michels abschied
aus aktuellem grund mal wieder in deutsch: wenn du michel bernard vom velokurier bern kennst, dann komm diesen freitag doch auch an seine abschluss-sause. nach 11 jahren wird er auf ende juli den velokurier bern verlassen. ihm zu ehren werden wir ein alleycat durch bern machen, hoffentlich kommen kuriere und nichtkuriere von überall.
bike porn
i’m in the process of looking for a fixed gear hub for my polish frame on one of my late-night surfing rounds i found these links: circle a cycles (pictures) solo velo chub hub goldtec harris cyclery paul component engineering (click on hubs in the navbar) oh, and this article from nonduality magazine made me research for a fixed gear hub and not a singlespeed freewheelin one…. maybe i’ll explain the difference later, but now i’ve gotta go to work!
musical convulsions
so here’s something funny for all of you which don’t want to be bothered with my rant below. bjorn mailed me the movie below. it’s a movie of a french guy which mounted some horns on his jumpsuit and manages to actually play songs through his convulsions (2.6mb .wmv-file) now i’ll go to bed, because i’ve got to get up in something like six hours. good night!
body modifications in the weltwoche
if i could be bothered to actually write a letter to the editor i would, because that article in one of the last weltwoche’s is absolutely crummy! the article is in the archive which is not freely available, so here’s a copy of the printout i made: with a wee bit of research david signer would have found out that there’s no thing as a piercing world record (and the most pierced person has much more than 500 piercings). so dear david signer, if you don’t like it for yourself, just leave all the other people living happily with their modifications happy and look that you can find your way without dissing other people!
picture of the week
finally i can link to this post on bild.li, because the picture of that photo-shooting is now available: about a month ago i spent a day in biel with about 40 other people. franziska frutiger took pictures of us, and now the result looks like this: the original picture can be seen on the page of swisscom mobile or on franziskas page (no direct link, because she uses a nifty flash-interface, but if you click on “new”, then you can see the full ad). just make sure you don’t mistake me with my doubleganger, i’m the one in the back row, not the one with the che guevara t-shirt…
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.