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Kiva is a non-profit organisation with a great concept: The support the microlending system, a fantastic way to fight poverty. By giving entrepreneurs in developing countries small loans, they can start to build their business. As Mohammad Yunus, the founder of the Grameen bank in Bangladesh, has proven (he and his organisation were awarded the […]

My favourite web service, last.fm, has been aquired by CBS. I have always been supporting last.fm as a subscriber while they were independent, but if they are owned by a media kraken now, I see no point in paying for next to no additional value. But fear not, in their also new Blog (finally…), Russ […]

You scored as Scientific Atheist, These guys rule. I’m not one of them myself, although I play one online. They know the rules of debate, the Laws of Thermodynamics, and can explain evolution in fifty words or less. More concerned with how things ARE than how they should be, these are the people who will […]

As everyone and his mother tries to collect as much data as possible about you, you have to think about how much you want to reveal. Do you really want to have your IP saved with everything you searched for on Google? Maybe, but if there was an easy way to obstruct these data collections, […]

Posts that contain Twitter per day for the last 90 days.
Looks like Twitter is still on the rise - look at my sidebar, I’m there as well.

Today called for two “clever” moves:
a) I don’t like mailing lists. They are so 1980s…so now I found out that Bloglines (which I really like) has the option “Create Email Subscriptions” which I used to create two dummy mail addresses that are used for the lists and are displayed like feeds. And yes, you […]

Mozilla is working on a Firefox addon called The Coop, which adds social networking functionality. Sounds very cool, and despite my usual paranoid caution about social networks, I will check this one out as soon as there is a working version!

Ok ok, so we will get DRM-free music tracks, that’s a great step (Techcrunch article). But in AAC format…prft…oh, at 256kpbs. I don’t care, really. I will encode it down to 128 kbps anyway. And to MP3. But I will not buy tracks at 1.29$ per song. That’s so laughable! Why would I pay MORE […]

Wow, this took me a while to get: The global hotkey in Amaroks for Pause changed. You still pause with Windows+C, but continue with Windows+X now. Makes sense, but I was always pressing Windows+C again to continue as it used to be and then had to maneuver with the mouse because it didn’t work…