Back during my school years, one popular run of jokes revolved around the failed inventions that Ireland had attempted to contribute to modern society, things like concrete dinghies, chocolate teapots, fluorescent black paint. Architect Katerina Kamprani has produced a wonderful selection of objects reminding me of those old jokes, the kind of objects which immediately invoke the kind of frustration experienced by anyone trying to use a wrong-handed tin opener. Listed together in a collection which she calls The Uncomfortable, I can definitely see there being a market for these as a kind of novelty gift.
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[:en]Wee gobbets.[:de]Kurze Nebenbeiträge
An interesting segment in Private Eye recently about a Tory councillor whose list of apparent ‘gaffes’ included a remark favourable of Hitler. Heaven forbid! We’re all for freedom of speech, but be sure to stay away from espousing any opinions on the blacklist. I can’t help imagining he’d have any easier run of things as a devil worshipper, than as someone who once had the gall to cast a positive light on anything of the Führer’s beyond his death.
What do you call Barbs who works at the beer bar where the beard barber for the barbarians who eat rhubarb pie at Barbara’s bar drinks beer? Why Rhabarberbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbierbierbarbärbel of course!
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Zwar ist Lazarus damals von den Toten auferstanden, doch nun muss er wieder endgültig in Frieden ruhen. Dieses praktische Zusatzmodul für Firefox speichert all die in den Eingabefeldern einer Seite eingetippten Daten, während man arbeitet und schont man dadurch von der möglichen Katastrophe, sollte der Browser abstürzen. Leider scheint es nun von seinem Autor aufgegeben worden zu sein, denn seit einigen Monaten gibt es keine Aktualisierungen mehr und mit jedem Firefox-Update geht es ein wenig mehr kaputt, bis ich nur noch das Symbol in meinem Fenster sehe, mit dem Vermerk „Lädt …“.
Zum Glück gibt es noch Alternativen, wie zum Beispiel den Alleskönner Form History Control.
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Lazarus may be risen from the dead, but it looks like he’s now been lain to rest again once and for all. This handy plug-in for Firefox, which stores what you write in input fields and staves off the frustrations of having your work lost should your browser crash, seems to have been abandoned by its author and hasn’t been updated for some time. Each progressive new version of Firefox leaves it a little more broken, to the point where I’ve sadly been left with a button that does nothing more than say ‘Loading…’ in the latest version.
Fortunately there are some other alternatives out there, including the all-singing and dancing Form History Control.