faster, times! kill! kill!

2009.internet.de

"Aus rechtlichen Gründen dürfen wir die Uwe-Videos 'Im Puff' leider nur in der Zeit zwischen 22 Uhr abends und 6 Uhr morgens zeigen. Wir bitten um Euer Verständnis!"

is this really a wise start?

weird how long it took me to notice that of all operating systems the most elegant one is providing that stupid mickey mouse glove as hand cursor for hypertext links... it looks really ugly, misshapen and clumsy, especially compared to the windows version.

siti@home.

i really wonder if sacha "brüno" cohen ever met the h.a.p.p.y. guys (in a definitely hermaphrodic sense) in vienna... there is so much coïncidence here (just two words: knitted penes) that it's quite hard not to credit mr tomtschek and his followers as originators.

april 2009.

an advertisement starring kera knightly and campaigning against domestic violence has been banned in the uk for being too violent.

"we humans tend to attribute much more intelligence to the systems than is actually there."

Spiegel: Mr. Gates, Ihre Stiftung will in diesem Jahr den Armen weltweit mit 3,8 Milliarden Dollar helfen. Die Summe entspricht etwa einem Drittel der deutschen Entwicklungshilfe. Sind Sie sicher, dass das Geld die Hilfsbedürftigen erreicht? Gates: Absolut, ich habe Karriere in einem Geschäft gemacht, in dem man nur erfolgreich ist, wenn man weiß, welche Produkte die Kunden wollen.

Quelle: Der Spiegel Nr. 26 / 22.6.09, S. 78

Allyson Kapin: Giving Tech a Bad Name.

Two videos from the "Geek’n Rolla" panel on women in tech that pretty much show the current affair of how women in technology are perceived – by men and themselves, that is.

And Ted Neward summarizes some possible underlying issues while taking a stand against sexism (which still puts one in danger of looking foolish in the eyes of the majority, unfortunately).