Cory Doctorow posted this picture on BoingBoing this morning.
It’s a picture he recently took in Berlin of a curry stand that occupies the place where the Allied “Check Point Charlie” stood after Berlin was partitioned among the four main powers after WWII. As late as 2003, there was still a replica of the Check Point Charlie guard station on the site, but Capitalism marches on! (There’s still a museum right next door if you are interested in the history) Apparently Check Point Curry specializes in curry-wurst, which is pork sausage with curry sauce and is a traditional fast-food favorite among Berliners. No word on whether or not they serve jelly doughnuts.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
