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March 29, 2008 at 1:30 pm
· Filed under Datenrausch, Geek · Bas

e7 hat für Mercedes Benz ein Special gebastelt, bei dem die weltweiten Blogeinträge visualisiert werden, die sich mit den Modellreihen SL, CLS und SLK beschäftigen. Das Blech interessiert mich nicht wirklich, aber die Daten-Kurven haben Spaß gemacht.
(Die Daten werden mit Ruby gesammelt, mit PHP ausgeliefert und mit ActionsScript visualisiert.)
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Tags: actionscript, blog, cls, e7, elephantseven, flash, mercedes, mercedesbenz, ruby, sl, slk, statistics, technorati, visualization
November 30, 2007 at 11:26 pm
· Filed under Datenrausch, Geek · Bas
Do you think your parents get that joke?

Note xkcd’s title attribute of the image: “It’s crazy how much my gut opinion of a movie/song is swayed by what other people say, regardless of how I felt coming out of the theater.”
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Tags: xkcd, joke, wiki, wikifriends, geek, culture
September 19, 2007 at 7:42 pm
· Filed under Datenrausch, Geek · Bas
Recently, a friend of mine booked a flight to the United States. A few days later the FBI showed up in his logs:

Any explainations for this besides the standard paranoia-pattern?
Oh well: “Just Because I’m Not Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Out to Get Me!”
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Tags: fbi, usa, logfiles, dhs
July 5, 2007 at 10:09 am
· Filed under Datenrausch, Geek · Bas
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Tags: schwäbisch, 24, twentyfour, twendifor, humor
June 30, 2007 at 8:11 am
· Filed under Achievement, Datenrausch, Geek · Bas
When releasing the BagHack more than a year ago I did expect to get some response. But it turned out to be way more popular than I thought it is.
People in the US, the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Germany are now proud owners of a small blue bag with lots of style. (Did I forget anyone?)
Greg from daddytypes.com postet an extended tutorial how it is build, including a set of images that explain the process in more detail. He uses it as a bag for diapers

The non-DYIers among you still have the chance to join the circle of blue coolness by ordering one of the remaining originals.
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Tags: baghack, ikea, ikeabaghack, bag, hack, diy, shopping, design, art, laptop, diaper, baby, blue
May 6, 2007 at 9:57 am
· Filed under Datenrausch, Geek, Personal · Bas
Last week I attended next07. The night before I was at a concert of Hayseed Dixie. Guess what! The party was completely spoiled because no one at next07 was able rock as hard as John, Don, Dale, and Jake. — Hi, my name is Bas, and I’m a bluegrass addict.
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Tags: hayseeddixie, next07, bluegrass, rockgrass, acdc, hamburg, event
October 10, 2006 at 10:08 pm
· Filed under Datenrausch, Geek · Bas
Just found a classic which I think is worth watching a few (maybe 10?) times: “Powers of Ten”… and the effect of adding another zero.
Google video, youtube.com… who cares. Same thing. — “Eventually, everything connects.” (Charles Eames, powersof10.com)
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Tags: 10, ten, powersof10, space, distance, size, universe
August 30, 2006 at 9:38 am
· Filed under Datenrausch, Geek · Bas
Why is Microsoft publishing ideas as Quicktime movies? Are they using Macs for their creative work? — Using a machine running Windows you can’t invent smart input devices like the Soap.
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Tags: soap, quicktime, microsoft, interface
July 19, 2006 at 9:54 am
· Filed under Datenrausch, Geek · Bas
Everybody who’s seriously using GMail (although I said it’s evil) has now the chance to gain back some privacy: Freenigma enables every user to encrypt e-mails that are sent with Google Mail, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail and others.
It’s based on open source technologies and comes as an easy-to-install Firefox extension.
Can’t wait to get my test account!
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Tags: freenigma, freiheit.com, security, privacy, email, gnupg, opensource, firefoxextension, gmail
June 16, 2006 at 8:52 pm
· Filed under Datenrausch, Geek · Matthias
… I’m back again. deciding not to blog anymore in my private (we)blog bas gave me some letters … the rest is future.
germany is soccer these days … but look at this: ASCII-WM 2006
(new to telnet? there’s a HOW-TO for you)
technorati tags:ascii, wm2006, telnet
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Tags: ascii, wm2006, telnet
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