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zeph’s pop culture quiz #11 Who is jumping? And where to? I saw the movie as a kid on TV and since then I take the scene to be one of the most hilarious moments in motion picture history. It’s … Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #11 Who is jumping? And where to? I saw the movie as a kid on TV and since then I take the scene to be one of the most hilarious moments in motion picture history. It’s … Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #19 What is the man in the picture? Just leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click the ‘Leave a comment’ at … Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #23 It’s noir-time at zeph’s pop culture quiz … the two menacing silhouettes sporting fedoras—who are they? It so happens that the answer to the question at the same time is the title of the movie … Continue reading →
From ↑ITU statistics intac made some interesting infomap posters. The above one shows the ↑Internet usage around the globe (click the picture for full-size). The lighter a nation state is rendered, the lesser percentage of its population are using the … Continue reading →
a guide to in- and offworld online resources, or: avatar customization 101 A main factor contributing to the attractiveness of “↑Second Life“ (SL) is the possibility to modify and create content—up to the never-seen-before. I have to confess that during … Continue reading →
Rich “↑Datamancer“ Nagy specializes in “prestidigital datamancery & paraphernalic technofetishism (now with 20% more superfluous pleonasm!!).” In strictly out-of-character words: he makes customized steampunk-themed computer hardware to order. Here is a long quote, illustrating the ↑rationale behind his occupation: … Continue reading →
Again those little mosaic-tiles keep falling in place—and the timing is perfect. Just some days ago ↑John Postill confirmed via email that a paper I proposed for the ↑11th biennial conference of the ↑European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) has … Continue reading →
Just dug that one up from my bookmarks—back in the 1970s ↑Larry Cuba, then at the ↑Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), made the computer graphics seen during the endbattle against the Deathstar in the original ‘Star Wars’ (Lucas 1977). … Continue reading →
The picture above is a “photo montage featuring a dancer with body mounted sensors controlling real-time animation on the ANIMAC, 1962, Denver.”—another pre-cyberpunk cyberpunk-image. Weird coincidence—provoked by my entries on Tron and the interaction with SFAM, I remembered that … Continue reading →
The computer game “↑Max Payne“ (MP, 2001) was ↑banned in Germany, due to “socioethical disorienting effects,” it supposedly causes. In July of 2002 “↑America’s Army“ (AA) was released—since then I am wondering why nobody over here has the idea … Continue reading →