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Mark Pilgrim reports how his plan to make money from blogging actually starts working out. The plan being:
- Wile away the best years of your life building a weblog and filling it with useful, interesting, relevant, topical, engaging content every day
- ???
- Profit!
Now keeping in mind the good old Apple TV ads, for the Mac user this should translate to
- Wile away the best years of your life building a weblog and filling it with useful, interesting, relevant, topical, engaging content every day
- ???
- There's no step 3!
Mark is a Mac-type person? Um, never mind…
On the politically incorrect side I saw a photo from a website on women driving cars. Not all of them are funny, but a couple of the photos made me chuckle.
Last but not least, I saw a reference to a site on German words used in English. Nice that people made the effort to make a list with explanations and references to places where these words were used. Apart from classics as Kindergarten, Blitzkrieg, Autobahn, Fahrvergnügen, Schadenfreude, Gemütlichkeit, Sauerkraut or the ubiquitious Delicatessen, there are many more worth mentioning:
- abseiling - I actually saw this in South Africa years ago
- angst another cool one
- ansatz heard of in in the context of differential equations, similar to the following
- eigenvalue, eigenvector, eigenspace, …
- doppelgänger, you know I have one
- echt - didn't know about this one before
- Festschrift
- Gestalt - probably known at least to Mac programmers
- Glockenspiel - Dan used to have one when he was little. Seems to be hard to pronounce despite the lack of Umlauts.
- Hinterland
- Lautverschiebung
- Leitmotiv - my definite favourite
- …meister - nice one
- Schmalz
- über… - a good way of making things sound more evil
- Verboten probably one of the best known German words
- Waldmeister - most English people seem to neither know the word nor the taste.
- Zeitgeist - probably well-known by now thanks to Google (They just ranked Ikea as the top retailer as far as searches are concerned.
- Zugzwang - another nice one
And these are just the ones I like best. Most words seem to be of a technical nature or describe sausages (the site provides photos!). Nice one.
December 19, 2002, 20:11
