Konstantin presents a Citroen ad (Youtube clip).

The commenters are at each others’ throats. Is it a compliment to Germany to revive a touch of Obersalzberg?

The last three Transblawg posts or so required readers to enter a password.

This is because, suddenly, when I write a new entry, the password field is filled in. I can clear it.

I thought it was my fault, but no, it is the wonderful new Firefox:

Here’s the word from the Serendipity forum:

Yeah, a cool new feature of Firefox3 is that it auto-fills in your login password everyhwere where a fieldname matches, independently of whether you entered in there or not. Great for CMSes Very Happy

You must disable autocompletion somehow, so that firefox no longer auto-remembers this. I believe there’s an option to it, but I’ve never investigated it since I disabled the remember-me feature of FF3 completely as it’s useless because of this.

We cannot change the name of the input field, so I see no other solution.

(‘Very Happy’ stands for a smiley).

Perhaps I should just use another browser. Safari is better for doing the Times Sudoku, too – it doesn’t break off in the middle and delete all my answers.

Many people hate TinyURL (I suppose makeashorterlink was doomed from the outset by its length).

For them, here is HugeURL.

According to the Fürther Nachrichten today, there are the following numbers of posters in Fürth:

NPD 500
Linkspartei 250
SPD 405
CSU 300
FDP 350
Republikaner 30

That omits the Grüne, the ÖDP and the Bayernpartei, which is mysteriously calling itself Die fränkische Bayernpartei.

The paper thinks there are more posters to come, with parties attacking each other, especially after 17 September, the end of the school holidays.

To while away the time while I finish my job, here is some German music from the 1960s, at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog:

For Labor Day, here is a perennial WFMU favorite of socialist propaganda songs from 1960s West Germany, the compilation “Lehrlinge halten zusammen” (“Apprentices stick together”). Released in 1969 on the Pläne label, it has never been officially reissued, as far as I know. Most of the lyrics are somewhat failed attempts at sarcastic humor, pointing out the exploitation of German apprentices by evil capitalists, and the virtues of organized resistance against the system. The back cover contains a summary of Karl Marx’s position on the question of youth in capitalistic societies, in six easily digestable points.

Why hasn’t this faded into total obscurity, you ask? First of all, the music and delivery on many of these songs is original, to say the least, and in addition this has been featured on the famous Nurse With Wound list for the contribution of mysterious Lerryn & dadazuzu, Lehrlings-Machtgebeat. Also, who can resist obscurities from Germany or Japan anyway? Here is the whole album for your enjoyment.

Thanks to kalebeul

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