i haven’t checked google maps in some time. when i went there today, i found out that they seem to be adding the rest of the world to their service.
so far, they’ve got the lakes in austria covered. hurray!

i also just downloaded one of google’s new services: google earth - “a 3D interface to the planet.”

it’s really powerful! i love it! :razz:

the googleblog turns out to be a real treasure chest!
try google video, for example.

 
this may sound stupid now, but i’m glad i’m living in this era: the coolest developments are made everywhere, our ways of communication are practically unbounded, and we’re on the brink to total destruction of our environment…

found this link at eric’s journal:

this is the coolest thing i’ve ever seen!
a group of stanford students developed the prototype of a digital camera that allows to digitally refocus the whole image *after* you’ve taken a picture.
and it allows (minor) changes in perspective.
it’s called light field plenoptic camera. what makes this camera so special - for what i understand - is a microlense array between the actual lense and the sensor.

go check out the information video, it’s stunning!

93 tadamm tadamm! :razz:

darn - i forgot to publish this on friday… well, there you go!

i met toni vorauer again yesterday - there was a bat night at schloss ambras (ambras castle) near innsbruck.

the first bats were flying around when it was still pretty bright, and i watched one bat hunting just some centimeters above the water level, and then fly into the web. impressive animals (regarding the hunt, not the getting-caught)!

we caught 8 (!) individuals, from 4 species: 4 common pipistrelles (pipistrellus pipistrellus, zwergfledermaus) - all of which were pregnant, 1 noctule bat (nyctalus noctula, grosser abendsegler), 1 leisler’s bat (nyctalus leisleri, kleiner abendsegler) and 2 greater mouse-eared bats (myotis myotis, grosses mausohr) - austria’s biggest bat!

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something that really upsets me is needless stupid behaviour.
like someone throwing half a kebab out of the bus, just because he doesn’t want to eat it anymore.

i was already annoyed because the whole bus was smelling like kebab.
then, that teenage boy threw his kebab out, and i wanted to point out to him that that’s not ok. he didn’t hear me talking (at a normal voice), although i sat right behind him. when he threw out his friend’s leftover-kebab at the next stop, i got …a little louder than i usually get in the bus.
so he *did* pick up the stuff that didn’t make it out of the bus, as i told him very distinctly.
the nice aspect: an elderly lady sitting next to me immediately backed me up!

and i tend to think that my hairdo did its part in saying “i’m not afraid of anybody”

 
it’s nice *not* to live in a big city, where people stab you if you point out their misbehaviour…

you gotta check this out: tom cruise kills oprah

a stroke of genius!

• an introduction on macs
• the coolest clock ever

i have no idea where i got those links!

 
[lyrics quote of the moment]
oh look now, there you go with hope again
dashboard confessional - carve your heart out yourself