the brain
↑Napoleon Chagnon ↑blogs at ↑Savage Minds and ↑Dustin M. Wax works for ↑Homeland Security … *
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Yearly Archives: 2007
heart of data
the hard and dark side of modding Last night’s better part I spent with ↑Resource Hacker, prying open certain system files and having healthy looks at their contents. Having looked long enough made me start to understand how WinXP’s graphical … Continue reading →
virtual plastic
resistance against aero glass “Less is more.” —Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (↵1959) Upgrading your hardware for tilting your windows “threedimensionally” on your desktop, as ↵Madotate did for Win2k already years ago? For having simulated plexiglass frames around your … Continue reading →
computer games officially are culture
↑Wired reports: “Earlier this month, French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres inducted three game designers into the prestigious Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Literature) as chevaliers, or knights: Peter Molyneux (Populous and Black & … Continue reading →
being not truthful
↑Being not truthful is an installation by ↑Ralph Ammer which allows a ‘spectator’ to interact with a projected animation by gestures. Watch the video [↑24MB | .mov or ↑9MB | .mov] to see sheer magic and have the thing … Continue reading →
way better
avatar customizing
Walking, running, flying, and teleporting around a vast flat world, almost free to explore, surely is one of the key features which make up “↑Second Life“‘s (SL) attractivity. Another key feature is the high moddability of your personal avatar. … Continue reading →
people
“↑Second Life“ still appears as a practically empty world to me, but now I’ve found numerous places where people congregate, and where you are sure to run into them. I even found people worthwhile talking to … see above. … Continue reading →
open source annual 2007
The ↑Open Source Annual ↑2007 has been succesfully presented at the CeBit 2007. LUTTERBECK, BERND, MATTHIAS BÄRWOLFF, AND ROBERT A. GEHRING (eds.). 2007. ↑Open Source Jahrbuch 2007: Zwischen freier Software und Gesellschaftsmodell. Berlin: Lehmanns Media. From now on it … Continue reading →
cinemascope cyberspace
With the second screen my desktop enlarges to 2560×1024 pixel, using the LCDs’ generic resolution—taking screenshots works flawless. Now I can view the uneven twins, my ↵website and the ↵weblog, as they were intended.
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