small thoughts 2011-05-15 (my week in twitter)

• David Pogue is pessimistic about Skype’s future http://j.mp/lM6VMY How do iChat and FaceTime work again? And didn’t Google have something? #
• Paper-size (and –thin) computers are becoming reality http://j.mp/ivzDav #
• Thema Immigration und Islam: Mir waren wichtige Details des „Anwerbeabkommens“ von 1961 nicht klar http://j.mp/lbUb01 krass! #
• Heiße Diskussion um einen ZEIT Leserartikel zum Islam http://j.mp/jnabEp Die (meistempfohlenen) Kommentare stimmen mich großteils bedenklich #
• #travelinsight 46: A teacher colleague had Malaria over the week-end. Malaria! Over the week-end! Still worries me a little… #
• #travelinsight 45: Learning an all-new language makes you think about what you need language for. What would your first 200 words cover? #
• #travelinsight 44: Why oh why do women here prefer odd-looking wigs over their beautiful natural hair? #
• Danke, Europäischer Gerichtshof! Klagerecht für Umweltverbände in Deutschland http://j.mp/l6PDXx „Bürgergesellschaft“ wir kommen #
• #travelinsight 43: Two breakfasts, two lunches and dinner is a little much. Of course, Hobbits would disagree. And so, initially, did I … #
• Hah! The longest German word in official usage http://j.mp/m2Ww0N 63 letters! (that’s as exactly as much as this tweet before the brackets!) #
• Do political decisions originate with „the people“ or elites? I discover the field of comparative political economy http://j.mp/jpAxxU #
• s in Germany, is pronounced [z] if it forms the syllable onset (e.g. Sohn [zoːn]), otherwise [s] (e.g. Bus [bʊs]) http://j.mp/mtyHXf Aha! #
• Ich liebe meine Sprache: Guttenbergs Fälschungen „werkprägendes Arbeitsmuster“ http://j.mp/kLaPJD Fazit der Kommission: bewusste Täuschung #
• Next door to me in Uganda, a proposed law threatens gays with death penalty. Protest: http://j.mp/iRqs5w it seems to have worked once before #
• High-tech orthodoxy or: the woman who was never there http://j.mp/k0QDgk it would be very funny if it wasn’t real #Krugman #
• How to lie with numbers: The cost of closing the fiscal gap now or later http://j.mp/m7imL0 #Krugman #Constructivism #
• Surprising and very informed argument against the notion that feminism took away the housewife’s good status of the 50s http://j.mp/iTjSgc #
• Joseph Stiglitz about past and future of US distribution of wealth and its political implications http://j.mp/mr3OsU Scary. #
• An einer tiefen Beschreibung der Personaldebatten in der FDP kann man lernen, wie Parteien im Inneren funktionieren http://j.mp/mCm6QL #

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