Monthly Archives: June 2004

In one of todays featured articles wikipedia.org explains the so called “heavy metal umlaut” (link). Böse!

Chris sent me this link that morning. It’s a cpu load monitor which uses one of these battery self-tests as a display device. Great stuff!

Comic Cosmos together with Cinemaxx Darmstadt is showing a series of mangas. I will most probably skip the “Shaolin Kickers”, but the rest of the films looks promising to me.

Besides some stories read by humans gutenberg.net also hosts a great number of audio books which were produced using a text to speech processor (link). Perhaps i’m just playing the woman but for me the quality of these recordings is … Continue reading →

Project Gutenberg has several audio books of Sherlock Holmes stories online (link). The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle The Valley of Fear, Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan … Continue reading →

The University of Minnesota provides audio files of their lecture “Studies in Narrative: Science Fiction and Fantasy”. If you’re into Sci-Fi or Fantasy it’s definitvely interesting stuff. The first two lectures discuss the origin and history of Sci-Fi. The next … Continue reading →