[monochrom] Sudo Sandwich Bot

2009-02-27 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
This week in It Came From The Internets: sudo: a unix shell command which runs commands following it with as the super user account. sandwich: a quick and tasty snack. xkcd: an internet comic for nerds. The brilliant minds at NYC Resistor have taken http://xkcd.com/149/this XKCD comic and

[monochrom] 1996: Jurassic Web

2009-02-26 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today. It's 1996, and you're bored. What do you do? If you're one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you'd do in 2009: Go online. Crank up your modem, wait 20 seconds as you log in,

[monochrom] Watching boomers in turmoil is worth a recession

2009-02-26 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Baby Boomers had it all: the jobs, the safe money, luxurious retirement at 55. Watching it fall apart can be amusing for their children... http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/02/24/colby-cosh-watching-boomers-suffer-is-worth-a-recession.aspxLink -- Posted By

[monochrom] Glitch Art: Flickr pool

2009-02-26 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
http://www.flickr.com/groups/glitches/pool/Link -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/glitch-art-flickr-pool.htmmonochrom at 2/26/2009 11:17:00 AM

[monochrom] Ground Zero: Nuke your neighbourhood

2009-02-26 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
This mapplet shows the thermal damage caused by a nuclear explosion. Search for a place, pick a suitable weapon and press Nuke It! http://www.carloslabs.com/node/16Link -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/ground-zero-nuke-your-neighbourhood.htmmonochrom at

[monochrom] Postmodern Racism

2009-02-25 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Zizek contends that today's racism is just as reflexive as every other part of postmodern life. It is not the product of ignorance in the way it used to be. So, whereas racism used to involve a claim that another ethnic group is inherently inferior to our own, racism is now articulated in

[monochrom] India's euphoria: Aren't our slum people the world's best?

2009-02-25 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
India's euphoria at Slumdog Millionaire's Oscars reveals much about its national character. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5792430.eceLink -- Posted By johannes to

[monochrom] Stephen Fry Hugh Laurie: The Subject of Language

2009-02-25 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHQ2756cyD8Link -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/stephen-fry-hugh-laurie-subject-of.htmmonochrom at 2/25/2009 04:04:00 PM

[monochrom] New Fish Species Bounces Like Ball On Seafloor

2009-02-25 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Members of Histiophryne psychedelica, or H. psychedelica, don't so much swim as hop. Each time they strike the seafloor they use their fins to push off and they expel water from tiny gill openings on their sides to jettison themselves forward. With tails curled tightly to one side –which

[monochrom] Waiting for The Final Plague

2009-02-20 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
We should be and we can be doing a much better job to predict and prevent pandemics. But the really bold idea is that we could reach a point—and this is a distant point in the future—where we becomcome so good at this that we really reach a point where we have the final plague, and where

[monochrom] Roboexotica 2008 on Boing Boing Video

2009-02-20 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Boing Boing video features Roboexotica 2008. Robots that serve cocktails. That's the premise behind the http://www.roboexotica.orgRoboexotica festival in Vienna, Austria, which unites two things cherished by nerds around the globe -- alcohol and DIY robotics. Eddie Codel and monochrom's

[monochrom] An Alienation Artist: Kafka and His Critics

2009-02-19 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
The most common complaint among revisionist biographers and doting critics of Franz Kafka is that, in the eighty-odd years since his death, the deification of the writer has reduced his work to the level of the aphorism. If Kafka has not yet found his way onto the walls of every dentist's

[monochrom] Blackwater and Friends: No Mercy for Mercenaries

2009-02-19 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
After raking in more than a billion dollars from its contracts in Iraq, Blackwater is finally being forced to leave the country that it has terrorised for so long. But the notorious mercenary firm's departure will likely have more symbolic significance than any real impact on the day-to-day

[monochrom] monochrom: pressespiegel 2008

2009-02-19 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
endlich, da ist er, frisch von roland gratzers usb-stick. der monochrom pressespiegel 2008. http://www.monochrom.at/info-monochrom/monochrom--pressemappe_2008.pdf

[monochrom] The Best Conservative Movies

2009-02-17 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Fuck... 'cause some of them I really like. http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=YWQ4MDlhMWRkZDQ5YmViMDM1Yzc0MTE3ZTllY2E3MGMLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/best-conservative-movies.htmmonochrom at 2/17/2009 10:53:00 AM

[monochrom] Will Technology Make Movie Stars Obsolete?

2009-02-17 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Nearly an hour of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button only seems like it has Brad Pitt in it. What the audience is really seeing is computer wizardry. So: How long before Hollywood decides that living, breathing movie stars are no longer necessary?

[monochrom] Roivoire's Scarflettes!

2009-02-17 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Ooh... beautiful stuff. Check out roivoire's Etsy shop. http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5808776Link -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/roivoires-scarflettes.htmmonochrom at 2/17/2009 09:01:00 PM

[monochrom] Facebook's New TOS: Brrrrr.

2009-02-16 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore. Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter

[monochrom] Go: Computers conquer the final frontier

2009-02-15 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Go -- the Asian board game once thought too complex for computers to master -- is finally succumbing to silicon power. Today at AAAS, a computer program bested an American professional. The loser, James Kerwin, played with a sizeable handicap, but computer programs are getting better by the

[monochrom] Fever Vs. Cancer

2009-02-15 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Conventional wisdom long held that the human immune system was no match for cancer. Born of native cells, the logic went, cancer fooled the immune system into concluding it was harmless. Thus protected from attack, cancer easily thrived until its host died. A deeper understanding of our

[monochrom] Iraqi National Museum, Badly Looted After Invasion, To Reopen

2009-02-15 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
The long-awaited reopening marks a milestone in the government's efforts to retrieve and preserve artifacts and archaeological sites from Iraq's history after almost six years of theft, destruction and violence. [...] Officials have since struggled to rebuild the museum's collection,

[monochrom] Advertisement Age about BB/Cheetos/monochrom

2009-02-13 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Advertisement Age reports about the BB/Cheetos/monochrom story. http://adage.com/madisonandvine/article?article_id=134558Link -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/advertisement-age-about.htmmonochrom at 2/13/2009 11:06:00 AM

[monochrom] Decoding Sarkozy

2009-02-13 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Alain Badiou's book on Sarkozy reveals the philosopher's own advocacy of change based in reality, which is beginning to displace the old 'new philosophy' of Bernard-Henri Lévy et al. During the French presidential election campaign of 2007, there was a murmuring of something beyond the

[monochrom] Uranium Poisoning Treatment Developed

2009-02-13 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
The use of uranium as a nuclear fuel and in weapons increases the risk that people may come into contact with it, and the storage of radioactive uranium waste poses an additional environmental risk. However, radioactivity is not the only problem related to contact with uranium; the toxicity of

[monochrom] Purpose, Meaning Darwinism

2009-02-13 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Mary Midgley meditates on mind and meaning among the mutations. http://philosophynow.org/issue71/71midgley.htmLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/purpose-meaning-darwinism.htmmonochrom at 2/13/2009 11:19:00 AM

[monochrom] Ask the GOP oracle

2009-02-13 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Really. Try. http://gopproblemsolver.com/Link (via http://twitter.com/lx_barth/status/1207555087lx_barth) -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/ask-gop-oracle.htmmonochrom at 2/13/2009 08:51:00 PM

[monochrom] Fwd: [Mitteilungen des eheml. Weltraumsprechers] Knall im All

2009-02-12 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
From: Fuchs Georg georg.fu...@stmk.gv.at To: j...@monochrom.at j...@monochrom.at Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:17:07 +0100 Subject: [Mitteilungen des eheml. Weltraumsprechers] Knall im All Thread-Topic: [Mitteilungen des eheml. Weltraumsprechers] Knall im All Thread-Index:

[monochrom] Wikipedia, echo chamber of verifiability

2009-02-11 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
From http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/10/2211220slashdot: Germany has a new minister of economic affairs. Mr. von und zu Guttenberg is descended from an old and noble lineage, so his official name is very long: Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph

[monochrom] Photorealistic paintings of dishes and a dishwasher

2009-02-11 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Paintings by http://www.robertobernardi.com/Roberto Bernardi -- Posted By johl to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/photorealistic-paintings-of-dishes-and.htmmonochrom at 2/11/2009 05:04:00 PM

[monochrom] The Long Story Of The Cardboard Box From The Sky / Part 2

2009-02-11 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
It's really a long story. http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/11/bb-video-soviet-unte.htmlLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/long-story-of-cardboard-box-from-sky_11.htmmonochrom at 2/11/2009 08:13:00 PM

[monochrom] Let the kids break it! For science!

2009-02-10 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, seems to be a great guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiOwqDmacJoLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/let-kids-break-it-for-science.htmmonochrom at 2/10/2009 10:04:00 AM

[monochrom] Georgi Arbatov discusses Putin's Russia, US foreign policy and nuclear proliferation

2009-02-10 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
From his country dacha, the Soviet Union's top America-watcher discusses Putin's Russia, US foreign policy and nuclear proliferation. (By Jonathan Power.) Georgi Arbatov, the éminence grise of the Soviet foreign policy apparatus, was waiting for me at the bus stop an hour out of Moscow. A

[monochrom] technorati tags

2009-02-06 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
irgendwie stimmts ja... People who used the tag http://technorati.com/tag/monochrommonochrom also used tags like: * http://technorati.com/tag/videovideo, * http://technorati.com/tag/wienwien, * http://technorati.com/tag/viennavienna, * http://technorati.com/tag/medienmedien, *

[monochrom] Do not push this button

2009-02-06 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/do-not-push-this-button.htm -- Posted By David Fine to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/do-not-push-this-button.htmmonochrom at 2/05/2009 08:39:00 PM

[monochrom] Stellar Dust Disaster

2009-02-06 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Texas-size asteroids make for exciting summer blockbusters, but when it comes to long-term damage, they're not the most menacing threat out there. Lurking at the edge of our galaxy are giant molecular dust clouds -- agglomerations of hydrogen gas, small organic molecules and minerals --

[monochrom] Zones of Proletarian Development

2009-02-06 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Zones of Proletarian Development (by Mastaneh Shah-Shuja) is an attempt to theorise the anti-capitalist movement from a neo-Vygotskian perspective. Using Marx, Vygotsky, Bakhtin and Activity Theory it analyses a series of proletarian activities including recent May Day celebrations in London,

[monochrom] Military Robots and the Laws of War

2009-02-06 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
It isn't just on the ground: military robots have been taking to the skies—and the seas and space, too. And the field is rapidly aadvancing. The robotic systems now rolling out in prototype stage are far more capable, intelligent, and autonomous than ones already in service in Iraq and

[monochrom] A World Without Time: the Forgotten Legacy of Goedel and Einstein

2009-02-06 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Book by Palle Yourgrau. Mathematician Kurt Godel is widely regarded for his 1931 incompleteness theorem, which found that not everything can be proved. Godel then turned his attention to time, a subject that he mulled over with his good friend and sometimes foil Albert Einstein, In 1949,

[monochrom] Next Friday: Unix Time Number Reaches 1234567890

2009-02-06 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Friday, February 13th 2009, 23:31:30 GMT... special point in time. Why? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_timeUnix Time reaches 1234567890. Let's party. (via metalab) -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/next-friday-unix-time-number-reaches.htmmonochrom at

[monochrom] maus auf dem mars

2009-02-06 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
die maus auf dem mars. youtube ist schon ein nettes archiv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3irC94JwEI

[monochrom] Great China earthquake may have been man-made

2009-02-05 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Was last year's devastating China earthquake, which killed 80,000 people and left more than 5 million homeless, really just a tragic natural event? Speculation is growing that the magnitude-7.9 quake may have actually been triggered by the tremendous water weight behind a nearby dam.

[monochrom] Vatican CSI: The Pope questions apparitions of Virgin, but only some

2009-02-05 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
This is just too precious: Pope Benedict XVI is about to release a handbook to distinguish genuine divine apparitions from fake ones. You see, the Church has counted 295 apparitions of the Virgin Mary between 1905 and 1995, but only 11 of these are considered genuine. Funny, I would have

[monochrom] Female as a human enhancement?

2009-02-05 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
A rather nice argument by Robert Sparrow (A Melbourne based bioethicist) suggests that the transhumanist arguments that human enhancement is a moral imperative imply that we ought to use reproductive technology to ensure that our children are female rather than male. The core of the

[monochrom] Defecating Birds: The Flickr Pool

2009-02-05 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
http://www.flickr.com/groups/23278757%40N00/pool/Link (via bene) -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/defecating-birds-flickr-pool.htmmonochrom at 2/05/2009 03:08:00 PM

[monochrom] Small Male Chimps Use Politics, Rather Than Aggression

2009-02-04 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
With most mammals, the biggest and most aggressive male claims the alpha male role and gets his choice of food and females. But a new study from the University of Minnesota suggests that at least among chimpanzees, smaller, more mild-mannered males can also use political behavior to secure

[monochrom] Bank of England's Dress for Success code for female employees

2009-02-04 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
The Bank of England held Dress for Success day. On that day, they sent out a memo to female employees detailing just how they should dress for success, important now more than ever in These Economic Times, the worst financial crisis Britain's dealt with since the Depression. Look

[monochrom] The Dark Knight: Have the Nolan Brothers been reading Borges?

2009-02-04 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Good question. http://metaphilm.com/index.php/detail/the-dark-knight-borges/Link -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/dark-knight-have-nolan-brothers-been.htmmonochrom at 2/04/2009 02:06:00 PM

[monochrom] The Long Story Of The Cardboard Box From The Sky / Part 1

2009-02-04 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
It's a long story about sponsors, cheese, phone calls, FedEx and confused Soviets. http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/04/bb-video-this-is-an.htmlLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/long-story-of-cardboard-box-from-sky.htmmonochrom at 2/04/2009 10:09:00 PM

Re: [monochrom] eine glühende Inschrift auf der Damaszener-Klinge. Karl Lagerfeld begann zu sprechen: ... und er hatte sieben Sterne in

2009-02-03 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
ich schau fast taeglich rein. es sind echt immer ein paar wunderbare schmankerl dabei. At 18:15 03.02.2009, you wrote: müde, ich hatte nichts vor außer faul und selbstzufrieden auf den Markt zu spazieren und zu frühstücken. Der voll in Seite, sein Kopf verriß sich und er prallte (mit seinem

[monochrom] An Opec for gas?

2009-02-03 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Russia and Ukraine fell out over the price of gas, and people in eastern Europe suffered the consequences. But the dispute affects countries further down the pipeline – particularly in Europe, which seems unable to foormulate its gas consumption policy. http://mondediplo.com/2009/02/10gasLink

[monochrom] Mars rover recovers after bout of amnesia

2009-02-03 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
The Mars rover Spirit is driving again this week after the ageing craft suffered a mysterious bout of forgetfulness. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16531-mars-rover-recovers-after-bout-of-amnesia.htmlLink -- Posted By johannes to

[monochrom] There have been many Lincolns over the years

2009-02-02 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Except for the miracles of Sherman's and Grant's decisive victories in the field, Lincoln would have been defeated in 1864. How different things would look... but... For a country said to be uninterested in its past, this would seem to be a giant exception to the rule. Yet the deeper reasons

[monochrom] Burma: Leading saffron monk's memoir

2009-02-02 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Burmese monks are known to have played an important role in their nation's politics throughout its history. While they did not partake in mundane political processes, they traditionally held positions of moral authority, and dispensed wisdom and guidance to past kings, rulers and governments

[monochrom] Invention of San Francisco

2009-02-02 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
A few days past the anniversary, but this is an interesting story of how proto-cities formed and competed for prominence in the American old west. And more to the point, how San Francisco won prominence by use of linguistic jujitsu.

[monochrom] Inquiry: Grilled-Cheese Madonna

2009-01-31 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Since it came to light in 2004, it has become the quintessential holy image to appear on an item of food: the face, many say, of the Virgin Mary on a grilled-cheese sandwich. While it has sparked little piety—the Catholic church has not sanctioned it as divine—it has beecome the subject

[monochrom] laborzeug, borgen

2009-01-31 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
hallo leute! braeuchte fuer ein kurzes filmdrehchen am montag etwas chemielaborzeug als deko. eprovetten, petrischale, pipetten, flakons, so zeug halt. hat jemand sowas von euch oder einen alten chemiekasten (kosmos etc.) in wien rumstehen? waere super! der jg

[monochrom] Scandinavia, Atheist Heaven

2009-01-30 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
So the typical Dane or Swede doesn't believe all that much in God. And simultaneously, they don't commit much murder. But aren't they a dour, depressed lot, all the same? Not according to Ruut Veenhoven, professor emeritus of social conditions for human happiness at Erasmus University

[monochrom] What The Obama Government Might Mean To The Arts

2009-01-30 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Barack Obama was sworn in on 20 January with a historic mandate for change. Extraordinary times call for bold actions and visionary ideas. Big government is back. Hopes are for an administration that is not only more progressive, but also smarter. This could be good news for the arts—as

[monochrom] The funniest sentence in the Russian language?

2009-01-30 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
the goat cried out in an inhuman voice http://www.languagehat.com/archives/003387.phpLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/01/funniest-sentence-in-russian-language.htmmonochrom at 1/30/2009 10:18:00 PM

[monochrom] The Story of Mister W.

2009-01-29 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTLO2F_ERYLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/01/story-of-mister-w.htmmonochrom at 1/29/2009 05:54:00 PM

Re: [monochrom] Es vergeht die Zeit, und das Internet wird auch nich t j ünger

2009-01-29 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
genau. mein foto und meinen kurztext haben sie schon wenn ich das erste mal was poste, dann bin ich in der liste... At 22:06 29.01.2009, you wrote: Du vermisst einen bekannten Namen? Die neue Seite ist noch jung und im Wachsen. Autoren und Autorinnen scheinen hier erst auf, sobald sie

[monochrom] Poe at 200

2009-01-28 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
2009 marks the bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe, arguably the most famed and influential writer in American history. Not only does his work entirely limn the culture, but he also created no fewer than two genres of popular fiction — mystery and modern horror — almost singlngle-handedly.

[monochrom] What, Exactly, Is Slumdog Millionaire?

2009-01-28 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Is it a) a portrait of the real India, b) a Bollywood-style melodrama, c) a fairy tale, or d) a stylishly shot collection of clichés? http://www.slate.com/id/2209783/pagenum/all/Link -- Posted By johannes to

[monochrom] Delirious Screens: Flesh Shadows Cool Technology

2009-01-28 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
By Ted Hiebert. Behind the screen, there is nothing. Not darkness, not fantasy, not even the flickering lights of consciousness aroused. And yet, within the screen, the case is quite the opposite -- here, within the delirium of technological living we encounter an intensified imaginary, new

[monochrom] Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Turning Us Into Mad Hatters?

2009-01-28 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Well, it turns out that the anti-high fructose corn syrup crusaders had something to fear all along. Not just rotting teeth or hyperactivity, but evidently mercury in their children's Frosted Flakes and Fruit Gushers, too.

[monochrom] Smallest Possible Switch: Single Gold Atom Forms The Contact

2009-01-23 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
The smallest mechanical switch plus an electronic switch of a type never seen before. That's how physicist Marius Trouwborst sums up the results of his PhD research on electric current through atoms and molecules. The ultimate aim of nanotechnology is to use molecules for electronics, he says.

[monochrom] Google the Future of Books

2009-01-23 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
By Robert Darnton How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who were suing it for alleged breach of copyright. For the last

[monochrom] Clever Critters: 8 Best Non-Human Tool Users

2009-01-23 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
[...] a compilation of some of the most interesting animal tool use yet observed. Much more likely remains to be found: until Jane Goodall watched chimpanzees fishing for termites with sticks, scientists had been reluctant to credit animals with such sophisticated behavior — perhhaps

[monochrom] 2 Euro 50 for Force Sting!

2009-01-23 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
We got two more donations (50 cents and 2 euros) for our campaign Force Sting, thus raising the bar to 55 euros! Force Sting tries to force the rock singer Sting (Russians love their children too) to appear for a bad cause (e.g. skinning seal babies, atomic energy in Eastern Europe, total

[monochrom] Puns involving hell, pleas for help and pointless misspellings

2009-01-22 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
This chart is genius. It's about the 'Metal, Kid. I got this link via the 'Tap. Not Spinal, http://www.crailtap.comCrail. http://www.grapplemonkey.com/wp-content/2009/01/flow_heavymetal.jpgLink -- Posted By DNL to

[monochrom] The Obama Action Figure Its Creator

2009-01-21 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Screenkids.tv present The Obama Action Figure Its Creator. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6edt2RJXzELink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/01/obama-action-figure-its-creator.htmmonochrom at 1/21/2009 11:12:00 AM

[monochrom] monochrom: One Minute

2009-01-21 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
There is too much talking... http://www.monochrom.at/oneminute/Link (hi-res available) -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/01/monochrom-one-minute.htmmonochrom at 1/21/2009 09:17:00 PM

[monochrom] Making Things: Gaza Edition

2009-01-21 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
http://current.com/items/89666922/gaza_rockets.htm?xid=55 In this video a pair of polite young fighters in Gaza show how they make the homemade rockets which they fire into Israeli settlements. It's sort of like this http://www.instructables.com/id/Rockets_1/instructables guide, except that

[monochrom] Why Cuba Still Matters

2009-01-20 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
By Diana Raby. In the early 1990s there was near unanimity in the media, in Western political circles, and even among academics that the collapse of the Cuban revolution was imminent. Even today, many observers regard it as only a matter of time for Cuba to undergo a transition to democracy

[monochrom] A Talk with Frank Wilczek

2009-01-20 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Frank Wilczek, a theoretical physicist at MIT and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2004), is known, among other things, for the discovery of asymptotic freedom, the development of quantum chromodynamics, the invention of axions, and the discovery and exploitation of new forms of

[monochrom] Wanderwoerter in Indo-European languages

2009-01-20 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
A nice blog entry about Wanderwoerter (words that travel between languages in a region). This is the last of the posts I promised, showing what loanwords, including Wanderwörter, look like from the standpoint of mainstream historical linguistic methodology. After this I'm going to have to

[monochrom] Bailouts for the banks, bullets for the people: Mass uprising of greece's youth

2009-01-20 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Why did Greek youth take to the streets? For the first time since the second world war young people have no hope of a better life than their parents. But there is also a failure of trust in politicians and all state institutions, particularly the police.

[monochrom] Supertrain! A series about a super train!

2009-01-20 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
What a gem of ultratelevisionary television. The series took place on the Supertrain, an imagined nuclear-powered bullet train that was equipped with amenities more appropriate to a cruise ship than a train, such as swimming pools and shopping centers. It was so big it had to run on very broad

[monochrom] Vocabulary of Smell?

2009-01-19 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
So why is it that the words we use to describe smells are the names of actual things with particular odors (rose, ammonia, hay, sulphur), while we have abstract words for color (red, green, light, dark) and touch (rough, smooth, hard, soft)?

[monochrom] Assassins of the Mind

2009-01-19 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
When Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on novelist Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses, it was the opening shot in a war on cultural freedom. Two decades later, the violence continues, and Muslim fundamentalists have gained a new advantage: media self-censorship.

[monochrom] Why we can't stop birds downing aircraft

2009-01-19 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
The aircraft that splashed into the Hudson River is unlikely to be the last plane to be downed by a birdstrike, says Paul Marks. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16438-comment-why-we-cant-stop-birds-downing-aircraft.htmlLink -- Posted By johannes to

[monochrom] Some Points About Pointing

2009-01-19 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Raymond Tallis shows that the gesture is not so obvious. My pointing something out to you is a request for joint visual attention to the same object. It is based on a highly explicit general sense of the kind of creature you are: unlike other creatures, (most) humans have an unequivocal sense

[monochrom] The Goon Bible Project - Book of Job

2009-01-19 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPg3kjKBRcLink (via http://www.melinder.blogspot.com/melinder) -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/01/goon-bible-project-book-of-job.htmmonochrom at 1/19/2009 09:35:00 AM

[monochrom] Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Society

2009-01-19 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Society. A Critical Case Study of the Usage of studiVZ, Facebook, and MySpace by Students in Salzburg in the Context of Electronic Surveillance By Christian Fuchs. http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/SNS_Surveillance_Fuchs.pdfLink (PDF) [via

[monochrom] In honor of Ricardo

2009-01-17 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
In the movie Wrath of Kahn, William Shatner immortalized his mortal enemy by shouting his name for a long time. This graph shows just how long the average person holds down the 'a' key when google searching for Kahn! It drops off after 13, but picks up a bit around 40. Rest in peace,

[monochrom] How to fix a broken plasma screen -- with a baseball bat and a wall

2009-01-16 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKJcBx9cXKoLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/01/how-to-fix-broken-plasma-screen-with.htmmonochrom at 1/15/2009 07:23:00 PM

[monochrom] Barackwurst: The Inauguration Sausage

2009-01-16 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Enjoy. http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-181787Link -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/01/barackwurst-inauguration-sausage.htmmonochrom at 1/16/2009 10:31:00 AM

[monochrom] When solidarity with the Jewish state becomes dangerous

2009-01-15 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Police in the western German city of Duisburg have admitted they removed flags a student had hung in his apartment in support of Israel during a pro-Palestinian protest march in the city. Officers broke down his door and removed the flags. (...) Suddenly, the student explained, I saw a

[monochrom] 'War on terror was wrong' says David Miliband in today's Guardian

2009-01-15 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
David Miliband, Britain's Foreign Secretary, wrote a comment in today's Guardian about the mistake of lumping together everything under the sun and brand it 'the war on terror'. The war on terror also implied that the correct response was primarily military. But as General Petraeus said to me

[monochrom] The End of White America?

2009-01-14 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
The Election of Barack Obama is just the most startling manifestation of a larger trend: the gradual erosion of whiteness as the touchstone of what it means to be American. If the end of white America is a cultural and demographic inevitability, what will the new mainstream look like--and how

[monochrom] RIP Ricardo Montalban

2009-01-14 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
He was a suave leading man who was one of the first Mexican-born actors to make it big in Hollywood. But he's best remembered by Boomers and Gen-Xers as a preternaturally smooth TV pitchman for Chrysler, Capt. Kirk's most butter enemy in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and as the

[monochrom] Coffee Lovers, Club Mate Consumers: High Caffeine Intake Linked To Hallucination Proneness

2009-01-14 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
High caffeine consumption could be linked to a greater tendency to hallucinate, a new research study suggests. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090113203901.htmLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/01/coffee-lovers-club-mate-consumers-high.htmmonochrom

[monochrom] India: Gods and Corporations

2009-01-14 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Most corporates, of course, do both things--swindle the earth as well as invest in religion. And they take care to bribe the auditors in both places. Especially in India, where Hindus actually worship wealth as a goddess called Laxmi, and where the acquiring of vaibhav (worldly stature,

[monochrom] The tyranny of nodes: Towards a critique of social network theories

2009-01-13 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Networks have become a powerful metaphor to explain the social realities of our times. Everywhere we look there are attempts to explain all kinds of social formations in terms of networks: citizen networks, corporate networks, gamer networks, terrorist networks, learning networks… and so

[monochrom] monochrom at ETech's LateTech

2009-01-13 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
It's official! Join us Wednesday, March 11 for LateTech, our [somewhat] late night soiree where tech meets comedy, magic and more! Be more than just a spectator or passive member of the audience. LateTech is our showcase of conceptual tech wizardry where the audience becomes part of the

[monochrom] History of the Internet

2009-01-13 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
http://vimeo.com/2696386

[monochrom] Add N To (X) - Metal Fingers In My Body

2009-01-13 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhXJYNWB_aoLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/01/add-n-to-x-metal-fingers-in-my-body.htmmonochrom at 1/13/2009 10:01:00 PM

[monochrom] Fwd: Das Leid in Gaza und der Ruf nach Frieden

2009-01-12 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Subject: Das Leid in Gaza und der Ruf nach Frieden From: Café Critique cafe.criti...@gmx.net Das Leid in Gaza und der Ruf nach Frieden von Café Critique Haben Palästinenser und Palästinenserinnen Glück im Unglück und leben im Westjordanland, so haben sie mit einer korrupten Autonomiebehörde

[monochrom] The English working class is dead...

2009-01-12 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
...and its traditions and values have been replaced by sentimentality and the false promises of celebrity and credit cards. It's time the people rediscovered their collective power and sense of pride, argues Scottish novelist Andrew O'Hagan.

Re: [monochrom] fachfrage

2009-01-12 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
ich empfehle das wunderbare tool spybot - search and destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/de/index.html At 14:31 12.01.2009, you wrote: damen und herren! ich hab auf meiner festplatte ein programm, das den kaspersky nervös macht. und mich auch: C:\Programme\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe ich

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