Started with this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA&NR=1 about "filter bubbles" and how the increasingly sophisticated ranking and filtering systems put each of us into a bubble of our own preferential reading, where we only get information that confirms ( Read more... )

New set of photos on Picasa: Fasching in München

After a week in Mountain View (where I lost two days to a stupid cold), I'm having a weekend in San Francisco, City of a Thousand Hills. Everytime I visit this city, it has a different feel -- not because it's a different season (it's pretty much always the same). Not because I go to different areas. Just because it's a strange city that hides its ( Read more... )

I've taken to doing more reading, using iBooks when on the go, and I'm going to rotate between classic works, sciencey works, computer works and German stuff. First up: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brönte (funny, the fancy editor here doesn't allow the standard accent composing). I've been wanting to read this one since I read the Thursday Next books, ( Read more... )

Just read a little article on what the ISO of the human eye is: http://www.pixiq.com/article/eyes-vs-cameras (short answer: can't really say) and started toying with the idea of making a controlled experiment to determine the speed and ISO of the eye -- the aperture is said ( Read more... )

 In the coming week, I will have the best of my photos up for sale at http://larsrc.zenfolio.com. I'm doing it as a test run - ZenFolio is a pretty slick site and has very reasonable pricing for sales, but they charge $100 per year for the account where you can sell your photos. I'm using ( Read more... )

I went to the local regular showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show this night. God, it's been way too long, I'd forgotten most of the participation, and a lot of what I remembered was off. But it was good to be back ( Read more... )

I've had an uneasy co-existence with microwave ovens since they entered my life about ten years ago. In particular, I don't like the huge amount of buttons and settings most of them feature - in my mind, the perfect microwave has two dials: Power and time. Todays breakfast is a perfect example of why ( Read more... )

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I'm one of those annoying people who'll actually try to engage in conversation with complete strangers (when I'm feeling sufficiently extrovert). Today, as I was going back from San Francisco on CalTrain, I sat (in the quite nice new CalTrain cars) across from a nice lady probably in her 60ies and started talking with her about this and that. Of ( Read more... )