Michael Mosel, a student at Marburg University, CC-licenced his paper “↑Film noir Computerspiele—marketing gag oder reales ‘noir gaming’?“ [“Film noir computer games—marketing ruse or real ‘noir gaming’?” | .pdf | 907KB] and ↑published it online, as his brother ↑notified … Continue reading →
The graphics are insultory to ↵my hardware. But that I knew beforehand. In fact, honestly, I always wanted to stay away from “↑Second Life“ as clean as possible. Of course it has to do with ↵my project as a whole, … Continue reading →
All ↵the parts I had ordered ↵finally arrived, and one week ago, on Monday, 05 March 2007, at 13:00h I unpacked the boxes. First things first. The case I leave aside and carefully unwrap the mainboard, an Asus … Continue reading →
“When Neuromancer was re-released in 2000, a quote from Jack Womack was added to the epilogue. “What if the act of writing it down, in fact, brought it about?””—a ↑vision realized, and the ↑visionary’s reaction.
Continue reading →Die Bürokratie ist der nicht greifbare Feind des gesunden Menschenverstandes und der Gerechtigkeit, sie fördert Trägheit und Willkür, und oft haben wir das Gefühl, machtlos zu sein gegen kleinkarierte Beamte, die sich gegen alle Vernunft und manchmal mit tragischen … Continue reading →
What’s that with the Balkans? ↑Bruce Sterling not only now lives in Belgrade, but tells us in his recent ↑Washington Post article “↑My dot-green future is finally arriving“ about himself “standing among a crowd of radical Serbs in front … Continue reading →
The ↑steampunk keyboard mod out of the ↑steampunk workshop definitely is the perfect follow-up to the ↵high end keyboard. from just.be via e-mail—tnx!
Continue reading →Once again I was forced to take the comments function offline. My countermeasures against spamming were still working and indeed prevented ‘sensible’ spam—spam that actually does advertise something or builds up a web of hyperlinks. Sometimes the filter overdid it … Continue reading →
Pulp Surrealism is about the secret life of mass culture, specifically its surrealistic undercurrents. It establishes a low-brow, anti-establishment genealogy of the Parisian dada and surrealist movements in the popular realms of crime fiction and sensationalist journalism. Mass culture was … Continue reading →