Unsitten. “Bang With Friends” in der 3sat Kulturzeit.
For real? Haben da heute Abend Ernst A. Grandits und Ijoma Mangold von der Zeit in der 3sat Kulturzeit ernsthaft über die literarischen und gesellschaftlichen Implikationen der noch recht jungen facebook-App Bang With Friends diskutiert?
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Verblendet.
Der Spiegel titelt: “Die Lüge ist ministrabel geworden”. Das ist natürlich Blödsinn. Manche Lügen oder Auslassungen waren schon immer ministrabel, andere nicht.
read onWordPress 3.1 beta 1
After the WP development team spent the Summer on improving the WP community’s infrastructure, they are back with WordPress 3.1, now in beta 1, the next version of this year’s Open Source CMS “Hall of Fame”-Award winning CMS.
read onThe Sarrazin affair: Pissing against the wind.
Getting rid of Thilo Sarrazin as a Bundesbank board member is the political equivalent of pissing against the wind. This is not going to end the debate, it’s going to kickstart it.
read onA Passage to India
Well, we all know where Columbus ended up when he tried to find one. Luckily, my friend Marietta actually made it to India, exchanging the colourful sights of Carnival in Mainz for those of Jaipur.
read oniPad, HyPad.
So, MacTablet day is over, and what have we learnt? Steve Jobs can’t do magic, either.
read onNo ‘tyrants’ anymore.
According to the Guardian, a British recruitment firm got into a bit of trouble with the UK’s advertising watchdog because one of its radio ads features an apparently German boss whose spoken German reminds of Charlie Chaplin’s.
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Singles, Codes, and Evolution.
Ok, let’s face it. Mating, human mating in particular, is a complex communication process involving all sorts of biological and cultural codes that no one will ever really understand – except with hindsight, when we call it evolution.
read onAuf der Nordschleife in den Graben gefahren.
Felix Schmitt von Bündnis90/Die Grünen RLP kommentiert die “Affäre Billen” der CDU Landtagsfraktion Rheinland-Pfalz und es ist wirklich kaum möglich, die Sache anders zu sehen als er.
read onDismal Science Update – What kind of economics should we teach?
Hey, maybe the economic crisis will have a bit of a lasting effect on incentives, after all – if only indirectly.
read onGood Morning America.
The NY Times reports that the American Law Institute, a body made up of about 4,000 judges, lawyers and law professors and mostly dealing with creating structural legal directives to keep the different jurisdictional layers of the American legal system congruent, and also the body which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice [...]
read onManifestieren.
Im vergangenen April, auf der Republica 2009, habe ich Stefan Niggemeier nach der gnadenlos langweiligen Blogger vs. Journalismus-Diskussion zwischen zwei Radiointerviews zum Thema noch gefragt, ob es ihn nicht langweile, seit Jahren mit den gleichen Leuten immer die gleichen Dinge zu diskutieren. Er meinte schlicht – “ja”. Aber er begreift diese Diskussionen wohl auch als [...]
read onHappy with WordPress.
I’m rather happy with the current path the WP community is following –
read onNiggemeier dekonstruiert Gorny.
Großes Kino: Stefan Niggemeier dekonstruiert Dieter Gorny. Und den Rest der Branche.
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That Special Gift For That Special Someone.
Need a really cool gift for Valentine’s day… 2010? Check out this amazing offer from mydays.de – book yourself on a spacefllight for only 210,000 Euros!
read onA Happy New Year…
to all of you, my gentle readers.
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Santa’s Fantasy. 2008.
Merry Christmas everyone. It’s been a while since I last presented a song here. I wrote the original version of “Santa’s Fantasy” in Sydney, Australia, in December 2007 as “theme song” for the christmas party I attended.
read onInformationskontrolle
Ich erinnere mich, daß ich es etwas kontraintuitiv fand, als ich im Skript zu einer Vorlesung über Organisation und Informationstechnologie die Aussage fand, daß Technologien, die Freiheit schaffen können, genauso zu ihrer Abschaffung eingesetzt werden können.
read onAmerica Votes. I Watch.
No live blogging tonight, as I’ll be attending an election night party organised by the American studies department at Johannes-Gutenberg Universität.
read onBeautification going on
Oh, just in case you, gentle readers, noticed – there are some minor beautifications going on at almostadiary.de. Thus, not everything may look like it’s supposed to look at the moment.
read onMy WordPress 2.8 wishlist
With the upcoming release of WP 2.7, the software is maturing a lot, and it’s also getting a lot more sexy, and not just visually.
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