article at Spiegel Online This question was asked last week prior to the release of director Dani Levy’s new movie “Mein Führer” starring german comedian Helge Schneider as Adolf Hitler. Well, you can read what others said about that. I prefer to know what I talk about (well, sometimes) and therefore I went to see the movie tonight. In short: … Read More
Gamasutra – Second Life Goes Open Source
The article This is really interesting: Linden Lab announced that they open the sources of the viewer software needed to access the Second Life grid to the public so that everybody is now able to change and (hopefully) improve the software. It might be ported to different devices etc. and that immediately reminded me of the Metaverse as depicted in … Read More
George Carlin / Blogger out of beta
Well, christmas is over (I sent out christmas wishes on deviantArt this year, so you’d like to read them out here) and therefore it’s time for some serious senseless wisdom again. I just read my daily joke newsletter Cyberjoke 3000â„¢ by Al Lowe and he introduced a video of comedian George Carlin talking about him being a modern man. It’s … Read More
why senseless?
This blog is named “senseless wisdom of life”. I didn’t really think about the name and because nobody asked me about it I think I should explain my definition of senseless. See the logic in this?No? Great, there is none. Which is btw. pretty much my point anyway. My idea of sense (like in “That doesn’t make sense”) is pretty … Read More
Official Zooomr Blog : Zooomr Mark III : Open Letter to the World
Official Zooomr Blog : Zooomr Mark III : Open Letter to the World Wow, when I first recognized Zooomr, it was simply a cooler version of Flickr. Actually I’ve never been to Flickr but we analysed it briefly during seminars so I pretty much know it. I’ve got my most interesting photos at deviantart.com and so I just wanted to … Read More
blessings of the modern life
I’m into gadgets. I like those tiny little things that make our living easier. Well, to be honest I also like the big things that make life easier. There have been numerous inventions that changed life profoundly: Cars, Television, cell phone, Personal Computers, those machines that blow hot air to dry your hands with. However, there’s yet another cool thing. … Read More
O'Reilly Radar > From the Labs: Photosynth
O’Reilly Radar > From the Labs: Photosynth Pretty amazing stuff. What it does: Imagine you took a lot of photos of a certain object or building or place. Photosynth analyzes those Photos and reconstructs the content (e.g. the object or place) in 3D space!The tech preview (which -surprisingly- works in IE 6 and 7) shows the idea pretty good. Give … Read More
Always Look On the Bright Side of Monty Python Music
http://www.last.fm/music/Monty+Python/Monty+Python+Sings I’m just preparing to leave because it’s Saturday and like any Saturday I will go to work. Sounds funny? It isn’t. But I like the job and at least I’m not sitting around doing nothing with my time. 😉 However, to be in a good mood I’m just listening to “Monty Python Sings” which like the name suggests contains … Read More
(k)Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy" or "This is a geek's world" / linux thoughts
This will be a longer one: Well, in my truly wonderful but radically simplified view of the world there are many binary differences. Some things can’t be simplified down to boolean (true or false, this and that, 1 and 0) but many things expecially if they have to do with categories in a very specialised and precised way actually can. … Read More
Computer Games for real
YouTube – Lucasarts composers Live at Hollywood Bowl Well, I like computer games very much, There’s pretty much nothing more obvious than that. That’s why I always like it when computer games swap into the so-called “real world”. *g* The above link leads to a video of a concert where LucasArts composers play some of the famous tunes from several … Read More
Web 2.0 / Seaside / Firefox 2.0
Seaside Homepage Well, there are plenty of really neat ways to produce web applications. Most of you (like me) will work with php, mysql and probably enrich those with new AJAX features using one the available libraries like rico, SAJAX or script.aculo.us. Well, there is yet another way. Some of you may have heard about Smalltalk and/or are using it. … Read More
The Dilbert Blog: Optimist Cures Unhappiness – Wins Some Sort of Prize
The Dilbert Blog: Optimist Cures Unhappiness – Wins Some Sort of Prize Actually there’s plenty of interesting information in this article I’ve not been familiar with. That’s not necessarily true of the comments. However, in short: I tend to feel sleepy quite often and I never thought about a correllation to my consuming-liquids-behaviour. I’ll try to add drink more now. … Read More