There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies; the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”
by way of gunnar grimnes
the game I always wanted
And now passively play!
Idle-RPG!
go here:
http://idlerpg.numist.net/oldlebot/
The idea of Idle-RPG is to idle. Idle means, doing nothing. Winner is, who can do nothing longer than the others. In between, while you idle, the game itself plays for you. Every few minutes, you may stumble into an opponent, fight, steal something, find items, etc. But you cannot control this, the game does it for you. So, the perfect use of waste of time. Horray for computers, finally a game I want to play for years.
Shunn those fancy 3d games, come to the chat room and idle. Lets do nothing for years, see how our characters evolve and the world spinning around us. My char-name: Bush And His Pony, evil Alignment.
Blogging and topics
Baumann blogs:
After 1 year of blogging I am meanwhile in a state of running 4 different blogs. 2 of them on my own, 2 of them in a joint authorship mode. And the one here is actually part of the node metablog. Some questions came to my mind which I have to fix and to share in hope for comments!
Answer here:
From the Philosophical point of view: You are a person, one person. All your thoughts and needs flow into each other, without border. Hence, You, one person = one blog, many aspects on different level (dimensions in the level are quality, reaching from emotional draft to scientific article and other dimension is topic, from very private to utter public, unpersonal comments on science topics).
From the technical point of view:
Tags and categories allow you to express the kind of levels you need in your blog: private (secret messages that are not public, but you want them to be searchable for yourself), friends, public etc. You can express these levels (of the various dimensions) as tags.
Then you aggregate these to more public blogs and the content streams over, is remixed and channeled in public newsfeeds etc.
Examples:
This blog entry here is my perspective on your problem, hence it is part of MY blog. Stefan, your post created reactions here. Thats what we call a trackback and what is best practice on the blogosphere. Next, this blog entry here is categorised as “nothing” being very generic. Other posts in this blog are tagged as “SemWeb”. The semWeb posts are available as seperate feed, which is available to look at here, and also as RSS feed for only my semantic web posts here. If I mark something as Sem-Web I am aware that it will be spread to the public via this integrator at planetrdf. PlanetRDF brings together my scientific and professional community and I want that these people primarily read the topic-related posts. Other bloggers are not so sensible and put their all-emotional-all-topic streams to planetrdf, but I have my filters. Fact is, I have to read the planetrdf blog to know what my community does. The circle closes here. Sites like planetrdf or planetfachschaft can be created withing 30 minutes effort, they are ready-made scripts.
So: have your blog, one password, one user, one living being. Stream your sayings to where they belong. Loog that others aggregate your thoughts like on planetrdf or planetfachschaft kaiserslautern.
maschfasch faschingsfest
Maschfasch party an der UNI KL.
Mit dabei Günther “Porno” Hansen, der auch als Developer an gnowsis arbeitet. Heureka.
vimeo – flickr for videos
looks good. upload and share short videos. Will try that soon.
you find world-class crap like this:
gps tracking part 2
Meine liebe Cousine Irene führte mich zu denen hier:
http://www.garmin.de/Produktbeschreibungen/etrex-legend-C.php
http://www.garmin.de/Produktbeschreibungen/GPSetrex.php
Garmin erzeugt GPS-Handgeräte für Outdoor Benutzung. Die Frage ist ob das unserem Anforderungsprofil entspricht.
competence center for computational culture
thats a lot of c’s in Stephan Baumann’s new baby:
C4, the competence center computational culture
hat endlich auch ein digitales Zuhause, Beta-Style und Content
jetzt online inklusive News-Blog, more to come soon …
Das ganze ist natürlich heftigst mit “the great escape”, digital music und dem ganzen “shit” verbunden und wird somit das geilste competence center ever:
Imperativ: Studenten, pilgert in Massen zur computationalculture.org
Wien auf Flickr
GEILSTENS.
Ich geb “Wien” als Tag-Suche bei Flickr ein, und als erstes krieg ich ein Bild vom Grenz. Wien is super.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ioerror/66799957/?#comment18612441
what a funny website
thats by our co-worker nerd Stevan Agne. Arg, no text there. just pictures. but the dog is nice, a picture of Lilli.
funny typo
we want to fill Eric Miller’s piggy bank:
On the ISWC2005 i just saw this funny typo in the slides of a talk: calulate instead of calculate