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Data-Visualization: Browser statistics as tree rings
Great interactive data visualization of the changing market share for the leading web browsers since 2002.
The source code for the animation is available by right clicking on the flash animation.
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Technology: BiDi Screen from MIT Media Lab
What the MIT Media Lab describes as “Computing with a wave of the hand” makes the much hyped implementation of current multi-touch screens look like technology from another century (which it actually is).
The new system allows gestural control without the need to touch the screen’s surface of screen elements with 3D objects and hand movements in 3D space near the screen - think Minority Report on a small screen. Watch the video below to see it in action…
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Climate Change: Germanwatch presents Global Climate Risk Index 2010
The climate and development organization Germanwatch has today published its Global Climate Risk Index 2010. The Global Climate Risk Index analyzes to what extent countries have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heatwaves etc.).
The Global Climate Risk Index (CRI) developed by Germanwatch analyzes the quantified impacts of extreme weather events in terms of people that have died from them, as well as economic losses that occurred. It is based on data from Munich Re´s Nat-CatSERVICE® which is one of the most reliable and complete data bases on this matter. While it does not take into account aspects such as sea-level rise or glacier melting, climate change is an increasingly important factor for the occurrence and intensity of these events. The CRI can therefore provide an indication of levels of exposure and vulnerability to extreme events which countries should see as a warning signal to prepare for more severe events in the future. The fifth edition of the CRI looks particularly at the impacts of extreme weather events from 1990 up until the most recent available data – 2008…
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Climate Change: Those hacked e-mails
Some more facts about “those leaked climate change emails” that have mobilized all those figures now claiming there’s nothing to be frightened about - its all a “scam” - you name it - well you know - just carry on watching TV - you know like the GOOOOOD people.
Yes Bernie that’s how you got those 50 billions but we’re not sure that this also works with mass manipulation.
And in completely unrelated news by these maSS-manipulators - the leading industrial nations - might be again announced during the Copenhagen photo opportunity - have agreed to shell out USD 10 Billions per year to fight those “non-existing” threats to human race on this planet - providing those monies to countries who are hardest hit by climate change - small island states - developing countries with long and low coast lines - i.e. BangLadesh - but don’t worry - nothing to fear here - move on - and if that won’t help - well there is still “duck and cover” that worked so well in the 1950s with the atomic bribery…
– So grandma is fine - and she lived for almost 80 years now - there ain’t no warming - she always says she’s feeling cold…
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Advertising: Polar Bear
Planet Stupid’s new Polar Bear ad causing quite a stir since a few days.
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Technology: An interview with NVIDIA’s Andy Keane at SC09
If your interested in HPC or want to learn about the great response and interest NVIDIA got for their new GPU / Cuda solutions at the SC09 show last week listen to Andy Keane, General Manager of NVIDIA’s’ Tesla GPU business unit.
Carry on with the good work - we’re all hoping to get a hand on a Fermi board soon.
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Duvet-Dayz: Welcome back
It’s been a while since we’ve been around - so welcome back.
We’ve been busy doing a few other things but now there will be more duvet-dayz time reserved for us (and hopefully also for you).
So why not start over with some music?
Something nice and new - check the next post.
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Civil-Rights: (Official) Censorship is coming back to Europe
Today the German Parliament will vote on a new Censorship law to be put in place to block web content as decided by the German administration. Based on black listing web sites and blocking those at ISP level via DNS and the displaying of so-called Stop pages the planned law was originally been handed around and legislators were seeking public approval by false-flagging it as a solely preventive measure against child abuse / pornography.
While almost all experts heard on this matter (fighting such illegal material and use) have clearly demonstrated that the censoring of access is no way forward towards stopping such activities particularly as many of the web servers in question were even physically located in Germany and other means (take-down notice to providers) proofed that within shortest notice (often less than a day) the material was taken off the net, it became more and more clear that the German Government is seemingly following a completely different agenda. The latest text of the law not even contains a reference anymore to the previously so broadly used argument of fighting child abuse but provides the general right to block any Internet content as…
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Duvet-Dayz: More than 500,000 spam messages received and blocked
Earlier this month we received our 500,000nd spam message and thanks to our spam filters it was blocked like the many others before.
And the winner is..
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Time: 1234567890
Tonight we finally reached “1234567890″ as Unix time. If you run a Unix or Linux machine try the following command…
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