Small Bits: How to live, drive, be identified, and stuck in a database.
- A great essay on living and working creatively by Milton Glaser [link to http://www.miltonglaserposters.com/news/pub_10.htm no longer works] (via BoingBoing)
- What it takes to get a drivers license in Germany.
- Stefan Brands On Quintessenz and the Biometric Consortium. Quintessenz is an Austrian civil liberties group that’s learned about how NSA is driving the biometrics industry.
- What may be the largest database on Islamic terrorists in the world is in the hands of not the CIA, not the NSA, not MI5, not even the Mossad, but a North Carolina law firm. (Via Marginal Revolution.)
heh. You knew I’d jump at that, right? Actually, after ten years of not-driving it makes sense to go through the strict rituals (sic!) of driver’s license.
Besides, driving in Germany is nothing like driving in the US: everything’s smaller (especially the Autobahns – two lanes per direction is normal, sometimes there are three and in very, very rare circumstances you find more than that). Driving here is crazy, especially on the Autobahn in heavily settled areas like Rhein-Main – remember there’s no speed limit, which can prove quite dangerous. Not to mention the recklessness and ruthlessness of German drivers.