You Could Ski Cross-Country On That Thing!

ZDF, the second public TV channel in Germany, built itself a new studio for its news team. The first time I saw it, the desk seemed so big, I thought it might just be virtual, like Pixar had programmed something to add it into the shots. But no, after some Internet research, I found out that this is real. That is some desk. Knowing that it cost thirty million Euro to build and remembering that we pay those lovely GEZ fees every month to pay for public radio and television here (about 18 Euro a month per person or married couple) kind of made me want to drive over there and carve off my share of it ;)