[de] Think! Paranoid
Following (only on german available) story from the german online magazine Telepolis was sent to a mailinglist I read.
Paranoia als erste Bürgerpflicht.
Reading highly recommended. I will post a summary here in a bit.
Entries Tagged as 'life'
Read the source, luke.
Right after CCC Summercamp 2007, we got a new member for our small family. Since then, I promised to post pictures, so here they come. His name is Luke, 14 weeks old.
More pictures can be found over at my gallery site:
Luke Album
stuck in the middle of nowhere
thanks to mother nature (and the low-pressure system kyrill), I am stuck in the middle of nowhere. Coming back from a java course I was teaching in Hamburg, I am now somewhere between Hamburg an Bremen. All trains germany-wide have effectivly stopped running. Thank god, I was quick enough to get a hotel room and don’t have to spent the time sleeping on the train.
However, on my way to Hamburg this morning, I saw a little gem at Oldenburg trainstation that enlightened me and really made my morning….
Hamburg Landungsbruecken
well, this week I’m teaching a java class in hamburg for three days. Yesterday morning, I had some spare time
before the class, so I took couple pictures of the location “Landungsbruecken”. Two of the pictures are taken with a sepia color scheme.
porn drives the industry
it’s hilarious that history always repeats itself, or put different: people continue to repeat the same stupid mistakes. As reported here on heise newsticker (att. german article, there is an english summary here ) Digital Playground (a porn producer in the US) tried to publish their movies on blue-ray discs instead of HD DVD, but the manufacturer in the US refused them, since they got threatened by Sony to have their blue-ray license revoked, if they manufacturer porn discs. Let’s recall why VHS was so successfull and killed its competitor Beta completly… indeed, it was because the porn industrie chose VHS back then, since it was cheaper to produce. Now, HD DVD is already cheaper to make than blue-ray and now the people behind blue-ray make it even worse and disallow the production of blue-ray discs with porn contents, how stupid can one be? I’d say it’s 1:0 for HD DVD now.
Airwalk vic
People that grew up in the 80s/90s like me, still remember the vic-shoe (another view and view from the the back) from AirWalk. It was the skateboard shoe back then. For a long time this shoe was not available anymore in germany. I had a pair of these when I was young, and I loved them. Admitetly, I have not skateboarded in a long time, however for the last few years I really wanted to have a pair of these shoes again. Titus, a skateboard shop in Bremen, had a remake of the shoe, which looked very similar, but was nearly as comfortable as the original. Yesterday I went to MTS, a skateboard shop in Oldenburg, looking for a new pair of sneakers and there they were. Looking at me form a shelve. And too my very big surprise, they even had it in my size. :)
