Monthly Archives: October 2004

Digital Difference

By Oliver Wrede | Published: October 8, 2004
Cinematography nowadays almost is unthinkable without computers. I like this story of Kerry Conran trying to render a complex video composition of the upcoming movie Sky Captain in 1994 on a Apple Mac IIsi. After four years (and some hardware upgrades later) he finished six minutes of his feature film. Today it has become not [...]
Posted in Design | Leave a comment

Comment spamming

By Oliver Wrede | Published: October 2, 2004
I was hoping that with a custom comment system I would be immune to comment spamming. But unfortunalty that doesn’t seem to be the case. It is easy to clean up, but I think I will have to place a burden on that spam bots. Spam is the dirt of the Internet.
Posted in Contemplation | Leave a comment

Checking facts

By Oliver Wrede | Published: October 2, 2004
factcheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Doing “fact checking” seems the be the latest trend and a growing obligation for US voters. Quoting out of context, twisting the words, exaggretating – all these techniques seem to be in the arsenal for Democrats and Republicans as well.
Posted in Politics | Leave a comment
Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes