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Why Bash President Bush?

Friday, December 1st, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

He advise us to have a look at this clip in the end, which highlights the great achievements the US made in Iraq. Do I need to say more, what a …

New Study - Membership in virtual communities

Friday, December 1st, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

communities

According to a new study just released by the USC Annenberg Digital Future Project as much as 43 percent of Americans, who belong to online communities, feel just as strongly about their virtual worlds as their real-world counterparts. In addition, more than 40 percent of Internet users said that the Web helps them stay in touch with more friends and family.

Website’s: www.smartmobs.com & www.digitalcenter.org

Venus - Mariska Veres (1947 - 2006)

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Mariska Veres, singer for the Dutch group Shocking Blue who had a worldwide hit with their song “Venus” in 1970, died aged 59, Dutch media reported.

R.I.P. Mariska Veres (1947 - 2006)

In the late 1980s Shocking Blue also served as an inspiration for grunge band Nirvana who covered the band’s song “Love Buzz” on their 1989 debut album Bleach. More

Digg stats

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

digg

Some infosheet for those interested in Digg.com

Schweaty Wiener

Monday, December 4th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

The Big Scientific Question - Why Do You Tube?

Monday, December 4th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Youtubers explaining why they tube: Read the rest of this entry »

Cloudy day

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

rotterdam

NASA later on the Moon

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

nasamoon
In a small update, NASA reveals it next plan of how to reach the moon again which now is later than before.

I noted that the previous story is gone.
 

Matt @ wordpress podcast

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

podcast wordpressIn two episodes [11 and 12] the Wordpress Podcast is interviewing Matt Mullenweg on several topics, including the next version of Wordpress. I noticed that the podcast has taken David Peralty on board, which has improved the input of the podcast I have to say.

Update: And again Russia offers joining the program. I sort of loose the order, because why after this announcement?

Nice Future design Computers

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

pda

Wonder how they solve the designs for the more moving situations, but inspirational small ideas.

Daily Show - Punk loves Bush

Thursday, December 7th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Wordpress Stats

Friday, December 8th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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New release of stats of Wordpress (more info).
There is also an quite important security leak fix out.

Nothing to fear

Friday, December 8th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

13 Years back

Saturday, December 9th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

AT& T prediction from 1993

Burning South

Saturday, December 9th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

fire

Australia is in flames again with the hot summer coming up. Notice the record sofar, many recent big fires. Fires in Victoria in higher detail. Meanwhile camels are on the loose because of the draught.

US Prisons & Torture

Sunday, December 10th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

torture

We talked about torture before, however it is far more widespread (eg quite often in the United States) than people think. BBC recently made an grim documentary about it.
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Is Jesus on the Side of Bush and the Republicans?

Monday, December 11th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

For several elections, the Republican spin machine has tried to cast Bush and the GOP as the party of believing Christians as I show with a clip from Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly interviewing Pres. Bush. Several clips from interviews with former Bush insider David Kuo, however, show the flaws in this strategy. [link]

The above is from November 7th
Today’s post: Read the rest of this entry »

10% of Brits live abroad

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

world

Nice overview by BBC.

Henry Rollins “America is under attack.”

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Interesting rant. (via)

Why Windows Vista will succeed

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

vista

It Takes a Monopoly: For reasons that have little to do with the product, itself, Windows Vista simply can’t lose.

Windows Vista is finally here, a shadow of what it was once supposed to be, but here nonetheless, and now the pundits are holding forth on whether or not Microsoft’s new operating system will succeed. What a waste of good punditry: of course Vista will succeed, and those who think it will fail simply do not know what they are talking about.

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Le Web 3 failed?

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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- image from blogologie.be which got already mashed up

Le Web 3.0 seems to have dissappointed quite a number of visitors. Loic sold out the conference for his own political carreer according to many. Why sold out? 3 politicians were prefered above actually knowledgable speakers who do speak english and do answer questions. Similar “traditional media” was given priority seats and a free ride (according to some), not really the acclaimed web mentality.
I read too that the IRC was struggling, laptops were suppose to be turned off (!). Meanwhile Loic called the conference an Unconference.

If 900 people sitting in a room listening to one person and not being able to ask questions is an unconference, then I’m a pink zebra

Online there are plenty more angry people.

In all, so what? Well, it’s lost enthousiasm, time, energy and might also damage congresses which might provide value for their visitors.
I guess this is a warning sign “how not to do it” for other conferences. The videos of le web 3 are provided by maarten schenk [thanks!]

Update:
onemanandhisblog seems to cover most of the program.

Update 2: While some blogger politics is going on, Loic gives his view as well. Worth the read I think.

Soy Products & Homophobic US Conservatives

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Soy is making kids ‘gay’

There’s a slow poison out there that’s severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it’s a “health food,” one of our most popular. Now, I’m a health-food guy, a fanatic who seldom allows anything into his kitchen unless it’s organic. I state my bias here just so you’ll know I’m not anti-health food. The dangerous food I’m speaking of is soy. Soybean products are feminizing, and they’re all over the place. You can hardly escape them anymore.

soy
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Google - Patents Search

Thursday, December 14th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

patent search
By Google

Wrong Net Neutrality Commercial

Saturday, December 16th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Breathtaking Spinning, turning the facts arround.

People of the Year 2006 - us

Sunday, December 17th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

timeHe believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year. For seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME’s Person of the Year for 2006 is you. Sure, it’s a mistake to romanticize all this any more than is strictly necessary. But that’s what makes all this interesting. Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail. There’s no road map, but 2006 gave us some ideas. It’s a chance for people to look at a computer screen and really, genuinely wonder who’s out there looking back at them. Go on. Tell us you’re not just a little bit curious.