Saturday, 13. November 12010
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roger ebert: all the lonely people.

Friday, 12. November 12010
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derek sivers: “maybe you can't appreciate this now, but the summer of 2003 was the biggest turning point that independent music has ever had. until that point, almost no big business would sell independent music.”

Sunday, 31. October 12010
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klaus lemke: »wir leben immer noch in einer zeit, in der es den faschistischen staaten gelungen ist, die amerikanischen filme etwas deutscher zu machen, indem sie sie ins deutsche synchronisiert haben – das haben adolf gemacht, mussolini und franco. die franzosen nicht. wir haben uns seitdem daran gewöhnt, dass brando deutsch redet. wir finden das vollkommen normal, dass brando deutsch redet! wir kriegen die erfahrung der amerikanische sprache im umgang mit ihrer welt gar nicht mehr mit. das ist die moderne welt, und wir sind die alte welt, wir kriegen seit ungefähr 70 jahren nicht mehr mit, was wirklich in der welt passiert. was wirklich in der welt passiert, ist sprachlicher natur.«

so which is the wealthy country? botswana or greece?

top 7 reasons why most ict4d fails.

Saturday, 30. October 12010
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slavoj žižek: “[...] always bear in mind this: afghanistan is not an old fundamentalist country that we should enlighten. afghanistan was quite a nice, tolerant country. its fundamentalization is precisely the result of being caught in the global politics. we, the global liberal system, generate fundamentalisms.”

Friday, 29. October 12010
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the roof is on fire, sheep!

just wondering which era will end now: the one of session cookies? or the one of unsecured hypertext transfer protocol? or will it be the end of open/public wireless networks?

i am sure the internet will work it all out.

Thursday, 21. October 12010
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“dear paper tiger, the ipad is not going to undo the web, it’s accelerating the change you hate so much.”

google groups hidden announcements page: “in february 2011, we will turn off the pages and files features, and you will no longer be able to access that content.”

Thursday, 7. October 12010
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they can take away the name but they cannot take away the fame – the future is still reported in the orf.at zone: f00zo.

Thursday, 30. September 12010
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praise of the us-american academic education: an undergraduate class on computer hackers at new york university.