exposé is just soo cool
as i installed everything from scratch, clutter now lacks quite a lot of my albums pictures. with expose it’s a breeze to update these. a quick google of the album tittle, click and hold, f9, drop onto clutter. et voila! couldn’t be easier than this. before i had to save the image to the desktop, minimize safari, locate the image on my cluttered desktop, get clutter to the foreground and drag the image to clutters window (direct drag and drop did not work, because through some mysterious bug all the images dragged to clutter arrived upside down.)
another great set of pictures
loretta lux photographs kids, scans their subjects and places them on a separate background which results in quite eerie pictures. most of the kids seem to be generated through cgi, but it’s all the real thing. [via boingboing and the NY Times]
probably the nicest pictures ever made!
[by karin]
i bought a powerbook :-)
but it is only made from cardboard :-) filewile’s new single comes in a beautiful hand-crafted limited-edition card-board-special-media-8"-powerbook. (and it’s yours for only 35 bucks). and have you read the article about their journey to the uk? (96kb .pdf) oh, and the chumpnrun-video (which is also on the single) is absolutely hilarious. i hope to see it on telly sometimes, it’s really good! go andy and dejot! update: it turns out that i’m quite lucky. the limited edition single won’t officially be available until the 17th of march! so i already know the song with the incredible sassy hook-line and i own a limited piece of art, there are only 300 filewile-power-books available for sale, then they’re gone for good.
installing panther
i will install panther now. i won’t do an update of my 10.2 system to panther but try to do a squeaky-clean and fresh install. i know that this is much more work, but in the past one-and-a-half year i own my ibook i’ve installed (and deleted) so many programs that left junk on my HD i don’t want to take with me any further. i cloned my whole ibook to my nifty external 80gb-firewiredisk, tried to boot from it (it worked) so i can go back anytime, so i expect no real troubles, just a time-consuming process while i install all the stuff i so heavily rely on (a small part of every junk-program i install and try out…) so wish me luck that everything goes well (and that i don’t need to call support :-)
deep blue
yesterday we went to see deep blue (german site). an amazing film. go and see it! fullstop.
mc h-bee
if you want to see me perform live on stage, then you have to come to the baren in bumpliz tomorrow or saturday evening. the skbe (the club where i swim) does host a lotto there and me and another guy are the speaker, so we will babbling numbers all night long. :-) (not that it will be a remarkable evening, but nonetheless, if you like to play lotto (or want to win prizes for small bucks) then be there and say hello to me…)
geocaching
today we went geocaching. my flat-mate wrote about that fun activity in the local newspapers (wolf obviously works there). geocaching? what’s that? someone hides something somewhere and you go and find it, it’s that easy :-) you need a gps-reciever and some information from geocaching.com (or the swiss equivalent), look for the spot you want to get and then you just start. wolf wrote about the cache hidden near the guggershornli, so we wanted to go and discover that cache called “guggershorn hut” hidden by Admiral Whitetrousers.
grey tuesday
public disobedience? count me in! explanation: dj danger mouse remixed the white album of the beatles and the black album of jay-z which of course makes grey. dj danger mouse (the man himself) explains it like this: The Grey Album is an art project/experiment that uses the full vocal content of Jay-Z’s Black Album recorded over new beats and production made using the Beatles White Album as the sole source material. Danger Mouse insists he can explain and prove that all the music on the Grey Album can be traced back to the White Album and its musical content via sampling. Every kick, snare, and chord is taken from the Beatles White Album and is in their original recording somwhere.
todays funny link
i haven’t posted a funny link in a long time, this one here is funny! (but only in german) [via mara’s email i got today] (scroll down to see her, mara bucko (btw: the sister of mike, with whom i’m going to the movies in a minute…) update: silly, me, forgot to link to the link :-) anyway, now it’s there..