Currently, people like to pay for fancy journalism – even without being very sure what that might be. (Disclaimer: Count me in.)

“A new quality online ‘newspaper’ due to launch in Amsterdam in September has raised more than €1 million in just eight days from subscribers willing to pay in advance for what it describes as ‘slow journalism’ – in-depth news analysis, entirely free of advertising.”

Definition of an asshole: a person who demands that all social interaction happen on their terms. (Via gawker.com)

“… we have grossly underestimated both the scope and the scale of animal intelligence.” (Via hubski.com)

In the light of the current situation I present to you: The Headache.

How many germs live on your cell phone?

Haha, it’s April’s Fools day and Google jokes it is going to close down its RSS Reader service—wait, what?!?

At the Pub, Brisbane 1982.

Learning about interoperability one nervous breakdown at a time.

You can enter an infinite reboot loop of a Windows 7 Embedded operating system after having applied Windows Update with an enabled Enhanced Write Filter.

You cannot use an Apple USB keyboard to change into the BIOS or boot menu of a Samsung SBB-D set-back box.

You cannot boot a Windows image from a bootable USB stick if it is formatted exFAT.

The good side of this is: so many nice and helpful souls around me. Together we made it! Thanks a lot.

The Pikachu Curve. (Via www.reddit.com.)

That’s what I call a neat weather forecast.io!

Especially intriguing: the time machine. (Aka weather pastcast?)

What was the weather like when you were born?