March 2009
251 posts
50 must have wedding shots →
Sometimes we’re just too tired due to late night working for the secondary job.
WatchHow to illuminate street portraits? Photographer Nick Turpin provides a little introduction.
Sharpen a picture, but not its noise →
Launching a startup →
First, make your product available (product launch), then start with marketing activities (marketing launch). Synchronising both events always seems to be a bad idea.
Battlestar Galactica is over →
…and might leave some questions unanswered. But anyway, it’s still the best science fiction TV series we’ve ever seen. As catching as Prison Break, as complex as the Star Trek universe and to some extent even as plausible as your favourite Discovery Channel documentary. Many thanks to SciFi, Ronald D. Moore, and all others involved in the creation of four glorious seasons.
XING AG annual report 2008 released →
Available in German and English.
How to set up effective business meetings →
It’s all about invitees and the agenda, strict speech rules and getting to the point as well as summing up action items afterwards.
Designing for the iPhone →
Scrivener →
In case you’re planning to write a book, Scrivener is the tool of choice on Mac OS X.
WatchKawasaki on entrepreneurs then and now.
Readability →
Simple bookmarklet that on-click makes complex or ugly websites as readable as it gets. Wow.
Elias Tahan →
What a photographer!
SnapPages →
Might be the easiest way to get grandpa online.
Inkd →
Browse and buy professional print design templates and save marketing expenses.
Unity 3D →
A well thought out development system for creating games running on Windows, Mac OS X or the iPhone.
RAID calculator →
Online array characteristics estimation tool.
Academic Earth →
Video lectures from the world’s top scholars.
“I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and...”
– designer Douglas Bowman on why he left Google.
Principles of design →
Plain and simple wisdom →
All you need to know from a math genius.
Why not to sell your Flickr photos through Getty... →
Mogulus live broadcasting →
Maybe better than ustream?
WatchSecrets of the CIA exposed on Sky.
Cruise on Scientology →
Maybe you still remember this.
WatchRachmaninov has been my favourite composer. And will be.
Tales of Mere Existence →
Amazing clips and comics with topics you seldom talk about in public.
A class divided →
About an Iowa schoolteacher who, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination.
South Park online →
Who knew you can enjoy a brilliant high quality stream of South Park episodes online?
Rivo Drei →
A nice German rock/pop band from Berlin (singing in German).
WatchThat’s how the English are picking up girls. Not.
What happens to your social web after death? →
Mancora →
A pulsating road-trip drama from the director of My Brothers Wife.
Tumbltape →
Tumbltape turns any Tumblr blog into a playlist. Looks like the good old Muxtape by the way.
ccMixter →
A music community featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons to listen to, sample, mash-up and more.
Freesound →
Search a large database of Creative Commons licensed sound files.
ACIDplanet 8Packs →
An 8pack project is a Sony ACID file that includes eight free loops from various Sony Sound Series Loops arranged into a demo song.
Splashdown - Mayan Pilot
Pretty sad they split up...
Magpie RSS →
XML-based RSS Parser in (open source) PHP.
Your DNA as artwork on canvas →
That’s what gel electrophoresis can do for you (and for DNA 11 Inc.’s cash flow)!
The Last Shadow Puppets →
Still my favourite duo.
Themes in Blade Runner →
Wikipedia is the one stop source of information on Blade Runner, one of my favourite science fiction film loosely based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philipp K. Dick.