Archive for January 1st, 1970

was soll uns das sagen?
Brooklyn is up in arms. Someone is selling a hand-held video game called Laden Vs. USA that features planes flying into the World Trade Center for about $5 on Coney Island Avenue.

[Kotaku via supatyp]
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The comic book “GRENADA: Rescued from Rape and Slavery” was produced by the CIA and air-dropped over the island nation after the 1983 US-led invasion.
[via BoingBoing and le sofa blogger]
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Blue Mountains

Kurztrip in die Blue Mountains, Katoomba um genau zu sein. Beeindruckende Landschaft, besonders wenn das Wetter so mitspielt:

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story blogs / flickr, too

Kay and I lived in a house here for most of grad school, and where I met her for our first date, in spring of 1996
Matt Haughey erzählt Geschichten aus seiner Kindheit von Momenten in seinem Leben - anhand von Google Map - Luftaufnahmen: [My childhood, seen by Google Maps].
Merkwürdig intensiv, direkt, manchmal intim. […]


gmail for everybody

möchte noch jemand einen gmail account? schick mir eine kurze mail (peter.bihr at gmail.com).
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“I love the web, but it’s a shitty toy”,…

…sagt Frode Hegland vom University College London’s Interaction Centre.
Zusammen mit Doug Engelbart, dem Erfinder der Maus, will er das Netz stärker, vor allem intelligenter vernetzen - per Liquid Information. Sagt ein Artikel in wired, und macht Lust auf mehr:
kinda like Wikipedia meets hypertext
Der Trick ist, aus den vorhandenen Informationen Wissen zu generieren. Eine […]


past beta

Google durchsucht wissenschaftliche Texte: [Google Scholar], und überhaupt die absolut empfehlenswerten [google labs].
Yeah.
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spam names

best spam names ever:
nona wu
Neateye
Hiltraud Starks & Joasia Moon
Timeus Workman
Mulligatawny D. Brouhaha
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was soll uns das sagen?
Brooklyn is up in arms. Someone is selling a hand-held video game called Laden Vs. USA that features planes flying into the World Trade Center for about $5 on Coney Island Avenue.

[Kotaku via supatyp]
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frogleap

just in case i don’t get around to putting it online otherwise: a quick catch-up on where i’ve been the last week or so.

cape tribulation (’Kap Truebsal’): s.unten
cairns: bumped into the three from michigan; beer and nothing else.
ingham: a little shithole of a sugar cane town. the other australia. awesome to see: no bikes to […]