Did you know images have weight and can fall of websites? Yes, they can. Truth is, they are held in position by fixation, you can remove the fixation of images.

go to HTML Gravity to learn how.

Written by me, GPL license.

Hey, we were at the "Sportfreunde Stiller" concert on 28.2.2008 in Kaiserslautern, and their frontman dived from about 4-5meter height into the crowd.



What you see here is frontman/singer Peter from Sportfreunde Stiller doing a crazy stagedive from the first floor of the concert hall. Before, he surfed the crowd and climbed up there. ROCK! Sport!

The concert was in Kammgarn in Kaiserslautern, more information in Martin Memmel's blogpost.

Your computer doesn't start? Black screen, a cursor, nothing else? Well, you may be tempted to wipe & reinstall. Back at impact we had the company directive not to fumble around installing operating systems again and again, but to stick with the os the vendor has preinstalled and fix it. The reason behind this is that most vendors tune the installation and also that re-installing all software and data costs too much time = money.

So yesterday Ingrid's compaq evo laptop got a black screen of nothingness after the bios logo and instead of windows, a cursor flashing once. Then reboot and infinite repeat. I used knoppix to check what happened, harddisk still there, files looked as usual. Next thought: master boot record (MBR) so I read there are two ways: using gentoo startup cd and ms-sys or windows xp install cd. I had only knoppix so I choose windows xp boot cd. But my boot CD didn't have the "recovery console" menu when installing. Pressing F10 continously while it bootet finally brought up console (how intuitive). Later I found the windows xp cd shipped with the laptop, that had the "r" for recovery, so there is a difference between windows and windows.

fixing mbr and boot in the recovery console is easy, type fixmbr and fixboot and it should work. Not for me, I also thought that maybe all this is wrong and my floppy drive is broken (ha, that is the first in boot order), so I moved it down in bios list of boot devices. I also checked HP's guide for fixing boot problems, and blindly entered commands like "fixmbr /device/harddisk0" in recovery console.

Ok, it bootet now. But then:
Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

A thing I often heard from nightmare stories, it happened the registry was missing. Lucky me, the Microsoft Guide to recover the registry is on the first page when googling for the problem. The boot loader was right, half of the files of the registry were gone. I copied them from an automated backup which is done by windows every day (ha, you never know what useful things this os does when "being busy").

Alas, after 3 hours the system was back. So, it took me three hours to get my system back, compared to the 2hours of installing an operating system and then endless days of updatefest and installing software, it pays off. I am quite slow with computers, others may have done this faster. Ingrid was quite happy to have her machine back, though. I don't pick any OS better than the other, I have the same problems with all of them. But keeping one alive is always better than wiping, at least for me.

Johannes Grenzfurthner and Frank A. Schneider had a gig yesterday at Sparte4 in Saarbrücken.

Luckily, they texted me at 4pm while sitting in the train, and I had the chance to watch them and make pics.

here is the set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leobard/sets/72157602882491541/

Did you see the video of UFOs floating over Haiti? If not, enjoy it now:



(original video here)

The artist behind, Barzolff, a professional french movie-artist (worked with Michel Gondry), links now to hoax art.

HOAX is an art
UFO hoax is the symbol of hoax art
Hoax Art movement was created with a network of artists, graphic designers and writers in 2007

The principles of this movement are simple :
- question reality
- create the best artifical reality with graphic creation, media strategy and network
- identify artificial creation in "officiel" images (ex : errased fat on french president Sarkosi)
- contaminate reality image with hoax as an artistic posture
- ultimatly create a absolutely new way to bring artwork in the public's home

Which in turn goes to Realitism:


REALITISM : artistic and philosophical movement at the root of this questionning of reality. This movement can gather all artists and people interested in this subject.

I would love to quesiton reality more, the skills of these guys are so high, its cunning to seem them work.

Ich (L) war wieder mal der glückliche. Habe gerade einen Anruf einer netten Dame (D) von Superbonus49 bekommen, der etwa so ablief (genau weiß ich nimmer):

D: Hallo Herr Sauermann, sie haben gewonnen. Sie haben beim e-mail gewinnspiel mitgemacht und einen gutschein für eine Kreuzfahrt gewonnen.
L: aha. interessant, e-mail?
D: Ja, wir machen das Gewinnspiel in Kooperation mit o2. Wir schicken ihnen den Gutschein zu. Ihre Adresse ist Pirmasenser Str 18?
L: ja.
D: Gut, Ihre postleitzahl ....?
L: Ja
D: dann bräuchte ich nur noch ihr Geburtsdatum, das wäre?
L: (naja, die säcke wissen eh alles, das ist auch schon egal): 30.08.1977.
D: Gut. Zusätzlich zur Kreuzfahrt dürfen sie am Superbonus 49 Gewinnspiel Teilnehmen, und o2 zahlt 80% der Kosten, super was?
L: ja, toll
D: Das sind dann etwa 10€ im monat für drei monate.
L: Aha.
D: Ja und wollen sie das... das ist so toll ... bla bla bla
L: Ich möchte mir das noch überlegen
D: kein Problem,....
L: Also das sind 10€ im Monat und ich bekomme per Post noch einen Gutschein für eine Kreuzfahrt?
D: Ja, den Gutschein haben sie auf jeden fall, und es sind 39€ im Monat.
L: aha.
.... es dämmmert.....

Ok, ein schneller internetcheck auf o2 und superbonus 49 ergibt heiße 243 hits, also ist das alles defniniver Bullshit und gelogen was die Dame da verzapft hat, da diese Angaben nicht stimmen kann man wohl sehr gut auf die seriösität der Firma Superbonus 49 schließen. Betrug? Abzocke? Wohl nicht, Firmen wie Faber und Superbonus leben als "added value" zur Lotterie. Als gläubiger Christ bin ich zum Glück gegen jede Form von Glücksspiel allergisch, drum werde ich wohl nicht zusagen.

Andere haben es aber durchaus gemacht.
Nach deren Erfahrung kein Betrug, aber ein ernüchterndes Erlebnis.

Bin jedenfalls gespannt, die Dame hat gemeint sie ruft morgen nochmal an, werde sie nach der Kontaktperson bei o2 fragen :-)

warum ich das blogge? Falls der nächste danach sucht...

video of the graffitti + throwie event last friday in vienna

"Software is not perfect when there is nothing left to add, but rather when there is nothing extraneous left to take away."

think about it.

via: Gunnar, original source: manifest somewhere on the internet.

a nice question, asked to ATM users:

Undefined?

• Sure
• No, Thanks

see the image at the dailty WTF (not including it here, its their pic)

via: litfass, DFKI internal KM system.

:-)

so it seems: 23:00, MQ vienna.

Tonight, some guys from the Vienna Metalab, in cooperation with Idontknowwhoelse, are going to do amazing urban hacking in vienna.

Once and for all: be there. At this moment they get their fuckin Laserguided Graffity System shit together, which is a hack/adaption of stuff done by the Graffitti research lab.

Also, it seems that 1000 throwies will find new plazes to stick and glow.

fuckit, and I am stuck in Kaiserslautern.


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