The True Reason Why Men are More Successful in Academia
August 10, 2009 at 12:35 pm | Posted in Gender | 6 CommentsTags: academia, For the Cause, For the Win, men, success, Women
inspired by @corinnamilborn and @antjeschrupp
What ever happened to Toots DeVille? (Teaser)
August 10, 2009 at 10:15 am | Posted in Culture | 6 CommentsTags: Pancreatic cancer, Toots DeVille, Willy DeVille
Willy DeVille died on August 6, 2009. He had contracted Hepatitis C and, beginning his treatment, doctors found he had pancreatic cancer. That was in June. R.I.P Willy DeVille.
Browsing his bio on Wikipedia, I stumbled upon a peculiar character, Toots DeVille, and decided to do a little research on her. It isn’t much I have yet found out, but I am going to to continue on this article. Doing this research sounds like an interesting side project.
A Collection of Downloadable Twitter-Papers
August 10, 2009 at 10:12 am | Posted in Uncategorized, Web 2.0 | Leave a commentTags: Download, Papers, Science, Twitter, Vienna University
Though Twitter only went public in July 2006 (according to Wikipedia, though many papers such as Java et al 2007 cite October 2006 as the launch date) quite an amount of Twitter research has already been published. Here is an overview of downloadable papers – please let me know if you find anything else.
P.S: Some of these papers can only be downloaded from a (university) library. If you have access to the network of Vienna University, you need to establish a VPN connection through univpn.univie.ac.at/. Login, select AnyConnect, establish VPN trough the browser or download the VPN client if the browser connection doesn’t work smoothly.
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LOL has evolved into a gesture in France
August 10, 2009 at 10:09 am | Posted in Web 2.0 | Leave a commentTags: France, Gesture, Lol
Angelika Storrer, a professor at Dortmund Technical University, gave a talk about chatspeak yesterday at the Web as Culture Conference in Gießen, presenting visual evidence that LOL has meanwhile evolved into a gesture in France:
60% of Twitter users do not return the following month? They might return a year later
August 10, 2009 at 10:08 am | Posted in Web 2.0 | Leave a commentTags: Nielsen, Twitter
So we have all read the story about the so-called ‘Twitter quitters’, i.e. people who do not return the following month and the percentage of which, according to Nielsen, amounts to 60%. This single month is probably not enough to conclude that users “wind up abandoning the service” – or at least that is what my (very limited sample of 17 users) suggests.
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English teasers in this blog
August 10, 2009 at 10:06 am | Posted in Blogging | Leave a commentIn early 2008, I shifted my blogging activity to my German blog : digiom.wordpress.com. But for a while now, I have been writing occasional English language posts on that blog. And from now on, I am going to post teasers of those blog posts on this blog here.
Ortho-Bionomy (auch Ortho-Bionomie) in Wien
March 16, 2009 at 6:55 pm | Posted in Austria | Leave a commentTags: CRANIOSACRAL, CRANIOSACRAL-OSTEOPATHIE, Ortho-Bionomie, Ortho-Bionomy, ORTHOBIONOMY, OSTEOPATHIE, Wien
Weil mich einige Personen gefragt haben: Hier ist ein Link zur Website von Mag. Nicole Hornstein-Kinzl, Sportwissenschafterin und Ortho-Bionomy-Practitioner in Wien: www.hornsteinkinzl.at.
Dienstleistungen:
ORTHOBIONOMY®
CRANIOSACRAL-OSTEOPATHIE
Transcranialtherapie Tyschenko®
SPORTWISSENSCHAFTLICHE TRAININGSBERATUNG
PERSONAL TRAINING
New Boymongoose Video
December 5, 2008 at 11:12 pm | Posted in Bollywood, Webvideo | 1 CommentTags: 12 Days of Christmas, Boymongoose, Jingle Bells, Single Girls
I loved the 12 Days of Christmas – here is a new vid by Boymongoose.
Political Geek and Poke
July 15, 2008 at 7:08 am | Posted in Funny | 5 CommentsTags: Geek and Poke, Germany, Hitler
Geek and Poke is my currently favourite nerd and dork carton – today they opted for political:-D
Snoop Dogg in the Country
June 19, 2008 at 7:50 am | Posted in music | Leave a commentTags: Country, Country music, Dogg, My Medicine, Snoop, Snoop Dogg
I like this!
Migration Trends: US Americans apply for EU citizenship
June 10, 2008 at 7:18 am | Posted in Politics | 9 CommentsTags: EU, Migration, USA
An article by the Palm Beach Post:
“With an EU passport, I can live and work in 27 countries,” said Suzanne Mulvehill of Lake Worth. “With a U.S. passport, I can live and work in one.”
Americans can claim citizenship in any of the 27 European countries that are in the EU based on the nationality of their parents, or in some cases, grandparents and great-grandparents. Citizenship in one of those countries allows you to live and work in any EU nation.
Since the United States doesn’t keep statistics on dual citizens, it’s impossible to know exactly how many people have applied for citizenship in Europe. But it’s estimated that more than 40 million Americans are eligible for dual citizenship, and a growing number of Americans want to try their luck elsewhere.
I am not 100% sure whether the criteria as described in the box on the left of the article are profoundly researched – anyone who as a proof of German descent, regardless whether it’s on mother of father’s side, can apply for a German passport as far as I know.
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The World is divided…
May 26, 2008 at 7:43 am | Posted in Funny Stuff | 2 CommentsTags: Geek & Poke, Geek and Poke, Oliver Widder, Twitter
into people who do and people who don’t understand Geek and Poke. Thank you, Oliver Widder, for making my day daily:-)
REQUIEM – Suffocating in 1970s’ must and tapestry
May 21, 2008 at 10:38 pm | Posted in Film | 8 CommentsTags: Anneliese Michel, Exorcism of Emily Rose, Exorcist, Hans Weingartner, Production Design, Requiem, Scott Derrickson
[This entry is part of Raccoon’s Production Design Blog-A-Thon, which began on May 25 and runs through May 25th. Please consider joining us with your own post on the topic.]
Exorcisms continue to fascinate our enlightened age. Even though in real life, we have replaced our demons by terrorists, immigrants or feminists – whatever lends itself to project ‘otherness’ on it -, it seems as if many people enjoy the sight of gooey, exploding bodies of the kind we were able to witness in the 1973 classic The Exorcist.
2005 and 2006 saw the release of two films dedicated to the same tragic case of contemporary exorcism: In 1976 in Bavaria, Anneliese Michel died from hunger, following a months longs exorcism that was performed on her by two catholic priest, at the request and with the consent of her family.* Scott Derrickson’s the The Exorcism of Emily Rose (which I haven’t seen, but have read up upon and then wasn’t keen to watch) is said to be classic Hollywood fare, where the question whether the female lead character is indeed obsessed or just mentally ill is never raised – the demons that allegedly possessed her are even allowed to find incarnation as coherent characters.
Hans-Christian Schmid’s Requiem, by comparison, is a quiet little film that, almost like a documentary, traces the story of Michaela Klinger (this film’s Anneliese Michel) and her attempts to find a place for herself in life when she leaves home for the first time to study theology, and how the mental illness she’s been battling catches up with her, ruining her frail friendships and, with much much aid from her pious family, eventually her health and ends her life.
Requiem does not need any goo or artificial bodily fluids: The entire film is tinted with the patina that we associate with 1970s’ photographs – probably because this is indeed the colour of these photographs, or probably because our media experience has taught us to map aesthetics and memory that way. Production designer Christian M. Goldbeck, who also collaborated with Schmid on Lichter/Distant lights and with Hans Weingartner on the ‘smash hit’ Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei/The Edukators, sets the scene for a suffocating trip into the 1970s where the brownish colour of wall-to-wall carpeting seems to smother all of Michaela’s hopes and ambitions.
The only lights that ever seem to enter her world are the pilgrim’s offertory candles – set against the religious backdrop of her family, these lights are no beacon of hope. The brown colours and faded wallpapers of her family home are replaced only by the cork pin-board and fabric wallpaper of a little room in a student dormitory – her plans to escape, as soon becomes manifest, are futile.
The breakfast room of a cheap hotel, where the family stops on one of their pilgrimages (which you can see in this trailer below at minute 1:13-1:16) is the place where her hopes are finally shattered – trapped between cumbersome furniture, Michaela has another psychotic episode; this happening exactly on a pilgrimage, and under they eyes of convinced catholics, seals her doom.
The film hardly ever switches to a brighter colour pattern – even in Michaela’s brief phase of happiness, where she goes to bars and falls in love to the tunes of 1970s’ psychedelic rock, the colours remain pasty, liveless, washed-out. Once she is brought back home, the musty brownish tapestry and furnitures reappear, lock her inside, until her death. ‘Requiem’, instead of going down the splatter path, shows the real horrors of traditional family structures in a part of Bavaria where enlightenment, sexual liberation or the opening of mental wards never took place.
Unfortunately, I don’t have the DVD here, but I tried to find as many screenshots as possible on the web and added some that I took from the trailer. A little more info can also be found on the film’s official website. (images after the jump if you’re coming through my blog homepage)
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Flying penises in the Kremlin!
May 21, 2008 at 7:15 am | Posted in Funny Stuff | Leave a commentTags: Gary Kasparov, Kreml, Kremlin, Politics
Spoiling a speech by Kremlin critic Gary Kasparov. Hilarious!
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