Spiegel Surfs the Web
Bored today? Here's a great time waster: Compare random statistics on countries around the world using this "generate-your-own-statistic-graph" site. From comparative skateboard deaths to relative amount of Linux web servers (and more serious stuff), it's all to be found here .
Remember this year's Nobel Literature Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek? Not everybody was so pleased with her selection but nobody seems to mind quite as much as the conservative Daily Standard. Check out their anti-Elfriede tirade .
Berlin's historically rich and centrally located airport Tempelhof is closing soon. Its day in the sun was during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949 when the Allies, led by the United States, kept Berlin alive by flying massive amounts of supplies over Soviet-occupied East Germany. This site will tell you about this famous Cold War episode .
