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buddies, thanks for the pointer of my mum, you can download this lovely animated short-film here! Thanks mum 😉

Dears, here is the article. (puh, just thought it was a joke…)

It seems as if the „highscores“ in the last quarter of 2003 gave ebay the ability to buy europes biggest online carmarket mobile.de (austria, great britain, spain, france, sverige). It is a very good strategy of ebay, becoming europes biggest 2nd hand – online – car – dealer. ebay started its „ebaymotors.de“ last year. Friends, the worst thing is, i`ve just read this headline in my rdf-feed,but guess what? its gone, and i dont know from where it came! when i got thelink, i`ll post it here…

As the german SPIEGEL reports in its online issue, the mars roboter „opportunity“ sent wonderful pictures to earth having a resolution of about 8000 x 3000 pixels. It is said, that details are from such high quality that you can see even sandkorns. Well, it was very interesting to know in which format the pictures are sent: How can you transfer such big pictures in such short time over millions of kilometres? It would be a very nice format for the internet, too 😉

Mmh, what a cool idea: Pepsi uses 20 kids who where sued by the music industry for illegal music download for its newest advertising campaign: it will be shown at the superbowl event on feb. 01, and shows the kids with Pepsi bottles, saying that they still download music. and they are allowed to, because pepsi offers 100 million free downloads from Apples iTunes -> you can get the download code from the labels on the bottles… Read the full article.

Well, I have to admit that I was quite shocked when I just read that the in my opinion so important blog „Where is Raed“ will not be continued. Since the war in iraq it was a very important medium to me, getting informations from behind the (fire-)walls…

The Designcon for Europe will be in munich this year (11.-14.10.2004). You can find a list of toppics here. „Designcon Europe“ is the first Design Convention in Europe, organized by the iec.

The police of Brimingham is programming a software, that identifies thiefs just befor they steal! As debug reports, the system is called „Active Crime Intelligence System“, based on windows access! do you really think this works…;-)

members of audiogalaxy have launched a new web-service: foldershare.com it seems to be a very cool application, `cause you can access your data from anywhere. well, actually i haven`t tried it yet, so don`t bother me if it`s crap…;-)

Not that there was enough whacky stuff on TV! NO! It comes even worse: K1010 – will start a TV program, as mediabiz.de (in german) reports. It is an interactive-gaming show, where you can play „online“ games. But the most astonishing thing is, that scholz and friends, a very respectablly ad agency, has major parts of k1010 gmbh. it seems that money has no shame…