looking for a map of munich i found this wicked dhtml magnifier. moving the rectangle on the right across the area around olympia stadion zooms into the picture. and i do not have a clue how this has been done, yet.

derek robinson: "[...] i'm no kind of programmer. but I like to solve problems – whenever possible, deviantly". besides making such pegging statements derek is developing a way cool edit-in-browser tool.

the master of fake konrad kujau died on 12 september 2000.

delicious links amplified. found via sxsw 2000 web competition finalists.

fuckedcompany.com: "i was bored this morning so I put fc on ebay. bidding starts at $1".

modern humorist: "we all take for granted the delight of checking our e-mail and finding a collection of hilarious jokes, forwarded to us by a loved one, a friend or suzanne in accounts payable. but what do we know of the origins of this invention? who was the first brave man or woman to say 'eureka! i'll send this joke to all my friends so everyone can have a laugh!'?

nua is an online publisher with highly informative newsletters such as nua internet surveys and nua knowledge news "featuring news, opinion, trends, and the latest thinking about the internet and the world wide web". for free.

there is also the nua internet surveys trendmuncher but unfortunately this hasn't been updated since july.

kottke.org is slightly redesigned.

"i am inflamed beyond the power of modesty!" – er, no, this ain't a comment on retouched kottke, this is a phrase generated by the victorian sex cry generator. found via neighbor sex.

the last five days i have been to three movies. quite a lot after months of not going to any cinema at all: besides "heller als der mond" (as already recorded) i watched lucky people center international by erik pauser & johan söderberg and catherine breillat's romance. latter one is a quite explicit movie showing sexuality without any retention from a female point of view. rarely to see on screen. the movie holds some secrets difficult to grasp beneath its plot which makes the story partly not unrealistic, merely methaphoric. conclusio: the relationship between men and women will hardly be at ease.

the "lucky people center" is said to be a rave club somewhere in sweden. and techno music is the soundtrack of the internationalized but almost homonymic movie accompanying indeed very beautiful pictures of mother earth and her children all around the world who are all unique and special (well, certainly except the chinese who invaded tibet, and this kind of monochrome depiction is the big mistake of the movie). however, i was quite entertained by the energetic rhythms and sounds and especially by the story with the ape and the python. ooh!

{ use.it.or.lose.it } is a parody site about jakob nielsen's website. they did something similar to what claudia did long ago.

just returned from the viennese premiere of the movie “heller als der mond” (brighter than the moon). a very good one. the scurrile humor made me almost forget how nasty being a foreigner can be (as if i knew about that). but the emptiness of the locations, hardly any people, no traffic and the lack of color subtlely reminded me again. after the show, director virgil widrich appeared in front of the audience and talked about the behind the scene. a cheap movie concerning the finance. a beautiful concerning cast, plot and realization. recommended.

"we know what a policeman in arizona looks like but we do not have a clue about the uniform of a greek officer." — virgil widrich