March 2012
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Hartz IV Möbel →
A Bauhaus-inspired chair for 24 Euros? Le Van Bo designs DIY furniture for people on a budget. The assembly instruction sheets are available for free on the web but they come with a condition, says Van Bo: “I ask people to send me their story and to encourage other people in their environment to take on similar projects.” More than 1.000 have been built so far. The idea came to Van...
Mar 12th
My thoughts on Kony 2012
My thoughts on this short film (half documentary, half fundraising tool) that is spreading quickly on the internet: Stories. I’m reminded what a powerful tool film can be to tell stories. Jason Russel is good at mixing the facts about the terrible crimes happening in East Africa with cute shots of his son and impressive scenes of youth rallies. Around his story he wraps an important idea:...
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February 2012
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Click Click Decker und Gisbert zu Knyphausen haben eine Splitsingle online. Mir gefällt der Chor am Ende.
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January 2012
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Dimanche by Patrick Doyon (from Québec!). Nominated for Best Short Film (Animated) at the Oscars 2012. I love it. I also love the National Film Board of Canada for letting me watch this.
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April 2011
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January 2011
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Ich mag den Track, die Bilder auch. James Delay: ‘Howl’. Video von Christopher Tirrell. via
Jan 26th
Just in Time, or A Short History of Production →
Der französische Künstler/Buchmacher Xavier Antin hat vier Desktop-Drucker aus 100 Jahren Druckgeschichte in Reihe geschaltet, um ein Buch zu drucken. “A book printed through a printing chain made of four desktop printers using four different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976. A production process that brings together small scale and large scale production, two sides of the...
Jan 19th
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SQL Joins visualisiert →
Ok, das hier ist was für Geeks. Wer sich ab und zu mit Datenbanken und SQL Joins beschäftigt weiß, dass man sich schnell einen Knoten ins Hirn macht. Gut, wenn einer wie Jeff Atwood eine schöne Visualisierung schafft.
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How (not) to Shoot a Black Dog →
Unglaublich witzig: eine Familie scheitert immer wieder bei dem Versuch, einen schwarzen Hund zu fotografieren. His owners’ persistence is admirable, with the non-dog not showing up all over the house, from not posing proudly in the garden to not being dried by his mistress on the kitchen counter.  On the one hand, it’s amusing that they could fail to get it right for such a long time. On the...
Jan 4th
December 2010
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Seit 1996 unberührt: die Website zum Film Space... →
Und so sieht sie auch aus. Webdesign Mitte der 90er, hach. Space Jam. Ich war damals im Kino. via reddit
Dec 31st
Privacy Icons
Aza Raskin, (noch) Super-Designer bei Mozilla, stellt eine frühe Version von sieben Privacy Icons vor. Ziel ist es, dass die Symbole im Web Verbreitung finden und Benutzer so schnell erkennen, was mit ihren Daten geschieht. Ich mag die Initiative. Die Icons finde ich auch in Ordnung, wenn mich auch ein paar Details stören.   Raskin schreibt: Think about the large number of sites which...
Dec 22nd
Dec 21st
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Die meistgesuchten Wörter 2010 im englischen...
Weil ich die englische Sprache mag. austerity pragmatic moratorium socialism bigot doppelganger shellacking ebullient dissident furtive Time Newsfeed: What is the definition of Austerity? via @brainpicker
Dec 21st
Ehemaliger Googler hat gekündigt, baut jetzt... →
ReadWriteWeb schreibt: Disconnect (…) blocks a number of third-party widgets from sites like Digg, Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo, as well as de-personalizes search at the cookie level, allowing you to remain logged-in to services like iGoogle or Gmail without having your search queries attached to your Google profile. Und: He said that he thinks Google is “collecting more...
Dec 21st
Cartoon: "Amusing Ourselves to Death" →
Ein schöner Cartoon. Zeichner Stuart McMillen (der ein Händchen dafür hat, komplizierte Sachverhalte in Comics zu packen) illustriert eine These von Norman Mailer: dass wir uns bis zur Bedeutungslosigkeit unterhalten lassen.
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November 2010
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Kleske: Is life only for sharing?
Long-time blogger Johannes Kleske is rethinking his way of sharing content on the web. I like how he’s questioning what has become common on the web. Sharing the right content associates me with the “awesomeness” of the creator of the content. It’s ego-branding for lazy people like me. The problem with this is that it kinda has the same brand building effect as a big corporation trying to...
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October 2010
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August 2010
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“It’s a story about a pair of friends named Gluko, a pink blobby guy filled with jelly, and his friend Lennon, a young, spastic boy who dreams of flying.” via
Aug 13th
The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. →
“Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It’s hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures.”
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July 2010
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Jul 25th
Man on wire - ARD Mediathek →
Eine der packendsten Dokumentationen, die ich kenne (Blogeintrag hier), kann man zur Zeit in der ARD Mediathek abrufen. Muss man gesehen haben. Am 7. August 1974 balancierte der Franzose Philippe Petit auf einem Drahtseil zwischen den Zwillingstürmen des World Trade Centers in New York, den damals höchsten Türmen der Welt. Nachdem er eine Stunde lang ohne Netz oder Sicherheitsgurt auf dem...
Jul 14th
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June 2010
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William Fitzsimmons: Finding Home
Jun 21st
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Refait “Refait is a remake of the 1982 World Cup match between France and Germany. Every detail of the fifteen last minutes of the match was painstakingly reconstructed. The sheer pointlessness of it all is hilarious.” via
Jun 21st
KarmaKonsum →
“KarmaKonsum ist eines der führenden Online-Medien zu den Themen nachhaltige Lebensstile und neues Wirtschaften. Diese Webseite verbreitet die guten Nachrichten über mehr ethischen Konsum und inspiriert Menschen insbesondere in der Wirtschaft, mitzumachen.”
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May 2010
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