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Scott Pilgrim vs. … me, actually.
This entry was posted at 2:12 pm on the 27th of August 2010I did read this and this and I have yet to understand why I am supposed to watch the Scott Pilgrim movie. Somehow the premise completely fails to excite me on any level. Maybe someone can convince me otherwise?
I did love The Expendables, by the way.
Now Playing: SonnyJim – Suck My Disc
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Our Digital Crisis
This entry was posted at 10:50 am on the 26th of August 2010Worth reading, even though I don’t necessarily agree with many things he says: Our Digital Crisis [via] What resonated most with me and which always has been at the core of my interest and love for this spectacular and gruesome world that we call the internet:
Instead of fleeing to the forest, we must find the humanity in the machine and learn to love it.
Now Playing: The Chemical Brothers – Let Forever Be
Journaling
This entry was posted at 11:00 pm on the 25th of August 2010I have written on more than one occassion that I really like 750 Words, a page that asks it’s users to write 750 words every day. In typewriter-lingo, that’s three pages. It’s private, it is daily and it‘s – well, actually rather pretty.
In the beginning I was quite eager to finish the 750 words. But pretty soon a certain fatigue set in. I’m not a writer, all in all and writing long texts never was my forte. Even my final German literature exam paper was only two pages long – as far as I was concerned, I said all that was worth saying. So after a while, I just stopped. 750 words take a lot of time – time, which I unfortunately have to sacrifice to the gods of commuting every day. There’s also OhLife, which was described as “750 words for people with ADD. Or stuff to do” by Philipp Moehring which does something clever – it doesn’t expect any long texts, it sends it’s reminders in the evening and it works via email, which is where most people might be writing anyway.
But somehow, it still doesn’t quite trigger my writing reflexes. I did need to find something else.
And so, about two months ago, I started to fill up one of the many needlessly bought Field Notes notebooks that seem to litter every surface of this apartment by now with very short notes about the day. A lot shorter than 750 words – and in my completely illegible handwriting. But it does work for me – I’ve been doing it almost daily now and when I flip back, I does trigger certain memories and thoughts that otherwise would have been gone for good.
Being a pretty digital person, this kind of analog journaling still irks me in a weird way. Hell, I’m pushing so much data daily through Twitter and Tumblr and Flickr and the Google Shared Items and last.fm and through Foursquare and Gowalla – that’s all stuff that would be an awesome add-on to the written journal. Like the old Lifestream idea, just better.
So, in case you were wondering, what I’ve been pondering lately, web-wise, that’s it. Non web-wise? Well, that might not be something to put online, at least not yet.
Now Playing: JinnyOops! – TOKI
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Everything zero
This entry was posted at 11:09 am on the 18th of August 2010Currently the article on the BBC News page about the “Cult of Less” about people who have reduced their physical belongings is making it’s rounds.
My attempts and plans so far have proven fruitless. I keep buying more stuff. Others are more successful.
Maybe next week I’ll start cleaning out things. Or the week after that…
Kanye West
This entry was posted at 10:40 pm on the 7th of August 2010Balenciaga said I can get no discount but what they failed to remember is... I don't need no discount!!! hahahaa
kanyewest
Kanye West
One of my many guilty pleasures at the moment is following @kanyewest on Twitter. And that’s even before people started to pair his tweets with New Yorker cartoons.
The intrinsic reward for knifing dudes is knifing dudes.
This entry was posted at 4:35 pm on the 6th of August 2010Achievements Considered Harmful? is a rather interesting article by the independent game developer Chris Hecker. It’s in a way a more in-depth analysis of the point made in those “If Mario Was Designed Today” screenshots – good games don’t need extrinsic motivators like achievements or badges.
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500 Internal Server Error
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Stuff no one told me
This entry was posted at 9:38 pm on the 22nd of July 2010
Stuff no one told me ( but I learned anyway ) is a pretty awesome illustrated blog by Alex Noriega, a 29 years old illustrator from Barcelona. He apparently likes to draw naked.
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30 minutes you’ll not regret spending
This entry was posted at 9:25 pm on the 22nd of July 2010Seriously, do yourself the favour and watch the roughly 30 minutes of Stephen Fry: What I Wish I’d Known When I Was 18. [via]
Mojibakeru
This entry was posted at 5:48 pm on the 22nd of July 2010
How awesome are these Mojibakeru – transformers between animals and the kanji of their name. [via]
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Dear Motorola: Fuck you a bit more.
This entry was posted at 11:16 am on the 22nd of July 2010A little update on this. Today came an update of Android – wait for it – 2.1! Awesome. And with the update came the Xing app. Which can not be deleted.
Seriously, Xing? Is that really necessary? Not cool at all.
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Those, who didn’t make it.
This entry was posted at 9:31 pm on the 21st of July 2010Esquire as a nice run-down of 15 sites of the dot-com era that didn’t survive. [via]
