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Oh my god, these short animation films are so funny…

I was annoyed by all forms where you would have to enter an URL, but the http:// was already given in there, which is total nonsense if you use copy&paste. So I threw together a quick GreaseMonkey script, which didn’t take long fortunately.
So here is the script:
removehttpfromforms.user.js
It also has a UserScripts site.
In case you don’t […]

Once again, this video interview with Lawrence Lessig is so great that I once more will embed the video after the jump, taken from the german page Elektrischer Reporter, but the interview is in english.

If you want people to use your Linux, you have to provide the measures that it will simply work on most people’s PCs. If an otherwise good organisation like the Free Software Foundation now recommends the Linux distribution gNewSense, which is Ubuntu with all non-free or open components removed, that accomplishes the exact opposite. It […]

The video I embed is from the german video blog “Elektrischer Reporter” (Electrical Reporter). The introduction is in german, but the interview is in english (with german subtitles). Lawrence Lessig explains why copyright laws weren’t made for this age, how they hem cultural development and how they are abused. Very, very recommended video! See the […]

Really, are there no good blog search engines out there? Technorati is so-so, but try and find me some blogs that write about Metal. There must be someone writing about that, right?

The application/game Snow Days lets you create snow flakes. Apparently, I become very easily addicted to stuff you should have done by hand as a child, but that is now realised as a flash application. Here are some of the flakes I created:

I tried to find different ways to make nice flakes. Here are the […]

I just tried the game Planeshift, which is a free online game with really good graphics. In the first minutes of running around, I fell from a roof and ended up in some kind of Death Realm, where you apparently have to escape from. This is seemingly because the game developers think that this adds […]

A collection of 15 riddles. Scroll down a bit for the riddles. Don’t look at the answers!

One seriously bad game for me, much worse for some other people.
A View From Top on World of Warcraft
From my vantage point as a guild decision maker, I’ve seen it destroy more families and friendships and take a huge toll on individuals than any drug on the market today, and that means a lot coming […]