Malte Spitz, a German politician, sued Deutsche Telekom to get 6 months of his own connection data, collected by the telecom company. Goal was to show what information could be gathered by connecting this data to publicly available information, like tweets and blog entries. This profile reveals when Spitz walked down the street, when he…
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Norwegian landscape photographer Terje Sorgjerd spent one week around Kirkenes and the Norway-Russia border, in -25 Celsius temperature, to make this magnificent time-lapse video of the Aurora Borealis. Link (via Boing Boing) See also: Aurora (astronomy)
Discovery has an article talking about the first few moments our universe existed (those unspeakable time units shortly after the big bang). Scientists have calculated that the universe might have been going from one dimension + time, to the three dimensions + time that we value so much. They even expect the universe to go…
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That you can fight war on the internet is nothing new: the situation in Egypt und Tunesia shows how important the internet has become in that respect. That is something the US military would like to use as well. So they ordered a piece of software that enables them to manipulate opinion on social media…
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I was lucky enough to interact with a North Korean, and film it! Spending time with the hairdresser, Kim Hye-Sun was unlike spending time with any of the usual North Koreans you get to meet. She was charming and quirky. For the first time, I felt like I was seeing something real, that wasn’t shown…
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