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Fun Stuff

TED Remarkable academic talks on diverse subjects
wu:riddles An extensive archive of logic puzzles
http://vimeo.com/ Portal for high quality short videos and documentaries
http://xkcd.com/ Geek comic series
Daily Dilbert Comics
http://despair.com/ Persiflage on the motivation industry (check out de-motivational posters)
The awful German language Essay by Mark Twain

Special Interests

http://books.google.com/ Google Books Project (Public domain and out-of-copyright textbooks)
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/ Gutenberg Project (German public domain textbooks)
http://www.deviantart.com/ Fine arts community
http://www.dpreview.com/ Camera tests
http://photo.net/ Photography portal
http://www.gapminder.org/ The best global development stats you have ever seen

A fascinating health and wealth chart: Click the play button left of the timescale for an animation! Noteworthy: The Indian province Gujarat has reached the post-WWII Germany standard in 2005. the child mortality rate of Washington D.C. 2006 equals that of the Indian province Kerala in 2004, although the average person in Kerala earns about 1% of the average person in Washington. Japan overtook Germany in both wealth and health in 1997. (see also: talk on the gapminder project)

My IT projects

Configo Framework
Wiki Distributed Systems
http://www.isartal-wg.de
http://www.mi.hdm-stuttgart.de (replaced)
http://www.kanuclub-vaihingen.de (replaced)