todays fun link
we three in our flat have a so-called darling of the week - some piece of bizarre news, some really far out whackos or just something funny out of the newspaper. if you’ve been in my kitchen, you know what i talk about. this weeks darling even has a homepage and a really cool photo :-) say hello to music man otto:
daily perscheid
since quite a long time i get some daily comics via mail: calvin and hobbes and the daily perscheid. i always think that nearly all perscheids are hilariously funny, but this one today just blew the top off everything. not actually the joke itself but the tiny little twist (pun intended) in the preserving jar in the bottom left of the rack. (it says “hitlers pen…” which undoubtedly stands for the little mans dong….) this made my day! i have no idea if this is a copyright-issue if i post that picture here on my blog, but i think this goes under “fair use”, just to say that perscheid is really great!
my plans for a new bike!
yesterday evening i was surfing around some messenger-sites and found that site here: ostro, some shop in poland which sells nice steel track frames for an unbelievably low price. i mailed those guys and they said that it costs only 20€ to send those frames via ground mail. how cool is that? they even send you the color you want. decisions, decisions :-) ps: even if bikes are not your thing, go check out the other parts they have on sale, there are some really beautiful pieces of craftmanship…
vocal groove project
i just returned from seeing bauchklang live at the bierhubeli. if you’ve never heard of them, then you should go and check out their website. bauchklang is the so called vocal groove project. they make dubby drum n bass acapella. it is really amazing, what those five guys achieve with only their voice and microphones. go hear some samples (in the goodies section), it’s really not that kind of acapella-music you think! if you got a fast connection, then click here for a direct link to a 11mb-quicktime-movie from their site to see how they perform on stage.
software again
why haven’t i seen software like this really, really nice screensaver before my switcher days? i think from now on i switch my screensaver from a blank screen to this:
swiss meat
hmm, i think if i participated in that picture-contest, i would have been the designated winner. compare the winner with the original :-) oh, and btw: a huge amount of people might wonder how i always find obscure links like these. this time it’s a simple chain reaction. we from bern won the right to host the suicmc04. while looking for sponsors i talked with lüsche from klink (webpartner of the velokurier), he’s got a contact with bluewin for potential sponsoring. to be able to talk with him i needed to get his phonenumber, so i surfed to klink.ch and saw that they programmed a image-database for swiss meat. not too hard, ‘aight?
retro-styleee!
you got an mms-enables mobile phone? want to send a real postcard to someone who doesn’t have one of these gizmos? then click here and follow the instructions :-) this is a new service from the swiss post (press release). they will print a postcard for you and send it. the funny thing is, that the first one is free, so give it a go, you only have to pay one mms and a marginal data-amount… really retro. send a truly digital message and someone gets a truly offline postcard. silly it costs 3 bucks when you use it more than once…
new software
if you own a mac, then go and download these two: sidetrack collage sidetrack is definitely a must! i never thought i’d miss these features until i installed this nifty piece of software. sidetrack is a replacement driver for your trackpad on the mac. it enables scrolling features i now heavily rely on (it almost makes my mouse obsolete…). you now get a defined zone on your trackpad in which you can scroll the screen (preferably the left part for vertical and the top part for horizontal scrolling…)
holy shite!
if these guys are not amazing, then you have an extremely high level of unimpressiveability! [via boingboing]
tomazobi
tomazobi will be the hit soon :-) one of these guys went to school with my sister and all three of ’em have the potential to be the new troubadours of bern (like mani matter and others) especially their song lulu is just about the best song i ever heard (at least in swiss-german :-) you need to check out their website, it’s a marvelous example of funny webdesign and crude little ideas (how about their stage-plan for small and big stages?)