"all your web 2.0 are belong to us!" (via langreiter.)

if it wasn't such an ugly move i would be extraordinarily happy about one over-hyped buzz-word less.

(btw. couldn't procter & gamble do us such a favor, too, and send some cease-and-desist letters to those ajax folks? nevermind, just thinking to myself...)

www.parainstitut.com

ich mag kittler ja nicht, aber...*

"[...] ein ganzes Jahrzehnt lang ist man doch Judith Butler oder Donna Haraway, oder wie die Damen hießen, so vollkommen auf den Leim gegangen, oder eben William Gibson mit seinem Newromancer [sic!] und den nachfolgenden Romanen, ohne das sich irgendein Mensch die Frage gestellt hätte, ob denn im Mainstream der Hardwareentwicklungstechnik das auch der Mainstream ist. Meines Erachtens überhaupt nicht."

* ...aber ich mag auch butler und gibson und den ganzen cyberfiction-quatsch nicht.

great. just great. (once more via mizubitchy.)

armin thurnher aka der andere armin: "[...] die Generaldirektorin des ORF sitzt selbstverständlich nicht auf der Pressetribüne, sondern klatscht begeistert mitten unter den ÖVP-Granden, auch das eine Machtdemonstration."

auch deshalb: sos orf. oder: rettet den orf.

"[...] in the early days of computer science people just wrote code, then fixed bugs wherever they popped up. Knuth wanted to verify that programs worked in advance. Something is elegant, he says, if it is spare, memorable and pleasingly symmetrical; if it has the ease and immortal ring of an E=mc². Therein lies the art in computer programming."

reading this quote some more times i really think it's partly pretty stupid; afaik in the early days of computer science compile time was breath-takingly expensive and people had to write working code deliberately; thus, they thought very hard about every line and presumably were very good in avoiding bugs beforehand. and anyway, what is the concept of a computer program "working in advance"? i hardly believe knuth has made this up...