SPIEGEL Surfs the Web A Computer with a View
If you're planning on spending your summer vacation in Europe this year, you no longer have to fear you'll end up wasting your precious time off someplace not to your liking. SPIEGEL ONLINE has found a snazzy Web site that offers 360-degree panorama tours of some of the continent's nicest cities. The very slick arounder.com combines views of top landmarks with maps and information on Copenhagen, Rome and many more locations. Not sure where you want to go this year? Check out the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and then spring to the tip of the Matterhorn near Zermatt, Switzerland.
Can Jews and Nazis Get Along?
It's easy to be a white supremacist. There are just a few simple requirements: you've got to be white, and you've got to hate pretty much everyone who isn't white -- a category that normally includes Jews. But what if you're Jewish and white and hate everybody who isn't white? Can you be a Jewish white supremacist? Apparently it's possible. In the Jewish weekly magazine Forward on Friday, there is an article about a group of right-wing Jews who attended a recent meeting in Herndon, Virginia called the American Renaissance Conference -- which is sponsored by a far-right magazine dedicated to white racial purity and believes in black intellectual inferiority. Their attendance didn't go over well with everyone there. The meeting was -- perhaps not so surprisingly -- "infiltrated" by neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers. Well, the disappointed Jews can always try to join Israeli anti-Semitic groups.
Sheep Beats
Music sequencers on the Internet are nothing new, but a student at Harvard's School of Electrical Engineering has programmed the world's first interactive lounge act, with sheep manning the drums, base and keyboards. Just select one of
Sheep Beat's presets -- dancehall, hip hop or even reggae -- then select your notes -- and you'll soon be transported into the lobby bar of a cheesy chain hotel, with a wool-bearing trio jamming your tune.