exceptionally, i cordially welcome a weblog i just spotted on blogger's update list (although i hardly can read a word): hello, lubbi tíkarson hugsar upphátt, the first icelandic weblog that crossed my way. which doesn't mean there aren't many: a bunch of icelandloglinks is just waiting there...

worldwide directory of cities and towns: palat, bulgaria. palat, algeria. pålat, bangladesh. palat, myanmar (burma). palat, phillipines.

palatschinke: the austrian term for "thin, rolled pancake filled with jam or the like" stems from the synonymic hungarian palacsinta which probably traces back over romanian placinta to latin placenta "flat cake" – note the medical term placenta. The latin word was imported to the danube area by roman soldiers.

tim perdue: mysql and postgresql compared.

posted my first file on the pile: the funky "världens bästa karlsson", the original swedish title song of the movie based on astrid lindgren's book.

it's war, she cried, soccer *!

greek mythology link. almost 100 megs of biographies, events, maps and much more about the old greeks.

"we know enough to make up lies which are convincing, but we also have the skill, when we will, to speak the truth." – the internet muses to hesiod; hesiod, theogony 25.

wonderful, a synopsis of disney's and the original hercules.

the production of a bell (bell casting) is an incredibly fascinating as well as complex and exhausting process. on the week-end i watched an extensive tv-documentation about the activities at the eifeler glockengiesserei mark. in the end there was a bell weighing 7 tons and being tuned exactly to the tones as calculated in the beginning.

classic papers on bell tuning.

"there are many bells so radically wrong that there is nothing to be done with them except 'put up with' them, or send them to the melting-pot." – a. b. simpson, on bell tones no. ii.

balkanlands.com: "the author's main thesis is that the west missed a unique historical opportunity to unite europe and that the peoples of central, eastern and southern europe are beyond salvation, deformed and pathologized by communism irreconstructibly".

recent articles by sam vaknin (reviewer at cer and author of "after the rain") about history, economies, cultures and societies of the balkans and central and eastern europe.

and even more vaknin, internet-related: "the bloodbath and the hope, the trends and the blind alleys, the creators and the channels, the content and the distribution – it's all here in trendsiters".

principia cybernetica web: "the generalized 'peter principle'".

yesterday i went to st. andrä-wördern serving as starting point for a walking-tour to hintersdorf. it wouldn't be austria, if the first thing that happened to me was not being picked up by the constabulary (ie. the police in the country-side) and taken to the station because i must be looking like a drug criminal (which seems to be some kind of obsession here) – at least for them.

nevertheless, a good lunch at the "wirtin im grünen" reimbursed for the investigative intermezzo.