back street boys rule! (or so...)
click on the image on the left to check out this really hilarious viral back street boys video that xeni jardin linked on boingboing. it shows two basketball dorks in a chinese dorm performing a video of the back street boys (while their roommate silently frags away…). xeni is gonna talk about viral videos on NBC TODAY tonight (see here) and this video is gonna be the centerpiece of the show: if you have major time to spare, you can check out some other funny videos on video.google.com, just search for “viral” and see your timeschedule melt!
trackstand kings!
i guess those four guys [1] would really rule all trackstand competitions although they chose the uber-cheesiest medley for their presentation. [1] i linked to the coral cache version of the 37 mb .mpg-movie to ease the burden on the hk-icycling-server a bit. if it doesn’t work, try this direct link. [via fixedgeargallery]
how much is my blog worth?
My blog is worth $11,855.34. How much is your blog worth? [via bitflux blog], more info can be found here
alleycat pictures are online [update]
the pictures from the alleycat yesterday are already online for your perusal. go and see them here on flickr. if you have any corrections regarding names, send me a note. update: yves also uploaded some pictures of the alleycat. see his set here. technorati tags: alleycat, bern, messenger
flickr/groups/swiss-meeting @ 29.10.05
samstag in einer woche, am 29.10 treffen sich schweizer flickr-user um 14.00 auf dem bundesplatz in bern. wer auch kommen will, soll sich hier anmelden, wer sich den werdegang des meetings zu gemüte führen will, kann diesen diskussions-thread durchlesen. bis denn. english: swiss flickereebies are gonna meet at the 29th of october at 2 pm on the bundesplatz in bern. signup is here, discussion is here. technorati tags: flickr, meeting
picture of the week 40
michael sent me his pictures from the philippines. i really like the one he took of nina and me while at the tamarraw falls on our daytrip over the island. looks a bit like photoshopped, but i guarantee it’s real :-) technorati tags: habi, nina, [tamarraw falls](http://www.technorati.com/tag/tamarraw falls), waterfall
my upcoming.org events in the sidebar
i’m starting to really dig those social web-apps. one the last discoveries of mine is upcoming.org [1]. upcoming. org is a social event calendar driven by people like you and me. people can manage their events there and i have a neat way of showing some of my upcoming stuff i’m planning to attend or just got in my date book. in addition to that, i can subscribe to events for a certain city i like (as in “bern”, “zürich”, “tashkent” or “trachselwald”). or subscribe to events of a certain person, no matter city they take place. the subscription is possible as an rss-feed or as as a ical-calendar-file. so if you like, you can add the calendars of your buddies to your ical and see what events they go to and take part or start to stalk them :-)
trusted computing
no matter how you think about trusted computing, you should take a look at that really nice street-art-styled movie [1] from lutz vogel [2] and benjamin stephan. you can either watch it directly on the movie-site or download it here in different formats and sizes or (maybe preferred to all the people involved) leech it with your desired bittorrent-client through this file. definitely worth those three and a half minutes! [via pia] [3] [1] cc-licensed [2] check out lutz vogels other other short films and projects, they’re all rather brilliant!
mixed tape 09
mercedes benz released the new mixed tape. it will be online at mixed-tape.com until the 13th december. go and grab the 15 beautiful and completely legal and free songs in a 92mb .zip-file here. technorati tags: mercedes, mixed-tape, music
underwater panorama
until some hours ago i believed that maybe i made the first ever underwater panorama photograph, while on the philippines. a simple google search proved me wrong, there is already much more impressive work available online (see here, for the first ever published underwater panorama [1]). nonetheless i’m gonna tell you the story of the panorama of my alma jane shot in this post. while we resurfaced from the alma jane i shot 7 images of the wreck and then tried to reconnect them later on with the excellent hugin for osx. as i mentioned before i started to use makecubic from apple to convert the .tiff-files from hugin to quicktime vr .mov files which are sometimes more pleasant to view.