Marie and I watched the good night, and good luck movie well tonight. It is the excellent story of Edmund R. Murrow a CBS news broadcaster that had the courage to stand up against McCarthy and his Communist Witch hunt. The cinematography is excellent. They used the original footage and created all things around that. Very cool. Just replace Islamic with communist …

Here is one of the planters I filled with Chysanthemums the other day this time at daylight, so one can see them. The one who can read is in a big advantage, I finally checked the little plastic flag that came with them and it says that they should be planted apart quite a bit because they grow ahm quite a bit :-)  …

Very personal view on the legacy of Robert Moog by Ray Kurzweil in Wired: A Tribute to Robert Moog Motivated by a love for invention and for interacting with the musicians who used his technology, the synthesizer whiz had a profound impact on the music world.

Being at it I also planted some flowers that the best wife of all and I had picked out the afternoon. Organized as I am I only got to the the planing once it was dark. Hence the black picture. Turned out that these are Chrysanthemums. Which reminded me of one BAP song: Ahn ‘ner Leitplank  Excellent lyrics about how quickly …

Just in time for Halloween late last night I digged Marcus the Carcus out again. Two years ago, back then still in San Francisco my lovely neighbors Sophia and John surprised me with one in my front yard. He is pulsing lights as you can see from the shortest One-Take-Video I ever did.  Some more background. We are ready the kids can come.

Paradise Now the new film by Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad looks like a very powerful movie. One that for a change shows the Palestinian side of the conflict. Great statement from the Q&A session from Abu-Assad: "I

Excellent set of pictures by Douglas Levere reshooting Berenice Abbott

Etay, with whom I am sharing a room at SAP, and his wife just opened up their own online baby and kids clothing store: Cute Little Me. It’s really lovely done and may be soon we will need to shop their too. Clicking through the site I stumbled over the sale section and low and behold their is a picture of their daughter …

Jamais Cascio wrote on September 26th at WorldChanging: Twenty-two years ago today, the world nearly ended. We owe the fact that it didn’t to the level head of one Stanislav Petrov. Those of you who remember late 1983 might recall that it was a remarkably tense time. The Soviet Union had just shot down a Korean airliner that had flown …

Watch the movie. Love the interaction and the idea. Not since Skyscraper Pong have people been so entertained :-)  I also discovered omnivisu (see also here), an urban installation, by Willy Sengewald und Richard The, that had been designed for a facade at the S/U station Warschauer Str. which is “not only a symbol of the desolated GDR