hardware rant
It really was high time. It was a bit more than five years ago that I ↵built my system. So a serious hardware upgrade was overdue. The necessary research done, I ↵ordered the needed parts. Until now I didn’t get … Continue reading →
It really was high time. It was a bit more than five years ago that I ↵built my system. So a serious hardware upgrade was overdue. The necessary research done, I ↵ordered the needed parts. Until now I didn’t get … Continue reading →
Just yesterday I received an e-mail from ↑Maurizio Teli [whom I know from back in 2005, when we met at the Cyberspace conference in Brno, Czech Republic] containing a call for papers for a workshop he is organizing together with … Continue reading →
Spiegel online since yesterday carries a ↑follow-up to the events behind the ↵MMOG-related ↵homicide in China. The author Christian Stöcker nicely links the ‘dragon sabre murder’ with recent ongoings concerning ‘computergames violence’ issues: Hillary Rodham Clinton seems to appropriate the … Continue reading →
or, pride and prejudice Director ↑Geoff Lapaire, playing the character ‘↑Kyle‘ in the “↑Pure Pwnage“ Internet television series, finally revealing his face to the audience at the end of ↑Episode 12 “Game Over” [46:08min | .avi | 342.5MB], closing the … Continue reading →
It’s been almost eight years that I ↵last quoted ↑Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, here at xirdalium. On 1st August 2006 I republished the following sentence from ↑his blog: When I invented the Web, I didn’t have … Continue reading →
MPH. 2001. Backstreets II. mod-type: levels release date: 17 November 2001 release package: backstreets2.zip [8MB] package contains: mph – Backstreets II.mpm [21MB] | Readme.txt [2KB] download: ↑at filefront accompanying Readme.txt: ________________________ Backstreets II ————– 17th November 2001 http://www.m-p-h.co.uk http://www.dodgethismod.com ________________________ … Continue reading →
WAGNER, COSIMA. [in print]. Robotopia Nipponica – Recherchen zur Akzeptanz von Robotern in Japan. [Robotopia Nipponica: Research on the acceptance of robots in Japan]. Marburg: Tectum. [English abstract] WAGNER, COSIMA. 2010 “”Silver robots” and “robotic nurses”? Japanese robot culture and … Continue reading →
manuscript-day 209 of 100 The history of mechanical calculators is far more outbranching, and the whole story is important for understanding, that what a computer does and is based on, is mathematics, and mathematics only. The devices presented so far—from … Continue reading →
Because of current events—namely Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti since today facing court again—and because I just discovered something different on which I will report later, I felt the urge to rewrite and revive an old entry I ↑originally posted … Continue reading →
Just three hours after my musing on AlanWAKEnet becoming the official fansite and the developers’ attitude towards the fanhood, ↑MikaRMD announced AlanWAKEnet to be the game’s official fansite: It also gives me a great pleasure that we can announce ↑www.alanwake.net … Continue reading →