Month: January 2007

O’Neill Cylinder

someone needs to take a class in gravity 🙂

Slander local business

This kind of slander could destroy a small business, like my auto mechanic. It should be criminal. Insider pages knowing paid people to create fraudulent reviews and given the statistics of the reviews they made no effort manage the problem. I presume it would be a piece of cake for some lawyer to find 1000 businesses slandered like my auto mechanic has been and bring suit against the various parties in this example. Something more severe than letting the market punish them is appropriate.
This is the dark side of social networking (talent scrapping) sites. Get the talent to commit the crimes you need committed. The social networking site owner as troll. In the worst case the business is looking for a way to force, blackmail the local businesses into participating at the site. Angie’s List has been accused of that.

oy. no user-generated accuracy, in this case

Cassette tape ripper

at $130, i would want to make this a shared purchase with some friends

Understanding Comics

215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium.

Luis Villa goes to Law School

Gnome developer and former Ximian guru, Luis Villa, has gone to law school. I just wrote about why it’s important for open source companies to have an attorney on staff. I can’t think of a better qualified attorney than one that also groks open source at the code and community levels. Luis knocks both of those balls out of the park.

Etoy History

for an art show with etoy i had the chance to escape to japan for 3 months. i was completly wrecked and tried to ignore the release of harper collins’ “leaving reality behind” book that hurt me more than anything else before. the book about “my life”, etoy and TOYWAR was written by a former friend of mine, regula bochsler. i considered her one of the 12 most important people in my life and blindly trusted her. for me to read the final draft of the script was a new dimension of human distraction! after working for 1 year with etoy (incl. full access to our archive, work and friends) the authors probably got under commercial pressure and started to mix and twist facts to get the plot they needed. among lots of dirty little stories the book limited female TOYWAR-HEROES like our CTO etoy.MONOROM or the transsexual performer COCO to my groupies and described my partners as naive acolytes but instead totally over pomoted the old etoy.BOY-GROUP that was history long before TOYWAR even started. COCO’s tragic suicide was just another hype for the story and on top of all this i was called “heinrich”, a fucked up devil who picked linz – the cultural capital of adolf hitler – to launch his international career as a greedy artist.

zai on the craziness that was and is etoy

Pesos death threats

National pizza chain Pizza Patron received death threats and xenophobic emails after it announced that it would accept pesos, as well as $, at its stores

such insecurity

Terrified Amazon mummy

Hands over her eyes and her face gripped with terror, the woman’s fear of death is all too obvious.

amazing

Gmail Spam Filtering

maybe, but y! is still much much worse, as the commenters find

SketchUp Photo Match

quickly and easily set up the modeling viewpoints perspective to match a photograph allows one to simply trace a buildings outline and thus create its geometry.