dear target group: if you know german i recommend reading starhacker. dear starhacker: if you read this i beg for more hacked stars.

"shooting a star!" – duran duran

you cannot have soup with it for it is far too shallow and you cannot eat meat with it for its prongs are too small: the spork.

via langreiter: making the macintosh – from counter culture to the apple mouse.

i had to play naked city's torture garden after i listened to "wunderkind" by extreme artist flatz. quite contrary to his really adorable "physical sculpture" performances (sewed in towels in a public toilet as hand dryer, naked as dart board giving one a handful cash when a dart hits his belly or as living pendulum being swung to unsconsciousness between two steal panels accompanied by waltz music) this track is rather vapid (how vapid is vapid?) and embarassing – even though former kraftwerk member karl bartos had his fingers in the sound pie. anyway, it's the lyrics, i guess...

via pool's guestbook: furnitureporn.

groovy, annoying or scandalous? guitar2guitar alias sandra sherman & walid al-khalily are playing a jam session tonight somewhere in the outback of vienna... that's even worth a new entry on the most frequently updated weblog of austria!

rebol – the official guide, $39,99 includes cd and exclusive, signed, limited-edition designer's tip sheet by carl sassenrath...

does the internet need a government? everywhere, even in europa where the fear of a hegemonic us-controlled net is quite huge, the "internet corporation for assigned names and numbers" (icann) is named the "internet's government". fact is that the organisation is holding some "democratic" elections of 9 of the 18 director's board members now due to public pressure icann was facing lately (more at slashdot.org).

ridiciously, the people entitled to vote (older than 16 years and having a valid e-mail address) are not told who they can vote for, yet... seems like a new attitude towards and quality of democracy have risen since absurd online polls and arbitrary "democratic" manifests flood the net society.

generally, there is a lack of information and communication about icann and those elections in europa as well as in the states. it is said that only a few thousand of us-american citizens registered for voting at the time. an initiative by german news magazine der spiegel in cooperation with broadcast station zdf tries to spread the word, lift conscience and get people to vote at least in germany.

"we are sorry. the database is currently overloaded. please try again when the system is less busy. " – error message trying to reach the icann election application form

i ask myself what kind of theater this "internet government" crap is... can this election ever be called a democratic act? is icann necessary at all? would it help the internet community keeping their niches and ideals or will i, you, we, the users, be among the bleating sheep once again being controlled by some unpredictable reincarnations of esther dyson? what's going on in other european and non-us countries?

q: is this not a global issue? a: this is internet dada.

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as mentioned before i read my first harry potter book not knowing how famous that guy already is... warner bros. producing a movie (and i bet british harry-boy will be very, veeeeery american) and in new zealand's elementary schools the book even was banned for a while.

in 20 years harry potter probably will be what the famous five are today.

the finland compilation (pt 2.): before i went to finland i visited jena, home of jenoptik (where is the postal address?), intershop and – most important – netdyslexia.

besides a little workshop i participated in at the faculty of media philosophy (and which lead to an important decision for myself, but more about that another day), i met a bunch of the jenenser webloggers (reimar kosack took a picture of us one night). well, no doubt, this city is the german epicenter of weblogism at the time bringing us netdyslexia (meanwhile in new clothes), n area, publog, clublog, projektlog (don't let the "weimar" in the url confuse you :) and another heap of blogs. unfortunately, with the latter being a university's project there is some holiday-caused radio silence to be expected...

together with arfco3000 i bought some east german sweets. my favorite is "schlagersüsstafel", not only because of the dazzling name.

last thing i remember from finland for now is that claudia nearly was hit by a falling branch of a tree in turku. no kidding.