Changes

obamiconme1 Two little changes here:

Blogroll with images

I’ve seen it last year here and there, but somehow lost sight of it – Maya (eisitu) and Luigi (hartgekochtes) reminded me, and so I’ve now added screenshots made by websnapr to my blogroll. It’s actually quite simple: Register at websnapr, wait for your key and then access the images with the appropriate URL:

http://images.websnapr.com/?size=X&key=XXXXXXXXXXXX&url=http://XXX

There’s s=202×152 and t=90×70 available for the size – given how large my blogroll is, I’ve picked the 90×70 version. If you’re using standard functions, you have to add these image URLs to the links in the WP admin area; since I’m using my own theme function for the blogroll anyway, I simply could add this functionality there automatically.

Opinion? :)

Single-language posts

No more “Sorry, this post is not available in English” for posts I only wrote in German (in the future and for a couple weeks back; I didn’t reassign all the old ones) – those posts get now assigned to a special category which then is excluded in the English setting. They won’t show up in the feed nor on index and archive pages (except for category archives). They’re still included when clicking through single posts.

Frank Bültge wrote about it here for feeds, I’ve changed it accordingly:

function ag_cat_exclude($query) {
  global $langswitch_lang_pref;
  if (!$query->is_category) {
    if ($langswitch_lang_pref=="en") { $query->set('cat','-385'); } else
    if ($langswitch_lang_pref=="de") { $query->set('cat','-386'); }
  }
  return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','ag_cat_exclude');

If you want to do it without Langswitch (the language switching plugin I’m using here), leave out those parts; 385 and 386 are my category IDs of “German only” and “English only”. Other variables besides is_category are is_single, is_page, is_archive, is_date, is_year, is_month, is_day, is_time, is_author, is_tag, is_tax, is_search, is_feed, is_comment_feed, is_trackback, is_home, is_404, is_paged, is_admin, is_attachment, is_singular, is_robots, is_posts_page. If you got any questions, just ask. :)

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

This is a report about one of the second season shows from 2009. You may also:
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Gabel betet stehenden Löffel an Second show today – hopefully again without Geller’s “experiments”, i.e. the tricks that mostly annoyed because of their presentation as actual paranormal events in the first season, which however we were spared in the 1st show.

Anyway, today it’s time for the other 5 contestants, and the press release naturally emphasizes on “the most magic seduction since there are mentalists”, 25-year-old Amila – also known as Belinda Roy –, only woman among the candidates (and originally no mentalist). She wants to step into a water tank (and of course escape before running out of air) – and they need a mental element for the spoon bender show (translated):

But only one celebrity guest knows the secret number code of the electronic lock.

So I suppose the lock is to be opened from the inside and she has to “mind-read” the code, otherwise it wouldn’t make sense. Anyway, important is that she’s some eye candy.
:eyebrow:

Also, today we will see performances by Aaron Crow (“uses a ring, an apple and an arrow, putting a celebrity guest in a dangerous situation“), Manuel Horeth (“Will he be able to predict the right number among millions?”), Gabriel und Daniel (who “even sense and transmit movements which will be determined by the celebrity guest”) and Waayatan (“plays with the shadows and will use them to touch the celebrity guests”).

Celebrities today: Actress Mariella Ahrens (39), Queensberry-(yes-another-casting-show-result)-singer Gabriella (19), whose last name De Almeida Rinne seemed to have been too complicated for the Pro7 press release writer, so the half-Brazilian is only listed with her first name, and comedian Simon Gosejohann (33):

“I’m rather skeptic here. Hopefully Mr Geller will tolerate that and not turn me into a pig or a rat.”

Haa haa. Well, never been a fan of Comedystreet anyway… So let’s switch to Hilversum to the studio to “the show that gets under the skin”, at least according to the announcer… 11 strange glances (9 single and 1 contestant pair) greet us. Uri is in the current Playboy magazine – “I was young and needed the money”, haa haa. No, just an interview. And Uri speaks about the “special power” he has: make one contestant enter the next round directly. He just can’t do without that stupid talk…

Celeb introduction (see above), text stating Aaron pulling a Wilhelm Tell tonight, the celebs alledgedly don’t know yet. Mariella outs herself as mysticism believer – so she fits perfectly in the show –, Simon is rather (jokingly) scared of Vincent Raven behind him, and “Gabby”‘s mother got voodoo experience…

Contestant 1: Aaron Crow

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Projekt 52 topic 3: Lifeless

The topic of week 3 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:

Lifeless

I could have done it the easy way and re-post last week’s cemetary gate photo, but I thought I could do a liiiittle more… So while I was thinking what to show, PictureArtist’s animal skull photo gave me this idea:

03: Lifeless

Topic 03: Lifeless

A little fossil fish, about 7 centimeters long – can’t tell how old, I got that little slate since I was a child, and any info that may have accompanied it is lost… can anyone tell more about the fossil?

Color contrast has been increased quite a lot here, originaly the slate is a pale ochre color; otherwise you wouldn’t see half as many details.

Lifeless – but still, fossils can tell us a lot…


Links of the Week (2009/03)