I'm sure you have heard of Monochrom's answer to the talkshow format. It's recorded live in front of a studio audience, shown on Okto, and is also viewable online.
The 7th episode was in english, featuring guests from all over the place, and dealing with such lovely subjects as cosplay, character design, and Michael Jackson.
Well, the Michael Jackson bit was from me. And yes, it did fit in with the rest of the evening. Well, I thought it did anyway. It was a tough audience though, so I might have been wrong.
Whatever the case may be, you can check it out for yourself, because it is available for download. I had a lot of fun preparing for it, and even more fun watching Mr. Grenzführtner.
The man has a brilliant stage presence, as anyone who has seen Campaign can attest to. If you haven't seen him do his thing yet, this would be the perfect chance.
Anyway, here is a quick rundown of the show(stolen straight from the site):
Taugshow #7 / Guests:
Ryosuke Tei: Ryosuke Tei (currently Subotron Artist in Residence) is the Creative Director of Furi Furi Company. Tei-san founded Furi Furi Company in 1998, and is the creator of Girls Power Manifest and the Bash figure series, as well as the innovative RPG Giftpia for the Nintendo Gamecube in Japan. He is considered to be one of Japan's most important figures in the character and game design scene.
AniNite Special: The AniNite is the largest festival of Japanese pop culture held in Austria. AniNite members Silvia Groniewicz and Richard Pyrker will tell us about the AniNite concept and Aya and Schu, two female Cosplayers talk about their obsession and will present their newest creation.
David Dempsey: David Dempsey is an ADDled informationmaniac who has replaced his mostly dysfunctional long-term memory with the web and small electronic thingies. Await his report.
A video message comes to us from Eddie Codel inside the infamous Hat Factory in San Francisco, Kalifornia, Untied States of Ameerika.
Regular guest Evelyn Fürlinger's topic is "Semantics, Syllables, and Sounds" -- and our showband consists of Peter Natterer and Ingmar Versolmann. Yeah!
After Bloglines went and "upgraded" their news reader, including things like dynamic updating of my feed list, I found myself desperately looking for a new way to get my news. I was already pushing Safari to the limit, and the new Bloglines became Boglines, frequently freezing my computer entirely.
Firefox 1.x and Sage was an option, but that program has it's own speed issues.
I even found myself playing around with Flock again, but that was even more evil than any of the other combinations I had tried.
Well, now Firefox 2.0 has been officially released, and it feels good. I have only been using it for a very short time, but it feels snappier, has an improved interface (tabs are finally tasty again) and hasn't yet slowed my system to a crawl. I still have a lot of testing to do with it, but so far this feels a lot better than anything I have tried in the past.
Unfortunately, the download link on the main Firefox site was getting hammered pretty hard the last time I checked it. Don't worry though, there are some pretty speedy local mirrors (gotta love the TU) and that's where I will send you to get your new toy.
has been keeping me entertained again lately, satisfying that narcissistic vein by telling me more about myself.
Of course if more of my friends were on the site (or at least made themselves known, it would be even more fun. Because then I could compare the results of my test score to theirs.
The most recent test to tickle my fancy was the Nerd, Geek, or Dork Test. The result itself didn't surprise me. I'm a Nerd, and always have been. I just happen to be a little bit less geeky or dorky than at various other times of my life I guess. After taking the test it occurred to me that this was just the tool I need to finally explain the difference to curious readers.
The web-explosion has introduced these words to quite a few languages, usually without any satisfactory explanation of the differences between them. Well, now you can rid yourselves of any uncertainty while simultaneously measuring your own degree of dorkiness.
And for those who refuse to take silly online tests, here's the description they work from:
"A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions."
has finally gotten around to doing what needs to be done. Putting together a comprehensive overview of the developments leading up to the war in Iraq.
And I mean ALL of the developments.
They have a wonderful timeline up which takes you back before the first Gulf War and includes links to a load of information that should make even the most non-tinfoil types mildly nervous. The breakdown is fabulous, including such wonderful information as when something happened, as well as when it was first reported in the media.
Those of you who remember the first mentions of PFAC way back when, will really enjoy this one. It is probably the most usefull bit of journalism to be published since GWB took office.
Wien | 28.10.2006 | 12:24 
