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visualizing dreams

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:16:51 +0000

While her daughter sleeps, Mila visualizes her dreams.

Trust in God

admin — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:04:14 +0000

Art attack at Rosenthaler platz

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:49:45 +0000

Art attack at Rosenthaler platz…. it would have been perfect if google maps was updating their sattelite images yesterday afternoon. This is pretty nice though, regardless.

Do you suffer from disconnect anxiety?

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:21:34 +0000

Here’s how to get over it!

Pearls of wisdom

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:03:01 +0000

go hungry because you can’t afford food, not because you can’t cook. Everything follows this rule.

You are what you read…

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:18:51 +0000

your favorite authors define you… how did you do?

SPAM is not always fake!

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:32:26 +0000

Prisoner taunts police on Facebook

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:39:59 +0000

This is just priceless.

Burka-barbie

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:25:47 +0000

no comments required!

(via just a guy thing)

Mag+

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:43:35 +0000

Mag+ is a prototype for the nextgen magazine. I like the idea behind it, but honestly, it’s about time for an affordable gadget that works as a tablet, ebook reader, magazine, and so on to be made available. Something akin to Crunchpad/JooJoo (without the drama), or Courier (maybe without the microsoft?). Something I can browse the web with, check my emails, read ebooks and newsfeeds, take a few notes, make some simple sketches and so on… until then, I guess I’ll have to do with sexy concepts and rough prototypes…

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

Drinking Like Mad Women

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:27:15 +0000

The ladies at Double X magazine decided to try to go through a typical work day like the boys from “Mad Men”. I’d like to try that too, sometime.

Bumptop - Multitouch desktop

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:43:11 +0000

A desktop that works as a desktop is supposed to. Absolutely fantastic!

Yeah but no but yeah.

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:46:12 +0000

True story, but it might as well be a Mitch Hedberg joke: Stewardess, right after Cptn. turns on seatbelt sign: “ladies and gentlemen, it is now 6:30 pm San francisco local time. the captain has informed me that we will be landing at 7:20, so in around 30 minutes. therefore, I would suggest you all get up and move around a little. actually I just noticed the seatbelt signs, so don’t. that will be all.”

MI:email

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:30:52 +0000

This message will self-destruct in 5. 4. 3…. An interesting approach to electronic data privacy.

Maths in the Movies

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:33:59 +0000

Hollywood movies, plots and scenes from a mathematician’s point of view. Fun read.

a NOSQL non-relational hmmm

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:43:03 +0000

Digg apparently has started using Cassandra (a structured key-value store) as an alternative to MySQL for some of their features. MySQL is pretty much the standard for a wide range of large SNS (including Facebook, Flickr, and Digg itself). As someone who’s done his fair-share of work scaling, federating, sharding, and doing other -ings to databases to speed up and optimize large amounts of data for web applications, it’s interesting to see where this experiment leads to.

note: Cassandra was originally developed by Facebook, released as open source in ‘08, and is now an apache incubator project. Don’t you just love the web?

Patterns in nature

admin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:48:58 +0000

Nature composed the music. This guy just wrote it down.

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

Sue

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:20:22 +0000

The prophets descendants are a litigative bunch!

Snakes in an Aldi

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:45:30 +0000

This story about a snake biting a British tourist on Holiday in Bavaria is not THAT interesting… the comments on the other hand are hilarious!

The merits of project planning

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:28:48 +0000

The merits of project planning: Suicide bomber killed by suicide bomber while en-route to target!

Terrorist leaders have called the incident a “wake-up call.”

“No one likes to see a senseless waste of a willingness to take human life,” said al-Qaeda operative Salih al-Shimiri, in a videotaped message aired on Al-Jazeera Monday evening. “However, there are worse problems than having too many suicide bombers on our streets.”