Kultur

• The Story of the DuckTales Theme, History’s Catchiest Single Minute of Music
  In the US, DuckTales start again with a modern but true-to-the-original version of the cartoon. For the occasion, Vanity Fair looks back at the enomoursly great theme song of the original. (And manages to include exactly one YouTube embed, let alone any links…)
• Warum ich Vater und Feministin bin
  Über Realisation und Ungerechtigkeit
• How a recording-studio mishap shaped ’80s music [VIDEO]
  TIL!

TV

• ‘Game of Thrones’ Review: A Sometimes Frustrating Trip ‘Beyond the Wall’
  Pace indeed seems to be the one thing overshadowing the greatness of GoT…

Tech

• The LaTeX fetish (Or: Don’t write in LaTeX! It’s just for typesetting)
  He definitevly speaks the truth, although I find a few aspects missing: Length of the document, revisions/version logs, reproducibility. Also: Learning curves. I like to use LaTeX for everything which needs to have a special form. For the rest, I’d rather use Markdown with pandoc to PDF. For slides, I’m using LaTeX Beamer since about two years. I like the possibilites it offers (but its at so many times a huge time pit…)

Gaming

• StarCraft II Multiplayer – Major Design Changes
  Quite a lot of changes for a patch. Let’s see how this turns out in game play. (I like watching SC2 games and tournaments)