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A direct link to a free mixtape download sponsored by Mercedes. Perhaps it's snobby chillout music best to be enjoyed in your posh car, but who's going to complain when it's free.
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Spiegel Online writes about the (obvious) trend of free legal music promo downloads. That are starting to become popular now that the commercial ones work.
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Funny fact: Coke offers free Windows-only songs with their drinks – akin to the iTunes Pepsi thing in the U.S. – in Germany but due to German laws the value of the freebie may only be a fraction of the price of your purchase. Hence people have to submit four codes for a single song.
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Other funny fact: The German football team dropped out of the European cup. Perhaps normality can be restored in this country now? I doubt it. Apparently they didn't play too well and deserved it. I rarely saw my flatmate as tense as during that game. – – – And I though people watch sports to relax.
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Little do I know.
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I learned a few fun words like Standardsituation, Laufpensum, Turniermannschaft or Anschlußtreffer during the tournament, though – as meeting flatmates in the kitchen, watching matches was unavoidable.
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After the games they have that annoying ex-football player (or whatnot) Günther Netzer comment the matches. I am wondering whether his teeth are real. They look a little to square for proper teeth. Unfortunately Google didn't help me on that one.
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That much for no question being silly enough to not have been asked and answered on the 'net before.
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Why does my FireWire CD burner ruin the CD it is in the process of burning just because I connect/disconnect my iPod? My idea of 'hot-pluggable' was a different one.
June 24, 2004, 0:00
