mare is the kind of special interest magazine i feel addressed by as reader although i would not count myself to its target group.
while the typographic appearance could be better (but also worse), the fine printed pages show beautiful photography and tell interesting stories about the sea, the coast and the people.
it's not about touristic zeitgeist (although it definitely stimulates my sparse travel passion), merely about the different aspects of the liquid element and its huge influence on our lives: a story about the residents at the strait of magellan is associated with scientific details about energy extraction of the oceans, a report about boat people approaching the fortress of europe follows a historical view on the legend of la côte d'azur. a pleasant lecture.
ouch! it seems the early reports were wrong... all wrong: to upgrade the new apple ibook to a maximum of 640mb a special sodimm is needed. a very rare item produced in limited edition. and that's probably why it costs 1.350usd (ca. 21.610 ats, please shut your mouth again).
what an option: half the amount of ram is only a fifth of the price... well, 384mb are satisfying, too. sigh!
toasty, a web-enabled weather forecasting toaster.
doc searls discovers the wikiweb: "the future of ecommerce might be wiki, specializing the cluetrain manifesto message: 'the future of marketing is conversation'."
icann – the movie. all the world is a stage at icann.
tired of intros? skipintro.
haboglabobloggin' revealed (pt.iii): i finally succeeded in napstering bernard wright's "haboglabotribin'". i think i mention this correlation only in my description at euroblogs... interesting.
not too long ago, the track was sampled by snoop doggy dogg ("g'z and hustlaz") and in the eighties joseph bowie and his defunkt people used that piece in a song called "self disclosure" (which seems to be so damn tough rare that i request it via euroranch on demand).
haboglabobloggin' is an amusement park it's there for you from dawn to dark lots of things that you can ?#*% and ice cream, ice cream, §!$%.
i would not boast my stomach being the strongest but still one that can cope even with quite disgusting things (e.g. natto). however, it became quite slack when i accidentally zapped to that horrific video of the jerusalem wedding disaster being showed at euronews.
at telepolis ernst corinth is upset that cnn links to a streamlined internet version of the video. rightfully, the reader comments state that it already was shown almost everywhere and ask if web writers tend to factor out traditional publishing channels.
nevertheless, this video is worth a discussion. it looks so much like a perfect stunt in an average catastrophe movie that for most viewers it probably won't make any difference from fiction. and that scares me slightly. just as it did when a friend of mine stated that he did not feel emotional about it. the same friend once was shocked when there was circulating an audio recording with the last words on a cockpit voice recorder shortly before the airplane crashed.
that leads me to the conclusion that it might depend on one's daily constitution whether or how much one feels or doesn't feel about the perpetual tragedy that's surrounding us.
recently i witnessed the fictional kaycee story being taken for the truth. now a real drama impends to be taken for fiction. is there a perversion gaining weight? or just the disillusion of an ordinary epidermis among numb bodies?
lots of test cards and even more of those at the test card circle.
we have been at the good old bluebox the other night and concentrated on worldshaking textile questions: what's that pattern called "pepita" like? is it really the same as the hahnentritt or esterhazy pattern? and what about paisley? how would you draw that thing?
actually, we were all pretty wrong as those hilarious scans [1, 2, 3] might prove. only this chequered pattern probably comes close to the real vichy.
certainly, it got later, we became spirituously and the drawings more and more weird. i don't have a clue what the "calamari pattern" has to do with all of this, not to mention the "carinthian cheese bean"...
