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About this Web Site

You will find this site incomplete at various places. The reasons are manifold. Most important take the First Law of Web-Design into account.

A web Page is always incomplete

First Law of Web-Design (Otto Hainzl, based on thoughts of Kurt Gödel1  and on pragmatism)

Therefore it is astounding, that many people try to finish their web pages, because this simply can not be accomplished. Therefore I made this issue conceptual: Since a Website can never be complete, make an incomplete one but make the process visible to your audience.

I cordially invite you to watch things growing. You will find areas and corners of incompleteness, sometimes even marked as such symbolised by the ∆ sign. So please witness the incompleteness, which is a very strong concept anyhow and the/its growth. Excuse mix of German and English which may sometimes happen.

Surfing on this page should be exciting and joyful - incompleteness is part of the game - and the law. Please feel free to give feedback, especially if you are missing a comment, a thought, an image an imagination.

Menus are always an indicator of a hierarchical structure. Hierarchy is a concept which suits our needs, but does not cope with the realities we live in. Thus this web system also features pages outside the hierarchy, which can be accessed through links or search. Find them, watch them grow.

Credits

Thanks to everyone along the way who made this page & its content possible. More to be announced ∆-)

Sincerely, Otto Hainzl

  1. Gödel, Escher, Bach, An Eternal Golden Braid; Douglas R. Hofstadter, 1979 ↩

  2. Eine neue Version ist Verfügbar - Update: Wie Digitalisierung Kunst und Kultur verändert; Dirk von Gehlen, 20133 ↩

  3. This footnote is not referenced from anywhere but I still find it important. ↩