finally!
now it’s official: the new map.search.ch is live and online.
b.abou and the other coding guys at search.ch released their new baby into the wild, and i suppose it’s ready to survive and thrive there, because it really is good.
since some weeks i’ve been testing and using it a lot at work to find all those funny addresses where our customers are (and sometimes telling the others: then after the house with the red roof you turn right).
map.search.ch is surprisingly fast and amazing to use. drag the map around to see what comes around the edge and the map data is loaded as it’s needed. is the map too big? just resize your browser-window and the map is resized accordingly.
the whole map is composed of aerial photos of switzerland (so you can see funny stuff like this waterskier), but if you need even more speed you can also only have the streets in a “normal” map mode (but is of no use for the waterskier :-)
hell, there’s even more: click on the map to zoom in, right-click to zoom out. i’d write some more, but i gotta run, i’m off to biel to attend a vernissage of biggi lustenberger with a piece of art me and 50 other people are in. have a nice evening!

oh, btw, that’s the house i live in, but give me a call before you come and visit…

i for one welcome our medicine overlords!
i’d really like to watch my veins pulsating green on my own arm the next time i’m gonna donate blood…

[via new scientist]

is it funny? or is it really, really scary?
i don’t know what to think of that movie (5.7mb .mov) in which someone edited all fear-inducing flowery phrases spoken at the rnc into one hypnotizing stream of words that start to loose the connection to reality.
think for yourself might be one consequence. don’t trust the words of those governing you…

[via boingboing]

i really got a kick out of these nice stop-motion-animations from some french students!

[via boingboing]

my pictures from the suicmc04 are online.
grab them either on the /pics-section or on flickr.
my batch of pictures is mostly from the preparation. if you want to see some other great pictures, then tinu pixels pictures are available on the suicmc-homepage. go and take a look, they’re great!

so if i link to chregels page with the keywords jämmerlicher waschlappen i kinda induce some funk with googles index. this sounds like fun, count me in!

see the search-result on this google-page

for our english-speaking audience: this is pretty much the same as when you google the term miserable failure and reach the biography of dubja bush. chregel blocher is a member of the swiss federal council and quite a prick…

[via berner gazette]

lanz and beat have put their photos of the suicmc04 online. (i think that this picture he made during the critical mass is really, really nice…)

my pics will follow shortly, first i have to admire the ones that tinu made, they’ll be on the suicmc-page soon (e.g. i hope i can do it soon)

the suicmc04 is over. now i’ve got to see that i don’t fall into a post-evental depression.
here’s a some pictures for you (we prepared the whole event for about a year, so this justifies some more pics :-)
hämme during the preparations:

pascal from biel and roman¹ from basel during the mainrace:

some kricker during the mainrace:

all my other pictures will be available here soon. pictures from more people will be available on flickr (hopefully…)

¹ages ago we’ve been in the army together, which is quite strange, because we both couldn’t be farther away from supporting the army than we’re now…

gadget envy.
at miklos’ and cecilia’s wedding b. and me talked about the upcoming motorola razr, the phone that looks like THE gadget-ency-inducing phone of the year. up to now i’ve only seen one or to pics of it floating around on the net. but today i stumbled over this thread at howard forums¹ which induced a cringe in my bowels, (a soft wispering voice: buybuybuybuy). under one of a gazillion pictures of the razr was the one in the post below, the guy holding the phone in his hands.
can you believe motorola crammed:

• a vga-camera
• bluetooth
• a speakerphone
• a color screen
• and mp3-ringtones

into that aluminium encasing?
it’s a bummer that phone is expected to cost around 0.5kChf even with a contract…

[via gizmodo]

¹ don’t click on the link if you’re on a dial-up line, it’s crammed with pictures.
don’t click on the link if you don’t want to see a girl in a strange bikini!
and what’s it with that knife?

Originally uploaded by habi.

this is the picture to the upcoming post.

my plan for yesterday was to go and see freestyle.ch with sigi, but since the snowramp collapsed, the whole event was blown off (see a tiny pic here).
bugger! mostly also because i hope to get a good picture of the week :-)

so sigi and me went to the museum to see der gespiegelte mensch (the mirrored human) which was mildly said, a disappointment (beside the microscopes with the drosophila and their mutations…).. so we just went to the so-called niederdörfli and drank some tea and coffee and had a good talk, which was probably ways better than watching reckless guys and gals on their boards and skies.

so i’m just grabbing a pic from my archive:
here’s one i shot at kims stag night in crans montana:

[update]
here’s a better pic
[via tobistar]

i went to see the last kiss, the new film by the scottish filmmaker ken loach. besides that i was blown away from the language everyone in that movie speaks¹ i just loved it.
as always ken loach is able to draw a very intense portrait of simple people (simple in a good way). his way of directing a movie is so far away from the way movies are don in hollywood. the people are real, so real that you start to sniff if they cry or laugh with them when they tell jokes.
although the movie is quite bitter – it’s about the romance between a wee irish gal and a tall pakistani bloke, which seem not to be able to flee from the constraints they get put on by their environment – it’s one of the most moving love movies in a long time. and even if you can’t go and see it with your important other half go and see it with someone else, because the story told is both moving and interesting to watch.

¹ i studied half a year at strathclyde university in glasgow, hence i’m quite fond of the glaswegian/scottish accent..

we’ll now it’s official: the swiss are xenophobic!

here is piece’s rant according the national elections of this weekend.
i bow my head in shame.

finally i found some time to do some (minor) tweaks to the panorama i shot on the hohtürli last weekend.

it’s a full 360° panorama on the hohtürli. when you open it, you look into the direction of the bluemlisalp-lodge. on the left you can view down to spiez, on the right is the descent to the oeschinensee and to kandersteg.

if you click on the thumbnail on the right, you can download the 1.2mb .mov-file and see what i’ve seen. bear with me if the panorama far from perfect. i made it without a tripod and with my snapshot-cam:

here and here are some more details on the route we walked. both images are from the (german) kandersteg-info-site.