH in Kiswahili?

CARAVAN RECORDS presents – Mzungu Kichaa ft Professor Jay and Mwasiti
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September 1, 2009

3x 3G modems

I recently bought a new notebook (HP 6930p) and made sure it also comes with extra antennas (next to the WLAN antennas on top of the display) so that I could install a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN, pictured below) adapter which I had to buy separately.

HP un2400 wwan adapter on the HP 6930p
The [...]

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