I wonder if the service to Isle of Wight is still in operation. I have to add that to my travel wishlist :)

Here's the link to download the MP4 directly to your computer. File size is approx 1.4GB.

HOME download

Enjoy.

As you might know, tomorrow sees the release of HOME in 50 countries worldwide, simultaneously. I let the trailer tell it's own tale.

Tune in to their channel on the tube, or find a place where it's being shown in the movies. I really think it's worthwile watching.



See HOME 2009 for more.

As a side note, the music already reminds me a bit of Philip Glass' score for Koyaanisqatsi (wikipedia link, trailer on youtube in HD), a 1982 movie well worth watching too - but you need some patience and a proper mood for it. However, if your attention span is big enough, it will leave you with quite an impression ;)

I'm not overly surprised though, but even if it were falsified, it just fits my image of those evangelist dweebs.

The whole photo set is here at spiegel.de, sourced from style.com.

Just a quick note to let you know what's going on. I moved to a new appartment the other week, meaning I pretty much still live out of boxes due to additional and unexpected work at the old appartment that consumed most of the past two weeks. Of course, German Telekom didn't manage to switch my phone line in time, and also they provided me with (unwanted) ISDN but luckily this isn't too much of a problem.
I'm in serious need of some shelves and kitchen storage, but that was to be expected. In the old place I could make up for that by using more space, but now with only half of the footprint some intelligent solutions have to be found.
All that aside, I'm enjoying some sunny days in the Netherlands and things are going fairly well. I'm also planning a trip to Switzerland the week after next, so that means more offline-ness.

I found this in my mailbox the other day.



In short, I should search for help only with god, be thankful to Jesus cuz he died for my sins o.O and I shud read and believe the infallible word of god. Eh sure. Hand me the stones, will you, I got some people to lapidate.

Talking of that, watch "Religulous" by Bill Maher, fun stuff!

A recent study reveals that a good percentage of GB psychiatrists still try to "heal" homosexuality in therapy.

The study group has a website: http://www.treatmentshomosexuality.org.uk/index.html

I tried a slight variation of my raisin bread.

I found this thing in the trash bin yesterday:



It seems the storage circuit is gone, and probably there's issues with the power supply. Despite those 'minor' problems, this might turn out to be a good find. It's a two-channel 50MHz scope, built by Fluke and Philips (I've no idea who's original design it is though).

Image courtesy slack.com

I wish people would stop doing that. On the other hand, I can't help but thinking that it's somewhat deserved for a country where, thanks to the NRA, you just go into the next supermarket, grab a semi-automatic gun and walk away with it. But that would be cynical.

This is the 1939 short "Wer fuhr IIA 2992?" ("Who drove IIA 2992?") made for TV. Interesting to see what methods and tools they used for production.



Back then, only very few people could afford to buy a TV until the E1 (Einheitsempfänger 1) was introduced in 1939 - you can see one @ 11:15. This set was priced at 650 Reichsmark (approx. 2400€ purchasing power projected from the year 1938 to 2000), as opposed to prices of around 1800RM for previous sets.

Designed to be the Volksempfänger of TV, a mass production of 10,000 pieces was planned for the first series, but due to the outbreak of war only around 50 were made. The specs: 441 lines interlaced, 25 frames per second. Video bandwidth is 2 MHz, receiving range in VHF between 40 and 50 MHz.

At 8:20 you can see them going to a "Fernseh-Sprechzelle", one of a few (experimental) video communication booths of that time. You could make video calls there, they had booths in Munich, Berlin, and Nuremberg. Geeky.

NB: "IIA 2992" is a vehicle registration plate from the city district of Munich. Those were used from 1906 until '45.

That was awesome :D

It's going to be lamb knuckle tonight ^.^



Now only 3.5h to go. And no, the banana isn't part of it :P

Also, Diet Coke @ 2:50 ^^

Keeping up on topics of general, not to say global, interest has been kinda difficult for me for the past year(s). There's been too many distractions and also a considerable lack of energy to even go and try. Thankfully this is changing to the better, and there is quite a bit of things that keep me interested these days. One of them, as you might have guessed already, is the topic of "global warming" or "climate change" to use a term that carries less negative connotations.

I had always thought that there can be no serious doubt about it happening, even less about what would be the major causes. Of course, this opinion has been somewhat uneducated, given that my scientific background is nil, and I certainly didn't put much effort in getting into the depth of it. To say it straight away, I don't want to discuss or argue about the single scientific findings here, lack of experience and ability to judge would prevent it from going anywhere really. Much more interesting than that, is the view on the persons playing a major part in this scenario and how they managed to make a political debate out of a scientific consensus (see also Politicization of science). In the case of global warming, a number of people, for different reasons, make heavy use of the FUD tactics you might know from the IT industry, most notably attributed to the aggressive marketing campaigns of a major company of the sector.

( Read more... Beware of lengthy ramblings. )

Okay, so either they can't count properly or it's a special nederpizza recipe. Never trust the label of a product.