Today in Erlangen:

Erlangen uses less salt on the roads than Fürth and Nuremberg. You can see the state of the road (Kochstraße) in front.

BBC News berichtet, dass ein Serieneinbrecher über ein Webcam identifiziert wurde. Er hat zwar den Rechner auch gestohlen, aber die Bilder wurden automatisch an eine E-Mail-Adresse weitergeleitet. (Mit Bildern)

bq. Magistrates heard Park, who has more than 13 previous convictions for theft, had stolen computer equipment and other property with a value of nearly £4,000 from Mr Grisby’s study.

bq. He committed the offence in February while on bail after being charged with an attempted burglary in Ely, Cambridgeshire, in August.

bq. “The webcam made our job really easy,” added DS Page. “It was a pleasure to show him the pictures and see his expression when we interviewed him.”

(Via a comment from Anna K. on Desbladet)

Convert your Charles & Di wedding mug into a Charles & Camilla wedding mug – instructions at the anti-monarchy site Throne Out.

Found in the Guardian newsblog, which has entries on Charles & Camilla memorabilia. Another entry shows an Asda copy of Camilla’s engagement ring.

Steve Bell’s cartoon on the subject also features a mug, showing the two of them white-haired, wearing slippers and supporting themselves on walking frames.

Fotos und Musik – Willi Astor, von Fab von Odd-Fish, über Mosaikum.

Es hat was.

Wie es gemacht wird, bei Rufposten.

I have already mentioned some translations into English of Austrian statutes.

Here are some more. I was wondering if the Austrian Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde had given itself an English name. I discovered its site is mildly allergic to Firefox and it has an English section which is still being worked on, with some courtesy translations. They have the Wettbewerbsgesetz and the Kartellgesetz 1988 there in English. There is also an English summary of Austrian merger and notification procedure.