Rant

It sure is Duke Nukem Forever , announced in 1997, then awarded with the Intergalactic Vaporware Lifetime Achievement Award (I just invented this one, but I am sure, that there is some price invented especially for DNF's case), responsible for a whole bunch of wasted youths (wasted hope, wasted time, wasted money, wasted everything), proof …

Pong Prom from Ed Keeble on Vimeo . I will not comment on this, this will get out of hands. But I have to commit that I´m amused. A little. Or a bit more.

I take this opportunity to write down what the 00s were technologically all about. Most points here I wrote down by heart, with some I did some extra research. Enjoy the soon-to-be-retro-feelings! the internet sow it's wild oats in the dot com bubble, then its coming-of-agewith the web 2.0, 2005 the world faces one billion …

Gordon Brown issued an unequivocal apology last night on behalf of the government to Alan Turing, the second world war codebreaker who took his own life 55 years ago after being sentenced to chemical castration for being gay. Describing Turing's treatment as "horrifying" and "utterly unfair", Brown said the country owed the brilliant mathematician a …

Art & Copy is a cinematic documentary about advertisement. I would say - according to the trailer - it is one typical self-criticizing and at the same time self-adulating fast paced movie with the motivation of mystifying things more than they probably deserve to be. Maybe it's all of that not because it's just the …

Two eccentric game designers talk about - what else? - game design. English with German subtitles @ arte+7 , available only a few days!

In case you haven't seen it yet.

There certainly was too much pointless blabla about the Web in the past few years. After watching this cut by Andre Fillippone Jr . made with source material he took from Charlie Rose' shows, I feel much better.

[caption id="attachment_290" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Leopard Wallpaper Aurora"] [/caption] [caption id="attachment_291" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey"] [/caption] 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 …

Some ambitious thoughts at the beginning of the new Year: While I was sorting my old mails and mailinglists, I happened to come across an older post of the German Thesis E.V. Mailinglist recommending this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o Here is the Link for follow up discussions they mention at the end: Revisiting “A Vision of Students …

This morning a friend of mine asked me the following questions: What is it, that you are studying? For what is it for? What can you do with it after your graduation? Honestly, I did not really know how to answer these questions efficiently let alone satisfyingly. I mean, of course I have a personal …

I think that I now saw everyone of our age group at the Master Presentations on Friday. Finally! I somehow feel much more connected to the other groups since I know now, what all fellow students are doing. Here are the four projects in overview: Intelligent Room gesture/sensor based interactive room (Uni) T³H – The …