published 5 months ago (29.04.2008 00:08)
this list has just reappeared, i put it together in munich at the end of september 2006. it strikes me that just one month later, i would move to a city that’s not
even mentioned.
published 5 months ago (27.04.2008 12:40)
»One of the last adventurers of our time is the motorcycle driver. While others are leisurely traveling in comfortable cars, he braces himself against the wind with tingling senses and experiences the soaring feeling of speed and perfect control over his machine while seeing all the beauty of nature. BMW—trade mark of world champions.«
From the 1965 BMW motorcycles catalog. Set in Akzidenz Grotesk.
published 5 months ago (24.04.2008 18:50)
fortunately i was wise enough not to get it in anodized blue, which at the time was second only in hipness to “3d violet”.
as a hommage to the great craftmanship, and the amazing 1996 bike-pro buyers guide, here’s their page on the “king cycles” headsets:
»After several years of research, Chris King began making his headsets available to the public. That was over ten years ago.
His headsets incorporate the highest level of craftsmanship and performance in a segment of bicycle parts that had been seriously overlooked. The fork race is made of stainless steel to resist corrosion and machined to make a perfect seat for the bearing. The race is cut and polished to receive the inner dimension of a sealed bearing cartridge. The upper and lower bearing cups are machined aluminum then turned to tight tolerances that fit snugly and squarely into the head tube. There is an upper adjusting nut, which would be called an upper cone race in a traditional ball bearing headset, and head lock nut. Both the adjusting nut and the head lock nut begin as machined aluminum pieces. They are then turned and machined, to create the threads for the steerer tube as well as precisely squared surfaces for installation tools.
All the alloy pieces are machined from 7075- T651 aluminum, then anodized. For the bearings, both cups have stainless steel precision sealed bearing cartridges pressed into them. King Cycles makes these bearings so they will handle the horizontal load on what is traditionally a vertically loaded bearing. They are well shielded from moisture using a metal seal, (not rubber or nylon) and should provide years of life, if not the permanent solution to anyone’s headset problems. They come in three stack height sizes, Standard European 43.5mm, a Short Stack Japanese 34.0mm, and a BMX size that is also used for pre- ‘91 Yeti framesets. The 1” Short Stack headset weighs 109 grams. All Chris King headsets are available in Blue, Black, Red, Silver or 3DV (Violet/Lavender).«
published 5 months ago (24.04.2008 11:33)
published 6 months ago (23.04.2008 18:03)
ever wanted to search your bookmarks with
SELECT * FROM moz_bookmarks WHERE title LIKE "%ruby%";
now you can:
in your firefox profile directory (~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxx.default on a Mac), type:
# open db file $ sqlite3 places.sqlite # show available tables sqlite> .tables # set output to sql insert statements sqlite> .mode insert # send output to file "firefox_bookmarks" sqlite> .output firefox_bookmarks sqlite> SELECT * FROM moz_bookmarks WHERE title LIKE "%ruby%"; # list other available commands & options sqlite> .help
Or, if you want JSON output you can export all bookmarks via the GUI. Use Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks, click the rightmost icon in the top navigation and choose Export.
published 6 months ago (23.04.2008 17:28)
widmung eines unbekannten an eine andere unbekannte, im antiquarisch gekauften buch “1984” von george orwell.
»Liebe I,
Weihnachten 1973 schenke ich Dir dieses Buch. Ich finde es albern, nur einen Tag im Jahr des Tages zu gedenken, dessen Aufgabe es der 24. Dezember eigentlich sein soll. Dennoch möge man versuchen, Heiligabend und die weitere Entwicklung im christlichen Sinne zu beobachten. In diesem Sinne wünsche ich Dir eine glückliche Zukunft.
Dein J
P.S.: Ich werde mich am 24.12. betrinken.«
published 6 months ago (14.04.2008 20:25)
published 6 months ago (14.04.2008 19:48)
every couple of years, the UN try to assess how “developed” all earth’s countries are. the result is the human development index. the factors going into it are income per capita, life expectancy and literacy. this is the result:
green => high, red => low, dark colors are the extremes.
gapminder has some excellent interactive visualizations of this data, like this one (static image, click to be taken there):
published 6 months ago (14.04.2008 13:03)
»Und warum bestehen die Organisatoren der alle vier Jahre stattfindenden Olympischen Spiele so sehr auf diese verrufene “Entzündungs-Zeremonie” und den nationalsozialistisch inspirierten Fackellauf? Die Antwort ist offensichtlich. Die Zeremonie ist notwendiger Bestandteil der propagandistischen und vor allem kommerziellen Seite der Spiele. Um auch den letzten Zweifel daran auszuräumen, sei hier daran erinnert, dass bei “unseren Spielen” 2004 in Athen der Generaldirektor für Marketing und Ticketverkauf der Olympiade als Verantwortlicher für den Fackellauf bestimmt wurde.«
Auszug aus dem Artikel Löscht die Flamme bei telepolis.
published 6 months ago (11.04.2008 09:13)
»We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need—but are at constant risk of forgetting we need—within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.«
— Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness