The world according to Sven-S. Porst
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Few posts in the past days because I've been kind of busy and tired. Nothing substantial here either, just a few links. Accept my apology or enjoy.
- Comment in The Guardian by a 70 year old visiting McDonald's for the first time. It's a very friendly review. Does old age block your nose or why didn't the author, who claims to be used to quality eating environments, notice the rank smell of old fat that accompanies any of these outlets (and its surroundings)?
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2lmc on coffee and tea – well sort of. I had quite romantic ideas about tea in Britain when I first came there. Once living there I learned that it is consistently very bad. While I am more of a tea person than a coffee person, I'd always order coffee because bad coffee tends to be better than bad tea.
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And don't miss the bits on quality government science and STDs by celibacy.
Sometimes the truth just sounds different.
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Michael McCracken points to Dasher a cool and very strange way of inputting text. Just try doing some random writing with that:
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... with a bit of practice I might even manage to write words that existed prior to me writing them. Looking at those letters flying by is a bit addictive and distracting.
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I found this for my tutorial group: Interactive Möbius transformations. Fun. While computers may not do the math for you, they can certainly help you get the idea of what's going on.
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Chris Clark writes about Pulp Fiction, the new kid on the Mac feedreader block. I saw screenshots of it a while ago – and I failed to see the point. That's more a matter of taste I guess, so I won't complain. My idea of the whole feedreading thing is that it is light and easy. A Mail-like application just seems like an overkill for me – although that might be different if I used RSS feeds for anything crucial. Among other things Chris writes
Drop a subscription from the Subscription Manager window to the drawer, and the aforementioned folder/filter combo is set up. Wham, bam, thank you ma’am.
and is just so right. This has been one of my major peeves about Mail so far: Why can't I simply drag a person from my address book to Mail's folder pane and get a folder where all messages from that person go? I am not going to set all that up by hand. Ultimately, I'd of course like to see 'smart' folders in Mail, that simply display 'all messages from or to xyz'.
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OK, the previous point may just have been an excuse to bitch a bit about Mail.
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Jürgen Habermas on on the mess around choosing the candidates for the upcoming presidential elections in Germany. Note to American readers: This is not the guy actually running the country. The German president is like the queen in Britain. The current president gave a refreshing speech yesterday, btw.
May 14, 2004, 1:31
