Februar 2015 Archiv

Common Knowledge != Common Practice.

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

Bertrand Russel - Marriage and Morals

Ghostwriter.

When you’re using Google Docs, you’re not actually typing into where you think you’re typing. You’re typing into a textarea in an iFrame off-screen, and through the postMessage API, those events are being sent to the “edit surface” that you see, which does stuff like draw your cursor. (Your cursor on Docs isn’t actually a cursor, it’s a 2px-wide div!)

James Somers: How I Reverse Engineered Google Docs To Play Back Any Document’s Keystrokes

Schönstrich.

Es gibt Leute, die schreiben und streichen so schön durch dass es gar nicht auffällt.

Chiller.

Jemensch sollte Stiller neu schreiben. Als coming-of-age movie. Statt Julika gibt es dann Eltern die felsenfest behaupten die der Gefangenen zu sein.

Lignano Sabbiadoro.

Eine geographische Sackgasse voller Touristen.