you decide which link is funny and which is my plans for tomorrow :-)

• Housegymnastics
• SUICMC03

hint: i’ll take my camera with me, so expect a bunch of pictures of freaks doing crazy stuff (or was that no hint?)

this guy’s a freak, but has a cool car setup…

this guy is a freak too, but he put up a perfect electronic music guide

all these people are freaks!

well, this is the fifth entry for tonight, and definitely time to go to bed.
this is the only picture i’m gonna share with the internet from my holidays exept the one before.

it was wonderful!

i you know what kind of grasshopper this is, then post a comment :-)

i’ve seen it in the asklepieion during my holidays in kos, greece.

Smartvote¹ seems like a good approach to the upcoming parliament elections here in switzerland because it helps you narrow down your possible candidates to elect.
the user (probably you) has to answer either 24 or 70 questions (dubbed smartvote rapide or deluxe) about actual political problems and decide how he/she would decide.
then smartvote matches your “political profile” to all the candidates in it’s database which also filled out that questionnaire.
this makes the process of voting a bit less painful, or at least a bit more accurate, because up to now i couldn’t be bothered to actually look up all the candidates i wanted to elect. i just dropped down the list of the political parties i support… (which get a 72.4% and 74.5% compliance with my answers…)
and amazingly enough, Ursula Wenger-Kupferschmied (with quite a kooky smile) from the evangelic party has the highest accordance (77.6%) with my ideas :-)
talk about politically uninterested geeks :-)
¹(which does not work at the moment but did this morning…)

update: the site is working again, so that i could generate my political profile…

well, i have to admit, that Proce55ing looks like the next thing to be with graphical fooling around on the net.
check out the sourcecode of this example, it’s amazingly lightweight!

(i read a nice article in the latest wired, and thought, i’d check out the site, it really looks like it’s got the ability to beat flash and all else…)

cannot afford an ipod?
then click here, print out, cut at the according lines, bend, glue and be happy :-)

(link from various sites over the net, including gizmodo, ipodlounge and boingboing)

i wonder why they call it the grand canyon series displays :-)

and now for something completely different: my holidays in kos were absolutely beautiful, thanks for asking…

i will be here with nina until the 29th september.
(and i do not have gprs-coverage in greece, so don’t expect even a tiny update…)

after some ego-googling i found: the HABi-spicery!

these guys are wild!
(here are more infos on the G5 supercluster at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

update: read more on apple.slashdot.org (also for some funny comments on this)

today i reached 4454 km on my bike (i didn’t have my camera with me at 4444km, so this was after i finished to work today…).
i got my odometer sometimes around the beginning of april this year. so this means that i drive around 10000 km a year on my bike, hence 1.141553 km/h (only at work, i drive quite a bit when i do not work…)
i could do a lot more calculations with my odometer: i consistently drive around 100 km during one work day, and make a bit more than 200 CHF on one day, so for each kilometer i drive at work i earn something like a cheap little bread or one of these king-size mars bars or half a coke in the restaurant or 2 CHF.
i need to get a shower :-)

this sounds a bit strange for me: i knew that text messages are not the hype-thing in the us of a, but that it’s considered big news by mobiletracker, that one can send SMS to other countries does sound a bit like oldfashioned news indeed…

btw: read this entry on gizmodo for another view on this :-)

today i went shopping a little bit (free afternoon, because all my classes are already on holidays and i’m only biking around 50 % of my time…): some little stuff for the upcoming week, i’ll be in greece, and then went to jäggi, because you can read all the comics you want without bein bothered.
near the comics FUST has an electronica-shop which i never can resist and always go and have a little look: today i spotted the perfect replacement for my old VCR, which is not far away from dying: the Panasonic DMR-HS2 , a combination of HD- and DVD-recorder which can fit up to 52 hours of video on its disk.

then i was looking things up a little bit and found out, that there are some other rivals of the DMR-HS2:

• first, the DMR-E80S, also from Panasonic which “Replaces the DMR -HS2 and also adds MP3 Playback and doubles the recording time by having an 80GB hard drive.” and funkyly costs 300$ less (according to froogle.google.com)
• then the TVS 100 from Fast, which has no recorder, but a network option, so you can FTP your recorded series to your Mac or PC to burn it to VCD, SVCD or DVD.
  Its bigger brother can even be programmed over the web.
• the computec dm-d100, sitting on the same shelf at FUST (with no avaliable info on google :-) which is cheaper (1000 CHF as opposed to the 1500 CHF one has to pay for the DMR-HS2) but has no recording nor networking ability. it sports a 120 Gb-HD and seems very plasticky, but hey, who needs archiving :-)

so we get to the conclusion: if you got some bucks to spare to help my geekness, then drop me a line :-)

update: gizmodo just wrote about the new ultraslim HD-recorders from sharp, which includes a firewire-port… (click on sharp to see a babelfish-translation of the page…)

i think my geekness could only be satisfied if i lived in japan.
i wonder when the new clie ux50 is gonna come out here in switzerland (with integrated wifi, bluetooth, keyboard, camera, a big-ass screen and a polished palm os…)

update: well, it actually does come out here somewhere in october for a hefty entry price of 930 CHF. dream on dreamer!

gizmodo (one of my favourite gadget site) talked about a mysterious USB-powered noodle thingy (here and here) sometimes last week. now look at this really strange USB gadget i found on brando’s shop while looking for some other USB–stuff.

i need this shirt for that event, but there’s no time to get it until then :-)

from here to there.
coming back happy.

i just ripped an old cd i had lying around here: Overproof from Rockers Hi-Fi.
And after i synced it to my ipod, i found out, that i need a bigger one, it’s nearly full!!!

btw: the vast majority of all the songs on my ipod (i guess more than 95%) are legally owned/bougth by either me, my flat-mates or another friend i borrowed the CD. i admit that i have some songs that i got through poisoned or aquisition (three songs from Seeed, which i saw on the Gurtenfestival last year and Tour de France (the 1983 version, not the new one from 2003) from Kraftwerk, are some i remember out of my head…).

i believe in music artists, and i am quite happy to buy cd’s, so it’s simple: don’t steal music…

i have one little story about filesharing: do you remember that old commercial from apple when they introduced the ipod? (click on “commercial” to watch it. it’s hilarious!!!)
i’ve seen it in the openair cinema a year ago and had ages to find the song (take california” – propellerheads). i was searching hours on kazaa (i had a windows-machine at the university, and wasn’t aware of a good file-sharing application on my mac.) to get it and was really happy when i finally could listen to the song.
then, some weeks later i found out that i actually got the song on a CD i own, on the OST of The Dancer, a movie which i never heard of, but the songs are very good!!!