SPIEGEL Surfs the Web The Airline Bag Lounge
You've spotted them in New York's Williamsburg neighborhood, in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg and even in Mexico City's Zona Rosa: the logo airline handbag. Each country has its own -- in Germany, bags sporting the icon of former East German flag carrier InterFlug are all the rage. In America it has and always will be PanAm. Troy Litten's "Airline Bag Lounge " gives you a clickable world map that will take you to the handbag of literally every airline out there -- present and past.
Pixel-Perfect Postcards
Normal postcards are so yesterday. Cool people buy vintage postcards, hand-drawn postcards, sewn postcards or even holographic postcards. But our favorite trend these days are pixel post cards -- crude Commodore 64-era renditions of our favorite world cities. Today in links, we look to Postertronic, a small company in Spiegel Online's home city of Hamburg. Postertronic's homepage includes animated pixel postcards of some of our favorite spots -- from the fish market and harbour to the spectacular neo-Renaissance city hall. (A tip of the hat goes to Heiko Hebig for the link.)
A World Cup for Robots
The modern day battle is no longer man against man or man against machine. The ultimate battle of today is machine fighting machine. Next year, top soccer players will meet on the pitch across Germany to battle it out for the World Cup. But in Bremen, armies of robots will be testing their endurance at the Robocup 2006 . You can find out more about the cup's teams -- from fantasy to Aibo league -- on the Cup's official Web site.
