Die Kirchenbücher von Wahlhausen sind jetzt online. Da ein Teil meiner Familie (Nachname Rühling) von dort kommt, ist das natürlich interessant… (für mich)
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Need a house in the US?
The US has an official website where they are offering homes for sale. Cool..
Say it with sprouts
A Japanese toy company is selling plants that display written messages when they sprout. Six different messages like “I Love You” are inscribed through the plant with a laser beam. The one shown here says “good luck” in French. I want the one that bursts through its magic egg shell to proclaim, with soft green tendrils, “fuck you.”
From boingboing :))
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Sony: DRM cost us the Walkman
Sony has admitted that putting DRM into its music players was a mistake that cost it the personal stereo market:
Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., said he and other Sony employees have been frustrated for years with management’s reluctance to introduce products like Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod, mainly because the Tokyo company had music and movie units that were worried about content rights…
High-ranking Sony officials have rarely publicly said their proprietary views were a mistake. Kutaragi, who has long been viewed as a candidate to lead Sony, was unusually direct in acknowledging Sony had made an error and blaming proprietary concerns from its entertainment division.
Link via boingboing
Verliebt, Verlobt,…
An Sylvester fragte ich Almut ob sie mich heiraten wolle: “Ja”!!!
Letztes Wochenende sagten wir den Eltern Bescheid, und so ist es nun offiziell: