RaSchi’s Valhalla

Against my usual habit, this post simply has to be in German, it doesn’t make sense in Englisch.
Ich sitze gerade im Starbucks, Steinenvorstadt in Basel. Da ich den Schlüssel der neuen Wohnung noch nicht habe (und vermutlich der Internet-Zugang auch nicht die erste Installation sein wird), nutze ich hier den Swisscom Hotspot. So weit, so […]

Do you remember your parents telling you to sit upright in your chair? The largest German news service, Tagesschau reports about a study which found that acutally the angle of 90° between your upper thighs and your spine is not the most ergonomic position, even though most people consider it the ‘normal’ position. But then, […]

[via Das Kluge Blog]

Today, fifteen years ago, Freddy Mercury, singer and musician of Queen passed away. Before that, he was one of the first celebrities to publicly speak about their HIV infection.

[Thanks for the reminder go to the Schockwellenreiter]

This is an excellent piece of marketing, if you ask me. It must be conveyed through proper channels though, otherwise people won’t have the patience to follow it until the end (which is essential to get the message right). I think blogs could be a very good channel, because probably most blog readers would expect […]

Those of you who have a profile in the social networking platform XING (TAFKA OpenBC) might be interested in the Firefox search plugin which the platform offers for download/install. Now you can search for member profiles on XING just as you would use Google, lookup a dictionary entry or any other search plugin for the […]

Denmark seems to follow a new idea how to fight speeding among motorists: Speedbandits. I have the gut feeling, that this might fire back when motorists distracted from traffic start to cause more accidents than speeding motorists.
[via e-mail from Dani]

Today, it’s 43 years ago that former President of the U.S. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (J.F.K.) fell victim to an assassination in Dallas, Texas. I guess there’s not much more to say about this, pretty much anyone knows at least something about him (in Germany probably everyone knows the quote “Ich bin ein Berliner”). On the […]

I really LOVE this song! Makes me feel good at just about any time I hear it!

You might remember this little animation clip, where a stick figure in MS Paint went nuts. Now, there’s Animator vs. Animation, Part II. And it’s almost as good as the first one (one must admit that the surprise factor is gone after having seen the first one, but it’s still awesome animation).
[via BasicThinking]