Thomas Kelpen recommended Zurück in die Zukunft Leipzig ist mal wieder das neue Berlin from br.de:

Eigentlich kann man Leipzig nur wünschen, dass der Hype schnell vorbei geht, bevor es an seinem Erfolg erstickt.

Thomas Kelpen recommended Druckversion - US-Präsidentschaftswahl: Untergang des amerikanischen Imperiums from spiegel.de:

Sie hassen die Schwulen, die Schwachen und den Staat, sie unterdrücken die Frauen und verfolgen die Einwanderer, und ihr Abtreibungsmoralismus macht auch vor den Opfern von Vergewaltigung nicht halt. Sie sind die Taliban des Westens.

Thomas Kelpen recommended I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a... from imperfectwriting.tumblr.com:

This experiment gave me a huge wakeup call.  It lasted for only a few hours, so I can’t even begin to imagine how much prejudice Muslim girls go through every day.  It reminded me of something that many people know but rarely remember: the women in hijabs are people, just like all those women out there who aren’t Muslim. 

Thomas Kelpen recommended The Smoothest Con Man That Ever Lived from blogs.smithsonianmag.com:

Count,” one of the Secret Service agents said, “you’re the smoothest con man that ever lived.” The Count politely demurred with a smile. “I wouldn’t say that,” he replied. “After all, you have conned me.

Thomas Kelpen recommended My arrest at Occupy Wall Street from edition.cnn.com:

Jail is waiting. Depressing waiting. Humiliating waiting. Pointless, tedious waiting in a crowded cage with dead roaches and no running water, where officers processing you through the system laugh at your discomfort and fear.

Thomas Kelpen recommended How to Destroy the Internet from gizmodo.com:

Congratulations, you're the world's biggest asshole.

Thomas Kelpen recommended The Xerox PARC Visit from www-sul.stanford.edu:

The cooler engineers got to look at the laser printer," he later recalled. "I was stuck with looking at this mouse thing.

Thomas Kelpen recommended An Intimate Portrait Of Innovation, Risk, And Failure Through Hipstamatic's Lens from fastcompany.com:

The entire company basically saw the CEO of this company give the double finger to a developer

Thomas Kelpen recommended Warum ich den Scheiß mache from christopherlauer.de:

Eine Dieser Beiden Personen, Peer Steinbrück oder Angela Merkel werden nächste Bundeskanzlerin. Früher hätte ich “Prost Mahlzeit” gesagt, heute sage ich: Die Piraten werden mehr denn je gebraucht.

Thomas Kelpen recommended Michael Lewis: Obama’s Way from vanityfair.com:

To understand how air-force navigator Tyler Stark ended up in a thornbush in the Libyan desert in March 2011, one must understand what it’s like to be president of the United States—and this president in particular. Hanging around Barack Obama for six months, in the White House, aboard Air Force One, and on the basketball court, Michael Lewis learns the reality of the Nobel Peace Prize winner who sent Stark into combat.

Thomas Kelpen recommended 7 Badass Bavarian Foods You Must Try from everywhereist.com:

Germans can schnitzel the hell out of anything. First, they take a slab of meat and hammer it flat. That’s right: they are so damn badass, they beat their food after it’s dead.

Thomas Kelpen recommended The Physics of The Hulk’s Jump from wired.com:

There are lots of things to look at in this short clip, but I like The Hulk. What kind of forces would The Hulk exert on the ground during a jump? Before guessing at some of the parameters, let me start with a general case.

Thomas Kelpen recommended Ein Mann, den es eigentlich nicht gibt : Ein Interview mit einem schwulen Fußballbundesligaspieler from fluter.de:

Das Klischee ist leider im Grunde wahr. Zu manchen Anlässen kann ich einfach nicht alleine kommen und dann gibt es immer Wege. Das machen auch alle so. Nur bezahlen musste ich nie – schließlich habe ich als richtiger Schwuler auch beste Freundinnen.

Thomas Kelpen recommended The Woman Who Went to Every Country from theatlantic.com:

My CD player is broken, leaving me only with the radio, and even though I had listened to "Call Me Maybe" at least three times on the drive down, instead of sprinting inside, I sat in my car long after I had parked in the hospital's massive structure to allow Carly Rae Jepsen to finish. And then I sat some more, watching a cat dart under parked cars.

Thomas Kelpen recommended Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs from nytimes.com:

I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.