on a perfect day it's fun to run, rollerblade, cycle or drive through public places – nude. i just wonder for whom it's more exciting, for those who do it and call themselves streakers ("it seemed like a good idea at the time") or for those watching them doing it... "doing it in the park, doing it after dark, oh yeah, rock creek park".

izake's weblog rallye – what a neat, racy idea!

yet another rumour about a new kraftwerk release? in the last 9 years even the big music magazines periodically addict themselves to a top story about the german electronic music pioneers stating that new or unpublished material is just around the corner – in the end it turned out to be false alarm everytime. here we go again...

luckily, there is señor coconut wrapping the old kraftwerk classics in irresistible latin grooves.

is nielsen norman group becoming the melting pot for former apple human interface evangelists? brenda laurel and bruce tognazzini join jakob nielsen and donald norman on their search for usability truth.

get the f***ing wax out of your silicon hippie ears – meet the artist: "in order to get the green light for the universal/polygram merger, seagrams promised their shareholders a return on cuts, not profits. they have a huge artist stable raped from three established major labels and two thirds has got to go, bringing it down to a trim, wealthy machine made up of just the plump ripe sellers. millions of sales are now required to cover the increasing overheads at these labels. overheads increased through ludicrous executive bonus payouts, inflated expense accounts and the quest for the porsche. the artist is put to work harder and faster, in order to feed the machine.

[...] their utter dependence on the radio means that the good ship thethe is abandoned as soon as the fear of no-play takes hold. they can think of no alternative and why should they when they can swiftly move on to the next act on the plank (step forward beck, whoops! step forward nine inch nails...oh dear, no doubt...ouch! chris cornell...?) one act after another has fallen into the ocean. being signed to the universal conglomerate has been like being trapped on a cruise on the mary celeste. the lights are on but nobody's home." – excerpts from thethe versus the corporate monster by matt johnson.

matt johnson has decided to offer track by track/week by week free downloads of his latest album nakedself on thethe.com.

"newsblogger is the ultimate tool for tracking, filtering, and sharing up-to-the-minute news on your web site. by combining moreover's headlines from over 1,500 sources with blogger's ability to instantly post to your web site, newsblogger lets you read, comment on, and publish news in four easy steps."

this crazy tool makes one almost feeling like a journalist watching the ticker news dropping in...

with this "real" scooter i would not feel embarassed on viennese streets (where too many people are riding the micro skate scooter currently).

phew! lots of lots of resources to everything what a web developer needs: w3schools.

disport at the airport: "makollig jezvahted and levdaroum debahzted, please come to the information desk".

.ws – a new top-level domain available via website.ws.