suicmc06
yesterday the swiss cycle messenger championships 2006 were held in zürich, in the middle of the city. it was really a blast! mostly because there were loads of spectators, the weather was super-nice, it was fun to meet other messengers in switzerland (i guess around 120 of ’em were there), but also, because i’m now officially the fourth-best messenger in switzerland[1], just a bit short after triple faiss and a wee bit faster than dom (both from lausanne).
eighties flashback! [update]
do you remember simon (**update: **or senso, like neopren-sigi [1] points out)? i remember playing it for hours. i actually remember it so good, that i couldn’t help but having a biiiiig smile after downloading simon extreme, the port of the game to os x. it even has alternate sound sets like heavy metal and hip-hop. and lickable eye-candy, like most software on osx… [via freemacware] [1] just for clarification: this is neopren-sigi, and this is schnee-sigi
weisheiten zum sonntag abend
rollstuhlfahren und rumdreckeln mit 4x4-autos können ganz schon gefährlich sein! [via matthias und shannon] technorati tags: 4x4, lang:de, wheelchair
update: comments are down up and runnig again
oh, and just a quick note: the comments are down for some mysterious reason. i’m on it. thanks sigi for noticing (oh, and what happened to your content?) update: the comments-script nearly took down existenz.gna.ch (again), so someone chmodded it to 000. i’m nearly ready to switch to wordpress, if this goes on, i don’t want to stress the server that much [1]. for the moment i implemented the tinyturing-test from staggernation. so all commenters must now enter a random letter into the field when they want to post a comment, as seen in the image on the right.
die wette gilt! (europäischer aktionstag in die stadt - ohne mein auto)
am 22.9. ist wie mittlerweilen jedes jahr europaischer aktionstag “in die stadt - ohne mein auto”. evi allemann und dori schaer wetten unter die-wette-gilt.ch, dass sie es schaffen, an diesem tag (um 17.30 auf dem waisenhausplatz) 2209 rader zu bewegen. leider haben sich bis jetzt nur 210 rader gemeldet, das ist nicht mal 10% von dem was nötig ist, damit wir nächstes jahr an der velostatin 4 elektrovelos ausleihen können. es geht nicht so sehr um die elektrovelos, sondern mehr darum, ein zeichen gegen den zunehmenden vier-rad-ismus in unseren stadten zu setzen.
diving in the verzasca
as mentioned before i’ve been diving in the verzasca this weekend. now i’m uploading all the images to flickr. you can see the images in this set here. the two videos below are videos i shot and uploaded to youtube, the first one shows ändu blowing some bubbles. while shooting the second one i nearly peed in my divesuit ‘cause the thing that swam through scared me quite a bit, but see for yourself…
abt. gut nachgedacht...
abt. gut nachgedacht… aus den aktuellen abstimmungsunterlagen: wieso stimmen denn 24 dagegen, wenn es keine argumente gegen die justizreform gibt? hmmm?
picture of the week 35
after a busy evening on friday i went to the verzasca valley with the divecenter. i’m still overwhelmed with the beauty of the river from the inside. it felt like diving in a bottle of grappa. i’m gonna upload some of the images some other evening, now i need to catch up with some sleep… [ ](https://habi.gna.ch/blog/images/DSC04764.jpg) technorati tags: diving, potw, verzasca
BLGMNDYBRN morgen abend
morgen abend findet mal wieder ein BLGMNDYBRN statt. je nach wetter in der milchbar oder im domino, ich werde das sein. so wie’s ausieht, einige andere auch. spater mehr zu meiner woche…. technorati tags: bern, BLGMNDYBRN, lang:de
the future of interfaces
jeff han [1] is a researcher at the new york university. he gave a talk at the ted-conference. if you’re a bit interested in the - possible - future of interface design, you have to watch the ~9 minute-long video below. it nearly blew my socks of, when i imagined how i could swipe through my 7000+ images on my hd like that. handling of big chunks of date seems to be really fun with that kind of interface.