update: bike ride to chernobyl
as diggory says, the photo diary of a motorcycle tour is one of the most frightening and depressing things i’ve seen in a long while! [via monkeyfood] update: boingboing notes that this story probably is some kind of hoax. nonetheless the whole story behind the story is unbelievably sad and should never ever happen again. nowhere!
guitar god
did you ever play too much video games, so that you had nightmares? i remember once trying to finish tetris on the hardest possible setting on the gameboy and managing to finish it (so that the space-shuttle bonus screen came up) and having the most terrible night-mares afterwards. i had to dodge out those falling blocks in my dreams, and every-time i couldn’t manage it getting squished to death… i bet KeiicHi must have had nightmares, too (3.7 mb .wmv movie). he manages to play the soundtrack of super mario land on his guitar, complete with the power-up and coin-grab sound effects! marvelous!
picture of the week
this friday i was at the aquaparc with mike. the whole afternoon made us quite hungry, so we wanted to eat something on the journey back home and made a stop in lausanne. the picture below is the amazing chandelier hanging in the concourse of the railway-station in lausanne.
ten worst album covers EVER!
if you dare to look at the ten worst album covers ever, then you have to check out this page. [via pieceoblog]
itunes info in sidebar
because something was f[beep] up with the way kung-tunes posted the trackinfo from my itunes to the sidebar, here’s the roundup on how i did it (adding to this post): go to mt’s control panel. make a new blog (itunes). make a new category (nowplaying). hit “edit category attributes”, toggle “accept incoming trackback pings” to yes. jot down the trackback url. add that url to kung-tunes preferences. make the format of kungtunes notification: add three files to the sub-blog (here: itunes), now_playing.html and lastfive.html and last30.html. for each of the three above files add something along these lines to the code: (MTAmazon optional for album cover) by <a href=“itms:// phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/ advancedSearchResults?artistTerm=<$MTPingBlogName encode_url=“1”$>” title=“Search at the iTunes Music Store”><$MTPingBlogName$>
weblogs in the news
nick luthi (one of the bloggers over at the berner gazette) wrote a nice article about weblogs in (one of) the local newspapers. he nicely explains terms like blogosphere and points out some hints on how to start your own weblog. give it a read! ps: if you don’t have a hard-copy of todays bund, go and read the article now, i don’t know how long it will be freely available in the eBund, i suspect that in a week you’ve got to pay for the access. oh, and by the way, the article is in german.
picture of the week
i’ve been thinking about posting a picture per week for a really long time, and with the picture below i want to start that series. (kind of like the way jeremy hedley does). my pictures will probably never reach the artistic potential of the one’s he posts, nonetheless i’ll try to share some pictures i like with you the picture below was this afternoon in the rosengarten here in bern. hidden behind the tree is the cathedral, the mother on the right side of the tree was telling her kid stories for the whole time i was sitting there (around two hours) which i thought was really nice.
sony - apple teamup? [update]
there’s always quite a bit of rumor that sony and apple might teamup sometimes (or the one is buying the other). from the perspective as a gadget-lover this would result in the most technically advanced (sony) gadgets which are on top of the industrial design scale (apple). here’s another evidence that both companies share the same views: if you look at the promotional pictures of sony’s latest hot gadget, the librie they seem to be shot by the same photographer that also does the promotional pictures for apple. the librie seems to float in front of a white surface, with a subtle shadow, shot from a slight frog perspective. here’s the direct comparison for you to judge:
new buttons
thanks to the fabulous button maker my blog now features two new buttons in the lower sidebar. (besides the other ones, which were also made with the button maker, ages ago). once a button which links to my amazon wishlist, just in case you want to send me a gift and the other is a button which links to my orkut-profile (which is something like FOAF for dummies :-). you’re free to join there and help build my network of friends.
ffaf is over
thanks for everyone participating on my free-for-all-friday! some blogs which i will check out soon are now on my 2do list. (the password is now changed to something private, so you cannot login anymore) now i need to go to bed, i just returned from the only swiss show of princess superstar the concert is not over yet, but i have to get up quite early tomorrow. oh, and yes the show was really good, it just started way too late!