It'll replace my geeky yet clunky and battery-draining binary watch I bought from ThinkGeek a couple of years ago. You could actually kill someone with that heavy thing.

Cool, I didn't know the shift-select trick even works in non-edit contexts (like Safari, NNW). Just click somewhere, hold Shift and click somewhere else, and everything in between is selected. Awesome.

There's a better account of the beer-pouring inventions with relevant pics at http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/wunderbar/0,1518,401127,00.html (German). They also feature the world's best beer, Rothaus Tannenz?le.

Well, Darmstadt is in Germany, and the University in Darmstadt thus is a German University. Darmstadt is about 220 kilometres away from the Dutch border.

this applescript actually proved to be harmful to me: i was deleting objects in my 'downloads' folder, when i got a message that some objects couldn't be deleted because they were already in trash. i didn't believe it, opened the trash folder (from the dock), and indeed, the files didn't show in the list. i couldn't move the files into the trash manually either, so i decided to empty the trash. just to see that my whole downloads folder was gone. it wasn't shown in the trash folder either. couldn't recover the files, had a backup from a couple of weeks ago, though. :(