buon giorno!

drei sätze mit ich:

ich bin selbst dran schuld. ich werd mich drum kümmern. ich bin hier, falls ihr mich sucht.

have a nice time.

außerlomographische opposition got a new layout. kudos to klaus hofegger. some minor tweakin' still might be necessary. please hold on.

mr pants: "when you woke up this morning, you probably didn't know that today you would be presented with the opportunity to download mp3s of yodeling courtesy of a korean yodeling fanatic, but here you are".

this is hilarious, although many of the yodel pages are in korean (so what) and some even might return a 404 error.

same source, same category: texas-drawl, "where y'all can deface the president". inspiring.

and another one: "the thing with two heads – they transplanted a white bigot's head onto a soul brother's body ...now they're in deeeeep trouble!"

probably better when you go there yourselves, mr pants is hitting the witty one this month.

peterme: "tools for faceted search and browse".

textlab: "streaming radio speichern – man nehme streamripper, eine in applescript studio entwickelte opensource-anwendung, für die eine grafische oberfläche namens streamcatcher vorhanden ist. eine schöne anleitung für die terminal-version bringt o'reilly als teil eines tutorials, in dem auch steht, wie man eine station gleichzeitig aufnehmen und über itunes hören kann".

humming to myself.

"nothing ever lasts forever. it's the same for you i'm sure. all the things we did together, they just hurt me more and more." – new order, "slave".

gee, i just read the first 100 pages of derek powazek's "design for community" and (apart from some minor language flaws, "make no mistake") it is huge. amazing to get to know the people behind fray, metafilter et al. and to share their experiences in making "something useful that others could enjoy" and getting a wonderful crowd of people using it as reward.

i don't like to make such dispensable statements and only do it rarely, but this is a must-read for everyone involved in "the art connecting real people in virtual places" – be it stricly scientific ones or for the sake of entertainment.

antville could benefit from it just as any of the bigco's forums, e.g. fm4 (but honestly, for latter i question the practical transformation).

although the book mainly aims at designers, powazek contributes a lot to general knowledge about how to attract and guide a website's interest group. stunningly, from a designer's point of view powazek even succeeds in overcoming some of his design principles when they interfere with the user experience. a real walk on the tightrope, but he's looking pretty good at it.

what i have learnt so far:

• content comes first
• design matters (so what)
• bury the post button(!)
• there is always a host (and s/he is bloody important)
• barriers are good

today's night trippin': starting 22:00 cet (approximately), michael "say dog" strengberg will play his cool tunes and spin some of his hottest hip-hop plates at vienna's ra-mien in gumpendorfer straße.

i could imagine mr eigenheads will be there, too. say what?

longbets.com: "a computer – or 'machine intelligence' – will pass the turing test by 2029. no: mitchell kapor (mkapor), initiator. yes: ray kurzweil (rkurzweil), responder. stakes: $20,000 ($10,000 each)". via fernsehratgeber.