Already quite cute: a student is granted the right to the old spelling in court, but:
An interim order to the Lower Saxony Minister of Education to maintain the old spelling, however, the Lüneburg judges did not want to issue. The student would have to wait for a judgment, but this is not to be expected before the end of the applicant's school time.
Somehow, one can only explain such things with a very twisted sense of humor. It almost has a Kohlhaas-like quality to it.
How-to get decimal.py if I have Python 2.3.x describes how to get numbers in decimal representation (as opposed to the silly binary floats with their annoying rounding problems) for Python 2.3. Starting with 2.4, this is a standard module.
Legal dispute over potato variety "Linda" continues - the potato police unearthed an illegal nest of revolutionary potatoes.
On German Unity Day there is a solar eclipse - too bad we no longer live in the time of the good old Germans, because then we could retroactively rate this as a bad omen and sacrifice Helmut Kohl to the gods