Posts tagged as "photo"

Posted by Markus on 16th April 2009

Spam’s electric bill? $3 Billion USD

Antivirus and web security company McAfee commissioned a research project from ICF International to measure the ecological effect of spam e-mails. Of course, it’s all about the carbon footprint now and everybody is up to the challenge. Now if only we could have a company to sell us a software that kills sp… oh, yeah. [...]

Posted by Markus on 15th April 2009

The most important question?

Although Lag Wagon sings that the kids are all wrong, they do sometimes have something brilliant in their simplicity. With kids, I naturally mean very young ones, nearly babies. They have an endless curiosity and usually will continue their question barrage of whys after you’ve just finished answering the initial question. Of course, after a [...]

Posted by Markus on 15th April 2009

The Death Wheeze of Newspapers

Staying on the topic of printed media, TechCrunch posted an article titled That Whining Sound You Hear Is The Death Wheeze Of Newspapers. It is a very interesting look on the current clashing of the offline and the online. It talks on the items on how the web is “stealing” content from the newspapers and [...]

Posted by Markus on 14th April 2009

Life 101: What is Open Source and how does it work?

French author Marcel Proust once wrote “Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.” Of course, he did it in french but I thought it would be less of an dick thing to have it here translated. However, I agree with the above sentence and will try to [...]

Posted by Markus on 12th April 2009

The week on Varha.com April 6th to 12th

Quite a week it’s been, trying my first ever series of posts and I was pleased and surprised to see the interest and feedback it got. So, here’s the most popular content from the blog this week in a collected post, so you can spend your Easter days enjoying some verbal entertainment (if you’re really [...]

Posted by Markus on 10th April 2009

5th of 5 Reasons why printed media will evolve

Note: This is the fifth and last part of my week-long series of posting 5 reasons why I think the printed media will have to evolve and what I think it should evolve to. The steps will be posted daily starting on Monday, and ending today, on Friday. If you missed the first part “Time [...]

Posted by Markus on 9th April 2009

4th of 5 Reasons why printed media will evolve

Note: This is the fourth part of my week-long series of posting 5 reasons why I think the printed media will have to evolve and what I think it should evolve to. The steps will be posted daily starting with this on a Monday, and ending on this week’s Friday. If you missed the first [...]

Posted by Markus on 9th April 2009

The History of Wolverine

Marvel comics is something I’ve adored since my older brother introduced them to me in an early stage in my life. Wolverine has always been one of my favorite characters and this IGN comics article about the origins of Wolverine is a very good read. The new, leaked Wolverine movie is also coming, so plenty [...]

Posted by Markus on 9th April 2009

Blow up the Death Star

I’m a big fan of Star Wars and I do like merchandising in general, as long as it’s either done in good taste or in a proper tongue-in-cheek way that had enough credibility. Star Wars Legos are awesome and I’m sure I’ll have more of Mr. Block’s Lego photography goodness portrayed here, but before that [...]

Posted by Markus on 8th April 2009

3rd of 5 Reasons why printed media will evolve

Note: This is the third part of my week-long series of posting 5 reasons why I think the printed media will have to evolve and what I think it should evolve to. The steps will be posted daily starting with this on a Monday, and ending on this week’s Friday. If you missed the first [...]