Links of the Week (2008/24)
- Crazy stuff during the football Euro 2008 (German): Some use homeopathy and tarot cards
- Sapere aude (German) proves the statement “You owe me 100 Euro” the way some folks want to prove the existence of god.
- The Surrealist Compliment Generator (via Nerdcore) – e.g. „Fast blinking reveals the true visage of time pieces hidden within your eyes“ or „Your tears evoke a taste as memorable as honey.“
Links of the Week (2008/12)
- German: Blog carnival “Gretchen’s question and god delusion” has ended » list of participants and Sajonara’s summary and opinion.
- A poem: „I Thought I Saw An Atheist“ by The Digital Cuttlefish (via Varia & Eventualia)
- “Strange maps” of various kinds (via BA)
…5 lines…
The old year –
clap your hands! –
like an hourglass’s sands
soon it ends.
Well, that was clear.
Rubbing ideas for me
Ideas rub you properly
Properly and sportive
Well, ideas
Ideas for me
You rub not the misery
But the snake rubs you
You ideas, you sportive ones
Ideas for me, ideas mighty and beautiful
Huh?
Since I couldn’t come up with something better, I just used the German poem generator Poetron (homepage), which I had just discovered, entered the German equivalents to “me”, “idea” and “uninspired” (which wasn’t used), and the very first (honestly!), erm, poem it gave me was what I then translated pretty much verbatim above…
