i am almost off to berlin to wittness the second part of the german-arabian wedding (in wedding, btw.) of heike and walid. have a nice week-end, too.
misconception or intention? telepolis promotes georg paul thomann.
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tip of the day: if you should have problems with your chello connection (or invoice or whatever), don't call the official support hotline
"voll irgendwie dit literarische buch, alta." – "aba wenigstens voll dünn, alta. alta, so dünn musste erstma sein als buch." – "haste ooch wieda recht."
certainly, the talk is about salbader, volume 29 just being out now.
very nice, i was lucky to hear some of the stories live at kalkscheune (e.g. "mehr vom tag" by horst evers or andreas scheffler's "warum ich dauernd in kneipen hocke") the last time i was in berlin. and bonus! next week-end i would be able to attend dr seltsam's frühschoppen again!
henryk m broder has something to say about dr seltsam and his fellows, too.
on the week-end i watched a documentation on tv about the closing down of dienststelle marienthal, a bunker as "alternative quarters of the federal constitutional organs" of germany. although treated as top-secret, the facility located near former capital bonn was quite well-known.
however, its end in these days which is somewhat unfortunate almost had been unnoticed by the public if photographer andreas magdanz would not have made efforts to put the 83.000m2 areal under monumental protection and meanwhile create a large amount of pictures from inside the "bundesbunker" for documentation.
the deliberate ignorance of the former and also now politically liable to exhibit this relic of the cold war, very well illustrates the embarrassment of a nation that in the 1990s still spent tax money to improve a dugout built for a self-proclaimed elite of 3000 people to survive a nuclear bombing desaster or the like.
at the same time, the nonsense of such a bold venture becomes clear. although the facility was supplied with enough fresh food, power and other material for 30 days periodically, the question what would happen to the inhabitants after a month being sheltered from a nuclear fall-out was taboo.
in summary, dienststelle marienthal sketches what being deutsch typically stands for: overestimated gigantomania, superimposed correctness, smug engineering, accurate administration, ubermensch belief.
it's yet another shameful example of bureaucrating the horror of death in the tradition of prussian warfare and racial cleansing. it's still sticking in our bones...
obviously, i missed the coverage in telepolis, neither did i know that ingo hinterding was involved in the creation of the website. thanks for the information, kris.
unix history – everything you wanted to know about unix genealogy but were afraid to print...
do the ballmer dance (via the register).
dave winer: "i designed features of word, excel, powerpoint and the windows file system browser. my lawyers suggested that we file a patent on these inventions, but i felt then as i feel now that it is unethical for a software developer to try to prevent competition that way".
certainly, this is a point of view i can appreciate. however, it turned out many times that democracy needs to be well-fortified. just like it's nonsense to talk with neo-nazis (at least in most situations; and apologies for that bad comparison).
the people being able to file a patent for their work probably should think about an alternative way of protecting their opus against compainies like microsoft while still offering it to the equally open-minded community...