360Cities – The World in VR

very cool: 5.000 VR-panorama-shots in more than 40 cities: 360cities.net …

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how-to subscribe to Last.fm

here’s a little challenge for my fellow readers who are registered at Last.fm…

log in to your (free) account.
pull out your stop-watch.
check how long it takes you to find the right link for upgrading to a premium account (2.50 EUR/month).
please don’t use STRG-F, that’s unfair and probably not the way intended by the user-interface [...]

The Big Switch – switched off

one of my current reads is The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr (whose blog roughtype is a recommended read – and the place where I sponged off a advance reading-copy – thanks!). the book is all about utility-computing, drawing parallels between the surge of the electric grid in the early 1900’s and the rise of [...]