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</description><title>MonKai</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @monkai)</generator><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>“…about five million words over a period of 50...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktyvfyFbvJ1qz4yupo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/12/01/arts/01typewriter_CA0.html"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;“…about five million words over a period of 50 years.” - Cormac McCarthy agreed to &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/books/01typewriter.html"&gt;auction off&lt;/a&gt; his Olivetti Lettera 32.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/264714538</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/264714538</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:23:58 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>From End Of The Decade: Concluding Thoughts - Monitor Mix...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktxr180SWK1qz4yupo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/monitormix/2009/11/end_of_the_decade_concluding_t.html?sc=nl&amp;cc=asc-20091130"&gt;End Of The Decade: Concluding Thoughts - Monitor Mix Blog : NPR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/263734706</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/263734706</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:51:08 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Confirmed: R2-D2 Finally Discovered In Star Trek - R2-d2 -...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktoccm5Bov1qz4yupo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/5405276/confirmed-r2+d2-finally-discovered-in-star-trek"&gt;Confirmed: R2-D2 Finally Discovered In Star Trek - R2-d2 - Gizmodo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/257079682</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/257079682</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:55:34 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>"German people quickly feel uncomfortable when there is nothing to be offended or worried about. If..."</title><description>“German people quickly feel uncomfortable when there is nothing to be offended or worried about. If they currently have no personal reason to be offended or worried about anything, they will go to a bookstore to buy a book written by what they consider to be a much more intelligent person, who happens to be altruistic and kind enough to lecture them about recent developments that they should better be offended or worried about, and that person, more often than not, is Frank Schirrmacher.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ichwerdeeinberliner.com/25-the-internet"&gt;Ich werde ein Berliner - How to blend in wiz ze Germans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/256736604</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/256736604</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:51:01 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>"Fragen [wie “Wie fühlen Sie sich?”] entspringen einer eigentümlichen [journalistischen]..."</title><description>“&lt;p&gt;Fragen [wie “Wie fühlen Sie sich?”] entspringen einer eigentümlichen [journalistischen] Berufsauffassung. Sie zielen nicht auf Information, sondern auf einen Selbstdarstellungstest. Herausgefunden werden soll, wie einer reagiert. Lässt er sich herausfordern, wann verliert er die Kontrolle, ist es ihm peinlich, entgleitet ihm die Situation, verrät er sich oder uns unwillkürlich etwas? Oder liefert er ab, was dann gönnerhaft als „menschlich“ bezeichnet wird, den „Menschen Guido Westerwelle“ beispielsweise?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Die Zuschauer kommen so in die Rolle von Testpsychologen, denen es im Grund völlig gleichgültig sein muss, worum es in Afghanistan geht, weil sie voll damit beschäftigt sind, die Reflexe der Testperson, ihr Minenspiel, ihre Grammatikfehler und ihre Belastbarkeit zu beobachten. Auch darum war jene Szene, in der sich der Außenminister von einem Journalisten verbat, in seiner ersten deutschen Pressekonferenz im Amt auf Englisch um eine englische Antwort ersucht zu werden, so beliebt bei Journalisten, die solch eine Berufseinstellung haben.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Für Journalisten dieses Schlages [ergibt sich der Vorteil], dass sie sich gar nicht erst vorbereiten müssen zu Afghanistan, Fiskalpolitik, Saudi-Arabien oder Diplomatie. Kein einziger Gedanke wird in die Sachdimension der Fragen investiert.&lt;/p&gt;”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.faz.net/s/Rub510A2EDA82CA4A8482E6C38BC79C4911/Doc~EAC6097D5D9E2482D8E7CCD24ED921DFE~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html"&gt;Jürgen Kaube in der FAZ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/241402612</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/241402612</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:51:32 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Manhattan, 1609 and today. From Before New York — National...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kshl9vejWO1qz4yupo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Manhattan, 1609 and today. From &lt;a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/09/manhattan/miller-text"&gt;Before New York — National Geographic Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/230832522</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/230832522</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:51:29 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Married Life: 1904 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive</title><description>&lt;img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksc1cx80P51qz4yupo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/6905"&gt;Married Life: 1904 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/227972883</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/227972883</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:53:20 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>51799 km: Die kürzeste Strecke, um alle Postleitzahlen...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr8i18azbM1qz4yupo1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;51799 km: Die kürzeste Strecke, um alle Postleitzahlen Deutschlands zu bereisen. Via &lt;a href="http://szeiger.de/static/zipmap/ziptsp-de.png"&gt;szeiger.de&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/208226468</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/208226468</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:29:30 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Laptop Compubody Sock in flight (via Bekathwia)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr6qreU2sA1qz4yupo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Laptop Compubody Sock in flight (via &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/bekathwia"&gt;Bekathwia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/207393709</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/207393709</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:42:49 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>“We tracked this supercell from Nebraska to South Dakota,...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr24osOrUx1qz4yupo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;“We tracked this supercell from Nebraska to South Dakota, over a distance of 800 miles, in June 2008. We were driving 95 miles an hour to avoid getting swallowed by this thing, and then we’d stop for just a few seconds to snap photos. The idea is to stay in the sweet spot, away from the storm’s precipitation, and follow it while it develops. Warm, moist air fuels the cloud until it can’t hold any more, and then it blasts out gusts of cold air and rain. This was taken right before the storm dropped golf-ball-size hail on us.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://outside.away.com/outside/culture/200909/photographers-my-toughest-shot-camille-seaman.html"&gt;Photographers’ Toughest Shot: Cammille Seaman | Outside Online&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/205270868</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/205270868</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:55:40 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>"The Ig Nobel [economics prize goes to] the management and auditors of four Icelandic banks –..."</title><description>“The Ig Nobel [economics prize goes to] the management and auditors of four Icelandic banks – Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, Glitnir Bank and the Central Bank of Iceland – for experimentally demonstrating that financial market fluctuations can rapidly transform very small banks into very large banks, then rapidly reverse the process, thereby demolishing the national economy.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17899-best-of-the-ig-nobel-prizes-2009.html"&gt;Best of the Ig Nobel prizes 2009 - New Scientist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/202408641</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/202408641</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:06:26 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Germany’s new outside minister, Mr. Westerwave!</title><description>&lt;img src="http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqu0guBs7h1qz4yupo1_400.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://meedia.de/nc/details-topstory/article/web-lacht-ber-westerwelles-englisch_100023599.html"&gt;Germany’s new outside minister, Mr. Westerwave!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/201671624</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/201671624</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:43:41 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>"Das ist Pech, aber wer es weiss, merkt es ja, und für die anderen spielt es keine Rolle."</title><description>“Das ist Pech, aber wer es weiss, merkt es ja, und für die anderen spielt es keine Rolle.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Eine Zeitung druckt ein falsches Autorenportrait ab; der zuständige Redakteur reagiert gelassen… In &lt;a href="http://www.woz.ch/artikel/2009/nr40/medientagebuch/18408.html"&gt;WOZ - Wenn ein Buchkritiker unter verschiedenen Namen schreibt…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/201632350</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/201632350</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:58:04 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize..."</title><description>“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; you have their shoes.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Jack Handey (via &lt;a href="http://rienfaire.tumblr.com/"&gt;rienfaire&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/200841479</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/200841479</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:45:08 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to..."</title><description>“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Nixon’s undelivered speech, in case Armstrong and Aldrin would’ve died on the moon in 1969. &lt;a href="http://gawker.com/5369364/william-safires-finest-speech"&gt;William Safire’s Finest Speech - Gawker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/200783175</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/200783175</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:05:40 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>"Much of my learning comes from a physical interaction with the text: bookmarks, highlights,..."</title><description>“Much of my learning comes from a physical interaction with the text: bookmarks, highlights, page-tearing, sticky notes and other marks representing the importance of certain passages — not to mention margin notes, where most of my paper ideas come from and interaction with the material occurs. All these things have been lost, and if not lost they’re too slow to keep up with my thinking, and the ‘features’ have been rendered useless.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Aaron Horvath, Princeton student, about the Kindle as e-reader for course readings. From &lt;a href="http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/09/28/23918/"&gt;Kindles yet to woo University users - The Daily Princetonian&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/200109904</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/200109904</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:08:57 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>"Arbeit, Vernunft, Zukunft, das waren die drei großen Werte der Moderne. In unserer Zeit - wir nennen..."</title><description>“Arbeit, Vernunft, Zukunft, das waren die drei großen Werte der Moderne. In unserer Zeit - wir nennen sie provisorisch Postmoderne… - dreht sich dagegen fast alles um Kreation, Imagination, Gegenwart. Und während Europa das Laboratorium der Moderne war, sind Lateinamerika und Ostasien die Laboratorien dieser Postmoderne.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Der französische Soziologe Michel Maffesoli, interviewt im argentischen Magazin “Clarin”, gefunden vom deutschen Perlentaucher in der &lt;a href="http://www.perlentaucher.de/magazinrundschau/2009-09-29.html"&gt;Magazinrundschau vom 29.09.2009&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/199991129</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/199991129</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:41:50 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>The L.A. fire department looks into the rupture of a water main....</title><description>&lt;img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqq314GSR11qz4yupo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;The L.A. fire department looks into the rupture of a water main. From &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/09/29/us/29water1.ready.html"&gt;The New York Times&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/199910152</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/199910152</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:48:40 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hamburch is irgenwie doch cool! Ausm Perlentaucher vom...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq6pncEvI21qz4yupo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hamburch is irgenwie doch cool! Ausm Perlentaucher vom &lt;a href="http://www.perlentaucher.de/feuilletons/2009-09-18.html"&gt;18.09.2009&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/191230000</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/191230000</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:45:10 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Express lane not always express</title><description>&lt;a href="http://kottke.org/09/09/express-lane-not-always-express"&gt;Express lane not always express&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;“… when you add one person to the [supermarket express] line, you’re adding 48 extra seconds to the line length… without even considering the items in her cart. Meanwhile, an extra item only costs you an extra 2.8 seconds…” - I kinda suspected as much…&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/185117759</link><guid>http://monkai.tumblr.com/post/185117759</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:14:14 +0200</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
