guckenheim

personal iraq war

flo — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:39:48 +0000

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.

skip tracks. iPhone secret.

flo — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:21:29 +0000

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.

3d desktop implementation

flo — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:29:35 +0000

this is very well done. more thoughts about this later on.

history of religion

flo — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:48:18 +0000

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

google trends: labels and context

flo — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:33:16 +0000

the newly announced (5/23/07) google trends is looking at the world a little too optimistic: here is one example why you do not want to describe your highest gaining search results as “spicy” or “on fire”.

view the microwaved baby trend. careful (involves texans and satan.)

street installations

flo — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:44:54 +0000

sculpture art work and the city

stats

flo — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:51:14 +0000

If you have a blog you can fill out this survey to get statistical information about the blogosphere. if we get over 20 participants we can publish the anonymous stats ofthe guckenheim ;)

it’s good to still curiosity and see different metrics than the big corporate ones (nielsen/netratings). somebody say grassroots.

2003 nyc power out

flo — Sun, 06 May 2007 23:55:59 +0000

Just uploaded my first youtube video. And old series of pictures that I edited and uploaded on remaining battery life on the powerbook during the brown out. It had to be done quickly.