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Z'BRDA Z'DOLA · ours, together
ZBRDAZDOLA.COM RIDES AGAIN!
The webzine started in Gornja Stubica in 1998, carrying on from three issues of a paper fanzine, and closed in 2009, though everything stayed up on the web the whole time. Now it is back in new clothes, seventeen years on. read it all →
Darko Ciglenečki, 27 August 2026
coming up
- 7 Oct (Wednesday) LU JAKELIĆ - BOOGALOO, Zagreb + calendar + Google
- 7 Oct (Wednesday) NAZARETH - TVORNICA + calendar + Google
- 8 Oct (Thursday) SEINE - VINTAGE INDUSTRIAL BAR, Zagreb + calendar + Google
- 8 Oct (Thursday) KOSHEEN - TVORNICA + calendar + Google
- 8 Oct (Thursday) RUNDEK I EKIPA - KINO ŠIŠKA, Ljubljana (izdvojeno) + calendar + Google
- 9 Oct (Friday) FRAKTURA - online + calendar + Google
- 9 Oct (Friday) REPETITOR - Zabok, Regenerator - Ostalo u R. + calendar + Google
- 9 Oct (Friday) MILE KEKIN - TVORNICA + calendar + Google
- 10 Oct (Saturday) GRANDMASTER FLASH - THE FOUR ELEMENTS - Boogaloo, Zagreb + calendar + Google
- 10 Oct (Saturday) FUL KUL BUVLJAK + DJ TOMI PHANTASMA - Boogaloo, Zagreb + calendar + Google
radio
▶ listen live - their player, in a separate window Z'DOLA · MUSIC NEWS
events
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ROD STEWART - 22 June 2027, Pula, Arena. Rod announces yet another „final tour“, called „The Final Encore“.
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43rd FER Freshers' Party (Brucošijada FER-a) - the second wave of performers for the party on 7 November 2026 at SC adds: BUČ KESIDI, ZICER INC., TIDAL PULL, BEJBI MOTOROLA, PRIRODA I DRUŠTVO. Already announced: VESNA PISAROVIĆ, 30 ZONA, YOUNG BUDE, INSAN, MOLA.MOLA.
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ROGER WATERS - together with his son Harry Waters announces the tour “Roger Waters Presents LEGACY - A Pink Floyd Show.” The North American tour covers 58 dates.
Roger Waters Presents LEGACY ↗
klub
⌂ Regenerator, Zabok - the club programme Z'DOLA · FILM
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DUNE 3 - Cinestar announces the start of screenings for 17 December 2026 and says: „The finale of the trilogy brings a stronger, faster and visually more impressive spectacle. The story takes place 17 years after the previous chapter and throws us straight into the fateful rise of Paul Atreides - a man who is no longer just an heir, but the architect of his own, almost godlike destiny. An ancient plan grows into an obsession, and the road to ruler-superman becomes ruthless, brutal and inevitable. This is a story that pulses with darkness and tension - sharper, harsher and more dangerous than ever before. Pure spectacle leaning more towards a thriller, where every decision cuts deep and every betrayal echoes like an explosion. The finale of the trilogy - grandiose, epic and uncompromising, promises a larger scale, fiercer intensity and an explosion of events that changes everything we thought we knew. The new chapter of the saga doesn't just continue the story - it raises it to the level of myth.“
Z'DOLA · COLUMN
Director of Unrest
TV-philes spend the summer waiting for September and the new schedules of the national channels, the announcements of new (old) shows and series, and until then, now that most of us have the most time, on holiday - brother, mow through the repeats, and watch what you have already watched.
Z'DOLA · MUSIC
AMYL & THE SNIFFERS, Zagreb, Šalata, 8 August 2026.
Singer, shouter… Amy Taylor is a bouncy ball, Debbie Harry for this (new) age, the energy she has is unbelievable...
Some Mutts - filmed by Nino Ciglenečki 
Cave in the Arena: the worst gig I have ever been to
This is definitively the worst gig of my life, and not because of the performer (fifth time I have seen him; my mate Daniela will say - pfft, amateur!)
Moby at the Arena: one of the best concerts I've ever seen
A perfect summer day, the most beautiful concert space in Croatia, and a man who has reworked songs we've known by heart for twenty years so that they sound better than on the records. And then he played Heroes…
Porcelain - filmed by Nino Ciglenečki 
THE DAMNED - 11 July 2026 / Ljubljana / Kino Šiška
This was no mere nostalgia trip, nor did the band just professionally clock in and out - it was a pleasure in songs that marked some people's youth, and are only now marking somebody else's.
Z'DOLA · LITERATURE
news and events
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FRAKTURA - the next BookTalk with Ilija Jandrić is on 9 October 2026, streamed live online on YouTube and Facebook, and a day later as a podcast on Spotify, Deezeer, RSS, amazon.music. The guest is Milana Vuković Runjić, and the talk will be about Isabel Allende's book Vjetar zna moje ime (The Wind Knows My Name).
concert recordings
October 3, 2026 
October 3, 2026 
AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS - Hertz - Live @ Šalata, Zagreb, 8.8.2026. 
MOBY - We Are All Made of Stars - Live @ Pula, Croatia, 23.7.2026. 
Marilyn Manson - This Is the New Shit - Live @ Arena Zagreb, 16.7.2026. 
VLATKO STEFANOVSKI - Čuvam noć od budnih - Live @ Regenerator Zabok, 15.6.2026. INMUSIC 2026
Manic Street Preachers - You Stole the Sun From My Heart - Live @ INMUSIC Festival, 22.6.2026. 
Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This… - Live @ INMUSIC Festival, 22.6.2026. 
JACK WHITE - Steady, As She Goes - Live @ INMUSIC Festival, Zagreb, 22.6.2026. 
SPRINTS - Live @ INMUSIC Festival, Zagreb, 23.6.2026. 
GATUZO - Live @ INMUSIC Festival, Zagreb, 23.6.2026. 
THE FLAMING LIPS - Do you realize? - Live @ INMUSIC Festival, Zagreb, 23.6.2026. 
IDLES - War - Live @ INMUSIC Festival, Zagreb, 24.6.2026. 
KINGS OF LEON - Sex on fire - Live @ INMUSIC Festival, Zagreb, 24.6.2026. 
JEHNNY BETH - Live @ INmusic Festival, Zagreb, 23.6.2026. music elsewhere
listening to
Butthole Surfers After The Astronaut The Strokes Reality Awaits Big Thief Double Infinity Oxajo Još 9 sati do kao nekog mira Amyl and The Sniffers Live at The Croxton Puscifer Normal Isn't Marilyn Manson One Assassination Under God - Chapter 2 Seine Vreva Nemanja Voodoo Beat
Spotify only loads once you click.
listening and watching
Haustor Probudim Rundek & Ekipa feat. Marko Marić Rijeka All Them Witches Culling Line Michael Stipe & Andrew Watt I Played The Fool
YouTube only loads once you click. On a phone it opens the app.
Z'BRDA · TECHNOLOGY
fact checked
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SAFELY REMOVING USB - for decades we have been taught never to pull out a USB stick before clicking „Safely Remove Hardware“. more...
According to Microsoft's documentation, since Windows 10 version 1809 the default policy is „Quick removal“, under which Windows does not cache disk writes, so the device can be removed without that step, at the cost of somewhat slower performance. Anyone who has switched to the „Better performance“ policy still has to use safe removal, or risks losing data.
1 Oct 2026
Microsoft, default removal policy for external storage ↗
one interesting thing
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FIREFOX - on 29 September 2026 Mozilla unveiled a new look for Firefox 157, with refreshed colours, icons and themes that are now the same on desktop and mobile. more...
Compact mode, with smaller tabs and toolbar, is back, and the New Tab page gets a place for pinned shortcuts. Mozilla says the changes do not slow the browser down.
1 Oct 2026
Mozilla, the new Firefox design ↗
Euro-Office: a European office suite that speaks Microsoft's language
In March, European companies launched Euro-Office, an open office suite meant to reduce dependence on Microsoft. The sharpest criticism came not from Microsoft but from the people behind LibreOffice, and it is about the format documents are saved in.
Z'BRDA · SCIENCE
fact checked
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THE GREAT WALL FROM SPACE - it is said that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from space. more...
NASA writes that from low Earth orbit it is very hard to make out with the naked eye, because its colour and texture are almost the same as the ground around it: Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei did not see it, and the first confirmed photographs were taken by Leroy Chiao in 2004 with a 180 millimetre lens. From the Moon no man-made structure is visible at all, while cities at night, highways, airports and dams are easy to see from orbit.
1 Oct 2026
NASA, the Great Wall from orbit ↗
one interesting thing
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NASA - at the end of September 2026 the agency selected three new science payloads for its Moon base programme, to be carried to the surface by commercial landers of the CLPS programme. more...
One will monitor micrometeoroids, volatiles and moonquakes near the south pole, another will look for underground tunnels carved by flowing lava in the Marius Hills pit, and the third will measure ice hidden in small cold traps. The release gives neither contract values nor delivery dates.
1 Oct 2026
NASA, three new investigations for the Moon base ↗
One flash in a mine: have we finally caught dark matter?
A detector deep underground recorded a single flash that might be dark matter, and physicists rushed to explain it. The most interesting explanation got its first test within a week, and part of the answer came from the ice at the South Pole.
Z'BRDA · HEALTH
fact checked
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CRACKING KNUCKLES - parents warn that cracking your knuckles leads to arthritis. more...
A 2011 study by Kevin deWeber and colleagues, published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, covered 215 people aged 50 to 89 with hand X-rays: osteoarthritis was about as common among those who crack their knuckles (18.1 percent) as among those who do not (21.5 percent). The study is retrospective and cannot prove cause, but it found no link with hand osteoarthritis.
1 Oct 2026
one interesting thing
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CUTTING DOWN ON CAFFEINE - a randomised clinical trial on 109 adults, published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, confirmed that guided, gradual reduction significantly alleviates adverse symptoms such as anxiety and sleep disturbances. more...
Participants who used a six-week reduction manual decreased their average daily caffeine intake from 565 to 233 milligrams. Measurements recorded statistically significant drops in side effects and improvements in sleep quality without requiring direct clinical supervision.
14 Sep 2026
PubMed, the trial's abstract ↗
Why fat moves to the middle after fifty, and what actually shifts it
After fifty the body does not so much gain more fat as store it somewhere else, and the scale does not notice. We went through the large trials and kept only what somebody actually measured: what removes visceral fat, what only looks as if it does, and how much muscle really burns at rest.
Z'BRDA · LIFE
fact checked
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A GOLDFISH ATTENTION SPAN - you often hear that the human attention span has fallen from 12 seconds in 2000 to eight, less than a goldfish's nine. more...
In 2017 the BBC programme More or Less traced the figure to a 2015 report by Microsoft Canada, which had simply taken it from a website called Statistic Brain. The sources that website lists found no record of any such research, and psychologist Gemma Briggs of the Open University says an „average attention span“ depends on the task and is not measured that way. The goldfish is not to blame either: for decades scientists have used goldfish precisely to study learning and memory, because they do both learn and remember.
1 Oct 2026
BBC, More or Less on the attention span myth ↗
one interesting thing
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BALLMER INSTITUTE - on 23 September 2026 the magazine of the Association for Psychological Science described a University of Oregon programme that is the first in the US to train bachelor's graduates to work on children's behavioural and mental health. more...
Alongside their coursework, students complete 700 hours of supervised practice, and the first cohort graduated in spring 2026. Nevada in 2025 and Oregon in 2026 created a separate licence for them, so they work in schools, primary care and communities under the supervision of licensed professionals.
24 Sep 2026
APS Observer, training a youth behavioral health workforce ↗
The eternal now: why life always starts tomorrow
We wait for Friday, for the holidays, for retirement, and meanwhile life goes by. Harvard psychologists measured that we spend almost half our waking time somewhere else in our heads, and that it does not make us any happier.
Z'BRDA · MOUNTAINS
fact checked
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LIGHTNING NEVER STRIKES TWICE - it is said that lightning never strikes the same place twice. more...
The US National Weather Service says the opposite: lightning often strikes the same place repeatedly, especially tall, pointed and isolated objects, and the Empire State Building is hit an average of 23 times a year. The same service also knocks down two pieces of hiking lore: crouching in the open does not protect you, and being under a tree is the second leading cause of lightning casualties.
1 Oct 2026
one interesting thing
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HPS - since 28 September 2026 the Croatian Mountaineering Association's register of mountain trails can mark a trail as temporarily closed, for instance while fallen trees are cleared or the trail is repaired. more...
Such a trail carries a note with the reason in the register, and on the interactive map it is shown in grey instead of red, with a no-entry sign. The markings are entered by the Commission for Mountain Trails, and all closed trails are listed in one place.
1 Oct 2026
HPS, temporarily closed trails in the register ↗
Sljeme upside down: start at the top and the climb waits for you at the end
Going down the Bikčević trail first and coming back up the Leustek one sounds daft. The suffering of the final climb was real.
↑ 720 m 12.3 km 3 h 19 min moderately demanding
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