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Hi, I'm Matthias. I love music, nonsense and people that don't take life seriously. I enjoy tinkering with web stuff and craft interfaces with passion. This tank is full of random things I stumble across and enjoy. Stay hungry, stay foolish - never settle.
23.01.2009
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Very likely, in the near future, I won’t “own” any music, or books, or movies. Instead I will have immediate access to all music, all books, all movies using an always-on service, via a subscription fee or tax.
As cars become more “electronic” or digital, they will tend to be swapped and shared and used in a social way. The more we embed intelligence and smarts into clothing the more we’ll treat these articles as common property.
” – Kevin Kelly (Better than owning)14.07.2009
Eat local - Nice infographics. Nice animations. (via infosthetics.com)
07.08.2009
Mourning the Death of Handwriting
“People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says that’s not the case. The simple fact is that kids haven’t learned to write neatly because no one has forced them to. ‘Writing is just not part of the national agenda anymore,’ he says.”
Finally, I’ve got an excuse for my horrible style of handwriting…
12.08.2009
In Open Burble, members of the public come together to compose, assemble and control an immense rippling, glowing, bustling ‘Burble’ that sways in the evening sky, in response to the crowd interacting below. This massive structure, the form of which the public has themselves designed, exists at such a large scale that it is able to compete visually in an urban context with the skyscrapers that surround it. Created by haque.
11.09.2009
LAB SESSION: MAKING THINGS TALK 02 – How to read out an electricity meter | blog.intuity.medialab
Our interns hackin’ our office… Well done, guys!
12.10.2009
“The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies like Apple (or anyone else for that matter). Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a “mouse.” There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I don’t want one of these new fangled devices.”
– San Francisco Examiner, John C. Dvorak, 19 Feb. 1984 (via 37signals)23.10.2009
This bag dissolves in water: Newsstand copies of the November issue of Creative Review come in a revolutionary new bag that simply dissolves in hot water. No waste. No landfill.
