Monthly Archives: August 2005

Free wifi and the option to have today’s spe­cials mailed to you every morn­ing. Cof­fee and sand­wiches are fine — appa­rantly they pub­lish stuff as well. Con­tinue read­ing →

Boing Boing: New police guide­lines: shoot sui­cide bomber sus­pects in head (reported heav­ily a lot of other places).Following the recent killing of an inno­cent elec­tri­cian in Lon­don, the ‘sus­pected’ part makes you think.Beside (as noted in the Boing Boing post) mak­ing me recon­sider my choice of cloth­ing — maybe I should just stay indoors, keep­ing my skin pale, and go for a more innocent-looking touristy non-gadget-carrying style — it seems as if this approach is incred­i­bly short-sighted.For how long exactly will suicide-bombers con­tinue to look sus­pi­cious prior to set­ting off their bombs? Con­tinue read­ing →

Polize­i­ticker Berlin (rss) — giv­ing Københavns Poli­tis Døgnrapport a run for its money. Con­tinue read­ing →

All of us wannebe-hackers seem to find great joy in the fact, that every­thing in life actu­ally is hack­able; you can tweak your habits and your mind just as you can tweak your data­base or your OS of choice.GTD, ‘hacker’-blogs and var­i­ous books on self-hacking is all the rage, and I cer­tainly have read my part of the almost oblig­a­tory list of must-reads. Con­tinue read­ing →