A Green Search Engine The name Forestle is deducted from the word “forest”. Forestle is a “green Internet search engine”. We use our advertising revenue to protect endangered rainforest regions in order to keep our worlds most precious ecosystems intact and fight global warming. Forestle earns advertising revenue from clicks on “sponsored links”. These are [...]
Sadly, this is no joke. ‘In the name of science’ this friday (tomorrow) Nasa will intentionally crash a satellite onto the moon. How do you feel about that? Is this what should be done? What is your connection to the moon? Do you know how intimately we are linked to its rhythms and dynamics? And [...]
and a few sidebar updates After the last major design- and feature-update we’ve recieved divided opinions about the new colours. Some readers had issues with readabilty. You can now choose a new colour set “High Contrast” via the drop down menu to the right named “Colours”. (I know, from a professional designer’s point of view, [...]
Hi. Sound Of Sirens ist wieder online. Hintergrund der downtime war ein Serverumzug, welcher zwar geplant war, jedoch nicht zum vereinbarten Termin vom alten Provider eingeleitet, sondern vorgezogen wurde – daher waren wir leider ungewohnt lange offline. Sorry! Nun sollte jedoch alles wieder beim Alten sein. Sollten Euch irgendwelche Bugs auffallen, bitte wendet Euch direkt [...]
Oder warum die GEMA abgeschafft gehört. Diesem Beitrag von Andreas Janson aus der Mailinglist des Landesverbandes Berlin der Piratenpartei braucht man eigentlich nichts mehr hinzuzufügen. Sehr viele gute Feststellungen und Ideen zu Verwertung und Lizensierung von Musik im digitalen Zeitalter. Word! Hallo, ich als Musiker möchte auch mal meinen Senf dazugeben. Bitte, bitte, bitte tretet [...]
“Interessant” (um es mal möglichst neutral zu formulieren), wie anscheinend viele SPD Abgeordnete ihre Ja-Stimme rechtfertigen: einer von vielen Beiträgen des Law Blogs zum umstrittenenen Gesetz zur Bekämpfung von Kinderpornografie. Man mag ja von Carsten Dobschats Wortwahl halten, was man möchte – im Kern hat er Recht! Wer es ganz genau wissen möchte, welcher Abgeordnete [...]
A pair of economists have released a report arguing that file-sharing doesn’t stifle the creation of music, films, and books. On the contrary, they say, weaker copyright protection has benefited society. Felix Oberholzer-Gee of Harvard University and Koleman Strumpf of the University of Kansas recently published a working paper (that is, a complete draft of [...]
It(‘s) work(s)…: The Html Patchwork comprises of 216 fabric patches individually embroidered with their websafe colour codes and stitched into a collective patchwork quilt. The Patchwiki is a collective website with a page for each individual stitcher. You can view the wiki pages by clicking on the patchwork represented here. The Html Patchwork will be [...]
The most fascinating abandoned man-made creations + Their story & location + Updated daily One of the largest ship graveyard: the bay of Nouadhibou Abandoned shipyard covered with vegetation in Japan Chernobyl disaster part 2: inside the buildings of Prypiat Very nice collection! Each Article features tons of stunning pictures and mostly deep background information! [...]
Street promotion for Düsseldorf (Germany) based homeless-magazine “Fifty Fifty”. Nice! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnmNZaW8oVQ[/youtube]
