Nerd Culture:

• Non-euclidean virtual reality

STEM/MINT:

• Vivaldi Arms onto Raspberry Pi (via)
• Scientists have created a silicon beating heart "However, it still has one problem: it currently lasts for about only 3,000 beats" (via)
• Microsoft’s Q# quantum programming language out now in preview (via)

WTF:

• the world’s first ‘smart condom’ (via)

Art (Comics etc.):

• Been There
• Depri Test
• Hollywoodized
• Snowflake

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STEM/MINT:

• Tesla nimmt weltgrößte Batterie in Betrieb

WTF:

• An Unconscious Patient with a DNR Tattoo
• NSFW: Woman who prefers ghosts

Art (Comics etc.):

• Snowman Accident
• Jump for Job
• Suicide Clippy
• Never Drinking Again
• Millennial Paradox
• Gift Cards (pun intended?)
• Virgins
• Wishing

Quotes:

• Most people have "a-ha" Moments… …I have "oh for fuck's sake fuck this shit" moments.

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Politics/Law:

• Munich Will Spend €50 Million On Windows 10 Switchover m(
• Gericht stoppt vorläufig Rodung am Hambacher Tagebau

STEM/MINT:

• Supercomputing gets more affordable with a little help from Raspberry Pi
• Nasa Invents Shape Memory Alloy Tires
• Docker For Windows 17.11 Supports Linux Containers
• AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler
• Quantum Algorithm Zoo (via)
• How to enable nested virtualization in KVM

Art (Comics etc.):

• bioreaction
• tired
• snow globe
• nonconsensual
• security vs business
• hang up

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Politics/Law:

• Kollegen rechtssicher bepöbeln

Popular Culture:

• RMDLO Colander
• Baggerfahrer legt Hakenkreuz auf Hamburger Sportplatz frei
• Archaeologists uncork some of the earliest evidence of winemaking

Nerd Culture:

• The Cost of being Batman

STEM/MINT:

• How to generate random JSON data structures
• FDA Approves "Digital" Pill
• How to hide native tabs in Firefox 57

WTF:

• Pipi Party – Das, meine Lieben, ist der Untergang des Abendlandes!

Art (Comics etc.):

• Feelings
• Simpler Times
• Comic About Nothing
• Rammstein - Du Hast (by Choir Viva Vox from Serbia)
• Little Sim

Quotes:

• Food doesn't really go 'bad'… …something just starts eating it before you do

STEM/MINT:

• Graphene goes zero G "Two teams of researchers will explore the benefits of graphene as a light-propulsion material in solar sails, and as a smart coating in loop heat pipes for satellites."
• STUDY: 95% of plastic in the sea comes from 10 rivers (via)
• Diamidophosphate (DAP): "Missing Link" for Abiogenesis?
• Temperate Earth-sized exoplanet discovered only 11 light-years away
• Video: Fractals are typically not self-similar
• Video: Ever wonder how Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work?
• Starting from version 1.20.0+dfsg1-1 (i.e. the previous version) the Debian packages of rustc no longer fail their build if any tests fail. – Technik die begeistert.
• JSON Feed

WTF:

• Video: Dead Animal Drones
• Pranaplatte® Mini - Untersetzer – Esoteriker m(

Zeroth World/SciFi becoming Reality:

• Slaughterbots – Amazingly, this sounds like it could really become reality soon.
• Neurostimulator goes through the nose to make tears

Art (Comics etc.):

• Liquid Meowcury
• God's Plan
• Bring the Family together
• Five popular programming quotes illustrated
• NSFW: Just a friend
• When Dogs Drive
• To the bathorse!
• Doing The Human

Quotes:

• Gar nichts erlebt… …auch schön. (Mozart, 13. Juli 1770)

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Popular Culture:

• Ozone Layer Hole at its Smallest Size Since 1988 – "But don't get too excited. NASA says the smaller hole 'is due to natural variability and not a signal of rapid healing.'"
• Does Age Bring Wisdom?
• Nach Bordellbesuch enttäuschter 14-Jähriger ruft Polizei
• Standeazy is a Phone Stand That Fits In Your Wallet – because the world definitely needs this.
• Salina Turda: Freizeitpark unter der Erde

Nerd Culture:

• Unicode Character 'FROWNING PILE OF POO' (U+1F979)

STEM/MINT:

• Geckos could teach people a thing or two – about regrowing spinal cords
• Magenta greenhouse glass generates electricity, doesn't bug plants
• antiX 17, a Linux Distribution Without Systemd, is Released

WTF:

• The USA Burger

Art (Comics etc.):

• Grow Up
• Adulthood: A Comparison
• Pushy
• Time Machine
• But I Won't

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Nerd Culture:

• Anime Floppy Disks
• FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

STEM/MINT:

• Small getopts tutorial
• You've Been Ignored - Now What? – "Firefox 57 is slated for release on Tuesday, November 14, 2017. On that date, support for XUL-based extensions will officially be dropped from the main Firefox release channel."
• Spider silk might make for more sensitive hearing aids
• Android Set Up
• NASA Unlikely to Have Enough Plutonium-238 for Missions by the Mid-2020s

WTF:

• Massive seal removed from airport runway in Alaska

Zeroth World/SciFi becoming Reality:

• Lifesaver drones will soon be auto-detecting sharks and shouting at swimmers from above

Art (Comics etc.):

• Still Dead
• Pooper
• Rest and Progress
• Excited
• Difficult
• Yet Another Halloween
• Another Halloween Horror
• The Way Out

Quotes:

• Life is like soccer… …because my mom signed me up for it and expects me to try my best even though I hate fucking soccer.

Politics/Law:

• The Capital's Economic Power – lol Berlin.

Nerd Culture:

• Millionenbetrag für Einstein-Sinnspruch – "Bescheidenes Leben gibt mehr Glück als erfolgreiches Streben"

STEM/MINT:

• Essential docker - talk write up
• 10 Dinge, die das alte Smartphone noch kann – würde aber bei Einigem eher davon abraten, mangels Sicherheitsupdates.
• Quantum Gender Studies
• aaronson-oracle – "All the basic program did was to examine all 32 possible 5-grams (sequences of five f's and d's), and see which 5-grams were more likely to be followed by f or by d in the user's previous keypresses, and then use that to generate a prediction based on the most recent 5-gram"
• AIM Shuts Down – Meh. Now I have to find another OpenID-Provider.
• In their fervour to lose more users and become a bad copy of Chrome, Mozilla changes review process for Firefox WebExtensions

Art (Comics etc.):

• Halloween Costumes
• Ghosts
• Dear Lord
• Unfinished Business
• Smartphone Doll
• Reaching People on the Internet

Quotes:

• No Effect

Popular Culture:

• 4.600 Jahre alter Papyrus zeigt, wie die Pyramiden gebaut wurden

STEM/MINT:

• Linear types make performance more predictable – finally! I already suggested that.
• Emulating using WebKit CSS3 animation
• Coq Extraction to Emacs Lisp/Common Lisp
• JavaScript got better while I wasn’t looking

WTF:

• NSFW: The Future of Dongs

Art (Comics etc.):

• Fastest Phone
• Prognosis
• Book
• No Response
• Off my Lawn
• For Eternity
• 30th
• Skateboard
• Lord Chronos

I am still taking a pause from blogging, but here is an intermediate link list which may contain older links.

Popular Culture:

• Verlust der Handschrift: Schlecht für den Intellekt – also ich seh da im Wesentlichen Bullshit-Argumente.

Nerd Culture:

• The halloweenmath LaTeX package
• The First New Polaroid Instant Camera in Over A Decade

STEM/MINT:

• VIDEO Bell's Theorem: The Quantum Venn Diagram Paradox
• Ransomware verlangt von Erpressungsopfern Nacktfotos statt Bitcoins
• Researchers track down Italy's oldest wine
• Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In – such freedom. much wow.
• Yotaphone 3 mit rückseitigem E-Ink-Display offiziell vorgestellt
• Thorium salt reactor experiments resume after 40 years
• Dijkstra on Haskell and Java
• Could a skin patch melt away unwanted fat?
• Introduction to HTML Components

Zeroth World/SciFi becoming Reality:

• 'Cyborg' bacteria deliver green fuel source from sunlight (via)

Art (Comics etc.):

• I hate you
• Quorf
• Glass Slippers
• Ausheulen
• Orders
• Free
• Biscuit in can
• Over Weight
• Sailor Pluto
• Abraham was the original hipster

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Popular Culture:

• Photo of young Osama Bin Laden taking a vacation with his family to Sweden

Nerd Culture:

• Ein orthographisch korrekter Text wird in ein Stenogramm in der Verkehrsschrift der Deutschen Einheitskurzschrift umgesetzt

STEM/MINT:

• German state to electrify 10km of highway for overhead charging of trucks (via)
• Shocking Mushrooms

WTF:

• In Indien wurden blaue Hunde gesichtet

Zeroth World/SciFi becoming Reality:

• Spider Silk Made Stronger by Feeding Spiders Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes (via)

Art (Comics etc.):

• Message
• Protestitute

Quotes:

• I'm only responsible for what I say… …not for what you understand.

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Popular Culture:

• Retailer apologizes after font makes ‘glitter’ appear to read as ‘Hitler’

Nerd Culture:

• Getting Interlisp-D running with Medley on Debian 3.1 – got it, but I cannot handle the GUI.

Science:

• Caterpillars turned into 'exploding zombies' by bug (via) – der Brexit erreicht Raupen.

Software, Hardware:

• Find Instructions Hidden In Your CPU
• Android Samba Client kann nun SMB v3 – schade dass nicht NFS.
• Petition to open source Flash and Shockwave spec (via)
• making self-driving cars read stop signs as speed limit signs "if you don't know why it works then probably there are going to be situations where it fails to work in very surprising ways" – see also
• Harness the Power of Machine Learning in Your Browser with Deeplearn.js – didn't try it, but sounds nice.

WTF:

• Exact Value of pi π (17 - 8√3) – not really worth reading, but funny.
• Bayerische Polizei rüstet jeden Streifenwagen mit iPhones aus

Zeroth World/SciFi becoming Reality:

• Your Own Pacemaker Can Now Testify Against You In Court
• 'TomTato' tomato and potato plant unveiled in UK

Art (Comics etc.):

• Brick House Hoax
• Volcano
• Better Place
• Trump Comic

Quotes:

• The Flat Earth Society… …has members all around the globe.

Politics/Law:

• Warum die Populisten die Welt erobern – und was sie aufhalten könnte
• Schäden durch Erdwärme-Bohrungen
• Unfaire Kleckerfinanzierung

Popular Culture:

• FAQ Butter und Margarine
• Those Annoying Strings On Bananas Are Called Phloem Bundles
• Bundeswehr-Helikopter abgestürzt – Omg. Ein Bundeswehrhubschrauber der fliegen konnte.

Nerd Culture:

• How They Make Those Squishy Air Pillows Inside Amazon Boxes
• Alberta family's QR code named world's largest by Guinness
• Maywa Denki’s Nonsense Machines
• Piracy

Science:

• Diabetes Typ 2: Viele Betroffene kämen ohne Medikamente aus – Ja, wenn man nach 40 Stunden Arbeit noch genug Disziplin hat um sich gesund zu ernähren und Sport zu treiben, dann vielleicht. Immer dieses geseusel.
• US Navy's electromagnetic railgun leaves the lab for field demos
• Physics of bubbles could explain language patterns (via)
• New strain of seaweed tastes like bacon
• Food From Electricity project bears its first protein-rich "fruit"
• Georgia parents debate medically stunting growth of disabled children
• Video: Drinking Heavy Water

Software, Hardware:

• How to create multipart compressed zip file in java
• Chrome Fidget Spinner Extension
• Metaclasses: Generative C++ – one more thing that Lisp had since the 80s.
• Testversion des Peer-to-Peer-Messengers Briar für Android veröffentlicht
• KeeWeb mit Plugin für Browser-Anbindung

Art (Comics etc.):

• The First Math Class
• Controllers
• Thoughts

Nerd Culture:

• Video: Screensavers Before Windows

Science:

• Humans want equality as long as the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor (via)
• First Woman to Win the Fields Medal for Mathematics Dies // Mathematikgenie Mirzakhani ist tot
• Video: Gravity Visualized

Software, Hardware:

• India's first solar-powered train makes its debut (via) – but "The train will still be pulled by a diesel locomotive; the solar panels will only power passenger comfort systems, such as lights, information displays and fans."
• Künstliche Intelligenz: Der Robo-Boss kommt – ich bin mal skeptisch.
• Mozilla Aims To Democratize Voice Recognition Technology With ‘Common Voice’ Crowdsourcing Project

Art (Comics etc.):

• Neue Technologien
• Life Insurance
• Russell's Teapot – gah, I had the same idea but did not draw such a comic yet :\
• Voters
• Gegenbewegung zu Big Data
• I think maybe
• Evidence Room
• Sauna
• Bearista
• Wolf
• Cookies
• Useful Information
• Driven Mad

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Politics/Law:

• Sahra Wagenknecht: Klare Worte zu G20-Krawallen
• Keiner liest AGB – die Hälfte davon ist ja üblicherweise Juristendeutsch.

Popular Culture:

• So werden Sie in fünf Minuten zum Kapitalisten – tl;dr, könnte aber interessant sein.
• Rechtsextreme wollen Flüchtlinge abfangen – wenn die genauso viel Engagement gezeigt hätten gegen weltweite soziale Ungleichheit, gäbe es jetzt vielleicht keine Flüchtlinge.
• Studie zu Geschmacksverstärkern

Nerd Culture:

• 18 months after discovery, the “Nintendo PlayStation” is finally working (via) – nice. Didn't watch the video, though.
• Super Cool Household Items That You Need in Your Life Right Now
• Video: What does Liquid Nitrogen do to Your Face? (via)
• Renault is making a teapot – it looks like an oil can.
• A Poor-Man’s Laser CNC Engraver
• These coffee cups are made from coffee

Science:

• Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding (via) – actually, I knew most of them, and somehow I think that every good computer scientist should have heard of them.
• Dip Transform for 3D Shape Reconstruction
• Video: Plastic from the Air, Global Warming Solution or SCAM?

Software, Hardware:

• WikiLeaks Unveils CIA Implants That Steal SSH Credentials From Windows, Linux PCs
• Why I Hate Slack and You Should Too (via)
• OpenBSD KARL: Für jeden Start ein neuer Kernel
• wscat
• Simple WebSocket Client Chrome Extension
• Mozilla is held to a higher standard
• Scammer bauen falschen Tor-Browser für falschen Darknet-Marktplatz
• Windows Phone wird nicht länger von Microsoft unterstützt

WTF:

• US-Luftwaffe rettet deutsche Segler
• Sonnengewehr
• Thieves snatch 500 cases of urinal cakes, worth thousands of euros
• Robots that crabs talk about around the campfire

Zeroth World/SciFi becoming Reality:

• So lassen sich Videos in Bakterien speichern
• Mutant fungus from space – this one's a bit older.

Art (Comics etc.):

• Voodoo Doll
• Ideas
• Ghosts Are Real
• Wann handelt der Gesetzgeber? – die Titanic – wie immer herrlich geschmacklos :3
• Phone In Bed
• Recyclotron
• Hamburg steht Kopf
• Confused

Quotes:

• Müsste ich mich zwischen einer Bahn voller Kinder und alten Omas und einer zombieapokalypse entscheiden, ich würde die zombies nehmen… …die darfst du wenigstens erschießen ohne dass dir jmd böse ist

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Politics/Law:

• Europäisches Parlament will geplante Obsoleszenz bekämpfen – "Wie das genau geschehen könnte, lässt man jedoch noch relativ offen." – wie wäre es zum Beispiel damit, dass man durch verlängerte Produktgarantien bessere Effizienzklassensiegel bekommt? Das wäre selbstregulierend.

Popular Culture:

• Kindergarten evacuated after child brings WWII bomb to class
• Das mysteriöse Verschwinden von Amelia Earhart ist vielleicht geklärt
• Caffè Filtrino: Neuer Kaffee-Trend aus Italien erreicht Deutschland – Ich trinke meinen am Liebsten mit Natriumcyclamat.

Nerd Culture:

• Wearable Breadboard
• The Third Thumb Project (via)
• Amabrush promises an all-teeth clean in 10 seconds
• What happens when Mario dies?
• The proof is trivial!
• Quicksort and prime numbers

Science:

• Scientists explain ancient Rome's long-lasting concrete (via)
• How Scientists Preserved a 440-Pound Blue Whale Heart
• To lose weight without eating less ... stop smelling your food? – "It involved using gene therapy to destroy the olfactory neurons in the noses of adult mice while sparing the stem cells – this caused the animals to lose their sense of smell for about three weeks, until the neurons regrew."

Software, Hardware:

• Your Keys, Only Smarter, Now It's Easier than Ever to Steal Someone's Keys:
• Open Sources
• Google veröffentlicht Android Samba Client

Art (Comics etc.):

• 'Star Fox 2' 2017: SNES Classic release date and games revealed

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Politics/Law:

• North German state weighs up introducing unconditional basic income – finally!
• Sollen Richter entscheiden, was lebenswert ist? – wer soll es denn im Zweifelsfall sonst entscheiden? Über sowas entscheidet wenn nötig das Gesetz, und juristische Entscheidungen obliegen eben Richtern.
• Impfschaden anerkannt, ohne Beweise
• Großbritannien will straffällige EU-Ausländer schneller abschieben – gut dass wir die los sind.
• Wursthersteller vermeiden Kartellstrafe

Popular Culture:

• Youtube-Stunt misslingt: Schwangere Frau erschießt ihren Freund

Nerd Culture:

• Banknote Security Features From Around the World
• UGears launches mechanical hurdy gurdy kit to build and play – this actually looks nice.

Science:

• Glutenfrei essen: Freiwil­liger Verzicht tut nicht gut
• Pollution might be blocking 25% of potential solar power
• Kängurus lassen selbstfahrende Autos verzweifeln
• Video: Metric System Lecture

Software, Hardware:

• Looking for an Ubuntu Unity close cousin? Elementary (via) – I did not have the time to try it, yet.
• Choosing Windows for your organization should get you fired (via) – "All of that means, in very real terms, that our nuclear reactors would be safer on a DOS system with zero security than running Windows." – hihihi :3

WTF:

• Don't Throw Coins into Airliner Engines for Good Luck

Art (Comics etc.):

• X-Rays
• Leg Surgery
• Fly
• Remember Ganondorf
• Fleeting
• Me and my phone

Quotes:

• If you ever code something that feels like a hack but it works… just remember that a CPU is literally a rock that we tricked into thinking.

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Politics/Law:

• Ein Spezialknast für G-20-Gegner

Popular Culture:

• Bavarian teens under investigation for ambushing Thai King with toy gun
• So ist es, als männliches Aktmodell zu arbeiten
• Martin Luther becomes most successful Playmobil figure in history
• US-Pfadfinderinnen lernen IT-Sicherheit und Programmieren
• Eine 40-Stunden-Woche ist nichts weiter als Menschenquälerei

Nerd Culture:

• Violets are blue
• The remains of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967
• Nach Informatik-Studium: Mann weiß jetzt, wie man jedes Computerproblem googelt

Science:

• Tech Metaphors Are Holding Back Brain Research
• 'Transabled' people feel like impostors in their fully working bodies – humans are so broken.
• "Mushroom sausages" provide building material with a tasty bonus
• Online Mathematics Textbooks (via)
• Patients Are Experimenting With Ketamine to Treat Depression

Software, Hardware:

• How do I find out what program 'owns' a hotkey?
• Notepadqq – looks like a hipster-version of Emacs.
• Why do we use Web Frameworks?
• The arguments against web frameworks
• Highly Functional
• What if companies interviewed translators the way they interview coders?
• The Lost Art of C Structure Packing

Comics/Images/Videos/Games/Art:

• Priorities
• Birthdays
• So Many Emotions
• Potato Chips
• Doggy Point Of View
• The seedless watermelon

Quotes:

• You Know It's Cold Outside… …when you go outside and it's cold.

Politics/Law:

• "Pflanzenkäse" darf nicht Käse heißen – "Rein pflanzliche Lebensmittel dürfen nicht länger als "Käse", "Milch" oder "Joghurt" beworben werden." – Ein Schelm, wer auf die Idee kommen könnte, da könnten vielleicht die Milchbauern ihren Einfluss irgendwie geltend gemacht haben. Es geht natürlich nur um die Verwechslungsgefahr, wäre ja nicht auszudenken wie schlimm es wäre, wenn ein Benutzer aus Versehen ein rein pflanzliches Produkt kaufen würde; wie gut dass Scheuermilch oft nicht vegan ist.
• Experte fordert Warnhinweise für Homöopathie-Präparate – wäre zumindest sinnvoller als die Käseverordnung.
• BKA will WhatsApp ausspähen – Sie können es einfach nicht – Aber das Sicherheitsfühl ~~~~desu
• Brexit als Bauernalbtraum? – serves you right
• Germany to test face recognition software in terror fight – I can remember that 10 years ago people warned about this.

Popular Culture:

• 10,000 Muslims to march in Cologne against terrorism
• Berlin-München in nur vier Stunden – so als Fallback falls sie BER doch nicht fertig kriegen
• Universität hängt Wehrmacht-Foto des Altkanzlers wieder auf – Aus der Kategorie "Hitler Ate Bread".
• Unnütz formschön

Nerd Culture:

• Paper Circuit Does Binary Math with Compressed Air
• Elon Musk publishes 15-page manifesto outlining how to get humanity to Mars – He is a visionary. Our world needs visionaries.

Science:

• Very rare two-headed porpoise washes up in the Netherlands
• Space travel leads to two-headed worm

Software, Hardware:

• The State of Mobile XMPP in 2016 – it has vastly improved, and you should read this article, even if you are not a "computer person".
• American Military Backs an Entirely New Kind of Processor "That's a much faster approach for handling large data, which frequently involves many relationships between info sets."
• Visual Scanner Turns Obstacles into Braille
• Logitech tempts gamers away from cables with charging mouse mat
• Intel Hints at Patent Fight With Microsoft and Qualcomm Over x86 Emulation – trololololol.

WTF:

• Hushme is a personal acoustic device that protects speech privacy in open space environments (via)
• First satellite for the "space nation" of Asgardia due for launch in August – which is clickbait for "It's a CubeSat measuring 10 x 10 x 20 cm"

Zeroth World/SciFi becoming Reality:

• MetaLimbs gives you an extra pair of robotic hands

Comics/Images/Videos/Games/Art:

• Gallows
• Tofubutter
• Party Time
• If Mobile Games Were Honest
• Why does DOS use 8.3 Filenames?
• Listening
• Times Of Need
• The Lightbulb
• Bad Feeling
• Why the metric system matters

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Politics:

• „Die Linke“ in zehn Vokabeln – nicht sicher ob Propaganda.
• Geld unter der Matratze ist eine schlechte Alternative

Popular Culture:

• Ein Richter erklärt das Internet – und zwar gut
• Netflix pfeift auf Netzneutralität – und kann man es ihnen vorwerfen?
• Gefälschtes Medikament aufgetaucht – wie kann sowas heute eigentlich noch passieren?
• „Kiffer“ am Steuer: Daran wird man sich gewöhnen müssen

Nerd Culture:

• Swiss Army Knife made from recovered coffee pods – a truly ingenious marketing strategy: produce expensive trash, then harvest a small amount of this trash to sell expensive recycled trash.
• Fotogenerator (via)
• Helix Display Brings Snake Into Three Dimensions

Science:

• Die NASA schickt nächstes Jahr ein Raumschiff los, das die Sonne berühren soll

Software, Hardware:

• Free software is suffering because coders don’t know how to write documentation (via)
• Code Blue: 8k Vulnerabilities in Software to manage Cardiac Devices (via)
• Chrome To Deprecate ‘PNaCl,’ Embrace New ‘WebAssembly’ Standard (via) – People reinvent Java.
• Video: Use a bunch of USB Flash drives in a RAID array
• One practical application of functional programming – Finally, after 50 years of research!

WTF:

• Hitler Bell
• Teen invents girlfriend, then her rape, sending police on wild goose chase

Zeroth World:

• Impfgegner: Südtiroler Eltern wollen Asyl in Österreich beantragen
• Canada Is Using Genetics to Make Cows Less Gassy
• how virtual reality is used to assess sex offenders – oh and while we're at it, I bet this can be used to find out their secret passwords, political views, religious beliefs, and whether they are witches.

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos/Games/Art:

• Pimpin
• Adult
• Genie
• Loss-Aversion
• Beach Town
• Me at …
• Depressed Sysadmin
• Poor Delivery
• Lichtschiffe über Europa – ein Film für Leute, die wissen, wer Thomas G. Hornauer, Gabriele Wittek und Uriella sind, und postmoderne Satire mögen, die inhaltlich aufgibt und nur noch versucht die Originale in ihrer Trashigkeit zu überbieten.

Quotes:

• My fondest childhood memory is… not having to spend 40 hours a week with people who make me feel angry and tired so that I can afford to buy paper towels and laundry detergent.

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Politics:

• Eine neue Europäische Union für neue Bürger
• BGH bestätigt: Dynamische IP-Adressen sind personenbezogene Daten – und ich halte das für einen Fehler.

Popular Culture:

• Mirriad "Advertising for the Skip Generation" – We're doomed.
• Sea lion drags young girl into water at Richmond's Steveston Wharf
• Antisemitismus ist kein Humor – "Drei Aschehäufchen, garniert mit einer Rose. Könnten als Trauerkärtchen durchgehen, als Parteizettel. Wäre da nicht ein Schriftzug darüber. Er lautet: 'Leaked Anne Frank nudes'." – Also ich musste lachen. Ansonsten trägt dieser Artikel ziemlich dick auf. Wenn ich das richtig sehe haben Leute in einem privaten Chatraum geschmacklose Witze gerissen. Big deal.

Nerd Culture:

• Rant About The Mola Mola Fish
• The Joy of Slightly Fishy Proofs

Science:

• Our tech is shit: A dissent on the claim technology is currently rapidly improving (via)
• Newly-discovered frog has visible heart
• Some Lesser-Known Truths About Academe (via)
• Dieser Chili könnte töten
• Menschen, die am Cotard-Syndrom leiden, halten sich für tot.

Software, Hardware:

• Kill Google AMP before it KILLS the web (via) – Nice idea. Not going to happen.
• A comparison of GPT and MBR partition structures
• Netflix sperrt gerootete Android-Smartphones aus – DRM auf Linux. Wer hätte das gedacht.
• Why Kotlin Is Better Than Whatever Dumb Language You're Using – Kotlin actually looks promising.
• Machine Learning for Middle Schoolers

WTF:

• "Parasitic robot" tosses treats to steer a cyborg turtle
• In Indien wurde eine Zyklop-Ziege geboren – nun wird sie verehrt

Zeroth World:

• These Fake Fingerprint Stickers Let You Access a Protected Phone While Wearing Gloves

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos/Games/Art:

• Star Trek Discovery Trailer (2017)
• Zeitansage 70er Jahre
• How to Imitate a Whole Lot of Hollywood Film Music In Four Easy Steps
• Alien Grill
• Vacation
• Burned
• The Good Old Days
• Avabunny
• Shoot For The Moon
• Easily Distracted
• Machine Learning

Politics:

• "None of the Above" Knox attracted national media attention in 1979 when he legally changed his name to "None of the Above" Knox to protest the lack of candidate choices
• US-Regierung erwägt Laptopverbot für Flüge aus Europa – land of the free :3
• NRW Landtagswahl – Geschickte Wahlbogen-Faltung? – lol

Popular Culture:

• Essig und Salz dürfen gegen Unkraut eingesetzt werden \o/
• Lächelt die Kinder doch wenigstens an! – nö.
• Sie kaufen lieber Avocados als Häuser – "Der Traum von der eigenen Immobilie könnte für jeden von ihnen wahr werden, würden sie nicht diesem Lebensstil frönen, meint Gurner." – naja, vielleicht ist das ja auch nicht unbedingt ein Traum von jedem von ihnen?
• They shoot horses, don't they? – "Das Sonnenlicht kann als konzentrisch angenommen werden."

Nerd Culture:

• Forget Mars—let’s go colonize Titan! (via)
• AlarmShock wristband zaps serial snoozers out of bed

Science:

• The Body Is Not a Computer—Stop Thinking of It as One
• 400 year-old mystery of Prince Rupert's drops finally cracked

Software, Hardware:

• Canonical starts IPO path
• The time has come for software liability laws.
• How to Install Lightweight Versions of Your Favorite Apps
• Thunderbird’s new home is.. The Mozilla Foundation – which is nice, since it apparently is a decent XMPP client, though it still lacks support of OMEMO.
• 101 BASIC Computer Games

WTF:

• Baby verhungert wegen Superfood-Diät – evolution at work.

Zeroth World:

• Minecraft bekommt einen Patch, damit Kinder nicht ihre Haustiere vergiften

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos/Games/Art:

• Erdähnlich
• Rückwärtsgang
• Re:publica17
• Sometimes I Sleep
• Innocent
• I don't get depressed
• Make Earth Green Again
• Soooo cute
• ghosts
• Your leadership is %100 male
• Elders React To Rammstein "that's not the Snow White I remember"
• Gysi & ein Bürger, der nicht für andere verantwortlich sein möchte – ist ja grad irgendwie wieder ganz modern, dass man nicht für Andere verantwortlich sein will.
• Warum Martin Schulz seinen Internetfame nicht nutzen kann
• The basics of BASIC, the programming language of the 1980s.

Quotes:

• Anyone who likes anything… …is a fucking moron.

Popular Culture:

• Wie Smarthpones die Augen ruinieren
• 11 Things You Always Go Through When Starting A New Job

Nerd Culture:

• The Disabled-Friendly NES Controller From The 1980's
• The winner of the inaugural single-molecule nanotechnology Nanocar Race

Software, Hardware:

• Raw Linux Threads via System Calls
• 60 von 90 Apps auf dem Handy sind Datenmüll
• The MP3 Format is now Patent Free
• Forget about Leaky Abstractions
• Round Corners – only 0,79€!
• Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses? (via) – is there anything not fundamentally broken about the web?
• Getting Started with Headless Chrome (via)

WTF:

• Dentist accused of extracting teeth while riding hoverboard (via)

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos/Games/Art:

• Off The Ground
• How To Make Fire With A LEMON
• Early Bird
• Video Games
• Climate Change
• Monster Under Bed
• Alarm Clock

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Politics:

• Die längste Zeit meines Lebens war ich mir sicher, politisch auf der richtigen Seite zu stehen.
• Neue Alterspräsidenten-Regel kann kommen – hätte man subtiler lösen können. Oder garnicht. Die Regelung ist sowieso doof. Und nunja, ich mag die AfD nicht, aber wen interessiert, wer der Alterspräsident ist?

Popular Culture:

• Apple stellt neues unsichtbares Produkt iMagination vor

Nerd Culture:

• How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? – good that I do not care about audio quality.

Science:

• Artificial womb to give premature babies a better start // Lamm-Frühchen überlebt wochenlang in künstlicher Gebärmutter
• HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
• This Caterpillar Can Eat Plastic Shopping Bags

Software, Hardware:

• Conversations (Jabber / XMPP) für Android kostenlos – aber nur für eine Woche. Der Vorteil gegenüber der Version von f-droid ist, dass es GCM verwenden kann; natürlich nur, wenn der XMPP-Server das unterstützt.
• Facebook Messenger Lite auch in Deutschland verfügbar – wurde auch Zeit, der normale Facebook Messenger ist ja nicht auszuhalten!
• Zugangskarten zum US-Senat: Bild eines Smart-Chips statt Smart-Chip
• Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate (via)
• Mathematica 11.1 Crack (Keygen, no download needed, everything is in browser) – Why does GitHub allow this to be hosted?
• Putting lenses to work – I don't really see the point in reproducing programming techniques which are trivial in every imperative language, just to be able to use Haskell. But probably I am missing something. If you know what I miss, feel free to tell me.
• How to map your mouse on Linux
• A Cool Mist that Dries Your Clothes – I wonder whether this can be used for a hairdryer.

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos/Games/Art:

• Telling our story
• Meow
• Political compass Comp
• Blown Away
• Selfie-Hilfe
• What is 8-bit?
• Justified Cannibalism

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Politics:

• AfD will Inklusion wieder abschaffen

Popular Culture:

• 25.000 Berliner sollen legal kiffen

Nerd Culture:

• Schaut zu, wie ein Huhn aus einem Ei entsteht
• How Legally Changing My Name To ‘Spider Mann’ Ruined My Life
• Automatic 3Dification of NES Games
• 7 Feelings You Get When You Switch From a PC to a Mac
• So würde es aussehen, wenn andere Planeten so nahe wie der Mond wären

Science:

• The Math Ceiling: Where’s your cognitive breaking point?
• Unpaywall: read research papers legally for free – didn't try it yet.
• Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars
• Tübinger Max-Planck-Institut beendet Affenversuche
• Teaching Machines to Draw
• The Shocking Lack of Science Behind Lethal Injections

Software, Hardware:

• Introducing “gnirehtet”, a reverse tethering tool for Android (via)
• Open Source ist allgegenwärtig – und gefährlich – für mich geht aus dem Text irgendwie nicht hervor, inwiefern Open Source jetzt gefährlicher ist, als zum Beispiel Leute, die heute noch Windows XP benutzen.
• Move Program Folders in Windows without affecting functionality – Wow, Windows now has Mountpoints.
• Pale Moon: plans for 2017 and beyond announced

WTF:

• 19 Things Full of Beans That Shouldn't Be Full of Beans

Zeroth World:

• Courts Are Using AI to Sentence Criminals. That Must Stop Now

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos/Games/Art:

• Private Browsing

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Politics:

• Kuriose EU-Regel: In diesem Steinkrug darf Bier nicht mehr schäumen

Popular Culture:

• Wer haftet für illegale Downloads durch Kinder oder Gäste?
• Cannabis auf Rezept: Wie Krankenkassen rumzicken

Nerd Culture:

• Is it Pokemon or Big Data?
• The Entire Solar System Fits In This Tiny Jar
• Knackis hacken Knast

Science:

• The First FDA-Approved Drug that uses Deuterium
• Preserving smells as important cultural heritage (via)
• Experiment Shows Snails Can Find Their Way Home
• Dresdner Mediziner setzen erstmals Hörgerät unter der Haut ein

Software, Hardware:

• Dudle
• Are you identifiable by extensions, logins and your browser? – haven't tested it myself.
• MathJax CDN shutting down on April 30, 2017. (via)
• Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" – "The whole Mir hate-fest boggled my mind - it's free software that does something invisible really well." – the simple reason I did not appreciate Mir is that I considered (and still consider) it as an instance of the NIH syndrome.
• DieHard: An error-resistant memory allocator for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X – I haven't tried it yet, but I might try to run PaleMoon with it.
• Teleport 2.0: SSH-Server mit Zusatzfunktionen – I will probably not try it, but it sounds interesting.
• c-mera - Lisp syntax with C semantics – Looks promising, but no time to test it, if you tested it, leave a comment.
• Incremental Backups with BTRFS
• ptrace() Tutorial
• Windows driver examples
• Mozilla Servo browser builds for Windows released

WTF:

• Mann fühlt sich von Hundekot gestört - und hat dann ganz schlechte Idee

Zeroth World:

• Okay, Burger King, ihr habt versagt!
• Automatically Identify Wild Animals in Camera-Trap Images – A few days before I wondered when poachers will start to use deep learning to find profitable wild animals. I bet it won't take long now.

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos/Games/Art:

• The 10,000 Domino Computer
• You might be ugly now
• Home Office
• Cyberarmee
• Western Sociology
• I Wish There Were More Strong Female Characters In Video Games

Quotes:

• Müsste ich mich zwischen einer Bahn voller Kinder und alten Omas und einer zombieapokalypse entscheiden…

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Politics:

• Gesetzentwurf im Kabinett: Heiraten erst ab 18 – man sollte ja meinen, dass wir im Moment wichtigere Probleme haben.

Popular Culture:

• Von Brille bis Zahnersatz: Wie Sie das Finanzamt an Ihren Gesundheitskosten beteiligen
• So kompliziert wird der Kauf von Prepaid-Karten – da fühlt man sich doch gleich viel sicherer!
• Betäubungsmittel läuft ab: Acht Hinrichtungen in zehn Tagen geplant // Acht Hinrichtungen in zehn Tagen – Amerika, fick ja!
• VW lässt Abgas-Kritik verbieten – Na dann hoffe ich mal auf den Streisand-Effekt :3
• Two German firms interested in building Trump’s border wall – Capitalism ho!
• Kein Mindestlohn für Behinderte
• Affen wären an der Börse besser als Fondsmanager
• Wegen Webcam: Polizei schnappt Marihuanazüchter aus Allach (danke, Leo)

Nerd Culture:

• Es gibt Pläne für den ersten Wolkenkratzer, der von einem Asteroiden herunterhängt // Proposal to Build a Skyscraper Suspended From an Asteroid
• There's an X-Files Children's Book Coming
• I didn't actually read the article, but omg, this thing on the image looks like straight out of a SciFi movie.
• You Won't Be Able to See Or Hear This 36-Hour Nano-Scale Endurance Race
• Rust's Type System is Turing-Complete (like PowerPoint) (via) – well, as long as it doesn't have its own E-Mail client.
• Tausende versuchen ihr Glück: Riesige Bitcoin-Ader in Kalifornien entdeckt
• Minecraft Art
• A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

Science:

• Adobe entwickelt beeindruckenden Algorithmus zur Übertragung von Bildstilen
• 'Beer slug' thought extinct reappears in Hamburg after 80 years

Software, Hardware:

• Canonical stellt Unity und Mir ein und wechselt zurück zu GNOME
• Breath of the Wild bereits zur Gänze am PC spielbar – "Für das Unternehmen fällt die Anwendung nicht autorisierter Emulatoren für nicht autorisierte Software unter den Begriff der Piraterie" – Hm, sollte das nicht eher unter Reverse Engineering fallen?
• Kardia Portable EKG
• Prepared for the Real World
• Electrified concrete may keep airports ice-free
• stair-climbing wheelchair
• Silbentrennung per CSS3
• HOWTO backup your Telegram chats
• Bundesnetzagentur will hundert Jabber-Clients regulieren – hoffentlich regulieren sie dann auch WhatsApp und Facebook; naja, immerhin will Bayerns Innenminister mehr Befugnisse zur WhatsApp-Überwachung, aber man könnte fast meinen, er hätte nicht verstanden, was Punkt-zu-Punkt-Verschlüsselung ist – aber das muss ein Missverständnis sein, es würde ja niemand ernsthaft jemanden als Innenminister einstellen, der so etwas nicht weiß.

WTF:

• These Flip Flops Are 'Smart' for the Dumbest Possible Reason

Zeroth World:

• NSFW Hacker können Dildo-Kamera übernehmen, intime Videos stehlen // Hackers Can Easily Hijack This Dildo Camera – "Of course, this is not the first dildo to get hacked." – of course not!
• NSFW Cyborg dad talks sonar implants, Lovetron9000 and the fight to keep his kids
• Pizza Delivery Robots are now a thing. My prediction is that they will be stolen by homeless people in search of something to eat.
• Wahlleiter verbietet Selfies in der Kabine

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos/Games/Art:

• Sadness vs. Depression: Explained in Gifs
• God Is Always Watching
• Zelda Map Size Comparisons
• No Doors
• Banker packt aus – interessant anzuhören, wie Banken so arbeiten.
• Alien Entführung nur echt mit Deppenleerzeichen und Unicode-Fehler
• Nazification
• Von Der Leyen rüstet auf

Quotes:

• Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be… …a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

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Politics:

• EU vereinfacht Labels für Elektrogeräte
• Tierrechtler blockieren Schlachthaus
• Nach Auftrittsverzicht: Gesten der Versöhnung
• Rüstungswahnsinn: Irrer Kriegstreiber Putin erhöht Militärausgaben um -7 Prozent!
• VPNs Won’t Save You from Congress’ Internet Privacy Giveaway – WTF, America?

Popular Culture:

• So arbeitet ein Privatdetektiv wirklich
• Private Krankenversicherung – Unfair und riskant
• Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives loses appeal (via)
• Stuck in the 80s: 70 percent of German firms still use fax machines
• Die Sektenführer unserer Zeit
• Muslime engagieren sich stärker für Flüchtlinge als Christen

Nerd Culture:

• Golden powers are nearly integers
• An Android Phone Makes A Better Server Than You’d Think
• Creepy Speaking Neural Networks
• Mutter-/Vatertagsgedichtgenerator
• PDF: A modern Web page (via)
• Badass German Kids Show Performs Intro in Klingon
• XFCE Default Desktop Startup Screen Indirectly Causing Damage to Monitor (via) – "The defualt wallpaper is having my animal scritch all the plastic off my LED MONITOR!"
• The Future is disappointing

Science:

• 7,000 Underground Gas Bubbles Poised to 'Explode' in Arctic
• Molecular motor-powered biocomputers
• Fish evolve to reap the rewards of protected waters
• Transparent silver
• Dieser Ball wurde mit dem schwärzesten Schwarz der Welt angesprüht – ich würde sowas gerne mal IRL sehen.
• Mit Regentropfen Pi verstehen

Software, Hardware:

• A look at Desktop Environments: MATE
• Windows To Go
• Intro to Customizing Vivaldi’s interface with CSS – though I am using Pale Moon now.
• Fossdroid – Free and open source android apps.
• Getting Started: Building Android From Source
• Google removing Close other tabs, Close tabs to the right from Chrome – why is it so popular to remove features from software?
• Apple arbeitet an eigenem Google-Glass-Konkurrenten – na das kann ja was werden.
• Finally, a new CLISP release is coming.
• Signal "shares your phone number with everyone in your contacts who has Signal installed."

WTF:

• India and New Zealand Were Wrong to Recognize Rivers as Persons
• Porta potty almost floods Augsburg's historic old town
• Pluto Zwergplanet Stofftier

Zeroth World:

• Zeig dein Gesicht, dann gibt’s auch Klopapier!
• The HeatBuff Keyboard Hand Warmer
• Mit diesem miesen Trick werden Kinder auf YouTube erschreckt

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos/Games/Art:

• My Family
• If Math Wrote Letters
• One More
• Ugly
• Sacrifice
• Superpowers
• confessions of the hearts
• lick your elbow day
• Password
• Cat, Bird

Quotes:

• Every corpse on everest was once… …an extremely motivated person.

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Popular Culture:

• 4 Legit Reasons New Parents Are F@cking Annoying

Science:

• The Ultimate Space Telescope Would Use the Sun as a Gravitational Lens (via)
• Lab-grown chicken on the menu for the first time

Software, Hardware:

• Announcing Guetzli: A New Open Source JPEG Encoder
• Top Firefox Add-ons, and their WebExtensions Status
• Mila: Teile dein technisches Know-How

WTF:

• Europäische Kommission pennt, Geräten mit Funkanbindung droht im Sommer das Aus
• DDoS-Attacken im Namen von Prinzessin Zelda

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos/Games/Art:

• Star Snack
• My Advice
• Children Are Our Future
• On The Hook
• Chat Systems – Jabber is missing.
• Hoojahb
• Fake News

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Politics:

• Türkei schafft vor Referendum das Wort "Nein" ab

Popular Culture:

• Cruise Ship Smashes Into One of the World’s Most Beautiful Coral Reefs
• 3 Möglichkeiten gegen die Filterblase und warum Du sie nie anwenden wirst – weil es Webservices sind die in Deutschland nicht verfügbar sind und davon ausgehen dass ich meine Nachrichten über Twitter bekomme statt über einen gescheiten Feedreader.
• Anne Frank: her life after the diary ended – it is good to have at least one story that didn't end well. Most stories about the holocaust are, naturally, about survivers. This one is not.
• This is what Germans really think about being naked in the sauna – Speaking of it, I wonder why it is allowed to wear a Burquini at most swimming pools, but FKK is not allowed.
• Freiwillig Kinderlose werden oft stigmatisiert – weil es nicht sowieso schon viel zu viele Menschen gibt.
• An Alarming Number of Kids Are Getting Sick From Drinking Hand Sanitizers – prohibition at work.

Nerd Culture:

• Skipping Windows 8 Activation
• There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections
• Is Your Child A Hacker?
• Origin of Wireless Security: the Marconi Radio Hack of 1903

Science:

• Textilomas, Gossypibomas, Gauzomas, or Muslinomas are Not Tumors
• A “proof by contradiction” is not a proof that ends with a contradiction – well, basically it's the difference between proving A→⊥ and (A→⊥)→⊥.

Software, Hardware:

• Password Rules Are Bullshit – and users are, too, apparently.
• SeaMonkey, Thunderbird to join forces after Firexit? – the best chance of SeaMonkey to get lots of users is to try to support as many of the old extensions as possible, as Firefox drops their support. I am currently getting used to Vivaldi, but I would prefer something entirely open source.
• Even Cybercriminals Get Spammed – I am not (yet (?)) a cybercriminal (I hope), but I still get spammed via XMPP. Why? Why would anyone send spam messages through XMPP? Most XMPP users should usually be sufficiently intelligent to not fall for it.
• Your post advocates an approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. – Specifically, your plan fails to account for ( ) Outlook.
• Browser-Update.org – "Eine Initiative von Webdesignern, um Benutzer über Updates für ihren Webbrowser zu informieren" … die eine aktuelle Version von Vivaldi nicht erkennt, und meckert, wenn JavaScript deaktiviert ist. Naja. Es passt zu dem Bild, das ich von Webdesignern habe.
• Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M – meanwhile Munich returns to Microsoft.
• A modern, browser-based frontend to gdb (via)
• Interactive cli tool for HTTP inspection (via)
• History of the browser user-agent string
• Run color blindness tests on your websites
• Smaller Windows updates thanks to differential packages – Microsoft invents patches. Wow. They should file a patent for this idea.
• CrossOver Android Preview – Released August 25, 2016 the CrossOver Android preview will let you run Windows software on Intel-based Chromebooks and Android tablets.

WTF:

• Video: A selective python breeder spent 8 years making an Emoji snake
• Danish schoolboy finds buried German WW2 aircraft and pilot
• Portable dog-washer cleans your canine like it's a rug

Zeroth World:

• Justin Bieber impersonator charged with more than 900 child sex offenses – aus der Kategorie "Die Evolution funktioniert"
• WISSENSCHAFTLER HABEN OHREN AUS APFELSCHEIBEN GEZÜCHTET – und die Galileo-Redaktion kennt das CSS-Property font-variant nicht.
• Tinder für Menschenaffen

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos/Games/Art:

• Frauenrechte – weil das Thema ja viel zu selten angesprochen wird.
• What Students See When They Look at Algebra – we should let Apple design user-friendly math!
• Poor
• Go To Work
• Fruit vs Art
• Decay
• Escape Velocities.
• Cloudy
• Ein harter Job.