picture of the week
i’m in a bad mood, so without further ado here’s the picture of the week, the shelf in my bedroom.
votez.ch
if you’re like me and think that voting is a big part of democracy then this site might be the right thing for you: votez.ch (for obvious reasons only in german). since sometimes the point of a ballot can be hard to get (especially if the title is misleading) then some background information can be really helpful to help you find your decision the people behind votez.ch provide you with little blurbs of information for the upcoming elections or ballots and explain you the pro’s and con’s of every tabling and even tell you who says to vote yes or no (e.g. if you always vote with the SP, they tell you what the SP advises to vote). the good thing behind votez.ch is, that the people which are behind it do not share one political direction. they actually think that politics sucks a wee bit, but also know that it’s important (especially as younger people) to cast its vote in elections. so, if you think you might need a little boost to actually fill out that slip of paper, then you definitely should subscribe to their newsletter and you’ll get an email tailored about two weeks before you actually have to send the ballot in.
that was fun!
this morning i went to thomu to see if he has any good bikes to offer (he has). i knew that my mom went to roschu around noon to buy a bike for herself today, so i tried to be there as fast as possible (because i wanted to help her a bit and was already late). the calculated route from oberried to roschus shop (according to map24.ch) is 11.39 km and takes 19 minutes. with my bike i drove the 9.34 km in 13 minutes and 50 seconds, resulting in an average speed of 40.5 km per hour. not too bad, aight? now the question is, do i really need a bike that is faster than the one i already own? answer: yes, because it’s even more fun to drive fast with a racing bike than with a street-capable mountain bike.
ostro
today i got a mail from poland. just take a look at these pictures, and drool over them. i cannot wait until i hold my frame (the black one) in my hands. i’ve been looking forward to getting that mail since november, so i’m a happy puppy now :-) now i can start looking for the right parts to build my custom made bike-dream….
what a silly boy.
i could slap my head! i’ve been trying to write some files to my flash-stick for about three hours now. the thing was, that the permissions were not set right, so i thought this is some unixy hiccup, no big deal. i tried to verify the disk itself and tried to repair the disk permissions using the disk utility. nothing. i relaunched the finder. nothing. i tried to reformat the stick using the terminal. nothing. i even tried to rm some files on it using su. nothing (this was l33t-sp34k). i looked up osxhints how to possibly resolve that issue. nothing hell, i even rebooted my ibook, a thing only for severe problems. nothing. and just about now i found out that the little dip-switch on the stick was set on write-protect. again. i. could. slap. my. head!
the librie is not so hot
some weeks ago i made a little post about the lastest drool-over-gadget from sony, the librie. now dottocomu posted a first look on the e-book reader which doesn’t seem to be so hot at all. the look and the quality of the screen are impressive, but the screen is slow and the buttons are awkwardly placed. but the single most disappointing thing is, that you cannot load all books onto the librie (besides that you actually need the ac-cord to sync), but have to “rent” one of only 400 books sony offers to you. in addition those books expire after 60 days. so, if you’re a slow reader you have to buy the book twice or more. as gizmodo says: a breakthrough device - as soon as some Swedish hacker unlocks the DRM that prevents us from putting our own media on it. let’s hope that swedish hacker hurries up a bit (there’s hope, because the librie is supposed to run on some flavour of linux) or this will stay in the shelfs like nailed to them. just imagine, it would be so cool to take the librie, 2 AAA batteries and some books from project gutenberg (or the german equivalent) into your holidays. no more shlepping of books!
bicycle hot rods
after seeing this bike at the velo zuri last weekend, i just cannot seem to get the idea to buy a bike like this out of my head. after some googling i found this shop from the netherlands which carries those bikes (funny URL by the way…) and some really cool other ones. now i know that kona produces that extremely cool looking bike. so the question is, should i get one? or should i see if i can get an ever more radical looking chopper from NWCB?
new pictures are online
today we had kind of a family reunion. it was my cousins birthday and she invited all of us for a brunch at her and her boyfriends house. not only was the weather most beautiful, but the whole was also quite funny and nice. instead of mailing around all the pics i made today i put them online in the pictures section. –> clicketyhere!
picture of the week
last monday pesche was having diner with us. this was the view from our kitchen around nine o’clock in the evening.
that's disgusting
this survey by the auntie’s science department is really interesting. take it to the end and see how you score with your disgust threshold against other people or the prediction of the science-team. the whole survey took me less than 4 minutes to fill out and in the end the results and descriptions of ’em are really interesting. well worth those minutes! [via boingboing]