I just found the GNU manifesto in the internet (With the open-source browser Firefox, btw). And now I am writing a blog entry about that manifesto with Wordpress , also published under the GPL (GNU General Public License). Open Source Software is everywhere, and it's still growing! Seems like this manifesto written in 1985 really …

Have you ever asked yourself "why can't I just send this ringtone through bluetooth" or "why can't i synchronize my phone with [whatever addressbook]"? You are not alone! When buying a cellular you are facing two problems: first, in most cases you cannot try before you buy. You may have the chance to take a …

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 …

a friend of mine created a cool sound installation, called "quite quiet". here is the explaining text: Quite quiet mouth opens, streams through the machine and let perceive yourself else The mouth operates as sound generator apart the remaining voice apparatus. Eyes shut and mouth wide open. An alien sound spectrum is generated, self-perception might …

...for the German and political interested readers a short announcement:

Well, those guys basically had the same idea.... but they actually implemented it. Alliance (Win, Mac, Linux) allows you and your friends and colleagues to build up an own private Peer 2 Peer Network. Guess what: I have something 2 share with you. If you are interested: my nick is effzehn. EDIT: Well it seems …

Digital Media Bremen and Interface Design Potsdam graduate Christian Behrens recently finished his Master thesis at the University of applied sciences in Potsdam. He designed a compendium of dozens of information design patterns, such as treemaps, pie charts, thread arcs, etc. There is an online version available as well as a printed book (which is …

The first lecture of this series was Frieder's talk The Machinic & the Semiotic . The next ones all take place in the Haus der Wissenschaft, Sandstraße, at 5pm. 14 May Rainer Malaka, University of Bremen: "Intelligent Interaction" 4 June Roland Kerstein, HfK Bremen: "A lot of AV" 18 June Jörn Loviscach, Hochschule Bremen: "Graphical …

just found another neat library... called openFrameworks . It was used for instance by the graffiti research lab to create their laser tagging thing . unlike processing its based on c++. hm. don't know what to think about that..: ) on the one hand c++ is great, when talking bout speed, but on the other …