Gezegen.de – Uni Freiburg und Konstanz Ab IQ 130 braucht man keine Studiengebuehren bezahlen This could be the most amuzing (amusing + amazing) piece of idea if it wouldn’t be from the real world: At the universities of Freiburg and Konstanz students with an IQ higher than 130 don’t need to pay for their studies (I guess the fee is … Read More
The art of blogging / a game
I write this blog since 2005 and I think it’s time to change some things about the way I do this. I wanted to post more often, but obviously I haven’t made it a habit yet. That’s why I’m thinking about some regular subjects, maybe twice a week. Maybe I could have a weekly blog roll with excerpts from blogs … Read More
Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple Writing Habits – Dumb Little Man
Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple Writing Habits – Dumb Little Man Well, I don’t talk about it much but I’ve been writing stories and poems for some time and I came up with one years ago that I thought and think might become a book at one point. Since I was a child I made up stories, … Read More
Media Markt-Neueröffnung im Alexa am Alexanderplatz Berlin | tobiwei.de | Blog
Media Markt-Neueröffnung im Alexa am Alexanderplatz Berlin | tobiwei.de | Blog Because you might probably not be able understand I’m going to explain briefly what happened there: A new shopping mall should be opened tonight at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz including a electronics discounter (“Media Markt”) that is pretty famous for it’s ridiculous price policies. Because of the opening they made special … Read More
Apple – iPod – Which iPod are you?
Apple – iPod – Which iPod are you? I simply can’t let that go without a note. Today Apple announced the new iPod product line. As you may know I started this blog very much with the purchase of my first iPod (Photo or 4G with 20 GB) which I actually still use. Very much indeed. Now they have redesigned … Read More
30 Minutes of 80’s and 90’s Cartoon Intros
30 Minutes of 80’s and 90’s Cartoon Intros Well, I’m on the feed of Forever Geek now for a week or so and they keep coming up with very .. weird stuff. This is a collection of cartoon intros. It struck me that I actually know probably more than 85% of the cartoons. I’ve sure been a tv junkie when … Read More
Vague Law Scares Off Toolmakers in Germany
Vague Law Scares Off Toolmakers in Germany Very much to my surprise I didn’t notice this earlier: German government created a law that makes it illegal to possess, use, produce, or distrubute “hacker tools”. So if you help someone to break into a computer system by providing (producing, selling etc.) either passwords or software tools, which serve this purpose, you … Read More
Freedom of Choice
I’ve just been watching two interesting TED talks by Bryan Schwartz and Dan Gilbert – yes I’m slowly going through all of them – both of which carry strong ideas about “choice”.If you are in my parents age (born around the 1950s) and even more so if you’re part of my generation (born in the 1980’s) you probably noticed that … Read More
Video Games = Art Question Mark
:: rogerebert.com :: Commentary :: Games vs. Art: Ebert vs. Barker (xhtml) I don’t know if you heard about it but when crawling through my rss feeds I found an entry on the discussion of movie critic Roger Ebert who doesn’t consider video games to be art. Full stop. I actually found it in the blog of game designer and … Read More
Food: The potato-salad-fish-fingers-Sub
I decided to start a new series of blog entries about something I do quite regularly. I like to cook. I also like to eat (what seems like a neat coincidence) but I love to experiment with new recipes and I have several books and the web to retrieve them from. I’m quite into italian and greek food but I … Read More
Official Zooomr Blog : Live at the iPhone Launch on ZooomrTV
Official Zooomr Blog : Live at the iPhone Launch on ZooomrTV Well, half of America is anxiously exspecting the iPhone launch later today (in short: the iPhone is a mobile phone and an iPod plus incredible usability due to the touch display). People are camping at the various Apple Stores to be among the first to pay their 600 $. … Read More
Starting a Second Life
I’ve been to second life a few times because it is a big subject in media research at the moment. However, I always try to have a subjective perspective in addition to what is said objectively. A few weeks ago I decided that I should personify my avatar so I started to work on that. It took some time to … Read More