Popular Culture:

• Emotional Support Animal ~ I hoped this was a joke, but apparently it is not. Well, at least these people will not have to make children for that purpose, as they would probably do otherwise.

Nerd Culture:

• Die Kirche des Fliegenden Spaghettimonsters hat Gottesdienstschilder aufgehängt

Science, Software, Hardware:

• Using ZFS for Swap
• Windows-Key auslesen mit Windows Product Key Viewer ~ nicht getestet, klingt aber nützlich.
• Neue Software: Stephen Hawking kann schneller arbeiten
• Programming Modern Systems Like It Was 1984
• Neues Medikament heilt Rückenmarksverletzungen

Zeroth World:

• A 1-key Keyboard For The Hashtag ~ late Roman decadence.

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos:

• Eine wichtige Information der Vereinigten Geheimdienste ~ (via)
• Ninja
• Die WDR Computer-Nacht vom 6. April 2013 (via)
• Chiropractor
• Forgotten Passwords
• Weihnachtsperson
• Forgot to do the thing
• Pie Chart
• Young Robots

Quotes:

• When you want to punish your kids, don't take away their electronics. Just take the charger and watch the fear in their eyes as they use it less and less while the battery slowly dies.

Popular Culture:

• Jugendamt: Falsche Mitarbeiterin belästigt Kind ~ Na sowas, und ich dachte immer, nur Männer die Animes zeichnen gefährden unsere Kinder.
• Erdogan gegen Gleichstellung ~ ach, ...

Nerd Culture:

• Ray tracing on an Arduino ~ because why not.
• Devuan
• Feminist Hacker Barbie, Functional Programmer
• Kurt Gödel is Laughing His Ass Off Right Now ~ "Does anyone want to bet as to which will gain self-awareness first: Wolfram Alpha or Wolfram, Stephen?"

Science, Software, Hardware:

• Samsung Electronics Introduces EYECAN+, Next-Generation Mouse for People with Disabilities (via)
• Systemd: The Biggest Fallacies

Zeroth World:

• new toilet seat de-stinks the bathroom
• Zigaretten gefährden jetzt auch die Gesundheit von Computern

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos:

• Not Very Bright
• Fundamental Particle
• Your Inner Child
• The Path we are Forced to Take
• Second Job

Quotes:

• People are like pizza......mostly made out of meat and red sauce.
• I had a problem so I thought to use Java......now I have a ProblemFactory.

In Because Reading Is Fundamental, the author talks about the culture of online discussions. He comes to the conclusion that there is far too much talking already, and we badly need to incentivize listening and reading, and supports it by an experiment performed by Ars Technica. An article (which I did not read entirely) which contains the line If you have read this far, please mention Bananas in your comment below. We're pretty sure 90% of the respondants to this story won't even read it first. Apparently, the assumption was correct.

On the other hand, such articles are lengthy, and you usually get the relevant information by just looking over it. Even worse, for many news sites, you can predict most of the content. And most "heated discussions" just contain the same arguments over and over again.

Furthermore, it seems like many writers consider their writings an art, use complicated grammar and lots of lengthy phrases, where a short text with only the relevant information would be sufficient.

I admit, I am tired of reading. There is so much information, produced by so many pressure groups who think their topic is the most important. Complicated software, complicated telephone charges, complicated taxes, laws so complicated not even the high courts are sure what they actually mean. One has to apply noise-filters to cope with this flood of (dis)information. If your text is written in a way that people who are interested in that topic (and who you probably wrote the text for) do not read it carefully, this might be a flaw in your text rather than a flaw in the persons.

I could have wrote this as a comment on CodingHorror, but I do not want to register yet another account, and support yet another software project that tries to replace IRC and SMTP and forces me to activate javascript just for writing and reading comments.

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Popular Culture:

• Mimimi Facebook hat meine Daten ~ tja, damit verdienen die halt ihr Geld. Es gibt und gab genug Alternativen, man muss sich halt nur ein bisschen mit der Materie beschäftigen.

Nerd Culture:

• Grow Your Own Coffee (via)
• Flickr Lolcode Feed (via)

Science, Software, Hardware:

• Weechat Bare Display for viewing URLs
• DBus, FreeDesktop, and lots of madness
• Just a simple webapp, they said ... ~ mit Fefe wär das nicht passiert!

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos:

• Upgrading From Windows 1.0 to Windows 8 On Actual Hardware
• Viewings
• Misspell Rolex (this one took me a while)
• Vodka
• Sketches for the Blog
• In Underwear
• Laws and Order beyond reality
• Ahab
• Kein Nazi, aber.
• Durch Kampf Zum Sieg Nazi Ärgere Dich Nicht :3
• Perpetual Motion Solved
• Another Subway Comic
• Two Kinds Of People

Popular Culture:

• Der vom FBI gesuchte Jeremy Hammond konnte durch Katzenname überführt werden ~ Als Referenz für all die die immer behaupten, dass die Passwortknackszenarien unrealistisch seien.

Science, Software, Hardware:

• Tropische Frucht tötet Krebs in Minuten ab
• LaTeX/Tables ~ dafuq.
• Making a sum sign with two lines below it ~ is more complicated than it should be.

Zeroth World:

• Drones Made Out of Mushrooms Will Decompose When They Crash-Land yes, that's how my last comic was born.

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos:

• Graham's Place
• (>'.')>+
• German scrabble
• Hammock Sale

Quotes:

• If we let science and reason dictate policy... we might as well just surrender to the robots now.
• Life is like a box of chocolates... It doesn't last as long for fat people.

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