I *love* rotten corporate logos.

I took a picture of a nice one in Schoenbrunnerstraße. Motorola car phones, it’s probably dating back to the early 1990ies.

Ever been on the lookout for a cool restaurant, special place to shop, a new favorite record store or else? Want to know if that vegetarian restaurant in a far away district carries vegan stuff as well and if it is as good as the drunken brother of a friend of a friend told you late during yesterdays’s party? Need some word of advice on where to shop for that hard to find limited edition of Strange Emily’s underwear or silver wound guitar strings or that nifty new iRazorlight from Apple that will make your skin so soft and smooth? Here is something for you, that will probably help you:

Tupalo.com is a nifty new feature on the web that combines word of mouth, the community idea and travel guide in a cleverly and userfriendly software packaging. I, of course, checked the record stores first, then got an account and starting to comment on them as well. I hope you’ll like my 2 cents worth.

The thing is still being worked on as far as I can see but it is a clever and neat idea and really helpful.

TUPALO

Seems I missed something while I was in den States…

Louis D. Friedman, the Executive Director of The Planetary Society, was in Vienna.

February 22 , 2007

Our International Lunar Decade proposal is now before the UN Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). I’ve just presented it to COPUOS here at their Vienna meeting and made the point again that going to the Moon and exploring other worlds inspires hope for the future, even while this COPUOS meeting focuses on space applications to deal with problems on Earth. We see the value of such inspiration in the emergence of national lunar missions from new spacefaring countries.

My International Lunar Decade (ILD) presentation fit into the agenda as part of the discussion of the International Heliophysical Year (IHY) of 2007. At the UN meeting, I saw scores of exhibits from more than 70 nations describing their participation in the IHY, which cover all physical processes “under the Sun,” including the entire solar system.

Link

Computer services and system administration… trust the tapir!

Jacob Appelbaum’s talk is now online.

Link

November 15, 2006 (8 PM) the first Dorkbot Vienna will be held at werkzeugh. The first guest will be David Moises. He is currently building a DIY helicopter and will talk about the project.

German info

I love tags…
you search for “Vienna” and you find out that there will be a conference about digital forensics in Vienna next year.

The First International Workshop on Spoofing, Digital Forensics and Open Source Tools (SDFOST), in conjunction with ARES-2007 — The Second International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security

The conference will be held at the Vienna University of Technology (TU) in Vienna, Austria on April 10-13, 2007.

Source

For the first time an episode of Okto’s astronomy series “Supernova” will be recorded in front of a live audience… at the Kuffner observatory.

Info, German only:

Die Astronomie-Sendung Supernova wird nun nach einem Jahr Anlauf-, Probe- und Übungszeit erstmals öffentlich auf der Kuffner-Sternwarte präsentiert:

Mittwoch, 8.11.2006, 19 Uhr
Kuffner-Sternwarte, Johann-Staud-Straße 10, 1160 Wien
Eintritt frei

Die Ausstrahlung der Sendung erfolgt am selben Tag um 20.30 Uhr (im Wiener Telekabel und im Internet live via Webstream auf www.okto.tv)

In der 27 Minuten langen Sendung werden unter anderem zwei Beiträge von Sebastian Voltmer gezeigt, einer zum 91. Geburtstag von John Dobson, den dieser in Deutschland gefeiert hat, und einer über die Raiffeisen-Volkssternwarte des Astroteams Mariazellerland. Außerdem gehen wir der Frage nach, welchem astronomischen Ereignis der Stern von Bethlehem wohl zuzuschreiben ist.

Aktuelle Infos und Trailer: www.okto.tv/supernova

I never fell in love with ULF.
ULF (the Ultra Low Floor tram) is the new generation of trams currently operating in Vienna. It’s the tram with the lowest floor-height of any such vehicle in the world.

But there are some real fans out there…
They collect pictures and compare ULF to other trams.

And here is the official ULF story (sorry, German only).

I *love* the Commodore PET. Such a beautiful peace of damn old hardware.

Location: Museum of Technology, Vienna.

Source: NunoCardoso’s photostream