LostFocus

A weblog by Dominik Schwind

I have nothing to say, really.

Fuck off.

Ouch.

Indexhibit.

Because I just googled for it with this search term and couldn’t find it:

Indexhibit – “stupid little cms that artists seem to like”

jig

Not too sure if jig can really help me.

Window

Sometimes I look out of the window.
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Raptor.

Shut up, science. [via]

Ugly.

Why?

Not bloody likely


Meditation

For quite some while I have been wondering why I don’t mind my commute so much and why on some days it is even the best part of the day. I have a rather long commute – 60km one way, most of them on one of the busiest motorways of Germany, often with crazy traffic and long jams. It takes up a lot of my time and yet more often than not I enjoy them.

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Photo Commons

So if we extrapolate wildly from this, we could say Flickr peaked in 2008. Tech blogs and external traffic meters seem to agree.

And that’s no fun. Because none of my friends use the other photo-centered semi-public sites. And Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter all make photos more private by default, or are much less searchable.

Unless that changes, when Flickr dies, so will the photo commons.

Nick Douglas

This is the human condition.


Newspapers present bad news as something to be angered and incensed by. No stoic sense of: this is the human condition…
@alaindebotton
Alain de Botton

Civilizations

National Characters is a long, multi-part essay about how computer games deal with the concept of nations and turns it into a game mechanic. The author, Troy Goodfellow of strategy gaming blog Flash of Steel, focuses on how the fourteen indistinguishable national factions of the original Sid Meier’s Civilization have been treated by different games through the years.

[via MeFi]