Archive for the 'culture' Category

personal iraq war

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Many touching memories and comments about the journalist and translator Khalid Hassan who worked for the new york times in baghdad. This story was featured on the front page of the new york times online, with texts from his co-workers and many thoughtful comments by readers. For a  bird’s eye view of the events look into this article.

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skip tracks. iPhone secret.

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

One major gripe with the iphone was that it isn’t easy to skip a track. ok, let’s back up for a second: you walk down the street and this thing replaced your music player. So far so good. Less stuff to carry around. On comes this ‘parappa the rappa’ song with the rapping chicken trying to teach you how to drive… and at one point in your life this song might have been funny, but now it’s just not ((maybe because you are in a chicken factory) The froggy flee market sale song will always be hot!).
A purist could say that this is a lesson to be less promiscuous with ones’ iTunes library.

…ah, screw those nihilists and just double-press® the clicker on your right earbud and skip the dammed track.

somehow I just did it out of intuition, i probably lived with too many apple (computer), inc products for too long. So if you find this tip useful, please let us know what track you were trying to skip and we’ll feel for you.

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history of religion

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

very interesting visualisation of the history and spread of the world’s main religions.

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street installations

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

sculpture art work and the city

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design collection at “der spiegel”

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

visit designklicks

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pipes

Monday, February 12th, 2007

Just playing around with yahoo pipes. I made a feed that shows pictures of 13 pants around los angeles and 13 pictures of monkeys around africa, combines them and translates them to german.

I am sure there are different uses for it…

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documentary: manifactured landscapes

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

Manufactured Landscapes

interesting looking documentary about canadian photographer edward burtynsky. look for the work section for some stunning images.

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web 2.1 brings back the <blink>

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

ah, the server-side blink-tag

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