google trickery

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]

pictures of the week 41

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:
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pascal from biel and roman1 from basel during the mainrace:
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some kricker during the mainrace:
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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…

suicmc04

here’s the flyer to the suicmc04 here in bern.
if all goes well, the flyer should be in the 20minuten tomorrow. and if you’re a listener to radiobe1, then you might be able to catch the ad they’re airing for us (or you can just click here and listen to the spot online (543kb .mp3-file) :-)

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for more info go to suicmc04.ch

and if you’re looking at a search on my preferred telephone-number-finder tel.search.ch, then you might be able to spot a banner which links to the suicmc04 homepage (thanks to b. and RIM)

almost forgot to tell! there’s also a critical mass which is more than open for anyone! so take your bikes if you come and give us a visit.

critical-mass

(this post is gonna stay on top until then…)

motorola razr v3

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?

picture of the week 40 [update]

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

ae fond kiss

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..

hohtuerli-panorama

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.

hohtuerliif 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.

pongmechanik

i do own a pong for my telly (a really lucky finding at the local second hand store for 15 bucks) but this fully-analog pong from two german students is way more cool. it’s built with pulleys, strings and pieces of glass. go and visit their site and watch the video (in 10mb and 6mb-flavour) with amazement!

[via gizmodo]

picture of the week 39

yesterday i’ve been on a big hike with nina and her sister. we walked over the so-called hohtürli from the griesalp to kandersteg (here’s the explanation from another guy).

on the descent to kandersteg we witnessed the sun going down over the hills on the other side of the valley. since the air was a little hazy i was able to catch the sun rays quite nice.

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ps: i’ve made a nice panorama on 2778m above sea level, i’ll post that soon, but it needs some more tweaking and i need a bed now.
ps2: here are some other pictures on flickr. (i start to like that!)

nice to meet you

today i met pieceoplastic while i was having a break and he was going for groceries.
as an avid moblogger that meeting just had to end up on his moblg.net.
we’ve “known” each other for quite a long time online, have been reading each others blog, live about 700m apart, but have never met IRL. weird.
now the weirdness is over and we’ve met and can both put another puzzle part to the person we think to know.
nice.