i remember that i saw this flash linked somewhere, but i cannot remember where. yesterday evening i played it so many times that the boyfriend of my flatmate asked me if i’m insane.

but only until i showed him what i watched, then he nearly spurted his glass of milk through his nose.

if you want to see a poor hilarious guy performing in front of his webcam then you must watch this flash movie: numanuma.swf (4.5mb .swf-file). but beware, it’s mean, loud and addictive!

don’t wonder about the strange intro-screen, it’s a modified version of the original file not done by me, just mirrored on this server. sit through the intro, crank up your speakers and laugh!

today was a reeeealy slow day at work, so i was catching up with the posts on boingboing.net. while checking out the entries on the latest web-zen post i found this marvelous penguin game, a holiday greeting from macromedia.com. it seams that i’ve been really lucky, because managed to impress the “judges”, i made 29.4 points.

can you beat me? leave a comment!

[via boingboing]

update: i should have practiced more!

all those beat me!

sigi at 08.56 in the morning

raphael, he wrote some more on penguin games on the velocite-blog.

arni, he posted his picture on flickr.

my sister would have been the fastest to respond, but needs some practice :-) keep going!

2^nd update: markus and leo have a wee fight over their result over at flickr…

in case you need some nice music to get into the x-mas mood you must listen to the border brass – tijuana christmas! just perfect to light some candles and sing along (the .mp3’s are tagged very bad, but if you burn them on a disc no-one will notice :-)

[via boingboing]

it’s good that i’ve never been much of a gamer, or else i couldn’t resist in going and buying the psp after reading this review on engadget…

[via engadget]

update: whoa! the psp works very nice with the mac and wifi. must. resist. must. resist.

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want to listen to some cool tunes, including funk, cool hip-hop and other more than delicious tunes? then wefunkradio.com is perfect for you. like xeni noted, it’s a brillinat mixture of tunes and very hard to turn off, once you tuned in into it’s live-stream.

[via boingboing]

my mother recently gave me schotts sammelsurium, a very funny book.

in case you want to be a brilliant conversation-partner at your next diner party i recommend that you get that book. it’s a overly extensive list of things one should know. things to know like: the thickness of ice needed to carry you, a car or a lorry, how to tie a sari, a list of european cities with metro, some shakespearean curses, the longest word in english and other stuff to know. it’s a fabulous reading and you should get is asap :-)

oh, and there is also an english version…

ps: ecto now has a nice amazon-search included (and can be yours for 30% less until christmas)

if you liked “my” address book plugin, then you might dig this script posted on osxhints.com.

it enables you do do a quick google-lookup of any person in your address book, with a single click on the phonenumber of the desired person. (and can easily be adapted for other search engines, which might in the end enable me to throw together a “look-up-person-on-tel.search.ch-and-merge-info-with-already-in-addressbook”-script. but that’s another story for another day.

good night.

[via osxhints.com]

shannon has posted a small article on a very creative use of a bridge piercing. if you’re mildly interested in piercings and also like a wee bit of “industrial design” then you should give it a go and read it here.

[via shannon’s blog]

in case you think my pictures don’t deserve your time, then point you browser to casey kelbaughs slideshow (7.7mb .mov-file) of the pictures he took on a trip to brazil. those are really nice!

[via the velocite-blog]

the first official screening of “SUICMC04 – The Movie” will be held on friday, the 17th december in the bar splendid palace from 7pm to 11pm or so. we will show the movie twice, once around 7.30pm and around 21.30pm.

you’re kindly invited to come, the event is open for all, you don’t have to be a messenger or have helped at the SUICMC04 to show up!

(click on the image to watch the trailer…)

since the upgrade of my MT-installation the integration of kungtunes an my blog was a bit flaky, i got an email whenever my itunes changed a song. this was just too much.

i’ve been looking for another solution to post my playlist on the web, but couldn’t find a good one, until i stumbled over this picture on the (excellent) command-shift-3-group on flickr. in the extensive list of programs mentioned was the itunes watcher. after a bit of googling i found the site and installed it (it’ s bit quirky, since it’s a script which needs to be configured and compiled).

so you can again spy on my musical taste, this time database-driven and quite nice. because the script works fully independent of any blog installation i made a new directory on my part of the server: /music

if you’d like to see what music i listen to, you can watch the 6 last played songs in the sidebar (click on the album to get more info) or just spy on the aforementioned subdirectory.

now i need to go an buy a new backpack.

update: i’ve just seen that the album covers are not displayed with firefox, but work perfectly with safari and IE on windows (my girlfriend uses it.) i will look into this and try to work it out…

if you’d like to see me in a suit, then you might want to check out my polyball foto set on flickr. but be warned, there are some really cheesy pictures in that set…

röme finished the movie of the suicmc04, and if you haven’t seen it already, you might want to take a look at the trailer (5.3mb .mpeg-file). we will try to organize a screening for all the helpers and other interested people, i’ll inform everybody when things become more precise.

just a short blurb to inform you: i didn’t win a million, it was someone else.

everything will stay as it is (or so…)

but at least i was on stage with mona vetsch, which is not far away from winning a million.

the client i use to post pretty much all the post here is now an official member of the pieces of software that i actually bought.

i’m more than happy with it and forked over those 18$ to adriaan to help him to go on with the development of this magnificent piece of software. i’ve been using kung-log for a long time, but ecto is just ways better. hence my blog also features a new button on the far bottom:

pretty much everybody is giving them away, but in case you still need an invitation to sign up with gmail (google’s 1gb-email service) i’ve got six five three no invitations to give away. they’re all gone, maybe i’ve got some more to give away soon, i’ll post it here…

next weekend there are elections here in switzerland. i’m not overly politically interested, but i think voting is a must. so i heavily rely on tools to help me make the decision. i’ve already mentioned both of them here (smartvote and votez.ch).

smartvote enables you to generate your political profile, the so called smartspider. and then it matches your spider to all the candidates and proposes you a list of people to choose. votez is another tool, where all the different initiatives are explained with the pros and cons, so that any normal person is able to understand it and vote accordingly.

so, if my political spectrum interest you, you can click on the picture on the left and start to discuss this in the comments. now if i only could have printed out the generated list and dropped it in the box instead of having to write down all the 80 names the whole process would even be more easy.

maybe you’ve seen the ubiquitous ads for the american express bluecard, promoting the link win-a-million.ch.

since my credit card provider offered me to switch to blue for free that’s what i did and i also checked out the bluegame they made to promote their new credit card

the game consisted of 5 levels, most of them were – mildly said – trivial.

i know a guy from nothing.ch, the crew behind the programming of the bluegame (we play ultimate frisbee together). in the training on thursday we talked about the bluegame, because he saw me in the high-score list. i told him, that i thought the stuff was really easy and i only stuck to it, because i thought the later levels would be a bit more demanding. he told me funny stories about people who called, because they could not sign up for the game, or weren’t able to log in to it, and other peekaboo…

to make things short: today i got a letter from the head of marketing and sales of swisscard aecs ag in which he told me that i am under the first 200 contestants in the win-a-million competition. he also told me, that i’m invited to zürich next saturday, where the finals will take place. the whole thing will also be televised, so you can see how i compare to the other 199 people there. and you also might want to wish me luck, that i take that 0.5% chance to win a million!

in the evening i’ll be at the polyball with nina and i’ll guarantee that i will get drunk like hell if i win that money (i suppose it takes around two beers to make me drunk, ’cause i never drink :-).

i’ll keep you updated…

this is by far the funniest set of pictures i’ve seen in a loong time!

[via joi.ito and urs]