Why Two-Dimensional Worlds Matter
An artcile in the new Nature (probably behind the paywall) called “Quantum computation: The dreamweaver’s abacus” discusses first successful experiments that for the first time proved the existence of...
View ArticleUbuntu 8.04 released
The best software in the world, Ubuntu, has released a new version today. I’ve already changed to Hardy Heron two weeks ago, and the transition went smoothly this time. I used the method Mark...
View ArticleYouTube Pure Video Pages v0.3
I have again updated my Greasemonkey script that cleans YouTube to show nothing but the video itself. You can now change the settings by editing the source and setting the flags in the code header. By...
View ArticleI Want To Buy Your Music!
In a recent article, Cory Doctorow not only pinpoints the way information can and should spread across the internet: But the disposition of each — or even most — of the seeds aren’t the important...
View Article“Arguments Against Research”
You! Yes you who came here googling for “arguments against research”. Please go away and hide in a cave, that stone is all you may use from now on. Ok, fire is allowed as long as it is made by...
View ArticleOLPC Becomes Marketing Vehicle
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Screaming madness! The former genius One Laptop Per Child project now jumped the shark. After rubbing theirselves in blood. Now Microsoft has bought the project, and guess how many of...
View ArticleOrphaned Land - Norra el Nora
So it’s 60 years of Israeli warmongering, 60 years of not learning anything from Nazi Germany? Again, don’t mistake governments for all the people. I just read the story of Orphaned Land, a remarkable...
View ArticleNothing’s Going On
I know, there’s not much happening here. There’s happening more now on the German half of the double blog. Before, there wasn’t much happening there. So, it’s complicated. Someday I’ll manage to keep...
View ArticleTribute to Gus Chambers
Gus Chambers, former singer of bands like Grip Inc. and Squealer A.D., committed suicide. Here is a great obituary from the Coventry Telegraph. As a tribute, here is a Grip Inc. video: The Answer The...
View ArticleCommenting Feature of Acrobat Reader from pdflatex
The things you do when you are awake at 5 am for no reason… Acrobat Reader has a really good commenting feature, which is neat for collaboration if you use LaTeX instead of Word (which is the mentally...
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