i desperately need to loosen my cheeks! because when i tried, my image did turn out far less funny than christians. but nonetheless i uploaded it to that site, so others can have a laugh just like i did…

send in your pictures, so others can have a laugh, too!

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today i had a funny conversation with my own personal smarter child. i read about it in the latest wired and must say it’s really fun. just add Smarterchild to your AIM-buddylist (or ichat) or add 35000 on your ICQ (doesn’t matter for me, because i use fire).

at the moment the information for international users is a bit sparse, ’cause in the US you can get movie listings and stuff like that. nonetheless i was able to get a review of the movie i’m going to see tonight (“can you get me a review of ray?”). the smartypant also reminds you of different stuff (“remind me to go offline” “when?” “in 30 minutes”).

you really should give it a go, because it’s hard to describe…

oh, and i really got a kick out of todays dilbert.

[via dwlt’s excellent comic-feeds]

i’m in the process of moving all my data from my ibook to my new g4 (it’s not new, i bought it used, but it’s new for me…). does anyone of you kind readers out there have an idea on how to do that smooth and seamless? i tried ccc, but that didn’t work really good, cause some os-extensions behave different on g3s and g4s… what files and directories do i need to transfer (with the excellent dropcopy for example…)?

i’ve got 50 gmail invites left to spare.

this makes me think that gmail is going to be open for everyone soon, since people around me are getting a truckload of invites. you won’t get an invite if you leave a comment here (they’re closed on this post), instead just head over to isnoops gmail invite spooler. over there you might be able to score one of the 105589 invites left at the moment. i just submitted all my invites there…

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i wish i’d live in paris, because then i’d play tetris or pong or breakout or pacman on the national library all night long…

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this person took My Little Book About God and remixed the images with his own creepy captions to make some kind of creepy howto for alien world invasion. the picture on the left is one of the 20 pages of the remixed book and it sent shivers down my spine. take a look at all the pages, it’s well worth it!

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ps: i really love the amazon-lookup feature built into ecto, makes linking to books amazingly easy…

this day seems to be musical: the kleptones have released another mashup album: From Detroit To J.A. i haven’t had time to listen to all the tracks up to now, but if it’s only half as brilliant as A Night At The Hip-Hopera, then it’s mighty good. the mixalbum is only available as torrent. either as one big mp3 with cue file or as individual mp3s (83.3mb).

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finally i’ve been able to hack together a panorama of the pool we’ve been swimming in in gensingen. if you click on the image on the left you should be able to open the 432kb-file and see how the pool looked from left to right. mind the bad quality of the panorama, but it was shot without tripod and a whimsy camera.

thanks to pete bevin, my sidebar now sports some more dropdowns. i fiddled with the code he provides on his page, so now it’s marginally different. for my MT3 installation the code looks as follows:
archive dropdown:

<form>

<select onChange=”document.location=options[selectedIndex].value;” class=”jumpbox”>

<option value=””>monthly archives</option>

<MTArchiveList archive_type=”Monthly”>

<option value=”<$MTArchiveLink$>”><$MTArchiveTitle$></option>

</MTArchiveList>

</select>

</form>

comments dropdown:

<form>

<select onChange=”document.location=options[selectedIndex].value;” class=”jumpbox”>

<option value=””>comment archives</option>

<$MTComments lastn=”10″$ sort_order=”descend”>

<option value=”<$MTBlogArchiveURL$><$MTCommentEntryID pad=”1″$>.html”> by <$MTCommentAuthor$>, <? echo datediff2(‘<$MTCommentDate format=”%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S”$>’); ?></option>

</MTComments>

</select>

</form>

recent entries dropdown:

<form>

<select onChange=”document.location=options[selectedIndex].value;” class=”jumpbox”>

<option value=””>recent entries</option>

<MTEntries lastn=”10″ sort_order=”descend”>

<option value=”<$MTEntryPermalink$>”> <$MTEntryTitle$></option>

</MTEntries>

</select>

</form>

i know the dropdowns don’t look nice, but i still need to tweak the css a bit, it just doesn’t seem to accept the jumpbox-class. i need to take a deeper look at it. but now i need sleep, that’s more important at the moment…

how does it look on windows?