In Germany, people know how to drive. It costs more than $1500 to get your license, which includes many hours of driving lessons and a driver must me 18 or older. It's much more serious business than in the U.S., where you can start driving in some locales when your practically just old enough to see over the steering wheel. American drivers, in general, couldn't handle driving like they were in Germany.

Twitter makes money?

Not sure if you get it where you live, but I've found the National Geographic channel has been pretty good lately.

I'm using a similar piece of software to learn German. Anki is actively worked on and regularly updated by the author. You can even write your own plug-ins for it in Python, I believe.

Maybe you should start wearing parachute pants.

There are summaries? It's more fun to read the title and then skip to the comments to try to figure out what the hell the original article is about in the first place.