fight comment spam [update2]
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!
picture of the week 02
first of all i noticed, that my notation was wrong, so i changed the title to all the posts in the category “picture of the week” of this year. the title now describes what the image is, namely an image of the past week. so the image of the last week shows you the rotten watch of the trainstation in gensingen, where pesche and me have been this weekend. we both went to the 16th international masters competition of the ssv ingelheim. since the poor swimmers don’t have a pool the competition was held in the cozy city of gensingen. since there was absolutely nothing to do, we were so bored that we spent two hours in the local mall, which was not really funny, but warm.
the archives are back
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. the code is a simple javascript, so should work in all browsers with fresh flavour, leave a note when not so.
how much can you make?
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?)
new filewile track on the web
dustbowl and deejot have released a new track. this time they did not release it on their page, but on the alpinechic-label. you can grab the whole compilation SWISS CIRCUS IN STEREO Compilation #2 as one big zip-file here (84.6mb .zip) or only the filewile-track Attila here (7.59mb .mp3). oh, and sigi. now you’ve got one of those shiny gadgets, you can just point your podcast application (i suggest ipodder) to the podcast-link of filewile, and you magically get all their songs…
dreikönigskuchen-geheimnis gelöst (with short english explanation)
aus aktuellem anlass und schweizbezug in deutsch: letzten donnerstag abend (dreikönigstag) war ich mit mara essen. (lustigerweise per zufall am gleichen tisch wie urs, leider sind wir nicht richtig ins gespräch gekommen, er war mit seinem kollegen über anderes am diskutieren[1]). aus aktuellem anlass kamen wir auf die dreikönigskuchen zu sprechen. mit meiner rudimentären statistischen ausbildung hab ich behauptet, dass fairerweise der könig im kuchen völlig zufällig verteilt sein sollten, das heisst also in 6 von 7 fällen aussen, in 1 von 7 fällen innnen [2]. irgenwie hab ich dann mit mara gewettet, dass das so ist (ich weiss aber nicht mehr was wir wetteten…). ich wollt dann grad mal bei den jowa-gielen anrufen, um nachzufragen, aber die arbeiten ja abends nicht mehr. freitags hab ichs dann vergessen. heute beim velölen kams mir wieder in den sinn, und ich hab dann heute nachmittag nach schönbühl telefoniert.
picture of the week 01
yesterday i’ve been diving again. yes, diving in the cold thuner-see, the water was around 5°C. we’ve again been at the schönörtli (german for nice place). because i wore a dry suit [1] i was only nearly freezing my ass off (more the hands than the ass, ‘cause i was wearing wet gloves). the dive was really spectacular, the sight underwater was amazing, much better than in the summer. and it’s really fun to dive with a dry suit, you feel like stuck in a balloon and can shift the air in thta balloon depending on the position you have. the picture below shows raymond and beat during their dive, having a break at the surface. can you see how clear the water is, you’re able to see the stones at the bottom…
those mash-ups don't stop!
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]
spy on other people [update2]
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!
picture of the week 00
i wanted to (digitally) record the ibrahim ferrer show that drs3 aired last thursday evening so the post about enabling your ipod to record anything on hackaday came just right. but after installing linux on my first-generation ipod (see here) with the extremely painless ipodlinux installer i could not get it to record more than 5 second snippets (but played some games on it…) so i figured out an easier way. i started the live-stream of drs3 and used wiretap1 to record the concert. nonetheless i’ve now got two working operating systems on my ipod.