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10 movies that you may not have watched, but might want to hunt down

When I watched “The Stoning of Soraya M.” yesterday, I thought to come up with another 9 movies to create a list of movies that you may not have watched, but might want to hunt down.
You will notice a strong Indian theme in my selection. When I lived in Munich, it was very easy to [...]

The dedication of fans

The “Lord of the Ring” enjoys a great following and it may have even increased after the release of the movie trilogy (2001-2003). Recently, on May 3, 2009, the fan movie “The Hunt for Gollum” was released to the world on the Internet. A tweet from Michael Wesch alerted me to this movie.
It is amazing [...]

Give plants a blog

Thanks to Alan Levine’s blog post about the blogging plant in Japan I ran across this novelty. As can be read on Pink Tentacle,
Midori-san started blogging about a week ago. So far, the plant’s highly structured posts summarize the day’s weather, temperature and lighting conditions, describe its overall physical condition, tell how much light it [...]

In the beginning… / Am Anfang…

Do you want to know how the entire personal computer business started? Then you should watch “Pirates of Silicon Valley” on YouTube. This docudrama is quite fascinating and is supposed to be rather true to the facts according to Steve Wozniak who was a co-founder of Apple and built the first machines. If you think [...]

Version control / Versionskontrolle

A few years ago the big word everybody used was “multimedia” (it even was the “Word of the Year” in Germany in 1995), then “2000 / Y2K” came around the corner and made it big. Nowadays, in the times of Web 2.0, version control has become the big obsession and might be about to take [...]