Tag Archives: internet

My secular Shabbat

Posted on 2019-06-25 by

Readers of this blog will have noticed that I am a radical Atheist. But there is one religious idea that I have incorporated in my life, although in a secular version. It’s the idea of the shabbat, the 7th day … Continue reading →

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How Social Media saved Yemen

Posted on 2018-10-02 by

Two countries walk into a bar, because there was an offer for any couple whose names start with the same letter. Says Yugoslavia: “I was so unlucky that my wars already took place in the early 1990s. A few years … Continue reading →

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New Facebook Notifications

Posted on 2017-11-01 by

Instead of ordering all notifications by time, Facebook introduced a new algorithm that (once again) thinks it knows what we are interested in. See my response below.

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AllExperts is dead

Posted on 2017-04-25 by

Quite a number of readers have come to this blog through AllExperts, where I have been answering questions on German law for a decade. With more than a thousand thoroughly answered questions, my profile there was a great source of … Continue reading →

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How Social Media made the World better

Posted on 2016-12-14 by

Two cities walk into a bar. Says Srebrenica: “I was so unlucky that my massacre already took place in 1995. A few years later, and the internet would have saved us. My people could have alerted the world about the … Continue reading →

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Where does the Internet come from?

Posted on 2016-08-03 by

You have all seen these cables on wooden poles, dangling across fields, leading from village to village, from country to country and even connecting the continents underwater. This is how the internet comes into your home. Have you never asked … Continue reading →

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Free Internet

Posted on 2016-02-29 by

But only for lawyers: (Spotted in Trani, Apulia, Italy.)

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