Nehmt ein kissen mit und dann gibt kissenschlacht. Heute so geschehen in Kaiserslautern, 13:30.

fazit: überraschend doch viele leute, guter kampf. Auch gut: ein klares Ende, durch eine Trillerpfeife eingeläutet. Viel spaß, interaktive spiele wie "gruppe a gegen gruppe b", geworfene und geschwungene Kissen.

Videos bei vimeo und youtube (bei vimeo kann man runterladen)

• http://www.vimeo.com/clip=59162
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efG316ODK4g

und photos bei flickr in der group http://www.flickr.com/groups/pillowfight-int/ , tag kaiserslautern

(sorry, flickr badge javascript geht hier nicht)

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Am ersten Mai 2006 wird am Stiftsplatz gefÃŒrhstÃŒckt. Das ganze ist ein http://www.permanentbreakfast.org/, Anleitung siehe dort.

1. Mai 2006, 11:00 am Stiftsplatz in Kaiserslautern. Die Details werden Ìbermorgen, Montag 3. April 2006 geplant beim nÀchsten GreatEscape im Glockencafe.

This week I decided to look for a new blog/feedreader. My first try was to search the web and try web-readers out myself, using my OPML file. Behold - now Techcrunch made an article about feedreaders.

their idea:
There are a numer of different types of readers: web-based, desktop, Outlook based, etc.. This post is focused solely on web-based feed readers. I’ve included the big guys plus some up and coming readers with outstanding features and/or performance like News Alloy, Gritwire, Attensa and FeedLounge.

Rojo is the reader I am using at the moment, but I miss an option to search all my feeds for a keyword (hey, where is that blog entry about Quake3StrategyGame?).

So perhaps I should try out bloglines...

btw: they made a mistake in the article: Rojo supports OPML export, I just tried it out and it even semi-validates.

nice thing to see about the semantic web: people advertise for it.



found at mortenf's weblog. Interesting that profium makes advertisment for SPARQL. The link to Altova and SemanticWorks is sound, they make money with it.

by way of internet, bblfish's blog:

ytmnd, a website of infinite zoot, has blue balls. just watch it. hypnotizing. note that an RDF database server (with inference) will probably look like this (and sound like it).

I dare to link to bblfish's pic also:



http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/

The next Semantic Desktop hack! Learn about current projects on the Semantic Desktop, express your ideas and combine them with others.

• the workshop homepage

Date & Place

April 21st - 23rd, 2006

Location

DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany, Building 57, Room 508

Registration

Participation fee for the three-day workshop is 30€, to be paid at the first day on site.

Register by sending an e-mail to Thomas Roth-Berghofer.

If not indicated otherwise by you, we will put your name and affiliation on the public list below.

Participants

• Arne Handt
• Anja Jentzsch
• Thomas Roth-Berghofer
• Leo Sauermann
• Gunnar Grimnes
• Dominik Heim
• Danish Nadeem?
• Benjamin Horak - will not attend physically but via videoconference
• Tudor Groza
• Siegfried Handschuh
• Martin Homik?
• Richard Cyganiak

Accomodation

The city of Kaiserslautern has a list of hotels here: http://www.kaiserslautern.de/tourismus/hotels_und_unterkuenfte/index.html?lang=de&download=00157

The Pension Blum (Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 7, 67655 Kaiserslautern, Tel.: +49-631-3115656) is known to be cheap and ok, and is 2 minutes from the station.
(or if price is not an issue the Dorint is between DFKI and the city centre and is also nice … )

Organizers

• 
  DFKI GmbH
• 
  XML Clearinghouse
• Arne Handt
• Anja Jentzsch
• Thomas Roth-Berghofer
• Leo Sauermann
• Gunnar Grimnes

Topics

• frameworks for Semantic Desktop
• Gnowsis
• OpenIRIS
• DBIN
• possible application scenarions
• your scenario - your diploma thesis, your customer project
• Ontologies for the Semantic Desktop
• The Nepomuk EU Project - what it is?
• Programming interfaces for the Semantic Desktop
• Cooperations based on existing projects
• Philosophical impact of the Semantic Desktop, changes in knowledge work and society.

Talks, Demos, Posters submissions

We will have slots for talks, demos and posters. Roughly four talks per day, each 30 minutes.
Alltogether there are 10 slots for talks open.

Please submit your proposed talk, poster or demo via e-mail to Arne Handt.

Current Program

• Talk: (Thomas Roth-Berghofer): What is the Nepomuk EU Project?
• Talk & Demo: Leo Sauermann: current state of the gnowsis semantic desktop
• Talk: Dominik Heim: Introducing his diploma thesis
• Talk: Arne Handt: DBIN

Visit the official homepage

(btw: these workshops were previously known as the gnowsis hacks)

Gunnar Grimnes recently blogged about his happy moments with the combination of gnowsis 0.9 and python.

the code looks something like that here:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from xmlrpclib import ServerProxy
server=ServerProxy("http://127.0.0.1:9993");
#print server.listMethods()
print getattr(server,"gnowsis-server_dataaccess.querySelect")("gunnar","fulltext")

but read Gunnars original words for full bliss.

If you didn't know this yet: vienna is one of the coolest places to geek at. Nice town, cheap rents, cool people, free universities, art, recreation. And, most important: free wifi nearly everywhere.

Try it out in vienna: open your mobile computer and in 50% of all times, some nice person will have intentionally have left you an open wifi access point. Yes, these people believe that the world is a nice place and that you can surely use their wifi to read mail and google something up. There is free wifi in most of the cafés I frequent and there are enough public places like www.muqa.at with free wifi.

All this geek-friendlyness of vienna has led to many people using plazes there to check where they are and where wifi is. Vienna is on place four in an in-official statistics with having the most online plazes. Vienna is on a head-to-head race for place four with New York, perfect. San Francisco is second, first is Berlin.

Dazinde is a new fellow with DFKI, starting his diploma thesis soon in the Semantic Desktop research are. His full name is Danish Nadeem.

read his blog and enjoy.

topics at the moment are his diploma thesis, suicide packs in japan, weird pixelart and semantic web stuff.

* Termin: 01.04., Punkt 13:30 Uhr
* Ort: Kaiserslautern, Innenstadt, Kreuzung der Fußgängerzonen
Fackelstraße/Kerststraße (beim H&M)
* Mitbringen: Kissen
* Aktion: Kissenschlacht
* Soft pillows only!
* Swing lightly, many people will be swinging at once.
* Do not swing at people without pillows or with cameras.
* Remove glasses beforehand!
* The event is FREE and appropriate for ALL AGES.
* Nach 10 Minuten löst sich alles in verschiedene Richtungen auf!

Achtung: das kissen darf nicht platzen. wirklich.

siehe http://www.newmindspace.com/pillowfightnyc.php