Everyone go straight here and watch this video. Now.

href=”http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/02/24/this-hunger-for-reality/

Das jüngste Kindle von Amazon sieht man hier in New York immer öfters in der U-Bahn.

Häusle, Mädle, Weckle, Bierle, Kätzle, Päckle.

Das sind meine Assoziationen als Baden-Württemberger zu dem Wort “Kindle”.

Kindle? Kindle!

Bin ja schonmal gespannt unter welchem Namen das Gerät in Deutschland auf den Markt kommen wird.

Auch wenn ich mirs nicht unbedingt jetzt schon kaufen würde, hat das kleine weisse Gerät doch einige interessante Features, auf die ich dank XKCD aufmerksam geworden bin. Wikipedia immer dabei zu haben wäre ja durchaus ganz nett. Auch Blogs soll man damit abbonieren können, wobei ich der Meinung bin, dass die meisten Blogs nur in Verbindung mit dem Zugriff auf das gesamte Internet wirklich Sinn machen. What about Trackbacks? Comments?

Über Amazons Kindle-Produktseite bin ich dann auf das folgende Video gekommen:

Die ersten 30 Minuten sind grösstenteils PR für Amazons jüngstes Kind, was halbwegs interessant ist. Danach wirds etwas allgemeiner und interessanter wenn die beiden Themen wie User Experience, Internet, Entwicklung von Medientechnologien etc. behandeln. Schauts euch an, der Kerl hat was zu sagen, auch wenn er für meinen Geschmack etwas zu oft lauthals lacht…

Die Sendung “Charlie Rose” hab ich erst kürzlich “entdeckt”. Das Format ist sehr einfach gestaltet, eine einfache Interview-Show. Viele der Interviews sind mit Hollywood-Stars und Teil von den gewöhnlichen PR-Kampagnen, etwa für Filme, die interessanteren mit Politikern oder anderen hellen Köpfen. Die Videos gibts alle zum Onlines-Anschauen. Hier mal ein paar weitere ausführliche Gespräche zur Wirtschaftskrise mit Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger Paul Krugman oder Martin Wolf.

Du verstehtst kein English? Nicht schlimm, dann hör Dir wenigstens an was Dirk Baecker zur Krise zu sagen hat, und zwar als mp3 von www.dradio.de.

For some reason I missed this:
I haven’t even installed Chrome on my computer, so I’m not exactly a Chrome fan. I have seen it in action on my colleague’s computer and it looked interesting, but I didn’t post this link to promote Chrome, but simply because I like Scott McClouds stuff. What stuff?

Understanding Comics e.g. …

Or just read the Chrome Comic. The first comic about classes and virtual machines

Hmm a proposito Google, I guess resistance is futile. I’ve been working with Google’s Android platform for a couple of weeks now and it is awesome

…is German for Rock Paper Shotgun which is a great blog about games which I recently discovered and started to read on a daily basis. I just added it to my blogroll.

RPS is also where I learned about Gravitron 2, a great old-schoolish game. It is kinda hardware-hungry, though. While it runs fine on my laptop, but is really not playable on my work PC, but I guess that’s how it should be

The full version is only $5 ( that’s probably about 1€ at this point *grrr* ) , so head over there and buy it.

Come on guys, a beer will maybe give you about 1 hour of fun – this game a lot more!

Da kommt mir doch gerade so ein Gedanke… Es müsste eigentlich Stein, Papier, Schere heissen. Und dann müsste der Titel dieses Blogposts “Stein, Papier, Schrotflinte” heissen.

Aber: Johannes 19:20

… or do you?

I stumbled across the online version of YDKJ before and it brought be back about 10 years and from English back to German. I remember the German speaker having a slightly higher pitch and being a LOT more annoying than his American counterpart. I really really like this game and I think its remarkable that the Flash version is still very similar to the CD-ROM version.

The presentation of YDKJ is a great example of the beauty of simplicity and how contstaints are a lot of the time beneficial for a work of art. I still like the animated typography in the game. Works great in Flash, too.

Ok, this is about 2 years old but I just found this and I think it’s an amazing idea:

Payphone warriors!

I really like developing for Google’s Android Platform.

It’s a fun platform. Check this out:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=680

Unbelieveable!

Since my mouse is still at the 112th Precinct(= a police station) in Queens, and I can’t / shouldn’t / won’t use my girlfriend’s mom’s mouse any more, I bought a new mouse today. Ever since I started using a Logitech MX Revolution at work, ever since I set it up so that this fancy new wireless rodent of mine lets me do such awesome things as navigating though my source code with the arrow buttons, jumping from one instance of a selected string to the next or previous one,  ever since I bound a CTRL-W-keystroke on the backward-pull of the 2nd mousewheel in order to be able to close tabs and windows alike with an elegant little pull with my thumb, ever since I did that, I felt like I was walking with crutches when using my laptop without that Ãœbermaus.  You know, like using a computer without a mousewheel.

Those days are over,  I got an MX Revolution now, and here comes the interesting part for you (Potentially):

Über-Options is a little tool  that lets you map ALL mouse buttons & wheels to whatever you like.

I googled a bit for something like this because Logitech’s Software didn’t allow me to bind keystrokes to the secondary wheel. Now I can, thanks to überOptions!

Dankeschön.

If you are going to spend some time in front of you computer with a browser open without being terribly busy, be sure to check out “Breaking the Tower”, a nice little strategy game. It only consists of one level, but it’s actually fun enough to go back and play it over and over again.

Why don’t you start playing the game ? – come back when the game is running…

Surprisingly, it’s a Java Applet. I kind of expected it to be Flash when I opened the page.

One nice aspect of the game is that you don’t need to be actively playing all the time. What I did was I started the game and then went back to browsing other sites and then came back and see my resources in the hundrets. Yes, it is pretty much a very simple clone of “Die Siedler” or “The Settlers”, but it hit the spot. I think it is a good example of what casual games can be. Simple does not have to mean stupid.

… in this article of The Atlantic.

Can you read the whole article without interruption? I bet you won’t.

McLuhan lässt grüssen.