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Is cloud gaming ecological?
Sunday, July 5th, 2009I've recently stumbled upon a couple of new companys like Onlive or Gaikai (demo) whose primary business model is to stream video games hosted in huge server farms (the "clouds") over broadband networks to everyones low-powered home computer. And this business model makes me think, not only if I remind ...
Home
Sunday, June 7th, 2009A must-see for every human - especially for those from the western world. No strings attached, the movie speaks for itself.
15 billion chickens and counting
Monday, April 27th, 2009We all know how hard it is to communicate dry statistics to somebody and I guess its not me alone who has a hard time to grasp relations between big numbers (finance crisis anyone?) - but this nice little widget is just fantastic. It amazes me every time how much ...
Thomas says…
Sunday, February 15th, 2009...BUY THIS GAME Simply the best and most uniqe game since... well, since a long, long time. Its worth the 1500 WiiPoints or 20 Bucks for the PC / Mac / Linux version, really. Trust me. Only this one time.
reCaptcha
Thursday, July 24th, 2008I've added a captcha plugin to this site (reCaptcha) to fight the huge amount of random URL comment spam which is unfortunately not captured by my askismet installation - sorry for the inconvenience. At least if you type in the captcha correctly your comment should be instantly visible by now.
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008My boss Thomas came home from San Francisco today where he attended the annual WWDC, Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, and he brought some interesting infos and stuff along (Snow Leopard Alpha install party, anyone?) I haven't had the chance to have a longer chat with him yet, but one thing he ...
Compromise a coffee machine
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Just found via heise: The Jura F90 Coffee machine's connectivity kit which "enables [the communication] with the Internet, via a PC [to] download parameters to configure [the] espresso machine to your own personal taste" seems to have some security problems: The connectivity kit uses the connectivity of the PC it is ...
Unicode Character Tool
Monday, April 21st, 2008I've been looking for a Mac OS X equivalent of KDE's kcharselect tonight and before I noticed that there is something similar already built in (the character map which is available from the internationalization menu), I stumbled upon UnicodeChecker: And wow, this is a very fine application which goes even beyond ...
Nine Inch Nails go Creative Commons
Monday, March 3rd, 2008People who regularily visit Digg.com probably already know it: Nine Inch Nails - one of my favourite bands - just released their new full-length album "Ghosts I-IV" with 36 tracks under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license! You can download the album from their official site in various ...