Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category
31
Oct
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Personal, Philosophy, Religion. Tagged: death, divorce, halloween, reincanation, wedding rings. 1 Comment
I feel a little like Moaning Myrtle from Harry Potter right now. I’m sitting here thinking about death. Yes, dear readers, it’s that time again; Halloween. I just had a small, informal ceremony by the fire under the oak. I prayed a little, I thought a lot, gazed at the moon, remembering the dead. I [...]
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5
Dec
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Philosophy, Tech. Tagged: dictate, future, hypercard, iphone, john sculley, knowledge navigator, mac, macintosh, macspeech, newton, skype, spark. 1 Comment
Once upon a time Apple was ruled by a man called John Sculley. This was a man of vision. His main vision was the ‘Knowledge Navigator‘, which in many ways was sort of a merge of Macintosh, HyperCard, the coming Newton and some magic… However, to this day we have not seen a product of [...]
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9
Oct
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in author, New media, Philosophy, Tech. Tagged: dare, entrepreneur, greece, jason calacanis, mahalo, open coffee athens. 3 Comments
Jason Calacanis, love him or hate him, is definitely a very successful entrepreneur. And he is also extremely generous about giving advise to you entrepreneurs in the making. I stumbled across this video of him giving a speech at the Open Coffee Athens XV. Yes, the video concentrates on Greece, but everything he is saying [...]
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11
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Movies, Philosophy, typography, writing. Tagged: art, calligraphy, humanity, movie, pillow book, writing. Leave a Comment
Reading the excellent web design page by Mark Boulton I came across a fascinating video called ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’. “Watching Job draw the letterforms is mesmeric enough, but when his son (?) joins in, I found myself laughing as he tries to imitate his fathers work. This leads to some funny-looking characters (c and d are [...]
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12
Jun
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Movies, New media, Philosophy, Streaming, Tech. Tagged: 3d, animation, big buck bunny, blender, elephants dream, floss, open source, pixar, weekly. Leave a Comment
Blender is an Open Source 3D animation program with a lot of promise. But perhaps the most intressting thing about it that there is also an Open Source based moviemaking community around it. They have previously released Elephants Dream which was OK, but nothing special. However, the look and feel of this movie, Big Buck [...]
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11
Jun
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Legends, Personal, Philosophy, Religion, writing. Tagged: definition, druid, druidism, etymology, groves, pagan, who, wicca, witch. 6 Comments
Recently I found my self at a party in the north (well, Småland…) and after a while the subject turned to the meaning of the word druid. What does it mean to be a druid? Who decides who can call him/her self a druid? Does the word druid mean anything if it means different things [...]
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27
May
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in author, books, Humanities, New media, Philosophy, Podcast, Tech, web 2.0. Tagged: Alice in Wonderland, archive.org, books, Cinderella, denmark, digitise, Dvorak, europe, european, finland, google books, history, Howell, iceland, Kahle, Laporte, literature, microsoft, norway, open library, scandinavia, scanning, sweden, Tech, TWiL, TWiT, yahoo. Leave a Comment
In listening to the latest episode of This Week in Tech, I was at first horrified that I would not get my normal weekly dose of half-arsed, funny but still very informative insights into the world of tech and Web 2.0. The tone was serious! Well, I still clung on, and in many ways this [...]
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19
May
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, Legends, Movies, Philosophy, Streaming, Tech. Tagged: beauty, cinema, cinematograph, david lynch, film, interesting, lumière, short. Leave a Comment
I am still undecided whether I am a fan of David Lynch or not, though I certainly dig some of his stuff. But this was quite beautiful and interesting I thought. It is Lynches contribution to a compilation made in the mid 90′s. Everyone had to only use the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière [...]
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16
May
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in apps, Humanities, mac, New media, Philosophy, Tech, web 2.0, writing. Tagged: atm, font, fontexplorer, fontfetishist, linotype, mac, typography. Leave a Comment
People who are into design and layout tend to be FF; Font Fetishists. As such it after a while tends to get difficult to keep track of all the fonts. And even thought Mac OS X handles fonts in a better way than the good old classic Mac System, there is still room for improvement. [...]
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16
May
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Philosophy, Religion, web 2.0, writing. Tagged: chicken, curry, food, good, Indian, kitchen witch, nice, papadums, raita, recipe, tasty. Leave a Comment
One thing I truly love is indian food. And, wile you can get very good Indian food in Lund at New Delhi or Govindas, both those restaurants have at least two problems. 1. I don’t live close by (arguably not their fault, but there you are) and 2. it costs money to eat there. On [...]
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