the guinea pig and the hikikomori.
"The connection between 'landscape' and 'cinema' seems obvious. One thinks of Westerns and the settlement of new territories, or possibly of the strips of land rushing past in road movies. Yet this interaction isn't only expressed in genre films, and it goes far beyond 'beautiful backdrops'. The film series Moving Landscapes, curated by Barbara Pichler and Andrea Pollach, concentrates on a much richer and modern idea of 'landscape in film'. It includes more than 60 works, linked through associations and well-defined contrasts – from the beginning of cinema to contemporary film and video production."
among this fine collection: "13 lakes" and – drumroll – the world premiere of "ten skies", both by james benning.
meet the votemaster of electoral-vote.com and be surprised (or not) to bump into andrew s. tanenbaum!
found again: tara jane o'neil.
extended wait mode (for the tyrannosauric national barriers in internet space to disappear).
the european union according to apple: quite musical but consisting of 10 countries only.
and: zut! still no underworld for austria (although available in the german store), ie. no legal download for me.
needless to say that i cannot open could hardly open the itunes 4.7 installer for windows, anyway.
get wet, get wild: discomatic shake.
the file room: "I shall not here today attempt further to define (obscenity)... But I know it when I see it."
this year it's also a binary palindrome: 100001.
- Big, complex systems (BS) usually fail.
- Small, simple systems (SS) fare better.
- SS grow into BS at 20% per year.
- Effort required to stop SS from becoming BS.
why is it that i have to witness so many open source projects going completely wacko in aesthetics and design? recent example: myphpadmin – which once had a clean and reduced textual interface – now comes with ugly, cryptic microsoftish icons all blown in my face. yuck!
