Vertreternerven

Das Leistungsschutzrecht zeigt nun, eineinhalb Jahre nach seiner Verabschiedung, welchen Schaden es anrichtet. Schon im Vorfeld dieses durch puren Lobbyismus entstandenen Gesetzes warnten eigentlich alle denkenden Menschen vor den Risiken eines Gesetzes, das schwammig formuliert und nicht angepasst an die moderne Welt des Internets ist. In der verqueren Logik der Presseverlage, allen voran natürlich der Springer-Verlag, solle Google dafür bezahlen, wenn es Suchergebnisse mit Snippet (Textausschnitt) und Bild anzeigt, die auf den jeweiligen Artikel verlinken. Man stelle sich vor, ein Lokal verlange eine Gebühr von der Tourismuszentrale dafür, dass Kunden in Richtung des Lokals geschickt werden, wenn ein Teil aus der Speisekarte präsentiert wird. 

What I’ve been up to

Whaddup.

I changed ISP. And by change I mean „being caught in a fuckup where the first ISP switched everything off and the second struggles to get a technician to my place.“ The usual.

Paris or how to surprise a colleague

A while ago I got an email asking me if I would like to join a secret surprise party in Paris.

Alix missed out on celebrating the big thirty last year and so her sisters decided to make up for that by inviting all her friends to a secret surprise party in Paris. As we wanted to go to Paris for a while now, Doro and I happily accepted the invite. And we took Nadia and Anna with us. 

Wilmersdorf. It’s a weird place.

Although I was born in the far west of Germany with its knives and karneval and other nonsense, I was raised from young age in Wilmersdorf. I was lucky to living close to the far cooler Schöneberg, so I could escape the quarter with an age average of around 246 from time to time.

Yesterday and today I revisited Wilmersdorf. There is no real reason to go there, except for visiting parents and looking at stuff in stores.

What I listen to: The Heavy

If you played Borderlands 2, and I suppose you did, because it is easily the best 4 people co-op on pandora shooter, you came across the intro video. And if you are not a mindless brute you did not skip it and listened to this song.

But wait, there’s more. The whole album, and much more of The Heavy’s stuff is worth listening to more than once. Go ahead and do so now.

The Combat Zone at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin

Time for modern art again.

After breaking fast in Pankow we headed over to the Neue Nationalgallerie and its exhibition „The Combat Zone – 1968-2000“. It is the third part of a selection of the Neue Nationalgalerie’s own collection which can’t be shown in total due to space restrictions. The first two focused on 1900-1945 and 1945-1968.

Wait, what?

„If you open your door to anyone, be prepared to encounter anyone.“ – Zero.

Last Saturday our institute opened its doors to the wider public. Regarding the omnipresent doors locked by badge readers and the high safety standards it was a rather big thing. We all were asked politely to help and present the institute and our work to those who are keen to learn and discover.

Raaawwwvioli.

Tegan, Doro and I — and by law of shared bed also Andy — swore a blood oath to live veggie for a month over a mouthful of delicious burger meat at Schiller Burger in Neukölln.

And as our kitchen will be demolished as of this afternoon only to be rebuilt next weekend we took the opportunity this Saturday to cook some home made pasta. 

Gewinnspiel bei Jan Karres. Raspberry Pi und mehr

Ich habe mittlerweile zwei Raspberries hier laufen, einer ist mein Cloudserver, der andere mein Mediacenter und beide leisten hervorragende Arbeit zu einem Bruchteil der Kosten eines kommerziellen Produkts.

Tropes in Video Games – How Women are Portrayed in Modern Gaming

If you like to play video games watch this. Even if you don’t. This sums up a lot of the problems with modern representation of women in video games.

I might put my two cents up here, too, some day. I have to do some reading first.