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!
email aliases in mail.app
i should have read that post before the suicmc04 was over! i’ve been doing lot of emailing from all the different accounts @suicmc04.ch (info, sponsoring, race, helfer, etc.) and every-time i did this, i did an apple+; to go to the preferences of mail.app to be able change the corresponding email-address. now justin french (with a wonderful website!) mentions an un-documented feature of mail.app. you are able to set up multiple adresses for one account, which is a HUGE timesaver for all of you that have multiple mail-addresses that are being forwarded to one address in the end (e.g john@example.com, john.doe@example.com, info@example.com). mail.app is even smart enough to know which address to use when you reply to an incoming mail. just wonderful, but a pity i know it now that the suicmc is over and i won’t be handling multi-alias mailing anytime soon. stuff like this makes working with a mac even more fun!
vein camera
i for one welcome our medicine overlords! i’d really like to watch my veins pulsating green on my own arm the next time i’m gonna donate blood… [via new scientist]
politicians
is it funny? or is it really, really scary? i don’t know what to think of that movie (5.7mb .mov) in which someone edited all fear-inducing flowery phrases spoken at the rnc into one hypnotizing stream of words that start to loose the connection to reality. think for yourself might be one consequence. don’t trust the words of those governing you… [via boingboing]
stop-motion
i really got a kick out of these nice stop-motion-animations from some french students! [via boingboing]
new pictures are online
my pictures from the suicmc04 are online. grab them either on the /pics-section or on flickr. my batch of pictures is mostly from the preparation. if you want to see some other great pictures, then tinu pixels pictures are available on the suicmc-homepage. go and take a look, they’re great!
google trickery
so if i link to chregels page with the keywords jammerlicher waschlappen i kinda induce some funk with googles index. this sounds like fun, count me in! see the search-result on this google-page for our english-speaking audience: this is pretty much the same as when you google the term miserable failure and reach the biography of dubja bush. chregel blocher is a member of the swiss federal council and quite a prick… [via berner gazette]
pictures of the suicmc04
[](https://habi.gna.ch/blog/images/suicmc04 bern - 41.jpg)lanz and beat have put their photos of the suicmc04 online. (i think that this picture he made during the critical mass is really, really nice…) my pics will follow shortly, first i have to admire the ones that tinu made, they’ll be on the suicmc-page soon (e.g. i hope i can do it soon)