Liebe Frauen-Nationalmannschaft:

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This is a golden age of dining and drinking in a city that 15 years ago was about as cutting edge as a tomato in January.

Despite this questionable quote, the New York Times seem to like Portland, Oregon food-wise.

I can see that: Portland is still one of the nicest cities that I have been to in the U.S., if not the best. Turns out, I have chosen the right decade to go there.

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A Gramophone; source: sxc.huOur beloved RIAA is usually up to no good, but they have an interesting list of the 100 best selling albums of all times:

Place #1 goes to the Eagles' Greatest Hits (which surprises me a little bit), followed by Michael Jackson's Thriller and Pink Floyd's The Wall.

Makes for a nice iTunes shopping list (with an interesting mixture of all genres, for obvious reasons).

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Dieses Foto haben Christian und ich bei unserem Urlaub in New York City gemacht: Lenin-Statue, New York City

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

Funny for everybody but Steven, that is.

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That's right, Amazon's new DRM-free MP3 store is an awesome alternative to the iTunes Music Store. All files are 256kbit and usually cost 89-99 cents each. This is the same quality as Apple's "iTunes Plus" but at least 30 cents cheaper.

Now we only need this in Europe too (where we are currently paying 99 Euro cents for DRMed and 1.29 for not DRMed songs which, at the current weak dollar rate, is an ugly 1.40 USD and 1.82 USD, respectively).

And I am curious to see how Apple will react to this. Bring it on, Steve!

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Off the mediterranean coast of Sicily, Italy, an F4U Corsair aircraft was recently recovered. The plane had gone down in an unknown location at the time (yet not as a result of combat, they say) and was now found when it got caught in a fishing net (nice alternative to tuna, for sure).

Here's some coverage I saw on AFN Europe:

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An einer Heidelberger Schule gibt es seit kurzen "Glück" als Schulfach (ganz so wie es ein britisches College bereits seit einem Jahr anbietet). Cool, irgendwie. Ich glaube, ich hätte das in Abi gewählt.

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Ja, wir haben uns in Bayern tatsächlich authentisch eingekleidet. Zu bestaunen drüben bei Luke. :)

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Der Studentenausweis der Uni Karlsruhe, die FriCard, ist seit diesem Semester nicht mehr nur ein Semester lang gültig, sondern gleich ein paar Jahre: Bei mir bis 2010.

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