Pathos, nostalgia, the sense of exquisite sadness at the fleetingness of life are key elements of beauty in Japanese aesthetics, and all are themes central to Banana Yoshimoto’s books. As most of her stories, Hard Luck and Hardboiled feature melancholy Japanese women who can’t sleep, or can’t stop sleeping. They spend hours gazing out of [...]
Skype VoIP phone adapterConnect this home-made adapter to your computer’s mic input and speaker output and to your wired or wireless phone, and use Skype on your existing phone. From http://del.icio.us/johan.kuypers tagged hardware telecom voip URI: http://www.vital.pri.ee/PSTN/
Nokia Networks chief about wireline and new WCDMA base stationSimon Beresford-Wylie, chief of Nokia’s Networks division, speaks about sales channels to wireline operators and a new WCDMA base station as small as a desktop computer, prepared to host 3rd party WiMax equipment from an unnamed vendor. From http://del.icio.us/johan.kuypers tagged 802.x cellular telecom wcdma URI: http://yahoo.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reutersEdge&…
Het cynische krapuul dat inspiratie vindt in de rellen in Frankrijk heeft ook onze straat gevonden. Twee buren, waaronder onze onderburen op hetzelfde adres, stelden rond 18:45 deze avond geëmotioneerd vast dat hun geparkeerde wagens in vlammen opgingen door een Molotov cocktail. Inderdaad, in volle spits binnen de vijfhoek in het centrum van Brussel. Als [...]
Dextro, of turux fame, has been exposing at Mediaruimte in Brussels this past week. Dextro (Austria) produces astonishing computer and interactive-generated visual patterns, slicing, modulating shapes and behaviors, which are always equally exciting. I have been following his work at turux.org (now off-line unfortunately) and dextro.org closely during the last several years, both sites being [...]
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