Newsmap ordnet Links zu Google News in verschiedenen Farben an (auf “Deutschland” klicken für deutsche Version).
Newsmap shows news headlines in different colours, spaced by topic.
bq. Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.
(Via Ben Hammersley)
German asparagus at its best:
Franconian tomatoes:
Darrel Knutson, whom I mentioned in the last entry, has an excellent list of Vulgar Vocabulary on his website.
The list is divided into ‘What to say to a friend’ and ‘What to say in front of your mother’.
Opinions differ, and I’m afraid my mother would not have been a good yardstick, but it’s worth noting that many German speakers seem to think the F-word is used more widely in English than it in fact is (see comment from An Austrian at the bottom of this page.
Note that Darrel’s alternatives are for the USA. Perhaps we should translate it into British English! For instance, ‘shoot’ is US, and so are numerous other bits.
More on the topic at Wikipedia. The topic has also been touched on by Mark Liberman at Language Log.
www.mediadeck.de
bq. Auf einem Parkdeck in Hamburg arbeiten 26 Multimedia-Firmen ganz gemütlich zusammen.
Bilder auch von dort nistenden Bachstelzen und Enten (von den Bachstelzen gibt es sogar eine kleine Videoaufnahme). (Auf “biotop” klicken).
Darrel Knutson is a co-founder of mediadeck, a collaboration of 26 multimedia firms sharing office space on the sixth floor of a 1960s multistorey car park in Hamburg. mediadeck is the main lessee, and smaller firms can rent office space and become part of Mediadeck. Darrel is described as an internet trainer, webmaster, translator and English trainer.
Some translators are listed under ‘bord services’.
What first caught my eye was the section ‘biotop’ with photos and videoclip of a nest of pied wagtails and photos of a mallard and chicks, all bred on the ‘balcony’.
(Thanks to Matthew Harris of context for extra information)
In a similar vein, Boing Boing recently linked to a webcam at the ‘Pig Brother’ (!)site showing a family of wild boars in Germany (originally via Darren Barefoot and CNN). Microphones and video-camera 24 hours a day.
There are a number of webcams watching storks’ nests in Germany too, for instance storchennest.de.
Click on pictures to enlarge.
Auf Bild klicken zum Vergrößern.
This is the Liebfrauenmünster in Wolframs-Eschenbach, the site of the poet’s tomb (which I may have missed). The sign certainly leaves one speechless.
Liebfrauenmünster, Wolframs-Eschenbach.