amazon's listmania collections are a wonderful idea... if bezos just would not do that bloody patent thang! grmbl.

some years ago, i wasn't a big friend of such listings as an outbreak of high-fidelity-puerility of some self-chosen ones. but in internet times finally it all makes sense... so, where are the other online bookstores coming up with such excellent ideas? talkin' loud and sellin' nothing?

the skeptic's dictionary about carl gustav jung (1875–1961), synchronicity and the collective unconscious.

ullala, the best lingo programmer in the world*, goes software developing and she takes the soda constructor with her into the third dimension. the usual wow!

tonight's "background records label night" at volksgarten. presented by the "new volksgarten club" real-audience (window alert!). fm4-aunt sonja knows more about the features.

last time (which was the starter event) the club was overcrowded with low-down vipster wanna-bes and there were ugly door-stoppers at the entrance treating innocent visitors like shit, uglier than ever. but gernot hofer promised to me that they hired their own staff this time. hopefully, because otherwise the place won't fit with the people.

on tv: feindbilder – wie völker miteinander umgehen. behind this generic title it's all about austria and its relations to germany, belgium and france (each in a special issue). certainly, in the first part's discussion it's too much and too little about haider. and arrogance on both sides. germany and austria do not have very much in common at all.

in today's court-circuit programme on arte i recognized two animation shorties i have seen at the women's trick film festival here in vienna: "au premier dimanche d'août" and "the man with the beautiful eyes".

"i press the key and watch tv." – elektric music.

"get up your lazy bum and do some work!" – mark lycette.

100 years of bulb light: watch it for a minute at livermore's centennial light live cam.

vienna-based publishing house selene provides the aedequate book to the special anniversary: das glühbirnenbuch.

smart tags. sigh. i don't care if such a technology comes from macro-, micro- or nanosoft. the uncontrollable invasion of another entity in content i created is always a big no-no. this starts with bad html renderers resulting in wrong browser display and ends with this new attack on media autonomy throwing us back into the times of centralized and one-way information flow. technologies like smart tags suck no matter from where they come from.

now the question is, will smart tags be successful, anyway? another is: will smart web writers not find neat tricks to override smart tags? i wonder if smart tags technology can detect words encrypted as html entities...

wicked: invisible jim. save the world from crap toy dolls.

erstaunlich: parkhaus.de. now i know where i could find a parking spot – if i had a car... and the database was not so empty.

nudelsuppen – aber hallo! brainfood, lit(t)erally.

“beat it! beat it up! extra sugar, extra salt extra oil and msg!” – cibo matto, “birthday cake”.