Hochschultage 2009: Brutstätte
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Archive for February, 2009
Aurora: Odyssey in Space?
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Leopard Wallpaper Aurora
Scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey
What you see here is the well-known Apple Wallpaper Aurora, the standard background in Mac OS X Leopard. Yeah, it’s the first one, not the second. The second is a movie still from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s SciFi masterpiece from 1968, roundabout 40 years senior than the Apple wallpaper. I recently watched the movie for the 20th time and I came across this resemblance. (It’s of course the sequence where Dave Bowman “evolves”).
Electronic Examiner (1981): “It takes two hours for the whole issue over the telephone line”
Monday, February 9th, 2009An early experiment for digital news distribution.