piece blogged vektorika quite some time ago.
tonight i finally had time to look at all the issues that appeared up to now.
all the issues are chock-full vectorized graphic-design, feature work from many different artists, are just simply brilliant and downloadable for free!

like always, all good things in life are free:
MTV has an upcoming show called MTV Mash. the french duo Loo & Placido made all the bootlegs for that show.
the bootlegs that MTV turned down are now available from their L&D’s site. if you don’t want to sift through their page, the boingboing-post linked below has the direct links to all the mp3’s. go and grab ’em. “Pound for Pound” and “Golden Bastard” are my favorites

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those of you who like humor a bit on the bizarre side will be pleased to know that nichtlustig.de now also features a rss-feed, so you won’t ever again miss one of the (not so) daily comics!

the flagrant blogger links to an amazing movie, but i think the other movie of that guy is even better.
judge for yourself! (both .swf-movies are quite hefty on the big side, but it’s worth the wait!)

oh, and the page of the guy which made those two gems has the funniest navigation i’ve ever seen :-)

[via flagr.antville [via b3ta]]

now it looks like this:

this is what happens if you walk out of the store, try to see where you parked your bike and then walk into a pole.
a big ouchy!

i think i’ll need to go and buy some more steristrips tomorrow ;-)
(warning: the link is not for the faint of heart, it was the first hit on google…)

update: although my eye starts to get a funky bruise, my ouchie is nothing compared to this one here. that guy got six nails from a nail-gun in his head!!!
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tomorrow i’ll be in lucerne at the fumetto. i cannot wait to see katz und goldt, their strips are hilarious! the weather won’t be nice tomorrow which is a good thing, because i’m not gonna get distracted by the beautiful view over the lake of lucerne and be able to drown me in reading comics all day long.

if you’re like me and think that voting is a big part of democracy then this site might be the right thing for you: votez.ch (for obvious reasons only in german).
since sometimes the point of a ballot can be hard to get (especially if the title is misleading) then some background information can be really helpful to help you find your decision
the people behind votez.ch provide you with little blurbs of information for the upcoming elections or ballots and explain you the pro’s and con’s of every tabling and even tell you who says to vote yes or no (e.g. if you always vote with the SP, they tell you what the SP advises to vote).
the good thing behind votez.ch is, that the people which are behind it do not share one political direction. they actually think that politics sucks a wee bit, but also know that it’s important (especially as younger people) to cast its vote in elections.
so, if you think you might need a little boost to actually fill out that slip of paper, then you definitely should subscribe to their newsletter and you’ll get an email tailored about two weeks before you actually have to send the ballot in.

oh, and if you do not know how to actually fill out that slip of paper, then this little illustration might help you (wonderful!)

this morning i went to thömu to see if he has any good bikes to offer (he has). i knew that my mom went to röschu around noon to buy a bike for herself today, so i tried to be there as fast as possible (because i wanted to help her a bit and was already late).
the calculated route from oberried to röschus shop (according to map24.ch) is 11.39 km and takes 19 minutes. with my bike i drove the 9.34 km in 13 minutes and 50 seconds, resulting in an average speed of 40.5 km per hour. not too bad, aight?
now the question is, do i really need a bike that is faster than the one i already own? answer: yes, because it’s even more fun to drive fast with a racing bike than with a street-capable mountain bike.

oh, and in the end it turns out that i’m gonna decide between the bmc streetfire ssx (from our shop) or the specialized allez comp or the thömus slicker team pro. (guesss which one is the cheapest for me…) it’s a really hard decision. the price difference between all three bikes is less than 5% (i’m not gonna tell how cheap (compared to the real price) i get them) so it’s more of a “which dealer do i like most”-question…).
and in the end i also get 1k swiss franks from the insurance of the girl that trashed my bike. it’s not as much as i hoped, but at least the new bike is not gonna be as painful on my bank-account.

today i got a mail from poland.
just take a look at these pictures, and drool over them. i cannot wait until i hold my frame (the black one) in my hands.

i’ve been looking forward to getting that mail since november, so i’m a happy puppy now :-)
now i can start looking for the right parts to build my custom made bike-dream….

i could slap my head!
i’ve been trying to write some files to my flash-stick for about three hours now. the thing was, that the permissions were not set right, so i thought this is some unixy hiccup, no big deal.

i tried to verify the disk itself and tried to repair the disk permissions using the disk utility. nothing.
i relaunched the finder. nothing.
i tried to reformat the stick using the terminal. nothing.
i even tried to rm some files on it using su. nothing (this was l33t-sp34k).
i looked up osxhints how to possibly resolve that issue. nothing
hell, i even rebooted my ibook, a thing only for severe problems. nothing.
and just about now i found out that the little dip-switch on the stick was set on write-protect.
again. i. could. slap. my. head!

good night.

some weeks ago i made a little post about the lastest drool-over-gadget from sony, the librie. now dottocomu posted a first look on the e-book reader which doesn’t seem to be so hot at all.
the look and the quality of the screen are impressive, but the screen is slow and the buttons are awkwardly placed. but the single most disappointing thing is, that you cannot load all books onto the librie (besides that you actually need the ac-cord to sync), but have to “rent” one of only 400 books sony offers to you. in addition those books expire after 60 days. so, if you’re a slow reader you have to buy the book twice or more.
as gizmodo says: a breakthrough device – as soon as some Swedish hacker unlocks the DRM that prevents us from putting our own media on it.
let’s hope that swedish hacker hurries up a bit (there’s hope, because the librie is supposed to run on some flavour of linux) or this will stay in the shelfs like nailed to them.
just imagine, it would be so cool to take the librie, 2 AAA batteries and some books from project gutenberg (or the german equivalent) into your holidays. no more shlepping of books!

after seeing this bike at the velo züri last weekend, i just cannot seem to get the idea to buy a bike like this out of my head.

after some googling i found this shop from the netherlands which carries those bikes (funny URL by the way…) and some really cool other ones.
now i know that kona produces that extremely cool looking bike.

so the question is, should i get one? or should i see if i can get an ever more radical looking chopper from NWCB?

oh, if you’re into these things, you should give bikehotrod.uk a visit! and if you don’t mind to see a chicks bare butt, you should absolutely check out this page here, what an amazing bikeframe!

today we had kind of a family reunion. it was my cousins birthday and she invited all of us for a brunch at her and her boyfriends house. not only was the weather most beautiful, but the whole was also quite funny and nice.
instead of mailing around all the pics i made today i put them online in the pictures section. –> clicketyhere!

this survey by the auntie’s science department is really interesting.
take it to the end and see how you score with your disgust threshold against other people or the prediction of the science-team. the whole survey took me less than 4 minutes to fill out and in the end the results and descriptions of ’em are really interesting. well worth those minutes!

[via boingboing]

tired of having a dimpled and bruised banana?
then you need this piece of fine craftsmanship, the bananaguard!
i have to say that the bananaguard order page reminds me of other things, but that’s a) another story and b) up to your imagination…

[via gizmodo]