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Opinion: David Lynch on watching movies on mobile phones

By fpp ⋅ 16-January-2008 at 12:49 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

The last days we have again got the whole shebang – mainstream media praising the great idea, the movie conglomerates already counting the money (but the writers still on strike), the yay-sayers on the gadgets megasites frolocking and the pilot fish bloggers on their sites joining in with the song…

But wait a minute! What is so great about watching a movie on a cigarette box size display that was originally created to be experienced on a silver screen hundred times bigger with professional sound equipment providing the surroundings…

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Data visualization: Leading surveillance societies around the world

By fpp ⋅ 9-January-2008 at 23:42 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

Since 1997 two NGOs – the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center and the UK-based Privacy International – have surveyed and assessed the state of surveillance and privacy protection in 47 countries. The annual Privacy & Human Rights Report compiled from their findings has by now become one of the most comprehensive surveys of global privacy and citizen rights.

Their “most recent report” published a few days ago has been created with the help of more than 200 experts from around the world and has grown to 1,100 pages. It shows trends of

“…an overall worsening of privacy protection across the world, reflecting an increase in surveillance and a declining performance of privacy safeguards…“, and

“…an increasing trend amongst governments to archive data on the geographic, communications and financial records of all their citizens and residents. This trend leads to the conclusion that all citizens, regardless of legal status, are under suspicion…

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Video: BillyG’s last day at Microsoft

By fpp ⋅ 7-January-2008 at 20:24 (UTC) ⋅ One comment

While we still prefer “D. Letterman’s goodbye to BillyG”, yesterday – during his last CES key note – Bill Gates has shown that he’s taken a humorous stand on leaving Microsoft’s day-to-day business…

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Earthrace – the last run on its 2007 record attempt (Part 2)

By fpp ⋅ 30-December-2007 at 21:11 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

Earlier this year – in May – we had a chance to participate for a few days on the attempt of “Earthrace” to break the UIM world record for circumnavigation with their bio-diesel boat.
(this post a continuation of the post Earthrace – the last run on its 2007 record attempt (Part 1) )

We have (together with another company) sponsored their last leg on their attempt to break the world record during 2007. On their “web site” there is now information that their second run to break the record will commence in March 2008 from Valencia, Spain. Good luck with that…

While a lot could be said about the 4-5 days leg from Port Suez to Valencia we participated – one thing’s for sure – it was quite an experience.

We have not taken many images after heading out into the Mediterranean, but some of the pictures from the Suez Canal came out quite well…

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