barney shakur
since i’m in a hip hoppy mood today, here’s a movie of a barney-shakur mashup (2.8mb .wmv) i found floating around on the net. [via memepool] and some l33t haxoring to get to the real url…
the kleptones
piece lately mentioned a night at the hip-hopera from the kleptones. according to me this is THE mashup album of the year. although the album as a whole is illegal it is quite brilliant, mixing the best songs from the hiphop-spere into an album with great flow. boingboing posted a link to waxy’s blog where he collaboratively tries to identify all samples used in the 23 great songs! i’ve been listening to those songs all morning long, they’re great, go and grab them while they’re hot! on waxy’s page you can also download the files, he’s generously hosting them. or else you go to the kleptones’ page, they point you to some mirrors to download all the songs (either as one big file (109mb .zip), as 23 individual files or - if you like that - as a bittorent file).
picture of the week 43
this is sigi on the ridge leading from the weissfluhjoch to nowhere. i had a very good time in davos (funny that urs was in davos, too), spent big time with reading, watching silly movies on the telly and talking to sigi. thanks you sigi, that was very relaxing!
far far away
i’m on the weissfluhjoch to visit sigi until sunday, so you might not want to expect any updates here. i just came back from the vernissage of urs’ new book where he read some parts from his first novel: luchs (the german word for lynx). since it’s gonna be a long train-ride to davos i’m gonna take the plunge into his work and know a lot more about the current lynx-debate in the upper simmental.
funny typo
i think dell has a really bad lectorer. or they want to scam me, because they sell a laptop with a 1gb hard disk for 2099 swiss franks. or maybe it’s only a funny typo. whatever: i thought it’s fun, in a nerdy way. excuse me if you don’t get a wee laugh out of this.
even more messengers caught on tape
today splint told me that there are even more movies to download from the site i linked in the last post! just take a look at the videos directory of lucas’ page. all twelve videos are on the chunky side, the smallest one is 5mb, he’s a brave man to host all these movies. take a look at them, the rock band ride (27.7mb .mpg) is especially nice!
messengers caught on film [update]
the first few glimpes i’ve seen since the download started1 make it look like THE uber-messenger-movie, but i definitely need to go to bed now, i’ll download the whole movie tomorrow and let you know. but be warned, the movie of a rider filming an alleycat through manhattan with his helmet-camera is a hefty 50 mb big! update: after viewing the whole film today i got to mention that we’re all wussies here in bern.
generation gadget
as the powerbook-blogger says: this movie (6.2mb .mov-file) just made my day (or my night). hilarious! [via powerbook blog] which has had a nice redesign, which makes me want to think about my css-file, but that’s summink for another night…
picture of the week 42
last tuesday i was in zurich to visit nina (and for a job-interview, which did turn out to be not that kind of phd i’d like to do). this was the view over the limmat towards the technopark around half past six:
newmap.search.ch
finally! now it’s official: the new map.search.ch is live and online. b.abou and the other coding guys at search.ch released their new baby into the wild, and i suppose it’s ready to survive and thrive there, because it really is good. since some weeks i’ve been testing and using it a lot at work to find all those funny addresses where our customers are (and sometimes telling the others: then after the house with the red roof you turn right). map.search.ch is surprisingly fast and amazing to use. drag the map around to see what comes around the edge and the map data is loaded as it’s needed. is the map too big? just resize your browser-window and the map is resized accordingly. the whole map is composed of aerial photos of switzerland (so you can see funny stuff like this waterskier), but if you need even more speed you can also only have the streets in a “normal” map mode (but is of no use for the waterskier :-) hell, there’s even more: click on the map to zoom in, right-click to zoom out. i’d write some more, but i gotta run, i’m off to biel to attend a vernissage of biggi lustenberger with a piece of art me and 50 other people are in. have a nice evening!