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 →
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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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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 →
second life: first encounter
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 →
system assembly
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 →
visions
“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.
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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 →
cyberpunked balkans
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 →
steampunk
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!
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