the art of rebellion
yesterday i read a review of “the art of rebellion”, today i surfed on their page and instantly bought that book. looks like a really good book to read (1.5mb pdf-preview) or just simply to look at. i can hardly wait until the postman rings twice… btw: go to page 7 in the pdf, there you can see invader from france. can you remember where in bern that he put up his invaders? (in the munstergasse and at least two in the matte…)
the little dirty secret
learn more about the ipod’s dirty little secret. which is actually quite a hassle for ipodowners in europe, either the people who sell ipod replacement batteries do not ship to europe, are well expensive or (apple itself) does not provide that service in europe. [via gizmodo via boinboing via dan gillmor]
put on your dancing shoes
next weekend nina and i go to the polyball which is the biggest decorated and themed ball in europe, there are supposed to be around 10k people. the theme is “kitsch as kitsch can” so i thought i buy these trashy funky dancing shoes which should go really well with a classic suit. yes, they’re golden and i’m probably gonna wear them only once, but hey, they did only cost 19 swiss francs :-)
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i even start to edit my ID3-tags, so that the links in the sidebar work (e.g. itunes finds the songs in the ITMS)
small update
now you can also see the last five or the last 30 songs i listened. through some code from b. (he said: “es ist etwas hackisch geschrieben, aber dafür sagt es auch “1 day and 1 hour and 1 minute ago” und nicht “1 days ago”” after fiddling for 3 minutes…) it displays the date/time in a nice format. now you can spy on me my musical taste even better :-) have fun:
spamcop
i use spamcop daily to report my spam to the relevant people, it’s an excellent free service (although sometimes a bit clumsy in accepting spam…), but this doesn’t really look good… i wonder how long it’s gonna take until they take down the free service.
the singing web
following up my entry of yesterday evening here’s a link for all of you to enjoy: a website that takes the words you want as an input, converts them to a song. that song consisting of sampled words of some other songs. i at have at least three of the words from my example in my own library. rhytm - rhythm of the dancer from snap! true - digital love from daft punk fun - perfect day from lou reed (the other ones cannot be found on ITMS…)
usb-power!
now the whole usb-powered stuff gets a bit far off the track :-) [via gizmodo]
new feature on this blog
i was reading some more about trackback some days ago (which still is a bit too much for my puny little head to fully get the point). well, the thing is that some guys proposed to the trackback abilty of movable type to post songs from winamp, then another guy followed up with pretty much exactly the same for itunes (btw, also quite good for window…). the approaches used a special applescript which i could not get to work (even with the help of l33t b. :-)
pros and cons of every major os.
the three dead trolls have a (not so) little video with an in-deep sight on the pros and cons of every major os (windows, os x and linux). if you’re still deciding what to install on the mighty little box under your desk, then you should watch that video :-)