31.3.2006

pieceoBeatz pieceoCast pieceocast friday . 049

listen:

download: pieceocast049.mp3
[7:17 | 6.7 MB | 128kbps]

pieceoplastic was born perfect

i have not done much egonamedroppage in my podcasts. yet. but hey, i do have it in me.
vampire movies are not my favorite genre, by far not. and blade is a pretty sad movie.
yet somehow these samples seemed … errr … perfect? see, since i was also born perfect i guess this was meant to be. pieceocast - the podcast of bloodsuckers.

please enjoy pieceocast. while it lasts. and tell a friend.

pieceocast cover

music borrowed [with all due respect] from:
1. pieceocast intro: a loop from amon tobin: hokkaido [chaos theory, the splinter cell soundtrack]; fred, the voice in my computer, samples
2. lotek hifi: what you see - big dada
3. roots manuva: no love - big dada
4. funkdoobiest: dedicated [dj shadow rmx]

samples borrowed:

blade trinity

the pieceocast can be accessed here:

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this link will pick up all my mixes and the occasional mp3’s i link to from my blog.

earlier pieceocasts:

to find the earlier pieceocasts please check this list with links and stuff.

a word about copyleft: [more]

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30.3.2006

pieceoBabbel wwWank gadgetMinded two comments @ moblog.co.uk

jacko nosejob suggestions

i love this. some girl named vanessa has written 2 comments to this early moblog.co.uk test posting of mine:

first comment 29th Mar 2006 11:50: this is sick this should be filtered tov ever body s computer how could u steeep so low

second somment 29th Mar 2006 11:52 i love charlie mclaren 4eva come bak 2 me i love u so much and dan s

ha ha. i find this priceless.

first a statement of outrage, but wait, it already contains quite a few contradictions. how can something be sick, yet should be “filtered” [?] to everybodys computer. and what exactly does she mean by “filtered”? this first statment ends with a question, or at least i assume it is one as punctuation marks are very much absent from her writing. a question nevertheless, if in fact it is one, that i often ask myself, how could i steep so low? how? how could i steep myself in irony and sarcasm for so low?

then, two minutes later, follows another comment. this one is a shout out. to one charlie mclaren. oh and to dan s as well. it is this final part that cracks me up. “and to dan s”. seconds after imploring charlie to come back because she loves him forever, vanessa also wants to keep her options open with dan. smooth. dan, charlie, please find this an react to it on my moblog. please?

cute dogs

plus: snooping around old moblog entries is fun, i saw that this early posting has been viewed 22209 times. isn’t that impressive? oh and its created quite the outrage in certain animal lovers circles. “how mean you cruel animal hater! you know its bad for dogs when you do that!! *@@@@*”

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29.3.2006

ideeSwiss c-word soDA #28

ok. i am gonna abstain from any remarks like, “just when we gave up hope”, or “finally” or such.

soDA # 28

swiss graphics magazine soDA has released their latest issue [soDA #28 «asia-alias.net»] with a clever integration of a “blog” of sorts. the website via codes lets you find complete versions of the images and texts contained in the magazine.
i like that.

now i just wish i could see the mag, coz so far i have only read about it on a blog = [via tobistar]

oh yeah, completely unrelated and just because it does not deserve an own blog entry:


Zestful Untamed Paramour Pleasingly Imparting Naughty Gratification and Erotic Recreation

[via rho]

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gadgetMinded google accidentally deletes their official blog

omg. shit happens. to the best of us. this is quite amusing.

And we’re back

3/27/2006 11:15:00 PM
Posted by Jason Goldman, Blogger Product Manager

The Google Blog was unavailable for a short time tonight. We quickly learned from our initial investigation that there was no systemwide vulnerability for Blogger. We’ll let you know more about what did happen once we finish looking into it.

Update: We’ve determined the cause of tonight’s outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d’oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad.

and DRS3 [swissgerman youth radio station specialising in blog-dissing] hold your horses, you can’t quote this as a sign that blogs are dead. they are back!

[oh gosh, how do you even mistakingly delete a blog?]
here’s a little prayer: dear uhm whoever it is i pray to [probably still the flying spaghetti monster], please help me that i never mistakingly delete my blog. or that i at least made a backup of my database recently. amen.

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28.3.2006

c-word gadgetMinded DRM is killing music

ipod pirate

voidstar has published a brilliant parody of the “home taping is killing music” campaign. [via bb, so technically i don’t need to blog this, but hey …]

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gadgetMinded couchPotato hapland 3: w00t

hapland 3

i am now in the house in the swiss mountains, where i am lucky enough to spend a month twice a year. which means no broadband. which means i am online via a 56k modem. which means slooooowwwwwwww. which means my face is falling asleep. which means it takes quite some dedication to download a 1700k game.

but hey. its hapland. the best point&click, riddle game ever. as gorey as it is cute. click click click. [via 4rthur]

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27.3.2006

ideeSwiss wwWank gadgetMinded cyberhelvetia ist tod - lang lebe fotobot

nick lüthi has noticed that the uri cyberhelvetia.ch, the tribute website of the expo02 project, currently leads into digital limbo. sad. that.
christian has already calmed us in comments and informs that this is only temporary.

but but but fotobot lives!
and lets face it, fotobot was t3h killer app of this project. i am glad to see that belleville keeps developing it.
[fotobots are futuristic looking bots that get stuck inside shop windows. passers-by can then trigger an infrared beam to get their photos taken. the photos are sent to a website]

rainbowNATION

fotobot capetownfotobot capetownfotobot capetownfotobot capetown

rainbowNATION plans to place fotobots in 4 southafrican cities. there are two fotobots per window and in chosing one of them the users answers yes or no to a given question, in the case of capetown: “10 years from now: will people still be living in twonships around capetown?” i think this is absolutely brillant. here’s a photo from the set-up.

rainbowNATION southafrica

readme.cc

fotobot parisfotobot parisfotobot parisfotobot parisfotobot paris

readme.cc, the book and literature community, has placed a fotobot in prime location at the taschen-verlag flagshipstore in paris, and asks people to take their photos with books. or without. users can then place these books into their online libraries, if i understand this part correctly. another great idea. check out this photo for the set-up.

fotobot archive

and, some nostalgia should be allowed, fotobot.fotostiftung.ch still shows the 1 million images taken during expo.02. [sigh, best job i ever had … so far]

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26.3.2006

ideeSwiss Blogumne - 00020 blogless blogawarding

vor lauter Swiss Blog Awards habe ich diese woche kaum gebloggt. sprich, blogbeiträge verfasst habe ich schon; ganze - moment, ich geh rasch nachzählen - 9 beiträge sind seit letzten sonntag entstanden. immerhin. eine durchaus durchschnittliche woche (lol, gibt es auch undurchaus undurchschnittliche?). doch wegen dem SBAW stress konnte ich kaum andere blogs lesen. und mir fehlt dann irgendwas; es fühlt sich so nicht wie richtiges bloggen an. in solchen momenten erlebe ich hautnah, dass blogs tatsächlich ein read-write medium sind, wie es schlauere köpfe als ich erkannt haben. nur write, ohne read, ist eigentlich nur die halbe miete. es fehlt der dialog. monologe führe ich bereits den ganzen tag lang - in meinem kopf. ausser wenn gerade das “ich” mit dem “es” über das “überich” verhandelt. aber, huch, lets not go there.

ja und dann wurde ich letzte woche mal wieder mit der schweizer mentalität konfrontiert. wenn in diesem land jemand den kopf rausstreckt, und ich sage bewusst nicht einmal “oben rausstreckt”, dann kommt bestimmt gleich das grosse nivelierungsmesser und schneidet ihn subito wieder ab. man organisiert also sowas wie die Swiss Blog Awards, bildet sich auch genau gar nichts darauf ein und versucht bewusst immer wieder mit selbstironie das ganze zu entmystifiziern, und doch hört man fast nur kritik. die motzkis, die melden sich bestimmt. da kann man drauf wetten. und bei dieser wette ist jeder noch so monströse einsatz ein garantierter gewinner.

und obschon mir dieses phänomen eigentlich bekannt ist, muss ich doch jedesmal e-mails wie die folgenden erst mal kurz verarbeiten. “ihre website ist grafisch absolut null….schlechte farben…schrift unleserlich…signet dilettantisch…gut gibt es eine â taste” oder “Das ist ja wohl die dümmste Registrierung die ich je gesehen hab. So was von user-unfriendly und kompliziert. Nix mit nominieren halt!” tief durchatmen. tränen runterschlucken. kloss im hals raushusten. nein. ich übertreibe.

klar kann ich solche kritik einordnen. es handelt sich dabei um frust in reinform. die autoren sind wohl mit dem falschen bein aufgestanden, das meerschweinchen ist über nacht abgekratzt, später im bus haben sie sich kaffee übers beste hemd geschüttet, der boss hast sie als erstes im büro zusammengestaucht - dann also nichts wie los ins büro und irgendjemanden flamen gehen. klarer fall. und doch hinterlässt solche kritik einen kleinen stich. und in der summe ergeben die kleinen stiche eine kleine beule.

aber ich bin ja nicht besser. kürzlich hatte ich eine, uhm, sagen wir mal interessante auseinandersetzung mit laurent haug, dem organisator von Lift06. ich hatte hier auf meinem blog die preispolitik (okay, auch die tagline) von Lift06 kritisiert. zu der kritik kann ich inhaltlich nach wie vor stehen. ich finde auch, dass ich sie durchaus konstruktiv formuliert habe; zuerst streiche ich schulbuchmässig ein paar positive punkte heraus, um dann meine kritik anzubringen. laurent hat darauf ziemlich heftig reagiert und in den kommentaren ist es ziemlich abgegangen. spannende sache. aber im licht der jetztigen situation frage ich mich natürlich schon.

eine woche später habe ich mich mit laurent in bern zu einem bier getroffen; okay, ich hatte ein chinotto. und nüsschen. aber egal. dabei ging es interessanterweise genau um diese nivelierungsfrage, die ich oben erwähnt habe. ich war es, der laurent während unserem gespräch sagte, wenn du in der schweiz sowas organisierst wie Lift06 oder die Swiss Blog Awards, dann musst du mit kritik rechnen und umgehen können. du musst sie sogar einladen. schlechte presse ist gute presse. und all solchen müll.

ja ja, die theorie und die praxis. ich hätte wohl dem grafik-experten doch besser nicht so antworten sollen: “und sie fühlen sich hoffentlich jetzt besser nachdem sie ihren frust auf uns herausgekotzt haben. wenn ich fragen darf, was genau qualifizert sie solch vernichtende urteile über die arbeit einer professionellen graphikerin abzugeben?” geantwortet hat er bisher noch nicht. wir sind gespannt …

disclaimer: es gab auch wirklich sehr positiven und konstruktiven feedback. vielen dank. keep it coming. just making a point here.

[to my english readers, if any: sorry, sundays is german day. trying to score a dayjob? maybe]

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25.3.2006

ideeSwiss wwWank c-word ruff linkage . 200612

[stuffs what gots stuck in my browser tabs this last week]

:flash: pwned - the best viral ever. period. the rest of yall can stop trying now. this will be unsurpassed. [via al4ie.com]

:flash: blogmad - lets you rate blogs. are you hot or not meets blogosphere. [via leumund]

:flash: digimag # 12 is now out in english - and it contains a great article about robotmusic.

:flash: bust a move - oh lord, thats gotta hurt. quicktime video.

:flash: bruce sterling talk @ SXSWi - damn straight, that’s how brilliant this guy can talk.

:flash: EVIAN MINERAL WATER “WATERBOY” - cute, wait untill they make babies. and oh socks - its a damn commercial. [via 4rthur]

:flash: cap’n'pop - aha, just when you thought falsh games had gotten boring …

en francais

:flash: les traducteurs pirtaes de series tv - an informative report about people who add professional subtitles to pirated tv series.

:flash: la semaine vue par nouvo - fully worth it for that japanese, instructional kissing film excerpt at the end. and for the great zone interdite project i forgot to blog when i read about it awhile ago.

auf detsch

:flash: (beeindruckt) london - dr. mercedes bunz shares her impressions of london and wonders why there is no muji stores in germany: “Offensichtlich ist es so: Die Welt denkt, dass Deutsche Muji nicht brauchen und nichts damit anfangen können. Folglich: Wir haben definitiv etwas falsch gemacht, wir sollten dringend etwas an unserem Image tun, das können wir eigentlich nicht auf uns sitzen lassen. Muji muss her!”. same goes for switzerland. Muji muss her.

swissness

:flash: promote SBAW with Zweckform4616 - leumund has created a pdf generator that lets you input taglines to create stickers and postcards. fantastic.

:flash: zum runden leder kündigt die swiss blog awards an - aber die kommentare wechseln schnell das thema und eine debatte zwischen Der Blog, Das Blog, Die Blog and Der Duden bricht aus, witizg. - but the comments quickly switch to a different topic and a debate between Der Blog, Das Blog, Die Blog and Der Duden ensues, hilarious.

:flash: cyberhelvetia: Ende. Aus. Für immer. (fast). - nick lüthi hat realisiert, dass die uri cyberhelvetia.ch momenta ins digitale fegefeuer führt und christian meint es sei bloss temporär. - nick lüthi has realised that the uri cyberhelvetia.ch leads into digital limbo right now. christian informs that it might still come back.

:flash: froschhüpfen - “he, dr michu bschisst!”

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24.3.2006

gadgetMinded R.I.P. nokia 7650 - a hommage

nokia 7650 R.I.P.

sad day yesterday as my beloved nokia 7650 finally crapped out.
i had received it as a gift in october 2002, which means i had it for more than 3 years, which is longer than my blog (by almost 2 weeks)!
and i loved it with a passion.
best phone ever!
despite its clunkiness. despite the awful design. despite a few major flaws in soft- and hardware.
my moblog and flickr accounts have all been fed with images from its fisheyeish camera, a right shite camera that. but hey. brilliant!

thanx 7650, you’ll be sourly missed. have fun in gadget paradise or wherever you guys go after you die.

oh, what happend, you ask? it just won’t start up any longer. the contacts on the on/off button had been shifty for awhile and are now not working any more.
[anyone know how i could maybe reboot it otherwise?]

what now? i am still waiting for it and i can therefore only repeat: when when WHEN will nokia finally release the N91. or the N92???? hmmmm choices.

notice: instead of sending flowers and cards of condolence please spend more time with your friends and family.

edit: the magic hands of franziska brought it back to live. w00t. unbelievable.
edit2: oops dead again
edit3: w00t alive again … argh. what to do about teh R.I.P. now? franziska suggested i should make a resurrection graphic. i might.

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