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"Und: Ein Post-Klasse-, Post-Gender-, Post-Ideologie- und Post-Verstand-Depp, ..."

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:59:34 GMT

"Und: Ein Post-Klasse-, Post-Gender-, Post-Ideologie- und Post-Verstand-Depp, der sozialstaatliche Armutsverwaltung gut findet und ein bisschen über Spekulanten und die Kirche schimpft, gilt heute irgendwie als libertär-linke Ikone. O tempora, o dementiae!"

–Notizblog » Seitenhiebe auf Fefe

YouTube - Stromae - Alors on Danse

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:48:26 GMT

YouTube - Stromae - Alors on Danse

ものまねオールスターズ＊オールスターズ（We are The World）

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:45:43 GMT

ものまねオールスターズ＊オールスターズ（We are The World）

[Reposted from johl]

YouTube - heute show 12.03.10: Sonneborn - google home view

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:40:55 GMT

YouTube - heute show 12.03.10: Sonneborn - google home view

"The Register was hand-moderated because of the many “prank”-submissions. For ..."

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:57:37 GMT

"The Register was hand-moderated because of the many “prank”-submissions. For this reason, two fake digits were tacked to the end of the serial numbers as listed on the Register page.
The vast majority of the fake submissions came from Windows users, as could be seen from the user agent string that is recorded for each registration. This once again shows how frustrated Windows users really are, and how many of them lack a sense of humor (“hey man, I just filled out a webform with fake details, woot!”)."

–The Register is now closed | Time Capsule Memorial Register

Mal ganz abgesehen davon: 1900 und unter 18? Das riecht ungesund.

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:24:21 GMT

[Reposted from fh]

Mal ganz abgesehen davon: 1900 und unter 18? Das riecht ungesund.

Ich bin jetzt volljährig!

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:21:41 GMT

Facebookproblem:

Just for fun Geburtsjahr auf 1900 setzen: Triggert nervige "Bitte echtes Geburtsdatum eingeben" Meldung auf jeder Seite.

Geburtsjahr richtig setzen wollen: Facebook beschwert sich, dass ich erst über 18 war und nun unter 18 sei, und daher nicht wieder mein richtiges Geburtsjahr wählen darf, ohne vorher an den Support zu mailen.

Lösung: Geburtsdatum so gesetzt, dass ich "morgen" volljährig werde, Mitternacht abgewartet, plötzlich 18 Jahre alt und damit das Erwachsen-Flag bei Facebook.

Und plötzlich darf ich ohne Fehlermeldung wieder mein echtes Geburtsdatum auswählen.

Wie unfassbar dämlich, dieses System.

YouTube

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:40:00 GMT

YouTube - Incredible Melbourne Hail Storm Flash Flooding

[Reposted from vroom via towo]

YouTube - Trailer For Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:42:35 GMT

YouTube - Trailer For Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever

Grasshopper - generative modeling for Rhino

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:23:22 GMT

For designers who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms, Grasshopper® is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3-D modeling tools. Unlike RhinoScript, Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but still allows designers to build form generators from the simple to the awe-inspiring.

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/

Halluc II

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:20:05 GMT

Halluc II

YouTube - Pixel Shrooms

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:58:33 GMT

YouTube - Pixel Shrooms

YouTube - Lautschrift - Mit freundlichen Füßen

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:56:29 GMT

YouTube - Lautschrift - Mit freundlichen Füßen

Social Test: How many nerds watch a completely stupid movie all till the end,...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:33:34 GMT

[Reposted from dominik]

Social Test: How many nerds watch a completely stupid movie all till the end, hoping that sth funny will happen.

"Mit ihrer Protestaktion haben die Linken dagegen bewusst in Kauf genommen, da..."

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:15:06 GMT

"Mit ihrer Protestaktion haben die Linken dagegen bewusst in Kauf genommen, dass die Debatte gestört wird – ob sie nun stumm Plakate hochhalten oder laut brüllen, macht dabei keinen Unterschied. Mehrmals wurden sie aufgefordert, ihre Transparente nun niederzulegen und wieder an der Debatte teilzunehmen. Sie haben sich geweigert.

Die Aktion der Linksfraktion ist kein heldenhaftes Aufbäumen einer unterdrückten Parlamentsminderheit. Außerhalb des Parlaments können ihre Abgeordneten Pressekonferenzen geben oder Demos organisieren. Innerhalb des Bundestags hatten und haben sie die Möglichkeit, in Form von Reden ihre Meinung kundzutun. Und sie können in freier und geheimer Wahl für oder gegen Militäreinsätze abstimmen. Sogar nach ihrem Rauswurf heute durften sie wieder an der Abstimmung teilnehmen.

Doch weil die Linken bei der Abstimmung zum Afghanistan-Mandat wussten, dass sie im Bundestag keinen Erfolg erringen werden, haben sie lieber eine Marketing-Aktion inszeniert. Sie hielten ihre Plakate weiter hoch, weil sie wussten, dass in dieser Zeit die Pressekameras weiterklickten. Mit diesen Bildern kann man später gegenüber seinen eigenen Leuten prima illustrieren, wie anders man doch ist. Es ist übrigens nicht das erste Mal: Mitglieder der Linksfraktion haben in den letzten Jahren immer wieder Sitzungen gestört."

–Eklat bei Afghanistan-Abstimmung: War der Rauswurf der Linken richtig? - Politik | STERN.DE

(Image)

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:29:55 GMT

http://www.the-berg.de

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:29:35 GMT

http://www.the-berg.de

(Video)

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:39:57 GMT

..und bevor nun alle Nerds die Mateflaschen wegwerfen, es gibt auch anderslau...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:30:06 GMT

[Reposted from fh]

..und bevor nun alle Nerds die Mateflaschen wegwerfen, es gibt auch anderslautende Studienergebnisse: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/15/1026 ;)

"Despite extensive evidence of a direct causal relationship between dietary ca..."

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:28:34 GMT

"Despite extensive evidence of a direct causal relationship between dietary caffeine and elevated Bloodpressure, caffeine consumption continues to receive relatively little systematic clinical and public health attention. There are probably many reasons for this. Most of the professionals engaged in assessing and advising on health risks are themselves caffeine consumers, which may discourage full acknowledgment of the implications of the empirical findings."

–http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/reprint/66/1/63.pdf

"Listen.You need to unlink your feeds.I understand why you did it. I’ve made t..."

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:41:03 GMT

"Listen.

You need to unlink your feeds.

I understand why you did it. I’ve made the same mistake myself. But it’s hurting your friends, it’s hurting you, and it’s hurting the Internet. You need to stop.

You need to stop automatically dumping your feeds from one account into another.

Look, I know it’s tempting. New service, not sure how you’ll keep up with the ever demanding maw and there’s the “import your content” button, right there in the sign-up process. A quick trip through a login screen or an OAuth link and there you are: All your stuff automatically aggregated into a new one-stop-shop of the genius things that pop out of your head.

No muss, no fuss, right?

This is an illusory solution. It’s a false idol. It’s contributing to noise pollution on the Internet and the only people it helps are company execs who want to make spurious claims about “user engagement”. It’s diminishing the quality of your output and of others’ experiences.

You need to unlink your feeds and put a tiny bit more effort into using each service for what it is."

–Unlink Your Feeds - A Manifesto.

"Wenn ich das Getöse richtig verstehe, verhält es sich also ungefähr so: Die V..."

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:21:31 GMT

"Wenn ich das Getöse richtig verstehe, verhält es sich also ungefähr so: Die Verlage müssen von der (ohnehin schon reduzierten) Mehrwertsteuer befreit werden, Google muss verboten oder zur Zahlung von Lizenzgebühren verpflichtet werden, ARD und ZDF müssen das Internet verlassen, das Zitatrecht muss drastisch eingeschränkt, das kostenlose Anbieten von Informationen untersagt und die Gratis-Kultur im Internet insgesamt vernichtet werden — dann, ja dann könnten die Verlage vielleicht, möglicherweise, wenn das Wetter stimmt, in der Lage sein, auch in Zukunft Qualitätsjournalismus anzubieten, und womöglich sogar im Netz. Sonst können sie für nichts garantieren."

–Das Elend der Debatte um ARD und ZDF « Stefan Niggemeier

Ligurische Grenzkammstrasse mal etwas anders...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:29:48 GMT

Ligurische Grenzkammstrasse mal etwas anders...

[Reposted from bbd via hgn]

The canary in the code mine

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:55:43 GMT

The canary in the code mine

(Image)

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:21:54 GMT

[Reposted from ccblog via peritus]

Beauty Pressure (Dove)

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:58:53 GMT

Beauty Pressure (Dove)

[Reposted from demod]

"A few U.S. banks have remained open, though most teller windows are unmanned ..."

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:53:46 GMT

"A few U.S. banks have remained open, though most teller windows are unmanned due to a lack of interest in transactions involving mere scraps of paper or, worse, decimal points and computer data signifying mere scraps of paper. At a Bank of America branch in Spokane, WA, curious former customers wandered aimlessly through a large empty vault, while several would-be robbers of a Chase bank in Columbus, OH reportedly put their guns down and exited the building hand in hand with security guards, laughing over the inherent absurdity of the idea of $100 bills."

–U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Akihabara Majokko Princess on Vimeo

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:48:46 GMT

Akihabara Majokko Princess on Vimeo

"Als während des Zweiten Weltkriegs deutsche Truppen die dänische Hauptstadt K..."

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:24:37 GMT

"Als während des Zweiten Weltkriegs deutsche Truppen die dänische Hauptstadt Kopenhagen im April 1940 besetzten, hat der im Labor von Niels Bohr arbeitende ungarische Chemiker George de Hevesy die goldenen Nobelpreis-Medaillen der deutschen Physiker Max von Laue und James Franck in Königswasser aufgelöst, um so den Zugriff durch die Nazis zu verhindern.

Nach Kriegsende extrahierte de Hevesy das im Königswasser „versteckte“ Gold und übergab es der Königlichen Schwedischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, die daraus neue Medaillen herstellte und wieder an von Laue und Franck übergab."

–Königswasser – Wikipedia

YouTube - Let's Enhance

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:21:32 GMT

YouTube - Let's Enhance

"Once I’ve successfully traversed my morning routine and have entered The Zone..."

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:09:14 GMT

Once I’ve successfully traversed my morning routine and have entered The Zone, I am OFF LIMITS. I mean it. Intruding into The Cave and disrupting The Zone is no different than standing up in the middle of the first ever showing of The Empire Strikes Back, jumping up and down, and yelling, “DARTH VADER IS LUKE’S FATHER! DARTH VADER IS LUKE’S FATHER!” Not only are you ruining the mood, you’re killing a major creative work. Think about that the next time you enter The Cave with a useless question about what shoes you should wear.

No, I’m not going to answer the phone. In fact, it’s a sure sign of compromised Cave design if I can even hear the phone ring. And no, I don’t hear you when you walk in and ask if we should go to the park tomorrow. I don’t hear you the second time, either. I don’t mean I’m ignoring you because that’d involve using precious brain cycles I need for The Zone… I really CAN’T hear you. That’s how deep I am in The Zone.

No , I have no idea that it’s been four hours since I closed the door and began furiously typing. Really, the only things I know are: a) when my coffee cup is empty, and b) when I need to head to the bathroom.

Yes. When you successfully penetrate The Zone, there is a chance I’ll be an asshole. In fact, I might snap.

–Rands In Repose: A Nerd in a Cave

"Es gibt im Internet kein Recht auf Anonymität, schon gar nicht, wenn man sich..."

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:06:59 GMT

Es gibt im Internet kein Recht auf Anonymität, schon gar nicht, wenn man sich berühmt, Richter zu sein, aber ohne Angabe eines Impressums massiv Werbung im Blog schaltet sowie urheberrechtlich geschützte Videos und Fotos veröffentlicht (mutmaßlich ohne Genehmigung der Rechteinhaber).

Ein Sonderrecht für Richter ist nicht anzuerkennen, zumal es doch gerade dieser Berufsstand ist, der andere für ihre Verfehlungen im Internet mit hohen fünf- oder gar sechsstelligen Streitwerten "bestrafen".

–law blog» Archiv » Das vollständige Zitat

"Halten Männer um die Hand einer Frau an, gilt in angelsächsischen Ländern die..."

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:03:36 GMT

"Halten Männer um die Hand einer Frau an, gilt in angelsächsischen Ländern die Faustregel, dass der Verlobungsring den Gegenwert von drei Monatsgehältern hat"

–Weil ich ein Mädchen bin — Der Freitag

"If Central Park were a woman and had just one beau, he would be a hunched, sh..."

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:22:46 GMT

If Central Park were a woman and had just one beau, he would be a hunched, shiny-scalped man named Isidore Block. When Isidore Block dies, which could be soon, a bereft Central Park will surely mourn his loss. Mr. Block, 82, is a man you probably saw. He shuffled around the park with a bell he'd ask you to ring. His shoes spliced open for comfort, pushing an old stroller, he made the park his salon. He reminded you of Ed Koch, with the same wispy white side-hairs, door-knocker nose and nasal yet soothing voice.

He wandered everywhere in the green rectangle from the zoo to the Bethesda Fountain to Strawberry Fields, where he'd feed his favorite squirrels-he named them George and Gracie-and ask passersby to ring his brass bell (with a unicorn-shaped handle), which he said would bring luck. He told people that when he was a young man begging, a boy suggested that he give something to people in order to receive. What he gave was wishes. "He'd say, 'Hold it up to your ear, listen to the echo and make a wish. But don't tell mama!' That was his gag," recalled Lenny Maurer, 78, a retired teacher who's been a friend of Mr. Block's since the 1970's. He was sitting at one of Mr. Block's favorite spots in the park, the "Imagine" mosaic near 72nd Street. "Once you made a wish, you sort of had to reach into your pocket and put something in the basket where he kept the bell." "You couldn't not like him," Mr. Maurer continued, "even though he was an absolutely oversolicitous beggar-the kind of guy everyone in the city is always trying to get away from. He was like a little Santa Claus who would come around and put some joy in your life." Mr. Block claimed Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen and even the Dalai Lama as veteran ringers of his bell. Yoko Ono rang for luck in 1980, but John Lennon refused, saying, "I'm part of the musicians' union, not the bell-ringers' union." He did offer Mr. Block a toke, however. "Three days later, John Lennon died," Mr. Block would say ominously. Park habitués knew him as Izzy or Poet-O, a pseudonym he picked up from the novel The Story of O . Through the years, he wrote thousands of poems, mostly about nature and its beauty. He'd carry photocopies of them to sell for a dollar. "His poetry was so natural and would come from a joyful heart," said Mr. Maurer, who published much of Mr. Block's work on the Web. "He sees everything as flowers and beautiful, like the park, which was his home and his paradise-the only place in New York to live. 'If I didn't have Central Park, I'd die,' he'd say." "He writes on anything he can find-a napkin, a tablecloth. He maintains a depth of spirit and a childlike innocence," said Elizabeth McNulty, a documentary filmmaker who's been shooting Mr. Block off and on since 1999. According to Mr. Block, he was born to destitute Eastern European Jewish parents in a shack in the Sheep Meadow on Halloween 1920, the youngest of four children. When Mr. Block was a boy, his father, a gambler, left for Arizona, and his mother had a breakdown and was institutionalized. In a 2001 documentary about him, Life Is a Dream , Mr. Block said that, deserted by his siblings, he went to various foster homes but was never adopted because he was epileptic and "tongue-tied" (he had difficulty speaking). "When he was 15, someone used him as a runner to deliver some pot in Times Square," said Mr. Maurer, and Mr. Block ended up in reform school, where he learned to read. But when he was let out, he was homeless. At 17, Mr. Maurer said, Mr. Block was "sleeping on a bench in Washington Square Park, and an old man comes up to him and says, 'You're not supposed to sleep here. Young boys like you shouldn't be staying here. You should have milk. Come with me.' "Izzy said, 'Go away!' He thought the old man was a bum. Well, the old man turned out to be Albert Einstein. He was living at the Mews by Fifth Avenue, and he took Izzy in to stay with him for three weeks. He just had one bed in the place, so they slept in the same bed." "More often than not," said Ms. McNulty, "there were things that he would say that I would lean towards dismissing, but then I would get information that would verify what he had said." Mr. Block also told of working in Key West on a crocodile farm, serving in the Merchant Marines, and having an untouchable $300,000 in stocks from a member of the wealthy Lowenstein textile family, for whom he said he was once a wheelchair attendant and aide. Mr. Block, who never married or had children and alluded to being a celibate homosexual, started making his regular rounds in the park in the mid-1900's. In recent years, he'd get up early, leave his S.R.O. home-wallpapered with poems and the caricatures park artists had done of him, at the Woodstock House on West 43rd Street-and, by 10 a.m., he'd be on the bus to Central Park. At soup kitchens, Mr. Block was something of a poet laureate, always dragging his left hand across the tablecloth to create, in neat script, little prose poems. "He'd invent words like 'protaganoid,'" said Mr. Maurer. "He'd invent phrases like 'It's too late to relate!'" "He defied a lot of convention, just in the way he survived and conducted himself," said Ben Gioia, a 31-year-old Brooklynite who befriended Mr. Block last year as his health began to fail and he became partially blind. Nevertheless, he still enjoyed occasional joints, Mr. Gioia said, and would attempt his park rounds. "He made me evaluate my own life differently," Mr. Gioia added. "He loved the array of people that were out there, and how concentrated that array was in Central Park." Yet like so many celebrities, at the end of the day, when all was quiet, Mr. Block felt forsaken. "He would say he was the loneliest man in the world, even though he meets everyone," said Mr. Maurer. "He was always sad about the loneliness." "I would say, 'Oh, your friend so-and-so,' and he would say, 'I don't have any friends,'" Ms. McNulty said. At present, Mr. Block lies comatose under a white blanket in a poorly lit room at Bellevue Hospital, where he was brought from the Woodstock in mid-March, following a stroke. On a recent afternoon, while his suitemate watched Married with Children , a nurse came to look in on him. "It's almost over for him," she mumbled to herself. Mr. Block's eyelids fluttered. A single get-well card-from the Church of the Epiphany-sat on the windowsill, beside copies of his poems. His bell was out of sight, and Central Park-some four miles away-was being dusted with April snow without him. By his head, someone had tacked up one of his poems, "Red Rose": A rose is surrounded by thorns. Tall and beautiful am I. The morning dew wets my cute lips of blooming red. Fragrant supreme is my natural perfume. Praise galore greets me at every turn. The knowledge that I find most endearing Is that all other flowers notice my rare beauty. And: I am far too delicate to wilt and die. Adieu, Poet-O. Adieu, Mr. Block."

–Adieu, Poet-O: Bell-Ringer of Central Park Slips Away | The New York Observer

Life is a Dream is a documentary about an 80 year old Jewish street

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:08:32 GMT

Life is a Dream is a documentary about an 80 year old Jewish street poet named Isidore Block who lives in New York. Isidore, best known today as Poet-o, has been entertaining the visitors of Central Park by reciting his own poetry and by giving wishes out with his famous Unicorn Bell. Though Isidores Life has been arduous and, at times, sad, it is also filled with beauty. Isidore cherishes the positive reaction he receives from reciting his poems and giving wishes out to visitors. It is almost dreamlike for him, and he told us many times how dreams have been an important element of his life. Life is a Dream is a thought-provocative reflection on the state of the American dream through the eyes of a street artist who has transformed Central Park into his own Kingdom.

"Solange man nicht jedes seiner Fotos mit genauen Metadaten versieht, gelten F..."

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:02:26 GMT

"Solange man nicht jedes seiner Fotos mit genauen Metadaten versieht, gelten Fotos in Zukunft als „verwaist“ und dürfen kostenfrei von Verlagshäusern verwendet werden, was wahrscheinlich auf 90% aller im Internet zu sehenden Fotos zutrifft. Hier wird das Urheberrecht nicht nur mit Füßen getreten, nein, man legt auch gleich noch einen dampfenden Haufen darauf."

–Neue Gesetze in .uk: Foto verboten | Spreeblick

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Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:08:14 GMT

[Reposted from nicapicella via moop]

VEB Isokond

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:11:59 GMT

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_n_h9g9DxpsM/R9RVHkwDoGI/AAAAAAAAAgg/7UqSQk-RxNg/s512/DSC00148.JPG

The zero currency note in your

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:34:28 GMT

The zero currency note in your country's currency is a tool to help you achive the goal of zero corruption. The note is a way for any human being to say NO to corruption without the fear of facing an encounter with persons in authority.

Next time someone asks you for a bribe, just take your country's zero currency note and hand it to them. This will let the other person know that you refuse to give or take any money in order to perform services required by law or to give or take money to do something illegal.

Great beer commercial from Argentina: Teletransporter

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:59:22 GMT

Great beer commercial from Argentina: Teletransporter

[Reposted from citizen428 via cygenb0ck]