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Following

2009-02-11

twitter I joined the microblogging service Twitter about 2 weeks ago, writing a total of 60 tweets so far – this post is not supposed to be a proper (early) résumé about whether Twitter is useful or not, I’d just like to mention a few odd things:

  • A strange but funny video by LisaNova as “Twitter Whore” (part 1, part 2; just don’t remember who tweeted it, sorry via this gwup tweet).
  • Advertising twitterers were there pretty quickly: a food company (left in the mean time) and a DIY market – what’s the use of their following but one brief attention? At least they don’t throw ad messages at you – then they’d be quickly blocked (and blogged) anyway, however.
  • And there’s also offenbarung (=revelation) who tweet texts from their antique story collection – and apparently hope for re-followers who’d like to be converted if they follow many “godless” people like me. Well, apparently didn’t work out, they left again…
  • And [update:] the fake account Richard_Dawkins seems to re-follow almost everyone who’s following him, regardless of the language. Whatever that may be good for… – his real account is RichardDawkins without the “_”, though he doesn’t write himself, just representatives.

The twitter bird here is one from the free Smashing Magazine collection, by the way.

“The Next Uri Geller” show 5 (2nd season 2009) – Opinion, tricks, explanations

2009-02-10

This is a report about one of the German second season shows from 2009. You may also:
» Display all my reports about this season 2.
» Display everything about the first season 2008.
» Display all articles about Uri Geller.

Gabel betet stehenden Löffel an Show number five tonight, and again Pro7 didn’t make the effort to write a press release but only a few short newsflashes.

It’s time for all six remaining contestants: Gabriel and Daniel, Manuel Horeth, Waayatan, Jan Becker – searches “the neeedle in the haystack” or rather an apostrophe object hidden in the studio with the help of the celebrities’ eyes –, Jan Rouven – he is “hung headlong on 3 burning ropes several meters above the ground. With the help of his mental abilities he wants to find the correct key to save him from falling on pointed spears” – and Ully Loup.

Celebs today: Singer Joy Flemming Fleming, Tatort actor Ingo Naujoks (who had been pre-announced for last week but wasn’t there) and current Playboy girl, jungle camper and guardian angel parking-space wish bullshitter Giulia Siegel, about whom ProSieben writes (as usual, all quotes were translated by me):

She daily speaks with her guardian angels and even wrote a book about it. At “The next Uri Geller” tonight, she will meet Germany’s best mentalists, some of whom will attempt dangerous experiments. Let’s hope Guilia won’t need her guardian angels tonight…

Following the show, there will be half an hour (gross) “Street Magic with Farid”, about which the wunschliste.de newsletter wrote:

Better a good steal than a bad copy: What’s just a stopgap on Disney Channel with Cody Stone under the name “Magic Attack” now makes the jump into the night program on ProSieben: Farid […] walks through pedestrian precincts and shopping malls and performes magic tricks in front of passers-by caught unaware.

According to Pro7, one of the performances will be reading the PIN numbers from the eyes of bank customers. Does Farid need money that desparately? ;) Anyway, maybe I’ll write about that too, or maybe not, depending on how I feel like tonight.

The show

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Music Quiz 47

2009-02-10

And again welcome to the latest music quiz with picture riddles depicting band and/or song names. Let’s start:

1. Which song title is displayed here (and whose song is it)?

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Gelöst von Julia und symBadisch: “Working On A Dream” von Bruce Springsteen (Video) – MUC war bis 1992 der Flughafen-Code für München-Riem, bevor der neue Flughafen in Betrieb ging ⇒ D-Riem.

Was Einfaches zwischendurch:

2. Welcher Bandname ist das hier?

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Gelöst von Julia (wem auch sonst?): Glasvegas (Video von “Geraldine”) – G-förmiger Ausschnitt von Las Vegas. Aktuell ist deren selbstbetiteltes Album übrigens Album der Woche bei Rockantenne.

3. Which song title is displayed here (and whose song is it)?

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Gelöst von symBadisch: “My Sacrifice” von Creed (Video) – mice, ACK (Steuerzeichen mit ASCII-Code 06), reef, eyes.

4. Und welcher Liedtitel ist das?

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Gelöst von Yjgalla: “Eisblumen” von Subway To Sally (Video) oder aktuell in den Charts von Eisblume (Video) – Eyes, blue men.

Danke fürs Mitmachen und bis nächsten Dienstag!