"Tell me what you google and I tell you who you are". That is more or less what the proverb says. Thus, you can get to know me by checking my interrests here. This part of the website also allows me to find back topics that I come across.
Tauchen
- TC Aquarius Zürich: "My" diving club in Zürich
- Circle Divers: "My" diving center in Sharm el Sheikh
- TSK Zürich: The diving center in Zürich where I teach (and shop)
- Visibility for Swiss diving sites
Musik
My taste in classical music is slightly restricted: Baroque rules! And then some Mozart ...
- Abendmusik Basel: Every second Sunday per month, they offer early Barock in Basel, often from rather unknown composers but with more than excellen musicians.
- Bachkantaten in Vorarlberg: A long drive but really worth it.
- Das Barockorcherst Freiburg: I know them mainly from online radio stations, but once had the pleasure to hear them live. Wow!
- Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: No, this is not Baroque. But they have fantastic videos introducing instruments that you do not see every day. I found them because of their presentation of the Baroque Theorbo
Linguistics
- cmc corpora with a connection to Switzerland
- Cosmas: The corpus of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache
- DWDS: Digital dictionary of the German language
- Glottopedia: Linguistic online dictionary
- Chochichästli-Orakel: Recognize Swiss German dialects
- IPA Fonts: Good explanation about the use of IPA fonts and how to install them on your computer
- IPA Fonts in the browser: Lots of types in IPA and foreign languages for copy paste into your own document (in Word etc.)
- Ulrich Ammon(†): German linguist and a good friend
- sms4science: Our completed linguistic project
- What's up, Switzerland?: Our completed linguistic project
- Elisabeth Stark: Professor of French Linguistics
- GeoLing: GeoLing is a handy tool for performing statistical analyses on spatial data
History
- Historic dictionary of Switzerland
- Rulers: rulers of this world, present, historical, political, religious
Maps
- Flash Earth: An alternative to Google maps: MS and Yahoo maps in one app
- Kartensammlung: Many maps, also historical ones
Books
- Secondhand books: Sell and buy (international).
- Secondhand books: Sell and buy (German)
Academic writing
- Academic Phrasebank: Excellent compilation of linguistic phrases
- Use of Google Docs for academic writing: Automated citations
- Linguistic dictionary: Collection of excellent links