nice visualization of webtrends
The map shows all the big players, all the trends and how they’re connected.
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The MCP could be compared to any modern day operating system. The idea that the MCP would absorb other programs and take over their functions is not unheard of – for example, Apple launched the Dashboard after Konfabulator was created. (And Microsoft has a few anti-trust suits under its belt to further illustrate this point.)
The singing IBM printer, 1964
The IBM 1403 printer was noisy, but it could also be musical! Clever engineers figured out what line of characters to print to make a noise at a given pitch, and how many times to print that line repeatedly to sustain that pitch for a given duration. In other words, the printer could play musical notes
The tc xmas project
Artists from around the world were asked to create illustrations which will be revealed every day in December, leading up to xmas
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Getting converted has never been so easy! Feel free to choose the most suitable and convenient religion for you
Stadtpiraten
Verwunderung über “europäische Städte” in China (...). Das hängt damit zusammen, dass Satellitenstädte rings um Shanghai irgendwie gar keine chinesischen Namen mehr tragen, sondern deutsch Anting oder englisch “Thames Town” heißen.
»In almost every picture«
In almost every picture shows images taken with a camera that detects motion. Deers and other small animals in nature unwillingly take self portraits. Images collected and edited by Erik Kessels.
Sketch Furniture by FRONT
“The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialise free hand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique method where two advanced techniques are combined.
Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture.”
an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch.
A Journal of Interactive Media
Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media is a new, quarterly international journal that publishes innovative theoretical and empirical research about games and culture within interactive media. The journal serves as a premiere outlet for ground-breaking work in the field of game studies.
Technikfolgenabschätzung
Ubiquitäres Computing und informationelle Selbstbestimmung – Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (Juli 2006)
KungFu Remixer
Persönliche LieblingsBuchstaben: E & Y.
Statue von Bruce Lee auf der Straße der Stars in Hongkong
Code Search
Search sample code from nearly 700 O’Reilly books.
The database currently contains over 123,000 individual examples, composed of 2.6 million lines of code â?? all edited and ready to use.
alertmap disaster events
a geographical map showing a report of emergencies & disasters happening on earth in real time
Consequences of Chavez’s Endorsement
Bush is “the devil” and Noam Chomskys book “Hegemony or Survival” is the most popular item on http://amazon.com
“Simplicitiy as a process of adding meaning”
sagte der Herr Kottke noch vor zwei Wochen und dann das:
“For some, a trip to Austria steers their gastronomic attention to wiener schnitzel, but for me, it’s all about the wurst.”
MIT Real Time Rome Project
By revealing the pulse of the city, the project aims to show how technology can help individuals make more informed decisions about their environment. (project description)
Wizard of OS
14. bis 16. September in Berlin (wizard-of-os.org)
Bei der WOS4 werden alle Vorträge als Live-Stream übertragen.
Future Shock
Extremely funny, if superficial, Daily Show piece on the future of robots. (Here’s part two.) Features Ray Kurzweil in one of his most humorous performances.
Online Volunteering on the Rise
An Associated Press article on how voluteering online, as an alternative to in the real world, is on the rise
The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design is a new initiative happening in Denmark.
The aim is to create a high profile design institute, which is small but dynamic and which interfaces with academia and industry. The institute will become an international setting for new thinking in design and technology in Copenhagen. http://www.ciid.dk
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U.Wickert: Hätte man mit solch einer (Antiterror-) Datei das, was hier passiert ist, verhindern können? Dr. W.Schäuble: Nein, da würden wir uns tüchtiger machen, als wir sind.(...)
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The defendants are permanently enjoined from directly or indirectly utilizing the Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP) in any way [...]. [The program] violates the separation of powers doctrine, the Administrative Procedures Act, the First and Fourth amendments to the United States Constitution, the FISA and Title III.
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Codename of grml 0.8 is Funkenzutzler. ‘Funken’ is the german word for sparks. Zutzler is austrian jargon for ‘some(one|body) who sucks’. The word Funkenzutzler is an austrian word for an electrical engineering technician. Oh, and yes: grml is sucking since 2004. But less than the rest. Mess with the best – suck like the rest.
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Wake up to the necessity for preserving democracy, science, and open access to the means of cultural production and distribution.
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Es ist ein prächtiger Arschgeigenreigen, der sich jährlich in Bayreuth aufmandelt und aufmaschelt: Autohausbesitzer, die in Kultur machen, Damen wie Mutti Roth, Muschi Stoiber oder die Gewaltaprikose Angela Merkel, und obendrauf reicht man die dazu passenden Künstlerhalunken.
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We were thinking about something that connects the industrial revolution and the digital revolution.
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Jeder Autor darf die Hardware und die Software einsetzen, die er selbst am besten findet. Angeliefert wird im reinen Textformat, ein Redaktionssystem für die Magazine wird nicht eingesetzt.
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The goal of OneWebDay is to make the Web, and our individual connection to it, visible – so that we don’t take it for granted. We make progress when we make things visible.
Jaiku is a phone book developed by Jyri Engestroem that displays the real-time presence and location of your contacts.
more about J.Engestroem
more about J.Engestroem