Quote from Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
In 1865 the progressive income tax was eliminated, on grounds that high- and low-income rates unfairly discriminated against wealth.
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Excel in 2017: The same problems as 20 years ago
After a decade with Open/LibreOffice and Latex, I’m back on Microsoft Office, frustrated by deleted-sheet undo and duplicate filenames.
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Beatiful Typsetting with LaTex… not
Very funny – via Dirk Riehle:
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Edward #Snowden Bust in Brooklyn Park (just for a few hours…)
Activists erected a Snowden-Memorial in a NYC park; police is furious and removed it quickly.
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Eclipse RCP | Humor | Java
Java & Files, IFiles, Resources, … (or: how standards proliferate #xkcd)
Too many File and Resource implementations in the Java/Eclipse/EMF ecosystem; venting my pain with an xkcd reference; read on.
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Fliegende Pinguine!
Wer hätte das gedacht – Pinguine können doch fliegen:
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Userfriendly.org meets Marvin the Martian
too funny, if you don’t get it, check out Marvin the Martian and the Editor war.
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Apple’s 1984 Advertisement with iPod
I found Apple’s 1984 commercial remake for its 20th anniversary (2004) and was surprised to see the girl with an iPod—read on.
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Spinning green dot
Optical Illusion is really amazing.
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Poodle disguise for Dobermans
Disguise your Doberman as a Poodle.
