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In remembrance of the German rock band Ton Steine Scherben and Rio Reiser...
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Great visualization of a cliche that unfortunately is too often true...
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Imperial Fleet Week in San Francisco - a great and exceptionally well made fan video that shows the Star Wars Empire gathering in and over San Francisco.
Star Wars fan Michael Horn, who made the short film, says he used only his "junkie DV camera" and did the processing in After Effects and Final Cut...
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We have been asked a few times for an example to better understand that the security of a system is defined by its weakest link. Well here's one of our example video for that...
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The World Clock by Simon Heys is an interesting screen-saver for Mac OS X, Windows PCs and the Apple iPhone. Very interesting typography and eye friendly dark background...
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After all the shadow plays in Georgia and around the world also with the banking crisis and economical situation we thought pointing you to some "professional" shadow players might be more amusing.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
"Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French "
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A guide how to fix computer problems like viruses, expired software licenses or hardware failures with a pendulum or alternative medicine.
LoL - attention comedy!
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Three MIT students have shown the weaknesses of the Boston and other local transportation systems in the US (and of course got sued instead of learning from it). The image below is a compilation of some of the DEFCON slides from their presentation...
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About a month ago the website of Georgia's President was under a distributed denial of service attack and offline for some time. Based on forensic analysis it became clear that the root of these attacks were to be found in Russia.
Now with a state of war declared as it seems all official Government web sites of Georgia are not responding, not reachable or do not display any content...
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Last week again saw strong discussions on the changes happening on the Internet, this time fueled by an video where Lawrence Lessig provided insides on an potential i-Patriot Act ante portas - similar to the 9/11 crashing of civil rights. Watch the "video" or read "the highlights" of it - the points raised make a lot of sense in the context of the changes seen the last 12/24 months.
When listening to the discussions it reminded us of the song "The day the routers died" from the RIPE 55 conference. While definitely not intended to be political in the context of an i-Patriot act it gets a completely new twist (particularly some of the verses)...
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In a brief attack of nonsense here's a short video of a cow dancing on the street to the notorious song "I like to move it, move it..."
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In the 10 minutes video below some of the key "figure-heads" of Web 2.0 are being asked to give a short definition of what cloud computing might be.
While some didn't take the question too serious its quite interesting which benefits others have identified...
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On this day in 1945 80,000 people were killed instantly and thousands more have died from injuries or illness attributed to the nuclear attacks on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later with the bombing of Nagasaki ten thousands more of mostly civilian population in Japan was killed with the second atomic bomb dropped by the US...
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When you are just starting to believe that you have heard all the mind blowing stories about the US military in Iraq, what their contractors do, the enormous corruption and abuse going on at that place and there can't be anything worse in their closets anymore you see a story like this.
GAO released a report last week and the CNN has written an editorial on the report and the House panel investigating the way the cases are handled. Rep. Jane Harman, D-California said that her "jaw dropped" when she was told that 4 of 10 women serving in the US military have been raped or otherwise sexually harassed by "fellow" US soldiers. And the GAO report indicates that...
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Much can be said about Alexander Solzhenitsyn who died this weekend in Russia, and many will certainly do. With a courageous person like him having left us a few words by us might be allowed as well. He was...
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As the FDIC has yesterday closed another bank (First Priority Bank) the eight US bank that failed this year, we thought maybe this series on the banking system might be inspiring.
It's about 50min long and a mixture of animations and images. Anybody having a strong believe in the infallibility of our current economic systems and societies should be warned that this is not too positive about the banking system. Besides that with the...
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An animation that has E.A. Poe's image read his outstanding poem "The Raven"...
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No this is not a continuation of or "April's Fools post", Nasa today "officially released" information that they found water on Mars.
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While we're at it. A short add-on to our previous post ...
Still inspiring.
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After two years of a break the annual water / food fight between the two (former) Berlin "districts of Kreuzberg" and Friedrichshain was taken out again this weekend.
Almost a thousand combatants gathered around the "Oberbaumbruecke" that connects the two neighborhoods. The "battle" goes back to the 1990s when the Senate of Berlin in an administrative reform combined the two neighborhoods into one township/voting district most likely to block the left wing PDS party from getting a broader representation in government.
Within this battle only "weapons" like water, flour and everything that is wet, soft, splashy or slippery are allowed. According to that motto popular weapons included addle eggs, rotten vegetables or...
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To our knowledge the image below is from a presentation last week by Craig Ross, one of the Ottawa Linux Symposium organizers.
Either Linux does make you fat or maybe it has grown up (a bit).
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An outstanding stop motion movie of the making of a live cardboard rock concert.
Photography and animation by Rogier Wieland...
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The House Judiciary Committee yesterday held a hearing titled "Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations".
While almost every speaker tried to express that this is "not a Bush impeachment hearing" it was setup to examine legal and legislative responses to allegations of misconduct and expansions of executive powers by the Bush administration.
In short there has been at least a committee put into place to speak up on these outrageous things that have deteriorated the standing and reputation of the US around the globe.
While we do understand the anger of the millions of Americans, particularly of those who lost their husbands, wives and children in a "war" for Oil and Trillions of Dollars "for the boys" and all those who have lost their homes, life's work, pensions or possibility to get looked after when their ill, unfortunately history is telling us a rather crude and sad reality.
Many impeachment movements also of the very few (17) in the history of the US that...
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The Official video for Camille's song "Money Note" from her recently released album "Music Hole".
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If you're looking for a great new Tee for yourself (or for your kids) have a look at Glennz Evolution T-Shirt. One of the best Tees we've seen for quite some time.
About USD 20...
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Finally two all-electric car that do not look like a gunnysack or costs an arm and a leg.
The first - the Nice MyCar - designed by Italian design house Giugiaro and build in HongKong will be available in the UK from this fall...
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Slovenian blogger and OpenStreetMap contributor Igor Brejc who is also the author of the Kosmos rendering application has described how to turn OpenStreetMap maps into 3D. There is a set of images plus a video (link below) providing a first impression how these maps look like in 3D...
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Yesterday Sen. Barack Obama held a speech in Berlin and 200,000 were listening in enthusiastically.
For those who want to get an impression how 200,000 people look like from the viewpoint of the speaker we found an excellent shot at Flickr.
Note that the image only shows the front rows of...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008, is the 9th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication...
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