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Category Archives: Random Rants

Dortmund Vs. Shalke

Living in Germany one can’t really escape the Football madness. Yesterday, Schalke played against Dortmund – both teams bitter rivals, at Westfalionstadion in Dortmund. Now you have to understand the context here – When it comes to Schalke and Dortmund, the football games are not games. It’s personal…emotions are raging…and there is a lot of [...]

Twitter Replies from the Twitverse

Twitter allows to reply to people you are following by appending an “@<username>” in front of the message. But unfortunately, the person you are trying to reply to doesn’t see this reply if they, in turn, are not following you. Of course this impedes some communication , but it turned out that all you had [...]

The Hybrid

TweetDeck

Twitter has gone from a microblogging service, to a source of news , a social platform and even a communication forum. But the Twitter website and the Twitter interface is completely bird-brained when it comes to facilitating these unintended uses of their service. The solution ? TweetDeck. TweetDeck is an Adobe AIR application (read “black and cross-platform”) [...]

The Paradox that Solved Itself

A man condemned to be hanged was sentenced on Saturday. “The hanging will take place at noon,” said the judge to the prisoner, “on one of the seven days of next week. But you will not know which day it is until you are so informed on the morning of the day of the hanging.” [...]

Human Beings tend to not repent.

XKCD does a search for phrases in the blogosphere.

The Human Spirit

Inspiration strikes in many forms – and this time it was a carphone salesman who enrolled in a talent show. Passion gives you wings, no matter what your origins and deficiencies, if you don’t believe that, watch Paul Pott.   [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DelJrP3P7tA”] Tags: Paul+Pott, Britain’s+got+talent, passion

A thing or two about women drivers….

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMfGY9cqTCI] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUr4XMfqjlA]     Need I say more?

Nerd Pickup Line

  xkcd

Conductive mineral could change day length : Nature News

And this is no April Fool’s Joke ! The electrical properties of a new-found mineral could help to explain our planet’s wiggle. Rachel CourtlandAs the world turns: do conductive materials in the mantle interfere with its spin?As the world turns: do conductive materials in the mantle interfere with its spin?NASA If a day seems to [...]