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Social Networks: Friendface
Just a quick reminder to all of you that are spending too much time on so-called social networks over the holiday weekend.
The short clip below is from Channel 4’s cult series “The IT Crowd” that unfortunately was discontinued last year…
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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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Google Search: List of available magazine
We played around with Google’s new feature to search and display complete magazines and here’s the list of currently available magazines we could find (35 magazines - in alphabetic order)…
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Tiny Tags Online Generator
The small online application TinyTags creates little tag graphics with the text you enter. Images can be downloaded or saved to Flickr or ImageShack and you can turn your tag into a t-shirt too.
Nice little toy, might come handy in the holiday season.
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MTV Online Music Library opened
This is what we were waiting for. MTV Music has opened its huge music video collection and created a Hulu-like portal with currently about 22,000 music videos.
Now just add playlists and we will all be happy.
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INet: Google adds email sobriety test
Google has acted to protect its users against a seemingly widespread problem with email: Once you’ve pressed the send button it’s out in the wild. And some times you might have written something you shouldn’t have send to that person.
Seemingly for many this phenomenon occurs more frequently at certain times of the week / day - let’s say late Friday night.
From now on you can setup your Gmail account that at…
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Data Visualization: Internet Censorship
A great visualization by Good Magazine and the Lifelong Friendship Society on Internet censorship around the world.
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Humor: (Dada) Time Waster web sites (3)
Another site in the best tradition of the “dadaist nihilistic movement”, this one related to the current doomsday scenarios with the LHC at the Cern in Geneva.
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