bob dylan message generator.

oh, so it's the switch proxy add-on that slows down opening new windows in my firefox... blimey!

foxy proxy to the rescue!

FEEDJIT Live traffic Map.

besides the fuckhead performance (which i did not attend) there have taken place at least two fine events yesterday at the ragnarhof vernissage: the concert of m185 and the exposition of recent paintings by bianca regl and adam bota.

good magazine.

Stumble you might fall...

have you tried switching it off and on again?

the it crowd is back! season 2 is coming! (via popmoderne.)

I've seen the future I can't afford it Tell me the truth, Sir Someone just bought it.

Der Zappelphilipp von heute ist der Manager von morgen.

"Mit solchen Fratzen kennt sich Wolfgang Bergmann aus. Der Erziehungswissenschaftler aus Hannover ist der Experte für Hyperaktive, genauer gesagt: Menschen, die unter dem Aufmerksamkeitsdefizitsyndrom (ADS) leiden. Es sind Kinder, die sich weder konzentrieren, noch still sitzen und zuhören können. Sie quasseln, haben aber nichts zu sagen. Was soll aus diesen Kindern nur werden? 'Manager', sagt Bergmann." - Wolf Lotter: Das richtig Maß; brand eins Juli 2007, S. 46 ff.

grassroots network identity.

i am not really firm with neither security aspects nor identity standards. however, lately i imagine the following lightweight and decentralized setup for a grassroots network identity infrastructure:

1. an identity's key (ie. your login name) is a url
2. behind each url lies a world-readable document describing the identity
3. the document format needs to be specified (it could be xml)
4. each identity document contains an encrypted (hashed) password
5. when logging in with the key url the given password is hashed (and most likely salted), too, and compared with the hash from the document which is retrieved via the url
6. password transmission should either happen via ssl or not at all, ie. it should be hashed by the client (javascript)
7. the identity document might contain sensible information which should be encrypted in a decryptable way. this could be achieved via private/public key pairs that are assigned to individual web services which themselves are represented by urls again (but i did not make up my mind here, yet)
8. user's can take care of their identity themselves (ie. they got shell access to a web server) or let them be hosted at a ceritified identity provider

am i missing something? (i guess so, but please don't hesitate to let me know.)