good music for free
like always, all good things in life are free: MTV has an upcoming show called MTV Mash. the french duo Loo & Placido made all the bootlegs for that show. the bootlegs that MTV turned down are now available from their L&D’s site. if you don’t want to sift through their page, the boingboing-post linked below has the direct links to all the mp3’s. go and grab ’em. “Pound for Pound” and “Golden Bastard” are my favorites
nichtlustig.de
those of you who like humor a bit on the bizarre side will be pleased to know that nichtlustig.de now also features a rss-feed, so you won’t ever again miss one of the (not so) daily comics!
amazing flash-movies
the flagrant blogger links to an amazing movie, but i think the other movie of that guy is even better. judge for yourself! (both .swf-movies are quite hefty on the big side, but it’s worth the wait!) oh, and the page of the guy which made those two gems has the funniest navigation i’ve ever seen :-) [via flagr.antville [via b3ta]]
picture of the week
this week it’s actually not a picture of the week, but a movie of the week. today a friend of mine visited me, because her laptop was unable to connect to the intaweb. after some probing i found out that she must have gotten a virus, which clogged her connection to the net, spewing itself out to all the people in her address-book. so i decided to install a free antivirus software for her (downloaded that excellent software to my mac, transferred and installed it on her pc) and scanned for viruses, since her norton-antivirus refused to work (also because of the multiple viruses she caught. on the first run the software found 1500+ infected files, cleaned them, but refused to finish its process. on the second run (after a reboot) it found 5000+ infected files. the scanner can be configured to make an audible beep each time a file is cleaned, so you get that funky soundeffect in the file below (3mb .mpg-file).
my eye
now it looks like this:
ouch
this is what happens if you walk out of the store, try to see where you parked your bike and then walk into a pole. a big ouchy! i think i’ll need to go and buy some more steristrips tomorrow ;-) (warning: the link is not for the faint of heart, it was the first hit on google…) update: although my eye starts to get a funky bruise, my ouchie is nothing compared to this one here. that guy got six nails from a nail-gun in his head!!! [via boingboing]
fumetto
tomorrow i’ll be in lucerne at the fumetto. i cannot wait to see katz und goldt, their strips are hilarious! the weather won’t be nice tomorrow which is a good thing, because i’m not gonna get distracted by the beautiful view over the lake of lucerne and be able to drown me in reading comics all day long.
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.