GEZ, GEMA and the art of freelance training
Good news for freelancers: We don’t have to pay extra GEZ for our office computer. Since computers are multimedia devices, GEZ originally wanted to charge the fee levied for the use of radios and TVs on computers. The decision passed down two days ago has stopped that. But wait… Bad news for freelance English teachers: […]
The Staple Singers: I’ll take you there
One of the classic bands to come out of Stax Records, the Staple Singers had a no. 1 hit with this song in 1972. This is the real stuff. Take me there.
Blue Ocean
“Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant”
Sailing
Bring your sunglasses and your hat, because we’re going sailing. Is this your maiden voyage (Jungfernfahrt)? Then watch this video by Mahalo Daily to learn how to hoist the mainsail (Groß hochziehen), use the tiller (Pinne) to steer the boat, come about (wenden) … and watch your head when the boom (Baum) comes across. Ready? […]
iPhone blues
The Onion, that great fake newspaper, reports on some of iPhone 3G’s most highly anticipated features: Nanotechnology enables it to reassemble itself when thrown against a wall An exclusive link to Google Street View lets you watch yourself using your iPhone at all times The iPhone takes Polaroids When moved from hand to ear, it […]
Summer fashion
This stupid T-shirt showing Obama as Curious George got a lot of excited coverage. It’s so 19th century. After Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of the Species” was published in 1859, racists looking for the “missing link” between man and monkey settled on blacks. No human rights for slaves and ex-slaves, then. I’m amazed that […]
Jack Johnson: Upside Down
Curious George was one of my favorite children’s books series. A monkey who gets in and out of trouble? A monkey who, strangely enough, lacks a tail? Now that is something a child can identify with. The series was written and drawn by Hans A. Rey and Margret Rey, Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany who […]
