Things to learn (Quarter Life Crisis)

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Magical Mac Key Sequences, always handy – even including historical ones.
When we tried to find out train connections for me on Sunday morning at Steffen's place, we figured that a wireless network, an iBook and a sunny day don't go together: You can read the display in the sun.
About pushing too hard – when pressing, people don't know their strength.
Sommertheater, tit-for-tat in politics against summer boredom, also contains a link to
reviews of books on the Riemann hypothesis – one of those particularly teasing mathematical problems, that'll earn you a million dollars if you solve it.
The problem with tigers is they have no setting between 'off' and 'high'.

Bill Gates foundation spending. Kind of raises the question how much you'll have to donate to make up for putting people through a monopoly of Microsoft software / oil imperia &c. If he donated enough, people could see having to use Windows as penance for exploiting people in developing countries.
A nice way to explain a fundamental difference between a sphere and the Euclidian plane to non-mathematicians: Ask them whether they ever tried to gift-wrap a ball...

Quarter Life Crisis