Jonathan Zittrain: “Does it make sense that South Park episodes are downloadable through iTunes, but the South Park app containing the same content was banned from the App Store?”

the c10k problem.

upgraded the p3k.org server to ubuntu 11.10 and ran into two nasty problems with dovecot 2.0:

1. sasl authentication did not work anymore
2. invalid option error when receiving mail

a brief rant on the future of interaction design.

This one goes out to the one I love. (Yes, that’s you, G.)

1. Download bday (text/plain, 7 KB) as bday.txt to your Mac OS X Desktop
2. Turn up your speaker’s volume
3. Open Terminal.app
4. Enter say -v Fred -f ~/Desktop/bday.txt
5. Profit! ;)

stanford gender news: Researcher reveals how “Computer Geeks” replaced “Computer Girls”.

mark pilgrim is GONE – and so are all of his excellent online publications – but well and alive. and annoyed.

Ein oder zwei Sachen hab’ ich ’mal wieder über mich selbst gelernt, als Zuschauer des Films »Eine Insel namens Udo«. Jedenfalls sehr gelacht über die kauzige Fritzi und den kauzigen Kurt – allerdings als einziger im Kinosaal. (Oder?)

face/off.

vinay gupta: “we can’t have nice things because hakim bey and the pope will molest your children.”

in related events, i partially watched christoph roehl’s documentary “wir sind nicht die einzigen” about the child abuse scandal at the german odenwaldschule.

it left marks in my soul and the firm conviction that there is a pattern here: progressive humanism in disguise – whether you might think you’re good or bad, you might be ugly, anyway.

disappointing to read names of people in this regard who i believed – only from a shallow point of view, i admit – to have some integrity, like weizsäcker and dönhoff, but in the end they also just belonged to a protestant mafia helping to cover up a system of pedophile crime.

the revolution will not be humanized.