General – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Scotch Eggs with Bacon

2025-04-17

Just a variant of a scotch egg recipe using egg, burger patties, and bacon.
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Cancelled Workshop on Viewpoint Diversity in HCI

2025-04-11

A workshop proposal about viewpoint diversity that — unfortunately — I cannot do at the moment and had to retract. In my opinion it is too good to vanish on some hard drive.
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ChatGPTs Monday Sarcastic AI

2025-04-05

OpenAI put a deliberate sarcastic AI online. A test run started abysmal, but turned into a surprisingly nice and interesting conversation on human and AI symbiosis.
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Generative AI Chicken Test Short Comparison

2025-02-23

Just a quick comparison of the answers of ChatGPT, Gab AI, and Grok to the Chicken Test.
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Calisca – A witty, incisive editor improving blog posts with forceful precision

2024-12-10

With ChatGPT (or similar Generative AI tools), you're no longer just the lone writer grappling with drafts—you can have your own digital co-author, editor, or «re-writer.»
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When Remembrance Rings Hollow

2024-12-10

Ethics aren't for easy moments—they're for the inconvenient ones. What happens when society sings the song of ‘never again' while walking the first steps down a dark path once more? Well, we got an impression.
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Everything in this world tries to make you fat and lazy

2024-11-24

That advertisement is manipulating us isn't new, but since when is everything trying to make us fat and lazy?
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Downloading m3u8 streams as .mp4 Videos

2024-11-24

Using ffmpeg (or vlc) to download m3u8 streams.
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A Tale of Two Car Ads

2024-11-22

Two different approaches to advertising cars.
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Beauty Alerts

2024-11-18

Given all the emergency warning and disaster alerts, how about an App the «warns» when something beautiful is happening?
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This is a private blog showing my opinions. If you have an issue with what I write here, either don’t read it or talk to me directly. Don’t waste your time — or mine — dragging my employer into matters where they hold no authority.

The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.