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ikea hacker: Add light to this watering can

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:36:26 +0200

ValloLight Lamp!

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free paper (close)

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:48:54 +0200

fine print: can be used to write a phone number or e-mail, wipe your nose, place your gum in, make mini-footballs, write secret messages, or just supplement your daily fiber intake.

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The House that Tweets

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:46:14 +0200

via news.bbc.co.uk

Use Twittter to minimise your energy costs.
The house that tweets - bizarre but interesting.

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The Story Behind the Sony Walkman

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:18:13 +0200

There was a problem: The device didn’t have a name. Ohsone suggested that they use the name “Walkman”, a play on the Pressman, but the company’s leadership was skeptical. The name sounded like a straight Japanese translation, and they feared it would not catch on in the US and Europe.

Several other names were suggested. Walky was the most popular, but none were as memorable as Walkman, so the name stayed.

via lowendmac.com

Was ist aber dran an der Geschichte, dass eigentlich jemand anderes den Walkman erfunden hat und Sony die Idee vom ihm geklaut hat?

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Abstürzen

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:05:10 +0200

via berlin.equipier.com

Der wahre Grund für den Absturz der Air France-Maschine

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Google’s Tangible Profile Promo: Business Cards

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:54:43 +0200

via bub.blicio.us

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If piracy is wrong, why does it feel so right? - The Globe and Mail

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:52:48 +0200

When it comes to culture, says Myra Tawfik, a law professor at the University of Windsor, “we expect it to be accessible to us in the most convenient and easy way possible.” And if that access proves to be too expensive or onerous, consumers have demonstrated few misgivings about grabbing culture wherever they can.

That desire has dovetailed with the “free culture” movement, whose advocates are leery of the intellectual-property regime that has been evolving in the past half-century, placing more and more power in the hands of copyright owners (most of them corporations) as opposed to the public domain. Spearheaded by thinkers such as Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig, the founder of the Creative Commons movement, they argue that restricting the way people can appropriate and recontextualize media deprives citizens of the ability to interact with their own culture.

via theglobeandmail.com

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"Der iranische Präsident ist großzügig: Gibst du ihm deine Stimme, legt er von sich aus noch ein paar..."

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:56:22 +0200

“Der iranische Präsident ist großzügig: Gibst du ihm deine Stimme, legt er von sich aus noch ein paar obendrauf.”

- Aphorismus über: Präsident, Mussawi, Wahlfälschung, Wahlbetrug, Chamenei, Iran, Wahl, Demonstrationen | Gedankenpflug

"I just saw how many times I called you last night. You’re welcome."

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:08:06 +0200

“I just saw how many times I called you last night. You’re welcome.”

- texts from last night

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Do you think Will has even dropped...

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:59:42 +0200

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett

Do you think Will has even dropped a load in every toilet in the house? Is that the kind of thing rich people challenge themselves with? Or would that just be me?

(via Homes Of The Rich And Famous « YepYep - Your Daily Waste Of Time)