Ok, forget about it: The 5th edition of Kandel's Principles of Neural Science has been officially postponed until October 2007. Originally it was announced for September 2004, and I have been waiting for it ever since (see for example post 1 and post 2). I am expecting it to come out when I am retiring, i.e. in 80 years or so.
I don't wanna be impolite and I admire Eric(h) Kandel a lot, but he should take care that it won't have to be published postmortem...
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Addendum:
I saw an interview with him on TV the other day. He is awesome and in very good shape. Go for it, Eric...
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Just three things (trois trucs):
1) It's weird what just happened in Montreal. It doesn't buy you anything being considered one of the world's safest cities. Once they explode, you can do nothing against crazy individuals.
2) But I am in Paris right now, and I found something that somehow extends the google maps post from a couple of weeks ago: Paris en 3D. It's pretty cool, but be careful since it needs a lot of your system's resources.
3) There has been a nice refresh of ichi.one's Homecookin' site. As far as I can see it you can now download all old mixes (and there is the new #27). Plus a couple of months ago, ichi.one asked to send spontaneous photos of one's DJ corner without making any arrangements or cleaning the set. Her is the beautiful gallery of DJ corners from the Homecookin' community.
2) But I am in Paris right now, and I found something that somehow extends the google maps post from a couple of weeks ago: Paris en 3D. It's pretty cool, but be careful since it needs a lot of your system's resources.
3) There has been a nice refresh of ichi.one's Homecookin' site. As far as I can see it you can now download all old mixes (and there is the new #27). Plus a couple of months ago, ichi.one asked to send spontaneous photos of one's DJ corner without making any arrangements or cleaning the set. Her is the beautiful gallery of DJ corners from the Homecookin' community.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Ebay Kills Collection Values
I have understood something:
Large parts of the monetary and ideological value of collector items used to stem from the fact that they were hard to get and that they were usually associated with a story of acquisition.
Ebay - in the first place - tried to connect collectors and to provide a platform to trade collector items. However, it thus also killed this important hard-to-get part of the individual value. And since difficulty of acquisition (and thus emotional value) and pecuniary value are closely linked, it destroyed most of the impetus to collect things.
Paradoxical, isn't it?
...and so I can't get rid of my nice Spiderman comic collection... thanks, ebay!
Large parts of the monetary and ideological value of collector items used to stem from the fact that they were hard to get and that they were usually associated with a story of acquisition.
Ebay - in the first place - tried to connect collectors and to provide a platform to trade collector items. However, it thus also killed this important hard-to-get part of the individual value. And since difficulty of acquisition (and thus emotional value) and pecuniary value are closely linked, it destroyed most of the impetus to collect things.
Paradoxical, isn't it?
...and so I can't get rid of my nice Spiderman comic collection... thanks, ebay!
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Der meiste senseless Pfosten überhaupt… (Google Translate)
Heute fand ich eine 50 EUR Rechnung auf dem Fußboden vor dem trainstation. Nizza, ey?!
Old post nicely translated into German by google translate.
Friday, September 01, 2006
FYI -- Tape Nostalgia Update
A year ago I posted this link to a collection of photos of old audio tapes. This link has been dead for a while but resurrected recently in the form of a handy searchable database called tapedeck.org.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Freakin' Funny Dave Chappelle Clip
Check out Dave Chappelle's great persiflage on Tupac Shakur's postmortem hype.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Modern Times -- Digital Times
Every day, digital data can be stored on smaller and smaller media.
Some day, one will be able to carry around one's life in audiovisual data on a storage medium no larger than a stamp.
A friend of mine digitized an old VHS tape I had into 40 gigs of movie files. Now it fits on my mobile harddisk -- which is bigger and twice as heavy as the VHS tape... When exactly does future start?
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