Next Saturday, August der 22.08.09:

Das Kulturprogramm im Rahmen des GamesCamp 2009 Köln:
8to24 Bit Styles Party im Rheintriadem Köln
[ehemals Alte Bahndirektion am Hbf.]

Dubstep, Breaks, Chicago House, Minimal.
mit:

• Chryzla & Bassrael
• MC Youngblood
• Jesus Presley
• Mi*Doubleyou & Cramp
• Katja Krause

Be there or be square!

Check out this brilliant photo portfolio:

• Denis Darzacq – La Chute [The Fall]

A totally disturbing piece of art: Justive tells a short story by following a Banlieu gang expressing their senseless agression somewhere in france. Caution: violent.

Already released in 2008, but I stumbled upon it just now. Though I did not feel comfortable watching this, I think this is a smart way of bringing the issue of juvenile violence in France into public.

DIrector: Romain Gavras
Release date: May 2008

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… but today I feel I should give back some love to them.
Ronald Jenkees just starts his fifteen minutes of fame. Holy cheesy goodness, this is a tearquenching melody:

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I spent my weekend with some folks at Designcamp Cologne 2009. Not much words, just some pictures and the quote of the day:

Chocolate is a bitch
Torsten Schöneich from Törtchen Törtchen Cologne

Nice stuff. Be aware of the details:

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I always had problems with batteries for my Canon Powershot A350 camera: From the time they were fully charged, they lasted only a few days until they drained to zero.

Even at the time they were new, I only had about a week of benefiting from their capacity. It left even if the batteries were not in use.

I discovered that precharged batteries do the job better: The low self discharge enables dealers to store them up to 12 months and still sell them without pissing off their customers.
Of course, the discharging properties stay after recharging batteries at home..

The other benefit is, that the low self discharge enabled me to leave the batteries in the camera for more then two weeks. Hence I stopped suffering the loss of first class snapshots just because the camera is not ready.

This apllies to multiple camera series: Canon Powershot, Fujifilm Finepix, Pentax K series and basically all models that come with AA or AAA batteries – not with the prebuild own battery models like in the Canon Ixus series.

As for Germany, the dkamera magazine suggests these tested precharged batteries:

• Panasonic Infinium
• Kodak Digital Camera Battery Pre-Charged
• Ansmann maxe
• Conrad energy Endurance
• Duracell ActiveCharge
• Sanyo eneloop
• Varta Ready2Use
• AccuPower AccuLoop
• ELV Combo
• Hama Ready4Power
• GP Recyko
• UniRoss Hybrio

Please compare worldwide vendors and models yourself by regarding to the international brands.
Have fun using those!

Looks good, at the first glance I can see new functions like statistics and AJAX boxes that open without the page being reloaded…:

• Recent activity can be accessed directly from startpage
• Stats of users viewing your photos
• Refresh buttons for each box on the start page

Activate your new Flickr Layout by following the one-step-instruction here:

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