Yesterday was the national holiday of Germany: The 3rd of October is the German Unity Day, commemorating the anniversary of the German reunification in 1990.

Google Germany made a special logo for it and put it on google.de, which I think looks pretty cool:

My humble self obviously had to go to work anyway, as foreign holidays tend not to be observed over here but we coincidentally ended the day with dinner at a fancy fish restaurant, which counts as celebrating, doesn’t it?

In response to yesterday’s vice presidential debate, Aden Renkai came up with the following, fabulous litte flow chart that describes pretty well how it went down from Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s point of view–in fact, probably better than I could describe it with words… “Darn right!”

[via bb]

Critics say, she was doing pretty well, and it seems, her constant references to her family made a good impression too. However, considering the expectations towards her had been lowered to a mere “do no harm”, her real merit was in not costing McCain the presidency on the spot. That makes it almost forgivable that instead of answering the moderator’s questions, she went back to energy politics over and over again (we get it, you would like to drill for more American oil). Almost.
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By the way, when he refers to “Ohio”, he means the state’s unique relationship to voting machines.

(via killefit)

This morning, I got a kick out of looking at the origins of the license plates I came across while walking to school. To my surprise, there were quite a few, which is why I share the list with you (in alphabetical order, not by preference ):

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia

And two that don’t come from a US state:

Ontario (Canada) and a US federal license plate (“For government use only”)

That’s a total of 16 different origins. Not bad for a single walk!

Also, if you’d like to see the history of how license plates looked in your state then and now, I found the website 15q.net that has a pretty comprehensive picture collection that’s worth checking out.