http://blog.swidzinski.com Purveyor of fine irrelevance Fri, 23 May 2008 08:29:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are ca. 9 seconds that will ruin your experience when listening to the dark ambient classic Lustmord's Heresy. To fix it: Have a 9-second cough attack, munch on nachos for 9 seconds, or simply skip the time between 2:03 and 2:12 in Part V. Hey B. can't you record a ... http://blog.swidzinski.com/2008/01/11/heresy-listening-tip.html Food usually doesn't look as good as it's packaging, but this one is an overkill. Schubecks panna cotta with strawberry sauce I bought in REWE! outsite: inside: It not only looks like crapeteria food, it also tastes like crapeteria food. This panna cotta is just an artificial-tasting pudding. http://blog.swidzinski.com/2007/12/09/whats-in-the-box.html A strange trend that I observe: once I read something strange/bizarre/unusual in the blogosphere, I often find it a couple of days later in the polish media. And as opposed to "real" news agency news which have the source mentioned, these articles have polish authors. How are they able to ... http://blog.swidzinski.com/2007/11/22/6th-sense-authors.html Look what I have found in Google Maps! This is the satelite view of Nürnberg City Market (Hauptmarkt): Bigger view And here's a mundane aerial view of the same place taken from nuernberg.de: I suppose it must have been some event during 2006 World Cup that Google has snapped... http://blog.swidzinski.com/2007/11/20/soccer-field-on-hauptmarkt.html I've just received the last two CDs I was missing from this 5-CD set. And I can only say, there's no space ambient spacier than that, EVER. Symphonies Of The Planets is a 5-CD set of NASA recordings made by Voyagers. According to the CD inlay the sounds come from: Interactions of the ... http://blog.swidzinski.com/2007/11/09/the-ultimate-space-ambient-ever.html http://blog.swidzinski.com/2007/10/26/angel-not-quite-happy.html This article in Stern has got me raging! Scientists at the Schleswig-Holstein University Clinic used MRI tomography to scan the brains of left-handers, right-handers, and left-handers turned right-handers. Yesterday they announced the results of their studies. The lateralization of the brain stays the same for life, it seem. Actually the areas ... http://blog.swidzinski.com/2007/10/12/fellow-left-handers-go-and-sue.html The German regulations say that the packaging shouldn't trick the customer into thinking that he's buying much more than actually. The watchdogs from Hamburg checked this [pdf warning!] Result - up to 61% air. After discountfan.de http://blog.swidzinski.com/2007/09/27/how-much-air-do-you-buy.html ClearCase triggers are supposed to force the users to follow the policy. They need to be laying at some tamper-proof location, so that nobody tries to short-circuit them. Right? Sort of... A small exercise. Let's first make an unfriendly trigger. print "Sorry, this trigger is always false!\n"; exit 1; We'll make it a pre-checkout ... http://blog.swidzinski.com/2007/09/27/arent-clearcase-triggers-kind-of-broken.html What you see here is a £100.000 pot, part of mindlessTimeless Luxury Collection. click the image for the press release Ah, I can see these little diamonds trickling down the drain... Maybe one should never wash it??? I have seen it in a newspaper, the author somehow forgot to mention the source ... http://blog.swidzinski.com/2007/08/01/worlds-most-expensive-pot.html