Tag: germany
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My delicious.com bookmarks for November 6th through November 10th
News Corp to Offer Plaid Stamps! – "Giving Murdoch the benefit of the doubt, then, I’m guessing he simply doesn’t mean what he said. Perhaps he just wanted to sow a little confusion, get some publicity and maybe a concession or two from Google." The night the Berlin Wall fell – "For me it was…
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Cycling Germany: Pirna to Meissen
In my last day of cycling I leave Pirna and head towards Meißen, stopping off for lunch in Dresden.
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Technology
[photopress:IMG_0067.jpg,full,centered] This was a plaque in the German city of Kaiserslautern commemorating Johann Gutenberg, the man generally credited with inventing movable type. The book which, for mass consumption at least, would not have been possible without him has done more to spread knowledge and advance technology than just about anything else in the last thousand…