Something tells me, this sign I came across in a German store has one “e” too much:

Or maybe I just missed the latest trend and in fact, slime is the new black.

Minefield, pfft… what kind of name is that?

From a funny love letter Mozilla received. It’s part of a nice picture series wired.com took at the Mozilla headquarters. Check it out.

An homage to the famous 1970s arcade game Space Invaders, seen on an office door at the University of Karlsruhe:

What do Firefoxes snack on? Cookies, of course. So somebody went ahead and baked these Firefox cookies:

Yummy!

But, even though Firefox is clearly a web browser from outer space, let’s still not assume these were space cookies ;).

(Thanks for the link, Jean Pierre!)

A funny billboard I ran across in New York City in July 2006.

Funny for everybody but Steven, that is.

If I was to buy a scooter, it would be this one — And no, Mozilla is not expanding into the scooter business

This is a picture I took a long long time ago in Karlsruhe and just now stumbled across again.

As always on my blog, I am speaking for myself only.

Yesterday, flickr launched their German service and at the same time, disabled access to pictures marked as “moderate” as well as “restricted”.

flickr (speaking through staff member heather) justifies this as follows: “The central problem is that Germany has much more stringent age verification laws than its neighboring countries and specifies much harsher penalties, including jail time, for those with direct responsibility”

flickr users in Germany (and surrounding countries) complain about flickr’s censorship policy.

What seems to have happened here is a misinterpretation of German law. (But please remember that IANAL, I am only spending 20% of my studies on law, not 100%) Read the rest of this entry »