Magazine Rack - Issue 149
am 23.01.2008 von Handakte WebLAWg
You might enjoy:
* Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker: Love and politics in France
* Radley Balko in Reason: How do we ‘fix’ the inherent problems with elections?
* James Sterngold in Mother Jones: …
Software for less plain English
Transblawg / The program WhiteSmoke will ‘enrich’ your English. The demo on the site shows how you can start with a simple sentence like ‘I admire your work’ and finish with a strangely un-English one like ‘I greatly appreciate your…
Magazine Rack
Handakte WebLAWg / Steve Chapman in Reason: Armed and dangerous? James Kirchick in Stand Point: Barack Obama, isolationist Charles Leadbeater in The Spectator: The web is the most conservative force on Earth Stuart Taylor Jr in Newsweek: The truth about torture Quelle:…
German politics in English
Transblawg / Wortfeld, usually a German-language blog, has an entry in English describing the background to Schröder’s announcement of autumn elections. There are a large number of links. As Alexander rightly says, the coverage of German matters in the…
“BlawgWorld 2006: Capital of Ideas”
Handakte WebLAWg / With pride I would like to announce the release this morning of “BlawgWorld 2006,” the first in what is promised to be an annual series of “e-books” comprising the best of the blawgosphere, brought to you by our friends at Tec…
Mothers Day/Muttertag
Transblawg / Today is the fourth Sunday in Lent and so it is Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday in Britain. I wasn’t aware of that, nor that in Germany and American Mother’s Day is on 8 May (and 29 May in France)....…
PodcastUser Magazine, Issue two
Handakte WebLAWg / Issue two of PodcastUser Magazine is here bringing you articles for podcasters, listeners and everyone in between. Be sure to subscribe to the feed to receive each issue as it’s released. Quelle: podcastusermagazine.com vom 1.3.2006 (45 S. PDF)…
Transference and translation / Übertragung und Überstellung
Transblawg / The six members of Zoes Ark convicted in Chad and returned to France to serve their sentences cause legal problems since they presumably cant do forced labour in France. They also cause language problems, since the term transfèrement (accordi…
Podcast User Magazine Issue #8
Handakte WebLAWg / Podcast User Magazine issue September 2006 is available now. In this issue we look at: The Podcast & Portable Media Expo in California, which we are pleased to be attending, why not drop by and say hello. Quelle: Podcast User Magazine vom 31.8.2…
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