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On December 4…

2007-12-04

Smoke on the water – and over an entire city…

A few numbers: 1944: 282, 246246, 1200 → 62, 6500, 1000, 10.

What do these numbers mean, you ask?

Aerial photo of Heilbronn On 4 December 1944, 282 British bombers dropped in one of the most severe air raids of World War II 246246 bombs with a total weight of about 1200 tonnes on Heilbronn – where I was born and lived for a long time –, destroying 62% of the city and killing presumably 6500 people, inluding about 1000 children under the age of 10.

:thumbsdown:

And the umpteen millions of other victims of this war should not be left unmentioned…

(Numbers from Wikipedia.)

Oh, and on 4 Dec 1971, the casino in Montreux burned down during a Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention concert, inspiring Deep Purple to Smoke on the Water.

Poll: Men in Thongs

2007-12-03

Since there are several visitors interested in men’s thongs/strings or string/thong men showing up here but finding only my Lego joke, I thought I’ll do a serious poll about this topic:

Guys: Do you wear thongs? / Girls: Does your boyfriend/husband wear thongs?

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double thong The “Yes” answers are not intended to imply you’re wearing exclusively strings/thongs, occasional thong wearers may (and should) also reply with “yes”.

And for quibblers similar to myself: The answers are verbalized from the men’s point of view; women who want to answer please imagine them re-worded accordingly, referring to your boyfriend/husband…

Privacy notice: If you have commented on this blog before and don’t want me (and only me, this is never public) to see what you voted, you must delete your respective cookies or use a different browser. :)

(Photo by m197203 on flickr.com – CC license by-nc-nd)

Li’l Buttons

2007-12-02

Julia’s blogroll update gave me the idea to draw small 80×15 buttons for those of you who’d prefer to link here with images rather than text – round or angular, take what you prefer:

cimddwc button angular   cimddwc button round

For my own blogroll, I’ll stick with pure text links, though, and use buttons only for blog directories and similar things (in the footer).

Quotes of the Day (8)

2007-12-01

The bishop of Eichstätt Gregor Maria Hanke to the Donaukurier (my translation):

For all christians, the encyclical “Spe salvi” could be an incentive now to live paschal hope and make clear “that even in times of uncertainty, we have a future given to us by God.”

I think it would be better if we didn’t hope for a godly present for our future, but instead tackle the problems here on earth ourselves – not just for oneself, but for other people and for future generations.
:aufgehts:

Which leads us to the second quote:

“If you believe you’re going to be resurrected after you die, which I think is a fairy tale, this is ultimately a dissatisfying way to promote life, and I don’t think that it’s going to get us anywhere as a culture.”

Natalie Angier, Pulitzer prize winning science writer for The New York Times, in a debate “God vs. Science” (via Pharyngula)

World Aids Day

2007-12-01

World Aids Day Today is World Aids Day… since I didn’t have much time to write a lot about it myself, I’ll just quickly link to

  • weltaidstag.eu and welt-aids-tag.de as well as the English Wikipedia article about Aids;
  • other bloggers’ posts (German): Goggiblog, JUST4FUN #1 and #2, 49suns, Das blonde Alien;
  • and as a special treat, the song “Say It’s Not True” by Queen + Paul Rodgers which can be downloaded for free here (specifying your name and e-mail address for the Q+PR mailing list) – in a brand new studio version, after the song had been played live 4 years ago at the Nelson Mandela 46664 concert. Its video is supposed to be published today as well.