quintessenz: ping a mobile phone to check if it's switched on / recipient. weird. crazy. scary. and it really works.

installing and configuring your netbsd firewall/router on a 68k mac.

telepolis: "sieben momente zur kanzlerkriegsabstimmung". well done.

latest improvements of the javascript rss box viewer: "compact view" switch to omit the item description (if possible, ie. if there's an item title) of each channel item. this way you only get the titles as links to the appropriate story. moreover, i have implemented support for some dublin core tags in rss 1.0, e.g. dc:creator and dc:date.

update: additionally, in "compact view" also no rss image is displayed – even if it should be available.

the pop-up book of phobias published by rob weisbach books (url?).

hello, oddfish!

“how to design programs”, a classic of computer science (says der schockwellenreiter).

die zeit: "ausländische korrespondenten in berlin betrachten das nachträgliche verändern von interviews als 'deutsche unsitte'. gesprächspartner und journalisten beharren auf dem brauch."

wtf... i did not know this.

in honour of a quote morgan russell used to employ from time to time, and which i just recovered at the flightless hummingbird.

"the simplest surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd." – andré breton, "second manifesto of surrealism".

hmm "one last picture from london" sounds too pathetic, so i just call this link what a nice poster! ok. see you in vienna!