a nice feat about the origins of “about:mozilla“
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/007379.html
thx to Michael Zeltner for the link!
buddhists praying for flood victims
Article in Channelnewsasia – link
“Some 100 Budhhist monks led a mass cleansing ritual Tuesday at popular Patong beach on the resort island of Phuket to dispel fears among residents and Asian tourists that restless spirits of tsunami victims are haunting the area.
Reports of ghost sightings have terrorised locals here. “
Actually some of this is also christian belief. In the new testament stories there are many people who fear spirits. Praying to Jesus should help here. I think this is useful relief work after the flood.
Leerzeichen zwischen Bäumen
And In the time of Christmas and new year Ingrid and I went home because Caesar Augustus said so, there was a numbering. Tristan Miller joined us. Tristan is North-American and speaks English, Frensh, Hungarian, German, … fluent.
When he got a glimpse of the forest in Vienna and said something about the forest that has meaning beyond agriculture and informatics:
“Es gibt zu viel Leerzeichen zwischen den Bäumen.”
roughly translated:
There is so much space between trees.
real translation:
There are too many “Blank Signs” between the trees.
marconi..
a nice quote from a weird article about Guglielmo Marconi, who invented something like radio or so.
“The inventor is the greatest revolutionist in the world.”
fucking asshole ocean
Johannes Grenzfuthner and Evelyn postet something about the tsunami. Actually, he showed me the picture and then said he blogged it.
btw: read this blog.
gresko.at
A friend of mine has a nice website:
www.gresko.at
java collection
a friend in vienna told me of a nice collection of java examples, may be useful sometimes.
g.o.r.a.
Been a while since this happened, but has to be bloggged. Ingrid and I went to the movies and watched g.o.r.a. at the alternative cinema “union kino” in Kaiserslautern.
G.O.R.A. was hilarious. A turkish movie, telling the story of a carpet dealer abducted by aliens from the planet gora. Great acting, many many many dialogs (there is talking all the time actually), a story without surprises but fine jokes, and an audience good mixed with germans and turkish people. So we had laughter and chatting in the audience. The movie was shown in turkish original with german subtitles. The usual, hollywood-standard computer animations of spaceships are mixed in this movie with “wizard of Oz”-styled setups like a “forest of knoblauchwurst-growing trees”.
Wizard of oz came to my mind more than once when watching gora. A person abducted to a fantasy place, meeting friends there, etc.
Enough: If you have the chance of watching this, DO IT! Forget hollywood, the turks are coming.
telephone number to word
a tool i have been searching for a long time:
http://www.dialabc.com/words/search
enter a telephone numer, output a set of words, including tricks with pronouncing numbers and GREAT visualisation of the result.
The visualisation of the results inself is a must for every tool maker to see.
“ultima online” versus “the last ninja”
oh my god,
tensor2 from Ultima Iris just pointed me to an interview:
MMORPG Interview with Jonathan LeCraft
its about the new Ultima Online, with Samurais.
then it hit me like a hammer: the EA games people are “The Last Ninja C64 Edition” fans!!!
but see for yourself:
Ultima Online continues the long lost “Last Ninja Series”! Oh my god, they use a history that is repeating!
I just love this.