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This and that/Vermischtes

am 09.11.2006 von Transblawg

A combination of a lot of work interspersed with photography walks in between has led to a pile of photos of Fürth and not much else. Since that is not the main purpose of this blog, here are a few things other people have been doing:

Céline reports on Phil Gyford’s beginner’s guide to freelancing with links.

languagehat presents an orthographically defective Financial Times article about the German Idiotenapostroph (known to me as the Deppenapostroph). Good pictures at www.deppenapostroph.de

A video of an elephant seeing itself in a mirror is linked in this New Scientist article (via rebecca’s pocket). Stranger than seeing oneself in a mirror for the first time: these elephants may see themselves once and never again, I suppose.

The Times (Water Cooler) reports on Mark Herrmann, The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law, quoting him on the Blackberry:

Whenever a group of people meets, two acts of rudeness now routinely occur. First, people not only receive, but take, and talk on, cellphone calls. Second, Blackberries buzz and people type responsive messages. We did not tolerate this flagrant disrespect in the past century, and we should not tolerate it in this one.
Incredibly, I have heard people say that they won’t buy a BlackBerry because BlackBerries make people rude; BlackBerries make people stop paying attention at meetings. I have news for you: Guns don’t kill people; people kill people.

I think it’s time someone invented the Raspberry.

Handakte WebLAWg reports that a fourth Act to repeal outdated provisions has been passed in Bavaria. Here it is, and …

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