Markus klettert aus seinem Tanklaster und zieht sich rote Gummihandschuhe an. Er ist hier, um die Dixi-Klos sauber zu machen. Mit einem schweren schwarz-gelben Schlauch geht er in Richtung der zwölf Plastikkabinen – ein Slalomlauf zwischen den Betrunkenen. Ein Junge mit Wollmütze, Sonnenbrille und…

When xkcd creator Randall Munroe first posted a new installment of his webcomic titled "Time" on March 25, it looked deceptively simple: a picture of two black and white stick figures, a man and a wom

In June 2011, the biggest meme-generating forum on the Internet held elections. The community's moderators had become overwhelmed with its runaway popularity. Reddit's r/AdviceAnimals needed help. Featured Video They got it in the form of redditor gtw08, the eventual winner. Looking back, all the…

There’s a big problem in social media right now. Poke, a Facebook app, lets people send messages that self-destruct after a few seconds. It’s boring. A crucial and indispensable source of news and information, absolutely. But more often than not, it’s also tedious and predictable. Digital Diary One…

Ask your team to identify their biggest productivity killer and inevitably two issues will rise to the top of the list: managing their inboxes and their meeting schedules. I'll tackle the former in a future post. For now, I'd like to focus on increasing the value of meetings by sharing a practice…

Wir sitzen in einem kleinen Café am Levinsky-Park, einem verwahrlosten Grünstreifen im Süden von Tel Aviv. Die Szenen vor dem Fenster lassen kaum vermuten, dass wir uns in der israelischen Stadt am Mittelmeer befinden. Die Hautfarbe der meisten Passanten ist schwarz. Die Schriftzüge an den Scheiben…

All dressed in black and adorned with piercings, a small but growing community of goths is one manifestation of the new cultures and subcultures emerging in Kenya. By Rowan Emslie On the streets of Nairobi. Photograph by Matthias Kihr. Nairobi, Kenya: David Lith is a tattoo artist working out of…

(Welcome to the first edition of View Source, a weekly column in which Rex Sorgatz obsesses over the new ways we create, consume, and manipulate moving images.) The Case of the Trombone and the Mysterious Disappearing Camera Earlier this year, a video of an older gentleman playing trombone became an…

Black-Sabbath-Mitglieder Iommi, Osbourne, Butler Foto: Universal Music Sie können den Artikel leider nicht mehr aufrufen. Der Link, der Ihnen geschickt wurde, ist entweder älter als 30 Tage oder der Artikel wurde bereits 10 Mal geöffnet. Dieser Beitrag stammt aus dem SPIEGEL-Archiv. Warum ist das…

Du stellst ihm keine Fragen. Du sprichst ihn nicht an, wenn er dich nicht anspricht", sagt Kim Chol Ung. "Sollten wir ihm zufällig begegnen, so etwas kann passieren, dann verbeuge dich tief vor ihm. So tief, dass Rücken und Beine im rechten Winkel zueinander stehen. Rede ihn mit ›Eure Exzellenz‹ an.…

Ein Leben mit der Schuld : Es wird nie wieder gut Von 15.07.2013, 11:55Lesezeit: 8 Min. Die Schuld kommt mit einem Zittern, wie eine Art Schüttelfrost.Thomas Fuchs Auf dem Supermarkt-Parkplatz fuhr sie aus Versehen einen Menschen tot. Seitdem lauert die Schuld überall. Die Frau muss lernen, mit ihr…

Photo: Noah Kalina/Noah Kalina I have 700 friends on Facebook, 36 of whom I consider exes. Not all are ex-boyfriends—in the eleven years that “boyfriend” has been a name for men in my life, I have referred to nine as “boyfriends.” The rest are men I dated casually, guys I dated disastrously,…

Back in 2006, I gave a talk at dConstruct called The Joy Of API. It basically involved me geeking out for 45 minutes about how much fun you could have with APIs. This was the era of the mashup—taking data from different sources and scrunching them together to make something new and interesting. It…

Member-only story As photos flood the Web and photo recognition technology becomes more widespread and precise, are we approaching an unsettling tipping point? Robert Stribley 8 min read· Jul 9, 2013 -- One day you may wake up and there will be thousands of photos of you, which you didn’t know…

Brett Van Valkenburg 5 min read· Jun 26, 2013 -- Time travel is always fun to think about. Who wouldn't want to go back in time to do things differently? You could make money with your knowledge of the future, put the moves on that girl you were too afraid to talk to, or murder your grandfather for…

CGIIdeas/Commentary By | 05/13/2013 11:46 am | I’ve come across people who believe that Max Headroom, the Channel 4 character from the Eighties (pictured at top), was a genuine piece of computer animation. But although he was conceived by the animators Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel (of Cucumber…

Am Abend des 3. November 2008 beginnen die Erzieher in dem Heim am Waldrand die „Anti-Aggressionsmaßnahme“ mit der 17 Jahre alten Hanna*. Das Protokoll: 19.30 Uhr: Verweigerung von Nahrung und Medikamenten. 20.05 Uhr: Wehrt sich. Kopf wird festgehalten. 20.07 Uhr: Wehrt sich weiter. Hanna werden…

The plummeting cost of the basics of computing—sensors, processors, network connections, batteries—will mean that in the very near future, objects all around us will start to change. They will no longer be just things; they will be connected things. They will be part of the network, our network. Our…

MY BLOG From ‘how to’ articles, expedition dispatches to the stories of the incredible people I learn from along the way. Mt. Everest and K2- A Q and A with Elia Saikaly This interview was initially c

Landwirtschaft : Schweineleben Von Jan Grossarth 25.05.2013, 19:23Lesezeit: 7 Min. Welt ohne Wetter: Die Ferkelchen im Stall kennen keinen Regen, keinen Matsch und keine Würmer.Daniel Pilar Wie geht es dem Schwein, bevor es zur Wurst wird? Der Stall, in dem die Antwort zu finden ist, steht ziemlich…

For Carmen Tarleton, the day started out normally enough. Tarleton, 45, had errands to run, a piano lesson to get to, a house to tidy. Tomorrow was Valentine’s Day, and for the first time in a long time — the first time since the attack five years earlier — she looked forward to spending it with…

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A lifeguard keeps watch on opening day of the newly renovated McCarren Park Pool on June 28, 2012, in Brooklyn, New York. Mario Tama/Getty Images Slate’s archives are full of important stories. We’re republishing this article for the start of summer. It was originally published June 4, 2013. The new…

I had debated writing something about this, but wasn’t sure if I would or not. Ultimately I decided to do so because I have a platform here, might as well use it. Some of you who follow me on Twitter

Tony Davis was 18 when he took another boy's life in a drive-by shooting. Now he's a middle-aged man worthy of redemption. "Fat Tone" at California's Calipatria prison, December 1993. Courtesy The Atavist The following is an adapted excerpt from Stray Bullet , Gary Rivlin's new Atavist single. Five…

When Jeannie Peeper was born in 1958, there was only one thing amiss: her big toes were short and crooked. Doctors fitted her with toe braces and sent her home. Two months later, a bulbous swelling appeared on the back of Peeper’s head. Her parents didn’t know why: she hadn’t hit her head on the…

Wenn das alles bloß ein Albtraum wäre, flüstert Luhmann manchmal. Ein Albtraum ist nur eine nächtliche Täuschung. Ein Albtraum hat ein Ende. Aber das hier, das ist wahr und wird nie aufhören. Luhmann wird sein Leben, so wie er es kannte, nicht zurückbekommen. Er hat es auf dem Meer verloren, auf 54°…

In late 1992, Quentin Tarantino left Amsterdam, where he had spent three months, off and on, in a one-room apartment with no phone or fax, writing the script that would become Pulp Fiction, about a community of criminals on the fringe of Los Angeles. Written in a dozen school notebooks, which the…

I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco's Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session.

The Next Facebook Beyond the Address Book It has now been six months since I documented my tenth grade sister’s technology habits . Intrigued by what I learned, I’ve gone on to ask many more “normal” people, of all ages, about the products that they use on a regular basis. This post is an attempt to…

Whether it’s Flickr, Delicious, MyBlogLog, or Upcoming, the post-purchase story is a similar one. Both sides talk about all the wonderful things they will do together. Then reality sets in. They get bogged down trying to overcome integration obstacles, endless meetings, and stifling bureaucracy. The…

A John lights a cigarette for a young male prostitute in August, 1965 in front of Astor Pharmacy in Times Square. IC Rapoport On a sleepy Sunday morning in late July 1965, Detective 3rd Grade James McDonnell received a call in the upstairs squad room of midtown Manhattan’s 17th Precinct. There was a…

Caitlin Shetterly 6 min read· Apr 5, 2013 -- A few hours after our son was born in January of 2009, requests for photos on Facebook started to come our way: Friends who might not have been on the small, private email list that got the first few images we sent from the hospital wanted,…

News Desk May 14, 2013 Update: The New Yorker is no longer using Strongbox. Aaron Swartz was not yet a legend when, almost two years ago, I asked him to build an open-source, anonymous in-box. His achievements were real and varied, but the events that would come to define him to the public were…

A Reporter at Large The Squid Hunter Can Steve O’Shea capture the sea’s most elusive creature? May 17, 2004 The giant squid has consumed the imaginations of many oceanographers. How could something so big remain unseen for so long—or be less understood than dinosaurs?Illustration by Gerald Scarfe On…