Happy Birthday, Mickey Mouse
Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie, 18 November 1928: Mike Pilewski’s history of cartoons, including Mickey’s first film, half a year before Steamboat Willie: Plane Crazy.
The top 25 mistakes Germans make in English
1. I am born in Berlin. 2. We are meeting us next week. 3. I am living here since 1998. 4. I moved here for 6 years. 5. I have lived in Halle until 1997. 6. We have often meetings in Frankfurt. 7. We have opened in Potsdam our new headquarters. 8. Can you borrow […]
Bicycling in DC
Biking is still dangerous in Washington, especially with the huge cars that take up so much of the street, but it’s nice to see this project. Smartbike DC is the first public bike rental service in the USA. It’s available by subscription, with docking points around the city. Clear Channel first initiated a program like […]
Anne Enright
Anne Enright will be reading from The Gathering, which won the Booker Prize 2007, with Katharina Thalbach at Literaturhaus on Wednesday, 19 November 2008 at 8pm. (See Dolcevita’s announcement for details in German.) Tickets: 089 / 291934-27. Anne Enright has the most amazing view of the world. Down-to-earth. Physical. Womanly. Just read her short article […]
The president-elect weekly address
US President-Elect Barack Obama will be recording a video address each week which will be available on YouTube. This will replace the president’s weekly radio address of the past. Here’s no. 1. and it’s about the economy. (3:34): YouTube: ChangeDotCom
David Crystal on Obama’s rhetorical style
David Crystal has analyzed Barack Obama’s acceptance speech for rhetorical style in his blog, showing how Obama used the “rule of three” (creating vibrant triptychs), pairing, repetition, structural parallelism and the “rule of seven” (a memory-friendly number of details) to create the rhetorical drama needed to extend his listeners’ attention span and build excitement. Thanks, […]
NYT Breaking News: July 4th, 2009
The New York Times – Breaking News, World News & Multimedia This special edition of The New York Times comes from a future in which we are accomplishing what we know today to be possible. Thanks Beatrice & Beatrix 🙂 Download a pdf version here.
