I am just adding a few Fürth sites to my blogroll. On this occasion I combined Zonebattler’s latest picture with Dirk Pässler’s polar panorama technique to produce this:
Not perfect, but then for this treatment the trains should be frozen in movement.
I have also added Rolf Wolle’s Derhamm. There are plenty more sites – look for links on the above sites.
I am rather late to the party on this.
Multibabel.
Babelizing means machine translating a text into one language, then back into English, then into another language, then back into English, and so on, until the meaning has been wrung out of it. I hadn’t actually tried it before but here it is:
Original text:
Come round any old time, make yourself at home. Put your feet on the mantelshelf, open the cupboard and help yourself.
Babelized version:
Come around at any time old, dice to form it he it house. If its feet
regulated in mantelshelf, to open the drawer and helped them.
Original text:
Einstein can’t be classed as witless.
He claimed atoms were the littlest.
When you did a bit of splitting-em-ness
Frighten everybody shitless.
(From Ian Dury, There ain’t half been some clever bastards)
Babelized version:
Einstein cannot be classified as stupid. It declared atoms was the
minor. When you it gave form to a small conclusion of the copiatura
of, the sustentation frightens shitless everything.
(Thanks to Ekkehard)
The Mail on Sunday reports that Pagan inmates are given a day off from work for Halloween.
Prison Service bosses have instructed staff to grant the convicts, who include Devil worshippers and Satanists, special privileges on Tuesday.
While fellow prisoners sew mail bags and undertake other jail work, the Pagans will be allowed to celebrate their ‘holiday’.
They can use certain artefacts, including rune stones, flexible twigs and hoodless robes, provided they are kept in their cells or worn during communal worship. Robes with hoods are banned for ‘security reasons’, however.
Obviously they will not be able to wear this Tchibo hoodie (Kapuzinerjacke), then.
The Home Office papers reveal that Pagans can choose a day off work on two dates from eight of their festivals each year.
These include the Spring Equinox on March 20, the Midsummer Solstice on June 21 and Hallowe’en – the Samhain, or Summer’s End, as it was known in Celtic times – on October 31. Christian prisoners are allowed three days off – on Good Friday, Easter Day and Christmas Day.
Muslims are entitled to the most time off – 26 days to pray, including the fast of Ramadan. Buddhists get three days, Hindus ten and Jews seven.
(Via Criminal Solicitor Dot Net and thanks to Paul for the hoodie)
St. Isidore is the patron saint of the Internet, according to an entry in h2g2 (the BBC’s pre-Wikipedia Wikipedia) on Cool patron saints.
Catholic Online has written a prayer for those using the Internet, asking for St Isidore’s intercession:
Almighty and eternal God,
who has created us in Thy image
and bade us to seek after all that is good, true and beautiful,
especially in the divine person
of Thy only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
grant we beseech Thee that,
through the intercession of Saint Isidore, bishop and doctor,
during our journeys through the Internet
we will direct our hands and eyes
only to that which is pleasing to Thee
and treat with charity and patience
all those souls whom we encounter.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
And St. Clare is apparently the patron saint of television:
Before she died in 1253, she became too ill to attend daily mass. As she lay in her bed, she would see visions of the mass on the wall of her cell, just like there was a TV. Pretty cool, huh?
Yes, I’m researching terminology on a Cistercian church.
24/7
adj. The window of time in which systems are most vulnerable to attackAccess Control List (ACL)
The operating system file that gives users access to files and programs they have no good reason to accessAnalyst, security
A mercenary paid vast sums of money to tell you that your systems can’t be securedBack door
A hacker’s front doorBackup
A process you don’t need until you don’t do it
(Via Onze Taal, via langwich sandwich)