Being otherwise dressed conservatively helps, though.

I take it in from when I get up, eating my breakfast in front of my feeds, until I go to bed, checking my emails one last time before I switch off the light.

Guess I need to get one of these “lives” one day.

That reminded me of a feeling that I’ve had for a long time. In both school and university I had the feeling that most of the time was wasted by being fed or memorizing information.

In my opinion, it should not the most important goal of any educative institution to transfer knowledge. I mean, any kid with internet can learn quite accurately about anything these days!

What we need, children and adults alike, is a platform to talk to other people about this information. We want to learn about other people’s ideas and views, criticize them and build on them.

The main purpose of a school should be to facilitate this process. It seems to be very few that do that enough.

They didn’t challenge the concept or the EU guideline in general, but found that the German legal framework needs more judiciary oversight, clear definitions of when to use it, and safer data storage.

They also iterated that the data is only to be used for crimes of a certain severity.

Once again my trust in the Constitutional Court is affirmed. They save our butts against bad or incomplete laws every time.

As much as I welcome this verdict, I do feel for the police. Even though it doesn’t seem like the now obsolete laws saw much use (yet), I understand that it’s hard to properly prosecute criminals if the laws are so uncertain.

As it was established before, German people quickly feel uncomfortable when there is nothing to be offended or worried about. If they currently have no personal reason to be offended or worried about anything, they will go to a bookstore to buy a book written by what they consider to be a much more intelligent person, who happens to be altruistic and kind enough to lecture them about recent developments that they should better be offended or worried about [...]

Man, is that a great blog!

This is what’s wrong with the web. I’ll be glad when Flash is dead, it has outlived its usefulness. Except for interactive games, everything it can do can be done better with HTML 5, AJAX and all these other fancy technologies.

(To be fair, the page renders fine on the iPhone, without Flash).

Yes, it does, as do many other crimes. It takes an organization like the catholic church, though, to systematically protect the offenders, silence the victims and thus encourage further abuse.

Here’s an article about the document that does exactly that. Signed by Pope John XXIII in 1962.

This is criminal, and has nothing to do with faith or religion.

If anyone thinks that this is something that happened in the dark past of the sixties: Ratzinger, the current Pope Benedict, made clear that this document is still in effect. In 2001.

Looking at this, I have no idea how anyone can be catholic in this day and age.

(via Fefe)

4 are computer and telecommunication machines, 2 are in the bathroom and 1 is a real toy.

Now they have put it back together. [German]

I remember the time I watched it. I did so very reluctantly in the beginning, not expecting much from a 80-year old mute film.

I was captivated quickly, and I loved the movie. An excellent piece of cinematic art, and a great story.

Fantastic show.