Tag Archives: offtopic

The Turing Test

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 15 October 2007, 6:03 pm | tags: , , ,

Something droll, courtesy of xkcd.com

:D

The Great Global Warming Swindle?

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 09 May 2007, 5:37 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

So there’s a documentary by the British Channel Four which argues that human/CO2 caused Global Warming is a pile of steaming bollocks (smells better than excrement). It can grow to become a kind of counter-Inconvenient Truth, and contribute to reversing the progress the Global Warming movements have so far achieved.

While there are plenty of sites who dispute the…

Making connections at Slashdot

Michael Stevenson | 13 April 2007, 12:35 pm | tags:

This is just a nice coincidence that deserves sharing. The top post at Slashdot right now explains that

The Tamil Tigers Liberation Front [...] has moved up from routine sea piracy to a space-based one [...] They have been been accused of illegally using Intelsat satellites

while the bottom post informs us that

the Department of Defense plans

…

Masters of Media t-shirts

Anne Helmond | 04 April 2007, 10:59 pm | tags: ,

Mom t-shirt

We have officially opened a Masters of Media store at Cafepress.

You are welcome to visit us and buy one of our wonderful t-shirts.

Help a student! And fill out a short questionnaire

Heleen van der Klink | 04 April 2007, 3:19 pm | tags: , ,

Matthijs Rutten has developed a digital survey for his thesis. It itvolves new media and politics, or in particular the manner in which politicians use digital communication tools in order to get as many votes as possible. In this survey Matthijs tries to find out the manner in which people are influenced by these digital communication tools when they choose…

OffTopic: The Shining

Roman Tol | 22 March 2007, 3:56 pm | 1 comment | tags: ,

I’ve seen Stanley Kubricks film adaptation of Stephen Kings thriller ‘The Shining’ many times… I even read the book when I was younger… which I didn’t like too much, however, as it turns out I really missed to grasp the essence of the story; I thought it was about insanity caused by isolation… well, just check this clip:shining.jpg

The Parlor – A waiting room conversation

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 10 February 2007, 2:55 am | 7 comments | tags: , ,

Check out this eleven minute video of a conversation in a waiting room which is entirely relevant in the context of new media (studies). It’s well worth your time!

Second Life backlash no. 3

Michael Stevenson | 21 January 2007, 11:39 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

this is (very) funny: Get a first life

the guy behind it explains his actions here

The Simpsons understand

Michael Stevenson | 07 December 2006, 5:42 pm | 6 comments | tags: , ,

“If only we’d known that iPods would unite and overthrow the very humans they entertained…” From The Plastic Bag

Bugs

Anne Helmond | 19 September 2006, 6:58 pm | tags:

Onderzoek doen naar Nieuwe Media verschijnselen wordt veelal moeilijk gemaakt door allerlei bugs. Hierbij een analoge variant waarmee ik vandaag in aanraking kwam:

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