picture of the week
this weekend i wanted to go kiting with bruni. the problem was that the wind was really bad at the bielersee. we hardly managed to keep the kite in the air (although it’s a 12 squaremeter-thing) and thought it’s no use to try it in the water. then we just couldn’t find a suitable place at the neuenburgersee (i’ve been checking out kitegenossen just now :-( ) so the whole weekend was (kite-style) a big disappointment. nonetheless i made a nice picture in neuchatel which you can see below.
1,300,925,111,156,286,160,896 ways to spell viagra
this guy took some serious calculations to see how many ways there are to spell viagra (you know, those little pills that everyone tries to sell you via email). this is just one of the funny posts on the newly discovered memepool. [via memepool]
spiderman 2
thomas allenbach from the bund wrote a pretty good review of the upcoming movie spiderman 2 (although he managed to call peter parker - who is spiderman - peter barker at least six times and no-one noticed…). the fueled my desire to go and see the movie, because i always dug spiderman comics and think sam raimi has a good hand with fiction-films. to relieve some pain of waiting, you can watch the trailer, that apple provides on their trailer-page. but better (and a lot funnier) is to watch the movie spiderman: the peril of doc ock from spite your face productions which is as hilarious as it is brilliant, because it’s a full-featured, albeit short movie done fully as a stop-motion lego animation! amazing!
rain again...
schiss-summer!
bad furniture
do you like seventhies-furniture? think about it after you’ve seen this collection! [via boingboing]
picture of the week
this is the way the sky looks while driving from zurich to bern with the train: (if you wouldn’t see the reflections, i’d say it’s one of the nicest pictures i ever took!)
[update2] two links for you
the first one is funny: the point of the online-game on wagenschenke.ch is to walk back home with well too much alcohol. i managed to walk 75 meters this morning, when hamme showed me that game, but i cannot seem to replicate the result now to post a screenshot, maybe i’ll be able to do that later. the second one is interesting in a physicists way: the new scientist points out that the speed of light might have changed recently, which would change a lot in traditional physics (read the article to get the point of “recently”). the change in the constant c would imply some problems with other constants, but is quite handy in a greater view, e.g. if you want to explain some interesting things like the horizon-problem in our universe (again, this is a physicist kind of problem, so you don’t need to worry :-)
DIY
in the true sense of do it yourself i laced my own front wheel today. remember that i bought a frame from poland quite some time ago. now that i know all the relevant parts are gonna fit i’m in the process of turning that frame into a lean, mean riding machine :-) because i want it to look nice, i laced the wheel radially, so it will look good (although lorenzo doesn’t like it…). a good trained wheel-builder can build a full wheel in about an hour. it took me twice that time (and let me tell you, radially is much simpler to lace than the normal way, where the spokes intermittently cross each other) but now i’ve got a front wheel which i built myself, which makes me quite proud. and now i just need steve to send me that rear hub, lace another wheel and i’ll be riding my [insert cool name here] soon. i’m really looking forward to it!
new apple displays
apple updated their displays. they are friggin huge and stylish like hell! if you want to take the new display for a spin, apple provides a 360°-quicktime-movie of one with a g5 attached. a pity i don’t have 3k$ lying around to buy myself the 30 inch beast… (which would involve getting rid of my ibook which is far away from having the graphical power to juice the 4.1 megapixels on the biggest model…)
new pictures are online
the (nearly) full set of pictures from our aare-tour yesterday is online in the /pics-section. enjoy and have fun. maybe i’ll have some really nice panoramic shots ready soon. from the first preliminary tests it might look really good…