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Gerhard Polt über seine Liebe zu Tennis … und Selbstbeherrschung.

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You may have noticed in the news that during the last week at least four submarine cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Golf have broken or are experiencing technical problems. For example Guardian.co.uk, BBC.co.uk and Heise.de have reported about it. Unconfirmed sources even talk about up to 8-9 cut undersea cables.

The affected lines are vital to the Internet access of most countries in the Middle East. Due to the breakdown these countries have experienced serious disruptions in their means of communication which were still perceptible even in India. According to Heise.de the available bandwidth in India was reduced by about 60% of its original capacity.

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If you like vintage photos than The Commons could be worth a click.

It is a pilot project of the U.S. Library of Congress. They digitized images from their collections that have no known copyright restrictions and uploaded them to flickr.com.

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This is also one of my favorite live recordings (1:31 hrs). The concert was recorded in autumn 2001 in Paris and is also available as “Hullabaloo” on CD and DVD in case you need a better quality or want to support the band.

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All those applications at facebook are really a bit annoying. Beside steeling your time and violating your privacy they are only useful to provide some fun and keep you in contact with your friends. But what one application made possible is really exciting. Ok, it was not only the application, it was also the person of Arash Derambarsh who messed around with the French press.

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“Damit Sie nicht der nächste sind!”

Dieser Spruch ist im Umriss des Rentners zu lesen, der im Oktober 2007 in der Münchner U-Bahn niedergeschlagen wurde. Die entsprechenden Videoaufnahme wurden nun zu großformatigen Wahlplakten umfunktioniert, um für den OB Kandidaten der CSU Josef Schmid zu werben … nein, nicht NPD.

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Ist uns im deutschen Sprachgebrauch eigentlich noch der Unterschied zwischen Muslim/Moslem (Anhänger des Islam) und Islamist (Islamischer Fundamentalist) bewußt oder verwenden wir die Begriffe mittlerweile synonym?

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Ever wondered why American intelligence agencies stepped forward so abruptly at the beginning of December and released the information that there is no sudden threat from the Iranian nuclear program? (DNI)
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The gallery is now online. Enjoy …

Update: To be able to view the gallery you need Flash. Windows and Mac users can download it from Adobe’s Web site [English|Deutsch]. If Ubuntu users might need help: Take a look at ubuntuguide.org and search for “Flash”. Normally a

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

should do it.

After moving to the new server there are some heavy construction works going on at apfelkraut.org. So don’t worry if the site looks or acts strange from time to time.