Sari at Mondgras has started a nice photo (or drawing) project: Projekt 52 which is about shooting a (new!) photo about a given topic.
Read more (in German) at Sari’s general info – topic overview with photo links – all participants.
Since I didn’t enter right away, here are three photos at once:
Well, they’d give some in return, unlike a elsewhere a few months ago (German). Quote from the mail (my translation):
“You receive this e-mail because you have been registered in our yellow pages site web2.cylex.de for some time now.
…but not voluntarily…
We’d like to offer you one or two backlinks as long as you set one of the following link to us:
<a href=”http://web2.cylex.de”>Branchenbuch</a>
<a href=”http://www.cylex-telefonbuch.de”>Telefonbuch</a>
<a href=”http://www.cylex-review.com”>Firmenbewertung</a>[…]
The address of your homepage is already stored in your file, however the link is currently not treated as such by search engines (masked with Javascript). If a link exchange is accomplished, the link will be demasked by us and considered a real backlink by the search engines.
[…]If you don’t want to receive further e-mails from us, please open the page […] to unsubscribe.
I never wanted e-mails from them, because I have never been in this yellow pages site which apparently is filled automatically from who knows what sources.
Thank you for your attention,
Your IKM Team
IKM Internet Kaufmarkt GmbH
[…]”
Since even if there are loads of useful entries in this cylex yellow pages site (ignoring a readability with needs for improvement thanks to USAGE OF CAPITAL LETTERS in some places), I’m sure that there must be numerous useless ones, too, because:
Update: You’ve got to hand it to them that they reacted to my mail within less than 45 minutes and removed this entry. 
My blog carnival “Music of the Year 2007” is closed – thanks to all 16 participants.
I had asked:
- Your song of the year?
- Your album of the year?
- Your live concert of the year?
(Alternatively, if you weren’t at a noteworthy concert: Live album/DVD of the year.)Preferrably, it should be new releases of 2007, but if you came across something older and like that more than any new stuff, that’s also okay.
Quite varying music tastes have shown up – partly even at the same blogger – and even though I personally don’t like all of the mentioned music, it was actually interesting to listen to the songs and albums that were mentioned (some linked directly, some via YouTube searches etc.).
I can’t really create a hit list – but there were two clear winners:
I might create a special award to send to these two, but I think they’d laugh at me at best. 
Following is the alphabetical list of all participants – some mentioned more than one, some runners-up (in fine print, which caused the “half” counts above). On the bloggers’ posts (all German), there are sometimes also links to videos or homepages and explanations:
Which two song lyric lines are described by these smilies?
And what’s the name of the song?
Yes, maybe that is hard – on the other hand, maybe someone instantly knows the answer…
Additional question (since I’m a Queen fan): What’s this song’s connection with Queen?
The solution, found by kanpeki: 
There’s room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
from “Working Class Hero” by John Lennon.
Covered by Queen drummer Roger Taylor on his album “Electric Fire”.
Thanks for participating!
(The smilies are from GreensSmilies.com, of course.)
This is about a show from the first German season of “The Next Uri Geller” from early 2008. You can also:
» Show all my reports from the first season.
» Show everything about the second season 2009.
» Show really all articles about Uri Geller.
General reading tips (German): GWUP info page, GWUP special site.
Skeptiker (GWUP) and Stern report about the contracts – among other things, the contestants would originally have had to sign that they “have distinct mental and intuitive abilities, such as mind reading, telekinesis, sugestion or autosuggestion”.
» More (in German) at Stern!
In my first show’s summary, I was wondering:
The question is how much the contestants are behind the “real powers” balderdash which also was clearly shown in the short films introducing them – or if they rather submitted to the show’s demands.
And checked their websites. I should do this for the other five contestants, too, of course (my translations):
And I still think: In any case, a magician who doesn’t think too lowly of himself should not have applied for such a show in the first place.
On the one hand in an interview of the Berliner Kurier (all my translations):
“? So you do have telepathic abilities?
! Without a doubt.
[…]
I beleive I had been given an extraordinary paranormal energy.”
On the other habd in the Magische Welt (magic world), the independent German magazine for magic artists:
“I don’t claim anymore that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer, I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.”
Now what? 
At the beginning, press reactions are mentioned and shown in the background – only briefly and only positive ones, there must be a relation. And did Geller really say, “we don’t claim to have supernatural powers, we just want to enjoy it”? So really the new, more conservative line, if you will? (Cf. above.) Well, hopefully not the most interesting thing this evening…
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