SPIEGEL Surfs the Web Berlin Blogplan!
Berlin is a vibrant and beautiful city, but maybe you lack the cash for a flight over. Or you hate Prussian winters. Or you were just here, and you miss the sarcastic "snout" of some of the natives. Or just want some photos of Oranienburger Strasse. What to do? Anyone who can read SPIEGEL Online can also choose from the 421 sites listed on the Berlin Blogplan , an electronic subway map outfitted with links to local blogs. The idea was freely and cheerfully stolen from a New York subwy map that serves as a guide to blogs in the five boroughs, and it's spreading to other cities in Germany, including Hamburg and Munich .
Tom Cruise Alienated
Remember that classic Tom Cruise interview earlier this year. No, not the SPIEGEL interview where he talks about his scientology beliefs. But the one on the Today show with Matt Lauer. During the on-air interview, Cruise tried to explain to the world why Brooke Shields shouldn't take anti-depressants and that he himself has helped a number of people "get off" anti-depressants. Now, as if the interview itself weren't funny enough, there is an animated remake of it depicting two aliens (Cruise is played by a multi-eyed, toad-looking being) having the same conversation. Somehow, the alien Cruise seems more reasonable that the real-life Cruise....
