Kategorie: Allgemein

Karnevalkohohleute.

  • 2018-11-13

Humans are weird.

Alose.

  • 2018-11-12

It boggled the mind to think about a lifestyle in which you could never pick your nose.

Neal Stephenson & J. Frederick George: Interface

Spezialtage.

  • 2018-11-11

I find it confusing that all special days and dates already existed and happened before they became special. Sometimes more, sometimes less related to what they are now.

Contempt Contest.

  • 2018-11-10

Microsoft and Apple have been changing places. For a long time, Microsoft was the main enemy of users’ freedom, and then, for the past ten years or so, it’s been Apple. When the first iThings came out, around 2007, it was a tremendous advance in contempt for users’ freedom because it imposed censorship of applications—you could only install programs approved by Apple.

Richard Stallman, interviewed in New Left Review 113, September-October 2018

Hauptsache.

  • 2018-11-09

Es geht nicht um Herkunft, Hautfarbe und Religion
Hauptsache, der Teig ist dünn; Hauptsache, Tomatensoße

Antilopen Gang: Pizza