windows vs. os x
take a look at these screenshots: well, it think there need to be tweaked quite a few bits and pieces in the css :-). and the sidebar (first set) looks quite ugly with these blue lines around the buttons, i think i should also change that, to prevent burnt retinas…
bacteria and fungi remixing songs
want to listen to remixes of well known songs by bacteria and fungi? have no idea what i’m talking about? then give the molecular media project or nanosounds a visit and listen to samples of songs which were distorted by a layer of fungi, bacteria and other stuff on the surface of the cd’s. the remix of pink floyds comfortably numb (750kb mp3) is especially mindbending! and also quite funny to watch are the psychedelic screenshots of a james brown DVD remixed by titanium dioxide.
abba
you might or might not know that i also work as a bar-tender at the theater an der effingerstrasse. last friday we had the traditional x-mas diner with all the people involved there (these here plus some from the bar). this year we were at a really excellent restaurant, the bachmuhle (the mill at the brook) in niedermuhlern (which got 16 points from gault millau, which is quite remarkable). this story starts really boring, but wait for the funny part: the chef de service (on the left) at the mill told us that - after finishing his apprenticeship to become a hairdresser - he used to be the butler of anni-frid lyngstad. you: who the f… is that? that’s not funny at all! this story is boring! me: she’s one of the abba-women! yes, ms. dancing queen1).
amazing 3d-modeling!
miklos, this one is especially for you! teddy (and its successor smoothTeddy) is a an amanzinly nifty looking 3d-modeling java applet which looks freakingly easy to use. download the 32mb-avi-demo video, take a look at it and be amazed! [via boingboing] update: sad it doesn’t work that well on a mac…
this sounds quite promising (and looks cool!)
the project looking glass from sun; take a look at a real-video-stream or download a demo-movie. reminds me a tiny bit of the fast user-switching in panther, doesn’t it?
bubble chair
belly: want! want! want! want! want! want! want! want! want! head: ah, shut up already!
update on blocher
following up the spontaneous demonstration this noon, there’s another one to protest against the election of christoph blocher tonight here in bern. got nothing to do? be there!
the parliament has chosen
holy shite! this time i really need to think about moving to another county! the parliament renewed the federal council this morning. and guess what: they chose to substitute a ruth metzler with the (too far) right-wing blocker chregel blocher. as much as i do not really like miss metzler it’s quite sad that we now have a new council that is too far on the right wing of the political spectrum and has a woman less than before (not that 2 out of 7 was a real representation of the 51% women in switzerland…)
new section on habi.gna.ch
as i’m still looking for a phd in the near future i keep looking for stuff that interests me, medical laser physics-stuff. (i really really reallylove being a messenger, but like kevin bacon says in quicksilver: “you can’t get old on a bike”) this offer on telejob.ch looks quite promising. i sent the contact person an email, asking for some more information on the offer, and thought maybe he also wants some more information on me, so i decided to start with an new category on habi.gna.ch - my cv. needs to be filled with information (which will hopefully happen soon…), for the moment you can only download my diploma thesis (a 2.5 mb pdf-file), if you’re interested…
becoming famous (or not)
becoming famous: some days ago, inari posted a comment to one of my posts. i asked her who she was, because i neither recognized the name nor the email-address. then i got back quite a nice reply, saying that she goes to a school of visual communication and is working on a project on web-logs. for that work she now analyzes my blog; i already feel weird posting stuff here knowing it will be analyzed :-).