Now that the world cup is getting closer by the day, it was time for me to get my gear ready. After all, I have to support Germany in this one. As it turned out, this was also a good opportunity to create some graphics with SketchUp and try out printing them on fabric with [...]

This one is just too amazing not to write about. If you haven’t tried it yet, go to Wordle and give it a spin. All of these collages were created using their web service. My only suggestion for an improvement would be an option to keep punctuation. Oh, well – I am getting greedy…

As the German news site Spiegel-Online just announced, a committee of public representatives ranging from a popular comedian to the editor of the most prominent dictionary have determined their favourite words with a foreign root in the German language. The following winners rose to the top among approximately 3500 submissions:

Tollpatsch (Hungarian) – A less than [...]