more content in German | mehr Inhalt auf deutsch …or something like that. 
Anyway, two things regarding me and my blog in German:
Konna conducted a “Blogview” with me in the last few days, i.e. a blog(ger) interview.
And my blog’s Blog of the Week at CopperLane.
Cheating was never easier…
The quizzes at the German online news magazine site Spiegel Online never made it hard to cheat, you can simply go back in the browser, you even are encouraged to do so especially since they usually don’t mention the correct answers after clicking the wrong ones.
The current geometry quiz now even contains (alongside more challenging ones) questions like “Can you split this [displayed] figure into four congruent areas?” with the answer options
- Yes, sure, I know how to do that.
- No, I don’t manage it.
- I think that’s impossible.
Sure, how would they let us draw solutions…? Anyway, even here, if you select a No answer, you just get encouraging tips, the solution is only explained in detail at the Yes answer – so, many will be able to read at the end: “You scored 14 out of 14 points.”
While that may not be bad with regard to knowledge transfer – especially for a mathematical quiz –, encouraging people to think and all – anyway, the SpOn quiz system needs to be revised somehow…
Or does anyone believe me now that I really got every question right, some of which, admittedly, with educated guesses?
Ban! Liberate Virtual Cards!
No, nothing about Tibet – instead, another automatic translation from Russian (possibly via English) into German giving a potentially dangerous spam mail a funny side:
Guten Tag! Bei Ihnen die neue Postkarte. Bekommen Sie nach dieser Verbannung!
Sie haben eine virtuelle Karte erhalten!
Sie konnen die Karte innerhalb von 30 Tagen ansehen, unter der Verweisung gehend:
http://golloret555.xxxx/card/xxxx
Klick der Verbindung auf oder Kopie es zur Adressbar des Internet-Browsers.
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Befreien Virtuelle Karten!
golloret555.xxxx
Which re-translates to English like this (trying to translate wrong German terms into wrong English terms):
Good day! At you the new postcard. You receive after this ban/banishment!
You received a virtual card!
You can view the card within 30 days, under the relegation going:
http://golloret555.xxxx/card/xxxx
Click of the connection on or copy it to addressbar of the internet browser.
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Liberate Virtual Cards!
golloret555.xxxx
Well, it’s nice to receive something after being banned/banished… but the most harmless things that can happen when you click that link is that the pretended error page showers you with ads (which parts of the source code indicate – I didn’t open it in a browser) – such pages are known for trying to use security holes to infect the computer with lots of malware (cf. German Antispam Forum), so:
Don’t click! There’s no card there!
Projekt 52 week 15: Food presentation
The topic of week 15 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:
Food presentation
Alright, Sari’s description mentions “something edible”, but, well, juice somewhat belongs to the food category, too, and I liked the idea of such a snapshot:
No nudity today…
Oh how well this fits to my yesterday’s post‘s splash picture. 
Some blogs make themselves “nude” today on CSS Naked Day, i.e. remove their design created using CSS, in order to honor the web standards developers and point out these standards and their promotion.
A great English praise can be found at Lorelle’s, including a plea for advancing standards towards built-in automatic translation (well, there’s certainly much work left to be done to make these undertandable…).
Well, anyone as he likes (the “prohibited” sign isn’t meant serious in this regard) – I personally don’t see much point in showing an “ugly” page to my visitors, only a fraction of which will probably understand what this is about and rather think of an error – until they noticed the information hopefully displayed clearly by all participants, that is. 
Here, by the way, it’d look like this (click for large view):
Those who want can, for instance, select View → Page Style → No Style in Firefox’s menu, then this site will look and work just like that without a CSS design.
photo © Hoss F. (flickr)