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Category: fun & interesting
NY Times: Still Married, With Children, but in Russian
while living in russia i saw the russian remakes of us-sitcom “the nanny” and thought that they were simply copied without paying copyright to the original producer (something not too uncommon in russia then…). how wrong i was. “the nanny” and also the russian version of “married with children” are licensed remakes: Still Married, With…Continue reading NY Times: Still Married, With Children, but in Russian
Onion: “Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not”
Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not ZURICH, SWITZERLAND—The Wikipedia entry on Dada—the World War I–era "anti-art" movement characterized by random nonsense words,… need i say more… 😉
tv links
my current favorite site is tv links. it provides a link-collection to movies, tv-shows, music videos – and not only english ones, but also e.g. russian… now i finally got to see “ivan vasilevich meniaet professiiu” (they also have “battleship potemkin” and “metropolis”).
Simpsonize Me
you can create your own simpson replica at Simpsonize Me. just look at the similarity between the figure and me 😉
ostel
a new addition to people longing for east germany: ostel – das DDR hostel
männer sind schweine
men are pigs (and if pigs could fly…)
computer presentations
the ny times tech-columist david pogue wrote an interesting blog entry on the use of computer presentations (like keynote or powerpoint): Pogue’s Posts – Using PowerPoint With Discretion. in the comments there were some useful links. one is an online tutorial from baruch college on preparing and giving a presentation: Effective Use of PowerPoint: Online…Continue reading computer presentations
NY Times: “One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Two-Bit ‘Trashball’”
an interesting article about an artist who collects trash, compacts them in a plastic orb gum ball size and sells them for 25 cents through gum ball machines: One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Two-Bit ‘Trashball’ – New York Times