Berlin Blog

24 Hrs Berlin

Via Berlin MetroBlog: Amazingly enough, the city of Berlin actually offers daily time-lapse video of the previous 24-hour period taken from atop the Rotes Rathaus, incorporating a few different camera positions.

Click here for the (mpg) goods.

Google on Target

Head to Google.com, type in "failure" and hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.

Enemy of the State Question

I wonder if Americans living overseas are more or less likely to have a file of this sort.

On the one hand, we're somewhat under the radar (less likely to use credit cards exclusively, less detailed tax information available, etc.), but on the other it seems that anyone residing outside of the country without U.S. Gov't links would be suspect, to some degree.

Magazines

Call me utterly shallow, but one of the things I'm most looking forward to about returning to the land of the free (apart from doing my part - finally! - to fight the War on Terror) is magazine subscriptions.

As many fellow Berlin-dwellers will verify, quality English-language magazines and newspapers will cost you a shitload in this (or any other European) town.

I actually saw a four-day-old mini-NyTimes for 11 Euros the other day. Bitches!

So, as I look forward to not having to tolerate six-week-old New Yorkers at Barcomi's (which is owned by an amazingly unpleasant woman, and to be totally avoided, I'm told), I contemplate the Top Five Titles to which I will, upon arriving (first week of March!), subscribe:

1. Readymade: The hipster's guide to DIY living improvements.
2. Wired: Perfect for getting one's geek on in the bathtub.
3. Tape Op: Music recording nerd heaven & it's free!
4. Photo District News: Not only because I have to, but mostly because I have to.
5. Punk Planet: Notes from underground.

I'm with you,

John Cusack.