Monday, October 29, 2007

Swiming in money?

I never thought I would get there ... but at the Hotel de Rome in Berlin I went for a swim in the underground vault of the former central bank of the old East Berlin. Twice. That gold-flecked, underground swimming pool is simply stunning ... and to think of what it used to contain ...

I was there with a good friend who works for a very large book store - and little did we know that right there on the square, Bebelplatz, young Nazis burned some 20,000 books in 1933. Nasty.

Cna yuo raed tihs?

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!