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the internetas you might know, i'm a biologist by education. quite often when people find out about this, they immediately ask for help with their indoor plants, slug pest control, or their compost piles. that's when i usually tell them that i now work with computers. unfortunately, this immediately triggers the dreaded "oh, excellent, then you might help me to set the clock on my VCR" or "activate the combox on my mobile phone", or they call you up in the middle of the night just to tell you that "the internet is broken". i usually try to respond with the "mumblemumble... only do software development... mumblemumble... don't know anything about hardware... mumblemumble" kind of thing, which only makes the problems worse (fonts and encodings, word formatting styles, two-sided printing on [insert cheap japanese brand here] printers, younameit). todays daily WTF offers a promising solution: Just tell your relatives that you work only with mainframes. The kind that takes up an entire room, prints on green-bar paper, and has a whole bunch of blinking lights. Trust me, it works. That's what most people think The Internet looks like. i think i'll give this a try. ken rockwellfrom ken rockwell's photoshop tricks: Heaven help you if you're on windows, since it's a royal pain to get the © symbol on a windows computer, another reason professionals use Apple these professionals must be really professional. actually, ken rockwell seems to be a real professional when it comes to digital photography (and especially gear reviews) and his site is always my #1 source of information. btw: i got a new lens for my birthday (50mm, f/1.8) 
pikapikajapanes artists of pikapika, the lightning doodle project, have created wonderful short animations of long-exposure photographs:
unfortunately, my japanese is not good enough to tell you how they actually fiddled around with the light pen and the camera (via reddit). switzerland vs. swedennext time you complain about all those ignorant USAnians who think that you come from sweden while in fact you come from SWITZERLAND: try to get these countries right first. even though i played this game a few times when the US invaded afganisthan, and again when they attacked iraq, i still only managed to get about 80% right when i played it today. at least i was able to drag afganisthan, iraq, israel, and lebanon to their proper places... google spreadsheetsprobably i'm the last one to notice that google has silently released a web-based spreadsheet application (i don't even know for how long the link has been present in my google account?!). seems that they are launching the next generation office a lot quicker than they have expected it themselves. kikokiko, the web calendar site, is up for auction at ebay. it finally got killed by google calendar. paul graham, author of the very first web-based application, wrote a nice article about kiko's closure, why it doesn't signal the end of web 2.0, and it what respect google kills differently than microsoft. nopretencethe t-shirt series continued: kybernetikos just told me about their new t-shirt brand, nopretence.
the plan already existed around christmas time last year and the concept is vaguely similar to anthony white's paintings: WYSIWYP (what you see is what you paid). knuthto continue my series of posts about t-shirts:
(image courtesy of everybody loves eric raymond) makes me feel nostalgic for the good ol' days when we used to write our docs in tex... end timesphotographer jill greenberg stole toddler's lollipops and shot the crying faces:
initially trying to depict how children would feel if they knew the state of the world they're set to inherit, greenberg's technique has bloggers up in arms. she's been compared to michael jackson and hitler. Jill Greenberg is a Sick Woman Who Should Be Arrested and Charged With Child Abuse writes blogger andrew peterson under his psudonym thomas hawk. personally, i'm a bit torn between knowing how easily children start crying, and questioning how far-fetched projects tagged criticism of bush administration can be. nuggi raus, licht ausDas Magazin, Heft Nr. 32, "Bloss nie nachgeben!", Miklós Gimes
Filipa Lil, 7 Monate, 66 cm, 7 kg Hat das Baby einen regelmaessigen Tagesablauf? Nein. american appareli've just bought a load of american apparel t-shirts. they are the softest, smoothest, best-looking t-shirt available anywhere well, i would't go that far, but they are durable, athletic-cut shirts, have no prints, come in over 30 colors, are cheap, and are made in sweatshop-free environments in downtown los angeles. quite impressive, hm? according to wikipedia, there's also another side of the story: american apparel's CEO, dov charney, was accused of sexual harassment by several female employees. among other things, he has repeatedly been running around in his underware. charney insists on testing the products of this company. i leave it up to the court to decide whether charney is a disgusting harasser or if the accusal is just an american approach to silencing a weirdo. |
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