We went to the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull preview a week ago. Good thing is, they didn’t fsck it up. Even better is, I really enjoyed it. Good movie. Just the end wasn’t that thrilling. Missing some tension, some action, some story, some content… or maybe it just had too [...]

I stumbled over the material for the last post after stumbling over The 9 Manliest Names in the World.
It’s been resting in my session tabs for so long, I can’t even begin to imagine how it got there. Great site, though. But why am I not on the list above? At least my middle name [...]

… as we know it… more or less. You know, it’s hard to keep track with all the world ending scenarios out there. And we get so many new one’s all the time. Anyone remember the Y2k crisis? I still wonder how we survived that. Well, for anyone who can’t get enough of the end [...]

Now that’s a strange title you might think. In German it’s called “Feinstaubplakette”. Some time ago, particle pollution through fine particles (Feinstaub) became the new media hype to alert and thrill the masses. Fine particles where everywhere and of course everyone was suffering. And while the discussion of the subject ain’t new, some rules are.
We [...]

Lauch oder Porree? Schornstein oder Kamin? Reicht’s oder langt’s jetzt? Wo ist der zu gewinnende Blumentopf geläufig? Und wie nennt man eigentlich das Stofftuch zum Naseputzen in anderen Teilen unseres Sprachraums?
Diese und weitere Fragen klären die Erhebungen im Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache (AdA) von den Germanistikern der Uni Augsburg. Hochinteressant.

There are thousands of lists out there, that show how one particular word/phrase is spoken in another language. Like happy birthday and other boring stuff. But there are others as well. Original ones. I’d say the most important one is JUST COWS.
Which reminds me of the days, when I was more into esoteric programming languages. [...]

Saturday, some major organisations combined their power to call out people for the “Licht aus!” (Lights out!) campaign. Coming right from down under and based on “Earth Hour” is another campaign following the current climate protection hype. It’s simple. Turn off your light and other unnecessary electric devices for one hour… Well, not exactly. Instead [...]

I really like Open Source. No, I love it. Most of the applications I use on a daily basis are Open Source. Not that I’m a very active member or developer of the community, but the spirit behind Open Source is just great.
Free software… free as in free speech, not as in free beer. Well, [...]

I remember, several years ago, Junkie and I were collecting songs about rain. We had one to two dozen at some point. Now, the other day, I stumbled on this site. Boy, compared to that, we were just a bunch of hacks.