i just cannot imagine how dumb people must be.
i saw this auction on ricardo.ch, where a guy sells his firewire-drive enclosure and thought, well 30 bucks seems like a fair price for it (to make me an external hd, because my ibook comes to it’s limit..).
and today i saw that some other guy set a higher bid, which is ok, that’s the way it works. but then, one day later he sets another bid, so he actually wants to pay more than himself :-)
and then comes another guy and bids three times the last price, how dumb must you be to do that? (or maybe he is only very impulsive and couldn’t think of another way to spend 95 bucks :-)

look at my crazy new page!
i’m such a bad-ass-web-designer!!!

[via etoy and greg]

well, that’s nice, and does pump my ego a bit (not that i actually needed it :-)
– piecoblog blogrolls to me, so now i’m on the same pieceoblog-famous-scale as etoy and monorom (monorom is part of the kaywa-team where greg also pumps out some code, the one greg which knows b., small world innit?)

– for one time i was faster than boingboing :-) today they posted the link to minimal porn, and i did that quite some time ago.

btw: i’m not at all a fan of yb, as piece thinks :-) football is not my kind of thing.

perfect for just a tad after midnight: balldroppings, a hard to describe piece of software (available for windows and os x)
since it’s so hard to describe, i’ll just cite the author: BallDroppings is an addicting and noisy play-toy.
give it a go, but maybe it’s best if you wait till tomorrow morning.
good night

[via boingboing]

If you haven’t seen the ironic ads for the Bush administration up to now, then it’s a good time to go to bush in 30 seconds.

all the ads are made to explains what this US-president bush and his policies are really about – in only 30 seconds – and under a creative commons license. the whole contest is a project of moveon.org, a catalyst website ‘to bring ordinary people back into politics‘ which wants to create an ad to challege bush’s politics and politicians.
most of the ads are well worth the 30 seconds, go watch them, or as glider said: I hope the people who need to see these watch them.

btw: today at 11pm EST the winner of the little contest is to be announced live on the aforementioned webpage.
my personal favorite is “in my country“. “child’s pay” is really nicely made in terms of film-craftsmanship (and b.‘s preferred ad) and “desktop” is really simple and funny.

if you want a new kind of clock to tell the time then go either to:

• humanclock or to
• this page

do you know any other webpage with a cool clock?
leave a comment!

i had to go in town (which is a nuisance on saturdays, but i had to get my prescription for the pain-killers…) and ended up in a bookstore where they had a big sale, including a lot of dvd’s.
so i not only ended up with a prescription for medicaments, but also with two new dvd’s:
a deluxe 3 dvd edition of spiderman for 33 bucks (have you seen the trailer for spiderman2?) and
a amazing skiing movie: global storming for 20 bucks.

i peeked a bit at global storming, which makes me so much want to go and rent those skis and go skiing, but now i have to sit here and eat my pain killers, because skiing with broken ribs is such a no-go.

:-(

i had to laugh that much that my ribcage will hurt the whole night through!

weebl and bob qualify for the funniest link in the year 2004 (at least up to now)

here’s the latest episode of their adventures, a truly funny, but also extremely sad episode about eating too much :-)

that’s what i wanted to do before i go to bed: here’s my updated cv.
if you find a typo or a bug, then send me a quick note please.

update; the cv was done in Microsoft’ Word, and i have to say that Word exports some f%ç&ed-up html code, i was cleaning the code up for about half an hour (i probably would have been faster writing the cv in html from scratch…)

if you can handle 1548 pictures of dingy people then cliff yablonskis site is for you
(i could only hardly resist the urge to call this the fun link of today)

i have to admit, that i slowly start to get the whole thing behind FOAF, mostly because i started my journey through the foaf-space againg after reading B.’s post.
and i can say that plink (here’s my plink-page) is a good approach to it, i prefer it to the approach of the foaf-explorer, which makes it look a bit complicated and forces you to enter a foaf-file instead of just searching for names.

so, if you want to add me to your friend-space, then here’s my foaf-file (it’s been there since a while if you haven’t noticed…).

btw: if you don’t want to code a foaf.rdf yourself, then foaf-matic helps you with the start. so we can populate that space of friends a bit…

– =
(i cut my hair quite some time ago, but didn’t transfer the pictures to my computer up to now…)

yesterday i was snowboarding in sanenmöser, and it was really lovely, although i bailed really really hard, and now it looks like i just broke a rib (at least that’s what my doctor said on the phone, i’m gonna go and see later on today…)

update: the doctor found out that two of my ribs are broken (not all the way through, so it’s not a real problem, just a major pain in the ass.)
the only remedy is that i eat ponstan (or actually a generika called spiralgin) for about a month and a half…

do you need a calendar for ’04?
do you have a strange sense of humor?
do you live in switzerland and are you able to laugh about the people governing you?

then this calendar is for you.
(there’s even a 4.6mb pdf-version if you want to put it on your fridge (which you probably won’t do…)).

[via piecoblog], one of my favourite blogs in town.

guess who is sxe :-)

btw: my ricardo-nickname comes from being straight-edge, but not calling me straight-edge and has nothing to do with sex, although that’s also quite fine (or in the links case, definitely not :-)
thanks for listening.
good night.

the pictures of max’s, chrigi’s and simi’s new-years-eve party at the eclipse-bar are online in the picture section.
go and have a look if slightly out-of-focus and sometimes overexposed party-pics are your thing :-)

btw: although my camera is still quite a perfect digicam, i started to think about getting a small supplement for it, just for those occasions where you want to make a quick snapshot with a better quality than with my mobile. and sigi knows what it means if i start to think about getting a gadget…

what do you get if you put a bucket of paint, three guys and a shabby room together?
see for yourself in this time-lapse movie (656 kb) of us painting the messenger office.

that guy surely has a foot fetish!
i just returned from seeing “kill bill” in the most charming cinema in bern, the abc (so i can tick another task off my 2do list :-)
despite all the depicted brutality in the movie it’s got very high class – like most tarantino movies do – and is filmed in a very energizing way, mixing the timeline as almost all tarantino movies do, and mixing realfilm with a short anime-style episode. it surely leaves you with a deep urge to go see “kill bill, volume 2“, especially with that hook line at the end…
go and see it, if you haven’t already…