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!

Few people know that Ferropolis/Graefenhainichen is located in a former coalmining region, Wittenberg, and during GDR years the nearby chemistry industry caused remarkably severe pollution.
This area was known as Bitterfeld. Nowadays, the environment seems natural and clean, a lot has been done to make it a surrounding worth living in. Lakes, woods, leasure sites, you can all find it here. Regarding to the press, the industry focusses on solar engineering and renewable energy.
We also find a very high unemployment rate and vanishingly few young people – They all moved to the cities or to the western part of Germany.
Naaaah, talking schmalking: It still is a nice place. You got the picture.
Here are the photos:

Click here to open the Melt! 2009 set on Flickr

Click here to open the Vietnam set on Flickr

Note that you will not find any pics of our production and design facilities in the photo set.
Unfortunately, those are not suitable for a public audience and therefore can not be published.

• Denis Darzacq – La Chute [The Fall]

• if you are an beginner or intermediate php developer looking for a base where to start coding your own twitter display.
• if you are already experienced in copy & pasting php code into your wordpress blog, for example, expanding the functionality of your sidebar or your page template

• This is how it looks

<?php
// functions
function gradientHexBGcolor($k=6){
return sprintf("%02X%02X%02X", 29+$k*18, 9+$k*20,9+$k*20);
}
function gradientHexFGcolor($k=6){
return sprintf("%02X%02X%02X", 260-$k*5, 260-$k*5,260-$k*5);
}

// Init Data
$fill = '';
$thisPage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

//Enter your Twitter data here:
$twitName = "MyTwitterUsername";
$twitPass = "MyTwitterPassword";
$twitUserDataURL = "http://twitter.com/users/show/MyTwitterUsername.json";
$twitGetURL = "http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.json";

// Check if a hashtag was given?

if (!$_POST['hashtag']) {
		$fill = 'Enter hashtag here...';
		}
		else {
		$tag = $_POST['hashtag'];
		$twitGetURL = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23".$tag;		
		}

// cURL 1: get Userdata:
// Init cURL
$curl = curl_init();
// set Userdata URL
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_URL,$twitUserDataURL);
// prepare for return values
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
// set authentification
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_USERPWD,"$twitName:$twitPass");
// get + decode return values
$returnUser = json_decode(curl_exec($curl));
// close cURL
curl_close($curl);

// cURL 2: get timeline or tag search data:
// Init cURL
$curl = curl_init();
// set URL
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_URL,$twitGetURL);
// prepare for return values
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
// set authentification
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_USERPWD,"$twitName:$twitPass");
// get + decode return values
$return = json_decode(curl_exec($curl));
// close cURL:
curl_close($curl);		

// define & output css style definitions:
echo '<style type="text/css"> 
 					div, .twitapi a, p, span, table, td, input, textarea, b, blockquote, th, form {font-family:Tahoma,Trebuchet MS,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:8pt;border:0;margin:0;padding:0;line-height:140%;}				
					div.twitapi {width:540px;background:#CDCDCD;padding:6px 0;}	
					.twitapi p, .twitapi br {display:none;}	
					.twitapi hr {border:0;border-top:1px dotted #FFF;}		 	
					.twitapi table {#position:relative;border:0;border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;}	
					.twitapi table td {width:50%;border:0;padding:0;overflow:hidden;}
 					pre {color:#000;text-decoration:none;border:0;margin:0;padding:0;} 		
					.twitapi a, .twitapi img,.twitapi span,.twitapi div {color:#FFF;text-decoration:none;border:0;margin:0;padding:0;} 
					div.outer {margin:6px 3%;padding:0;width:94%;}					
					div.wrap {#position:relative;display:table;height:48px;text-align:left;margin:6px 3%;padding:0;width:94%;}
					div.text {#position:absolute;#top:50%;display:table-cell;vertical-align: middle;padding:0;}	
					.twForm {color:#FFF;padding:0;}									
					.twForm span {display:block;height:24px;margin:0;padding:0;overflow:hidden;}	
 					.twForm input, button, textarea, select {width:100%;height:100%;border:0;padding:5px;color:#FFF;overflow:hidden;}
 					.twForm .button {text-align:right;}	
 					.twForm .button:hover {color:#'.gradientHexBGcolor(7).';}	 					
 					.twForm textarea {font-weight:bold;}					 				 				 													
					div.inner {#position:relative;#top:-50%;overflow:auto;margin:0 10px;}		
					a.img {display:inline;float:left;width:48px;height:48px;overflow:hidden;}
					a.img img {width:48px;height:48px;border:0;}
					
  		</style>';


// output twitter container & headline & buttons
echo '<div class="twitapi">
		<div class="wrap" style="background-color:#'.gradientHexBGcolor().';">
		<table><tr><td>
			<a class="img" href="'.$returnUser->profile_image_url.'"><img src ="'. $returnUser->profile_image_url.'"></a>
				
				<form class="twForm"  action="" method="POST"><input name="line" value="" type="hidden">		 
					<span><textarea readonly style="background-color:#'.gradientHexBGcolor(6).';">'.$twitName.'\'s timeline</textarea></span>	
					<span>														
					<input class="button" style="background-color:#'.gradientHexBGcolor(2).';" value="Refresh now!" type="submit">
					</span>				
				</form>	
				</td>	
				<td>					
				<form class="twForm" action="'.$thisPage.'" method="POST">	
					<span>	
					<input class="text" style="background-color:#'.gradientHexBGcolor(8).';" name="hashtag" value="'.$tag.$fill.'" type="text">
					</span>
					<span>								
					<input class="button" style="background-color:#'.gradientHexBGcolor(4).';"value="Search now!" name="submit" type="submit">
					</span>				
				</form>	
				</td>					
				</tr></table>								
		</div>
		<hr>';
	

// output tweets
// output friends' timeline if no hashtag given, else tweets with hashtag
if (!$tag) {
			foreach($return as $key=>$tweet) {
			if ($key<=10) {		
					$text = $tweet->text;
					// Add links to URLS
					$text = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","<a href=\"\\0\" rel=\"nofollow\">\\0</a>", $tweet->text);
					// Add links to Twitterprofiles with @	
					$text = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])@([^ \"\t\n\r<]*)#ise", "'\\1<a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/\\2\" >@\\2</a>'", $text); 
					// Add links to hashtags #	
					$text = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])\#([^ \"\t\n\r<]*)#ise", "'\\1<a href=\"http://hashtags.org/search?query=\\2\" >#\\2</a>'", $text); 	 		 
					echo '<div class="wrap" style="background-color:#'.gradientHexBGcolor($key).';">
					<a class="img" href="http://twitter.com/'. $tweet->user->screen_name.'"><img src ="'. $tweet->user->profile_image_url.'"></a>		
					<div class="text">	
						<div class="inner" color="#'.gradientHexFGcolor($key).'">					
					<a href="http://twitter.com/'. $tweet->user->screen_name.'">'. $tweet->user->screen_name.'</a>: 
					'.$text.' >>'. $tweet->source.'</div></div></div>';
					}
			}
		} 		
		else {
			foreach($return->results as $key=>$tweet) {	
			if ($key<=10) {				
						$text = $tweet->text;
						// Add links to URLS
						$text = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","<a href=\"\\0\" rel=\"nofollow\">\\0</a>", $tweet->text);
						// Add links to Twitterprofiles with @	
						$text = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])@([^ \"\t\n\r<]*)#ise", "'\\1<a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/\\2\" >@\\2</a>'", $text); 
						// Add links to hashtags #	
						$text = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])\#([^ \"\t\n\r<]*)#ise", "'\\1<a href=\"http://hashtags.org/search?query=\\2\" >#\\2</a>'", $text); 	 		 
						echo '<div class="wrap" style = "background-color:#'.gradientHexBGcolor($key).';">
						<a class="img" href="http://twitter.com/'. $tweet->from_user.'"><img src ="'. $tweet->profile_image_url.'"></a>				

						<div class="text">	
						<div class="inner" color="'.gradientHexFGcolor($key).'"><a href="http://twitter.com/'. $tweet->from_user.'">'. $tweet->from_user.'</a>: 
						'.$text.' at '. date('M d,Y',strtotime($tweet->created_at)).'</div></div></div>';
						}
			}			
		}		


echo '</div>';
?>

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

via Schmobi

Although I am not a friend of omnipresent technology, I must admit these are faszinating applications for future technology. Read more at the Wear ur World project website

Wired quotes Pattie Maes, the project manager of Wear ur World:

In the tactile world, we use our five senses to take in information about our environment and respond to it [...]. But a lot of the information that helps us understand and respond to the world doesn’t come from these senses. Instead, it comes from computers and the internet. Maes’ goal is to harness computers to feed us information in an organic fashion, like our existing senses.

This might be right. But in my opinion, the organic fashion Mae is aiming at will rather leed to excessive Nerdism. Early adopters and grown-up-childs will refer to this technology as gadgets and will use it to impress their surrounding – just like we they do today with iPhones and Netbooks.

That’s OK with me. I just want the ePaper thingy because that’s real hot shit.
via Timo Heuer.

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