how to lay an egg
I’ve always wondered how a hen manages to lay an egg. improbable research links to an interesting article where the process is explained. but the article does not explain how the egg is actually “generated” in the hen itself. and the most important question is, do all eggs contain a potential biddy? e.g. could you breed the eggs you buy in the shop or not? do you know the answer? then please post a comment, and i can delete that question from my list of unanswered ones…
new software: mail.appetizer
leo’s fscklog is always a good place to discover new software (sometimes i wonder where he takes the time to fill all his MacOrama’s with interesting news). mail.appetizer is an excellent freeware application (see leos german explanation) which alerts you with a customizable window when any new mail arrives in any of your inboxes in mail.app. so you can preview your incoming mail and decide if it’s worth switching to mail or carry on with the task you’ve been doing at the moment. RC3 of mail.appetizer got even better, now the window is completely customizable, e.g. the font and size can be chosen and it also displays the sender picture (from the addressbook) so you get a hint on who you want’s to steal your time. an indispensable piece of software!
sightseeing
today i went to donate blood. when i arrived at the place there was a big brouhaha. after some time i found out that today was the “first worldwide donate blood day” and that swiss federal councilor pascal couchepin donated blood in the same place as i did (actually on the bed opposite mine :-) i guess i should have moblogged it, because i’d have surely been faster than the swiss red cross with their media bulletin (linked above).
filewile on tv
if you’d like to see filewile’s videoclip Chumpnrun, then you got two options: a) buy the limited edition lappi-box with the song and video b) click here and vote for their clip to be played on the show roboclip on swiss telly. and watch the video on telly together with songs from faithless, beyoncé, the beastie boys and alike…
new pictures are online
oh, and if you want to see all the other pictures i made at the frisbee-tournament this friday, then they’re online in the pictures-section.
picture of the week
the grass is always greener on the other side: the picture below was taken at the first swiss university ultimate-frisbee tournament in bern this friday. teams from geneva, neuchatel, zurich, basel and two teams from bern had a fun day playing ultimate here in bern. oh, and by the way, this is the winner-team, bern I. top row: me, beni, manu with my cap, tom and thomas bottom row: lorru, michu, stefan and jochen
turn your pc into an os x machine
do you own a windows xp machine and want to be able to look at the same nice desktop as i do all the time? do you have a winXP-machine at work, but miss you nice os x box at home? then you only have to take the steps described here and you feel at home instantly. but be aware there is still windows running under the nice looking shell, so you might need to reboot from time to time :-)
why i blog
hamme made a smart comment on a recent an old post on nicks blog which made me think about the “why do i blog”. is it to show you all my new pretty things or is it to tell you all what i think about the world? i think the whole thing started really slow for me. it was not a decision, like: “yes, from today on i want to blog”. my first experience in blogging (although back then nobody called it that way, it was more like a diary) was influenced by shannon the brain behind BME, which was one of the places where i spent many evenings. sometimes late on one of these evenings i discovered, that shannon made some kind of place for body-modification-adepts to gather and to exchange. withouth thinking much i logged in to IAM, registered my username (at the moment i’m the user number 98 of more than 14400) and was caught from the first moment on.
for all non-geeks
if both posts below are not your thing, then you have to read today’s calvin & hobbes.
new apple gadget
i seem to be chewing up posts from other blogs tonight, but this is just too cool. leo links to the newest hit by apple, the smallest sibling of all airport basestations, the airport express which includes a nice little must-have feature: airtunes. connect the airport express to any outlet in the reach of your wifi-connection. plug in your stereo (or any set of powered speakers, which is really cool) and you can listen easily to all your tunes in any room where your wifi connection goes. or if you want to be the cool dj on your friends next party take your apple computer equipped with an airport card and your airport express, connect to his stereo and rock on!