I just learned (by accident and purely out of curiosity) that Eclipse has included an autorefresh of the workspace for quite some time now (since 3.1). Might help to get rid of those F5 orgies on your externally touched projects

You can find it in Eclipse' preferences¹⁾ under General > Workspace. Simply check the box that says “Refresh automatically” and enjoy the luxury of automatic workspace refreshs.

Big thanks again, Andi and Kaddi, you really made my day with this

Some time ago Andi presented his newly acquired LucasArts game poster collection, including Monkey Island 1 and 2, Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle and Zak McKracken. Being the big point-and-click fan and Monkey Island junkie that I am, I immediately got inspired to get myself a poster collection of my most favourite adventures.

Alas, the thread from which the high res image downloads originated did not include “Simon the Sorcerer” yet – my first ever adventure game, which will forever have a special place in my heart. So I bravely registered an account there and asked if someone could provide me with high res scans of the game boxes so I could give it a try myself. But I got something even better: Laserschwert, the mastermind behind the other poster downloads ²⁾ himself, got hold of the retail boxes of STS1 and 2 and turned them into poster downloads. YAY!

So, after some pondering (of course together with demod) which posters to get printed (like Andi in 60x45cm), I now present thee with the new view of my living room and the stairs³⁾.

For the living room, I decided on “Simon the Sorcerer” and “The Dig”. STS was my first Point-and-click adventure ever, and my parents and me plus several friends spent hours together working on the puzzles⁴⁾. The Dig on the other hand was the first english game I ever played, and it really melted the ice between me and that language. I can vividly remember sitting in my room in front of the PC, with both voice and text output turned on in the game and the english-german dictionary right beside the keyboard. Ahhh, what a wonderful vocabulary boost

But of course, I couldn't keep my hands off Monkey Island either…

So we now have three posters of “Secret of Monkey Island”, “LeChuck's Revenge” and “The Curse of Monkey Island” in chronological order from kitchen to front door What wonderful memories that display triggers… Really makes me look forward to the already pre-ordered "Tales of Monkey Island" by Telltale Games and the official remake of MI1 by LucasArts, which I'll sure as hell add to my collection as well

The German Bundestag just waved through a law allowing the establishment of an internet censorship infrastructure in Germany. See this english article by netzpolitik.org for an overview if you haven't heard yet what that whole Stop sign crap is all about.

Dear 389 delegates who voted “yes” on the ballot just now: Fsck you. Please go home and read the Grundgesetz again⁶⁾ before you further try to participate in politics, thank you. I for one applied for membership in the German Pirate party just a few days ago, I've had it with you guys.

Update Addendum (in german):

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Jeder hat das Recht, ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ , ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ sich aus ██████ ██████ Quellen ██████ zu unterrichten. Die ███ █████████ ██████ Berichterstattung durch Rundfunk und Film werden gewährleistet. Eine Zensur findet ███ statt.

Exklusiver Blick in Deutschlands Zukunft, Heul nicht, sag was!

That about sums it up Not that canonical, but seriously, I don't care as long as it's so much damn fun to watch. Plus: Simon Pegg as Scotty – best. casting. ever.

Go, watch it!⁷⁾