stealth marketing
take a look at this website for a too-good-to-be-true robot, the NS-5. those of you that read or used to read Isaac Asimov novels will get it at the first look that this page must be in some kind related to him, because of that little saying in the bottom left corner: “3 laws safe”: and when you perform a WHOIS-check on who registered the domain irobotnow.com then you see that the whole thing is probably a marketing campaign to make you want to see the upcoming film by 20th century fox, i robot.
todays fun link
it’s been a while since i posted a funny link, so here’s the one that also fits into holiday season: how far can you throw santa? i managed to throw him 249.1m at the third try. give it a go, you have to click once to start the game, and another time to charge the slingshot. but don’t let go too early or too late :-)
how tall are you?
i’m 17.79 ipods tall, how about you? [via ipodlounge]
wtf?
this cannot be true :-) or have you ever seen a police-car with an USB-hub to plug in that USB-powered-police strobe? [via slashdot] and following up these posts :-) oh, and the usb-grill (aprils fool joke) or usb-razor (which reminds me of that mobile) are not bad, too.
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!