March 2008
23 posts
WatchIt’s been a little more than two months and I still keep coming back to this video of an Australian dude who gave a party at his parents’ house while they were on vacation and ended up facing 20,000AUD in fines and apparently caused the police force to retreat from the party. This is some Australian TV host trying to talk some sense guilt into the boy for which he does not fall, quite...
Nice song - and the weather here is also most...
WatchA selection of the Soul, R&B and Metal soundtrack of my 1990s teenage hacking days. These are some of the songs I’d spent nights in front of the computer with - this was even before I had Internet access, which was not until 1996. Sade: Kiss Of Life, No Ordinary Love & The Sweetest Taboo Metallica: The Unforgiven Iron Maiden: Fear Of The Dark, Aces High Janet Jackson: That’s...
“The scariest thing was […] a bunch of fifty-five year old men, who have...”
– Seamus Blackley, talking to Warren Spector in his Master Class Video Games & Digital Media lecture, University of Texas at Austin, November 2007, video from 1h:20m:02s to 1h:20m:24s
WatchToday, TED started to release archive material from way back - that is, reaching as far back as TED 1, 1984. Their first archive release shows excerpts of a talk by Nicholas Negroponte anno 1984. The talk is interesting for a variety of reasons and if you are technologically inclined, I suggest you invest the eighteen minutes of your life that it is going to take you to watch it. One particular...
WatchA little bit more info on chip music: Reformat the Planet, a documentary on chiptunes, premiered at SXSW 2008. Came across this via an email from map.
Console soundchip music madness. Lightyears...
“When you scale animals you can’t just keep everything in proportion. For...”
– Paul Graham, A New Kind of Venture Animal (via christmasgorilla)
MIX08 Guy Kawasaki interviews Steve Ballmer
I enjoyed this video from MIX08 very much. Who knew that Guy Kawasaki was also a great interviewer. Kudos to the person who came up with the idea of having him interview Steve Ballmer. You either have to get confident (narcissim neq confidence) and prepared journalists to interview tech heavyweights or apparently other tech heavyweights to do it. Any other path inevitably leads to irrelevance and...
WatchThis Mahalo Daily interview with Stan Lee is really nice. He seems to be a genuinely fun guy :) Having been reading Spider-Man (and other) comics since my elementary school days, I was usually interested in and read any Stan Lee interview I came across. But until now, it never occurred to me that I had probably never seen any video footage of him, well consciously that is. Thanks Mom for never...
WatchJohn Doerr (of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) on entrepreneurs at Apple’s March 6th iPhone SDK release event (video). This quote is worth referencing ;)
WatchMajor love for “Die Sendung mit der Maus” (The programme with the mouse), one of my childhood TV constants :) My brother just called me over to watch today’s show on Turkey. Despite having been born and growing up in Germany and identifying myself as both German and Turkish, I get happy when watching/reading unbiased information on Turkey. Probably comparable to the relationship...
WatchGoogle Santa Monica: The SRE-Team Having worked at the SMO office, I know a couple of the SRE-Team members, from technical chats, talks in the office and playing volleyball together. Nevertheless, how could I have known, that besides making apps scale and reliable beyond what others thought possible, they also had a sophisticated taste in 80s TV-series. I seem to have lost the link to the...
WatchAs readers of my blogpost on modding a Macbook Pro to be way cooler than any other shiny specimen out there might have realized, not all photos were taken with the same camera. I was intending to document the whole process with my formerly beloved Canon PowerShot SD800 IS (aka IXUS 850 IS in Europe) when it suddenly died on me. The lens won’t retract anymore and the camera makes whiny noises...
