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Podcast drag queen confusion. Oh dear.

Overview over the Italian grammar. Concise and very good for looking things up.

Project to do photographs with very high resolution. I sort of like it, although I find it too much focused on the detail. Some truly beautfiful photos in there, but also some that very much display all the weaknesses of focusing on technics instead of the image. Speaking as someone to whom the resolution is just possibly the least interesting thing about any photo, that is. Also, I do dislike pixels and I think there are far too many of them around these days.

Report on the US administration wiretapping Mohammed El Baradei, chief of the IAEA. After dirty lies we now find the dirty tactics to discredit someone who values the truth and is not afraid to speak out loud. Of course, that never made him popular with an administration that lies whenever they open their mouths; but these tactics are very telling.

Interesting article about islamic fanatism - in light of recent events in the Netherlands - and its consequences.

Flash animation: English for Americans. Correctly translates, e.g., "I believe what you just said is untrue." into "What a load of old bollocks."

Apparently there is a "competence centre women and cars" or some such thing in Germany now trying desperately to make driving more female in the finest scientific tradition available to feministkind. Here's an opinion piece about it.

Why XML sucks and why you have to use it anyway. Note that the presentation was prepared with XML.