June 2009
15 posts
The House that Tweets
via news.bbc.co.uk Use Twittter to minimise your energy costs. The house that tweets - bizarre but interesting. Posted via web from wahlberlinerin’s posterous | Comment »
Google’s Tangible Profile Promo: Business Cards
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If piracy is wrong, why does it feel so right? -...
When it comes to culture, says Myra Tawfik, a law professor at the University of Windsor, “we expect it to be accessible to us in the most convenient and easy way possible.” And if that access proves to be too expensive or onerous, consumers have demonstrated few misgivings about grabbing culture wherever they can. That desire has dovetailed with the “free culture” movement, whose advocates...
“I just saw how many times I called you last night. You’re welcome.”
– texts from last night
Revealed: the environmental impact of Google... →
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May 2009
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“Vereinzelt wurde der Wunsch nach einer Umkehr typischer Geschlechtsmuster in den...”
– aus der Evaluation der Unirep-Veranstaltungen bei Prof. Singer.
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“Hex hex!”
– Bibi Blocksberg
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“If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of payments.”
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“Das Automobil ist eine vorübergehende Erscheinung, ich glaube an das Pferd.”
– Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Jeder sechste Pastor bezweifelt Existenz Gottes →
Jeder sechste Pastor protestantischer Kirchen in den Niederlanden zweifelt laut einer Studie an Gott oder leugnet sogar seine Existenz. [..] Bei jüngeren Theologen bis etwa 35 Jahren bestanden einer Umfrage zufolge demnach deutlich weniger Zweifel an Gott als bei Pastoren zwischen 55 und 65 Jahren [..]. Sieben von zehn Befragten gaben an, dass sich ihre Beziehung zu Gott seit Übernahme ihres Amtes...
2008 Election Maps of the US Presidential Election →
Most media outlets covering the 2008 US Presidential Election used the familar red/blue map to track the progress of the race as results from the polls rolled in Tueday evening. Here are several of those maps, in some ways as similar to each other as they are varied.
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“A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are for.”
– William Shedd
Adventures in Voluntary Simplicity →
Follow along as a former highly-paid lawyer gives up a life of material comfort and unencumbered excess, and embraces the beauty and freedom of simple happiness.
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In Self Defence
Objection! Overruled! Order! Order in the court… I’ll not have disruptions or noise of this sort! I plead not guilty your honour, oh please see sense! I admit I killed Cupid but in self defence It wasn’t an accident, I meant him to die! That nasty little naked brat of the sky. He thought he could get me, he thought I would fall Or that I’d sit around waiting for someone to call. Your...
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