mattel have officially spanked mattL with a 10-day cease and desist order. another toy-war dawning?
the appropriate thread on metafilter.
where are those (1, 2) dancing renderings from?
btw: claudia has every reason to dance ecstatically (either in front of the mirror or on top of rochers-de-naye) – orf on won a rose d'or de montreux (which is in switzerland – not in canada nor in france either...).
seems everybody is moving or deeply moved these days.
what a great tit! or here: a plenty of great tits on stamps – excellent for "showing your stamp collection". it's springtime.
a new sportive discipline was created on austrian online it-news magazine futurezone: everytime a new message is published by the editors a bunch of youngsters try to post the first comment stating nothing more than the fact of being first. as i think that's quite a good therapy for those poor kids suffering from acquired concentration deficiency and while only some of the bum-tight readers are getting seriously angry i cannot see any harmful effect of this competition.
however, i wonder why public broadcast orf did not create a special contest site for those speedy nerds already long ago (instead of shooting lagopus lagopus)... i am thinking of a page automatically generated at random times where they can proove their skills. a highscore shows the fastest "firsts" and with the generated traffic orf maybe can defend its top position in the ranking of austrian websites. duh!
continuing the bbc comedy series: i love the famous bbc show "absolutely fabulous". jennifer saunders and joanna lumley as edina and patsy, a desastrous couple of apocalyptic fourtysomething singles, just knock me off my feet laughing tears (me, not my feet).
last episode of the show was broadcast already in 1996 so i am probably late jumping on the "abfab" train. however, yesterday i watched a bbc mockumentary featuring mrs saunders in "how to become absolutely fabulous". it revealed some unknown facts to me, e.g. joanna lumley once appearing in "the new avengers" or christopher ryan and adrian edmondson (both of young ones fame) being guest stars in one of the shows. and since yesterday i am fan of the pet shop boys, resp. of their song "absolutely fabulous"...
the only pity is that in german speaking areas all movies are dubbed (yuck!). i envy everyone who can watch and listen to the original.
i will be moving, soon (is it me or is it just a part of me?)...
claudia is torturing the apple text-to-speech program. i wonder if she knows about its spanish tongues... so latin lovers can learn german with ease, too: "ih haysse carlos und ih mohte bitte auh ayne grincahd, damit ih als webdisayner nah doytsland gehen kann".
the judging for the 5k contest still is not done but it's fun to take random looks onto the entries. e.g. the hungry little frog or the jinyang tao. for the faint at heart there is the complete list, too.
a wicked vanilla-flavored thang called metababy.
eigenheads is an austrian weblog in english, too.