Obama Rick-rolled for Reel
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Sebastian
There is a great reel of Obama-footage, lip-syncing Rick Astley. (via Spreeblick)
Happy 2-year Anniversary Speaking English Podcast
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Sebastian
Thank you everybody for watching the Speaking English Podcast for the past two years, yesterday was the day. I am very grateful for all the feedback, positive as well as critical. What started out as a podcast playground turned into a quite a project, with quite some content delivered as far as Feedburner tells me: […]
Re-focusing
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Sebastian
Almost two weeks between posts, this must be some kind of all time highlow, actually, on this blog. During the last three weeks I completed one project for good, took four days off twice and started/re-launched a new audio podcast , called Kanal 14, or channel 14. It will be mostly in German, but the […]
Innovate by doing stuff different
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Sebastian
I have had James Dyson‘s autobiography on my wishlist for quite some time. While in Berlin recently I saw one of his other inventions, the Dyson Airblade. Apparently it is 83% more energy efficient than conventional hand dryers on the market.I guess improvements like this one can only come from forgetting what we know or […]
Question for coffee lovers regarding the texture of the liquid
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Sebastian
Here is a puzzler. I drink a lot of filter coffee. Often I prefer it over the coffee chain pressure-made coffee. However, sometimes something feels wrong with it. It seems like the liquid is “meshy”, like throwing a blanket over my tongue, as if Spiderman would build a web in my mouth. I have some […]
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Fattwittering/Fatblogging: Participate and get your excercise
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Sebastian
Since I just read the chapter about Joseph Jaffe’s fatblogging experience in his recent book Join the Conversation, I thought I would pimp the fattwittering movement once again. All you have to do to be a part of it, is follow the fatblogging twitter-account and begin to post your weight in pounds e.g. once a […]