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Dear bloggers and websites who are trying to type "Herta Müller" now but instead it shows up in my browser as "Herta Müller" or "Herta Muller": It is perfectly acceptable to use the an "ue" as a substitute for "ü" when you're not using a German QWERTZ keyboard. It's better than reading about the Nobel Prize and thinking the winner has a series of obscene words in the middle of her last name.

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Das ist nicht wahr, aber es könnte; & warum man sofort denkt, dass es wahr sein könnte (& wie man sich gleich vorstellt, es gäbe auch Kameras, die Dubaianer zeigen, wie sie sich versammeln, um dem Leben in amerikanischen gated communities zu folgen)

When sex toy buying was left to males shopping for the latest in VHS porn, manufacturers could get away with selling items made from god-knows-what toxic, off-gassing neon pink material, poured into the shape of something one would imagine men would imagine ladies would like putting inside themselves. More often than not, these insertables ended up in these men’s asses. (I say this from embedded peep show experience.) Once sex shops became friendly to women, customers finally began to influence the design process

No pessimism. No friends to favor. No enemies to punish. No drinking by employes. No speculation by employes . No private scandal. No word contests. No prize puzzles. No advertisements - Of immoral books, - Of fortune tellers, - Of secret diseases

Der New Yorker Psychoanalytiker und Fotograf Mark Gerald hat Psychoanalytiker in ihren Praxen portraitiert. NYT > Comfort Zones

A "mic in track" is a recording made on a PC using MusicMatch Jukebox, a music utility packaged with many new PC's that allows the user to record from the microphone input of the PC's sound card and save the recording in mp3 format. The default filename is "mic in track" followed by a number.

If that user also happens to be running a file-sharing program (WinMX, Audiognome, Kazaa, etc.), and shares the directory in which the mic in track is stored, then these personal recordings can be easily downloaded from the user's computer. The vast majority of them are either silent or uninteresting, but many are like Christmas presents giftwrapped in nondescript serial numbers. They represent unique examples of audio vérité.

Dr. David Dixon, lecturer in physics at Cal Poly > mic in track