A while back I came across www.chinglish.de, some German in China who keeps track of the very creative translations he finds on his way. Just wanted to share this. Less funny and a website owner with quite a special interest is www.sleepingchinese.com. If you feel bored might as well check that one out.

This is the good stuff: http://currentconfig.com/archives/000083.html Checking out IRC channels topics once in a while is worthwhile.

It has been in the news lately that Futurama will be back. I’m really happy with that since Futurama is absolutely one of my favourite series. The actual reason it made me blog about it is the following quote from the interview with David X. Cohen: COHEN: Hypnotoad. By the way, we are looking into [...]

When using apt-get dist-upgrade: WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! e2fsprogs perl-base sysvinit initscripts (due to sysvinit) 21 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 156 to remove and 106 not upgraded. Need to get 15.7MB of archives. After unpacking 230MB disk space [...]

Every once in a while you read something on slashdot which makes you go “hmmm” (actually quite a lot). Yesterday the Netherlands completely ended transmission of analog television signals, becoming the first country in the world to do so. So what about cars and portable TVs? I’m guessing a market will emerge for portable set [...]

Got to love what comes by on #ubuntu-nl: http://giveusbacknewyork.com/ Check out the great promotional video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUwjFEwexI This weeks South Park episode was great too (at least 2 or 3 steve irwin jokes )

Link: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms/ Don’t forget Herman’s comedy club! :p I promise you my own adventures are nothing like the above. Googling for you own name just turns up “interesting” stuff.

Just browsed the site a bit because someone pasted a link. Recommendable. Bush his little nephew I love you Mario song on two guitars Homie girl Gifted musician Simpsons intro live action funny but painful Barbie girl Update: Some additions The Flying Car Randgruppe nazis Thanks ForeCast and Treenaks.

At least it made me laugh. Link.

Seveas has a list on his wiki with possible Ubuntu names. Personal favourites: Charming Chimp, Perky Penguin, Randy Rhino, Tricky Turtle and Wifebeater Wombat. Yummy Yak makes me hungry.