the editorial of the august NZZ Folio is an absolutely wonderful piece of imagination.
i wish i had ideas like this…

the article is in german, so beware you english-readers.

i’ve just seen the new alien ant farm-video on viva: these days. (alien ant farm are known for a punked up version of michael jacksons smooth criminal).
it’s extremely cool. those guys hijacked the audience on the “Black Entertainment”-Awards, amazing all the people there (lil kim, 50 cent, snoop dogg, etc. etc.). they performed their new single on the rooftop of a house across the entrance to the BET. they managed to play their song three times before the police made it to the roof and arrested all of them.
the quality of the video is not extremely good, but i really like the anarchistic idea behind it, to not care about anything to make a funny video -> guerillia style :-)

some links
– coverage on MTV-News with Pictures
– read the story on gotrock.ch (in German). On gotrock.ch you can also stream the video…
– some more coverage on netscape.com

how nice!
now everyday i step out of my house, i see myself cheating :-)

The campaign for Swiss Meat which i modeled started again.
As Bärni pointed out, i’m a vegetarian (strict since about four years, loose one since longer time), but i look like a happy meat eater on these pictures.
So if you see one of these ads, then you know that it’s just an ad and not a true situation :-)

By the way, check out some other works by Franziska Frutiger, the photographer which made these pics, she sports some pretty nice pictures on her website (you might recognize some other shots from ads (swisscom and a campaign for the chemical industry in switzerland).

PS: I’m the one in the orange jumper…

room clearance status: successful

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Azure-test

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2. two

Update:

this was a test i made with Bärni to see if Azure works.
Because we found out that none of the versions of Blogplanet worked….
Today B. also bought the T610 wich led to a one-hour fire-conversation about themes, bluetooth, midi-files, and mms-settings :-)
–> Ubergeeks unite!

if you’re able to speak chinese, check out this page, ’cause i would like to know what that guy is talking about.
i’d love to know the reason he links to my moblog (the last link in the second paragraph).

:-)

does someone of my fellow blog readers know a good panorama stitching software for OS X?
i’m currently using LM Stitch, which is a software which just keeps working in demo mode (as opposed to the Stitcher EZ from Realviz which refuses to work after 30 days).
But the problem with LM Stitch is that the UI is really awkward and not very useable.
Any suggestions are more than welcome. I would really like to use the Pano-Tools, but Adobe Photoshop is just too much for my wallet!

The image below is just a 3 minutes hack of a little panorama from images i made this past weekend in silvaplana (b/w because of the demo-version):

yesterday it was so hot here in switzerland, that the swiss railways had to close some tracks because the tracks were bent through the heat!
(here’s the link to the follow-up article)

• silvaplana was so great, that bruni bought a kite and a board from a guy that was up there.
• todays fun link is sponsored by the friends of folk music. (i saw a sticker with that link on the back of some guys motorcycle today…)
• azure works only a little bit. i managed to post while on the train, but not while on the camping in silvaplana and on the beach at the lake. so still some work to do to get a 1.0 version…

This is the test. I’m in the train to the mountains and blogging away on my mobile.
So azure seems to work :-)

i’m gonna be in silvaplana at the lake this weekend.

Bruno () is there on the camping since monday and i’m going there later this afternoon.
We’re gonna try out that fancy thing called kite surfing (or kite sailing).

ETA back in Bern is on Monday so expect no news until then (unless i manage to get Azure working on my mobile…)

i want this!

I’m gonna go and see Akua from “Karls Kühne Gassenschau” with Nina.

PS: hopefully she will not read my blog until we meet (in 40 minutes or so), because it’s a surprise for her (for our third anniversary – which was some days ago, but couldn’t be celebrated properly, ’cause she had a lot of exams)

Update: The show was really cool! The Stunts the Girls and Guys of Karls Kühne Gassenschau pull off are amazing.
If you’ve got the chance to go and see them, do it! They just prolonged until the end of september and there are still some tickets available on their website.

i think most of these () hits are from myself….

while i had a break today at work (it’s summer holidays here, so a lot of our clients do not work thus we sometimes get a break…) a guy came chatting me up.
this bloke started to talk about crop-cirlces and pyramid-energy (where razorblades get sharp again when put under a small pyramid) and stuff like that. then he gave me this piece of paper with lots of links on it. one of these links was energy4u (sorry, only in german).

i just had to post this link as the fun link of today, go check it out!
(they also have a really funky disclaimer where they write that their products can also have NO effect, how pathetic…)

When i get an SMS on my mobile phone while it’s paired over bluetooth to my trusty little ibook i get a window like this:

this is just too frigging nifty!
(for those without german…..
BOAH: this is even cooler!
while i was typing this entry, Gäbu Palacios (on the left, getting the score while I play Gäbu-Pong) called me, and voilà I get this window!

Does any PC offer the same functionality (Call me a proselyted Switcher)
OK, here’s the translation for those of you non-german-readers:

• The first window is titled “incoming SMS” and the buttons offer the ability to save the SMS as a note, answer or aknowledge with ok (duh!)
• The second window is titled “incoming call and says that the phone rang four times. I’m offered to answer via SMS, to direct Gäbu to my voice mail or to get the call.

PS: Thank God i know the Keyboard-Shortcuts for a Screenshot by heart (Apple+Shift+3 for the whole screen and Apple+Shift+4 for a selection) :-)

and i almost forgot: The incoming call does also mute my ibook and unmute it when i hang up…

The US Code Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 8 (g) says:

The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.

But George W. Bush — who’s been pushing through laws that would institute stiff penalties for defacing the flag — has been doing that himself… At a recent speech to defense contractors (his biggest contributors), he was handing out signed American flags (link to the AP photo):

Yeah, well, what else is there to say?