from 50€ to 203,99€ in only three days. i am a bit surprised...

tentative price list for revamping my old g3 "wallstreet" powerbook.

card bus to usb adapter: $59 card bus to usb 2.0 adpater: $55, $69, $69.99 dvd decoder card (backordered): $129, $122.92 (necessary?) dvd-rom module: €409 dvd-rom module with dvd decoder card (backordered): $329.95

currently no luck at macmall, maczone, macwarehouse, cdw and outpost.

but still counting on ebay...

hey, mark...!? nothing. happy birthday!

this week-end: roböxotica, "world-wide the first and inevitably leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics".

btw. happy birthday, leonie! and congratulations to the parents of a few hours' standing, claudia and tibor!

some promotion for what it's worth.

the latest brandeins issue has a lot of interesting topics, almost one for everybody: e.g. it history for tiny, revelations of the music industry for mkt and confessions of a former greenpeace activist for my mother.

and because the best things in life are free, all articles are available online. stunning.

but wait: this is a business magazine, no matter how daring its attitude and appearance might be. this issue's main focus is phrased "ecology – economy", and the biggest portion of articles wants to show a way how capitalism can correct the big ecological damages that were caused in the last twenty years, and we will be coping with in the next twenty.

(in fact, the overall tone is that these damages are not that big, anyway.)

well, approved. we need ways out of the ecological crisis just like we need ways out of any other one that's currently on our schedule (quite many, imho). certainly, everyone can help.

however, the idea to trust the originators, them of all people, to heal the earthen wounds they recently stroke so moral-elastically (and still do) sounds a little bit awkward to me.

but go ahead, you green managers and joint (ad)venturers, prove yourselves that you and your businesses are able to change, and that greed isn't the origin of your judas syndrome.

from the hardly-news dept.

here's patrick dax again – and with him a bunch of manila weblogs ("congratulations and welcome to your new site") at the institute of visual media design, vienna.

t.d. wilson, "the nonsense of 'knowledge management'": "the inescapable conclusion of this analysis of the 'knowledge management' idea is that it is, in large part, a management fad, promulgated mainly by certain consultancy companies, and the probability is that it will fade away like previous fads." (via langreiter.)

where the heck are these stupid urls like wysiwyg://50/http://www.baycoffee.com from? some browser must show these in the address bar while displaying a website and people copy it bona fide believing that any browser could display it – which is not the case at all.

a joseph binder award in silver (category "infotainment") goes to ribingu rumu. congratulations!

yesterday, the remaining members of popo.at where interviewed by niki rodousakis for the europub research project ("a european public space observatory: assembling information that allows the monitoring of european democracy").

the common notion: it's kind of sexy to be the object of scientific research.

nevertheless, popo.at is in an identity crisis. while each month a mean of about 400 megs of text are slurped by search engines, our aggregator and possibly some readers, too, we currently don't have a clue how to continue with the website after 24 november 2002.