Archive 28. September 2003

Besier and Scientology - sueddeutsche.de - Feuilleton

Great. Calling a fascist organization with a totalitarian vision a pioneer of religious pluralism - the director of the Dresden Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Research certainly seems to be brimming with expertise.

Here is the original article.

DAX companies hire fewer apprentices

And at the next opportunity, the same companies whine about there being no qualified employees ...

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Is there a threat of feminization of school operations?

Oh come on, of course, too many women in vocational training, that's absolutely terrible. Those poor boys, being taught by women. That's certainly a serious blow to their masculinity.

I'm wondering though what kind of role models the boys are actually missing. Probably it's the student-hating person with a doctorate. Or the drunk biology teacher. Or the entertainer without real pedagogical qualifications. All variants I've encountered. All very valuable from a pedagogical standpoint.

Maybe also the type who thought girls couldn't think logically and therefore gave all girls worse grades, which Jutta told me about. That would really put the boys' worldview back in order.

But probably it's just about Busemann and the other Union clowns who spoke up about this wanting boys to keep standing while they pee?

Devil's grin

I found the original article at RP-Online: Science.

Number 1 Formula for Men!

These fascinating spam messages are also coming my way lately. Actually quite a witty attempt to bypass spam filters. PopFile was not fooled by it and threw them out anyway ... You can find the original article at INSTANT NIRVANA.

quiz-time

Hmm. According to the test, I'm both a linguistic thinker and a "naturalistic thinker". Weird. Ok, the linguistic thinker description says that these people often think in words and use language to specify and solve problems. That fits me exactly. However, the career directions are missing any mention of programmer - and in my opinion, language is an essential tool precisely in programming. And programming languages are exactly that - nothing more than languages for computers, even if they're somewhat more formal than human languages. Unfortunately, there's still too much of a separation in people's minds between the aesthetic realm and the logical realm - as if these two areas were incompatible. The result is software engineering, where programming is reduced purely to the formal, as if the programmer's intuition and creativity were something disgusting that should be hidden or even eradicated...

At sec.digigeek.net there's the original article.

Robot Controller 1.7b2

For all Geist enthusiasts.

I found the original article at VersionTracker.com - Mac OS X.