I was told today that the old rainbow-colored Apple logo is a homage to Alan Turing, as you know one of the icons of computer science.
He was homosexual and died from the effects of a poisoned apple he left half eaten. A half eaten apple in the rainbow colors of the gay community flag. Self-evident, brilliant. Strange to surprisedly see something this apparent you didn't see for a long time..
Google found this reference.

Yesterday I attended a lecture quite unrelated to my regular studies for no other reason than amusement: Rechtssoziologie (sociology of law) by Fribourg's dynamic duo Niggli/Amstutz.
And it proved to be amusing indeed. The topic was Max Weber, although the two disgressed a lot while doing their lecture in a funny dialog, Niggli always interrupting his apparently good friend Amstutz.
In their dialectic style they talked e.g. about the dichotomies of rational/irrational and formal/material and demonstrated them using real cases (and lots of tongue-in-cheek remarks), explained how a decision of our supreme court, the Bundesgericht is plainly indistinguishable from magic.
All in all it was a worthwhile experience, the two young professors' teaching was great fun, though a bit chatty and redundant at times.
Anyway, I definitely should attend more of other faculties' lectures, the contrast to what I in everday's computer science courses was amazing: rhetoric is much more a part of their game, they seem to be much more confident in what they say than our average computer scientist, although it does not seem as if this difference is inherent to their subjects. Well, perhaps it's because the science of the jurisprudents is just much, much older.
So I hope to attend their lecture again next week, perhaps I'll even find the courage to ask the questions and doubts I had about their theories.. but that's a topic for another post.

The New York Times writes about blogging role model Gregor.
He might well be the most famous person I ever talked with :)
But what a pity they misspelled the URL of his blog.

[ via Greg, of course ]