No ‘tyrants’ anymore.
According to the Guardian, a British recruitment firm got into a bit of trouble with the UK’s advertising watchdog because one of its radio ads features an apparently German boss whose spoken German reminds of Charlie Chaplin’s.
read onThat Special Gift For That Special Someone.
Need a really cool gift for Valentine’s day… 2010? Check out this amazing offer from mydays.de – book yourself on a spacefllight for only 210,000 Euros!
read onFalling in love, 21st century style (mostly for mice).
According to Spiegel Online (link in German), GenePartner, a Swiss company, is actually offering to match people based on their DNA structure since last July.
read onFrom your tv to your White House.
The NYT’s Brian Stelter looks at some interesting similarities between the last two seasons of “The West Wing” and the current Presidential campaign in the US – Following the Script – Obama, McCain and ‘The West Wing’
read onSad guys on the trading floor.
There are a lot of them, these days. Check out the photolog. Hat tip to fefe.
read onSarah Palin is simply scary.
You know, back in 2000, I said that Americans were so confident in their way of doing things that they actually believed they could afford someone like the current President to be in charge. Now, a couple of years later, they may no longer be too confident about the situation they find themselves in, militarily, […]
read onPrime Minister’s Question Time
If you haven’t already, watch Jon Stewart embarrass Tony Blair in a 10 minute interview.
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Updated: Oddly enough: Mount Isa, Queensland, edition
I’m the last person to deny that demography can be an important variable in social developments. Sex ratios in particular seem to be an important aspect.
read onOddly enough – Brothel offers customers gas rebate
Personally, I hate the whole voucheritis that has infected Germany over the last couple of years. I get why marketing departments love them, and yes, if I worked in one of them, I’d probably be infected as well.
read onKaum zu glauben: 419-spam funktioniert immer noch.
Kaum zu glauben, aber laut heise.de-news trotzdem wahr – “Nigerianische E-Mail-Betrugsmasche zieht immer noch“
read onIs France a country?
I’ve watched this clip, but I’m still not sure it’s for real…
read onWhen will they ever learn?
Just seen on nytimes.com while checking the latest primary results – Arizona Weighs Bill to Allow Guns on Campuses – Horrified by recent campus shootings, a state lawmaker proposes that allowing adults to carry concealed weapons might deter future incidents.
read onOddly enough: Foreign policy on sex-change surgeries in Iran edition
People are stoned for adultery in a country, where, according to foreignpolicy.com’s blog “more sex-change surgeries are performed … than in any other country except Thailand.
read onOddly enough: Hungarian toilets edition
I suppose no one of you, gentle readers, will be able to deny that the internet has immensely increased humanity’s ability to deal with boredom. Whenever we’re not exactly sure how to productively spend our time, or aren’t willing to do so for some reason or another, we no longer need to stare at empty […]
read onMore on British sex (or the lack thereof)
Today, Reuters offers a possible, yet likely unrelated, explanation for the NHS’s attempts to help her majesty’s citizens to ‘sexercise’ sufficiently. According to the news agency “half of UK men would swap sex for 50 inch TV.” According to a survey of 2000 Britons, conducted by the British Electrical retailer Comet, asking what they would […]
read onHer Majesty’s Government recommends “sexercise”
According to this article on BBC online, the British National Health Service, NHS, is trying a new way to make people enjoy preventing illnesses rather than having to pay to cure them later.
read onHy-po-cri-sy…
naja, mittlerweile dürfte sich die Schreibweise bei den Republikanern wohl herumgesprochen haben… SPIEGEL ONLINE – Toilettenaffäre: Sex-Skandal zermürbt Republikaner Und ausgerechnet in dieser Woche machen sowohl Jon Stewart als auch Steven Colbert Urlaub…
read onEs gibt nichts, was es nicht gibt…
Mal wieder bewiesen – in den unendlichen Weiten des Netzes gibt es wohl wirklich nichts, was es nicht gibt – via Xonio.de – Woah: Traumfrauen stöhnen IP-Adressen Auf der Internetseite moanmyip.com kann der Besucher sich seine IP-Adresse vorstöhnen lassen. Wird die Nummer in den vorgegebenen Textkasten eingegeben, liest eine scheinbar in Ekstase verfallende Frau die […]
read onLife, Stranger Than Fiction.
In yesterday’s IHT, Choe Sang-Hun tells the story of Renate Hong, a 70 year-old woman from Jena, (East-)Germany, who married a North-Korean student in 1960, yet has not seen her husband for 46 years. Like all other North-Koren students in the GDR, Renates husband Hong Ok Geun had to return to North Korea after some […]
read onMutterliebe?
SPIEGEL ONLINE berichtet über ein ausführliches Photointerview, das die ehemalige Geliebte von Bundeslandwirtschaftsminsiter Horst Seehofer, Anette Fröhlich, der BUNTE gegeben hat. Fröhlich und Seehofer haben eine gemeinsame Tochter, die im Juni zur Welt kam. Daß sie “‘tief getroffen und verletzt’ über die Art und Weise ihrer Trennung” (laut Interview per Telefon) ist, ist durchaus verständlich. […]
read onStrafmaß als Indikator relativer Bekanntheit?
Spiegel Online informiert uns darüber, daß auch Nicole Richie, die vermeintlich ehemals beste Freundin und “Simple Life” Kollegin von Paris Hilton, wegen Fahrens unter Drogeneinfluß eine Haftstrafe abbüßen muß – allerdings keine 23 Tage sondern nur 90 Stunden. Angesichts der Tatsache, daß die Haftstrafe Hiltons nach Auskunft von Rechtsexperten wohl aufgrund ihrer Bekanntheit nicht schon […]
read onTragikomisch. Bittersüß. Zielgruppengerecht.
Eine offensichtlich ernst gemeinte Kontaktanzeige an einem Schwarzen Brett, die zumindest die Aufmerksamkeit meiner Kamera auf sich zog.
read onUnder The Bridge
Attending two friends’ beautiful wedding yesterday, I realised that the Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ “Under The Bridge” isn’t really the most appropriate song to be played right after the rings have been exchanged…
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