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Tragedy in Virginia

April 17, 2007

Due to being sick, I hadn’t turned on the TV once today, so I didn’t hear about the shooting until a short time ago when Rainer returned home from work and told me (in case you didn’t hear either, Gunman Kills 32 at Virginia Tech In Deadliest Shooting in U.S. History). It’s really shocking. I’m [...]

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Does anyone else find this frightening?

February 18, 2007

Growing a Brain in Switzerland: A network of artificial nerves is growing in a Swiss supercomputer — meant to simulate a natural brain, cell-for-cell. The researchers at work on “Blue Brain” promise new insights into the sources of human consciousness. It’s just one step closer to Skynet… “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do [...]

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More search terms

February 17, 2007

Normally I wouldn’t subject you to blog stats again so soon, but some of these search terms are too funny/strange not to share: 1. berlin deutschland 2. american expats germany 3. ausländeramt hamburg foto 4. berlin rapes american soldiers 5. verliebt in berlin tv serie in version english 6. charlie geyer 7. germany babies skeletons [...]

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You dropped a bomb on me… continued

October 24, 2006

Just after I write that I’ve never heard of one going off, one does. As detailed in this Berliner Morgenport article (auf Deutsch, sorry), a WWII 5-hundredweight heavy aerial bomb went off Monday morning at a construction site on the A3 Frankfurt-Würzburg Autobahn near Aschaffenburg. It detonated when it was hit by a machine that [...]

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You dropped a bomb on me, baby!

October 12, 2006

Rainer reports that yesterday, as he was leaving work, he noticed that Clayallee was closed off, the police were out in full riot gear, and there were 10-12 ambulances with flashing lights waiting. Now, since Rainer’s work is located about three blocks from the U.S. Consulate on Clayallee, he was certain that there had been [...]

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