The ex-pat's playground

If you wonder what the other half wonders about, check out their web page: Toytown Germany is a website for English-speaking expats which recycles German news in English, collects all sorts of information that might come in handy when you are new to this place, but also caters to those who feel cut off from the steady trickle of non-news whose uselessness you love to grumble about when you routinely pick it up in your natural environment but that you may suddenly sorely miss when you have to do without it ("Marmite vs. Vegemite - Lovers and haters"; "Canadian couple raising infant as genderless").

www.toytowngermany.com

Who's on first?

I've finally heard that sketch that I've heard so much about!

Abbott and Costello - Who's on first?

Charming Randomness

It's kind of hard to say if they are silly and successfully disguised as clever of if they are clever putting on silly as a costume - anyways, Rocketboom is a website which creates its own communicative culture that you quickly find yourself wanting to be a part of. Endearing is a word that comes to mind a lot when you watch their camera-facing rides across the news of the day or the miracles of magnetism. An example? Just watch Molly talking about the Internet making us smarter:
www.rocketboom.com/encore-birthday-bieber
They remind me a little bit of early MTV, not the music but the tone of irreverence, of pointless anarchy that you sometimes suspected might serve a higher purpose in the end - and who is to say it didn't?
And when you're done watching, check the job listings: why not apply for an internship so that you have something to do when you are in NYC, or how about becoming a freelance Field Reporter?

... and now it's gone the way of the dodo, how sad!

www.rocketboom.com