It looks as if the Iron Blogger Freiburg initiative really was able to breathe some life into the blogs of our small group of spare-time writers! Money is quite an incentive, I’ve come to learn. The impending “fine” of 4€ for missing the entry deadline on Monday morning makes sure that on Sunday evening at [...]
I recently came upon an Irish Times article about a science week event in Dublin in 2010 about “Hackers and Hollywood”. In his talk, Damien Gordon explained how many hacker movies are based on the same formula as fantasy epics like Lord of the Rings: The protagonist gets a magical item and is guided by [...]
I just made a new entry to the member list of Iron Blogger Freiburg. And it’s certainly a bit unusual, because Heather actually doesn’t live in Freiburg. She’s from Minneapolis, which is a teeeensy bit away from here… But she’s asked so nicely that I didn’t hesitate to add her to the list: I’m wondering whether [...]
A blog entry from Antischokke made me aware of a great idea to breathe new life into the blogs of local writers. It’s called Iron Blogger, a group effort that requires the participants to write at least one blog post per week. Otherwise, they’ll have to chip in a “fine”. Every so often, the fines [...]
Everyone knows that it’s only a matter of time until we’ll have to fight hordes of lifeless creatures hunting for our brains. And “everybody” includes the U.S. government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as Tom Limoncelli reveals in his blog entry “The CDC has a Zombie Attack Plan“. Under “Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse“, [...]
via youtube.com The Google ad for their new Chrome Notebook inspired me to keep using cloud-based services. But I’m not going buy the device because even I would find those people coming by to destroy it all the time annoying.
I just got an invitation to the 4th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference in Greece. Since I’m not an active member of the international physics community, I can only assume Google Street View now also publishes workplace photos.
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