“Der Reisende” is German for “The Traveller”, and Der Reisende is a fun project by two Germans who travelled around the world to get their pictures taken – by webcams! The first picture was taken in Las Vegas in 2001 and since then they have managed to take pictures of themselves with stationary webcams in [...]
Last weekend I saw The Returner, a Japanese science fiction movie, and I was very impressed by it. I guess I wasn’t expecting too much and that made it an even bigger surprise. It’s the story of a teenage girl that is sent back from a future where humanity is fighting a losing battle against [...]
San Francisco often feels like one big movie set with all the breathtaking views and a plethora of beautiful buildings. Hitchcock was one of the first big hollywood directors to take full advantage of this city in Vertigo. There are actually several sites that try to compare the San Francisco of Hitchcock’s 1958 movie with [...]
Yep, that was the title of a piece of spam in my inbox… spam offering anti-spam software. Ha-ha… very funny. So after deleting thousands of spam emails since the last Daily Spam, this one caught my attention. The spam email itself is a straight text email with no unsubscribe, so it’s a piece of perfectly [...]
Finally I came back again to do something that I really enjoy a lot, but didn’t really have the time or energy for – building a game. I’ve been making games off and on for more than 20 years, ever since I first started programming in my early teens. It’s always been fascinating to me [...]
I’m currently working my way through Neal Stephenson’s latest novel, “Quicksilver“. It’s a big, heavy book and it’s a bit of a slow read… but not in a bad way. If you enjoyed Cryptonomicon, then you will feel right at home. Mr. Stephenson certainly has a way with words, and he always manages to fill [...]
If you’ve ever played a video game that tried to give you some sort of backstory to what is going on, you’ve probably come in contact with this phenomenon: Horrible Voice Acting. I don’t think that there is any other medium where a million-dollar product can have such poor production values as seen (or actually [...]
For quite some time I have been wondering where the US economy is headed. For about a year now I had the feeling that we are driving through dense fog and as a solution for not seeing enough we are actually speeding up! Our rising debt was really only possible because Japan and China are [...]
Pine Street, San Francisco
This is turning out to be my big movie review month… Under the Tuscan Sun has been a very pleasant surprise. Diane Lane is very likable in her role as a divorcee falling in love with a house, a country and a new man. And while the story doesn’t sound like much, the movie makes [...]