HoeBot und LoveBot von StudiVZ

Posted on 14/03/2007 by Thomas

Hoe Bot HoebotAlso, ich hab die beiden jetzt schon so vielen Leuten gezeigt, es wird Zeit, dass ich die mal verlinke: Die Geschichten von Hoe Bot und Love Bot, zwei nicht unsympathische Roboter, die eine Weile auf StudiVZ unterwegs waren.

“Da uns im Studivz schnell langweilig wurde, begannen wir das System zu ergründen, und herauszufinden was man damit so alles anstellen kann. Die erste Idee war natürlich: Daten sammeln. Also scripteten wir uns einen Crawler, der folgendermaßen funktioniert:”

Man lacht nicht nur, sondern lernt noch einiges dabei: HoeBot und LoveBot bei StudiVZ.

LCD Soundsystem remixed

Posted on 14/03/2007 by Thomas

“The team behind always outsiders, never outdone, the unofficial prodigy remixed album, and flip the switch, the unofficial chemical brothers remixed album, have turned their attention to one of their favourite artists of the last few years – lcd soundsystem.”

Go download the full LCD remix album there: LCD remixed.com
[via Netzpolitik]

Papermint: The Austrian alternative to Second Life

Posted on 13/03/2007 by Thomas

Papermint ScreenshotThe description could be even more specific: Papermint is in fact Vienna’s alternative to Second Life. The “3D virtual realities design company” Avaloop is creating a virtual Vienna, comicstyle; funny enough, Papermint will be 2D and has a very special look and feel.
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Stil in Berlin

Posted on 09/03/2007 by Thomas

“StilinBerlin explores the style of Berlin. We try to document the urban, cosmopolitan and multicultural spirit of the city, we live in. Fashion can describe what a city is, so we take photos of outfits that stand out and capture within them that spirit. We hope you enjoy the Berlin style as much as we do.”

Word – check Stilinberlin!

[via Loolou in Berlin who has some nice infos in French about Berlin, streetart, clubs and such..]

Jimdo rocks

Posted on 09/03/2007 by Thomas

Nachdem ich einigen Leuten in letzter Zeit das tolle, kostenlose Content Management System Jimdo empfohlen haben, will ich auch diese bescheidene Plattform nutzen, um über dieses wertvolle Tool zu berichten. Jimdo bietet einen ganzen Katalog von Funktionen, Layouts und Einstellungen um ratz-fatz eine Webseite zu erstellen. Navigation, Header, Gästebuch, Bildergalerie mit Slideshow inklusive Upload – ein schönes Bouquet an Seitentypen, mit dem sich schnell eine umfangreiche Seite bauen lässt. Continue reading →

re:publica – conference about “living on the net” in Berlin

Posted on 07/03/2007 by Thomas

Two guys that are not only very respected by me but also by a whole bunch of also very respectable internet people organize an event in Berlin to talk about “living on the net”. Johnny Haeusler (Spreeblick) and Markus Beckedahl (newthinking, netzpolitik) gather many wise und witty heads to talk about culture on the net, the power it can give to people, about blogging, communities, citizen journalism, how to join small pieces, liberate yourself and have a lot of fun doing so. Read about the conference on re-publica.de.

Daft Punk orginal samples

Posted on 07/03/2007 by Thomas

Tom from Musicthing made a nice video of many Daft Punk songs with the according original samples. He, in turn, was inspired by Palms Out Sounds who posted more than ten orginal songs that habe been used by Daft Punk for their hits.

DJ FEX

Posted on 02/03/2007 by Thomas

I already liked this first FEX dj set by the hedonistic Parisien and this one’s not an inch worse. On the contrary: Takes you on a journey into the big halls, filled with smoke and strobes and the clubs filled with sweaty people. I have no idea why this kind of reduced minimal still a little trancy deephouse music catches me so much. But it’s definitely something that puts me to another level..

[audio:http://www.robotronic-recordings.com/FEX.SESSION.07.mp3]

DJ FEX on Myspace
[via Roberdo]

Diesel got hijacked and gets blackmailed by two models

Posted on 28/02/2007 by Thomas

I always liked the edgy and provocative advertising ideas of Diesel (The current slogan e.g. is “Ready for global warming” -sic ).

This one’s not bad either, here’s the story: Two girls who want to be supermodels hijacked the diesel page, kidnapped a Diesel sales guy, stole the underwear collection and are now blackmailing Diesel to make them the two protagonist models of their next campaign. They also want to be Diesel renamed to “Heidies”..

Now, they communicate with their fans via the site, e.g. let them vote what should happen with the kidnapped guy. Despite the fact that he gets his legs waxed, his situation is not too uncomfortable really..

Up, Bustle & Out – Mexican Session – Day at the bookies

Posted on 26/02/2007 by Thomas

This mp3 made my day. Easy, dubby, sublimely powerful, just right to start a tough week.
[audio:http://www.dub-music.de/media/03_UBAO_Day_At_The_Bookies.mp3]
It’s from Up, Bustle & Out’s 8th album Mexican sessions and I found it on the cool dubsite Collision aka dub-music.de.

(Noch was zum Thema Befindlichkeitsbloggen, einfach nur weil ich den Spruch so nett finde: Wenn man das “Bei mir bitte nicht mehr” des Kassierers persönlich nimmt, hat man definitiv einen sensiblen Tag.. )

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