The 1st Viennese Hackathon is ending today at Metalab.
I haven’t been able to participate this time, but it’s great to see this kind of open exchange event going to happen in Vienna. Congratulations to the organizers!
For further explanation see Wikipedia: Hackathon.
digiom writes:
The scope of artistic interventions that become possible with Twitter is probably immeasurable. At Transforming Freedom, we’re trying to get our fingers dirty as well and have set up a very, very low tech installation at the Quarter for Digital Culture (QDK) that also involves Twitter.
But it also involves human technology, or rather, the human-as-technology, which is one of the least reliable technological systems available to date. Think Seveso, think Tchernobyl, think the current economic crisis, of course (the upside of this miserable technology that is mankind: the perfect simulation of our flaw-ridden world is impossible, we will therefore never be fed into the matrix, as the matrix wouldn’t be nor progess without us).
Our installation, the working title of which I hereby proclaim as “Clouds for Bad Bankers”, is thus not only based on the magic that is the Twitter API in conjunction with hashtags, it also requires that we, the enablers at Transforming Freedom, regularly jump into action, that we examine our dedication to the project. It is, however, already apparent that we will fail miserably.
Whoever wants to change the startup screen of OpenOffice.org 3 to a better alternative, here you go (it’s the screen originally of OpenOffice.org 3 beta):
Download-Link for the intro.zip containing intro.bmp
You have to put it into your OpenOffice.org installation directory, common ones are:
If you like so, you can also disable the startup screen, as described at oooninja.com.
Digital Crocuses!
Invitation to the Website Relaunch Party of Transforming Freedom.
Viktor Kröll published the website of his project SelfmadeSaints – with some help by myself on UX and technical implementation.
Well, this is a great new design.
Back to the Basics! Nice.
Title and picture from underconstruction.com/brandnew
Update 2010-01-28:
There’s a really beautiful CSS coke can visualization by Román Cortés.