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And the third link list:

DuoLingo - Learn a language for free, and simultaneously translate the web.

Talking Robot Mouth Mimics Human Speech (via) - impressive, and somehow terrifying.

The future of our world - A small glimpse into a timeline of epic scale.

http://fatpita.net/?i=5025 - a nice, somewhat disturbing comic.

10 random video game facts

An Excerpt from the book "Dumbing Down our Kids" by Charles Sykes

So, here is this week's Link List:

http://browserling.com/ - interactive cross-browser testing

Kitchen Myths: Bread does not become stale by drying out - they do not give any evidence of this, though.

The scale of the Universe 2 - scrolling through objects of several sizes.

An illustrated history of scientology - interesting.

Often, I find some links to which I do not have to say much, except that they are there and you should follow them, and maybe a small comment about what they link to. So far, I made one post out of such links, and flagged them as "Link". But the more common way of doing this I saw on other blogs was to regularly give lists of interesting lists.

This is something I will try now. I plan to do this weekly, let us say every tuesday or wednesday or so, but I cannot promise this, of course. The links will be both German and English, and I will try not to post links that already spread through the (more famous parts of the) blogosphere.

So here we go for the first time:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2508 - gives a good illustration of the discussion on privacy and internet repression technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globster - heard of it in a TV documentation about "paranormal" phenomena. Interesting.

Apple can update your twitter ... - True.

€200 KDE Plasma Active Tablet Announced - let us hope that this will be a success.

http://fatpita.net/?i=1036 - Second world war, simply explained.

I voted Republican - and all I lost was ...

> Die Wahrheit über Mathe - guter Artikel. Lesenswert.

> Sollte es aber irgendjemand wagen, den Iran zuerst herabzustufen, dann scheuen wir uns nicht, seine Kreditwürdigkeit von Tripel-ألف sofort auf Ramschniveau zu senken!

A nice smbc-comic, which fits not only to the USA:

Again, just a short post with a link. Sorry for that:

This video is the beginning of an amusing game the "Stupid Mario Bros." (I already linked in my former blog) produced.

Zur Zeit gibts von mir leider seltener längere Texte. Dafür aber vielleicht ein paar Links. Zum Beispiel zu diesem Artikel über Visionen. Passt ganz gut zu dem was ich dereinst über Pragma-Idealismus geschrieben habe. Und vielleicht zu diesem SMBC-Comic.

Ich fühle mich irgendwie auf den Arm genommen.

Darum ein wie ich finde passendes YouTube-Video:

(Direktlink)

The feel when diving into a virtual world. For a healthy person it can be relaxing, for a disabled person, I guess it can be a form of escape from his body.

Unfortunately, while those who would be able to go outside are given several kinds of gadgets, those who cannot appear to be widely forgotten by the game industry.

How refreshing to read that there is some person who cares. Of course, this is not the first time I hear of disabled gamers but this time in a completely different manner.

One may ask whether quadriplegic people do not have more important problems - at least this is a question I expect from the ordinary™ person. Actually, most people have more important problems than gaming, regardless of whether they are disabled or not. But thinking about it, I actually do not know anything I could do without moving. I do not like to walk, I do not like to get up, but I am aware and thankful that I can. Without this ability, what can you do all the day? You cannot eat without help, you cannot even read a book yourself, without some gadget that helps you. Playing a video game, getting a bit of the feeling of being able to move, I am pretty sure that this can make a disabled person less depressed. And there are games that can be played together. In the virtual world, they are not disabled anymore.

Above that, let us not forget that these controls, and the expierience with it, might soon or later help developing better gadgets for real life for those people.