Reading

The Douglas Coupland dictionary. All the “Coupland-isms”, from 101-ism to Yuppie Wannabe.

Link via /usr/bin/girl.

Email

My regular email address is not working at the moment. Please use uzsv0k@uni-bonn.de instead. If you sent me email yesterday, please re-send it to that address. Thank you!

Community

Susan has photos of her meeting with Al! She says he is really real, and since André met Susan, I believe her.

And Craig‘s hiatus is officially over now. Nice to have you back!

In other news, I’ve been busy all day learning Algebra. Anybody care to know what a quotient field is, or a factor ring? Yeah, thought so. It’s not really that interesting…

Hoax

The Kaycee Hoax has been covered by MSNBC: A painful affair of the Internet heart. There are some of those “Kaycee” photos there. I suppose Julie, the real person in the pictures, is not happy about this, see this message.

A more elaborate article can be found at Kuro5hin: The Life and Death of a False Warrior.

By the way, here‘s a list of links to mirrors of the original journals, news articles, message boards etc.

Artwork

Take a look at bewitched! It’s a gallery of really cool artwork. I especially like the starry night.

Link via Susan.

Weblogger-Treffen

Update zu der Nachricht von gestern: Das Weblogger-Treffen ist am 1. Juni, nicht am 1. Juli!

Danke für den Hinweis, Jan-Willem.

Vor ein paar Tagen erhielt ich eine Email von Mr. Green:

“Den 1. Juni gibt es einen weblogmeeting in Den Haag [in Holland].
Es werde toll sein when du auch dabei konte sein!

I guess I’d better do this in englisch because I just noticed my german is worse than I expected. Anyway, the upcoming 1st of July there is a webloggers meeting in The Hague [Den Haag – the Netherlands]. It would be nice if you could also make it over here to give this meeting a special international character! :o)

You can find more info on: http://weblogmeeting.mrgreen.nl/

It’s in dutch, but I know german ppl don’t have many problems reading dutch ;o)

… maybe you could mobilize some german loggers?”

Ich selbst bin ziemlich sicher, daß ich Anfang Juli so im Examensstreß sein werde, daß ich keine Zeit haben werde. Vielleicht hat aber jemand anders Lust?

Online Journalism

Doc Searls had some interesting thoughts on online journalism and weblogs yesterday. “It’s personal. That’s my whole philosophy.”

(He also writes about his very interesting and entertaining visit to one of the first Apple Stores, by the way. )

Link via my referrers.

Community

A very Happy Birthday to you, Audrey!

Belated… Happy Birthday to you, Jan-Willem! I suppose we’ll see you in Amsterdam on Saturday!

Der Schockwellenreiter hat ein neues Zuhause unter http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/. Bookmarks ändern!

Weblogger-Treffen

Vor ein paar Tagen erhielt ich eine Email von Mr. Green:

“Den 1. Juli gibt es einen weblogmeeting in Den Haag [in Holland].
Es werde toll sein when du auch dabei konte sein!

I guess I’d better do this in englisch because I just noticed my german is worse than I expected. Anyway, the upcoming 1st of July there is a webloggers meeting in The Hague [Den Haag – the Netherlands]. It would be nice if you could also make it over here to give this meeting a special international character! :o)

You can find more info on: http://weblogmeeting.mrgreen.nl/

It’s in dutch, but I know german ppl don’t have many problems reading dutch ;o)

… maybe you could mobilize some german loggers?”

Ich selbst bin ziemlich sicher, daß ich Anfang Juli so im Examensstreß sein werde, daß ich keine Zeit haben werde. Vielleicht hat aber jemand anders Lust?

Kaycee

After Kaycee’s death, some people began doubting whether she really lived and her diary was genuine. A lenghty discussion followed after Randall van der Woning wrote The end of the whole mess and took down both Kaycee’s and Debbie’s blogs, leaving only Debbie’s confession.

Confusing. I wonder if the truth will ever be found out.

Sonntagslektüre – Diese Woche in der Zeit

Integration: Sprachlos bunt.

“Das Deutsch vieler Einwandererkinder ist schlechter denn je. Wenn die Eltern nicht mithelfen, sind Kindergärten und Schulen machtlos”.

Dossier: Flucht der Forscher.

“Die besten deutschen Wissenschaftler arbeiten in Amerika. Bildungsministerin Bulmahn will sie zurücklocken. Werden sie kommen?”

Aidsbekämpfung: Eine einmalige Chance

“Erstmals l?sst sich Aids in Afrika wirkungsvoll bekämpfen – doch nur, wenn auch Europa in einen globalen Hilfsfonds einzahlt.”

Siehe auch Zeit online – Schwerpunkt Aids.

Aerodynamik: Hier irrt die Schulweisheit.

“Warum kann ein Flugzeug fliegen? Bis heute, kritisieren zwei amerikanische Forscher, wird das falsch erklärt.”

Cooking

Today’s lesson: Casserole made of potatoes, celery, smoked turkey and roquefort cheese sounds good, but tastes just plain horrible.

Reading

How many books does one read during one’s life? I’ve often wondered how many books I’ve read, but it’s hard to tell. I’ve been able to keep track of most of the books I’ve been reading in the last couple of years because I got many of them from the library.

Eric Leuliette has kept a list of the books he has read since he could read: “My mother started keeping the list when I started the first grade. My school asked parents to keep track of what books we read as part of its reading program. She kept the list until 1977 and I’ve kept the list since I was in the fifth grade.” Only 1978 is undocumented. Up to now, he as read 1793 books with a total of 399,185 pages.