There is a Dilbert blog, and it shows the two versions of the cartoon ‘Lawyer with a Porpoise’.

(Via Law & Justice)

The Fürth blog zonebattler’s homezone started a monthly prize picture quiz on October 1st (no-one entered, but the solution is in the comments).

The November puzzle is here.

Meanwhile, here is a Fürth picture question in return: where was this shot taken?
(It’s a very easy one because I didn’t cut out the background – but there are no prizes either).

I have a link on my blogroll to www.gizmodo.com, but sometimes I go there via Google, and I was annoyed today when (eventually) I noticed that I was reading German text, and the contents were different from the original. I really hate this patronizing matching of British ads and American blogs, in this case, to my perceived interests.

At least it wasn’t a machine translation. Micro Persuasion reported on this a couple of weeks ago:

bq. Nick Denton writes in that VNU and Gawker Media have struck a licensing deal that will take Gizmodo into Europe with an eye towards becoming the ultimate European destination for everything gadget, gizmo, and cutting-edge consumer electronics-related. VNU will provide its local presence and its network of bloggers as well as its knowledge of the local consumer electronic players in Europe.
Gizmodo’s content will be translated from English into 6 additional languages, then augmented with local coverage for each market.

You can check it out in French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Italian.

I wish I’d had this interactive online tour of the church (click at top right) before I translated this.

(More pictures and videos here).

Fürther Innenstadt, 31. Oktober 2005.
Fürth wants to lead the world.

UPDATE 2018: This post is out of date. All links have been removed. Andrew’s weblog German Joys has changed its site.

Andrew Hammel is an American lawyer who teaches legal English at Düsseldorf University. His weblog, German Joys, has been online since December 2004, but when I first saw it it appeared inactive. It seems to have awakened to life since then.

Sascha Kremer reminded me of its existence in his entry ‘Der Lehrstuhl blawgt’. Andrew’s entry on Leitkultur (and followup), or more properly the comments on Claudia Roth’s article in the FAZ linked there, raised my blood pressure usefully.

Btw, there is a Harvard blog written by an American who taught at the Technische Universität München and blogs solely, it appears, in order to blast that seat of learning. Quite bizarre.