Ever wondered what the legal situation regarding internet traffic data retention by ISPs and governmental access is in EU countries? Don’t look further, saveprivacy.org has a note sent by the general secretariat of the EU council to the EU’s Multidisciplinary Group on Organised Crime (MDG) that outlines the current legal situation as well as possible future projects with respect to traffic data retention.
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Trading Bush-Shares.
Ever wanted to short sell a few Condis and find out what the price for three-month Colin-Caps is? Spiegel Online reports that Paris-based American expat Andrew Geiger has initiated the American Action Market, a trading platform that will (intentionally) provide insights into the actions and decisions of the US government. The idea is modeled after the US Department of Defense’s now withdrawn idea of a Policy Analysis Market. (link to story)
Saban Again.
Hollywood Producer Makes 2nd Bid for German TV Group (from the NY Times Deal Book)
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France Telekom offers a service to access the French Minitel system from the Internet in order to ease some 20million citizens’ transition to the internet. (from Forbes.com)
Vive La France
We’ve come a long way. Honestly, this probably all there is to say when a German general heading the traditional French military parade on France’s national holiday not even makes a big news item in Germany.
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The One With The Tschador.
Remember the friends episode whith the Tschador? Well, you probably won’t, because there wasn’t one. But today, Salon.com has an interesting review of a documentary about the perception of American entertainment in Arab countries called “Besieged by Friends“
The Schill Factor.
People living in Hamburg have to cope with a rather special political crop these days: Roland Schill, a former judge who founded his own party and in 2001 managed to gain enough votes among dissatisfied conservatives to become junior partner and senator responsible for police and internal affairs in a CDU led coalition. Knowing that only continued bullshitting can assure public attention, he now demands taking genetic fingerprints for fare evading… (via Spiegel Online).
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Python Slithers Out Of Toilet.
Scary Movie –
“A pet python missing over the last two months made its reappearance by scaring a Dutch woman when it slithered out of her toilet bowl.”
And Scary Movie II –
“[L]ocal residents were unhappy to hear the owner admit that a second pet python, this one almost one-meter long, had also escaped and was still on the loose.” (from Reuters.)
Time To Say Goodbye.
“On Thursday, Volkswagen’s plant in Mexico — the only one in the world which still makes the old-style Beetle — launches one last retro edition of the plucky bug before bringing down the curtain on nearly 70 years of history.” (from Reuters.)
Everything
you ever wanted to know about coffee and more. A link for those of you who agree with me that “life just doesn’t work without coffee”.