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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:

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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…

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(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:

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.

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

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.

The fairy-tale of calculating lotto numbers

2007-11-30

clover Sorry for writing about lotto again, I’m kinda annoyed by that topic too, but since there are people who believe that future lotto drawings could be calculated – like one here in the comments (in German), who kindly provided some details when I asked him by e-mail, thanks a lot – I consider it quite appropriate to go into that.

So this is Mr Galluzzo’s comment, translated by me:

So if you make it more precisely, you would have to give away many details, and who gives anything away would be quite stupid.
You can only learn something if you’re playing yourself.

You don’t have to play lotto in order to look at the numbers, and you can learn without spending money on false hopes, too.

One could also learn by e.g. attending a course or buying/renting a book about “Probability calculation for beginners.” Isn’t there one in the “for dummies” series (whose title is never intended to offend…)?

I think that you are no player, if you were a player with experience, you wouldn’t write such stupid stuff, I already said that.

Oh, yes, the biiig secrets and experiences of “experts”, yeah, sure. As if that would change anything about no lotto drawing depending of the preceding drawings.

Now into more details: