Writers rooms / Schriftstellerarbeitszimmer
am 03.05.2007 von http://transblawg.eu
In the Guardian
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Prince William on German TV/Prinz William im Programm
Transblawg / I was surprised too when German public TV will be having live coverage of Prince William's graduation parade at Sandhurst tomorrow morning, as was Daland Segler in the Frankfurter Rundschau: Klagen über das miese Fernsehprogramm gehen stets
How judges secret Da Vinci code was cracked
Weblawg.de / ... Dan Tench is a lawyer who writes on media issues for the Guardian. Here he describes how he became the first person to crack the secret message hidden within Mr Justice Peter Smiths judgment on the Da Vinci Code case, which pitted author Dan Bro
Things in the road/Gegenstände auf der Fahrbahn
Transblawg / I’ve mentioned hearing on the radio, ‘Es kommt Ihnen ein Fahrzeug entgegen’. I haven’t mentioned ‘Zwischen X und Y fahren Sie vorsichtig - es sind Gegenstände auf der Fahrbahn’. Ladungsverlust.de tells you w
Adopt a German word/Werden Sie Wortpate!
Transblawg / At wortpatenschaft.de you can adopt a German word that is threatened by extinction: Werden Sie Wortpate! Beschützen Sie ein deutsches Wort und übernehmen Sie dafür die Verantwortung: Entwickeln Sie das Wort weiter, pflegen Sie es, h&u
No room to swing a cat / Kapselhotel in London
Transblawg / The Guardian reports that a Japanese-style capsule hotel has opened in London. It’s the easyHotel. The figure of £5 per night has been bandied about but is not correct: The rooms start from £20 a night and are booked...
Lawyer-novelists in Britain and the US
Transblawg / ‘The case of the missing writers. America has John Grisham and Scott Turow. But why have so few British lawyers made it as novelists? Marcel Berlins investigates’ appeared in the Guardian on October 5 (via Isabella). Berlins lists about 1
Überbee
Transblawg / CNN reports: A 13-year-old New Jersey girl making her fifth straight appearance at the Scripps National Spelling Bee rattled off “ursprache” to claim the title of America’s best speller on prime-time television Thursday night. Kat
Haftung für Einträge in Internet
Handakte WebLAWg / Immer mehr Internetauftritte privater wie kommerzieller Natur bieten heutzutage Diskussionsforen, Gästebücher oder Chat - Rooms an. In diesen virtuellen Räumen – zu denen mitunter mehrere tausend Teilnehmer angemeldet sind - werden alle erdenkli
Enid Blyton
Transblawg / Ingmar Greil links a Welt article about the bowdlerization of Enid Blyton books, which at least in the German-speaking world is not commonly known of (I think I must have missed the news myself too). The occasion for the new reports is a biography of
HP 6: OK, so who dies?
Aktenvermerk / (No spoilers below, safe to read.) Even lawyers read Harry Potter. Heck, there even is a lawyer named Harry Potter. So I got my hands on a copy If you want a good summary of the plot of Harry Potter and The Halfblood Prince, with a few harmless sp
Charles & Di mug conversion kit
Transblawg / Convert your Charles & Di wedding mug into a Charles & Camilla wedding mug - instructions at the anti-monarchy site Throne Out. Found in the Guardian newsblog, which has entries on Charles & Camilla memorabilia. Another entry shows an Asd
House of Lords upholds Human Rights Act
Transblawg / Yesterday, the House of Lords held that imprisoning foreign terror suspects without charging them or trying them is against the European Convention on Human Rights. (Independent - Guardian) Here’s the text of the judgment. Curiously, not a day
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