barack obama’s blackberry – biggest honeypot evar?

ok, normally i couldn’t care less for this whole yellow press nonsense but, uh, what’s up with all that stuff about barack’s mobile recently?!
using a sectera edge for “secure” official communication but still carrying around his blackberry 8830 as something like his personal chat hub? his window to personal live?
RIM endorsement deal of the decade? [...]

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tasty circuits

totally outdated, but somehow i haven’t seen it yet.
evil mad scientist labs turn regular candy into tasty geek food.
me likes blödsinn like that.

find the whole story here.

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synchronicity is…

… blogging Kraftwerk and hearing “The Model” played be the bearded, smelly and drunk accordion player begging for money while entering the subway station @rosenthaler platz 2 hours later.
wtf?!
sometimes this city is just one big sitcom and you’re too stoned to reach for the remote – or your revolver.

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Kraftwerk – free Minimum-Maximum feature

so far the new year really surprised us with some serious rollercoaster news… ups and downs to an extreme extend. time for some diverting binary entertainment again: internet “music television” pitchfork.tv is presenting Kraftwerk (the german grandfathers of all laptop rockers) live footage from their Minimum-Maximum DVD – exclusively and one week only.
tune in before it’s [...]

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Telefon Tel Aviv – Charlie Cooper died

sad day, sad news: Charlie Cooper, 50% of US based electronica duo Telefon Tel Aviv died according to a blog post Joshua made today on their myspace site.
the binary punks want to express their sincere condolences – being laptop rockers, sample freaks and enthusiastic ableton live users, too, Telefon Tel Aviv shared a lot of [...]

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stock charts music: listen to the sound of the downfall

aaah, it just feels nice if two totally unrelated topics from our little binary punk universe suddenly connect:
last year we wrote about Johannes Kreidler and his physical denial of service attack against the german GEMA and only a few days ago we happily announced the birth of microsoft’s songsmith “auto-composer”.
and know what? Kreidler just took [...]

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ableton live 8 public beta started!

yeah, i know, i know, i’m excited, and i’m biased… but is it a surprise after those outstanding announcements ableton made during the NAMM?
however, earlier than expected the first very limited but public beta round of Live 8 already started yesterday evening! ableton tends to initiate betas with a small circle of testers, like a [...]

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melodyne dna: pwn3d by single student?

so, after taking a deep breath and grasping what ableton announced to the digital audio world it is time for binary punk rocket science again:
nearly one year ago, during the musikmesse frankfurt, celemony announced their melodyne dna – direct not access – and everyone was going “wooooha!”. melodyne was always known for its single note [...]

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I – IV – vi – V

ok, after all this futuristic stuff it’s time to go back to the rootz and think about the basics of pop.
enjoy a lowbrow break and a little lesson about one of the most famous chrod progressions by the comedy rock band Axis Of The Awesome

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ableton announces world dominiation

omfg. last year was the first year in the ableton history without a new major release – now the information about live 8 has finally gone public during the NAMM and even for me it is just breathtaking to see all the stuff that has been cooking during the last year in the headquarter over [...]

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Set up Time Machine on a NAS in three easy steps

Export more old and irrelevant posts like this in the future. They are just a kind of personal reminder for myself, when I’ll have to setup a Mac from scratch the next time.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080420211034137

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set default app for every registered file extension

just a reminder for the next os x installation:
RCDefaultApp 2.0.1

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Namm countdown… beat machines galore!

Tomorrow the NAMM will start and as every year the first new product announcements start to roll in.
Currently it looks like everyone is focussing on new beat machines, just like Roger Linn and Dave Smith are still working on their drum machine / mpc killer those hip hop guys here  announce their “beat thang” – [...]

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something to keep an eye on…

if quicksilver will really die some day in the future, this might become an alternative:
http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/
read more on lifehacker

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Microsoft Songsmith

oh yeah, right, you may be black, you may be white, or whatever color fits you – but you still got this serious groove problem.
don’t be ashamed, we just showed yesterday this is nothing to be worried about, you’re not alone.
and now there’s actually help around the corner.
the mighty microsoft, not only known for being [...]

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FM synthesis explained

you know, every so often while roaming the berlin streets being totally drunk, shaking my ass in some illegal club or just doing some hookers and blow at strange private parties, people will come over saying “eeaaayyyh, dom, old synth rapist, i always wanted to ask you about that FM synthesis thing, i mean, what [...]

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kein alkohol mehr in meinem wohnzimmer.

what the fuck?!
ich darf seit dem 1.1.2009 kein bier mehr auf’m alex trinken?!
nichtmal in einer braunen papiertüte?!
Alkoholverbot: Berlin soll schöner werden
wie wäre es denn mal mit richtige probleme angehen?
z.b. der heroinvertrieb in der u8?
pfff.

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boah.

was für pussies. hilfe.
http://www.nerdcore.de/wp/2009/01/06/extreme-sports-religion
scheiss auf gott, die jungs hier haben eier!
Adam Kimmel presents: Claremont HD from adam kimmel on Vimeo.

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new year’s resolution

exactly:
1. sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll…
2. …enjoying the moment and giving a shit about the douche bags surrounding us…
3. …while being as fucking honest as possible.
“I thought you might’ve come by because you found out I fucked your wife in almost every room of your house. No? Yeah, every room of your house. And, [...]

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sex, drugs and rock’n'roll

die guten vorsätze für’s neue jahr:

sex
drugs
rock’n’roll
keyword density optimieren für den nexten post

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