oh, and...
look who's got himself in trouble!
jan-o-plastic (and his photoshopping monkeys and fran) made a funny little calendar (i wrote a post about it some time ago) with members of the swiss parliament. now mrs ruth metzler thinks she’s more important than all the other stuff that is going on in the world now (christmas and new years eve are just wee bits among it) and sends piece a cease and desist letter to take down the “offending image” (which has been mirrored already)although one can be different opinions on how the image is of artistic value different questions spring to mind:
sad but true
Why are you getting all worked up about fifty thousand people dying from an earthquake? Every single day 25,000 children die from easily preventable diseases. Every single day 24,000 people die from hunger. Do they not count? Natural disasters happen. We can’t prevent them, and ultimately they kill very few people. Hunger and disease problems in developing countries? That one is directly our fault. We literally created that catastrophe with our aggressive foreign policies, thus we ignore it. If you want to actually help the world, don’t waste your money on Sri Lanka. Focus on curing poverty and stopping our first world governments from continually kicking down any nation that tries to climb out of that poverty.
hilarious flash
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!
a little challenge for you [2nd update]
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!
picture of the week 53
this week the pictures i took underwater in sharm el sheik arrived. i will update the sharm-gallery with them soon. the picture below is the best of the bunch and shows steffen, our guide during the early morning dive pointing out a huge anemone with a big bunch of clown-fishes on it.
christmas music
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]
playstation portable [update]
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. [via fscklog]
picture of the week 52
the pic below shows splint hidden behind some flowers in the excellent restaurant we’ve been yesterday night. the rest of the pictures of our christmasdiner can be found here.
recommended listening
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]