Maybe funny, maybe not. But this one just came into my mailbox sent by one of my
best friends. (Thanks Christopher for this one!). It seems as the crew of a fishing ship
was so drunken that they didn’t notice the submarine being at surface firing
signal rockets. The reason why the ship has hit the submarine without slowing…

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…has the world gone berzerk in the last days and weeks?!? Yesterday a car bomb in
Ankara, Turkey killed approx 50 persons. The damage is tremendous. Today some
crazy guy throws a mortar-grenade at a courthouse in Amsterdam, also causing
lots of damage but fortunately no persons were harmed. So what comes next?

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Now it is official: Google has started it’s NFC-based micropayment system
officially in the USA. Sprint customers now can use their NFC-enabled cell
phone to make payments. What has been neglected by Apple, and wont be in
Apple’s new iPhone 5 as NFC would have no future is now in Android phones!

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Seems as if NVidia always drags out another ace when it comes to processor
power. The brandnew Tegra 3 is a special processor indeed. dualcore, tricore
quadcore, hexacore, octocore. All sounds impressive. But ever heard of a
pentacore? No? Me neither. But it seems, NVidia has found another way…

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It sounds like a sci-fi novel. A modified 4×4 car, high-tech radio frequency jamming
technology, stealth-ability, highly-armored – a real moving fortress!
They say that the car itself is jamming any kind of electric device within 100 metres
(approx. 300 feet) using microwave and radio frequency at high power rate.

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This reeks! Pupils of an elementary school in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany) are
from now on forced to bring their own toilet paper. Why? because some
sh*theads thought, it’s a good idea to clog the toilet by throwing in complete
toiletpaper rolls or other paper that soaks full and clogs the drain.

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Now it finally happened… It seems as if the German Self-Regulatory Body for
for the legally regulated protection of minors has entered the Internet. In
times, where swearing language, pornography and violence is omnipresent
also in social networks, newsportals and the like, this signet may now also…

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Today, Standard&Poors has lowered the Rating for Italy from A+ to A-1 as it thinks,
Italy will also run into big debt problems. While Berlusconi has yet ratified another
54.2 billion Euro savings plan, Standard&poors doubts that Italy will consequently
follow the plan. A high unemployment rate, low invests from other countries…

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The Fight, Apple vs. Samsung (or vice versa) is going into the next round.
As Samsung has officially stated that they plan to force a sales-ban in
South Korea, the chances are good for a bloody fight. It seems, that
revenge is a nice tool for Samsung as Apple has recently done likewise!

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You know… I really appreciate good devices, good design and technical perfection.
Apple is one of those companies who come up with really good gadgets that enrich your
life. But when you read about something to come up in the future all day and everywhere
then I can’t help to think that it is a shameless and cost-efficient promotion.

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Well… looks like the summer is slowly passing as today it was rather cold. The weather
forecasts brought up that in the eastern parts of switzerland, snowfall border has
lowered to a mere 1000 metres above sea level. This meant chaos at Gotthard- and
Sustenpass (which connect central switzerland with Ticino / Italy) where travellers

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Remember when I posted about the first SDXC microSD card from Lexar in
June this year? Finally my favourite memory card manufacturer seems to
have done the same and announces these little giant cards as well. At a MSRP
of about 219 US$ / 159 € / 199 CHF these cards are fair calculated.

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Now the 178th Oktoberfest is officially started. The mayor of Munich traditionally has
opened the first barrel of the 2011 Oktoberfest beer in the Schottenhamel Festzelt.
Last year 6.4 million visitors have come to the 200-years-Oktoberfest (me included).
Let’s see how many people will have their throats beered this year! Enjoy!

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The nature always has some strange yet spectacular things to offer. One of them
might grow on the hands of Chris Walting, a 45-years-old female singer from
Las Vegas. She has officially entered the Guinness Book Of Records when she
had her nails measured in New York. Her nails have grown for 18 years now!

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Let’s look back: What happened? Apple has sued Samsung for violating design patents
So Apple won the fight and the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is now prohibited until further
notice. Today, it seems as if Samsung vows revenge for this and started suing Apple in
France – also for violating patents in the cell phone transmission sector.

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Was the old world record held by an intel core I7 processor overclocked to
6.5 GHz using liquid nitrogen, the new world record is now set up by an
overclocked brandnew AMD Bulldozer 8-core CPU (the 8150FX). The video
attached to this post will show the extreme workload to do.

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There are many strange goodies for us in stores. Some are rather useless, others are
just bizarre, another ones are ridiculous and again some are dangerous. The story
today shows that even common goodies in the household can become a dangerous
item. In this case a 38-years-old british man with two children died of such one.

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It seems as if Apple also is being mocked by local comedians. In the following
video, Conan O’Brien, a famous talkmaster, comedian and television host, has
brought up a video on Apple’s recent report that a prototype of the new long
awaited iPhone had been left in a tequila bar in California.

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Well… Android OS is now 6 Years old and just few days ago, Google has
released the new codename for the newest version of Android OS. It is
not known which version numbering will be used for “Jelly Bean” but
as Chrome Browser is now at version 13, maybe Jelly Bean is Version 5…

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Paypal today made his next step to be one of the unappealing payment services
When they forced Rossmann (a german drugstore chain) to unlist cigars from
Cuba out of their portfolio as otherwise PayPal would quit the cooperation with
Rossmann, the drugstore company finally decided to cancel complete PayPal.

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Bad news for people in Europe who wanted to get hands on Samsung’s new tablet,
the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Today the german court has dismissed Samsung’s case
against the sale prohibition of the Galaxy tab. The court reviewed the complete
case and finally found that Samsung did not hold the necessary distance to Apple

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Well, you certainly have heard about the rumors that came up when Switzerland had
their people vote for or against the minaret (the small tower where the Muezzin shouts
of when he calls for the prayers of his landsmen). As the swiss people voted “No” on the
minaret, the whole islamistic union was against Switzerland and the swiss people.

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How do these three relate to each other, you may ask? Well, today I
stumbled over an interesting video again! But before telling about the
details on this video, the epilogue why that video has been made and
what’s the idea behind. The man who shot the video had a talk with Putin.

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Well, taxes are good for all kinds of things for the public to be financed. So that
everyone takes his part in the Finance, he has to pay taxes, taxes like V.A.T.
income tax, tax on alcoholic beverages, tax on tobacco, gambling, social tax
and all other taxes you may be aware of.

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You may ask now what the heck is going on? Apple against the rest of the
World? If you read articles like this one, you may think exactly the above.
In this case, Apple says, the Logo of the food company looks too similar to
the well-known Apple logo. For me, it looks more similar to the LG logo…

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The IFA 2011 in Berlin (a famous german annual expo for new hifi and video devices)
brought up a new beauty concerning 3D TV. What has been limited to Asia before finally
seems to hit stores in Europe also. The Toshiba ZL2 is not only a glasses-free 3D TV, it
also supports Quadruple-HD (3840×2160) resolution.

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So… the Swiss National Bank finally thought, we’d start a new round to fight
the strong Swiss Franc! Today at 10:00 a.m. local time, the SNB set the
minimum reference value EUR-CHF to 1.20 – and is willing to keep that goal
by buying foreign currencies with no limit!

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Today, the german cell network carrier Telekom has announced that they offer
their loyal customers a preorder ticket to get their hands on the new awaited
iPhone 5. All signs point to October 2011 where the new smartphone shall hit
the stores. You can forecast one thing for sure: It will be sold out for months!

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I’ve read good news about Apple, I’ve read bad news about Apple, I often
agree with Apple when they sue copycats, I hate it when they try to save
their monopoly on tablets by sueing Samsung using patents that are tri-
vial. But today is the day where Apple has finally lost my respect!

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I don’t know what’s more disgusting: The fact that a 45kg lightweight
woman is eating 183(!) Chicken Wings (each approx. 30g meat,in total
a whopping 5.5kg!!!) within 12 minutes or the fact that obesities still a
mayor incident in the USA that causes many deaths each year.

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Well… It’s now September 1st and where the Euro was about
1.19 CHF just two days ago, it is now 1.1375 CHF again! I don’t
get it! Why do currencies undergo such extremely high tolerances?
5 cents within 2 days is quite a lot and where happiness was…

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Just three months ago, my blog had 14 entries from May to end of June. The July took
35 more posts and the August now was entirely filled. To say: Modern communication
makes it possible for us to share moments and ideas quicky, easy and impressive.
I am not of Generation facebook or twitter (yet I use them!) but my blog is certainly…

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