• sunday is the most stressful day of the week. closely followed by saturday. …and i'm not talking about time off! #
• http://twitpic.com/m62kz – long day of field work. very cold at times, exhausting at times, but …good times! :) #
• subwoofer cat: http://bit.ly/3sAUls #ichz #
• first vegetarian spider known to science – http://bit.ly/1toUIF #
• unreleased paul mccartney song – http://bit.ly/na5l (via @serafinowicz) #
• RT @serafinowicz Amazon's shopping carts don't work outside of the store. #
• benefizkonzert der wiltener sängerknaben für eine schule in kenia am 23.10. http://bit.ly/1NQjfj (bitte retweeten/facebook-sharen!) #
• dsl connection not working today. online via gprs, and slowly dying while trying to load a single webpage. #
• RT @oewf Wow Martian Dust Devil tracks http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html #
• bought an oebb vorteilscard (austrian train discount card), came home, and found one already sitting on my desk. doh! #
• stimmgewaltige hilfe für ugari, kenia – http://bit.ly/45APDc #
• if things don't change very soon, i'm afraid my head's goig to fall off. #
• RT @instantwebmeets Animating the XKCD "I Love the Internet" strip http://ff.im/-afxNq #
• a flowchart to determine what religion you should follow: http://is.gd/4w64I (via @hemantmehta) #
• it's an extraordinary day. i'm even wearing my classy belt. :-p #
• little boy in my train compartment: "there's an OLD danube? HOW old is it?" #
• 8-year-old-boy's mom: "what are the austrian provinces?" – "umm, dornbirn?" #
• mom: "we're coming through [city], we could stop by your aunt." – 8yo-boy: "yeah, that's what i need. i'd rather eat vegetable risotto!" #
• http://twitpic.com/ms5m5 – i didn't think i'd EVER watch a beethoven opera whilst eating kebab. #
• it feels weird quitting an activity after 4.5 years of continuous committment. #

• for 3 weeks, meteorologists said "temp.s are gonna drop significantly!". today is their "i-told-you-so"-day. 0 deg celsius + snow by wednesd #
• RT @mashable Young Social Mediaphiles: 36% Tweet and Check Facebook After Sex – http://bit.ly/1c5wU7 #
• http://twitpic.com/lb0zc – insisting that i have a weird sense of humour, somebody just used the ultimate argument: my self-made invitat … #
• they thought i had it done by a toddler. oh, how they were wrong… :) #
• at least half of these raindrops are a little too snowflakey for my taste. #
• RT @NASA Image of the Day: Expedition 20 Lands: The Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Ex.. http://bit.ly/ziU8p #
• with the current weather, i can actually see myself holding a one-way-ticket to "far far away" when i close my eyes. seriously. #
• RT @DatenRATTE Google Earth back in the early days http://twitpic.com/lh6kp #
• RT @FailBlog Wheelchair Foundation Fail http://bit.ly/Hpvuz #fail #cheezburger #
• missed a call by seconds (literally) today. called back immediately, and the guy said "i can't talk NOW, i'm in a meeting." #
• RT @CassiniSaturn I remember my launch day, Oct 15,1997 so well! Happy Anniv to me, and thks Flight Team. #
• Just nominated @stephenfry for Funniest Person to Follow http://mashable.com/owa #openwebawards #
• what? they were in my box! http://bit.ly/2qAwfe #cheezburger #
• RT @Sianz I appear to have fallen asleep with half my head hanging off the bed. A double hang-over. (But I do now have bonnie tyler hair.) #
• RT @robertpopper eBay/Paypal and MillerCoors are donating a cent per hashtag for #beatcancer today, please RT thanks. #
• RT @Apfel_Zubehoer Hartschalenhülle für iPhone 3G/3GS Three-D Ex Series von More-Thing nun auch in rot und blau – http://bit.ly/313DQS #

• werbetafel in ibk: "haarverlängerung? firma so-und-so, dr.-glatz-str. 7" #
• an interesting interview with (and personal impression of) richard dawkins – http://tinyurl.com/y8dy5nt #
• i like to enforce weird arbitrary categories: "for your birthday gift, you can choose between sth yellow, sth made of rock or sth to eat!" #
• embarrassing bees in front of their friends – http://abstrusegoose.com/186 #
• 4.4-million-year-old fossil could reshape human origins – http://tinyurl.com/y8sx2fa #
• RT @thomasfuchs "should i trust an installer that has 80s clipart in it?" #
• icanhascheezburger: needle search party – http://tinyurl.com/yd9r2o4 #
• RT @serafinowicz Lost Season 5: The characters all start watching DVDs of 'Lost' #
• new idea for a microbiology master's thesis: "species of athlete's foot on athlete's feet". too bad i'm into botany… #
• RT @elibraden A bookworm reads a lot of books. A tapeworm listens to a lot of books on tape. #
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my frog spawn time lapse video is on display in the natural history museum of neuchatel in switzerland. it’s part of the temporary exhibition “parce queue”, which is about the animal tails.

anton and i came through neuchatel in mid-july (as part of our bike journey to spain), and seized the opportunity.
the exhibition has a special focus on evolution and features many quotes of charles darwin’s “on the origin of species”.
it’s very interesting, and worth checking out if you get a chance (open until february 2009).

nearly 20 years after the book “last chance to see” was published, and 24 years after the bbc radio series of the same title first aired, the kakapo get another boost in publicity by the BBC:
the new tv documentary “last chance to see” revisits the species and looks at conservation successes and failures.
in episode 5, stephen fry and mark carwardine visited new zealand and the kakapo, and it seems like all it took for the rare parrot to get international attention once more, was the remark “you are being shagged by a rare parrot“. :)

Sirocco the kakapo an online phenomenon!
The online world is pretty new to DOC staff, but this week we saw how quickly things can blow up – in a remarkable and positive way!

It started a few days ago, when BBC aired the episode of their new series “Last Chance to See” which featured our favourite kakapo, Sirocco. In fact, what REALLY caught people’s interest, was when Sirocco got a bit ‘up close and personal’ with presenter Mark Cawardine. 650 000 Youtube hits later – and New Zealand’s very own kakapo had been catapulted into the international spotlight.

Within a matter of hours after Sirocco’s starring perfomance on “Last Chance to See”, his Facebook page jumped by another 750 friends, and now boasts 2500 online ‘friends’ who are besotted with kakapo and what we do to look after them here in New Zealand.

full article: blog.doc.govt.nz

 
by the way, sirocco now has his own facebook and twitter account.

day four: anton and the tasty sandwich man

would you believe me if i told you that i’ve got exactly the same shoes? ;)
 

as a little bonus, here’s another one – it’s one of my favorite biking pics:
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