Category Archives: software

brains ain’t computers

Posted on Thursday, 2nd February 2012 by

When, ↵like recently, I am talking about the historical significance of cybernetics for contemporary culture and society I more often than not mention that in the process of marking itself off from mechanistic visions (Ashby 1957 [1956]: 1-6), cybernetics quite … Continue reading →

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marco tempest

Posted on Friday, 21st October 2011 by

… get to the poetry faster  This is way overdue. It must have been in the late 1980s or early ’90s that for the first time I saw ↑Marco Tempest perform live. It was at one of those bigger magicians’ … Continue reading →

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seventythree percent

Posted on Tuesday, 4th October 2011 by

Just a li’l rant in-between, because this is hilarious and I have to let off a bit of steam.     I played through ‘↑Far Cry 2‘ (FC2) till 73% of the story mode, and now I am stuck. I … Continue reading →

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flowchart shaders

Posted on Thursday, 21st July 2011 by

Biohazard’s modding tool, the ↑Source Shader Editor, is a ↑WYSIWYG editor, which ‘allows the user to create, compile and implement new ↑shaders easily into a source ↑mod without any preliminary knowledge of HLSL. The shaders are based on nodes which … Continue reading →

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stuxnet

Posted on Thursday, 2nd December 2010 by

There is a brilliant article by Ed Barnes at FoxNews: ‘Mystery surrounds cyber missile that crippled Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions.’ When I first read it, at the least when a third into the text, I would have thought it to … Continue reading →

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46 best-ever freeware utilities

Posted on Thursday, 10th February 2005 by

Ian “Gizmo” Richard’s Tech Support Alert is a comprehensive, commented, and regularly updated compilation of free resources. Gizmo says: “As a computer professional, I’m always searching the Web for new sources of technical information. New support sites, great resources and … Continue reading →

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3dsmax

Posted on Sunday, 19th January 2003 by

Some days ago I bought a book on 3dsmax4—which came with a trial-version of it—and am reading in it since, simultaneously fooling around with the application itself. The book is in German and its subtitle reads “Grundlagen und Praxis der … Continue reading →

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