Poken, connecting the offline and the online world

Now you can share your social bookmarks easily with anyone who gives you 4!
Don't understand what I mean ?

Then check it out at: DoYouPoken ...

I think its cool so have a look.

ByteFM a very cool german radio station

This is great. Another day listening to ByteFM via my WebRadio and finding more and more interesting bands and new music. This is a station made by people who really care about the music they present.

Have a look: byte.fm or listen to them just search for byte.fm on your webradio.

The You Tube Symphony Orchestra live at Carnegie Hall

The virtual gets real: The concert of the YouTube Symphony live at Carnegie Hall: See for yourself.

The YouTube Symphony orchestra

How cool is that!
See what happens if you combine a creative idea with talents all over the world:

The YouTube Symphony orchestra

My very own private library with reading space

the "table" in the middlle has been specially made for me and is a bit higher than normal.

Extreme sheperding

Extreme Sheep LED Art

Take part, turn the lights of for Earth Hour 2009 at 28/3 on 20:30

This evening it happens in germany too. Earth hour, we jointly turn of the lights for the hour between 20:30 and 21:30 on March the 28th 2009. What for, an who are we ? Its to give politicians a big sign saying, hey, we are conecerned about global warming, you better should be too. And we are people all over the world.. It started in Sidney in 2007 and today it is a global event. Watch the video an join us at 20:30 german time !



And don't tell me, you can do nothing:
Here is a list of what we already do:

Choose energy saving bulbs, even LEDs
Commute to work by bicycle
Turn down the heating 2 degrees (and yes, it is still warm enough)
Buy local food whenever possible
Support local farmers by buying their products
Reduce waste
Grow our own vegetables
Do not use standby whenever possible
Use notebooks rather than Desktop PCs
Replace only if its broken.
Buy Fair Trade
Print on both sides of paper
Do not print if not necessary
Do not fly when going on vacation
Use public transport whenever possible

See, there are things we do that you can do to ! So join us, make the first step this evening...

A new cool tool on the web. http://ping.fm lets you post status or messages to several services at once.

Just before the new Science Parliament start, a film about the first one

Being part of the first european science parliament to me was a great experience and i will try to take part in the upcoming discussions and topic finding on the webpage of the Science Parliament again. In the meantime you can have a look at the following video of the science parliament to learn what happened in Aachen last year:


Or simply have a look at www.science-parliament.eu

And see if you can find me in the video ;) I myself counted 5 appearances ;)

Are we still a country of poets and thinkers or has greed and stupidity taken over

Looking at the media, at the number of students in the "hard sciences" like physic or biology and on the sometimes incredible stupid readers letters in some newspapers (How dare this teacher try to teach his students about evolution ? I would not send my kids to him, cause we all know god is the creator.. Yeahr right, hush, hush back dear dark middleage person) I do not know if germany is still that intellectual a country it once was. You just have to turn on TV during the day for an experiment and it is astonishing how stupid some tv shows actually are. And I know of colleagues in my company who haven't read a book in years !

I sometimes get the impression that today the biggest luxury is to have a brain of your own, to care about more than money and profit and the career. To be interested in culture, in history, in the sciences.... We seem to fall back to pre humanist ages in some areas of our society.

Or maybe I am just another culture pessimist ???

Well then lets see when the first "I am an intellectual, get me out of here" show starts for me to watch... ;)