Monthly Archives: November 2008

77 hours of Sopranos in 7 minutes

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    The Crunch – Election Prediction Presentation

    Here’s my prediction for election night with audio commentary.
    Note that all times are Pacific Time — add three hours to convert to Eastern!

    The first six and half minutes are a quick rundown of the methodology behind the prediction. Feel free to skip that if you want to get to the fun part.

    Source: The Crunch – Election Prediction Presentation

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      The Economist – Calls the Race

      How the economist gets to 270. Winner: Obama.

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        The Score

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          German Docu – Dem großen Krieg

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            Tippi – Bridging the Gap to Africa TRAILER

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              WordPress 2.7 more personal

              Within the coming days the official release of wordpress 2.7 is expected. Above a movie trailer of it.

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                See what you can create with Mockups

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                Desktop applications, Web 2.0 sites, Rich Internet Applications, Web sites and Web Applications. The line between them is blurring, and Balsamiq Mockups can help you design any and all of them. Above you can find a sample mockup that were created with Balsamiq Mockups, for inspiration. It did not took more than a few minutes to create.

                More examples here

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                  Using Last.fm and Roomware

                  Yesterday we had the first Eclectro party. As written in the last post I was working on a bluetooth/last.fm application. And it worked :)

                  Read more or check flickr

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                    Colin Powell – McCain’s Negative Smear Campaign

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                      Recession

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                      Recession. It is not a dirty word, recession. It is part of that economic trendline, the economic cycle. Business risk is also part of that cycle. So why are companies demanding other people to pay for their risks?

                      Here’s one idea..

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                        From bad to worse: MEPs to rush through disembowelled term extension directive.

                        The flawed proposal to extend the term of copyright protection afforded to sound recordings, robbing consumers in the name of performers but for the benefit of the world’s four major record labels, is being fast-tracked through the democratic process. Earlier this month MEPs from the relevant European Parliament committees presented their draft reports at a meeting of the legal affairs committee (JURI), the Committee which will make recommendations to the European Parliament on how to vote on the Directive early next year. They proposed a host of worrying new amendments which threaten to:
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                          Against Australian Internet Filtering

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                          The Federal Government is planning to force all Australian servers to filter internet traffic and block any material the Government deems ‘inappropriate’. Under the plan, the Government can add any ‘unwanted’ site to a secret blacklist.

                          Testing has already begun on systems that will slow our internet by up to 87%, make it more expensive, miss the vast majority of inappropriate content and accidentally block up to 1 in 12 legitimate sites. Our children deserve better protection – and that won’t be achieved by wasting millions on this deeply flawed system.

                          Australia considering a China internet system? That’s really dumb. Next up: No tank man anymore viewable in Australia. Sign the petition to let them know your dissapproval. We don’t need a precedent like this.

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                            Privacy Matters


                            The guys at www.privacymatters.nl are currently working on subtitles

                            Dutch internetprovider XSA4All made a warning video to inform the dutch public why privacy matters. More info can be found on www.privacymatters.nl

                            Via a bunch of other blogs, e.g. here, here and here

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