[ Among the 10 most-read German blogs [ More the 100,000 hits per month [ Grimme Online Award 2006 [ Bachmann Prize 2006 for co-editor Kathrin Passig The Riesenmaschine is a collective weblog dedicated to the theme of progress in all its nuances. Since 2005 over 30 authors have been making commentaries at www.riesenmaschine.de on current events, with forays into the worlds of products, animals, space exploration, brain research, and much more. The abolition of limbo by Pope Benedict, the vagaries of the spelling reform, and the massive marmot population in South Tyrol: there are no aspects of our quickly changing world that the Riesenmachine does not address always humorously and pointedly, yet in no way merely as critiques of culture and the society of consumption. This book is a collection of the 100 best and most humorous articles of the first year and a half of Riesenmachine. Press A brilliant offering of content. The texts are some of the most formidable and entertaining that can be found in the German-language Internet. Jury of the Grimme Institute Author The many editors are freelance authors, journalists, copywriters, and translators.