Monatsarchive: Juli 2005

Let there be light

Fiber Optics Bring the Sun Indoors . Someone has come up with a (really bril­li­ant in my mind) idea. The basic pre­mise is to cap­ture light on a roof, and direc­ting it into the rooms bene­ath it. That alone doesn’t sound too spec­ta­cu­lar, the hitch here is that they do it wit­hout sim­ply instal­ling a sky­light, but …

28. Juli 2005 – 12:19 | Von JollyOrc | Geposted in finding | Getagged, , | Kommentare (0)

Music belongs to us !

CCC says: Music, once part of human cul­ture, now belongs to the record indus­try, not to the people. Don’t let them brand you a cri­mi­nal. Boy­kott the record industry!

27. Juli 2005 – 17:07 | Von JollyOrc | Geposted in random | Getagged, , | Kommentare (0)

Vaulting Fun ? … !

Girls having Fun Vaul­ting, or „Vol­ti­gie­ren“ as it’s known in ger­man, is gym­nas­tics and dance on hor­se­back. It’s some­thing I’ll pro­bably never do, as I can’t even do gym­nas­tics wit­hout that moving horse being under me. But my girl­fri­end likes hor­ses and riding, and she and some fri­ends deci­ded to try this. It sure looked to …

24. Juli 2005 – 12:50 | Von admin | Geposted in playing | Getagged, | Kommentare (0)

Can companies be „not evil“

We all know that Googles motto is „Don’t be evil“. They claim that alt­hough they are admit­tedly out to make money, there are moral bar­ri­ers they won’t break. That’s fine and dandy, but… Page­rank is obviously a very power­ful tool when it comes to actually affect peo­p­les minds (People rarely scroll to the 3rd page of results. …

24. Juli 2005 – 01:04 | Von JollyOrc | Geposted in thinking | Getagged, , | Kommentare (0)