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rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>120</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-1530145913304569953</id><published>2011-04-21T11:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-21T11:41:27.391-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='round-up'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science and medicine'/><title type='text'>Science &amp; Medicine Round-up</title><content type='html'>&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nature&lt;/i&gt; has an &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1038/472259b"&gt;editorial&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/472280a"&gt;and&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1038/nj7343-381a"&gt;a&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/472276a"&gt;number&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/472261a"&gt;of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/472283a"&gt;articles&lt;/a&gt; discussing the current state of and fixes to the &lt;b&gt;PhD system&lt;/b&gt;. They're mostly concerned with PhDs in science, technology, and engineering but some of the issues discussed are also relevant for the social sciences and humanities. Trigger warning for grad students and recent PhDs: lots of doom and gloom.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;In other news in the Depression section, &lt;i&gt;Nature &lt;/i&gt;has a good summary of the &lt;b&gt;impact &lt;/b&gt;of the current &lt;b&gt;US budget&lt;/b&gt; on the different areas of &lt;b&gt;science funding&lt;/b&gt;. Summary: bad, but could've been worse. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/472267a%20"&gt;doi:10.1038/472267a &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The situation in &lt;b&gt;Fukushima &lt;/b&gt;is still far from resolved but media attention is declining, as can be seen in the declining number of articles in the major journals.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;i&gt;Nature &lt;/i&gt;features a fairly critical interview with the chairman of the World Association of Nuclear Operators, Laurent Stricker. Asked if another disaster could be the end of nuclear power, Sticker replies, "I fear so. As we have seen at Fukushima, an accident in one country has consequences for all nuclear operators elsewhere." &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/472274a%20"&gt;doi:10.1038/472274a&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Science&lt;/i&gt; discusses the impact of Fukushima on marine life and those whose living depends on it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.332.6027.292%20"&gt;doi:10.1126/science.332.6027.292 &lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;In a letter to the BMJ, a Japanese obstetrician reports on the psychological effects of uncertainty and fear about radiation risks for pregant women.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d2434"&gt;doi:10.1136/bmj.d2434&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;According to WHO officials, the &lt;a href="http://teach311.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/educational-module-understanding-the-international-nuclear-event-scale/%0A"&gt;raised severity rating&lt;/a&gt; of the Fukushima disaster does not necessitate new public health countermeasure, reports the BMJ.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d2491%20"&gt;doi:10.1136/bmj.d2491&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Drug companies love advocacy groups&lt;/b&gt;. Today: anti-smoking campaigners and producers smoking-cessation products.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d2430%20"&gt;doi:10.1136/bmj.d2430&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;JAMA reprints an article from 1911, discussing the promises of &lt;b&gt;using sociology for preventive medicine&lt;/b&gt;. "The problems of sociology are, in most instances, problems of preventive medicine, and many of the problems of preventive                   medicine resolve themselves into sociologic questions." Well worth a read. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.335"&gt;doi:10.1001/jama.2011.335&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The problem of &lt;b&gt;overdiagnosis &lt;/b&gt;in all fields of medicine is the topic of the book, "&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807022004/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=riorpi-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399349&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0807022004"&gt;Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in Pursuit of Health&lt;/a&gt;" by H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa M. Schwartz, and Steven Woloshin, reviewed in JAMA by Leonard Berlin. For STSers there are probably &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801891000/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=riorpi-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399349&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0801891000"&gt;better books&lt;/a&gt; out there, but for a general audience and physicians &lt;i&gt;Overdiagnosed &lt;/i&gt;might be a good read. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.391%20"&gt;doi:10.1001/jama.2011.391 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Once again, we are "[a] step closer to &lt;b&gt;personalized medicine&lt;/b&gt;," according to a JAMA editorial about &lt;b&gt;whole-genome sequencing&lt;/b&gt; by Boris Pasche und Devin Absher. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.484"&gt;doi:10.1001/jama.2011.484&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;An interesting mix of expertise, medicine, politics, and the law is in play in the case of the death of &lt;b&gt;Ian Tomlinson&lt;/b&gt; at the 2009 London G20 protests. The BMJ reports on the latest developments in determining if Tomlinson's death was caused by being hit and pushed to the ground by a police officer. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d2459"&gt;doi:10.1136/bmj.d2459&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Another case of the intersections of law and science is the issue of &lt;b&gt;DNA fingerprinting&lt;/b&gt;. In &lt;i&gt;Science&lt;/i&gt; Michael Goldman reviews a new book by Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli, titled&amp;nbsp;"&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0231145209/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=riorpi-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399349&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0231145209"&gt;Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties&lt;/a&gt;."&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1204097"&gt;doi:10.1126/science.1204097&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vaccinations and their alleged risks&lt;/b&gt; continue to be a contested issue, as can be seen in a controversy about an anti-vaccination ad at New York's Times square. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d2639"&gt;http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d2639&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Obtaining the lethal substances used in executions is becoming increasingly difficult for the US. The UK government, that has banned the export of these substances, now "[u]urges rest of Europe to also ban export of “&lt;b&gt;execution drugs&lt;/b&gt;,” reports Clare Dyer in the BMJ. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d2507%20"&gt;doi:10.1136/bmj.d2507 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Germany has been traditionally very cautious about &lt;b&gt;preimplantation diagnostics&lt;/b&gt;, implementing a ban in 1990. The BMJ reports that the German parliament will soon vote on limited changes to the ban. The outcome is far from certain. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d2473%20"&gt;doi:10.1136/bmj.d2473&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;On my &lt;a href="http://ride-or-pie.blogspot.com/"&gt;bike blog&lt;/a&gt;, I have already reported on new research about &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://ride-or-pie.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-keeps-bike-upright.html"&gt;what keeps a bicycle upright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Now the actual article in Science has been published. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1201959%20"&gt;doi:10.1126/science.1201959 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isabella Rossellini, producer of &lt;b&gt;humorous animal movies&lt;/b&gt;, is interviewed in Nature. doi:&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/472294a"&gt;doi:10.1038/472294a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sleep deprivation&lt;/b&gt; leads to riskier decision-making and coffee doesn't help: "stimulants such as caffeine might make sleepy people more alert, they do not improve decision-making abilities." &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/%E2%80%8BJNEUROSCI.4407-10.2011"&gt;doi:10.1523/​JNEUROSCI.4407-10.2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-1530145913304569953?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/1530145913304569953/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=1530145913304569953' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/1530145913304569953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/1530145913304569953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2011/04/science-medicine-round-up_21.html' title='Science &amp; Medicine Round-up'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-2596346181849299826</id><published>2011-04-18T19:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-18T19:05:33.926-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='diagnosis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='racism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mental disorders'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='schizophrenia'/><title type='text'>Meta-review: Schizophrenia and racism</title><content type='html'>The publication of &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1413245614"&gt;Jonathan Metzl's &lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807001279/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=riorpi-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399349&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0807001279%0A"&gt;The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;has generated a number of &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkr027"&gt;reviews&lt;/a&gt;. While all reviewers have plenty of praise for his project, there is a discussion about his main argument that the becoming of schizophrenia as a black disease is basically a matter of misdiagnosis because of the psychiatric professions' racism. Some of these reviews rubbed me the wrong way, and this blog post is my attempt in explicating my unease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tanya Luhrmann, anthropologists and author of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679421912/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=riorpi-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399349&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0679421912"&gt;a great ethnography of psychiatric institutions&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09101398"&gt;argues&lt;/a&gt; that this argument missing a crucial point: the different rates of prevalence of schizophrenia in different ethnic groups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;If one has a dark skin, one's risk of schizophrenia increases as one's neighborhood whitens, a disturbing finding known as the "ethnic density" effect. The risk of developing schizophrenia among African Caribbeans who have migrated from Jamaica to the United Kingdom is as much as &lt;i&gt;15 times higher&lt;/i&gt; than that among the local whites; the effect holds true for black-skinned Surinamese who have immigrated to the Netherlands. &lt;/blockquote&gt;There is, therefore, a mixture between "being schizophrenic" and "being classified as schizophrenic" in action: Not only are members of racially disadvantaged groups more likely to be diagnosed (Metzl's position; misdiagnosis model); but members of racially disadvantaged groups are more likely to have schizophrenia (Luhrmann's model; racism as risk factor model).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These two explanations are not completely incompatible--Luhrmann clearly acknowledges that misclassification is indeed going on-- but they also don't go together easily. First, if persons from racially disadvantaged groups are indeed at higher risk of having schizophrenia, then one could argue that a higher rate of diagnosis for them just reflects this reality and there is no problem. In this sense, the coming into existence of schizophrenia as a black disorder that Metzl describes could actually be seen as an improvement. Obviously, this is not where Luhrmann and Neely Myers, who &lt;a href="http://www.somatosphere.net/2011/04/book-review-jonathan-metzls-protest.html%0A"&gt;reviewed&lt;/a&gt; the book on &lt;a href="http://www.somatosphere.net/"&gt;Somatosphere&lt;/a&gt;, want to go, but I think this issue has to be addressed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The underlying ontological and epistemological issue that would help sorting this out is that of the reality of mental illness. Luhrmann's position is based on a position that assumes that schizophrenia exists "out there," without explicating what that schizophrenia is. Is schizophrenia sufficiently defined by its behavioral symptoms listed in the DSM? Is is it an experiential category? Is it a specific kind of "physiology of despair and resilience and [...] individually shaped both genetically and epigenetically," as Neely Myers argues? Aside from this problem, in principle, there is nothing wrong with insisting on the reality of mental disorders, and Luhrmann points out that members of African Caribbean communities in London themselves "attribute their high rates of schizophrenia to the experience of living in poverty with a history of racism and slavery." Dismissing Metzl's misdiagnosis argument as that of a detached liberal academic that doesn't want to acknowledge the devastating effects of poverty and racism appears misguided, though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why, for example, do the African Caribbeans mentioned above think of their condition as resulting in schizophrenia and not in terms of a different diagnosis or in non-psychiatric terms? The creation of categories and that of identities go hand in hand, as Ian Hacking has so convincingly argued. Metzl's historical account of the classification of schizophrenia helps us to unravel the creation of an "ecological niche" (Hacking) that not only has allowed psychiatrists to label and institutionalize "angry black men" as schizophrenic, but also allowed disadvantaged communities to think of their social situation in terms of mental disease.[&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=10392757#fn1"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My objections notwithstanding, I think Luhrmann and Myers have pointed out something important when it comes to the conclusions to be drawn from Metzl's analysis. Racism is not merely a matter of the psychiatric profession misdiagnosing certain groups of people. Living in a racist and economically unjust society clearly does &lt;i&gt;something&lt;/i&gt; to those affected by it, and dealing only with psychiatry won't make that something go away. To think of the effects of racism primarily in psychiatric terms, however, is no solution either. I hope this debate will continue in a productive manner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=10392757" name="fn1" rel="nofollow"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; I wonder if those diagnosed with schizophrenia by psychiatrists and their community share the perspective of schizophrenia as a product of racism. Emily Martin's &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691141061/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=riorpi-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=217145&amp;amp;creative=399349&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0691141061%0A"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bipolar Expeditions&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is very helpful in thinking about the experience of "living under the description" of a mental disorder.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;amp;bc1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;IS1=1&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;t=riorpi-20&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=as4&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;f=ifr&amp;amp;ref=ss_til&amp;amp;asins=0807001279" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-2596346181849299826?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/2596346181849299826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=2596346181849299826' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/2596346181849299826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/2596346181849299826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2011/04/meta-review-schizophrenia-and-racism.html' title='Meta-review: Schizophrenia and racism'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-1820334913461022471</id><published>2011-04-14T12:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T12:58:03.107-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='round-up'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science and medicine'/><title type='text'>Science &amp; Medicine Round-up</title><content type='html'>&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Nature &lt;/i&gt;has an editorial calling for &lt;b&gt;preparedness for worst-case scenarios&lt;/b&gt;, natural and man-made &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/472135b"&gt;doi:10.1038/472135b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Also in &lt;i&gt;Nature&lt;/i&gt;, Bart Penders &lt;b&gt;reviews &lt;/b&gt;Mark Wohlsen's book "&lt;b&gt;Biopunk&lt;/b&gt;" about DIY biologists. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/472167a"&gt;doi:10.1038/472167a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="vcard"&gt;&lt;span class="author fn"&gt;Douglas Fox provides a comprehensive and comprehensible overview of the experiments with &lt;b&gt;transcranial direct-current stimulation&lt;/b&gt; (tCDS) for &lt;b&gt;cognitive enhancement&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/472156a"&gt;doi:10.1038/472156a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="vcard"&gt;&lt;span class="author fn"&gt;From the category of "unexpected side effects," Nature reports that the "&lt;b&gt;Libyan &lt;/b&gt;uprising may boost &lt;b&gt;bluefin tuna&lt;/b&gt;"&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx/doi.org/10.1038/472169b"&gt;doi:10.1038/472169b&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="vcard"&gt;&lt;span class="author fn"&gt; The nuclear crisis in Japan continues to be covered in the major journals.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="vcard"&gt;&lt;span class="author fn"&gt;Nature news reports on the political struggles about the &lt;b&gt;future of energy generation in Japan&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;a href="http://dx/doi.org/10.1038/472143a"&gt;doi:10.1038/472143a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="vcard"&gt;&lt;span class="author fn"&gt;A Nature editorial discusses the &lt;b&gt;information management and data publishing policies of the Japanese authorities&lt;/b&gt;, arguing for "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;better data, in more user-friendly forms, and more sophisticated analyses."&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/472135a"&gt;doi:10.1038/472135a&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lack of data and data overload at the same time about radiation exposure in Japan is topic of an article about the &lt;b&gt;Fukushima health risks&lt;/b&gt; in Nature news. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/472013a%20"&gt;doi:10.1038/472013a &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Linking increased &lt;b&gt;cancer incidence in the vicinity of (non-failing) power plants &lt;/b&gt;has been and continues to be a tricky and controversial issue, as can be seen in a debate about a US study by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the National Academy of Science.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/472015a%20"&gt;doi:10.1038/472015a &lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&amp;nbsp;Historian of science and technology, David Kaiser, uses the &lt;b&gt;history of MIT&lt;/b&gt; to discuss the role of &lt;b&gt;private and government funding&lt;/b&gt; for research and education. His conclusion is that "[r]ather than focus on the source of cash — public or private — we must remember to scrutinize the inevitable strings attached." &lt;a href="http://dx/doi.org/10.1038/472030a"&gt;doi:10.1038/472030a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;b&gt;ozone hole&lt;/b&gt; seems to be beginning its recovery, earlier than expected, says an article in Science. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.332.6026.160"&gt;doi:10.1126/science.332.6026.160&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Instead of increasing the number of&lt;b&gt; Graduate Research Fellowships&lt;/b&gt;, the &lt;b&gt;NSF &lt;/b&gt;is increasing the stipend for grant recipients in order to "keep the program competitive." &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.332.6026.162-b%20"&gt;doi:10.1126/science.332.6026.162-b &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;In Europe, last summer was hot, really hot. So hot actually that despite an increasing incidence of "&lt;b&gt;mega-heatwaves&lt;/b&gt; ... the likelihood of an analog over the same region remains fairly low until the second half of the 21st century."&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1201224"&gt;doi:10.1126/science.1201224&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Once again, there is a controversy about the potentially dangerous&lt;b&gt; side-effects&lt;/b&gt; of two new anti-diabetes drug, known&amp;nbsp; as &lt;b&gt;Byetta and Januvia&lt;/b&gt;. A paper has been published but withdrawn after complaints from the drugs' manufacturers. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d2335%20"&gt;doi:10.1136/bmj.d2335&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&amp;nbsp;A UK government advisory body has argued for making &lt;b&gt;preconception genetic testing&lt;/b&gt; more widely available. Critics, however,&amp;nbsp; argue that "[p]reconception screening is the most dangerously eugenic application of  genetics: unlike prenatal genetic testing, where there is a severe cost  (ie the termination of a wanted pregnancy), preconception screening  offers apparently nothing more than information, which will only later  severely affect the person’s life chances and the whole society."&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d2324"&gt;doi:10.1136/bmj.d2324&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fresh from the "Duh" department, BMJ reports that "Listening to &lt;b&gt;patients' narratives&lt;/b&gt; can help improve quality of &lt;b&gt;psychosis &lt;/b&gt;care."&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d2245%20"&gt;doi:10.1136/bmj.d2245&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Same department, different topic: "Use of bombs in populated areas is having a devastating effect on civilians, say reports." &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d2161"&gt;doi:10.1136/bmj.d2161&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"&lt;b&gt;The art of remembering&lt;/b&gt;" and mnemotechnics was invented in Ancient Greece&amp;nbsp;and is one topic of Joshua Foer's book "Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything." Foer, himself being a former memory artist, interweaves information about the psychological research on memory with stories about contemporary "memory artists" and "mental athletes." &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/dx.doi.org/10.1038/472033a"&gt;doi:10.1038/472033a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Finally, &lt;i&gt;PLoS one&lt;/i&gt; reports on the "&lt;b&gt;rubber voice&lt;/b&gt;" (analogous to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_hand_illusion#Rubber_hand_illusion"&gt;rubber hand paradigm&lt;/a&gt;) phenomenon, "in which a stranger's voice, when presented as the auditory concomitant  of a participant's own speech, is perceived as a modified version of  their own voice."&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018655"&gt;doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018655&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-1820334913461022471?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/1820334913461022471/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=1820334913461022471' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/1820334913461022471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/1820334913461022471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2011/04/science-medicine-round-up_14.html' title='Science &amp; Medicine Round-up'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-7602901570855950015</id><published>2011-04-05T14:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T14:55:15.316-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='round-up'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='STS'/><title type='text'>From the STS Journals</title><content type='html'>What's new in the STS journals?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Theory, Culture &amp;amp; Society&amp;nbsp; &lt;/i&gt;has a review of Giorgio Agamben's most current book, The Signature of All Things. Unfortunately, Cornell's subscription to the journal has a 1-year moving wall, so I can't say more. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276411398277%20"&gt;doi:10.1177/0263276411398277&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The current issue of &lt;i&gt;Social Studies of Science &lt;/i&gt;has several interesting article. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dimitris Papadopoulos, who was crucial in turning me from a psychology student into an STSer, writes about "Alter-ontologies: Towards a constituent politics in technoscience." After summarizing four approaches to the relation between science and politics -- formalist, participatory, assembly, grounded -- and discussing their problems and shortcomings, Papadopoulos develops the notion of "alter-ontologies" and "constituent politics" as an alternative. Using the case of AIDS activism in the 1980s, Papadopoulos how the creation of new materially grounded "forms of life" based around the notion of justice and emergent forms of everyday experience in the 1980s were a necessary antecedent to the forms of politics focused on expertise and inclusion that Steve Epstein has described. I highly recommend reading the whole article. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312710385853%20"&gt;doi:10.1177/0306312710385853 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Nevon discusses "genomic designation," the definition of a medical category based on specific genetic variations that is not dependet on the prior existence of a phenotypically defined disease category. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312710391923"&gt;doi:10.1177/0306312710391923&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Harry Collins explores the realm between language and practice and argues that "language is, and must be, more central than physical practice in  individual                      acquisition of practical understanding. Only this  makes it possible for there to be a sociology of scientific knowledge,  for                      there to be scientific specialities, for there to  be a division of labour in society and for there to be a society that is                      more than a set of narrow and isolated worlds." &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312711399665"&gt;doi:10.1177/0306312711399665&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Collins's work is also the focus of Park Doing's review essay on "&lt;span class="cit-title"&gt;Tacit knowledge: Discovery by or topic for science studies?&lt;span class="cit-sep cit-sep-after-article-title"&gt;" By discussing Collin's latest book on "Tacit and explicit knowledge" and the re-issue of Polanyi's "Tacit Dimension, Doing asks "what tacit knowledge means to the field of science studies." &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312710397690%20"&gt;doi:10.1177/0306312710397690&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="cit-title"&gt;&lt;span class="cit-sep cit-sep-after-article-title"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Social History of Medicine&lt;/i&gt; reviews a number of interesting books:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="cit-title"&gt;&lt;span class="cit-sep cit-sep-after-article-title"&gt;David Herzberg reviews Laura Hirshbein's contribution to the history of depression in the US in the 20th century, titled &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century. &lt;/i&gt; Much has been written on this topic, but Herzberg points out two specific contributions of Hirshbein: the role of professional psychiatrists in pushing the disease and "new insight into how that expansion gendered depression such that it became a ‘women's                      disease’."&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkr015"&gt;doi:10.1093/shm/hkr015&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Christine Leuenberger concludes her review of Paul Stepansky's account of the rise and fall of psychoanalysis over the course of the 20th century as follows: "As an insider and yet an outsider, Stepansky has a unique, rare and  valuable perspective on the social history of American                      psychoanalysis. But his message that psychoanalysis  has yet to become a science will not always be welcome. However, if  psychoanalysts                      do not heed this call for change, the profession is  likely to end up like railway surgeons and psychological mediums—a  footnote                      to the history of professions."&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkr016"&gt;doi:10.1093/shm/hkr016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Another work about psychiatry is Jonathan Metzl's &lt;i&gt;The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, &lt;/i&gt;reviewed by Priscilla Wald. Metzl's put the psychiatric category of schizophrenia in the context of the Civil Rights Movement and racism and "how anxious responses to the dramatic transformations                      enacted by the Civil Rights Movement translated  into a racist redefinition of schizophrenia as a disease of angry black  men." &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkr027"&gt;doi:10.1093/shm/hkr027&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gordon Shepherd, himself a prominent neuroscientist and insider to the history he is writing, has written an account of "&lt;i&gt;Creating Modern Neuroscience: The Revolutionary 1950s", &lt;/i&gt;reviewed by Charles Gross. Despite some deficits in specific topics, Gross praises the book as "required reading for virtually everyone in the field."&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkr020"&gt;doi:10.1093/shm/hkr020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Not in the journals, but definitely worth reading is&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://blog.aaanet.org/2011/03/31/inside-the-presidents-studio-marilyn-strathern/"&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with the anthropologist Marilyn Strathern.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-7602901570855950015?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/7602901570855950015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=7602901570855950015' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/7602901570855950015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/7602901570855950015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2011/04/from-sts-journals.html' title='From the STS Journals'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-7597434526435668167</id><published>2011-04-02T08:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-02T08:57:18.397-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='round-up'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science and medicine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fukushima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animal rights'/><title type='text'>Science &amp; Medicine Round-up</title><content type='html'>Time for the second volume of what I've found notable in my RSS feeds:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nature &lt;/i&gt;has several articles on nuclear energy and the events at Fukushima. Amongst them, Mark Peplow looks a "Chernobyl's legacy," asking if there lessons to be learned from the 25 years of clean-up efforts that can be applied once the immediate emergency in Fukushima has come under control. He also focuses on the  research done on the long-term health effects of the Chernobyl disaster. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/471562a"&gt;doi:10.1038/471562a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A different research effort on radiation risks was the work done by the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in the aftermath of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, portrayed by Jocelyn Kaiser for &lt;i&gt;Science&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.331.6024.1504"&gt;doi:10.1126/science.331.6024.1504&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Colin Macilwan questions the judgment of many scientific experts in the aftermath of Fukushima: "the collective impression has been unconvincing: defensive, selective,  condescending towards public fears and, in my view, ultimately  counterproductive. Their combined message seems to have been: don't  worry, things are under control, and Fukushima is not Chernobyl." Macilwan points out three main  factors that have contributed to the disaster in Japan, but that are also wide-spread in nuclear power plants around the world: the amassing of several reactors at one site; the inherent safety problems of pressurized-water reactors; and the practice of storing spent fuel rods on-site. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/471549a"&gt;doi:10.1038/471549a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Spent fuel rods are also the focus of an analysis in &lt;i&gt;Science&lt;/i&gt;. Eli Klintisch is trying to figure out what exactly went on in the storage tanks at the #4 reactor at Fukushima and discusses "concerns about U.S. spent nuclear fuel pools, which are thought to                         be packed more tightly than those in Europe or Asia."&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.332.6025.24%20"&gt;doi:10.1126/science.332.6025.24&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Another article in Science gives a brief overview that the Fukushima disaster has had on nuclear policy in countries around the world. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.331.6024.1502"&gt;doi:10.1126/science.331.6024.1502&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The current president of Arizona State University, Michael M Crow, advocates a radical restructuring of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in an article in &lt;i&gt;Nature&lt;/i&gt;. He argues that spending 30 billion dollars per year on basic biomedical research is problematic when looking at the limited impact that research has on clinical outcomes and the health of society. Instead of focusing on translational research, Crow suggest that the NIH should be based on three pillars: a "fundamental biomedical systems research institute" that would include sociological, behavioral and environmental perspectives in addition to the typical biomedical sciences; an institute focused on health outcomes, again combining "behavioural sciences, economics, technology, communications and education as well as [...] fundamental biomedical research."; and finally "a 'health transformation' institute, should develop more sustainable  cost models by integrating science, technology, clinical practice,  economics and demographics." &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/471569a"&gt;doi:10.1038/471569a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Science&lt;/i&gt; has interesting material on and by Steve Wise, founder of the Nonhuman Rights Project. The projects goals is to "fil[e] lawsuits on behalf of                      intelligent animals such as chimpanzees and  dolphins in an attempt to convince courts that at least some nonhuman  animals                      meet the requirements of legal personhood and  should be accorded certain basic rights." &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.332.6025.30%20"&gt;10.1126/science.332.6025.30&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/a&gt;(news focus article), &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/0.1126/science.332.6025.28%20"&gt;doi:0.1126/science.332.6025.28&amp;nbsp; &lt;/a&gt;(Steve Wise on "The rise of animal law")&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Saleem H. Ali favorably reviews sociologist and Max Weber scholar Toby Huff's book&amp;nbsp;"Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution A Global Perspective," an investigation into "Western scientific superiority." &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1204095%20"&gt;10.1126/science.1204095 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Science has a special issue, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the National Cancer Act. An introduction by Paula Kiberstis and Eliot Marshall provides an overview of the issue. &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.331.6024.1539-a"&gt;doi:10.1126/science.331.6024.1539-a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;i&gt;BMJ &lt;/i&gt;reports on the launch of a new European online register that will provide " information on every clinical trial taking place in 30                                  European countries." &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d1994"&gt;doi:10.1136/bmj.d1994&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-7597434526435668167?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/7597434526435668167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=7597434526435668167' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/7597434526435668167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/7597434526435668167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2011/04/science-medicine-round-up.html' title='Science &amp; Medicine Round-up'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-4428608315034594434</id><published>2011-03-21T15:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-21T15:38:54.924-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='round-up'/><title type='text'>Science &amp; Medicine Round-up</title><content type='html'>[This is a new feature in this undead blog: I'll post quick notes about current articles that popped up in my Google Reader. I used to cover these articles on Twitter, but it has become increasingly annoying to limit my summary/comments to 140 characters. So we'll see if this is going to be the better.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nature &lt;/i&gt;strongly warns that a recent attempt of Congress to overturn the EPA's assessment that climate change is a "threat to public welfare" will lead "Into Ignorance." &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/471265b"&gt;doi:10.1038/471265b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The&lt;i&gt; BMJ&lt;/i&gt; reports that the human rights group "Physicians for Human Rights" accuses US psychiatrists in the case of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning"&gt;Bradley Manning&lt;/a&gt; are "complicit in torture"&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d1792"&gt;doi:10.1136/bmj.d1792&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Brian Wynne sent a letter to &lt;i&gt;Nature&lt;/i&gt;, criticizing the British chief scientist's false dichotomy between science and pseudoscience: "Scientific knowledge should inform public issues, not define them." &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/471305b"&gt;doi:10.1038/471305b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nature &lt;/i&gt;features a review of "Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People" by Philip Ball. The  reviewer, Chris Mason, considers myths and literature like Goethe's Faust or Shelley's Frankenstein as irrational impediments to the realities of contemporary biotechnology, but nonetheless asks scientists to take them seriously: "For scientists, clinicians and biotechnology business people,  understanding deep-rooted ideas, however irrational, is vital for  successful dialogue with the public." &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/471297a"&gt;doi:10.1038/471297a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-4428608315034594434?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/4428608315034594434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=4428608315034594434' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/4428608315034594434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/4428608315034594434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2011/03/science-medicine-round-up.html' title='Science &amp; Medicine Round-up'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-5148579846832985481</id><published>2010-09-22T10:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-22T10:39:27.235-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='how-to'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RedRover'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cornell'/><title type='text'>RedRover Secure on Ubuntu 10.04</title><content type='html'>Cornell's secure wireless network, called &lt;a href="http://www.cit.cornell.edu/services/redrover/"&gt;RedRover Secure&lt;/a&gt;, unfortunately only comes with &lt;a href="http://www.cit.cornell.edu/services/redrover/howto/index.cfm"&gt;instructions&lt;/a&gt; for Windows and MacOS systems. There is a &lt;a href="https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/NETADMINWIKI/RedRover-Secure+Linux"&gt;wiki page&lt;/a&gt; describing how to use RedRover Secure on Linux, but unfortunately those instructions are quite outdated. Nonetheless, they helped me set up the network on my Ubuntu 10.04 netbook and I wanted to share the solution which is actually fairly easy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;If you haven't done so already, in order to download the required security certificates, you should connect to the normal RedRover network.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Download the compressed archive with the certificates from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://cufs.cit.cornell.edu/redrover/certs2.zip"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;In case the files are no longer available, you should be able to find them linked on the &lt;a href="http://www.cit.cornell.edu/services/redrover/howto/certificates/certsinstallmacosx.cfm"&gt;instruction page&lt;/a&gt; for installation of the certificates on MacOS.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Unzip the two files to a location of your choice.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Now you're ready to connect: Choose RedRover Secure in the network manager and the following window will appear:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/TJoR6vkyN2I/AAAAAAAABvE/Fks3-XGrtu4/s1600/Screenshot-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/TJoR6vkyN2I/AAAAAAAABvE/Fks3-XGrtu4/s320/Screenshot-2.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The required settings are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wireless Security: WPA &amp;amp; WPA Enterprise&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Authentication: Tunneled TLS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anonmymous Identity: [blank]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;CA Certificate: Choose the ThawtePremiumServerCA.cer file that you extracted in the previous step&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Inner Authentication: PAP&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Username: [your NetID]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Password: [your Cornell password]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;That's it! You should now be securely connected to the Cornell network.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-5148579846832985481?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/5148579846832985481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=5148579846832985481' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/5148579846832985481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/5148579846832985481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2010/09/redrover-secure-on-ubuntu-1004.html' title='RedRover Secure on Ubuntu 10.04'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/TJoR6vkyN2I/AAAAAAAABvE/Fks3-XGrtu4/s72-c/Screenshot-2.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-3396264632396774358</id><published>2010-01-23T19:04:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-23T19:04:45.815-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='slideshow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Durham'/><title type='text'>Durham, NC</title><content type='html'>Some photo impression from my recent trip to Durham. Interesting town with lots of interesting architecture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fkliems%2Falbumid%2F5430082142148186833%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-3396264632396774358?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/3396264632396774358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=3396264632396774358' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/3396264632396774358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/3396264632396774358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2010/01/durham-nc.html' title='Durham, NC'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-2264513228671663651</id><published>2010-01-17T12:52:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-27T14:53:16.417-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GPSies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='geotagging'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GPicSync'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tutorial'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='how-to'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GPS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='geodata'/><title type='text'>How to: Embedding maps with a GPS track and geotagged photos</title><content type='html'>I spent a better part of yesterday evening to figure out how to embed a map that includes a GPX track and geotagged pictures on my blog for creating ride reports. So far I had used GPSies convenient embedding feature; yet that only shows the track itself and no photos. Or so I thought. In the end, I figured out two different ways to achieve what I want, all with some advantages and disadvantages. What they have in common is that they first require you to embed geodata into the images' meta-data (commonly known as "geotagging").&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Getting geodata into your images&lt;/h3&gt;Let's start with the theory. You have to connect the geodata with the images. If you don't have a fancy new camera/mobile phone that has a GPS receiver already built-in and if you don't want to &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=43896" tooltip="linkalert-tip"&gt;do it manually in Picasa/Google Earth&lt;/a&gt; or on flickr, you will do this by matching time stamps. The idea is that your images include the time when they were taken and you can then take the GPS track and, as it were, look up that time stamp and see which location it matches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To illustrate this principle, think of a train journey: you were traveling through the country by train and, because you're a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railfan"&gt;railway buff&lt;/a&gt;, you took pictures of some of the stations on the way. You had planned to write down where you took which picture in your notebook; but because you got carried away by the excitement about some of the trains and station buildings you forgot about that. Is everything lost now? No, not at all. Because your photos' metadata includes the time when they were taken, you can just look at the timetable of your train and match the time of the image with the schedule of the train and figure out where you were when. (For this to work, the train, of course, has to be on time. More on that later.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No back to your actual ride pictures: While you could do the connecting between image time and location data manually (just open the gpx-file in a text editor, look up the matching time/location, and then write the location into the images metadata), this would be very cumbersome, especially if you have a lot of pictures. Fortunately, there's software out there to help you. I recommend &lt;a href="http://code.google.com/p/gpicsync/"&gt;GPicSync&lt;/a&gt; for the task. It's a free, open source tool and in addition to geotagging your images, it has a couple of additional functions that will be helpful for the later steps in creating your embedded maps. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;GPicSync Screenshot&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/S1M-8RvTtuI/AAAAAAAAAis/DhgS6fUaBmI/s1600-h/gpisync+screen.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/S1M-8RvTtuI/AAAAAAAAAis/DhgS6fUaBmI/s640/gpisync+screen.PNG" tooltip="linkalert-tip" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basic geotagging in GPicSync is relatively straight-forward. Choose the folder in which you have the images to be geotagged, choose the folder containing the GPS track and then click "Synchronise". However, chances are good that this is not going to work right away, and this brings me back to the train analogy. I've pointed out that matching images to stations on the timetable only works if the train is actually on time. For your pictures this means that your GPS devices' and your camera's time has to be in sync. There are two potential problems: first, there is the problem of the time coding. Most GPS devices save the time in the &lt;i&gt;Coordinated Universal Time&lt;/i&gt;  (UTC) format. For our purposes, we can assume that UTC is the same as &lt;em&gt;Greenwich Mean Time&lt;/em&gt; (GMT). Cameras, on the other hand, often save the time in the local time to which you have set it. So if you're on the US east coast and you take a picture at noon (local time), your camera will probably time-stamp the image with 12:00, while your GPS will have the correct location time-stamped with 17:00 (Daylight Savings Time complicates this further). This, obviously, is a problem for GPicSync, as it can't know which time format each device is using. Thus, you have to manually enter the UTC off-set. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/S1NCbF7UM4I/AAAAAAAAAi0/F7iykYh03gY/s1600-h/UTC+offset.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" tooltip="linkalert-tip"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/S1NCbF7UM4I/AAAAAAAAAi0/F7iykYh03gY/s320/UTC+offset.PNG" tooltip="linkalert-tip" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Figuring out this value can be a bit confusing, but in many cases it's enough to figure out the time difference between your time zone and GMT. E.g., if you're in the Eastern Standard Time zone that would be -5, for Central European Time it would be +1, etc.. Fortunately, GPicSync will not synchronise your images if the time difference between the GPS and image data is larger than 300 seconds, thereby preventing most errors of this kind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second dimension to the off-set problem lies in the small differences between GPS and camera time. While a GPS device's time is always accurate (it gets the time from the satellites), your camera might be a couple of minutes off. Because your speed on the bike in general is not very high, this probably won't matter too much. But if you care about accuracy, the easiest way to deal with the problem is to take a picture of your GPS device's time display at the beginning of each ride. This allows you to determine exactly how big the offset between the two is and you can correct for it in GPicSync. E.g., if you're on the east coast and your camera is 15 minutes ahead of the GPS, you'd enter -4.75 as the value for the offset (15 minutes = 0.25 hours).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--Edit--&lt;br /&gt;Okay, I've made this unnecessarily complicated: I just figured out that GPicSync has a special function for correcting time offset not related to time zones: Just go to Options &gt; Local Time Correction and enter the respective values. Way easier than calculating the decimal value yourself.&lt;br /&gt;--/Edit--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you've done all that correctly, GPicSync will write the correct geo-tags into your images meta-data. Now we can focus on the second step -- displaying a map, your track, and the images on a web page. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;GPSies + Picasa&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Upload your track on GPSies.com.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Upload your now geo-tagged images to a Picasa web album. Make sure that the album is public! In the right column of your album's page you should see a little map with place markers for all your images.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/S1NJzcZXTmI/AAAAAAAAAi8/no03cUbG8pc/s1600-h/picasa+locations.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/S1NJzcZXTmI/AAAAAAAAAi8/no03cUbG8pc/s320/picasa+locations.PNG" tooltip="linkalert-tip" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;In the "Edit track" function on your ride's GPSies page, go to "Manage pictures/video". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/S1NKy8RqhSI/AAAAAAAAAjE/NUcU0D3NgXw/s1600-h/edit+track.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" tooltip="linkalert-tip"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/S1NKy8RqhSI/AAAAAAAAAjE/NUcU0D3NgXw/s320/edit+track.PNG" tooltip="linkalert-tip" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enter your Picasa user name and the name of the album and click "save".&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If you now view the track, all the images should be correctly placed on the map. And at the very bottom of the page, you'll find the IFRAME code to embed your map on your webpage. Just like here:&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://www.gpsies.com/mapOnly.do?fileId=pnjbuukihfocxkmg" width="600" height="400" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" title="GPSies - Ithaca Newfield Alpine Junction Trumansburg Ithaca"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While this method is pretty simple, it has one major downside: if you've taken several pictures at the same location, the map will only show you one of them. The alternative is to create your own map with the help of Google Maps. But this will be subject of another post. Please leave a comment if you found this tutorial useful or have questions!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-2264513228671663651?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/2264513228671663651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=2264513228671663651' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/2264513228671663651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/2264513228671663651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-embedding-maps-with-gps-track.html' title='How to: Embedding maps with a GPS track and geotagged photos'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/S1M-8RvTtuI/AAAAAAAAAis/DhgS6fUaBmI/s72-c/gpisync+screen.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-6063893351034244594</id><published>2010-01-12T12:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-12T12:28:43.349-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zotero'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DOI'/><title type='text'>Zotero and DOI grabbing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.zotero.org/"&gt;Zotero&lt;/a&gt; has an ever growing wealth of great features that remain somewhat hidden due to a lack of documentation and showcasing. Via a tweet from &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/tjowens"&gt;Trevor Owens&lt;/a&gt; I recently discovered that if any webpage contains a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier"&gt;DOI&lt;/a&gt;, Zotero allows you to import that document's metadata automatically into your library. So if you're, for example, blogging about a journal article that you've just found, you should include its DOI and your readers will be able to grab that article without even going to its web page. If you want to test this feature, just check out your awesomebar: It should have the Zotero grab icon and clicking on it should import the metadata for an article about "Ethical variability". The only downside of this feature is that it can be a bit confusing: normally you'd expect Zotero to import metadata for the current page (or the item that the current page refers to), in this case: my blog post. But this is only a minor issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;doi:10.1525/ae.2005.32.2.183&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-6063893351034244594?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/6063893351034244594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=6063893351034244594' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/6063893351034244594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/6063893351034244594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2010/01/zotero-and-doi-grabbing.html' title='Zotero and DOI grabbing'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-746399665989371166</id><published>2008-09-27T22:47:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-27T22:56:18.354-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zotero'/><title type='text'>Endote company sues Zotero</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/09/17/Reuters_Says_George_Mason_University_Is_Handing_Out_Its_Proprietary_Software.htm"&gt;Fuckers.&lt;/a&gt; One more reason to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; use Endnote. Long live &lt;a href="http://www.zotero.org/"&gt;Zotero&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(Yeah, I might be slightly biased, working as a translator for Zotero. But I'm doing this not for money or fame but because I believe that Zotero's open source approach is just the better way.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;via &lt;a href="http://slashdot.org"&gt;slashdot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-746399665989371166?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/746399665989371166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=746399665989371166' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/746399665989371166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/746399665989371166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2008/09/endote-company-sues-zotero.html' title='Endote company sues Zotero'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-4323716573731788139</id><published>2008-07-23T07:25:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-23T07:30:02.587-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='QOTD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brain'/><title type='text'>Quote of the day</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;The brain neither sees, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;nor is it blind&lt;/span&gt;—just as sticks and stones are not awake, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;but they are not asleep either&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;from: Bennett, M.R., &amp;amp; Hacker, P.M.S. (2003). &lt;em&gt;Philosophical foundations of neuroscience&lt;/em&gt;. Oxford: Blackwell, p. 72&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-4323716573731788139?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/4323716573731788139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=4323716573731788139' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/4323716573731788139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/4323716573731788139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2008/07/quote-of-day.html' title='Quote of the day'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-6721606968831833347</id><published>2008-07-22T02:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-22T02:05:09.577-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jpgmag'/><title type='text'>Shameless Self-Promotion</title><content type='html'>Vote! Now! &lt;script language="Javascript" src="http://box.jpgmag.com/badge.php?person=HobbesvsBoyle&amp;theme=32"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-6721606968831833347?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/6721606968831833347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=6721606968831833347' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/6721606968831833347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/6721606968831833347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2008/07/shameless-self-promotion.html' title='Shameless Self-Promotion'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-6532203784191059827</id><published>2008-07-11T05:03:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-17T07:38:44.656-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='modernity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sandra Harding'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='feminism'/><title type='text'>Sandra Harding: Can women ever become modern?</title><content type='html'>Eine seit vielen Jahre führende Vertreterin von feministischer und postkolonialer Wissenschaftsphilosophie ist Sandra Harding. Die Autorin von Büchern wie "&lt;a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=nh4kHQAACAAJ"&gt;The Science Question in Feminism&lt;/a&gt;", "&lt;a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=eSmPEH7-u2oC"&gt;Whose Science, whose Knowledge?&lt;/a&gt;" und "&lt;a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=WeTHMEPj1ooC"&gt;Is Science Multicultural?&lt;/a&gt;" hielt am 10. Juli eine öffentliche Vorlesung an der TU Berlin. (&lt;a href="http://www2.tu-berlin.de/zifg/PDFs/s_harding.pdf"&gt;Ankündigungstext&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Die den Vortrag leitende Frage war, ob "Frauen jemals modern werden können?" Die übliche Antwort, dass westliche Frauen schon lange in der Moderne angekommen seien und es nur eine Frage der Zeit wäre, bis sich alle Frauen sozusagen modernisiert hätten, ließ Harding nicht gelten. Bevor sie jedoch ihre vier Argumente gegen diese Antwort vorbrachte, machte sie einige allgemeinere Bemerkungen zur Fragestellung selbst.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vor allem die Definition von "modern" oder "Moderne" ist für Harding ein ungelöstes Problem. Unter Verweis auf eine Sonderausgabe der Zeitschrift Daedalus &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;[1]&lt;/span&gt; vertrat Harding die These, dass es &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;die &lt;/span&gt;Moderne nicht gäbe, sondern man stattdessen von "Multiple Modernities" sprechen müsse. Moderne lässt sich entweder zeitlich oder über ihre Substanz definieren. Die erstere Möglichkeit führt dazu, dass unterschiedliche Disziplinen und unterschiedliche Sprachgruppen jeweils verschiedene Periodisierungen vornehmen. In Philsophie und (Natur-)Wissenschaft etwa liegt die Grenze zwischen Vormoderne und Moderne im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, also der Zeit von Descartes, Boyle und Bacon, die einen Bruch mit den Traditionen des "dunklen Mittelalters" ermöglicht hätten. In den Sozialwissenschaften hingegen fällt die Grenze mit der Urbanisierung und der zweiten industriellen Revolution im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert gezogen. In Kunst, Literatur und Ästhetik schließlich beginnt die Moderne erst im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert (und, so sollte man ergänzen, ist auch schon seit einiger Zeit wieder passé). Aus diesem Befund und der Tatsache, dass etwa im Französichen die genannten Grenzen noch einmal anders gezogen werden, leitete Harding ab, dass der &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;shared core&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; der Definition von Moderne klein sei und im Wesentlichen aus der Figur des Großen Bruchs mit der Vergangenheit bestünde. Inhaltlich geht es um eine Orientierung auf die Zukunft hin, universelle Vernunft, die Ablösung der gesellschaftlichen Institutionen von der Familie, ein Verschwinden der als negativ bewerteten Tradition und der Festellung, dass es &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;nur eine&lt;/span&gt; Moderne, und zwar die des Westens gebe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Jenseits der definitorischen Schwierigkeiten stellen sich für Harding vier inhaltliche Einwände gegen die Moderne.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Erstens fragt sie, vom wem die traditionelle Arbeit in modernen Gesellschaften geleistet werde. Damit verweist sie auf eine verhältnismäßig machtvolle Stellung von Frauen innerhalb des Haushaltes in vormodernen Gesellschaften. Durch die oben erwähnte Ablösung von gesellschaftlichen Institutionen von denen der Familie und damit auch der physischen Abtrennung der Arbeit im Haushalt wird die Position der Frau in der Gesellschaft geschwächt. Funktionierende Haushalte sind die Vorbedingung der Existenz moderner Gesellschaften, was aber von diesen, etwa durch den Staat oder die Ökonomie, nicht anerkannt wird. Mit "Vorbedingung" meint Harding nicht allein, dass in den Haushalten im Marx'schen Sinne unbezahlte Reproduktionsarbeit geleistet wird, sondern der Haushalt ermöglicht moderne Gesellschaft in einem weiteren Sinne: Da "Moderne" in erster Linie eine Anhäufung abstrakter Ideen sei, wäre es notwendig, diese in die materielle Umwelt "einzunähen", sie zu übersetzen -- und dies geschehe zu einem beträchtlichen Teil im Haushalt über die dort geleistete traditionelle "craft labor".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Der zweite Einwand betrifft das Entwicklungsnarrativ der Modernen: Um modern zu werden, mussten sie "das Weibliche und das Wilde/Primitive/Nicht-Westliche" mittels wissenschaftlicher Rationalität und technischer Expertise überwinden und alle Verbindungen mit diesem kappen. In einem zivilisatorischen Evolutionsnarrativ erscheinen Frauen und Nicht-Westliche als noch in der Kindheit der Spezies Verbliebene, und vorhandene Machthierarchien von "male supremacy and European supremacy" leben ineinander verschlungen fort.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Der dritte Einwand Harding richtet sich gegen die Behauptung, dass die Moderne die Tradition ersetzt. Dem stellt sie die These entgegen, dass die Moderne vielmehr selektiv bestimmte Elemente der Tradition aufrecht erhält, wiederbelebt, umgestaltet. Dies kann einerseits durch den bereits angedeuteten Vorgang des Othering sein, in dem die Tradition als Negativfolie oder Drohkulisse dient; es kann aber auch konkreter die im ersten Einwand angesprochene Beibehaltung vormoderner Strukturen im Haushalt oder der Ökonomie (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sweat shop economies&lt;/span&gt;, Haushaltsarbeit, Baugewerbe, Pflege etc.) sein.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Der vierte und letzte Einwand schließlich beruht wieder auf der Multiplizität von Moderne. Die Modernen verstehen sich selbst in exzeptionalistischen und triumphalistische Begriffen: "We are the only ones who managed to become modern. We owe nothing to traditional societies. And if something has gone wrong, it's not the fault of modern society or science itself but, for example, bad politics abusing neutral science and technology." Diese Sichtweise lässt sich laut Harding zum einen aus (wissenschafts-)geschichtlicher Perspektive, die sich auf Vorläuferinnen und Kontinuitäten zwischen Vormoderne und Moderne konzentriert, kritisieren. Zum zweiten vernachlässigt der Exzeptionalismus, der nur &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;die eine Moderne des Westens&lt;/span&gt; sieht, die Tatsache, dass alle Gesellschaften auf die eine oder andere Weise modern geworden sind, indem sie auf spezifische Weise die Ideen der Moderne in spezifische Kontexte "eingenäht" haben -- etwa die Verbindung von Hindu-Nationalismus und Modernisierung im dekolonialisierten Indien. "No society can escape modernity."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Was sind nun Hardings Schlussfolgerungen aus all dem? Trotz ihrer Kritik an den Modernen und ihrer Sicht auf sich selbst, betont sie, dass die Dichotomie von Tradition und Moderne die Welt weiterhin zu einem großen Maß strukturiert. Auch und gerade die Natur- wie Sozialwissenschaften fußen auf eben dieser Trennung und seien deswegen im Kampf für nicht-moderne Verhältnisse problematische Bündnispartnerinnen. Soziale Transformation könne nur das Resultat eines gemeinsamen Projekts von Feminismus und Postkolonialismus sein. Die leitende Frage sollte dabei dann nicht sein, ob Frauen je modern werden können, sondern wie eine Moderne aussehen würde, wenn sie vom Standpunkt von Frauen aus aller Welt und allen Schichten gestaltet werden würde. Mögliche Antwortden auf diese Frage ließ Harding -- leider -- offen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Ich will zum Abschluss zwei Kritikpunkte an Hardings Argumentation anbringen. Wie sie selbst mehrere Male betonte, ist Harding in erster Linie Philosophin und keine Sozialwissenschaftlerin. Dies (so vermute ich jedenfalls) führte dazu, dass ihre Kritik auf einer global-abstrakten Ebene angesiedelt war, die einerseits wenig Neues brachte und andererseits in ihrer Allgemeinheit auch schwer kritisierbar ist. Gerade angesichts der Tatsache, dass sie sowohl die Definition von Moderne als auch deren Selbstsicht als etwas Homogenes kritisierte, erschien ihr eigenes Reden über &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;die &lt;/span&gt;Moderne als seltsam vereinheitlichend. Aussagen wie "Die (westliche) Moderne ist ...", "Die (westliche) Moderne beruht auf ..." sind zu allgemein und lassen zudem die Frage nach Verantwortlichkeit und Handlungsmächtigkeit/Agency offen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Ein weiterer problematischer Punkt ist Hardings zumindest auf den ersten Blick so erscheinende unkritische Bewertung des Vor-, oder besser: Nicht-Modernen. In der anschließenden Diskussion fragte eine Zuhörerin etwa nach der unbestreitbar vorhandenen Gewalt im von Harding als Raum des weiblichen Einflusses gepriesenen Haushalt. Harding unterstützte diese Sichtweise; aber dennoch ließ ihre Antwort unklar, inwieweit ihr Argument sich auf reale historische, gegenwärtige oder utopische Haushalte bezieht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vielleicht lassen sich ja die Antworten auf diese Fragen und Kritikpunkte in Hardings neuem Buch, "&lt;a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=WLyJIQAACAAJ"&gt;&lt;span class="sans"&gt;&lt;span id="btAsinTitle"&gt;Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities: Feminisms, Postcolonialisms, and Modernities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;", finden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;[1] Die Ausgabe selbst ist online nicht verfügbar, wurde aber später &lt;a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=CvaXiIcGLNAC&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;als Buch&lt;/a&gt; herausgegeben.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-6532203784191059827?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/6532203784191059827/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=6532203784191059827' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/6532203784191059827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/6532203784191059827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2008/07/sandra-harding-can-women-ever-become.html' title='Sandra Harding: Can women ever become modern?'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-7316809335378364454</id><published>2008-01-25T10:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-25T10:46:41.848-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>And that's the country where you're going to live?</title><content type='html'>Reading stories like &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/arts/design/20shat.html"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; really makes me not want to move to the US. I could not have stayed as calm as Mr. Fazel had something similar happened to me. It hurts me as a human, as a future resident of the US, and as a photographer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-7316809335378364454?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/7316809335378364454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=7316809335378364454' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/7316809335378364454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/7316809335378364454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2008/01/and-thats-country-where-youre-going-to.html' title='And that&apos;s the country where you&apos;re going to live?'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-913167940349846915</id><published>2007-10-24T14:53:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-24T15:22:47.368-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e-mail'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gmail'/><title type='text'>Long time no post</title><content type='html'>I don't really have any intention on talking about my blogging absence. Let it suffice that I haven't been blogging for a while, am now blogging again, but can give no guarantees about the future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe it's a rather lousy occasion to get back into posting but I'm really excited to hear that &lt;a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/07/10/24/0249257.shtml"&gt;Gmail has started implementing free IMAP&lt;/a&gt; support! I am not one of the lucky ones who already have the option available to them but I'm sure it won't take too long. I really love Gmail's web-interface but for things like &lt;a href="http://www.gnupg.org/"&gt;encryption&lt;/a&gt; (Do! Encrypt! As! Many! Of! Your! Messages! As! You! Can!) a client like &lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/"&gt;Thunderbird&lt;/a&gt; is still necessary/handy. Unfortunately, having only POP access to my mail over the client sometimes made things more complicated than they should be. Just a couple of days ago the problem occurred that someone had sent me an attachment from his Mac and I wasn't able to open or download it properly over the web interface. Thunderbird worked fine; however, when I needed access to the file again, from another computer, of course it had already been marked as "read" and therefore wouldn't download. I guess I could have used some workaround but IMAP would have definitely made things easier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So hooray for Gmail IMAP.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-913167940349846915?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/913167940349846915/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=913167940349846915' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/913167940349846915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/913167940349846915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/10/long-time-no-post.html' title='Long time no post'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-5918826979046858642</id><published>2007-09-11T10:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-11T10:34:32.648-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='activism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='queer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='feminism'/><title type='text'>Queer leben -- Living Queer</title><content type='html'>Tipp fürs übernächste Wochenende:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.queerleben.de" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.queerleben.de/queerleben_banner_gross.gif" width="460" height="60" border="0" alt="www.queerleben.de"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-5918826979046858642?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/5918826979046858642/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=5918826979046858642' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/5918826979046858642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/5918826979046858642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/09/queer-leben-living-queer.html' title='Queer leben -- Living Queer'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-6702544252365176623</id><published>2007-08-28T03:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-29T04:40:09.095-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='privacy'/><title type='text'>Privacy-Links</title><content type='html'>Kurzer Hinweis auf eine gute Zusammenfassung der gerade zu Ende gegangenen &lt;a href="https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/sommerakademie/2007/"&gt;Sommerakademie “Offene Informationsgesellschaft und Terrorbekämpfung – ein Widerspruch?”&lt;/a&gt; bei &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/95010"&gt;heise.&lt;/a&gt; Scheint ja hoch hergegangen zu sein dort...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update 29.8.:&lt;br /&gt;Worum es außer der Online-Durchsuchung noch bei der Sommerakademie ging, wird in diesem &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/95038"&gt;heise-Artikel&lt;/a&gt; geschildert.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-6702544252365176623?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/6702544252365176623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=6702544252365176623' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/6702544252365176623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/6702544252365176623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/08/privacy-links.html' title='Privacy-Links'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-8362342623881565866</id><published>2007-07-26T05:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-26T05:22:21.370-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='surveillance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='privacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Alle kommen!!!11!1!elf!!</title><content type='html'>Wir sehen uns am 22.9. in Berlin. Jawoll.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.freiheitstattangst.de" target="_top"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/images/Banner_berlin_468x60.jpg" width="468" height="60" border="0" title="Demo gegen Sicherheits- und Überwachungswahn in Berlin am 22. September 2007..."&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-8362342623881565866?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/8362342623881565866/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=8362342623881565866' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/8362342623881565866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/8362342623881565866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/07/alle-kommen111elf.html' title='Alle kommen!!!11!1!elf!!'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-3386193276401477892</id><published>2007-06-23T05:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-23T07:39:57.082-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='surveillance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='privacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Berlin'/><title type='text'>Seminar für angewandte Unsicherheit</title><content type='html'>Kurzer Tipp: Wer sich in Berlin für Überwachung interessiert, kommt nicht an der SaU vorbei, dem Seminar für angewandte Unsicherheit. Dort werden halbwegs regelmäßig Filme gezeigt, “Kameraspaziergänge” durchgeführt oder Diskussionsrunden zu verschiedenen Aspekten der Überwachung durchgeführt. Aktuelle Termine gibt es auf der &lt;a href="http://sau.net.ms/"&gt;Homepage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haarald/599333604/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1363/599333604_9eae928e95.jpg" width="500" height="335" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're living in Berlin and are interested in all aspects of surveillance you should get familiar with the SaU (silly German pun), the Seminar for Applied Uncertainty/Insecurity. They regularly show surveillance-related movies, they go on “camera walks”, and they regularly host discussion rounds on all sorts of surveillance. You can find a recent schedule on their &lt;a href="http://sau.net.ms/"&gt;homepage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-3386193276401477892?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/3386193276401477892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=3386193276401477892' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/3386193276401477892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/3386193276401477892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/06/seminar-fr-angewandte-unsicherheit.html' title='Seminar für angewandte Unsicherheit'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1363/599333604_9eae928e95_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-7306372729991121120</id><published>2007-06-23T03:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-23T05:32:58.374-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='censorship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flickr'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yahoo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>The Picture Wars</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Your flickr pro-account account will expire on June 28...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haarald/544373631/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1387/544373631_d9a2367289.jpg" alt="Rettung ohne Untergang" height="344" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mer, &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haarald/"&gt;my&lt;/a&gt; much beloved &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/"&gt;flickr&lt;/a&gt; has failed me, now for the second time. While I swallowed the &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/32687/#reply163905"&gt;obligation to associate my flickr-account with a Yahoo!-ID&lt;/a&gt; (Yahoo! acquired flickr in 2005), the recent change of terms of service that &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/againstcensorship/"&gt;blocks content&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/15/business/NA-FIN-US-Flickr-Censorship.php"&gt;for users from certain countries&lt;/a&gt; is really pissing me off. I am well aware that this is by no means only flihoo's fault but rather a case of overcautious interpretation by company lawyers of stupid (German) laws. What is even worse than this mild form of censorship, however, is Yahoo!'s policy of &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4221538.stm"&gt;cooperating with repressive regimes&lt;/a&gt; (no, I don't mean Germany) in prosecuting &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Tao"&gt;dissidents&lt;/a&gt;. I do acknowledge that any company must to a certain comply with local laws to a certain extent if it wants to stay in business. But, maybe in a similar fashion to the overcompliance to German regulations, Yahoo! has apparently shown absolutely no willingness to protect its users from the Chinese authorities. This has also become clear in last week's &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6747095.stm"&gt;rejection&lt;/a&gt; of a proposed anti-censorship policy by Yahoo!'s shareholders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;What is to be done?&lt;/h3&gt;All this leads me to the conclusion that I'm not willing to renew my subscription for another year, for two main reasons. First, I don't want to give money to a corporation that does the things that I've mentioned above. Second, and maybe more important, I don't want to be stuck with flihoo for a whole year. Who knows what will come next!? Maybe you're asking yourself why the second reason is the more important one. Well, as a good &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minima_Moralia_%28German_book%29"&gt;Adornite&lt;/a&gt; I am well aware that “there is no right life in falsehood” and that the idea of making capitalism better by consumer choices is a burgeois illusion. I readily admit: I have &lt;a href="http://www.ueinternational.org/Vol7no3.html#EUZKADI%20DECISION%20THREATENS%20RIGHT%20TO%20STRIKE%20-ALCALDE"&gt;Continental&lt;/a&gt; tires on my bike, I drink &lt;a href="http://www.starbucksunion.org/node/1149"&gt;Starbucks&lt;/a&gt; coffee, I buy at &lt;a href="http://lidl.verdi.de/schwarz-buch/black_book_on_lidl_in_europe"&gt;Lidl&lt;/a&gt;. Therefore, it doesn't make a big difference if Yahoo! will get my 25 bucks or not. But paying 25 bucks for a product that might get drastically worse within the subscription period, with no chance of getting your money back, seems like a bad decision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, there are a number of problems with leaving flihoo: flickr is not just some consumer product but it is a social network. Telepolis has an &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25536/1.html"&gt;interesting article&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(German only)&lt;/span&gt; on how it becomes virtually impossible to switch from one network to another since this virtually means that your network disappears---my contacts, my comments, my favorites, my groups are all at flickr and not at ipernity, zoomr, 23hq or wherever. In addition, most of the alternative services simply suck when compared to flickr. Ipernity in my experience is the one closest to flickr but that's mainly because it is a very blunt knock-off, apparently even using “stolen” code.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, in the end, what &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; to be done? I think I'll just wait and see. Flickr will deactivate the pro-features after the subscription ends but they can be re-activated at any time if flihoo will come to its senses.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-7306372729991121120?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/7306372729991121120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=7306372729991121120' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/7306372729991121120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/7306372729991121120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/06/picture-wars.html' title='The Picture Wars'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1387/544373631_d9a2367289_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-3592213888313208927</id><published>2007-03-18T11:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-22T03:12:52.697-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='activism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='privacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Gegen Überwachungswahn!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.freiheit-statt-angst.de/" target="_top"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/images/Banner_sauerstoff_468_60.jpg" title="Demo gegen Sicherheits- und Überwachungswahn in Frankfurt/Main am 14. April..." border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am 14. April findet in Frankfurt a. M. die Demo &lt;a href="http://www.freiheit-statt-angst.de/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Freiheit statt Angst – gegen Sicherheits- und Überwachungswahn&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; statt, getragen von einem breiten Bündnis von Datenschutz- und Bürgerrechtsvereinigungen. Aus Berlin wird es einen &lt;a href="http://wiki.stoppt-die-vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/?title=Demo#Anreise"&gt;Sammelbus&lt;/a&gt; geben – wir sehen uns, hoffentlich.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;a href="http://www.freiheit-statt-angst.de/"&gt;Freedom, not fear -- against control und surveillance madness&lt;/a&gt;” is the slogan of a rally which will take place in Frankfurt/Main on the 14th of April. See you there, hopefully!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;--Edit 2007-03-23--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/"&gt;Heise&lt;/a&gt; hat inzwischen auch einen &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/86698"&gt;Bericht&lt;/a&gt; im &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/"&gt;Newsticker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-3592213888313208927?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/3592213888313208927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=3592213888313208927' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/3592213888313208927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/3592213888313208927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/03/gegen-berwachungswahn.html' title='Gegen Überwachungswahn!'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-838311459426277694</id><published>2007-03-08T14:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-08T15:33:24.776-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='feminism'/><title type='text'>Happy Women's Day!</title><content type='html'>Okay, this year's &lt;a href="http://www.un.org/events/women/iwd/2007/"&gt;International Women's Day&lt;/a&gt; is almost over (at least in my time zone) and I don't really have time to write something insightful. However, I am sure you'll find lots of interesting contributions over at the &lt;a href="http://takingplace.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;taking place blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that celebrates the second edition of the &lt;a href="http://takingplace.org/2007/02/24/blog-against-sexism-day-2007/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Blog Against Sexism Day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Hopefully, next year I'll be able to participate &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/03/blogging-against-sexism_08.html"&gt;again&lt;/a&gt;, and until then I can only say: Let's celebrate the past accomplishments of feminism and then continue our struggle for true equality!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seufz, der &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationaler_Frauentag"&gt;Weltfrauentag&lt;/a&gt; ist &amp;ndash; zumindest in dieser Zeitzone &amp;ndash; schon fast wieder vorbei, und ich habe echt keine Zeit, etwas Tiefsinniges zu schreiben. Das ist aber nicht so schlimm, da man sowohl in der &lt;a href="http://www.taz.de/pt/2007/03/08.1/ressort.q,TAZ.re,sw"&gt;heutigen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.taz.de"&gt;taz&lt;/a&gt; (sage ich das wirklich??) als auch drüben beim &lt;a href="http://takingplace.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;taking place blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; veranstalteten, zweiten &lt;a href="http://takingplace.org/blog-against-sexism-day/"&gt;Blog-Against-Sexism-Tag&lt;/a&gt; einen Haufen guter Beiträge finden kann. Insofern bleibt mir also nur noch einen guten Frauentag zu wünschen, an dem man die bisherigen Errungenschaften feiern sollte, um dann wieder gestärkt unseren gemeinsamen Kampf um wahre Gleichberechtigung weiterführen zu können.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-838311459426277694?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/838311459426277694/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=838311459426277694' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/838311459426277694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/838311459426277694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/03/happy-womens-day.html' title='Happy Women&apos;s Day!'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-9081713409629707164</id><published>2007-02-20T14:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T17:33:57.295-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DSACDAD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Havidol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='psychology'/><title type='text'>Listening to Havidol</title><content type='html'>Machen Sie sich auch manchmal Sorgen wegen Ihres Lebens? Fühlen sich angespannt, ruhelos oder müde? Bemerken Anzeichen des Älterwerdens? Machen Ihnen Aktivitäten, Ihnen früher Freude bereitet haben, heute weniger Freude? Dann könnten Sie von DSACDAD, der &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Dysphorischen Soziale Phobie-Aufmerkamkeits-Konsum-Defizit-Störung,&lt;/span&gt; betroffen sein. Diese neue entdeckte psychische Erkrankung wird vollkommen unterschätzt, betrifft aber große Teile der Bevölkerung. Glücklicherweise kann man DSACDAD effektiv mit dem neuen Medikament &lt;a href="http://www.havidol.com/"&gt;Havidol&lt;/a&gt; behandeln.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wer sich nun leicht verwundert fragt, seit wann die Luftpumpenwelt sich um die gesundheitliche Aufklärung sorgt, sollte sich die Havidol-Produktseite einmal genauer anschauen. Spätestens dann sollte einem auffallen, dass es sich bei Medikament wie Störung um einen – verdammt gut gemachten – &lt;a href="http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=iol1171790988617F236"&gt;Spoof&lt;/a&gt; handelt. Offensichtlich so überzeugend, dass eine beachtliche Anzahl von Personen die Seite ernst genommen hat. &amp;bdquo;Entdeckerin&amp;ldquo; von DSACDAD ist &lt;a href="http://justinecooper.com/"&gt;Justine Cooper&lt;/a&gt;, eine australische Künstlerin, die sich in ihrer Arbeit viel mit den Überkreuzungspunkten von Kultur, Medizin und Wissenschaft auseinandersetzt. In der New Yorker &lt;a href="http://daneyalmahmood.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Daneyal Mahmood Gallery&lt;/a&gt; wird das Havidol-Projekt, das neben der Website auch noch Anzeigen und Werbevideos umfasst, noch bis zum 10. März zu sehen sein.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;--Edit 07-02-25: Didn't I promise to post in two languages whenever possible...? Also edited two typos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you sometime worried about your life? Feel tense, restless, or tired? Notice signs of aging? Do you no longer enjoy certain activities as much as you used to? Then you can probably suffer from DSACDAD, dysphoric social anxiety attention consumption disorder. The seriousness of this newly recognized disorder has often been underestimated but over 50% of the population show some degree of DSACDAC! Fortunately, there is a &amp;ldquo;magic bullet&amp;rdquo; (MedNews) for treating it, &lt;a href="http://havidol.com/"&gt;Havidol&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are now wondering since when the Luftpumpenwelt is doing health education you should probably take a second look at the Havidol website. The you will realize (I hope so, at least!) that both disorder and drug are &amp;ndash; pretty convincing &amp;ndash; &lt;a href="http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=iol1171790988617F236"&gt;spoof&lt;/a&gt;. Apparently convincing to a degree that a lot people took it seriously and even self-diagnosed... &amp;ldquo;Discoverer&amp;rdquo; of DSACDAD is &lt;a href="http://justinecooper.com/"&gt;Justine Cooper&lt;/a&gt;, an Australian artist, that is working about intersections of culture, science, and medicine. The Havidol project which also includes ads and TV-commercials will be shown in the &lt;a href="http://daneyalmahmood.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Daneyal Mahmood Gallery&lt;/a&gt; in New York City until March 10.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-9081713409629707164?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/9081713409629707164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=9081713409629707164' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/9081713409629707164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/9081713409629707164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/02/listening-to-havidol.html' title='Listening to Havidol'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-4932449592659487057</id><published>2007-02-11T11:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-09T06:11:16.335-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='punk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><title type='text'>Commercial break</title><content type='html'>In general this blog doesn't feature any ads but today's post is an exception. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;They&lt;/span&gt;'ve made a offer that I couldn't refuse[1] and so I will publish a link to the &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/tanzcouch/"&gt;myspace page of Tanzcouch&lt;/a&gt;, the famous Berlin punk band. On flickr you can find &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/haarald/tags/tanzcouch/"&gt;some pics&lt;/a&gt; of their gig with &lt;a href="http://www.fartcore-tonstudio.de/opa/index1.htm"&gt;Tischlerei Lischitzki&lt;/a&gt; at Lüneburg. Check em out if you like German punk bands like &lt;a href="http://www.turbostaat.de/"&gt;Turbostaat&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.omahans.de/"&gt;Oma Hans&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;[1] They've offered me to become president of their fan club...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-4932449592659487057?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/4932449592659487057/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=4932449592659487057' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/4932449592659487057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/4932449592659487057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/02/commercial-break.html' title='Commercial break'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-2095810330502907832</id><published>2007-02-09T05:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-07T16:18:24.939-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bundestrojaner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Germany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='privacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>24%</title><content type='html'>According to a survey commissioned by the public broadcasting program &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://www.daserste.de/moma/"&gt;ARD Morgenmagazin&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;, &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/85040"&gt;24% of all Germans&lt;/a&gt; think that the police should be allowed to use any means at their disposal to fight crime. The survey was conducted in the aftermath of the &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/02/hurra.html"&gt;Bundesgerichtshof's decision&lt;/a&gt; to declare covert online searches of private computers illegal. I'm deeply skeptical about surveys in general, and more so as in this instance the exact questions and answer choices haven't been made public. But, unfortunately, I don't think that the numbers are in any way unlikely to reflect the opinion of a large part of the population. Sigh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eine Umfrage im Auftrag des &lt;a href="http://www.daserste.de/moma/"&gt;ARD-Morgenmagazins&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85032"&gt;ergab&lt;/a&gt;, dass 24% der Deutschen der Meinung sind, dass es der Polizei erlaubt sein sollte, zur Verbrechensbekämpfung alle ihr zur Verfügung stehenden Mittel zu nutzen. Die Umfrage wurde im Kontext der &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/02/hurra.html"&gt;Entscheidung des Bundesgerichtshofs&lt;/a&gt; über die Unzulässigkeit verdeckter Online-Durchsuchungen von Privatcomputern durchgeführt. Ich bin gegenüber Umfrageergebnissen stets sehr skeptisch, vor allem, wenn wie in diesem Fall die genauen Fragen und die Antwortmöglichkeiten nicht veröffentlicht werden. Aber leider halte ich die 24% für alles andere als unwahrscheinlich. Seufz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;[reported by &lt;a href="http://heise.de"&gt;heise online&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-2095810330502907832?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/2095810330502907832/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=2095810330502907832' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/2095810330502907832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/2095810330502907832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/02/24.html' title='24%'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-1127166636600896744</id><published>2007-02-07T16:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-07T16:18:24.976-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Berlin'/><title type='text'>First light, last light</title><content type='html'>I just realized that I haven't posted any pics in a while. Voilá: here is a result from my little Saturday photo expedition to the Plus parking lot. I had hoped to get some good shots of the selection of firewalls there but that didn't turn out so good. Well, these street lights with the amazing wall patterns in the background were well worth it anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haarald/380900016/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/380900016_cfc96e91e2.jpg" alt="" height="334" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please note that this picture is &lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/"&gt;differently licensed&lt;/a&gt; than the rest of the blog!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-1127166636600896744?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/1127166636600896744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=1127166636600896744' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/1127166636600896744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/1127166636600896744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/02/first-light-last-light.html' title='First light, last light'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/380900016_cfc96e91e2_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-1924532894541345767</id><published>2007-02-05T14:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-07T07:26:57.527-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='law'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bundestrojaner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='privacy'/><title type='text'>Hurra!?!</title><content type='html'>Die heimliche Durchsuchung privater Festplatten durch Ermittlungsbehörden wurde &lt;a href="http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&amp;Art=pm&amp;amp;Datum=2007&amp;Sort=3&amp;amp;nr=38775&amp;pos=0&amp;amp;anz=17"&gt;vom Bundesgerichtshof&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/84776"&gt;für illegal erklärt&lt;/a&gt;. Dass das dem Oberschnüffler Schäuble &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/84813"&gt;nicht passt&lt;/a&gt;, war natürlich schon zu erwarten. Also erst einmal ein vorläufiges Aufatmen; das dicke Ende wird schon noch kommen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://http//hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/12/goodbye-freedom-goodbye-privacy-ii.html"&gt;Covert searches of your private hard disk&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/84867"&gt;remain illegal&lt;/a&gt; in Germany for now. The Bundesgerichtshof, second highest federal court, ruled today that there is no legal basis for such actions. However, our minister of the interior, Wolfgang Schäuble, who is very unhappy about the decision, of course already has plans to create the appropriate laws. Somehow I can't really feel relieved...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;Edit 02-07: inserted link to English heise online article&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-1924532894541345767?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/1924532894541345767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=1924532894541345767' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/1924532894541345767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/1924532894541345767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/02/hurra.html' title='Hurra!?!'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-3420976710913444353</id><published>2007-02-02T07:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-02T08:03:36.093-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='emission certificates'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World Bank'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='capitalism'/><title type='text'>Capitalism is alive and well</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harvey_%28geographer%29"&gt;David Harvey&lt;/a&gt; hat in seinem kürzlich erschienenen Buch &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.de/Brief-History-Neoliberalism-David-Harvey/dp/0199283273/"&gt;A Brief History of Neoliberalism&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; (Review folgt) die Kommodifizierung, also die Herstellung von Warenförmigkeit, immer weiterer Bereiche als ein wesentliches Kennzeichen des Neoliberalismus ausgemacht. Dies gilt nicht zuletzt für den Umweltschutz, wo der Emissionshandel sicher ein paradigmatischer Fall ist. Wie dies nun in der Praxis aussehen kann, schildert ein &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24556/1.html"&gt;Artikel&lt;/a&gt; in der &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/"&gt;Telepolis&lt;/a&gt;. In Kurzform: Die &lt;a href="http://www.worldbank.org/"&gt;Weltbank&lt;/a&gt; kauft Emissionszertifikate für 1.000.000.000 USD und investiert die Hälfte davon in Anlagen zur Verbrennung von HFC-23. HFC-23 ist ein höchst klimaschädliches Gas, das bei der Herstellung von HFC-22, einem Kühlmittel, entsteht. Ergebnis: Die Produzentinnen von HFC-22 machen einen großen Reibach, da allein schon der Handel mit der Weltbank die Produktion rentabel. Und die Preise für die Vermeidung von HFC-23 über den Zertifikatshandel liegen deutlich über den eigentlichen Kosten der Vermeidung des Gases, wenn diese anderweitig finanziert würde.&lt;br /&gt;Lang lebe der Kapitalismus!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harvey_%28geographer%29"&gt;David Harvey&lt;/a&gt; describes the commodification of ever more things as a main feature of neoliberalism. With respect to protection of the environment the trade of certificates for greenhouse gases would constitute a paradigmatic case. The absurd consequences that this kind of commodification can have in practice is described in an &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24556/1.html"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=mozclient&amp;u=http%3A//www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24556/1.html"&gt;google translation&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/"&gt;Telepolis&lt;/a&gt;. In short: the &lt;a href="http://www.worldbank.org/"&gt;World Bank&lt;/a&gt; spends 1,000,000,000 USD to buy emission certificates. Half of is spent to burn HFC-23, a gas with severe effects on the climate. HFC-23 is a by-product of the manufacturing of HFC-22, a gas used in air conditioners. Result: the producers of HFC-22 make looots of money, as the World Bank money alone makes HFC-22 production profitable,  and, of course, increase production. And the cost for destroying HFC-23 by way of certificates is way above what it would cost if it would be financed directly. Long live capitalism!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-3420976710913444353?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/3420976710913444353/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=3420976710913444353' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/3420976710913444353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/3420976710913444353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/02/capitalism-is-alive-and-well.html' title='Capitalism is alive and well'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-6688844213333870649</id><published>2007-02-02T07:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-02T07:27:47.746-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanities'/><title type='text'>Bist du mein Typ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Die Zeit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; hat zum &lt;a href="http://www.abc-der-menschheit.de/"&gt;Jahr der Geisteswissenschaften&lt;/a&gt; einen &lt;a href="http://www.evote.de/cgi-bin/evote2/stest.cgi?name=fb85"&gt;netten Test&lt;/a&gt; zur Verfügung gestellt, mit dem man herausfinden kann, welcher Typ Geisteswissenschaftlerin man selbst ist. Es gibt fünf Fragen mit jeweils fünf Antwortmöglichkeiten, und am Ende erhält man ein persönliches Profil. Mein Ergebnis? 60% Hermeneutik, 40% Marxismus. Was eigentlich meiner Selbsteinschätzung entspricht und auch die momentanen Gesamtergebnisse widerspiegelt (Hermeneutik mit Abstand auf dem ersten, Marxismus auf dem zweiten Platz).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-6688844213333870649?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/6688844213333870649/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=6688844213333870649' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/6688844213333870649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/6688844213333870649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/02/bist-du-mein-typ.html' title='Bist du mein Typ?'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-3402236338555844052</id><published>2007-01-17T12:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T12:40:07.600-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nerds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LaTeX'/><title type='text'>Der Guru</title><content type='html'>Ich bin gerade über ein sehr angenehm zu lesendes &lt;a href="http://www.nzzfolio.ch/www/d80bd71b-b264-4db4-afd0-277884b93470/showarticle/e41f593c-4e61-458a-8066-50ee1c2989d6.aspx"&gt;Porträt&lt;/a&gt; von &lt;a href="http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/%7Eknuth/"&gt;Donald E. Knuth&lt;/a&gt; gestolpert, dem Erfinder meines Lieblingstextsatzsystems &lt;a href="http://ctan.org/"&gt;(La)TeX&lt;/a&gt; und einem der bedeutendsten Computerwissenschaftler überhaupt. Der Text ist schon von 2002, aber nachdem man ihn gelesen hat, wird man merken, dass diese Distanz zum Heute im Knuth'schen Denken sowieso keine große Rolle spielt.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-3402236338555844052?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/3402236338555844052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=3402236338555844052' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/3402236338555844052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/3402236338555844052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/01/der-guru.html' title='Der Guru'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-6241603998502568715</id><published>2007-01-11T15:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-11T15:37:19.490-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='surveillance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bundestrojaner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paranoia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='privacy'/><title type='text'>Neuigkeiten über den „Bundestrojaner“</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://heise.de/newsticker"&gt;Heise online&lt;/a&gt; berichtet über &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/83538"&gt;erste Details&lt;/a&gt; zur geplanten Software zur Ausspähung privater Rechner, dem sogenannten Bundestrojaner. Im &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?list=1&amp;amp;forum_id=110804"&gt;Forum&lt;/a&gt; gab es daraufhin eine &lt;a href="http://heise.forenwiki.de/index.php?title=Gr%C3%BCne_Welle"&gt;Grüne Welle.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-6241603998502568715?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/6241603998502568715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=6241603998502568715' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/6241603998502568715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/6241603998502568715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/01/neuigkeiten-ber-den.html' title='Neuigkeiten über den &amp;bdquo;Bundestrojaner&amp;ldquo;'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-7844143656953383133</id><published>2007-01-11T15:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:16:30.152-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='law'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='23C3'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hausdurchsuchung'/><title type='text'>Sie haben das Recht zu schweigen</title><content type='html'>Ein Satz, den man aus jedem nächstbesten Krimi kennt, der aber auch der Titel des Vortrag von Rechtsanwalt &lt;a href="http://www.lawblog.de/"&gt;Udo Vetter&lt;/a&gt; auf dem &lt;a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/"&gt;23C3&lt;/a&gt; ist. In seinem &lt;a href="http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-1550832407257277331"&gt;Vortrag&lt;/a&gt;, der inzwischen bei &lt;a href="http://video.google.de/"&gt;GoogleVideo &lt;/a&gt;verfügbar ist, gibt er einen Überblick über das richtige Verhalten, wenn man Opfer einer Hausdurchsuchung wird. Vetter betreibt auch das &lt;a href="http://www.lawblog.de/"&gt;Lawblog&lt;/a&gt;, und sein Vortrag zeichnet sich durch Verständlichkeit für Nicht-JuristInnen und einen guten Schuss Humor aus. Vermutlich aus Zeitgründen geht Vetter nur auf die strafrechtlichen Aspekte sogenannter Internetkriminalität ein, nicht jedoch auf die privatrechtlichen, in denen die juristischen Rahmenbedingungen sich teilweise deutlich unterscheiden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;English summary: “You have the right to remain silent” was the title of a talk by lawyer &lt;a href="http://www.lawblog.de/"&gt;Udo Vetter&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/"&gt;23C3&lt;/a&gt;. In the talk which is now &lt;a href="http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-1550832407257277331"&gt;available&lt;/a&gt; on GoogleVideo he gives advice on what to do when the police visits you early in the morning and wants to take away your computers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-7844143656953383133?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/7844143656953383133/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=7844143656953383133' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/7844143656953383133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/7844143656953383133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2007/01/haben-das-recht-zu-schweigen.html' title='&amp;#132;Sie haben das Recht zu schweigen&amp;#147;'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-1768707911627283627</id><published>2006-12-27T17:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-06T12:48:35.268-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='23C3'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nerds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CCC'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hacking'/><title type='text'>Who can you trust?</title><content type='html'>That's the &lt;a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Who_can_you_trust%253F"&gt;slogan&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Home"&gt;23C3&lt;/a&gt;, the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. A lot of the &lt;a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/"&gt;talks &lt;/a&gt;are really interesting, both for geeks and non-geeks. And the really cool thing is that the whole congress is &lt;a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Streams"&gt;streamed&lt;/a&gt; in real-time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;Edit 2006-01-06:&lt;br /&gt;Now that the congress is over a lot of the streams have been &lt;a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Streams#Unofficial_recordings"&gt;archived&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Streams#Official_recordings"&gt;official recordings &lt;/a&gt;have been announced to be published shortly. I am very eager to see some of the talks...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-1768707911627283627?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/1768707911627283627/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=1768707911627283627' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/1768707911627283627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/1768707911627283627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/12/who-can-you-trust.html' title='Who can you trust?'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-997337978546903840</id><published>2006-12-21T17:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:15:54.042-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='surveillance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='law'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paranoia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ingo Wolf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Schäuble'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='privacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Goodbye freedom, goodbye privacy II</title><content type='html'>Here comes an update on the &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/12/goodbye-freedom-goodbye-privacy.html"&gt;scary news&lt;/a&gt; about police/secret service crackers. There have been two major developments since my last post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, Mr. Wolf, minister of the interior of North-Rhine Westfalia (NRW) and member of the so-called "liberal" party FDP, &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24274/1.html"&gt;managed to get a law through parliament&lt;/a&gt; that allows the Verfassungsschutz, the secret service of the interior, to attack private computers and conduct covert online searches. The FDP and the Christian Democrats form the NRW government and have a comfortable majority in the NRW parliament. The opposition parties, social democrats and the green party, did vote against the law but it seems that the only way to stop it is a &lt;a href="http://www.twister-schreibt.de/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;amp;amp;id=61&amp;amp;Itemid=1"&gt;constitutional complaint filed by civil rights activist and journalist&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.twister-schreibt.de/"&gt;Twister&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fortunately, there is not only bad news about privacy rights. A judge of the &lt;a href="http://www.bundesgerichtshof.de/"&gt;Bundesgerichtshof&lt;/a&gt;, the second highest court in Germany, rejected to sign a request to conduct exactly what I have described above. &lt;a href="http://www.gruene-bundestag.de/cms/presse/dok/161/161755.htm"&gt;Apparently&lt;/a&gt; there already have been four cases in which law enforcement agencies got judicial approval for internet-based cracking attacks on private computers (they all failed for technical reasons) before Judge Ulrich Hebenstreit realized that these measures have no legal foundation. The &lt;a href="http://www.generalbundesanwalt.de/de/index.php"&gt;attorney general&lt;/a&gt; has challenged this decision and thus we have to wait and see how the story will turn out. Even if Hebenstreit's decision will hold this is no big relief. As stated in my previous post, federal minister of the interior Schäuble is very eager to create the legal foundation for what is now only a nightmare. And even if law enforcement agencies at the moment might not have the technical means to intrude on your computer this is only a question of time—a few weeks ago &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/80868"&gt;Schäuble managed to get 132 million Euros&lt;/a&gt; (174 million USD) for measure to improve on- and offline surveillance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must say that I am really scared.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-997337978546903840?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/997337978546903840/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=997337978546903840' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/997337978546903840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/997337978546903840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/12/goodbye-freedom-goodbye-privacy-ii.html' title='Goodbye freedom, goodbye privacy II'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-4441217393412906600</id><published>2006-12-16T07:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T00:42:59.698-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pop culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Berlin'/><title type='text'>Bigbeatland</title><content type='html'>Nach längerer Zeit gibt es mal wieder eine Rezension in der Luftpumpenwelt. Zwar nicht von einem tiefschürfenden, intellektuellen Klopper, sondern vielmehr von einem Comic. Ich bin eigentlich kein großer Freund des Comics und deswegen mit dem Genre auch nicht sonderlich vertraut, aber folgendes Exemplar seiner Gattung ist definitiv eine Besprechung wert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://jungle-world.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=47"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/RYcigS6ZGBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/7yfWmwm8lA4/s320/bbl-gross.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010011048700876818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seit mittlerweile mehr als vier Jahren zeichnet &lt;a href="http://www.reprodukt.com/creator_info.php?creators_id=36"&gt;Andreas Michalke&lt;/a&gt; für meine Lieblingswochenzeitung &lt;a href="http://jungle-world.com/"&gt;Jungle World&lt;/a&gt; den Strip &lt;a href="http://jungle-world.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=23&amp;products_id=47"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bigbeatland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Während die übrigen Comics dort irgendwo zwischen „öfters mal lustig“ (&lt;a href="http://www.ol-cartoon.de/"&gt;OL&lt;/a&gt;) bis zu „wirr, rassistisch, überflüssig“ (Lili und Poldi) rangieren, ist das Bigbeatland eine wahre Perle. Michalke versteht es hervorragend, die linke Berliner Lebenswelt, in der ich selbst ja auch irgendwie herumdümpele, abzubilden, zu kommentieren und auf eine mitfühlend-kritische Art satirisch zu überzeichnen. Figuren&lt;br /&gt;wie der ganz in grau gehaltene Altkommunist „Subkommandante Markus“, die beiden Musicnerds Sandro und Johnny, die stets betonen, Rock- und eben keine Poplinken zu sein, oder die Hardcore-Feministin Fricka (deren Figur im Laufe der Serie leider etwas flacher geworden ist) könnten einem hier in jedem Infoladen oder auf der nächstbesten Soliparty genau so über den Weg laufen. Michalke kreiert in seinen Strips einerseits ein eigenes kleines Biotop, andererseits flicht er aber auch aktuelle politische Ereignisse mit ein, wie etwa den ewigen Anti-D vs. Anti-Imp-Kampf oder die Durchsuchung des Hamburger freien Radios &lt;a href="http://www.fsk-hh.org/"&gt;fsk&lt;/a&gt;. Ein weiteres großes Plus ist, dass Michalke einen exzellenten (= meinem eigenen sehr ähnlichen) Musikgeschmack hat und immer mal wieder ganze Strips nur einer einzigen Band oder einem Song widmet. Höhepunkt in dieser Hinsicht war die Bigbeatland-Folge, in der Sandro und Johnny als Comicfiguren die Band &lt;a href="http://rambo.computershateme.org/"&gt;R.A.M.B.O.&lt;/a&gt; bei ihrem Berlin-Auftritt interviewten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das Buch ist qualitativ sehr hochwertig aufgemacht, komplett in Farbe und mit einem Vorwort vom großen Diedrich Diederichsen ausgestattet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wer für seine linken Freundinnen und Freunde — oder sich selbst — also noch ein Weihnachtsgeschenk sucht, dem sei Bigbeatland sehr ans Herz gelegt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Andreas Michalke (2006). Bigbeatland. Berlin:Reprodukt. 96 Seiten, farbig, Hardcover, 15 Euro&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;English summary: This is a review of the excellent compilation of the Bigbeatland comic strip that is published weekly in the Berlin-based periodical Jungle World. Andreas Michalke has created a striking depiction and sympathetic satire of the contemporary German radical left. Highly recommended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-4441217393412906600?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/4441217393412906600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=4441217393412906600' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/4441217393412906600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/4441217393412906600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/12/bigbeatland.html' title='Bigbeatland'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/RYcigS6ZGBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/7yfWmwm8lA4/s72-c/bbl-gross.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-2904072949542296066</id><published>2006-12-11T16:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-11T16:37:07.814-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='online activism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='preventive data retention'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='privacy'/><title type='text'>Webdemo und Verfassungsbeschwerde</title><content type='html'>ACHTUNG, ACHTUNG!! Hier spricht Ihr Datenschutzaktivismuseinpeitscher. Sollten Sie eine Webseite (für alle Web2.0-Bobos tut es auch ein Blog) Ihr Eigen nennen, machen Sie doch bitte am 14.12 bei der Webdemo zum "Trauertag um das Fernmeldegeheimnis" mit. Selbiges ist nämlich vor fast einem Jahr von einer großen Koalition im europäischen Parlament zu Grabe getragen worden. Nähere Infos gibt es &lt;a href="http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=69&amp;Itemid=55"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; und &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/82322"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt;. Unter letzterem Link findet sich auch gleich noch eine zweite Aktionsform, an der ich mich auch beteiligen werde: Die Teilnahme an einer "Sammel-Verfassungsbeschwerde" gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Kostet nur eine Briefmarke und ist vielleicht etwas effektiver als die Webdemo. Mit allen Mitteln auf allen Ebenen...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For my English-speaking readers: A &lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=mozclient&amp;amp;u=http%3A//www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D69%26Itemid%3D55"&gt;German civil rights organisation&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(google translation)&lt;/span&gt; against the preventive data retention plans of the European Union calls for an online protest on December 14, the first anniversary of the European parliament's decision to implement preventive data retention, i. e. logging all your internet connection data and storing it for at least six months. In addition to the online protest, the initiave plans to file a class action constitutional complaint against the respective legislation.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-2904072949542296066?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/2904072949542296066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=2904072949542296066' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/2904072949542296066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/2904072949542296066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/12/webdemo-und-verfassungsbeschwerde.html' title='Webdemo und Verfassungsbeschwerde'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-6599873459764747682</id><published>2006-12-07T03:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-07T04:17:01.001-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='surveillance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paranoia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='privacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Goodbye freedom, goodbye privacy</title><content type='html'>Holy crap, some politicians have completely snapped. As &lt;a href="http://heise.de/newsticker"&gt;heise online&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/82154"&gt;reports&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=mozclient&amp;u=http%3A//www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/82154"&gt;google translation&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;, the minister of the interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ingo Wolf, and the federal minister of the interior, Wolfgang Schäuble, have proposed new attacks on informational freedom and privacy. In a "program for strengthening homeland security" and in the revision of a law regulating the competencies of the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Verfassungsschutz&lt;/span&gt;, the intelligence service operating on the level of a federal state, Wolf and Schäuble want to enable the Verfassungsschutz and the BKA (federal police agency) to conduct covert online searches of private computers. Because physical confiscation of computers proved to be "expensive in personnel and technology" they want to have an easier means of surveillance. It is not stated how this is supposed to be technologically implemented (Windows system possibly being easy prey) but the mere idea is scary enough. But wait, I forgot: the measure are only directed against terrorist and pedophiles, so I have nothing to be afraid of. If you don't believe them: update your firewalls, use &lt;a href="http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html"&gt;anonymizers&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.gnupg.org/"&gt;encrypted e-mail&lt;/a&gt;, install Linux, &lt;a href="http://www.truecrypt.org/"&gt;encrypt your files&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-6599873459764747682?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/6599873459764747682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=6599873459764747682' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/6599873459764747682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/6599873459764747682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/12/goodbye-freedom-goodbye-privacy.html' title='Goodbye freedom, goodbye privacy'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-1407844848142111568</id><published>2006-11-19T05:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-19T06:07:25.499-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='operating systems'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Linux'/><title type='text'>50%</title><content type='html'>Hooray! 50 percent of my computers now run Linux! Well, okay, that only makes one computer. And actually it's not a pure Linux machine but a Windows-Kubuntu dual-boot. And of course, Kubuntu isn't really properly working yet (no WLAN). But anyway, I'm glad to have become a member of the Linux community!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-1407844848142111568?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/1407844848142111568/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=1407844848142111568' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/1407844848142111568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/1407844848142111568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/11/50.html' title='50%'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-7649833914832219214</id><published>2006-11-19T05:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-19T05:38:18.476-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pop culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nazi music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Drecksmucke</title><content type='html'>Nazis sind nicht nur doof und gefährlich, nein, sie haben in der Regel auch einen furchtbaren Musikgeschmack. Im aktuellen &lt;a href="http://www.freitag.de"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Freitag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; gibt es nun ein interessantes &lt;a href="http://www.freitag.de/2006/46/06461701.php"&gt;Interview&lt;/a&gt; mit Michael Weiss vom &lt;a href="http://www.apabiz.de/"&gt;Antifaschistischen Pressearchiv und Bildungszentrum Berlin&lt;/a&gt;, in dem er ausführlich auf aktuelle Entwicklungen in der rechten Musikszene eingeht. Großkonzerte seien aufgrund des Repressionsdrucks im Zurückgehen begriffen, während es bei kleinen Konzerten mit bis zu 120 Besucherinnen und Besuchern einen klaren Aufschwung gebe. Weiss betont die Notwendigkeit einer analytischen Trennung zwischen rechter, extrem rechter und neonazistischer Musik -- ein Spektrum, das für ihn bei &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammstein#.C3.96ffentliche_Wahrnehmung"&gt;Rammstein&lt;/a&gt; und den &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6hse_Onkelz#Neonazismusvorw.C3.BCrfe"&gt;Böhsen Onkelz&lt;/a&gt; beginnt und bei Death in June oder &lt;a href="http://www.klick-nach-rechts.de/ticker/2003/12/landser1.htm"&gt;Landser&lt;/a&gt; endet. Dass nicht alle, die entsprechende Musik hören, automatisch ein geschlossen rechtsextremes Weltbild haben, sollte offensichtlich sein. Weiss ist aber der Meinung, dass es der rechten Szene immer mehr gelungen sei, rechte Codes in die Alltagskultur zu überführen, was dann dazu führen kann, dass eine linke Punkband von &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_Occupied_Government"&gt;"ZOG"&lt;/a&gt;, der "zionistisch besetzten Regierung" singt und glaubt, damit etwas gegen den Kapitalismus zu sagen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The periodical Freitag features an interesting &lt;a href="http://www.freitag.de/2006/46/06461701.php"&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Michael Weiss about current developments in right, extreme right and neo-nazi music in Germany. Unfortunately only in German.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-7649833914832219214?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/7649833914832219214/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=7649833914832219214' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/7649833914832219214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/7649833914832219214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/11/drecksmucke.html' title='Drecksmucke'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-2151371202501836409</id><published>2006-10-12T16:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-12T16:42:47.531-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='university scream'/><title type='text'>I couldn't agree more...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worthen/265725775/"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://static.flickr.com/101/265725775_743e5fbcce_d.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Found on &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worthen/"&gt;Jeffrey Worthen's Flickr-page&lt;/a&gt; (all rights reserved)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-2151371202501836409?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/2151371202501836409/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=2151371202501836409' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/2151371202501836409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/2151371202501836409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/10/i-couldnt-agree-more.html' title='I couldn&apos;t agree more...'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-59146576445265309</id><published>2006-10-09T16:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-09T16:24:20.239-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wild at Heart'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homicide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kreuzberg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='violence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bar 11'/><title type='text'>Wo sind wir nur hingezogen...?</title><content type='html'>Eieiei, von Donnerstag bis Samstag war nachts immer Blaulicht vor unserem Haus zu sehen. Mein Vater hat mich nun darauf hingewiesen, dass es einmal wohl nicht nur eine -- mehr oder minder -- harmlose Schlägerei im &lt;a href="http://www.wildatheartberlin.de/"&gt;Wild at Heart&lt;/a&gt; oder der &lt;a href="http://www.bar11.de/"&gt;Bar 11&lt;/a&gt; war. An Genaueres aus dem Abendschau-Bericht konnte er sich nicht erinnern, aber der &lt;a href="http://www.berlin.de/polizei/presse-fahndung/presse.html"&gt;Presseticker der Pozilei&lt;/a&gt; hilft:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Mann niedergestochen- Mordkommission ermittelt&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;h3&gt;Friedrichshain - Kreuzberg&lt;/h3&gt; # 2202&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ein 24-jähriger Mann ist heute früh in Kreuzberg lebensgefährlich verletzt worden. Nach ersten Erkenntnissen war er gegen 6 Uhr mit einem anderen Mann vor einem Lokal in der Wiener Straße in einen Streit geraten. Während der Auseinandersetzung erlitt der Kreuzberger Stichverletzungen. Er kam ins Krankenhaus. Als Tatverdächtigen nahmen Polizeibeamte einen 34-Jährigen fest. Die Hintergründe Streits sind bislang unklar. Eine Mordkommission hat die Ermittlungen übernommen.&lt;br /&gt;(Quelle: &lt;a href="http://www.berlin.de/polizei/presse-fahndung/archiv/48531/index.html"&gt;http://www.berlin.de/polizei/presse-fahndung/archiv/48531/index.html&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sehr unschön das Ganze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;English summary: two days ago someone was stabbed in a bar brawl right next to our house (at the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bar 11&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wild at Heart&lt;/span&gt;. Fortunately, the person survived despite of his life-threatening injuries.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-59146576445265309?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/59146576445265309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=59146576445265309' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/59146576445265309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/59146576445265309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/10/wo-sind-wir-nur-hingezogen.html' title='Wo sind wir nur hingezogen...?'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-8439031328654673617</id><published>2006-09-11T07:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T10:59:34.974-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knowledge society'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='privacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>I want to be a pirate</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://piratenpartei.de/"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/5301/1268/320/logo.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;We aim at founding the "Pirate Party Germany". It shall preserve freedom of speech and privacy of all people in Germany, and reformulate the anti-progressive excesses of copyright and patent law, in favor of a &lt;em&gt;free&lt;/em&gt; knowledge society.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/"&gt;heise online&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/77980"&gt;reports&lt;/a&gt;, the German branch of the growing movement of pirate parties has been founded yesterday. The &lt;a href="https://wiki.piratenpartei.de:3453/index.php/Parteiprogramm"&gt;party program&lt;/a&gt; is still rather rudimentary but its basic claims seem to be very much in accordance with what I propagate in this blog. I think I will definitely check out one of their real life or online conventions.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-8439031328654673617?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/8439031328654673617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=8439031328654673617' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/8439031328654673617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/8439031328654673617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-want-to-be-pirate.html' title='I want to be a pirate'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-2446710484304272407</id><published>2006-09-11T06:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-11T06:37:19.629-04:00</updated><title type='text'>"Crime as a political problem"...</title><content type='html'>...that was the topic of my at the summer school of the German National Academic Foundation at beautiful St. Johann in South Tyrol. I don't have much time to report on all the cool things we did there but for now I wanted to post some of the pics I've shot. If you want to see more check my &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/haarald/sets/72157594276437985/"&gt;flickr-set&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haarald/240215525/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/86/240215525_9d43a216ea.jpg" alt="Trippachtal" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trippachtal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haarald/240215152/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/94/240215152_cd631b70e8.jpg" alt="Holzeralm" height="329" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;below the Holzeralm, &lt;a href="http://www.klausberg.it/"&gt;Klausberg area&lt;/a&gt; in the background&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haarald/238553447/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/79/238553447_4190f42dc6.jpg" alt="Steinerholm Panorama" height="157" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;panorama from the Steinerholm ridge&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-2446710484304272407?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/2446710484304272407/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=2446710484304272407' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/2446710484304272407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/2446710484304272407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/09/crime-as-political-problem.html' title='&quot;Crime as a political problem&quot;...'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-115321069163532415</id><published>2006-07-18T03:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:00:52.418-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='perception'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='non-photography day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='experience'/><title type='text'>Documenting vs experiencing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/"&gt;Spiegel Online&lt;/a&gt; features an &lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/telefonkultur/0,1518,427185,00.html"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; (German only) about yesterday's &lt;a href="http://www.nonphotographyday.com/"&gt;Non Photography Day&lt;/a&gt;. On their website the people behind it (according to Spiegel Online the photographer Becca Bland) explain the idea behind the day:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;Non- photography day is an effort on my part to revive the moment         by putting down the camera. It is a day to think about how life exists,         in essence and not appearance and to understand the inadequacy of the         photograph in describing this essence, to bring awareness of the perils         of living through the view finder or the display screen…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Some thoughts about the issue: I have often thought about how seeing the world as a photographer changes your perception and your experience. I think it is important to keep these two levels apart: with respect to perception I see photography as a way to enhance the ways you see your environment. To have the photographic awareness, as it were, makes you turn your head around, not just look straight, it motivates you to look behind the corner, open that door, lie on the floor, walk behind the waterfall, or &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haarald/127756246/"&gt;take the stairs instead of the elevator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the level of experience I somehow agree with Bland's criticism (though not with her essentialist, romanticist vernacular). The influence of taking photos usually becomes most apparent to me when I go to protests (or read about protests on &lt;a href="http://www.indymedia.org/"&gt;indymedia&lt;/a&gt;) or on concerts. With the former you often get the impression that there are more people shooting pictures than people interested in the original purpose of the protest. While it is important to document police violence and to publish pictures of a rally that otherwise might not get any media attention, I often have the impression that "documenting" becomes an end in itself. And seeing yourself as the "documentalist" distances you from the protest and its aims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On concerts -- usually hardcore shows in my case -- it seems similar. The tradition of documenting itself seems to be very widespread among subcultures. You have fanzines, people with large collections of video and audio bootlegs, and nowadays websites &lt;a href="http://www.xembracex.de/pics.html"&gt;with often hundreds of pictures&lt;/a&gt;. Again: this is great and useful -- just consider what the great documentary about the rise of modern skateboarding in the 70s, &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275309/"&gt;Dogtown and Z-Boys&lt;/a&gt;. The plethora of Super-8 and other video material that they have been able to use is amazing and I suppose it had been mostly shot by the actors themselves. But when you try and be in the role of the person behind the photo or video camera or at the audio recorder yourself you quickly realize what a different experience it is than if you were in the moshpit: you have to protect your camera, you can't dance, band and audience become an object apart from you. This last point, in my opinion, points at something that the initiators of the Non-Photo-Day have failed to consider: not only is it the photographer on whom seeing herself in this role might have problematic aspects but also the objects of photography might influenced in ways that are not desirable. The awareness that you are being filmed, that pictures of you will soon be available to anyone on the internet certainly influences both your experience and behavior. In what direction is an open question -- maybe you want to be the "hero" of the documentary and &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/eitheror/78846968/"&gt;burn that flag&lt;/a&gt;, make that audacious dance move that you practiced in front of the mirror, or be a first-time stagediver. But maybe you'll become inhibited, self-conscious, avoiding anything that might make you the center of attention of all those cam people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, my dear photographers: Continue to take your pics, on July 17 and the rest of the year! But think about what having a camera between you and others does to you and does to others. And know when it is time to put away the cam and jump off the stage, protect your fellow protesters, or just enjoy a marvelous scenery.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-115321069163532415?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/115321069163532415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=115321069163532415' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/115321069163532415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/115321069163532415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/07/documenting-vs-experiencing.html' title='Documenting vs experiencing'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-115193628398255271</id><published>2006-07-03T10:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:01:31.157-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ADHD'/><title type='text'>Irony</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haarald/180678459/" title="Driven to distraction"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/74/180678459_7a63bdfa0a.jpg" alt="Irony" height="191" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As seen in the &lt;a href="http://library.cornell.edu/"&gt;Cornell Library&lt;/a&gt; catalogue :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-115193628398255271?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/115193628398255271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=115193628398255271' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/115193628398255271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/115193628398255271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/07/irony.html' title='Irony'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-115150363606123073</id><published>2006-06-28T10:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:02:24.534-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sports'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='health'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='running'/><title type='text'>Running is bad for your health!?</title><content type='html'>I'm terribly bored because I have a stretched ligament from running which largely prevents me from leaving the house. The positive side-effect is that I get to process some of my older pictures. I've even found one thematically related to my injury, taken at Fort Lauderdale in December 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haarald/177010597/" title="Run!"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/51/177010597_8eb397a8d2.jpg" alt="Run!" height="500" width="311" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-115150363606123073?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/115150363606123073/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=115150363606123073' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/115150363606123073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/115150363606123073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/06/running-is-bad-for-your-health.html' title='Running is bad for your health!?'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-115109482218315410</id><published>2006-06-23T16:20:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:03:18.610-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vinyl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stereo'/><title type='text'>The Sound of Nature</title><content type='html'>One of my alter egos has pointed out that 1) I haven't updated the air pumps in a while and 2) there are decidedly too few pictures in here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voilá! Here is both a new post and a nice (at least in my opinion) picture:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haarald/173419736/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/69/173419736_4b479fbb28.jpg" alt="The Sound of Nature" height="500" width="323" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shot on the way to the end-of-term BBQ at &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkandpen/"&gt;Katie's and Dave's&lt;/a&gt; place.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-115109482218315410?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/115109482218315410/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=115109482218315410' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/115109482218315410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/115109482218315410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/06/sound-of-nature_23.html' title='The Sound of Nature'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114986469513225197</id><published>2006-06-09T10:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-09T10:51:35.150-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Die Eröffnung</title><content type='html'>Um meiner Funktion als &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/04/fuball-wm-2006.html"&gt;WM-2006-Blog&lt;/a&gt; etwas mehr gerecht zu werden, gibt es hier nun einen Beitrag zur Eröffnungsfeier. Die ARD hat freundlicherweise &lt;a href="http://sport.ard.de/wm2006/wm/news200606/09/eroeffnung_ablauf.jhtml"&gt;die genaue Planung&lt;/a&gt; dieser online verfügbar gemacht, aber leider einen wichtigen Akteur vergessen -- mich. Nicht so schlimm, das kann ich ja an dieser Stelle einfach beheben:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16.30 Uhr: Die "jungen Riederinger Musikanten" ziehen auf einem prächtig&lt;br /&gt;geschmückten Wagen ein, Heuhaufen werden auf das Spielfeld gerollt. 150&lt;br /&gt;Schuhplattler betreten das Stadion. Von beiden Seiten laufen kräftige&lt;br /&gt;Gestalten mit großen Schellen ein.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16.31 Uhr: Harald windet sich in heftigen Spasmen vor dem Fernseher, da&lt;br /&gt;er aus Versehen von Angler-TV auf die WM-Eröffnung umgeschaltet hat.&lt;br /&gt;Verzweifelt versucht er, die Fernbedienung zu erreichen, aber bei jedem&lt;br /&gt;neuen Auftritt einer Trachten- oder HipHop-Gruppe verkrampft er erneut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16.32 Uhr: Die Schellenführer beginnen mit ihrem ohrenbetäubenden&lt;br /&gt;Vortrag. Nebelschwaden steigen auf, und der Musikantenwagen verwandelt&lt;br /&gt;sich in eine Bühne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16.33 Uhr: Harald ruft verzweifelt um Hilfe, aber seine Schreie werden&lt;br /&gt;vom Krach der Schellenführer übertönt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16.51 Uhr: Herbert Grönemeyer singt die offizielle FIFA-Hymne "Zeit,&lt;br /&gt;dass sich was dreht" auf Deutsch und Englisch. Zum Ende des&lt;br /&gt;Grönemeyer-Songs öffnen sich unter den Röcken der Frauen, die immer noch&lt;br /&gt;hoch über der Fläche schweben, verborgene Taschen und es ergießt sich&lt;br /&gt;ein Konfetti-Regen. Von den Seiten kommen Flaggenträger, die die 32&lt;br /&gt;Flaggen der teilnehmenden Nationen tragen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16.52 Uhr: Die Lage von Harald hat sich immer noch nicht gebessert. Die&lt;br /&gt;unzähligen Nationalflaggen brennen sich unerbittlich auf seiner Netzhaut&lt;br /&gt;ein. Er verspürt den unbändigen Drang, die deutsche Nationalhymne zu&lt;br /&gt;singen -- nein: schreien!, aber ihm fallen immer nur die Worte&lt;br /&gt;"Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" ein.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16.55 Uhr: Der Auszug der Musiker beginnt. Bühne und Teppich werden&lt;br /&gt;abgebaut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16.56 Uhr: Die Krämpfe lassen langsam nach. Harald erreicht endlich die&lt;br /&gt;Fernbedienung und kann wieder zu Rotbarschen, Fliegenfischen und den&lt;br /&gt;schönsten Angelspots der Welt umschalten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Danke an Cordula für den Hinweis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/world+cup" rel="tag" onmouseover="this.href='http://technorati.com/tag/world+cup?user=vgXhc'"&gt;world cup&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/WM-2006" rel="tag" onmouseover="this.href='http://technorati.com/tag/WM-2006?user=vgXhc'"&gt;WM-2006&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Er%C3%B6ffnungsfeier" rel="tag" onmouseover="this.href='http://technorati.com/tag/Eröffnungsfeier?user=vgXhc'"&gt;Eröffnungsfeier&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/soccer" rel="tag" onmouseover="this.href='http://technorati.com/tag/soccer?user=vgXhc'"&gt;soccer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Fu%C3%9Fball" rel="tag" onmouseover="this.href='http://technorati.com/tag/Fußball?user=vgXhc'"&gt;Fußball&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Nationalismus" rel="tag" onmouseover="this.href='http://technorati.com/tag/Nationalismus?user=vgXhc'"&gt;Nationalismus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114986469513225197?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114986469513225197/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114986469513225197' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114986469513225197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114986469513225197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/06/die-erffnung.html' title='Die Eröffnung'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114832180572803889</id><published>2006-05-22T14:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:04:11.298-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PACTAC'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conference'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Foucault'/><title type='text'>Video: Michel Foucault's Legacy</title><content type='html'>I just received a message that the &lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.pactac.net/"&gt;Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture&lt;/a&gt; (PACTAC) has made available &lt;a href="http://www.pactac.net/pactacweb/web-content/videoscroll4.html#1"&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt; from their conference on Foucault's legacy. Speaker and topics are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Tully: &lt;i&gt;Foucault and the Question of Agency&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Arthur Kroker: &lt;em&gt;Before Foucault: Power and Cynical Ideology&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Warren Magnusson: &lt;em&gt;Before Foucault: Scepticism, Relativism and  Modernity&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rob Walker: &lt;em&gt;Foucault, Self-Determination, Limits&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;You can find some other interesting lectures on their site, too.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114832180572803889?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114832180572803889/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114832180572803889' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114832180572803889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114832180572803889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/05/video-michel-foucaults-legacy.html' title='Video: Michel Foucault&apos;s Legacy'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114830629964314671</id><published>2006-05-22T09:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:05:11.610-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='law'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='copyright'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piracy'/><title type='text'>Was ist erlaubt, was nicht?</title><content type='html'>Wenn man mit anderen über die Regeln des Urheberrechts spricht, zeigt sich oft eine ziemliche Unkenntnis dessen, was erlaubt ist und was nicht. Allerdings nicht in die Richtung, dass die Leute ein zu laxes Verständnis haben, sondern vielmehr das Gegenteil: Vielen ist es in der Praxis zwar recht egal, ob etwas legal ist oder nicht, aber dennoch haben sie ein schlechtes Gewissen oder zumindest ein Unrechtsbewusstsein bei Dingen, die (noch...) legal sind. Insofern scheint die Propaganda der Contentindustrie ja sehr erfolgreich zu sein. Da ich in solchen Diskussionen dann teilweise selbst unsicher werde, ob ich wirklich recht habe, wollte ich an dieser Stelle auf die hervorragende Seite &lt;a href="http://www.irights.info/"&gt;irights.info&lt;/a&gt; hinweisen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die für den diesjährigen&lt;a href="http://www.grimme-online-award.de/"&gt; Grimme Online Award&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.grimme-online-award.de/de/nominierungen/nom_goa06/index.html"&gt;nominierte&lt;/a&gt; Seite klärt ausführlich und verständlich darüber auf, was erlaubt und was verboten/zweifelhaft ist. Nicht nur erfährt man, ob man MP3-Streams aus dem Netz aufzeichnen (ja) oder Bootlegs von Konzerten anfertigen darf (i. d. R. nein), sondern auch Informationen über das Samplen von Musikschnipseln, die Verwendung von Zitaten in Off- und Online-Medien, das Modifizieren von Computerspielen und noch einiges mehr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wer sich mehr für die Auseinandersetzungen auf rechtlicher und politischer Ebene interessiert, ist wie immer beim &lt;a href="http://www2.blogger.com/www.heise.de"&gt;Heise Verlag&lt;/a&gt; gut aufgehoben. Auf einer Seite finden sich &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/ct/hintergrund/meldung/68064"&gt;Links zu allen relevanten Gesetzentwürfe und den wichtigsten Artikel zum Thema&lt;/a&gt;. Ach ja, der &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/"&gt;heise-newsticker&lt;/a&gt; ist übrigens auch für den Grimme Award nominiert.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114830629964314671?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114830629964314671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114830629964314671' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114830629964314671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114830629964314671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/05/was-ist-erlaubt-was-nicht.html' title='Was ist erlaubt, was nicht?'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114800822032420798</id><published>2006-05-18T22:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:06:26.467-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='no-go areas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uwe-Karsten Heye'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brandenburg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='racism'/><title type='text'>Spaces of Fear, Vol. 2</title><content type='html'>A quick update on the &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/05/spaces-of-fear.html"&gt;debate about no-go areas for people of color&lt;/a&gt; in Germany: the former spokesman of the red-green government, Uwe-Karsten Heye, who is now head of the anti-racist organization &lt;a href="http://www.gesichtzeigen.de/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Gesicht zeigen!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Show our face!) has also advised caution for non-white visitors of Germany--and quickly withdrawn his remarks. In an &lt;a href="http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/interview/501431/"&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with the public radio station &lt;a href="http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Deutschlandradio Kultur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; he said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are small and medium-sized towns in Brandenburg, as well as elsewhere, which I would advise anyone of another skin colour to avoid going to. It is possible he wouldn't get out alive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;He was heavily criticized for these remarks  and withdrew them to a certain extent, expecially making clear the he didn't want to single out Brandenburg. On the other hand, there was support for his claims, often saying that he was only stating the obvious. For an English article on the debate click &lt;a href="http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,416904,00.html"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114800822032420798?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114800822032420798/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114800822032420798' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114800822032420798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114800822032420798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/05/spaces-of-fear-vol-2.html' title='Spaces of Fear, Vol. 2'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114788271149993261</id><published>2006-05-17T12:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:06:59.845-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stereotypes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Germany'/><title type='text'>I don't have friends, but I have a job</title><content type='html'>At least that's the conclusion if we believe Simon Anholt, inventor of the &lt;a href="http://www.nationbrandindex.com/"&gt;Nation Brand Index&lt;/a&gt;, and his findings about the Germans. &lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Die Zeit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a German quality weekly, features an &lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de/2006/20/Fuballdeutschland_20"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; about the image of Germans around the world at the eve of the Soccer World Cup (remember, you are reading &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/04/fuball-wm-2006.html"&gt;the official blog!&lt;/a&gt;). They quote Anholt:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;That the people of the country [Germany] have the reputation to be dull is no problem with respect to image. "Dullness is the neighbor of reliablity, and reliability is the neighbor of trust. Our results show that people would rather not be friends with a German. But they would give him a job."&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114788271149993261?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114788271149993261/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114788271149993261' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114788271149993261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114788271149993261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/05/i-dont-have-friends-but-i-have-job.html' title='I don&apos;t have friends, but I have a job'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114756299778680802</id><published>2006-05-13T19:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:08:07.152-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brandenburg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hartmut Häußermann'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='racism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Berlin'/><title type='text'>Spaces of Fear</title><content type='html'>In the aftermath of the &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/04/denk-ich-deutschland.html"&gt;racist attempted murder&lt;/a&gt; that now no one any longer regards as racist. the German weekly &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Die Zeit&lt;/span&gt; has published an interesting video about "&lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de/online/2006/19/nogo"&gt;Spaces of Fear: Where black people in Berlin and Brandenburg do not dare to go.&lt;/a&gt;" In the short documentary people of colour talk about their experience of racism in the Berlin-Brandenburg area, where a significant amount of places are off-limits for them. One of the interviewees from the &lt;a href="http://www.cybernomads.net/cn/home.cfm?p=1331"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Africa Council Berlin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; also talks about&lt;a href="http://www.cybernomads.net/cn/home.cfm?p=1395&amp;CFID=12030914&amp;amp;CFTOKEN=29202849"&gt; plans to publish an brochure and map&lt;/a&gt; for visitors of African origin of the soccer world cup that gives advice on "precautionary measures" to avoid becoming victims of racist violence during their visit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The video (partly in English) is accompanied with a (German) &lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de/2006/19/interview_stadtentwicklung"&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; of the urban sociologist &lt;a href="http://www2.hu-berlin.de/stadtsoz/mitin/hh/hh_cur.php"&gt;Hartmut Häußermann&lt;/a&gt;. He discusses the situation in Berlin and possible counter-measures to no-go areas and everyday racism from an urban planning point of view.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114756299778680802?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114756299778680802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114756299778680802' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114756299778680802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114756299778680802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/05/spaces-of-fear.html' title='Spaces of Fear'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114745463887449417</id><published>2006-05-12T13:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-16T09:54:19.025-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vegetables'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='veganism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rap'/><title type='text'>MC K.rotte und Peter Silie präsentieren...</title><content type='html'>... den Rap-Track für alle Veggies:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="overflow: visible; display: block; position: relative; width: 0px; height: 0px; left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; top: 0px; z-index: 65535; opacity: 0.5;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-style: ridge; border-width: 2px 2px 0px; display: block; position: relative; left: -70px; top: -18px; width: 66px; height: 16px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 10px; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 0px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; direction: ltr;"&gt;Adblock&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vhCDAMpY1TU"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vhCDAMpY1TU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="overflow: visible; display: block; position: relative; width: 0px; height: 0px; left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; top: 0px; z-index: 65535; opacity: 0.5;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-style: ridge; border-width: 0px 2px 2px; display: block; position: relative; left: -70px; top: 0px; width: 66px; height: 16px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 0px; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 0px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 10px; background-color: white; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; direction: ltr;"&gt;Adblock&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edit: Meine Logs zeigen an, dass ziemlich viele Leute per Google-Suche nach "Peter Silie" "MC K.Rotte" o. ä. auf diese Seiten kommen und dann vermutlich furchtbar enttäuscht sind, dass sie nur das Video finden. Leider kann ich zu den Produzenten des exzellenten Tracks aber auch nichts Erhellendes sagen und nur auf die am Ende des Videos angebene (aber auch nicht viel Info enthaltende) URL verweisen: &lt;a href="http://krismon.de/"&gt;http://krismon.de/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114745463887449417?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114745463887449417/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114745463887449417' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114745463887449417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114745463887449417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/05/mc-krotte-und-peter-silie-prsentieren.html' title='MC K.rotte und Peter Silie präsentieren...'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114669240244119320</id><published>2006-05-03T17:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-03T17:40:02.453-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Liebe Musikindustrie!</title><content type='html'>Bitte unternehmen Sie schnell etwas gegen &lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de/zeit-wissen/2006/03/bildergalerie_LP"&gt;diesen Artikel&lt;/a&gt; auf &lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de"&gt;Zeit.de&lt;/a&gt;. Nachdem es Ihnen bisher immer so gut gelungen, gegen heimtückische Musikdiebe vorzugehen und unsere geliebten Musikerinnen und Musiker vor ihren Fans zu beschützen, sollten Sie weiterhin wachsam sein. In besagtem Artikel wird eine Möglichkeit aufgezeigt, wie man Schallplatten (Sie erinnern sich? Diese schwarzen, runden Dinger, denen die Tape-Piraterie beinahe den Garaus gemacht hätte ...) in dunklen Hinterzimmern mit einfachsten Mitteln kopieren kann. Wo kämen wir denn da hin, wenn plötzlich jedeR ihre/seine Schallplatten kopieren und verschenken würde!? Wenn Menschen begännen, sich den alten "Original"-Schrott auf Raubplatte anzuhören anstatt im iTunes-Store den 1000-mal besseren 2006-Remix des entsprechenden Tracks zu kaufen! Oder sich ihren wertvollen Wohnraum mit unförmigem Vinyl vollzupacken, das nicht einmal von alleine verrottet. Oder gar auf die von Ihnen großzügig angebotenen Möglichkeiten der Nutzungseinschränkung verzichten!&lt;br /&gt;Also: Handeln Sie schnell!&lt;br /&gt;Ergebenst,&lt;br /&gt; Ihr Konsument&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114669240244119320?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114669240244119320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114669240244119320' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114669240244119320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114669240244119320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/05/liebe-musikindustrie.html' title='Liebe Musikindustrie!'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114669048602307543</id><published>2006-05-03T16:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T10:58:07.608-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='university'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='psychology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bertelsmann'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ranking'/><title type='text'>Rot Gelb Rot Rot Gelb</title><content type='html'>Der Spielbericht über ein wüstes Fußballspiel? Eine wildgewordene Ampel? Nein, das &lt;a href="http://www.das-ranking.de/che7/CHE?module=Fachbereich&amp;do=show&amp;amp;id=30020"&gt;Ergebnis des aktuellen Uni-Rankings des CHE&lt;/a&gt; für die Psychologie an der FU! Es ist schon interessant, wie allein die Tatsache, dass es die Ranglisten gibt, einen unwillkürlich dazu bringt, sie sich auch anzuschauen -- egal wie kritisch man Rankings im Allgemeinen und &lt;a href="http://www.che.de/"&gt;Bertelsmann/CHE&lt;/a&gt; im Besonderen auch gegenübersteht. Der &lt;a href="http://www.erwiss.fu-berlin.de/"&gt;Fachbereich&lt;/a&gt;, an den ich bald wieder zurückkehren werde, ist also angeblich in der Schlussgruppe in den Kategorien "Studiensituation gesamt", "Laboraustattung" und "Forschungsgelder" und damit einer der schlechtesten in Deutschland. Fachbereiche, die in mehr als drei Kategorien in die Spitzengruppe kommen, gibt es übrigens auch nicht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Und die Moral von der Geschicht'?&lt;br /&gt;Glaub dem Ranking -- oder nicht.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114669048602307543?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114669048602307543/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114669048602307543' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114669048602307543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114669048602307543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/05/rot-gelb-rot-rot-gelb.html' title='Rot Gelb Rot Rot Gelb'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114619064758878111</id><published>2006-04-27T21:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:11:36.354-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patents'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joachim Wuermeling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>I'm still sick</title><content type='html'>Guess what! There is more ridiculous news from my so-called fatherland. Not only do we have a minister of the interior who thinks &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/04/denk-ich-deutschland.html"&gt;insulting someone as "dirty nigger" does not hint at a racist crime&lt;/a&gt;. No! we also have an under-secretary of state (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Staatssekretär&lt;/span&gt;, the highest rank for civil servants) who has some interesting thoughts on the open-source community and antifascism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/72409"&gt;According to heise online&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.wuermeling.net/"&gt;Joachim Wuermeling&lt;/a&gt; made the following statements on the celebration of World Intellectual Property Day (that there is such a day and high-ranking politicians like the secretary of justice attend to its celebration alone is enough to make me sick...) when he wanted to discredit opponents of software patent legislation on the European level:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;Joachim Wuermeling, former member of the EU-parliament for the [conservative] Christian Social Union and correspondent in the debate about software patents, complained that a 'spiritual/intellectual [the German &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;geistig&lt;/span&gt; can mean both] movement', that is 'connected to the realm of freaks' and has united with 'anti-fascism on the internet', has 'misled the medium-sized businesses (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mittelstand&lt;/span&gt;)'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe someone should remind this person that both the European Parliament and the German Bundestag have rejected the proposed patent legislation with large majorities. And that if we turn around his argument about freaky anti-fascists on the internet that &lt;a href="http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/"&gt;oppose software patents&lt;/a&gt; proponents of these patents somehow must be ordinary fascists in the real world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh! I am so much looking forward to returning to this country...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114619064758878111?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114619064758878111/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114619064758878111' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114619064758878111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114619064758878111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/04/im-still-sick.html' title='I&apos;m still sick'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114617816758155561</id><published>2006-04-27T18:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:09:21.028-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='law'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soccer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='world cup'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trademarks'/><title type='text'>Fußball WM 2006</title><content type='html'>Dies ist das &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fußball WM 2006-Blog&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sie sind überrascht? Sie dachten, dass weder Hobbes noch Boyle Freunde des Sports oder gar des Fußballs sind? Dass die beiden im Gegenteil eher versuchen würden, allem was mit der kommenden Weltmeisterschaft zu tun hat, möglichst weiträumig aus dem Weg zu gehen? Im Prinzip schon, aber:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bis gestern wäre es mir unmöglich gewesen, dieses Blog als "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fußball WM 2006&lt;/span&gt;-Blog" zu bezeichnen, selbst &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;wenn&lt;/span&gt; ich ein großer Fußballfan wäre und gerne über irgendwelche Nationalmannschaften, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv8OfDbPcUM"&gt;anti-deutsche Hymnen&lt;/a&gt; oder sonst etwas WM-Relevantes hätte bloggen wollen. Warum? Aus dem einfachen Grund, dass die die WM austragende FIFA &lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de/online/2006/18/fifa"&gt;insgesamt für 850 Waren und Dienstleistungen "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fußball WM 2006&lt;/span&gt;" als Marke eintragen ließ&lt;/a&gt;. Und damit ein mächtiges Instrument in die Hand bekam, um all den FreundInnen und SponsorInnen der WM, die keine Lust hatten, Unsummen an den Verband zu zahlen, rechtlich an den Karren fahren zu können. Also hätte vermutlich auch mir mit einem "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fußball WM 2006&lt;/span&gt;-Blog" eine Unterlassungserklärung oder Schlimmeres gedroht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Glücklicherweise jedoch wehrten sich einige Unternehmen gegen diesen markenrechtlichen Rundumschlag und beschwerten sich beim zuständigen Patent- und Markenamt. Diese löschte daraufhin zumindest einige der FIFA-Rechte, was diese sich allerdings wiederum nicht gefallen lassen wollte und vor Gericht zog. Vor dem &lt;a href="http://www.bundesgerichtshof.de/"&gt;Bundesgerichtshof&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&amp;Art=pm&amp;amp;Datum=2006&amp;Sort=3&amp;amp;nr=36065&amp;pos=0&amp;amp;anz=68"&gt;wurde die Klage nun abgewiesen&lt;/a&gt;, da "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fußball WM 2006&lt;/span&gt;" keine einzigartige Marke sondern vielmehr ein allgemeiner sprachlicher Begriff sei, der von jedem und jeder -- und damit eben auch von mir! -- verwendet werden könne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um diesen Sieg gegen den markenrechtlichen Irrsinn, der das Publizieren im Internet immer mehr zu einem Vabanque-Spiel macht, zu feiern, widme ich mein Blog der &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fußball WM 2006&lt;/span&gt;! Auch wenn mir von Fußball und WM immer noch herzlich egal sind.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114617816758155561?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114617816758155561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114617816758155561' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114617816758155561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114617816758155561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/04/fuball-wm-2006.html' title='Fußball WM 2006'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114557617487038748</id><published>2006-04-20T18:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:10:30.964-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brandenburg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Germany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='racism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Schäuble'/><title type='text'>Denk ich an Deutschland</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht,&lt;br /&gt;dann bin ich um den Schlaf gebracht.&lt;br /&gt;(“When  I think of Germany at night, I can no longer sleep”; Heinrich Heine 1843)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Why do I always have to write about bad news here? Is it my German angst, is it only natural that I, a German student, am &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/03/deutsche-studenten.html"&gt;"usually not "begeistert"&lt;/a&gt;? Or is it maybe the state of the world in general and of Doitschland in particular? Judge for yourself:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On April 16, &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Germany-Racist-Attack.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"&gt;an Afro-German citizen was attacked &lt;/a&gt;by two men and one woman in the East-German city of Potsdam.  Prior to the attack, the man tried to call his wife from his cell phone, got only her mailbox, and somehow he didn't hang up. Thus we have a &lt;a href="http://www.internetwache.de/fm/85/PotsdamOb.mp3"&gt;recording&lt;/a&gt; of the racist insults (e.g. "Dirty nigger") that preceded the attack. The attack left the man severly wounded and he was put in an artificial coma, now still struggling for his life. So far, so terrible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Immediately after the racist attempted murder became public there was a large outcry of concern and politicians from all over the spectrum condemned the attack. However, several observers suspected that some people might have been more concerned with Germany's reputation than with the racist crime itself, especially only a few weeks before the soccer world-cup will begin (slogan: "The world hosted by friends"). Attacks on foreigners (or those who are believed to be non-German) are not uncommon and this case is by no means unique.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The suspicion about the motives of politicians is furthered by the disgusting remarks of the German minister of the interior, Wolfgang Schäuble (Christian Democrats). In an &lt;a href="http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/interview/491777/"&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with the public broadcaster &lt;a href="http://www.dradio.de/dkultur"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Deutschlandradio Kultur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; four days after the attack he proclaimed: "We don't know about the motives, we don't know the offenders. We should be a bit careful." As if this was not enough, he then fantasized about poor Aryan victims: "Blond, blue-eyed people are also victims of violent crimes, partly even by offenders that possibly don't have the German citizenship. That is no better."&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am so sick!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114557617487038748?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114557617487038748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114557617487038748' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114557617487038748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114557617487038748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/04/denk-ich-deutschland.html' title='Denk ich an Deutschland'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114451260950010120</id><published>2006-04-08T11:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:12:54.385-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EU'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='preventive data retention'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='privacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Kündigung</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/03/datenhamster.html"&gt;Mal&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/12/ich-bin-nicht-schuld.html"&gt;wieder&lt;/a&gt; etwas zum leidigen Thema Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Heise &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71831"&gt;berichtet&lt;/a&gt;, dass der Datenvorrat, den die EU anzulegen plant, nun wohl auch andere, US-amerikanische Datenhamster anlockt. Im &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?list=1&amp;forum_id=96020"&gt;Heise-Forum&lt;/a&gt; gibt zu dieser Meldung natürlich viel anti-amerikanischen Quatsch -- als ob es besser wäre, wenn nur Deutschland/die EU meine Verbindungsdaten ausspionierte! --, aber auch einen &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?read=1&amp;amp;msg_id=10216080&amp;forum_id=96020"&gt;sehr schönen Musterbrief&lt;/a&gt; zur persönlichen Kündigung der EU-Mitgliedschaft:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Sehr geehrte EU,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hiermit kündige ich mit sofortiger Wirkung meine Zugehörigkeit auf.&lt;br /&gt;Die Kündgiung erfolgt auf der grundlage der einseitigen&lt;br /&gt;Nichterfüllung der Vertragsbestandteile seitens der EU. Da das&lt;br /&gt;gelieferte Produkt EU stark von dem beworbenen Produkt EU in&lt;br /&gt;maßgeblichen Punkten unterscheidet und das gelieferte Produkt EU&lt;br /&gt;leider gravierende Mängel in Bezug auf Datenschutz,&lt;br /&gt;Rechtsstaalichkeit, Demokratieverständnis, Bürgernähe,&lt;br /&gt;Verantwortungsgefühl, Ehrlichkeit, Sorgfalt und Grundrechten aufweist&lt;br /&gt;sehe ich mich gezwungen von meinem Mitglieddschaftsvertrag mit&lt;br /&gt;sofortiger Wirkung zurück zu treten.&lt;br /&gt;Die erworbene EU-Mitgliedschaft wird ihnen umgehend unbenutzt zurück&lt;br /&gt;gesendet, bitte erstatten Sie mir umgehend die Bürgerrechte und den&lt;br /&gt;Datenschutz an die von mir angegebenen Daten zurück.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mit unfreundlichen Grüßen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ein ehemaliger EU-Bürer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leider hat die &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?read=1&amp;amp;msg_id=10217330&amp;amp;forum_id=96020"&gt;schnelle Antwort der EU&lt;/a&gt; gezeigt, dass eine Kündigung für die meisten von uns wohl nicht infrage kommt (reicht &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/12/ich-bin-nicht-schuld.html"&gt;das&lt;/a&gt;, um nicht auf "unbegrenzt-2lte" gesetzt zu werden?):&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sehr geehrter Herr Xafford,&lt;br /&gt;mit Bedauern nehmen wir zu Kenntnis, dass Sie mit dem von uns&lt;br /&gt;gelieferten Produkt unzufrieden sind. Unsere Organisation ist stets&lt;br /&gt;bemüht, Interessen zu erfüllen. Leider müssen wir Ihnen mitteilen,&lt;br /&gt;dass eine Kündigung Ihrerseits nicht möglich ist. Da Sie bereits seit&lt;br /&gt;mehreren Jahren unsere Mitgleidschaft in Anspruch genommen haben und&lt;br /&gt;sich nie über unser Produkt beschwert haben -- die von Ihnen&lt;br /&gt;bemängelten Leistungsmerkmale haben wir bereits&lt;br /&gt;seit längerem implementiert -- wurde Ihr Mitgliedschaftsstatus von&lt;br /&gt;unserem Computersystem automatisch auf "unbegrenzt-2lte" gesetzt, was&lt;br /&gt;eine Kündigung vor Ableben (ihrer- oder unsererseits) ausschließt.&lt;br /&gt;Außerdem möchten wir Ihnen zu bedenken geben, dass die von Ihnen&lt;br /&gt;angesprochenen Vertragsbestandteile lediglich zu Ihrem Besten dienen.&lt;br /&gt;Oder wollen Sie etwa, dass unsere Unternehmen weniger Gewinne machen&lt;br /&gt;und Arbeitsplätze abbauen müssen? Dass pornographische Aufnahmen von&lt;br /&gt;unter Drogen gesetzten Kindern von Al-Qaida zur Finanzierung ihrer&lt;br /&gt;Terroraktivitäten verkauft werden? Dass niemand weiß, was Sie im&lt;br /&gt;Internet machen? Wir sind fest davon überzeugt, dass Ihre Kündigung&lt;br /&gt;nur auf Missverständnissen beruht und hoffen auf eine reibungslose&lt;br /&gt;weitere Zusammenarbeit mit Ihnen.&lt;br /&gt;Herzlich,&lt;br /&gt;Ihre EU&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS Der Inhalt dieser Kommunikation wurde gespeichert und ist&lt;br /&gt;sämtlichen Behörden in der EU zugänglich. Wir behalten uns vor, nach&lt;br /&gt;einem Datenabgleich uns noch einmal mit Ihnen in Verbindung zu&lt;br /&gt;setzen. In letzter Zeit ist es verstärkt zu Fällen von Infiltration&lt;br /&gt;rebellischen Gedankenguts unsere Mitglieder gekommen und wir wollen&lt;br /&gt;Sie vor diesen Gefahren weitestgehend schützen.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114451260950010120?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114451260950010120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114451260950010120' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114451260950010120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114451260950010120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/04/kndigung.html' title='Kündigung'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114160652687396269</id><published>2006-03-08T00:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:13:43.958-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sexism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog against sexism day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='feminism'/><title type='text'>Blogging Against Sexism</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;Let's hear it for the boy who'll say&lt;br /&gt;`Get this macho tough guy shit away!´&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Good Clean Fun -- Eleventh Commandment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Alright, &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/03/blogging-against-sexism.html"&gt;as announced&lt;/a&gt;, it is my great pleasure heed &lt;a href="http://vegankid.solidaritydesign.net/"&gt;vegankid&lt;/a&gt;'s call and &lt;a href="http://vegankid.solidaritydesign.net/blog-against-sexism-day"&gt;Blog Against Sexism&lt;/a&gt; today. Since 1921 March 8 is the International Women's Day (from 1910 to 1921 it was called the International Socialist Women's Day and celebrated on March 19), a day for women and men (and everyone between these categories) alike to act and speak up against the still continuing violence against women, against their underrepresentation in politics, companies, and academia, against lower pay for women, against old and young boy's networks, against `harmless´ jokes, against exclusively male spaces, against condescending behavior, against fixed gender roles, against men not sharing the burden of housework, against objectification of women in media, culture, and science, against making women's work and achievements invisible, against pink for girls and blue for boys, against tough guys at hardcore shows. Unfortunately, this list is by no means complete but should nonetheless give you some idea why it is still fucking important to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; something, not only on March 8, but on every day of every year. Period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sexism is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a woman-problem. It is my problem and it is yours. We &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;all&lt;/span&gt; have to take up the fight against sexism, on all levels, at all times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for listening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;Until          you walk, run, fight a mile in her shoes&lt;br /&gt;     Don't you dare stand in front of me and tell me&lt;br /&gt;     What a woman must do&lt;br /&gt;     Until you have walked, run, fought a mile in her shoes&lt;br /&gt;     Don't you dare stand in front of me and tell me   &lt;br /&gt;What          a woman must do&lt;br /&gt;     What a woman must do   &lt;br /&gt;She          must&lt;br /&gt;     Swing from chandeliers for undeserving spouses and paramours&lt;br /&gt;     Who deny her suffrage by day, but crave and praise her womanly wiles by night&lt;br /&gt;     Good enough to fuck but, not good enough to vote&lt;br /&gt;     She must&lt;br /&gt;     Go from the beauty of Africa, to the horrors of massa&lt;br /&gt;     Go from titties dangling bare and shameless&lt;br /&gt;     To being branded, licentious, temptress, embarrassed&lt;br /&gt;     Go from land of yams and heat hot&lt;br /&gt;     To land of cash crops and sellers block&lt;br /&gt;     Go… from God names, to no name, to his names&lt;br /&gt;     Go… from God names, to no name, to his names&lt;br /&gt;     Now Black&lt;br /&gt;     Now inhuman&lt;br /&gt;     Freedom stolen, family stolen, now beholden… but still golden&lt;br /&gt;     Field hollerin'… and Ain't I A Woman&lt;br /&gt;and Ain't I A Woman       I          can see her, me&lt;br /&gt;     Washing dishes, clothes, and children&lt;br /&gt;     Making love, money, dinner, and beds&lt;br /&gt;     Always the first one off a sinking ship&lt;br /&gt;     But last in the line to receive respect   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What&lt;br /&gt;     What a&lt;br /&gt;     What a woman&lt;br /&gt;     What a woman must&lt;br /&gt;     What a woman must do&lt;br /&gt;     What a woman must do&lt;br /&gt;     What a woman must do&lt;br /&gt;     Must do&lt;br /&gt;     Must do, must do, must do, must do, must do…    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She          must&lt;br /&gt;     Wipe away tears and reclaim strength&lt;br /&gt;     After rape, abortion, lover's betrayal, child's birth, child's death,&lt;br /&gt;     husband's abuse&lt;br /&gt;     Tricking to buy baby shoes&lt;br /&gt;     She must&lt;br /&gt;     Be called a muse&lt;br /&gt;     Which is just a synonym for use&lt;br /&gt;     Put upon pedestals&lt;br /&gt;     Dainty and protected&lt;br /&gt;     And because of that disrespected&lt;br /&gt;     Victorianized&lt;br /&gt;     Made a paradox of famous anonymity&lt;br /&gt;     Left to go insane with too much femininity&lt;br /&gt;     Staring at yellow wallpaper   &lt;br /&gt;Her          heart&lt;br /&gt;     Open&lt;br /&gt;     Her legs&lt;br /&gt;     Open&lt;br /&gt;     Warm and welcoming&lt;br /&gt;     Waiting… for phone calls that never come&lt;br /&gt;     Waiting… for words of appreciation that never come&lt;br /&gt;     Waiting… for equal pay that never comes&lt;br /&gt;     Waiting, waiting,          waiting, waiting&lt;br /&gt;     Waiting, waiting, waiting       Waiting          for love&lt;br /&gt;     Waiting for acknowledgment not judgment&lt;br /&gt;     Waiting   &lt;br /&gt;And          when seeking or achieving any kind of power&lt;br /&gt;     Reduced to labels like…        Concubine.          Cunt. Bitch. Whore. Stunt. Witch. Dyke&lt;br /&gt;     Concubine. Cunt. Bitch. Whore. Stunt. Witch. Dyke   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     What a woman must do&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She          must&lt;br /&gt;     Never settle for less based upon her womaness&lt;br /&gt;     Embrace the pronoun and power of SHE&lt;br /&gt;     Know if nothing else that her uniqueness is blessed&lt;br /&gt;     And a necessary component in the union between universe and people&lt;br /&gt;     Equal to man&lt;br /&gt;     At times above human understanding&lt;br /&gt;     She don't have to lay down for nothing or nobody&lt;br /&gt;     Her body in and out a wonder&lt;br /&gt;     The wonder of SHE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ursula-rucker.com/"&gt;Ursula Rucker&lt;/a&gt; -- &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;What a woman must do&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114160652687396269?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114160652687396269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114160652687396269' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114160652687396269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114160652687396269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/03/blogging-against-sexism_08.html' title='Blogging Against Sexism'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114179257065019503</id><published>2006-03-07T23:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:14:33.422-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><title type='text'>Hobbes, Boyle and Air Pumps</title><content type='html'>I've been planning this since the beginning but never had time, energy, or whatever to actually do it: a new layout for my blog. The templates that blogger offers are really nice but, of course, lacking personal touch. The new banner on top now has this personal touch as it reflects on the title of my blog and my blogger-name. Why this thing is called "Luftpumpen und andere Wesen" (air pumps and other beings) has been explained &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/01/ber-die-luftpumpen.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (German only), and so you might recognize some of the actants: on the left we have Mr Thomas Hobbes, followed by the upper half of the frontispiece of his most famous book, &lt;a href="http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-contents.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Leviathan, Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of A Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. In the middle we have a nice drawing of Otto von Guericke's early air pump model as illustrated by his colleague Gaspar Schott. Then comes one of Boyle's air pumps, followed by a portrait of the Honorary Sir Robert Boyle himself.&lt;br /&gt;I must admit that I really like the new design but critical remarks are nonetheless &lt;strike&gt;tolerated&lt;/strike&gt;welcome.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114179257065019503?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114179257065019503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114179257065019503' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114179257065019503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114179257065019503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/03/hobbes-boyle-and-air-pumps.html' title='Hobbes, Boyle and Air Pumps'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114148695844131088</id><published>2006-03-04T10:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T12:50:18.266-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stereotypes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Germany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Karl Pearson'/><title type='text'>Deutsche Studenten</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;A German student is not a pleasant companion, he is unclean, eats "Blut-und-Leber Wurst" and is usually not "begeistert." On the other hand, the English Undergrad is, as a rule clean, lives healthily and learns in a healthy fashion. The aesthetic ideal, mind and body combined, is on our side.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;So der britische Mathematiker Karl Pearson in einem Brief vom 16. Januar 1880 an seinen Mentor Oscar Browning. Da Pearson von der intellektuellen Überlegenheit des neugegründeten Deutschlands überzeugt war, ging er nach seinem Studium in Cambridge für mehrere Monate nach Heidelberg und Berlin -- und war, wie obiges Zitat zeigt, not impressed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114148695844131088?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114148695844131088/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114148695844131088' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114148695844131088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114148695844131088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/03/deutsche-studenten.html' title='Deutsche Studenten'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114134161791663539</id><published>2006-03-02T17:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-02T18:20:17.936-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Datenhamster</title><content type='html'>Seufz, obwohl ich mich im Dezember ja eigentlich schon &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/12/ich-bin-nicht-schuld.html"&gt;exkulpiert hatte&lt;/a&gt;, will ich angesichts neuer Entwicklungen und auch Aktionsmöglichkeit ein paar Neuigkeiten zu den eifrigen Datenhamstern in EU und Doitschland posten. Nachdem am 21. Februar der EU-Rat der in meinem Dezember-Post diskutierten Vorlage des EU-Parlament &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/69881"&gt;ohne wesentliche Änderungen zugestimmt hat&lt;/a&gt; und auch Bundestag und -regierung mehrheitlich keine Probleme mit der Richtlinie haben, gab es heute ein interessantes &lt;a href="http://www.bverfg.de/entscheidungen/rs20060302_2bvr209904.html"&gt;Urteil&lt;/a&gt; des Bundesverfassungsgerichts über den Schutz von Verbindungsdaten und elektronischen Inhalten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das Urteil löste &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/70296"&gt;allgemein gespaltene Reaktionen&lt;/a&gt; aus -- einerseits wurde der Datenschutz geschwächt, da elektronische Kommunikation nur noch während der Übertragung vom strengen Fernmeldegeheimnis geschützt ist. Das heißt, wenn bei einer (richterlich angeordneten) Hausdurchsuchung E-Mails und Handy-Verbindungsdaten beschlagnahmt werden, ist dies -- zumindest solange die Verhältnismäßigkeit gewahrt bleibt, was im verhandelten Fall nicht so war -- rechtens. Ich finde das ehrlich gesagt auch halbwegs einleuchtend, da man sich bei einem Brief, der bei einem zuhause herumliegt, ja auch nicht auf das Postgeheimnis berufen kann. Und abgesehen davon sah die Praxis der Strafverfolgung eh nie anders aus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das Positive an der Entscheidung liegt nun andererseits darin, dass eine Verwertung der Verbindungsdaten &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;während&lt;/span&gt; der Übertragung, also genau der von der Vorratsdatenspeicherung erfasste Sachverhalt, vorsichtig kritisch bewertet wurde. So sahen sich sowohl KritikerInnen als auch &lt;a href="http://www.bmj.bund.de/enid/900605e1998d037906f14fb220854920,176b77707265737365617274696b656c5f6964092d0932333933093a096d795f79656172092d0932303036093a096d795f6d6f6e7468092d093033093a095f7472636964092d0932333933/Presse/Pressemitteilungen_58.html"&gt;BefürworterInnen&lt;/a&gt; der VDS in ihren Ansichten eher bestätigt -- das Urteil ist also definitiv nicht das letzte Wort in dieser Angelegenheit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wer sich in der Angelegenheit nicht auf die blinde Justitia verlassen will und noch Vertrauen in das Instrument der Petition hat, sollte sich dringend als UnterstützerIn bei dieser &lt;a href="http://itc.napier.ac.uk/e-Petition/bundestag/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=60"&gt;Petition an den Bundestag&lt;/a&gt; eintragen (momentan 10 685 Zeichende).  Ich finde die Begründung zwar ziemlich lasch und die Erfolgsaussichten zweifelhaft, aber besser als Nichtstun ist es allemal ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ach ja, &lt;a href="http://www.gnupg.org/"&gt;Verschlüsselung&lt;/a&gt; von &lt;a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/"&gt;E-Mails&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.truecrypt.org/"&gt;Festplatten&lt;/a&gt; und was einem sonst noch so einfällt ist natürlich auch eine sehr gute Idee! Und heutzutage auch nicht mehr so furchtbar kompliziert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In diesem Sinne: Tod den Datenhamstern!*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;* Als Veganer darf ich das! Und ist natürlich auch nur metaphorisch gemeint. Versprochen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114134161791663539?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114134161791663539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114134161791663539' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114134161791663539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114134161791663539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/03/datenhamster.html' title='Datenhamster'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114123035183439418</id><published>2006-03-01T11:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T12:52:25.301-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog against sexism day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='feminism'/><title type='text'>Blogging against sexism</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://vegankid.solidaritydesign.net/images/blog_against_sexism.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://vegankid.solidaritydesign.net/images/blog_against_sexism.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm a bit, yet not too late for promoting the &lt;a href="http://vegankid.solidaritydesign.net/blog-against-sexism-day"&gt;Blog Against Sexism Day&lt;/a&gt; on March 8. Indeed, a very good idea by &lt;a href="http://vegankid.solidaritydesign.net/"&gt;vegankid&lt;/a&gt;, though, of course, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;every&lt;/span&gt; day should be used to blog (and do other things) against sexism. So spread the word and participate!&lt;br /&gt;Vegan-anti-sexist-power go!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS I found this on a nice Berlin-based blog, &lt;a href="http://yeahpope.blogspot.com/"&gt;yeahpope&lt;/a&gt;. Definitely worth checking out.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114123035183439418?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114123035183439418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114123035183439418' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114123035183439418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114123035183439418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/03/blogging-against-sexism.html' title='Blogging against sexism'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-114011202431681110</id><published>2006-02-16T12:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T12:54:53.452-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='freedom of speech'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intellectual property'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trademarks'/><title type='text'>"Die Religion des geistigen Eigentums"</title><content type='html'>Lang nichts mehr geschrieben, und auch dieser Eintrag ist nur ein kurzer Hinweis auf interessante Literatur:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In der &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/"&gt;Telepolis&lt;/a&gt; gibt es einen ganz interessanten &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22047/1.html"&gt;Artikel&lt;/a&gt; über die Einschränkung der Meinungsfreiheit nicht durch staatliche Zensur, sondern durch die "Religion des geistigen Eigentums". Ein Zitat:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Würden Moslems ihren Propheten als Markenzeichen eintragen, hätten sie gute Chancen, die Karikaturen sofort und fast überall qua WTO und andere internationale Organe zu unterbinden."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ich fand die vielen Beispiele erschrecken, in denen es Privatpersonen, Firmen oder Organisationen gelingt, die Äußerung missliebiger Meinungen und Inhalte durch den Verweis auf geistiges Eigentum und einen Haufen schmutziger Tricks im ach so freien Internet zu unterbinden. Wie weit der Begriff der "Religion des geistigen Eigentums", den Peter Mühlbauer unter Hinweis auf eine funktionalistische Konzeption von Religion, wie sie in der Ethnologie entwickelt wurde, sei einmal dahingestellt, aber die Lektüre des Artikels lohnt sich auf jeden Fall.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-114011202431681110?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/114011202431681110/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=114011202431681110' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114011202431681110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/114011202431681110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/02/die-religion-des-geistigen-eigentums.html' title='&quot;Die Religion des geistigen Eigentums&quot;'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113882763402933346</id><published>2006-02-01T15:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T12:53:26.014-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pop culture'/><title type='text'>Suicidal Tendencies</title><content type='html'>Before I get back under my heap of books I wanted to share this great flickr set, &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eitheror/sets/1687654/"&gt;The Lego Suicides&lt;/a&gt;. I guess &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eitheror/78846898/in/set-1687654/"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; is my favorite. Or &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eitheror/78846968/in/set-1687654/"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eitheror/78846992/in/set-1687654/"&gt;This&lt;/a&gt;?...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113882763402933346?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113882763402933346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113882763402933346' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113882763402933346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113882763402933346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/02/suicidal-tendencies.html' title='Suicidal Tendencies'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113798545799230256</id><published>2006-01-22T22:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T12:51:40.504-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='university'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Berlin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Exzellenzinitiative'/><title type='text'>Exzellenz und 21 Millionen</title><content type='html'>Wer es noch nicht gehört hat: die gute alte FU hat es in die zweite Runde des berüchtigten Exzellenzwettbewerbs aka &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Brain Up! Deutschland sucht die Superuni&lt;/span&gt; geschafft. Entgegen dem Urteil der meisten Auguren, &lt;a href="http://fichtenberg.blogspot.com/2006/01/illuminaten-ohne-durchblick.html"&gt;die die FU wohl eher abgeschrieben haben&lt;/a&gt;. Sollte(!) die FU auch noch die zweite Runde überstehen, bekäme sie im Jahr zusätzliche Mittel im Umfang von 21 Millionen Euro. &lt;a href="http://fichtenberg.blogspot.com/"&gt;Fichtenberg&lt;/a&gt; hat sich das einmal &lt;a href="http://fichtenberg.blogspot.com/2006/01/21-millionen-fr-berbezahlte-profs.html"&gt;genauer angeschaut&lt;/a&gt; und kommt zu einem recht vernichtenden Urteil: 21 Millionen seien eh nur ein Tropfen auf den heißen Stein und abgesehen davon würden die Mittel dann vermutlich auch noch nutzlos für überbezahlte Profs ausgegeben.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ich sehe das durchaus differenzierter: zum einen sind 21 Millionen pro Jahr immerhin mehr als 7 Prozent der Mittel, die das Land Berlin an die FU bezahlt. Ob man damit nun das "Oxford in Dahlem" schafft, mag mit gutem Recht bezweifelt werden, unerheblich ist die Summe aber nicht. Außerdem ist die FU ja noch mit einem Exzellenzcluster und einer Graduiertenschule in den anderen Förderlinien des Wettbewerbs im Rennen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zum anderen ist natürlich wirklich die Frage, wozu man das Geld einsetzt. Grundsätzlich finde ich es nicht verwerflich, sich um internationales Spitzenpersonal zu bemühen. Die Behauptung von Fichtenberg, dass deutsche Profs nicht unterbezahlt seien, teile ich so pauschal nicht. Im &lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/jobundberuf/0,1518,390169,00.html"&gt;europäischen Vergleich mögen sich die deutschen ja durchaus im oberen Bereich befinden&lt;/a&gt;, aber ob man deswegen gut finden muss, dass gerade NeueinsteigerInnen weniger verdienen als ihre Kollegen an Schulen und Gerichten? Angesichts der &lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/jobundberuf/0,1518,307516,00.html"&gt;langen, brotlosen Ausbildung und des damit einhergehenden Risikos&lt;/a&gt;, die mit der Entscheidung für die Prof-Laufbahn verbunden ist, finde ich eine angemessene Bezahlung durchaus gerechtfertigt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Außerdem:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ist der Prof aus Harvard (bzw. der, der nach Harvard abzuwanden droht) wirklich um so viel Klassen besser als der aus Buxtehude?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Vielleicht. Wenn ich mir das Lehrpersonal hier so anschaue und mit dem an der FU vergleiche, würde ich auf jeden Fall zu einem "Ja" tendieren. Ein wichtiger Faktor ist dabei übrigens nicht eine prinzipielle Überlegenheit des amerikanischen Hochschulsystems, sondern zu einem großen Teil sicherlich das &lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de/2005/05/B-Berufungsprocedere"&gt;überkommenen Berufungsverfahren in Deutschland&lt;/a&gt;. Die Austrockung des akademischen Mittelbaus, die unterhalb der Professur praktisch keine dauerhaften Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten eröffnet, verschärft die Situation sicher noch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Statt einen überbezahlten Prof könnte man auch fünf "normalbezahlte" einstellen - und/oder Bücher anschaffen, Räumlichkeiten ausbauen, Laptops bereitstellen.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Fünf normale für eine Elite? So gut wird das Personal hier in der Regel auch nicht bezahlt. Die Frage, ob man das Geld lieber für (Spitzen-)Profs ausgibt oder für Bücher, Räume und Laptops verliert dadurch aber nicht an Relevanz. Ich maße mir keine allgemeinverbindliche Antwort an, aber was vielleicht zu bedenken ist, dass es hochqualifiziertem Personal besser gelingen könnte, diejenigen zusätzlichen Drittmittel einwerben zu können, mittels derer man eben diese Materialien anschaffen könnte. Ja, ich bin ein vielleicht ein naiver Optimist, aber ob es besser ist, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;mit&lt;/span&gt; einem Laptop in einem überfüllten Seminar bei einem lausigen Prof zu sitzen als ohne...?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113798545799230256?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113798545799230256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113798545799230256' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113798545799230256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113798545799230256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/01/exzellenz-und-21-millionen.html' title='Exzellenz und 21 Millionen'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113721032835684377</id><published>2006-01-13T22:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-13T22:47:55.140-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Panda-Mania</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.flickr.com/40/86263121_cc3e953a12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://static.flickr.com/40/86263121_cc3e953a12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Wer gerade den &lt;a href="http://nationalzoo.si.edu/default.cfm"&gt;Washingtoner Zoo&lt;/a&gt; besucht, könnte meinen, dort lebten nur drei schwarz-weiß gefleckte, pelzige und überaus süüße Tiere, nämlich die Pandas Mei Xiang, Tian Tian und der gerade erst sechs Monate alte Tai Shan. Dem ist natürlich nicht so, aber wer sich einen Eindruck von der dort grassierenden Pandamie machen will, sollte sich mein &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/haarald/sets/72057594047703319/"&gt;Panda-Mania-Set&lt;/a&gt; bei Flickr anschauen. Kostproben gibt es hier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.flickr.com/36/86263167_c40113e3ee.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://static.flickr.com/36/86263167_c40113e3ee.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS Jemand da draußen mit einem  überzähligen Pro-Account für Flickr?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113721032835684377?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113721032835684377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113721032835684377' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113721032835684377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113721032835684377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/01/panda-mania.html' title='Panda-Mania'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113626196447365193</id><published>2006-01-02T23:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-02T23:19:24.486-05:00</updated><title type='text'>... and a Happy New Year</title><content type='html'>Nach 40-stündiger Reise mit dem Bus bin ich wieder wohlbehalten aus dem Sonnenschein-Staat im kalt-verregneten Ithaca angekommen. Aber nur für einen kurzen Zwischenstopp, schon morgen früh geht es wieder los. Deswegen gibt es hier auch nicht mehr zu lesen und ich verbleibe stattdessen ledigilich mit den besten Wünschen für das  Neue Jahr an alle meine Leserinnen und Leser!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113626196447365193?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113626196447365193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113626196447365193' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113626196447365193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113626196447365193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2006/01/and-happy-new-year.html' title='... and a Happy New Year'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113468535745248010</id><published>2005-12-15T15:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-15T17:22:37.510-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ich bin nicht schuld!</title><content type='html'>Also: damit es nachher nicht heißt, ich hätte nichts gesagt, muss ich hier dringend meine Meinung zu den neuesten Anti-Datenschutzschweinereien kundtun, die die kürzlich erwähnte Verfügung zur Zensurpflicht bei Forenbeiträgen in ihrer Gefährlichkeit noch deutlich in den Schatten stellen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wer es noch nicht mitbekommen hat (die Berichterstattung in deutschen Nicht-Internet-Medien muss wohl irgendwo zwischen "&lt;a href="http://tagesthemen.de/"&gt;unterirdisch&lt;/a&gt;" und "&lt;a href="http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute"&gt;nicht vorhanden&lt;/a&gt;" rangiert haben): das EU-Parlament hat einen Beschluss zur massiven Ausweitung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung gefasst. Das heißt, sämtliche Verbindungsdaten von Telefon- und Internetverbindungen sollen in Zukunft für mindestens 6, gerne aber auch bis zu 24 Monaten von den Providern gespeichert werden und den Ermittlungsbehörden zugänglich sein. Diese erhoffen sich -- wer hätte es gedacht? -- wundersame Erfolge gegen den guten alten Terrorismus. Widerstand gab es im Parlament wohl nur bei den üblichen Verdächtigen, die aber mit 387:204 eine deutliche Niederlage gegen eine große Koalition der Datenkraken erlitten. Außerparlamentarisch gab es starken Widerstand vor allem von Vertretern der Provider, die in vielen Staaten vermutlich selbst für die Kosten der Speicherung aufkommen müssen, und diversen Datenschutzanhängern.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die besten Beiträge zum Thema finden sich bei &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/ct/aktuell/meldung/66857"&gt;Heise&lt;/a&gt; und der &lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de/online/2005/50/vorratsdatenspeicherung"&gt;Zeit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113468535745248010?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113468535745248010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113468535745248010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113468535745248010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113468535745248010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/12/ich-bin-nicht-schuld.html' title='Ich bin nicht schuld!'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113433755487319239</id><published>2005-12-11T16:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T16:45:54.890-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Folie et bierre</title><content type='html'>Okay, we always knew it: mental asylums in the era of the &lt;a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/madnessandciv/section2.rhtml"&gt;Great Confinement&lt;/a&gt; could not have been &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;all &lt;/span&gt;bad, that would be just too un-Foucaultian. So the &lt;a href="http://hpy.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/15/2/155"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; by Niall McCrae in &lt;a href="http://hpy.sagepub.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;History of Psychiatry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; finally proves it: at least they had beer!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Routine distribution of alcoholic beverages&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;to mental hospital patients would be                     a fanciful prospect today, yet in the formative decades of lunatic asylums, beer                     was standard issue. A staple item in the supposedly healthy Victorian asylum                    &lt;sup&gt; &lt;/sup&gt;diet, beer also served as inducement for patient labour. Around the mid-1880s,                     this commodity was abolished throughout Britain’s mental institutions. This paper explores the factors that combined to condemn the beer barrel to                     asylum history, and, in particular, how this small comfort for inmates fell foul&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; of the medicalization of the asylum and of the professional project of psychiatry. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113433755487319239?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113433755487319239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113433755487319239' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113433755487319239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113433755487319239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/12/folie-et-bierre.html' title='Folie et bierre'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113409402780406208</id><published>2005-12-08T21:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-08T21:27:34.716-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Design Update</title><content type='html'>Wie &lt;a href="http://to-ithaca.blogspot.com"&gt;drüben&lt;/a&gt; gibt es jetzt auch hier in der Sidebar fünf Zufallsfotos von meinem &lt;a href="http://photos.flickr.com/haarald"&gt;flickr-Account&lt;/a&gt; zu sehen. Und da ich schon beim Vorlage-Ändern war, habe ich auch gleich noch die &lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/de/"&gt;Creative Commons-Lizenz&lt;/a&gt; integriert. Als nächstes wäre dringend mal ein anständiges Bild für den Header fällig...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113409402780406208?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113409402780406208/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113409402780406208' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113409402780406208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113409402780406208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/12/design-update.html' title='Design Update'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113380800143743394</id><published>2005-12-05T13:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-05T13:40:01.463-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Zensur</title><content type='html'>Im Rahmen des &lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/"&gt;World Summit on the Information Society&lt;/a&gt; bekam die Zensur des Internets wieder einmal erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit. Die Assoziation, die sich dabei einstellt, sind vermutlich erst einmal chinesische Schergen, die in Hinterhof-Internetcafés &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4398243.stm"&gt;bloggende Dissidenten verhaften &lt;/a&gt;oder die anonyme &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/58586"&gt;Zensur über diverse Filtersysteme&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Doch auch in Deutschland ist die Informationsfreiheit prekär, wie nicht zuletzt eine Entscheidung des Hamburger Landgerichts zeigt. Dort wurde eine einstweilige Verfügung bestätigt, "&lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/66982"&gt;nach der es heise online verboten ist, Forenbeiträge zu verbreiten, in denen dazu aufgerufen wird, durch den massenhaften Download eines Programms den Server-Betrieb eines Unternehmens zu stören. Der Heise Zeitschriften Verlag wird damit faktisch gezwungen, sämtliche Beiträge zu den Diskussionsforen im Vorhinein auf diesen Rechtsverstoß hin zu überprüfen.&lt;/a&gt;" Sollte dieses Urteil Bestand haben (heise legt Rechtsmittel ein), wäre das der Tod praktisch sämtlicher Forensysteme und auch der Kommentarfunktionen bei Blogs. Meinereiner könnte die zwei Kommentare pro Monat ja im Prinzip noch von Hand vor der Veröffentlichung prüfen, aber ab einem bestimmten Aufkommen (heise hat wohl 220 000 Postings/Monat) ist das natürlich unmöglich.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113380800143743394?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113380800143743394/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113380800143743394' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113380800143743394'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113380800143743394'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/12/zensur.html' title='Zensur'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113368074933935767</id><published>2005-12-04T02:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-04T02:19:09.353-05:00</updated><title type='text'>"I liked the old stuff better..."</title><content type='html'>The above quote (alternative version: "I only liked their demo") is a absolutely necessary part of your vernacular if you want to be a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;real&lt;/span&gt; punk rock or hardcore kid. As some of us are either too young to actually own the old stuff and/or don't have the money to pay 50+$ for some 7inch, there is still &lt;a href="http://www.7inchpunk.com/"&gt;hope&lt;/a&gt;. He doesn't offer it all, but it's a fine and ever growing selection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another good source for old stuff can be found &lt;a href="http://killedbydeath.org/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. While 7inchpunk offers direct downloads, killedbydeath is a 128k-stream.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.spreeblick.com/2005/12/03/7-inch-punkrock/"&gt;Spreeblick&lt;/a&gt; for the hint.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113368074933935767?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113368074933935767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113368074933935767' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113368074933935767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113368074933935767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/12/i-liked-old-stuff-better.html' title='&quot;I liked the old stuff better...&quot;'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113355105954647678</id><published>2005-12-02T14:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-02T14:17:39.560-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Advent</title><content type='html'>Die Zeit vor Weihnachten hat eine Vielzahl übler Begleiterscheinungen wie grausliche Musik im Supermarkt, überfüllte Lden, schlechtes Wetter usw. usf. Umso mehr freut es mich, etwas Positives über die Adventszeit berichten zu können: Sie beschert uns nämlich ein &lt;a href="http://regener.blogg.de/"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt; von Sven Regener, bekannt als Sänger von &lt;a href="http://www.element-of-crime.de/"&gt;Element of Crime&lt;/a&gt; und Autor &lt;a href="www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3821807431"&gt;wunderbarer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3442453305"&gt;Bücher&lt;/a&gt; über Frank Lehmann. Wer die Bücher kennt, wird sich schon denken können, was ihn erwartet, und alle anderen sollten die Gelegenheit schleunigst nutzen, Regener kennenzulernen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113355105954647678?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113355105954647678/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113355105954647678' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113355105954647678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113355105954647678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/12/advent.html' title='Advent'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113169396215487295</id><published>2005-11-11T02:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-11T02:26:02.170-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Frankreich</title><content type='html'>Nur eine klitzekleine Anmerkung zur Lage in Frankreich: Ich war mehr als überrascht, als ich einige Tage nach Beginn der Ausschreitungen (sie hatten sich zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits über das ganze Land ausgebreitet) in der Tagesschau hörte, wieviele Polizisten zur Eindämmung der Krawalle im Einsatz waren. 8000! Während ich mich zuvor noch gefragt hatte, wie es den Kids gelingen konnte, ein solches Ausmaß der Zerstörung zu erreichen, wurde mir angesichts jener Zahl einiges klar. Zur Veranschaulichung für mit Polizeitaktik weniger Vertraute: 8000 ist genau die Zahl an Cops, die 2004 am 1. Mai in Berlin im Einsatz waren. Ja -- allein in Berlin! Sehr seltsam, diese offensichtliche Fehleinschätzung der Lage.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113169396215487295?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113169396215487295/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113169396215487295' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113169396215487295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113169396215487295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/11/frankreich.html' title='Frankreich'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113107533168334062</id><published>2005-11-03T22:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-03T22:38:20.716-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Trackback? Backlink?</title><content type='html'>Blogger scheint nun endlich endlich Trackbacks eingeführt zu haben. Zufällig bin ich bei den Einstellungen auf die Option "Backlinks aktivieren" gestoßen und der Hilfetext klingt eigentlich so, als ob sich um eine Trackback-Funktion handelt. So ganz sicher bin ich mir allerdings nicht, und Google hat oft die schlechte Angewohnheit, auf neue Features nicht hinzuweisen. Vielleicht ist es noch Beta? Oder ich muss meine Vorlage ändern (der Link zur Anleitung ist leider tot)? Warten wir mal ab, vielleicht funktioniert es ja auch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Addendum: Es ist tatsächlich etwas &lt;a href="http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/2005/10/blogger-backlinks-feature-not-quite.html"&gt;anderes als Trackback&lt;/a&gt;. Aber auch nicht schlecht, denke ich. Und ich muss meine Vorlage nicht von Hand ändern.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113107533168334062?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113107533168334062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113107533168334062' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113107533168334062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113107533168334062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/11/trackback-backlink.html' title='Trackback? Backlink?'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113107329107963585</id><published>2005-11-03T21:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-03T22:01:31.090-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Die Währung der Bildung</title><content type='html'>Der &lt;a href="http://transatlanticker.twoday.net"&gt;TransatlanTicker&lt;/a&gt; hat auf die Daumenregel des DAAD bei der Umrechnung von US- in ECTS-credits &lt;a href="http://transatlanticker.twoday.net/stories/1108597/"&gt;hingewiesen&lt;/a&gt;. Für einen US-c soll man zwei ECTS-c bekommen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Da ich diese Umrechnung intuitiv als schief empfand, habe ich folgende Berechnungen angestellt:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ein Cornell-Seminar hat dieses Semester 14 Sitzungen á 115 Minuten, ein deutsches Seminar ebenfalls etwa 14 Sitzungen á 90 Minuten. Damit kommt man in Cornell auf knapp 27h, in D auf 21h. Für ein Hauptseminar mit benotetem Schein bekommt man in D wohl 7 Credits [&lt;a href="http://www.soziologie.uni-jena.de/soziolog/studium/credit_points_d.pdf"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;], hier gibt es für ein Graduate-Seminar 4 credits, die nach oben genannter Formel 8 Euro-Credits wert wären. Wenn man nun davon ausgeht, dass die Vor- und Nachbereitungszeit + Hausarbeit in D und US gleich sind (was natürlich nicht stimmt) , käme man in D auf 0,33 credits/h, in US auf 0,30 credits/h.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fazit: Die Umrechnung ist besser als erwartet, zumindest wenn man in D nicht vom realen Durchschnittsaufwand außerhalb der eigentlichen Lehrveranstaltung ausgeht, sondern von einem fleißigen, aber nicht zu schnellen Studierenden. Erhöhte man den Umrechnungsfaktor auf 2,5, ergäbe sich ein credit/h-Verhältnis von 0,33(D) zu 0,37(US), was ich angemessener fände. Aber ist ja auch nur eine Daumenregel.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113107329107963585?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113107329107963585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113107329107963585' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113107329107963585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113107329107963585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/11/die-whrung-der-bildung.html' title='Die Währung der Bildung'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113029931179562425</id><published>2005-11-02T23:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-03T02:32:52.476-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Vierfruchtmarmelade, Versicherungsbescheide</title><content type='html'>Dieser Eintrag ist eigentlich eine Notiz an mich, damit ich das Projekt nicht aus den Augen verliere. Das Projekt ist eine Kompilation der raren (das macht es realisierbar), aber dafür zumeist umso skurrileren (das macht es erstrebenswert) Beispiele im Werk &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann"&gt;Niklas Luhmanns&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eine kleine Kostprobe gefällig?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Man vertraut zum Beispiel als Mitglied oder Nichtmitglied auf die großen Organisationssysteme der Sach- und Datenverarbeitung, obwohl man weiß, daß die Ziele dieser Systeme nicht die Ziele der in ihnen wirkenden Menschen sind, daß vielmehr alle Beteiligten auf komplexen, störanfälligen und im einzelnen nicht einsehbaren Umwegen motiviert werden müssen, Vierfruchtmarmelade, Versicherungsbescheide usw. zu erzeugen. (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Vertrauen.&lt;/span&gt; Stuttgart: Enke, 1968, S. 67)&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113029931179562425?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113029931179562425/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113029931179562425' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113029931179562425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113029931179562425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/11/vierfruchtmarmelade.html' title='Vierfruchtmarmelade, Versicherungsbescheide'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-113089745152084254</id><published>2005-11-01T20:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-01T21:10:51.536-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Bescheidenheit ist (k)eine Zier?</title><content type='html'>Wenn man sich an einer amerikanischen Elitehochschule wie Stanford bewirbt, scheint die Tugend der Bescheidenheit jedenfalls nicht sehr verbreitet zu sein. Kostprobe gefällig?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Gold is not always a shifting, malleable metal; it is hardened by alloying with&lt;br /&gt;other metals, increasing its strength. I hope to go through a corresponding process at&lt;br /&gt;Stanford. I want to become a more solid citizen through exposure to other viewpoints and cultures, and by offering my own. I will mix with new perspectives; I will alloy with my fellow students, with my professors, and with the learning that both groups impart in order to become stronger academically, socially, and culturally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Der güld'ne Student will sich also an den unedlen Metallen (a.k.a. KommilitonInnen und ProfessorInnen) in Stanford stärken...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leider weiß ich nicht, ob die Bewerbung erfolgreich. Ich bin dieses Meisterwerks vermittels eines &lt;a href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112137622/ABSTRACT"&gt;Artikels&lt;/a&gt; (leider nicht frei zugänglich) über die Kovariation von Textkomplexität und Einschätzung der Intelligenz des Autors habhaft geworden. (Methodisch zweifelhaftes) Ergebnis der Studie ist, dass komplexere Texte zu einer niedrigeren Intelligenzschätzung führen. Der Artikel selbst hat übrigens selbst noch eine (absichtliche?) Stilblüte gleich im Titel zu bieten: "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly". Welche Intelligenzschätzung sich der Autor, Daniel M. Oppenheimer, damit wohl verdient hat?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-113089745152084254?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/113089745152084254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=113089745152084254' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113089745152084254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/113089745152084254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/11/bescheidenheit-ist-keine-zier.html' title='Bescheidenheit ist (k)eine Zier?'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112891409012285298</id><published>2005-10-09T22:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-09T23:14:50.133-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Donna Summer...</title><content type='html'>... ist nicht nur der Name einer &lt;a href="http://www.donna-tribute.com/"&gt;Discoqueen&lt;/a&gt;, sondern auch das Pseudonym von &lt;a href="http://www.cockrockdisco.com/"&gt;Jason Forrest&lt;/a&gt;. Ich war schon 2004 durch einen Zeitungsartikel auf ihn aufmerksam geworden und habeDonna Summer auf der &lt;a href="http://www.fusion-festival.de/"&gt;Fusion&lt;/a&gt; dann auch live gesehen. Dort war ich nur mittelmäßig beeindruckt und sein &lt;a href="http://www.cockrockdisco.com/Post-disco-comments.html"&gt;Album&lt;/a&gt; fand ich zwar recht gut, aber auch nicht umwerfend. Durch einen neuerlichen &lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de/online/2005/41/forrest"&gt;Artikel&lt;/a&gt;, diesmal in der &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Zeit&lt;/span&gt;, stieß ich auf die Website seiner &lt;a href="http://www.wfmu.org/donnasummer/"&gt;Sendung&lt;/a&gt; beim New Yorker Sender &lt;a href="http://www.wfmu.org/"&gt;WFMU&lt;/a&gt; und ich kann sie nur wärmstens empfehlen! Es gibt sämtliche Sendungen als Stream inclusive Playlists. Musikalisch wird ein breites Spektrum von Elektronika aller Provenienz geboten -- verhackstückte Disco-Songs, Gabber-Genüppel, Breakcore, abgefahrene Remixe, House usw. Die Platten und CDs ercheinen in der Regel auf obskuren Mini-Labels oder werden Herrn Summer von den Künstlern (Frauen scheinen rar im genre zu sein) auf CD-R zugeschickt. Ich höre heute schon den ganzen Tag archivierte Shows und stoße immer wieder auf neue Perlen (wo findet man sonst schon &lt;a href="http://www.reptilianrecords.com/reptilian/hatebeek.html"&gt;Deathmetal-Grindcore mit einem Papagei am Gesang&lt;/a&gt;?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forrest lebt inzwischen übrigens in meiner alten Heimat Berlin.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112891409012285298?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112891409012285298/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112891409012285298' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112891409012285298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112891409012285298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/10/donna-summer.html' title='Donna Summer...'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112861247416048077</id><published>2005-10-06T11:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-06T11:27:54.166-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Copy, Shake, Paste, and Pay</title><content type='html'>Kürzlich habe ich hier über die &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/09/copy-shake-and-paste.html"&gt;Plagiatsproblematik&lt;/a&gt; an deutschen Hochschulen berichtet. Auf SpiegelOnline wird heute über die &lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/0,1518,378304,00.html"&gt;drastischen Maßnahmen&lt;/a&gt; der Uni Münster berichtet. Mir ist allerdings vollkommen unklar, warum man auch auf Geldbußen als Sanktion zurückgreift. Ist der Ausschluss von weiteren Prüfungen nicht eine hinreichende Drohung? Außerdem haben Geldbußen immer das Problem, dass sie sozial selektiv wirken (bei 50 000 Euro relativiert sich das allerdings wieder etwas...).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112861247416048077?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112861247416048077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112861247416048077' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112861247416048077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112861247416048077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/10/copy-shake-paste-and-pay.html' title='Copy, Shake, Paste, and Pay'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112856922086724099</id><published>2005-10-05T23:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-05T23:29:29.760-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Seabiscuit</title><content type='html'>Ja, ich weiß: ich schreibe hier immer nur über alten Kram. Und oft auch über &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/09/batman-ends-zumindest-fr-mich.html"&gt;schlechten&lt;/a&gt;. Für ersteres bin natürlich ich selbst schuld, für zweiteres kann ich jedoch definitiv nichts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also mal wieder etwas über einen schlechten Film, nämlich Gary Ross' &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329575/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Seabiscuit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Wie die &lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de/2003/40/Sea_Biscuit"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Zeit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;berichtet, war Ross wohl Redenschreiber für Bill Clinton und &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;das merkt man.&lt;/span&gt; Der ganze Film ist voller Pathos, "jeder kann es schaffen, wenn er nur darum kämpft", "wir Amerikaner haben eine zweite Chance verdient", blablabla. Die Charaktere passen in ihrer Holzschnittartigkeit hervorragend zu diesen Platitüden: der unerträglich sympathische Underdog Tobey Maguire, der altmodisch-rätselhafte Pferdeflüsterer, der erfolgreiche Vater-Geschäftsmann, der alles in seinen Traum investiert, die sich modern kleidende, aber letztlich doch nur gutaussehend herumstehende Ehefrau, der schwarze Pferdeknecht, der auf etwa sechs Zeilen Dialog bekommt usw usf. Auch die (zugegebenermaßen gut gemachten) Bilder von schwitzenden Pferdeleibern, Rennfans mit Hut und ähnlichem runden den Eindruck ab. Wenn man die Botschaft gut findet, wird man diesen Film vermutlich lieben, ansonsten ist er nur schwer erträglich.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112856922086724099?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112856922086724099/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112856922086724099' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112856922086724099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112856922086724099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/10/seabiscuit.html' title='&lt;em&gt;Seabiscuit&lt;/em&gt;'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112803510392058467</id><published>2005-09-29T18:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-29T19:05:03.926-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Commodities you cannot buy</title><content type='html'>While reading an article about collaboration of science museums I came across a strange economical fact: You could not buy a robot dinosaur model at 1996. This fact (btw: meaning the end of one long-year museum cooperation), seems to be quite contradictory to what I know about economy, both in a mainstream and in a Marxist understanding. The authors of the article claimed that manufacturers of the dinosaurs based their business on leasing fees but this does not explain why it is not possible to buy a model---the manufacturers shouldn't care too much if they get their money in one payment or over some years. I really cannot make sense of this story, and I'd be really interested if there are other products that are commodified in this strange way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS During my research on this topic I found out that the &lt;a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/"&gt;Natural History Museum&lt;/a&gt; in London became a &lt;a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/business-centre/ibd/a/sections/about.htm"&gt;retailer&lt;/a&gt; (yes, now they also the stuff) for dino-models. Modern capitalism is really complicated...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112803510392058467?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112803510392058467/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112803510392058467' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112803510392058467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112803510392058467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/09/commodities-you-cannot-buy.html' title='Commodities you cannot buy'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112800277340080030</id><published>2005-09-29T10:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-29T10:06:13.400-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Haloscan</title><content type='html'>Wie schon im Blog meines &lt;a href="http://to-ithaca.blogspot.com/"&gt;amerikanischen Alter Ego&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://to-ithaca.blogspot.com/2005/09/trackback-confusion.html"&gt;beschrieben&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hatte ich auch in der Luftpumpenwelt versehentlich das Haloscan-Kommentarsystem installiert und es nun wieder entfernt. Kommentare sind dadurch keine verloren gegangen, da hier ja eh nie niemand was schreibt...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112800277340080030?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112800277340080030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112800277340080030' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112800277340080030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112800277340080030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/09/haloscan.html' title='Haloscan'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112800232852103776</id><published>2005-09-29T09:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-29T09:58:48.533-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Copy, Shake, and Paste</title><content type='html'>Bei &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/"&gt;Telepolis &lt;/a&gt;gibt es einen interessanten &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20982/1.html"&gt;Artikel&lt;/a&gt; von Stefan Weber zum Wuchern des Plagiierens,  sowohl im universitäten Kontext als auch bei der Wikipedia. Die Zahlen von 15--20 Prozent scheinen mir durchaus realistisch zu sein, was sicherlich auch mit dem laxen Vorgehen deutscher Universitäten zu tun hat. Ein befreundeter Dozent, dem man ein Plagiat als Hausarbeit eingereicht hatte (Erkennungsmerkmal: "das war zu gut formuliert"), ließ es mit der Aufforderung, das ganze doch bitte abzuändern, bewenden; und die zweite Version unterschied sich auch nur marginal von der ersten...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Hier in den USA ist zumindest die Politik der Universitäten deutlich&lt;br /&gt; konsequenter: Alle Studierenden (und Angestellten) verpflichten sich,&lt;br /&gt; einen "&lt;a href="http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Academic/AIC.html"&gt;Code of Integrity&lt;/a&gt;" einzuhalten und Verstöße&lt;br /&gt; können bis zu einem Nichtbestehen des Kurses führen (was hier eine&lt;br /&gt; recht drastische Maßnahme ist, da man in vielen Graduate-Kursen keine&lt;br /&gt;failed courses haben darf, um zum Abschluss zugelassen zu werden). Wie die Handhabung in der Praxis aussieht, kann ich nicht einschätzen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112800232852103776?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112800232852103776/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112800232852103776' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112800232852103776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112800232852103776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/09/copy-shake-and-paste.html' title='Copy, Shake, and Paste'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112710181980468559</id><published>2005-09-18T23:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T00:43:00.364-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drugs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Sende jetzt eine SMS mit WAHL05...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/RhtSCU1-aII/AAAAAAAAAAg/9v0xeL7TTDI/s1600-h/screenshot.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/RhtSCU1-aII/AAAAAAAAAAg/9v0xeL7TTDI/s320/screenshot.jpg" alt="Gerhard Schröder" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051721606934456450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Morgen im Fernsehen:&lt;br /&gt;+ + +&lt;br /&gt;Hol dir den cooooolsten Klingelton auf deeeeeiiiiin Handyyyyy.&lt;br /&gt;Schicke einfach "WAHL05" an die 11445 und du bekommst diesen&lt;br /&gt;cooooolen Klingelton mit dem bekifften Schröder direkt aufs&lt;br /&gt;Handyyyyy.&lt;br /&gt;Einfach "WAHL05" an die 11445.&lt;br /&gt;+ + + [&lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?read=1&amp;msg_id=8864610&amp;amp;forum_id=84990"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ich habe mir die "Elefantenrunde" gerade im Livestream bei &lt;a href="http://www.phoenix.de/"&gt;Phoenix&lt;/a&gt; angeschaut und der obige Post im Heise-Forum trifft es voll. Wobei er eher wie vollgekokst und nicht wie bekifft wirkte. Wer zum Teufel hat dem armen Bundeskanzler etwas ins Glas gekippt??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ernstnehmen kann man diesen &lt;a href="http://www.wahlquark.de.vu/"&gt;Wahlquark&lt;/a&gt; jedenfalls nicht (welch Überraschung). In diesem Sinne muss ich also nicht nur vom kleineren Übel kotzen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Was ich übrigens spannender finde als das widerliche Gebaren von Schröder et al., ist das offensichtliche Versagen der Meinungsforschungsinstitute. Die Erklärung, dass sich die Leute eben erst am Samstag oder Sonntag entschlossen haben, finde ich ein wenig billig. Man müsste sich einmal Studien ansehen, die untersuchen, wann Leute ihre Entscheidung treffen und ob die "Last-Minute"-Wählerinnen und -Wähler wirklich so massiv zugenommen haben.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112710181980468559?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112710181980468559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112710181980468559' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112710181980468559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112710181980468559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/09/sende-jetzt-eine-sms-mit-wahl05.html' title='Sende jetzt eine SMS mit WAHL05...'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WbgJ-s61L_Q/RhtSCU1-aII/AAAAAAAAAAg/9v0xeL7TTDI/s72-c/screenshot.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112684525105048413</id><published>2005-09-15T18:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-19T14:27:47.083-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Old Boy</title><content type='html'>Eigentlich hatte ich geplant, jetzt nach meinem Kinonbesuch, in der Bib zu sitzen und noch ein wenig meine heutige Seitenbilanz aufzubessern. Nach dem Genuss(?) von &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/"&gt;Oldboy&lt;/a&gt; habe ich mich aber kurzfristig umentschieden -- dieser Film von &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661791/"&gt;Chan-wook Park&lt;/a&gt; hat mich doch zu sehr mitgenommen. Ich hatte zum Start in Deutschland schon einige sehr positive Kritiken gelesen, in denen aber auch vor den sehr expliziten Gewaltszenen gewarnt wurde. Ich bin in dieser Hinsicht sowieso eher zart besaitet und hatte dementsprechend die Befürchtung, mir während des ganzen Filmes die Augen zuhalten zu müssen. Dem war zum Glück nicht so: Zähneausbrechen in Großaufnahme und ähnliches nimmt nur einen kleinen Teil des Filmes ein. Dennoch ist Gewalt, blind zuschlagende, nicht erklärbare Gewalt das Kernelement der Geschichte, die ich an dieser Stelle nicht  nacherzählen will. Der Film ist eine eindeutige Empfehlung, man sollte sich eben nur nichts danach vornehmen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112684525105048413?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112684525105048413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112684525105048413' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112684525105048413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112684525105048413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/09/old-boy.html' title='Old Boy'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112666016147152999</id><published>2005-09-13T21:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-13T21:20:09.713-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ich war's!</title><content type='html'>Normalerweise wird man ja ungern mit Mordfällen in Verbindung gebracht, aber ich diesem Fall nehme ich die mir zustehende Verantwortung gerne auf mich:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Blogs bringen den ökonomischen Tod dummer Medien.&lt;br /&gt;Natürlich nicht sie alleine und nicht in der heutigen Form, aber sicher in den nächsten 10 Jahren. [&lt;a href="http://blogg.zeit.de/online/trackback.php?id=2"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;So jedenfalls das &lt;a href="http://blogg.zeit.de/online/eintrag.php?id=1"&gt;neu eingerichtete&lt;/a&gt; Zeit-Redaktionsblog &lt;a href="http://blogg.zeit.de/online/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ZEITansage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. In diesem Sinne hoffe ich mal, dass die Zeit selbst nicht zu selbigen zählt, da ich mein Geständnis dann vielleicht doch lieber wiederriefe.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112666016147152999?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112666016147152999/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112666016147152999' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112666016147152999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112666016147152999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/09/ich-wars.html' title='Ich war&apos;s!'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112645910311621304</id><published>2005-09-11T13:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-11T13:18:23.120-04:00</updated><title type='text'>ADHS und Risiko</title><content type='html'>Wer sich für das Thema Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-(Hyperaktivitäts-)Störung interessiert, kann seit heute eine &lt;a href="http://userpage.zedat.fu-berlin.de/%7Ekliems/Risiko"&gt;kleine Site&lt;/a&gt; zu einem unter anderem von meiner Wenigkeit durchgeführten Projekt finden. Auf der Basis von fünf ausführlichen Interviews (teilweise auf der Seite veröffentlicht), wird dort der Frage nachgegangen, ob sich für von AD(H)S Betroffene eine wahrgenommene Unsicherheit ergibt, etwa über Folgen der Medikation oder die Sicherheit der Diagnose, und wie sie damit umgehen. Nichts Weltbewegendes, aber ich finde die Perspektive der Betroffenen in Interviewform recht spannend.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112645910311621304?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112645910311621304/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112645910311621304' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112645910311621304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112645910311621304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/09/adhs-und-risiko.html' title='ADHS und Risiko'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112637667884022101</id><published>2005-09-10T08:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-10T14:24:38.846-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Fotos vom Yellow Dog-Festival</title><content type='html'>Ich habe mal ein paar Bilder vom Yellow Dog-Festival im vergangenen Juli &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haarald/"&gt;online&lt;/a&gt; gestellt (nur die harmlosen natürlich...)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112637667884022101?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112637667884022101/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112637667884022101' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112637667884022101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112637667884022101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/09/fotos-vom-yellow-dog-festival.html' title='Fotos vom Yellow Dog-Festival'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112637330793484756</id><published>2005-09-10T07:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-10T13:28:27.940-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Batman Ends --- zumindest für mich</title><content type='html'>Angelockt vom reduzierten Eintrittspreis von 2 Dollar, habe ich mir gestern &lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/"&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/a&gt; angeschaut. Ich will gar nicht viel darüber schreiben, aber es war der schlechteste Film, den ich seit langem gesehen habe. Während ich den &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096895/"&gt;alten Batman&lt;/a&gt; von Tim Burton wegen seiner hübschen Comic-Ästethik recht nett fand, ist bei &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/span&gt; jeglicher Charme verloren gegangen. Übrig geblieben ist ein Elend plumper Action-Film, der dazu auch noch langweilig ist. Die Kampf-Szenen sind mit ihren zu schnellen Schnitten ebenfalls uninspirierend und ja: der Film endet damit, dass Batman und seine Jugendfreundin endlich zueinander finden. Würg.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112637330793484756?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112637330793484756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112637330793484756' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112637330793484756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112637330793484756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/09/batman-ends-zumindest-fr-mich.html' title='Batman Ends --- zumindest für mich'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112587716447250208</id><published>2005-09-04T19:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-04T19:39:24.476-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Was fehlt</title><content type='html'>&lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;eine Stereoanlage&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Neukölln-Nord&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;   &lt;li&gt;meine Poster und Fotos&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;li&gt;mein Elch&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Energie&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;   &lt;li&gt;ihr (ja, genau &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ihr&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS Nein, ich bin nicht depressiv, habe kein Heimweh, keinen Kulturschock. Nur ein bisschen schlechte Laune.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112587716447250208?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112587716447250208/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112587716447250208' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112587716447250208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112587716447250208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/09/was-fehlt.html' title='Was fehlt'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112423557074651968</id><published>2005-08-29T05:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-29T11:32:59.770-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Darstellen und Eingreifen</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Nachdem meine Postingaktivitaet in letzter Zeit -- ganz gemäß meinem Lebensfokus -- sich auf die Odyssee beschränkt hat, will ich mir nun wieder Zeit nehmen, hier ein etwas umfangreicheres Update zu veröffentlichen. Grund ist, dass ich endlich dazu gekommen bin, &lt;a href="http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/phi_his/"&gt;Ian Hacking&lt;/a&gt;s &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3150094429/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Einfuehrung in die Philosophie der Naturwissenschaften&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; zu Ende zu lesen. Um es gleich vorwegzunehmen: Unbedingt lesen! Alle, die irgendetwas mit Naturwissenschaft, Wissenschaftsgeschichte oder Philosophie am Hut haben, können von diesem Buch nur profitieren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Entscheidung, mir das Buch zu kaufen, hatte ich nach einem begeisternden Vortrag von Hacking im Rahmen der &lt;a href="http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/exp/tagungen/mpiwg2005/program.html"&gt;Abschlusskonferenz&lt;/a&gt; des &lt;a href="http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/"&gt;virtuellen Labors&lt;/a&gt; am &lt;a href="http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/"&gt;MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte&lt;/a&gt; getroffen. Der Titel des Buches mag für jemanden, die oder der sich schon eingehender mit Wissenschaftsphilosophie beschäftigt hat, vielleicht auf den ersten Blick etwas abschreckend wirken -- auch ich hatte die Befuerchtung, mich bei einer "Einführung" deshäufigeren zu langweilen, doch davon kann gar keine Rede sein! Hacking selbst schreibt treffend:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Mit "einführend" ist hier allerdings nicht "vereinfacht" gemeint. Einführende Themen sollten klar genug und wictig genug sein, um denjenigen, für den sie neu sind, zu fesseln. Außerdem sollten sie widerborstig genug sein, um bei den Lesern, die seit Jahren über diese Gegenstände nachgedacht haben, noch manchen Funken zu entzünden. (9)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Inhaltlich gliedert sich das Buch in zwei Teile, die für Hacking die beiden Tätigkeitsbereich von WissenschaftlerInnen sind: "Darstellen" und "Eingreifen". Der erste Teil gibt dabei einen umfassenden Überblick über die grundlegenden Probleme und Lösungsvorschläge in der Wissenschaftstheorie mit einem Fokus auf der zentralen Frage des Realismus und seiner KritikerInnen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Für Hacking untrennbar verknüpft mit der Frage der Wissenschafts&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;theorie&lt;/span&gt; sind Fragen der wissenschaftlichen &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Praxis&lt;/span&gt;, also des Eingreifens. Hacking konzentriert sich bei seiner Darstellung in zweiten Teil auf einige paradigmatische Probleme wie die des "Sehens", des Messens oder der Beobachtung und behandelt diese anhand genauer historiografischer Darstellung. Immer wieder gelingt es ihm hierbei, "die großen Männer" der Wissenschaftsforschung historischer Fehler zu überführen; dadurch werden zugleich verzerrte Darstellungen wissenschaftlicher Tätigkeit und unhaltbare theoretische Postulate über Wissenschaft überzeugend kritisiert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Während des ganzen Textes vertritt Hacking klar und durch Argumente gestützte seine eigene Form des wissenschaftlichen Realismus, die er in folgendem Satz konzentriert: "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Was mich betrifft, gilt: Wenn man sie versprühen kann, sind sie real.&lt;/span&gt;" (47)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die deutsche Übersetzung ist weitestgehend als gelungen zu bezeichnen. Über die Frage, ob man "representing" mit "darstellen" angemessen wiedergibt, ließe sich sicher vortreffllich streiten, ansonsten gibt es jedoch kaum Grund zur Kritik. Auch das Lektorat und der Satz sind lobend hervorzuheben, vor allem angesichts des unschlagbaren &lt;a href="http://www.reclam.de/"&gt;Reclam&lt;/a&gt;-Preises von 9,60 Euro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nach all diesem Lob noch ein paar kleine Kritikpunkte: Jenseits der sprachlichen Brillianz des Textes, drängte sich mir an vielen Stellen der Wunsch nach Abbildungen auf. Nicht, dass man die Modelle, Beispiele etc. nicht auch ohne Visualisierung verstehen könnte, aber gerade in einem Einführungsbuch wäre es eine schöne Erweiterung gewesen. Eine wertvolle Zugabe, die Hacking liefert, ist die schoene, kommentierte Bibliografie am Ende des Bandes. Diese ist kapitelbezogen sortiert und ziemlich knapp gehalten , was ich eher fuer einen Vorteil halte. An dieser Stelle noch ein Hinweis für alle Latourianer: Wer auf einen Verweis Hackings auf &lt;a href="http://www.ensmp.fr/%7Elatour/"&gt;Bruno Latour&lt;/a&gt; und die Actor-Network Theory wartet, muss sich sehr lange gedulden: Erst auf der letzten Seite der Bibliografie findet sich ein Hinweis auf dessen Arbeiten, allerdings ohne Erklärung, warum dieser im restlichen Buch unter den Tisch gefallen ist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ian Hacking. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Einführung in die Philosophie der Naturwissenschaften&lt;/span&gt;. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1996. 477 Seiten, 9,60 Euro.&lt;br /&gt;(Originalausgabe: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Representing and Intervening. Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science&lt;/span&gt;. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112423557074651968?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112423557074651968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112423557074651968' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112423557074651968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112423557074651968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/08/darstellen-und-eingreifen.html' title='Darstellen und Eingreifen'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112523129461982849</id><published>2005-08-28T08:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-28T08:14:54.623-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Web 2.0.3</title><content type='html'>Das Thema des "neuen Internets" ist in deutschen Medien gerade anscheinend sehr &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;en vogue&lt;/span&gt;: Auch &lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Die Zeit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; hat einen &lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de/2005/35/C-Humannetz"&gt;Artikel &lt;/a&gt;zum Thema; in diesem erfährt man allerdings nichts Neues, wenn man die beiden unten kommentierten &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tr/"&gt;Technology Review&lt;/a&gt;-Artikel gelesen hat. Die im ersten Absatz angesprochene Frage einer möglichen "digitalen Spaltung zweiter Ordnung" zwischen denjenigen, die soziale Software einsetzen und denjenigen, die dies nicht tun, wird leider nicht vertieft.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112523129461982849?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112523129461982849/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112523129461982849' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112523129461982849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112523129461982849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/08/web-203.html' title='Web 2.0.3'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112493003631448197</id><published>2005-08-24T20:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-24T20:33:56.323-04:00</updated><title type='text'>GoogleTalk ist da!</title><content type='html'>Nachdem es vor zwei Tagen ja schon erste Gerüchte gab, ist &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/talk/"&gt;GoogleTalk&lt;/a&gt; seit heute online. Die &lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/63152"&gt;Beschreibungen &lt;/a&gt;klingen vielversprechend und ich bin gespannt, es auszuprobieren. Wer Lust hat, kann mich unter meinem kliems@gmail.com-Account erreichen, Text und Voice. Mal schauen, ob die Audioqualität an Skype heranreicht (und ich vielleicht mit weniger Verzögerung mit L telefonieren kann).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112493003631448197?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112493003631448197/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112493003631448197' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112493003631448197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112493003631448197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/08/googletalk-ist-da.html' title='GoogleTalk ist da!'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112471412317526965</id><published>2005-08-22T02:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-22T08:35:23.183-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Soziale (?) Maschinen</title><content type='html'>In der aktuellen Technology Review ist eine Art follow-up zum weiter unten &lt;a href="http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/06/bin-ich-das-web.html"&gt;kommentierten &lt;/a&gt;Artikel "&lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/60731/0"&gt;Das Web sind wir&lt;/a&gt;" erschienen. Unter dem Titel "&lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/62097/0"&gt;Soziale Maschinen&lt;/a&gt;" geht &lt;a href="http://waderoush.typepad.com/twr/"&gt;Wade Roush&lt;/a&gt; auch auf die Hardware-Komponente des "neuen" Webs ein. Durch die Verfügbarkeit von Geräten wie Smartphones und WLAN-Laptops, durch die Verfügbarkeit der Informationen und Dienste des Internet an beinahe jedem Ort zu jeder Zeit seien neue Kommunikationsformen und (das ist meine Deutung im &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein"&gt;Wittgenstein&lt;/a&gt;'schen Sinne)  auch Lebensformen entstanden. Entgegen dem ursprünglichen (und gescheiterten) Plan, Computer unsichtbar und auf diesem Wege sozialverträglicher zu machen, sei es heute kein Problem mehr, eine Armada von Geräten mit sich herumzuschleppen, solange man mit diesen nur auf das "neue Web" zugreifen könne. Eine weitere wichtige Rolle würde hierbei die zunehmende Verbreitung lokalisierter Dienste spielen, etwa die Bereitstellung von Informationen anhand des Aufenthaltsortes der Benutzerin oder des Benutzer. Selbst die Prognose der als nächstes erfolgenden Tätigkeit sei heute bereits in den Bereich des Möglichen gerückt:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ein Telefon, das Terminkalender und Aufenthaltsort berücksichtigt, könnte beispielsweise erkennen, dass Sie nach dem Café immer ins Büro gehen, und schon mal beginnen, Ihre E-Mails und Nachrichten auf dem Anrufbeantworter aus dem Internet zu ziehen, während Sie noch Ihren Café Latte schlürfen.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Oder, um es etwas überspitzt zu formulieren: Nachdem Sie sich für 15 Stunden in Ihrem Büro aufgehalten haben, könnte das Handy schon einmal automatisch die Upper und Antidepressiva nach Hause bestellen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An dieser Stelle setzt auch meine Kritik an: Der Artikel hebt vor allem hervor, wie sehr durch die neuen technologischen Möglichkeiten "unsere" Produktivität gesteigert worden sei, wie wir neue soziale Netzwerke geschaffen hätten, die neue Formen der Kollaboration ermöglicht haben. Die These von der gesteigerten Produktivität sollte relativ einfach zu überprüfen sein, und genau dies, eine genaue empirische Untersuchung, hielte ich für notwendig -- wie die in den ersten Abschnitten von Roush beschriebenen Kontroverse um die Zulassung von WLAN während eines Meetings (Ablenkung versus Möglichkeit der Informationsbeschaffung) andeutet, ist die Lage weniger eindeutig als das im Artikel mitschwingt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grundlegendere Fragen, die keine schnellen Antworten haben, aber dafür spannende Themen einer kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Untersuchung wären (Notiz an mich: im Hinterkopf behalten!), sind etwa: Von wem spricht Roush eigentlich in dem Artikel? Vielleicht nur von jungen, gebildeten, erfolgreichen IT-Fachleuten, Online-Journalisten, Manager in den westlichen Metropolen? Welche Auswirkungen haben die Technologien auf "die anderen"? Wenn Roush vom "sozialen Web" spricht: Welche Form der Sozialität wird hier kreiert? Welche Auswirkungen hat dies auf Identität(en)? Welche Interaktionen zwischen Sozialität und Technologie ergeben sich und wie werden die erstgenannten dadurch verändert (Stichworte: Hybriden und Monster)?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112471412317526965?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112471412317526965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112471412317526965' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112471412317526965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112471412317526965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/08/soziale-maschinen.html' title='Soziale (?) Maschinen'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10392757.post-112466002886131710</id><published>2005-08-21T17:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-21T17:33:48.866-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hair Crimes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fiese-scheitel.de/fiese-scheitel3.data/Komponenten/Bilder/metall/TomWarrior.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.fiese-scheitel.de/fiese-scheitel3.data/Komponenten/Bilder/metall/TomWarrior.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in the days, als man Musikfernsehen noch schauen konnte (wie haben sich die Sender eigentlich vor der Klingeltonwerbung finanziert?), gab es &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;MTV Sushi,&lt;/span&gt; eine Sendung von und mit &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;ct=res&amp;amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;url=http%3A//www.stefan-kretzschmar.de"&gt;Stefan Kretzschmar&lt;/a&gt;. Die Sendung selbst war eher mittelmäßig, es gab aber immer eine sehr nette Rubrik namens Haircrimes, in denen heiße Metal-Videos aus den 80ern samt der dazugehörigen Verbrechen gegen die Frisierkunst vorgestellt wurden. Etwas Ähnliches gibt es nun auch im Netz, nämlich &lt;a href="http://www.fiese-scheitel.de/"&gt;http://www.fiese-scheitel.de/&lt;/a&gt; Der Name ist Programm, die ganze Palette der Haarverbrechen ist vertreten, vom Nackenschoner über Vokuhilas, skurille Schnauzbart-Variationen bis hin zu Steckdosen-Style-Langmatten ...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10392757-112466002886131710?l=hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/feeds/112466002886131710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10392757&amp;postID=112466002886131710' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112466002886131710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10392757/posts/default/112466002886131710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hobbesvsboyle.blogspot.com/2005/08/hair-crimes.html' title='Hair Crimes'/><author><name>Hobbes vs Boyle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03745006035218212607</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
