Christoph Spiegl

~ chat roulette (by Casey Neistat)

Over the past few days I spent some time at Chatroulette (well a couple of hours to say the least) and the video describes pretty well what I think Chatroulette is about. I had some nice talks (with girls and boys) but most of the persons on there are not that nice. But to have some fun it is just that: ‘fun’

Some time ago, I posted about the way I license my work now I found a post by Trey Ratcliff aka Stuck in Customs who posted about his philosophy which is pretty much the same. But what he found is a great video which defines pretty well what Creative Commons means.

Of my many points, I am convinced that legitimate companies do not steal. And just because my stuff is Creative Commons, it does not mean they have commercial rights to it.

~ Trey Ratcliff aka Stuck in Customs

There is a new discovery: www.thesixtyone.com

That site is just awesome if you love good music which is not just mainstream played by the radio!

And I have to recommend one song: The Wizard’s Ascension-HQ

But still, I decided on an impulse to venture into the open and, for the first time in a very long time, play in the rain. It was the most cathartic thing I’ve ever done in quite a while.

I’ve been so busy growing up that I’ve forgotten the joy of catching raindrops with your tongue, stretching your arms out, letting go and just feeling life.

I’ve found happiness—it’s in the raindrops.

~ Dean Lozarie

Something to remember! Something to remember!

I never even knew that this existed.

Whereas the widely preferred QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow people down (it was made for early typewriters, whose keys clashed when people typed too fast), the Dvorak layout was designed with speed in mind.

~ Dean Tastic

Ever struggled with Time Zones? There is a solution for that: Every Time Zone.

I just was waiting for something like that, and it looks awesome too!

I worry that this is one area where hiding the filesystem on the iPad could have detrimental effects on a user’s experience. If I am an average user, my experience has taught me that deleting a file from a folder doesn’t really mean the file is deleted; it’s in file-purgatory. If I bring this mentality to the iPad, though, it could result in devastating losses of data.

~ Pat Dryburgh

This is one thing I hate about the iPhone — and it looks like it is not going to get any better with the iPad. Why do they take the FileSystem away (completely). At least let some way to access is — not just by jailbreaking!

Zenhabits posted about ‘How to Be a Positive Person…’ and I would like to quote the things I liked best!

Realize it’s possible, instead of telling yourself why you can’t.
Focus on what you have, not on what you haven’t.
Image that you’re already positive.

~ Zenhabits
Since I do change a lot in my life, and already posted about it, I thought this is really interesting. I knew about Zenhabits before but I just recently rediscovered its value!

A really neat idea to get a quick overview of the stats. And it looks awesome too! The idea of a status board like the one by Panic — which is inspired by the status page published by Cultured Code — inspires to do something similar to use as my default-browser-home-page on my Mac.

Since my last post about a nice-desk-collection was back in november, I thought I should get something up again. Here are 3 lists with a sum of 45 awesome desks.

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3