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A giant insect of about 50 meters (i.e. about 60 yards) lenght was discovered in sout-west Germany. Besides the mere astonishing size of the insect, it is quite surprising that it hasn’t been discovered before. After all, it’s not been hiding in some dark cave, but it has been found just sitting on a farmer’s […]
Ed Brill reports that IBM now has a blog roll on their corporate web site which lists blogs by IBM employees. IBM has a policy encouraging employees to blog and to identify themselves as bloggers for a while already. Ed is one of the more prominent blogs, I would guess, but that’s my limited view […]
Maybe it would have been better for her, if Paris Hilton had grown up in Prussia (Germany respectively). Then she would have been forced to attend proper schools with a basic education, for example in geography. As reported by Spiegel Online she was asked to attend an event of one of her marketing partners in […]
Today it’s 289 years that the kids in Prussia legally have to go to school (well, now most of what was Prussia then is Germany, but that’s not the point). On September 28th, 1717 the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I. issued an edict which introduced compulsary school attendance for kids in the age between 5 […]
According to a report by Spiegel Online (in German) the Federal Employment Office and one of it’s local agencies have a slightly weired understanding of reason. They require someone who has a proper full time job to apply to another job (and potentially risk his employment status). Why? Because he might be earning more in […]
I have nothing to add to this except for maybe a loud: Yikes!!!
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If you like to dress casually at work (e.g. when working from home), but you still need to look prefessional in video conferences and such, then the business bib could be what you need. It covers the parts of your body which typically can be seen on webcams or video conference cams. But be aware: […]
Do you know Oban or Clarenville? These are the endpoints of the first transatlantic telephone cable which has been put into official operation today, fifty years ago. Before this cable was put into operation, transatlantic telephone calls had to be transmitted via short wave radio and this technology was subject to multiple sources of interference. […]
A neat example of interactive data visualization is the Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager. It analyzes the U.S. Social Security Administration’s data on baby names back to the 1880s. Simply begin typing a name and you can see a graph representing the popularity of matching names across the entire timeline. A nice pastime! ANd some effects […]
Besides the overthrow of the French king Louis XVI. there is another event, which has its anniversary today. The peace treaty of Basel of 1499 (more extensive article in German). This peace treaty ended the Swabian War between the Swabian League and the Old Swiss Confederacy. This marked the de facto official acceptation of the […]