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Vor sieben Jahren bereits gefunden und heute bei Koehntopp wiederentdeckt: Die Satzung der Interstellaren Gesellschaft für Informatik. Auch wenn das Dings ein bisschen lang geraten ist: wer ein wenig Zeit über hat, sollte sich das mal durchlesen.

Sorry, dass es in letzter Zeit nur Videos sind... da kommt doch ab und an noch ein wenig des Missionsdranges in mir hoch.

Muss man einfach gesehen haben:

Da ich den vergangenen Monat komplett in Frankfurt verbracht habe, dünkt es mich doch, mal ein paar Bilder hier zu posten. Was man so sieht, wenn man einfach ein wenig durch die Straßen läuft.

Das folgende ist ein Eingang zur U-Bahn-Station Bockenheimer Warte... eine coole Idee, wie ich finde.




Und das folgende stellt einen Ausschnitt der Seitenwand einer Würstchenbude gleich um die Ecke dar. Na dann: guten Appetit!

There's nothing to add to this:

A new trend within the web seems to be the creation of satirical facts belonging to people representing special stereotypes. They tend to involve absurdly exaggerated claims about the stereotype they are mapped to.

The first facts I noticed are the ones about Chuck Norris, representing toughness, virility and heroic behaviour. Unfortunately, the website Chuck Norris Facts is down right now, so I will list my favourite facts here:

• Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
• Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
• There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.
• Chuck Norris counted to infinity. Twice.
• Chuck Norris once visited the Virgin Islands. They are now The Islands.
• Chuck Norris doesn't play "hide-and-seek." He plays "hide-and-pray-I-don't-find-you."
• When God said "Let there be light", Chuck Norris said: "say please."
• Chuck Norris can delete the Recycling Bin.

Second I have to mention the ones about Bruce Schneier (computer scientists, and especially these who are interested in cryptography und computer security know him -- the other ones will get known to him by reading his monthly newsletter). My favourite ones of the Bruce Schneier facts are:

• When Bruce Schneier observes a quantum particle, it remains in the same state until he has finished observing it.
• Bruce Schneier knows Alice and Bob's shared secret.
• Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat.
• Bruce Schneier can log into any computer just by staring down the prompt.
• Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days.
• Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it.
• Bruce Schneier has built a non-deterministic Turing machine, so he doesn't care whether P=NP.
• When Bruce Schneier uses double ROT13 encryption, the ciphertext is totally unbreakable.
• Bruce Schneier doesn't need to hide data with steganography - data hides from Bruce Schneier.
• Bruce Schneier taught Chuck Norris how to divide by zero as they stood silent in an elevator.

Links:

1. Chuck Norris' Homepage
2. Top 100 Chuck Norris Facts
3. Chuck Norris' Response: On Chuck Norris 'mania' sweeping the Net
4. Article of Washington Post: Tough Love: Norris Fans Board the Chuck Wagon
5. Bruce Schneier's Homepage
6. Bruce Schneier Facts

One of my most favourite scenes of Family Guy. Peter is looking forward to play in a team, he's telling that he never had the pleasure to be part of a team since singing with the "Four Peters"...

If you don't already know Dilbert, you should get to know him – especially, if you are employed in th IT sector – and enjoy your daily dilbert.

I just have to link some of the strips here, all about management: this one, this one and this one.

A few days ago I finally updated the aphorisms from which you can read one each time when loading this site (look at the Fortune-Box on the right side). I still continue gathering funny and/or meaningful quotes, aphorisms, sayings and small extracts of long texts. So if you know some, please feel free to send them to me. This is also a good reason to use the new contact formular accessible via the link on the top of this page .

... von Jürgen Trittin bekam der bayrische Ministerpräsident Edmund Stoiber (diejenigen, die sich ein bisschen wundern, seien hierauf verwiesen):

Wenn Sie von München nach Berlin... in 65 Jahren, dann starten Sie im Grunde genommen, starten Sie Ihre Bundeskarriere, 65 Jahre, schauen Sie sich mal die großen Präsidenten an in London oder sonstwo, Charles de Gaulle in Frankreich oder in, äh, Rom, dann werden Sie feststellen, dass 65 Jahre Sie jederzeit locker in München brauchen um das Kanzleramt zu finden. Wenn Sie vom Wirtschaftsministerium, äh, der Staatkanzlei einsteigen, - das bedeutet natürlich dass im Grunde genommen das Kanzleramt näher an Bayern heranwächst, weil das ja klar ist, weil alle Linien in Bayern zusammenlaufen.

Lieber Herr Stoiber: Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum 65.Geburtstag.

(© Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN)

I'm so glad to have had nice professors and teaching assistants during my studies at the Tuebingen university.

Thanks for this reference, Hanneke!

Danke für die Bereicherung des deutschen Sprachschatzes um diesen herrlichen alliterativen Neologismus, David.
Gemeint ist mit diesem Begriff das da, hier bei einem IBM Lenovo ThinkPad: