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 […]
One of my apartment mates sent me a link to a piece by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung entitled “Architekt entdeckt unberührte DDR-Wohnung” (Architect discovers untouched apartment from GDR times). In it the author reports how an architect discovers an untouched apartment in Leipzig 9 years plus some months after the fall of the Wall. It […]
Today I realized that I did not know half about the Luxembourgish transport system. As I went to the airport early enough for students to be on their way to school, I encountered tens of bus lines that I had never seen before. It seemed like the regular city and cross-country busses are only about […]
The conference Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008, commonly abbreviated “learntrends”, the second conference of its kind, took place entirely online from November 17 till 21, 2000. On top of being an online conference, it was a free event. Jay Cross, Tony Karrer, and George Siemens were the main organizers of this conference and had […]
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 […]