i wish i’d live in paris, because then i’d play tetris or pong or breakout or pacman on the national library all night long…

[via we make money not art]

this person took My Little Book About God and remixed the images with his own creepy captions to make some kind of creepy howto for alien world invasion. the picture on the left is one of the 20 pages of the remixed book and it sent shivers down my spine. take a look at all the pages, it’s well worth it!

[via boingboing]

ps: i really love the amazon-lookup feature built into ecto, makes linking to books amazingly easy…

this day seems to be musical: the kleptones have released another mashup album: From Detroit To J.A. i haven’t had time to listen to all the tracks up to now, but if it’s only half as brilliant as A Night At The Hip-Hopera, then it’s mighty good. the mixalbum is only available as torrent. either as one big mp3 with cue file or as individual mp3s (83.3mb).

[via boingboing]

finally i’ve been able to hack together a panorama of the pool we’ve been swimming in in gensingen. if you click on the image on the left you should be able to open the 432kb-file and see how the pool looked from left to right. mind the bad quality of the panorama, but it was shot without tripod and a whimsy camera.

thanks to pete bevin, my sidebar now sports some more dropdowns. i fiddled with the code he provides on his page, so now it’s marginally different. for my MT3 installation the code looks as follows:
archive dropdown:

<form>

<select onChange=”document.location=options[selectedIndex].value;” class=”jumpbox”>

<option value=””>monthly archives</option>

<MTArchiveList archive_type=”Monthly”>

<option value=”<$MTArchiveLink$>”><$MTArchiveTitle$></option>

</MTArchiveList>

</select>

</form>

comments dropdown:

<form>

<select onChange=”document.location=options[selectedIndex].value;” class=”jumpbox”>

<option value=””>comment archives</option>

<$MTComments lastn=”10″$ sort_order=”descend”>

<option value=”<$MTBlogArchiveURL$><$MTCommentEntryID pad=”1″$>.html”> by <$MTCommentAuthor$>, <? echo datediff2(‘<$MTCommentDate format=”%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S”$>’); ?></option>

</MTComments>

</select>

</form>

recent entries dropdown:

<form>

<select onChange=”document.location=options[selectedIndex].value;” class=”jumpbox”>

<option value=””>recent entries</option>

<MTEntries lastn=”10″ sort_order=”descend”>

<option value=”<$MTEntryPermalink$>”> <$MTEntryTitle$></option>

</MTEntries>

</select>

</form>

i know the dropdowns don’t look nice, but i still need to tweak the css a bit, it just doesn’t seem to accept the jumpbox-class. i need to take a deeper look at it. but now i need sleep, that’s more important at the moment…

how does it look on windows?

Originally uploaded by habi.

for all non-believers: that’s the way adelboden looked this afternoon!

do you have got a dirty screen? then just click here and you’ll be helped.

[via curiosum.org], a funny new weblog in my newsreader.

’cause flickr was experiencing some severe flakiness over the last days i’ve not managed to upload my pictures from gensingen up until now. so if you want to see me nekkid (or at least topless…) you can head over and take a look at my gensingen-photoset.

just in case you haven’t seen it over at my moblog.

i was having quite a boring afternoon, i never got out of the inner part of the city (happens sometimes…). and normally we don’t get that many jobs after 7. and one at 19.26 out to the kasparstrasse is really unusual. and from lausanne even more…

so: thanks for the banana thingies, i ate one when i unloaded the parcel from the train, it made me go really fast…

you know who you are.

and all the others: this is an insider-story, just don’t bother….

google takes a new measure in fighting comment spam. they implemented a new attribute for hyperlinks – rel=”nofollow” – which prevents links from being spidered. so when google (or any other search engines that support the attribute) parses a link with that attribute the links don’t get credits in the rankings of the catalog. this is one of the first measure to make blog-spamming really uninteresting.

many (blog)systems are already able to cope with the new attribute, i installed the nofollow plugin for MT, so spammers can sod off!

jayallen (of mtblacklis fame) also has a nice post covering the pro’s and con’s of that measure.

now i have to finish that “internet”-script i have to hand out to the class tomorrow.

good night.

[via google’s blog]

update: hm, maybe i’ve shot too fast.

like b. and ben hammersley noted, the whole thing might backfire. it’s also a sign on how powerful google is.

heck, do i use something else to scour the web for information? no, just sometimes i head over to search.ch…

i look forward to having a talk with b. soon. when everything works out, we’ll see each other this weekend (for a little game).

update2: i deleted the nofollow-plugin from my MT-installation after reading here.

some time ago i deleted the archives in the sidebar, because the were using up too much screen-realestate. since people complained that my archives are hard to grab, i spent 20 seconds implementing a nice trick posted over at scriptygoddes: drop down month archives.

just paste the code below there where you want your dropdown list to be, rebuild your site and have a go with it.

<form name=”jump2″>

<select name=”myjumpbox” OnChange=”document.location=jump2.myjumpbox.options[selectedIndex].value”>

<option selected>Please Select…</option>

<MTArchiveList archive_type=”Monthly”>

<option value=”<$MTArchiveLink$>”><$MTArchiveDate format=”%B %Y”$></option>

</MTArchiveList>

</select>

</form>

the code is a simple javascript, so should work in all browsers with fresh flavour, leave a note when not so.

and i gotta say this seems to open a lot of possibilities for my sidebar, keep tuned!

Originally uploaded by habi.

when i was visiting some page, this iq-test popped up, i do not know where. in the end i could not resist to fill out the whole test and ended up having an iq of 133.

how much can you make?
(and keep in mind that a) english is not my first language, so some questions were really far off and b) i used google once, for the question with the “what does NAGEDLN mean?)

i’ve already mentioned some mash-ups, here comes one more, not exactly a mash-up, but a band that mixes metallica and beatles songs: beatallica. all 11 songs can be conveniently downloaded as a torrent-file or as single .mp3-downloads. get them while they last.

oh, and just to make this post more complete (or actually post a real mash-up), did i ever mention the beastles? an excellent mash-up between the beatles and the beastie boys.

beatallica: [via powerbook blog]

beastles: [via boingboing]

this reminds me of the old days on the internet, where one was able to steer a model train via a remote interface [1]:

use google to find “vunerable” security cams. if you take a look at this google search then you will find a huge amount of unsecured webcams, most of them might be security cameras. pretty much all of them can be controlled via your browser [2] so you’re free to spy on all different kinds of things, may it be car rentals, laundromats, japanese hotel lobbies or bays or a whole friggin list of things!

[1]: more spy-related links can be found at the bottom of this article in the new scientist, where i also was able to find the link for the model train…

[2]: beware OS X users: safari doesn’t support the streaming jpeg technique that most of these cameras use, so you must use firefox for those links…

[via boingboing and metafilter]

update: mathias noted that the link to google is wrong. i corrected it.

update2: here’s some more on this on boinboing.

i’ve been thinking about uploading all the images to flicker, but then thought it’s probably better to upload them to the /pics-section: the pictures from our new-years-eve-party in tinus lodge are now online. but watch out, it’s mostly for our amusement, because most of the pics show slightly drunk people and might be extremely boring to you…

i again have got to give 4 2 1 no invitation to gmail away. if you want one, leave a comment.

i’ll give away the invitations to the four out of the first ten to comment which give me the best cause to give ’em a gmail-invitation. so be creative and dont just write “i want a gmail invitation!!”. make me laugh and i’ll give you an invitation!

jan-o-plastic (and his photoshopping monkeys and fran) made a funny little calendar (i wrote a post about it some time ago) with members of the swiss parliament. now mrs ruth metzler thinks she’s more important than all the other stuff that is going on in the world now (christmas and new years eve are just wee bits among it) and sends piece a cease and desist letter to take down the “offending image” (which has been mirrored already)although one can be different opinions on how the image is of artistic value different questions spring to mind:

• is satirical use of an image of a – former – public person not allowed?
• does mr metzler not want to see his wife naked and thus wants to take the image down.
• what about artistic freedom?
• is it ok that piece took the picture down/masked it?
• is mrs metzlers book selling so bad, that she needs publicity?

if you’re a law geek and have an opinion or some help for piece, send him a message or summink.