Das Handelsblatt, bzw. der Mitarbeiter Heribert Adamsky, hat einen WirtschaftsWiki angefangen.

(Via Hebig.org)

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I found Hau den Lukas easier to understand.

But I see they’re older than I thought.

This site explains how the UK car registration number system works – it was changed in 2001.

Briefly: the first two letters are a ‘local memory tag’, the 51 indicates the age (changes every six months), and the last three letters are random letters.

(Information via an ITI members’ mailing list)

1. I don’t like to be critical all the time, but this seems wrong:

2. How does this read to someone who knows no German?

bq. Die The Michaelis Kirchweih grew historically and was ordered by the town councillor not to be for the Amusement of the People, like most of the various people celebrations were. The “Mother” of Kirchweih was the secondary oldest Church, named after the contentious Archangel. This somewhat plain, rather place of worship reminding of a Village Church was probably built in the Year 1100.

I suspect MT original, worked over by humans. Here’s the original:

bq. Die Michaelis-Kirchweih ist historisch gewachsen und nicht, wie etwa die verschiedenen Volksfeste, von Stadtoberen zur Volksbelustigung verordnet worden. Die Mutter der Kirchweih ist die zweitälteste Kirche von Fürth, St. Michael, benannt nach dem streitbaren Erzengel. Vermutlich wurde dieses etwas schmucklose, eher an eine Dorfkirche erinnernde Gotteshaus im Jahr 1100 erbaut.

President Bush is nominating Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court.

This weblog may be a hoax. But it’s good to know that anonymous blogging is alive and well.

Here too.

For the source, and much more informed comment, see Underneath Their Robes.

bq. The limited gossip that A3G has heard, based on Harriet Miers’s service as White House Counsel, is that she is “a workaholic” who can be “difficult to work for,” due to her “tendency to micromanage.” Well, it now looks like Miers has micromanaged her way to a Supreme Court nomination!

Cristina Lozano Chico blogs from Las Palmas.

(Thanks to Trevor at kalebeul)