nominations of SBAW 06 are open [update]
the nominations for the swiss blog awards 06 are now open and are all the rage! so go and nominate your favorite blogs in the swiss blogosphere! oh, and mark the fifth may in your calendars. **update: **you can see my nominations (for the moment) in the screenshot on the left. and if you want to nominate me, just click here. technorati tags: blogospherahelvetica, swissbloawards
bob is bloggin!
look who’s got himself a new blog! after he’s bought himself a new computer bob set up a blog over at myspace.com (like dustbowl and deejot) where he’s now rambling about his life with weebl and about pie. hopefully it’s gonna be as funny as the rest of their life :-) [via weebl and bobs newsletter] technorati tags: bob, comic, weebl
picture of the week 11 [update]
this friday tinu and urs made a medieval diner in the castle of laupen. i’m in the process of uploading the images to flickr. but i liked the one below, also because it’s a good and funny snapshot of nina. it shows the second picture i shot with the shieldcam (the first is here). update: the rest of the images can be found here. technorati tags: nina, ritterdinner
picture of the week 10
yesterday we’ve been to the zoo in zurich, mostly to see the masaola-hall (which was really impressive). during our stroll through the zoo we passed at the enclosure of the otters where i snapped an image of this little fellow passing out in his bed (which is what i’m gonna do now). oh, and i just sent the image over to the guys and gals of the cute overload… technorati tags: cute, otter, zoo, zuerich
4er stöckchen
pia hat mir den stock zugeworfen, heute abend komm ich auch noch dazu, mir was dazu zu überlegen: 4 Jobs in meinem Leben: IT-Supporter bei der Swisscom Regalauffüller beim Coop Physiklehrer Bademeister 46 Filme die ich immer wieder sehen kann: Tokyo Eyes Akira The Fifth Element Big Fish Contact Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 4 Orte an denen ich gelebt habe: Mailand Münsingen Bern Glasgow 4 TV Serien die ich gerne sehe (aber mir ausser für lost nie zeit dafür nehme…):
calvin speaks the truth
i hope i don’t get me into trouble if i seldom link to strips from calvin and hobbes, but sometimes i just cannot resist. bill watterson sometimes lays the perfect words into his mouth. [via c&h-feed]
creative commons in full effect
through my ego-surfing-feed [1] i found this story in the austinist, a website from austin (i presume :-). to illustrate the breaking news of a downtown fire, the used a picture of the fire at wolfs birthday party. my pictures at flickr are released under an attribution license, so anybody is free to use them as you please, as long as there is proper attribution added. not too bad, maybe i should consider starting a career as photographer :-)
fasnachtsvorbereitungen
getting ready for the fasnacht im moment mach ich einen zivildienst. so siehts aus, wenn man material für die kinderfasnacht morgen vorbereitet. eine aufnahme mit der panoramafunktion meines handys (mit notizen, die auf flickr erscheinen).
the most important 6 seconds in music history
since i seem to be in a musical mood, here’s another post for sound lovers: if you’ve listened to any song that uses samples, be it hip hop, drum n bass, dub or a lot of other flavors, you’ve heard the “amen break”. it’s a sample from the b-side of a single of the winstons from 1969, that only lasts 6 seconds. it’s absolutely amazing how far those snare beats came, it became the base of nearly every drum n bass and jungle song.
the sound of traffic [update]
it’s been quite a long time since i’ve posted something about new software additions to my mac. this app here is actually completely useless, but nonetheless it’s been running since half an hour. sound of traffic is a tiny java application (112 kb) that converts your network traffic into midi notes. my traffic sounds like a laid back chill-out track (i’m downloading/seeding the latest episode of the it crowd over bittorrent and updating some feeds from time to time). the app needs your admin password to access some devices and only works on OS X and Unix [1].