when everybody is able to publish content, broadcast movies, sell products then the real avantgardistic act will be to live as a 100% consumer. if everybody is talking, showing and producing i gotta listen, watch and consume. what formerly was rejected as mass consumption by elitarian mass producers will be the new elite, a secret circle of dedicated consumers even avoiding to "produce" any attention.

since october 3, 1999 austria does not have a working government. everything went fine from then on and all the doctors and lawyers, once sleeping in the parliament, suddenly could keep track of their own duties.

today, the final coalition talks between the socialist and the conservative party ended without any serious result (how should they without any serious effort?). the socialists move towards a minority government with independent experts, the others claim not to support such a cabinet.

austrians probably will soon have to go to elections again. the winner will be the populist party, maybe the green party as well. this country has lost already, anyway – probably even a long time ago.

i am not allowed to vote but i pay taxes in austria.

¡NINGUNA SOLIDARIDAD CON BRIAN! it's a hoax, that is: H-O-A-X! sad enough that some people abuse other people's goodwill...

reply from andrew warinner, urban legend zeitgeist editor: "I saw a version of the email in English that was certainly a hoax that sounds identical. Some of the more implausible aspects of this are

• if the boy is in a Buenos Aires hospital, why does he have an email address in Germany?
• Given the email address, the hoax may well be an attempt to flood someone's mailbox.

i did not know about primavista net news magazine... as a regular, but not always happy reader of futurezone i welcome this discovery. i need to know more alternatives on the net.

just in the morning i took the cluetrain manifesto book out of my post box! the weather is right for staying inside a warm, cozy room and reading it.

links from mark who arrived bloody early yesterday morning: os opinion, think secret.

fitts's law: the time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target.

the website of bruce tognazzini is called asktog. he naturally has a very detailed view upon the latest design adaptions (e.g. macos 10) but also provides basic know-how for usability and design issues. still learning.

although i have not been dumped since a long time, i can hardly get enough of this song... "and don't forget to give me back my black t-shirt!"

hedy lamarr and composer george antheil are getting a toast by pc week as the inventors of a secret communication system that today is better(?) known as cdma or spread spectrum, a technique used in digital cellular phone service.

hedy lamarr is the cousin of ubiquitous dave winer's mother. his grandfather is german novelist arno schmidt (hell knows how mr winer is doing that).

dandot.com is a cool site combining progressive technical capabilities and fundamental design skills... i have to watch that.

i did not know what incredible things you can do with the already "old" internet explorer 4. reason: i did not use my windows machine for a longer time. on my mac with navigator 4 that kind of stuff is invisible to me...

even blogger makes heavy use of those ie/win features. suddenly i see a menu bar with buttons to mark text as bold or include a hyperlink (however, it does not work correctly – maybe with ie5?). that is the future of writing for the web!

do i have to mention that i found the link to dandot on scripting news?