Tumblr (3.0; @panatlantica)http://panatlantica.org/<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uxH0axuw_uk&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uxH0axuw_uk&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>本当にいいはね…「シングル・アゲイン」、 徳永英明とSkoop on Somebodyと島谷ひとみで歌われた。How beatiful, “Single Again”, sung Hideaki Tokunaga, Skoop on Somebody and Shimantani Hitomi.</p> <p>Another nice version of the song can be found here: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggL21Vtelrw"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggL21Vtelrw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggL21Vtelrw</a></a></p>http://panatlantica.org/post/459504550http://panatlantica.org/post/459504550Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:24:00 +0100japanesemusic<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ya0ws3ssuCM&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ya0ws3ssuCM&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>The Queen of Japanese Pop</p>http://panatlantica.org/post/459361316http://panatlantica.org/post/459361316Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:50:50 +0100jpopmusicnamie amuronew look<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzilqxovj31qammo8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://panatlantica.org/post/458866382http://panatlantica.org/post/458866382Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:10:33 +0100<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzj8hkLLjq1qzethso1_r2_400.gif"/><br/><br/><p>Some people’s logo and web design (won’t mention names here) are purely EYE-CANCER! Yieks!</p>http://panatlantica.org/post/458859629http://panatlantica.org/post/458859629Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:05:00 +0100bad tastedesign<embed src="http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/player-dest.swf" flashvars="linkUrl=http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6305691n&tag=cbsnewsVideoArea.1&releaseURL=http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/player-dest.swf&videoId=50085008,50085007,50085006,50085005,50085004,50085001,50084986&partner=news&vert=News&si=254&autoPlayVid=false&name=cbsPlayer&allowScriptAccess=always&wmode=transparent&embedded=y&scale=noscale&rv=n&salign=tl" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="324" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><br/><br/><p>Ugh, CBS. Honestly. How hypocrite are you. 1/3 of the 3/16/2010 CBS Evening News only on Tiger Woods. First you killed him because he, the super hero, seemed to be much more human and not godlike after all, now you actually proclaim on air that viewer figures plummeted on any pro golf TV coverage so you want him back again. </p> <p>Meanwhile that day in the world and even in the U.S. more important things have happened that you simply did not cover. America is watching you but if you continue with such bullshit news, they won’t in the long run. Americans have changed, they are not any longer the dumb crowds that consume anything you dish them up with, no question asked. </p> <p>It’s time for Americans to finally grow up on news coverage and media. And it really is about time Americans ultimately stop being such hypocrite losers that go “wo-ho!” on anything that has even the slightest trace of sex in it. This isn’t being conservative or traditional. It’s being ignorant and prudish, to the extend that the world is making fun of you on your silly and strange behavior. The world simply ISN’T a big Disneyfied and sanitized version of itself and it is about time your kids learn that from an early stage, too, so that they don’t have to stumble around Munich’s English Garden on their tour through Europe after graduating from High School and hectically start fumbling their video cameras being in an ultimate state of shock upon the sight of naked but perfectly harmless sun bathers. THAT, Americans, is evidence of incapacity AND failure of your culture and society.</p> <p>Lead or Leave. Your holy phrase. Well, with such news on CBS, I say leave!</p>http://panatlantica.org/post/454385655http://panatlantica.org/post/454385655Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:08:01 +0100CBShypocriteamerican culture<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzf2jb2tw21qb3lfjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://panatlantica.org/post/454291978http://panatlantica.org/post/454291978Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:53:14 +0100<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s4USyfCXJ3Q&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s4USyfCXJ3Q&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>LOL, these guys absolutely made my day! Now you finally know how those prim male and female voices in Barcelona’s Metro actually LOOK like ;-) </p> <p>“Proxima estaciò” is Catalan for “next station”, spoken either by a man or a woman, followed by the station name spoken by the other sex. If there are connecing lines, the first speaker will give indications which lines are connecting. The two voices definitively sound overly posh, and these guys finally give them a face ;-)))</p> <p>They have obviously been on the L4 line from Trinitat Nova heading to La Pau. Sadly they did not “announce” the Passeig de Gràcia station between Verdaguer and Urquinaona, which would have been fun with all the connecting lines there! Here are all four “Proxima Estaciò” videos by station name:</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4USyfCXJ3Q">Verdaguer</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wykU8F4TO7s">Urquinaona</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8gItLXgftI">Jaume I</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdnnbUkCQ">Barceloneta</a>.  </p>http://panatlantica.org/post/443024753http://panatlantica.org/post/443024753Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:05:00 +0100funmade my dayyoutubebarcelonametrocool guys<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vhTcUI0hApA&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vhTcUI0hApA&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Time for some Vince Guaraldi on this snowy morning. Yeah, the guy that did the music for the Peanuts. The song is called “Cast your Fate to the Wind”.</p>http://panatlantica.org/post/440887286http://panatlantica.org/post/440887286Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:04:07 +0100sad moodwintermusicvince guaraldi<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz2zfz9pDJ1qzethso1_r1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>The coolest virtual place to party and hang out ever. Great music and fantastic scenery, too. Most creative avatars around, too - Avatar Rendering Cost for each there always higher than 5000! These guys attach more stuff to their avatars than anywhere else on Second Life ;-) <a target="_blank" href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/SLeek/122/170/22">Click here to teleport</a>.</p>http://panatlantica.org/post/439442748http://panatlantica.org/post/439442748Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:28:00 +0100second life<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz2m5tI8Bu1qax2uto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://panatlantica.org/post/439382697http://panatlantica.org/post/439382697Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:43:11 +0100<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyr9hgBcWu1qzethso1_500.png"/><br/> outside view into the dining room<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyr9hgBcWu1qzethso2_500.png"/><br/> the upstair's bedroom<br/><br/> <img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyr9hgBcWu1qzethso3_500.png"/><br/> the living room<br/><br/> <img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyr9hgBcWu1qzethso6_r1_500.png"/><br/> inside view of the dining room<br/><br/> <img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyr9hgBcWu1qzethso7_r1_500.png"/><br/> there is even a view of the sea!<br/><br/> <p>A view of my home in Second Life. You can visit the mansion in-world using this URL: <a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/abz7wd"><a href="http://bit.ly/abz7wd" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/abz7wd</a></a> - drop me a line if you want to come inside so I can grant you permission to enter my home :-)</p> <p>I have modified the standard home a bit in case you wondered. Mainly I have changed the appearance of the floor, darker aok wood downstairs and black wall-to-wall carpet upstairs. In the process of changing the downstairs wooden floor panels, I also got rid of the funny inside pool by building a pedestral in that part of the home.</p> <p>All lights are functional, the bed is scripted - NO! not what you think now, LOL! You can lie on the bed, sleep in it, jump on it, have breakfast in it - that sort of thing ;-)</p> <p>What do you think?</p>http://panatlantica.org/post/426085059http://panatlantica.org/post/426085059Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:34:00 +0100second life<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/H5pKGnkcQHo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/H5pKGnkcQHo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Here is a video of the new Second Life Viewer 2. Just awesome!</p>http://panatlantica.org/post/423942590http://panatlantica.org/post/423942590Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:21:00 +0100second life<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kypbeh40GM1qzethso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Totally loving the new Second Life Viewer 2 which is currently in Beta. You can get it here: <a href="http://secondlife.com/beta-viewer/" target="_blank">http://secondlife.com/beta-viewer/</a></p>http://panatlantica.org/post/423941833http://panatlantica.org/post/423941833Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:20:41 +0100second life<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kynm0gr3uz1qzrmzno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>LOL! That’s really cute :-)</p>http://panatlantica.org/post/422036790http://panatlantica.org/post/422036790Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:54:23 +0100funcute<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kynbwmQqPb1qzethso1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>Leserbrief im aktuellen Spiegel. Gigantisch!<br/>RT @mathiasrichel</p>http://panatlantica.org/post/421704778http://panatlantica.org/post/421704778Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:36:22 +0100politicsgermanywesterwelle<p>Chemical Ali was nothing compared to our cleaning lady. She LOVES real fierce detergents. The toilet has that strange smell you know from the dry cleaner’s now!</p>http://panatlantica.org/post/419665769http://panatlantica.org/post/419665769Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:48:18 +0100<p>I have always been a big fan of Adobe. Those days are gone. For good. Adobe’s Creative Suite turns me nuts by now. Since CS4, Adobe has added a nifty little “feature”: whatever preferences somebody has used for the entire application, these preferences are obviously now stored on a document basis.</p> <p>In a perfect world, this would be actually quite handy. But in a REAL world it will drive you nuts. Usually you get some art-work from people who are designers, not software specialists. Or you will get them from people that use these documents inside their very special work-flows. Any settings that were fine for them must not necessarily be fine for you for that matter.</p> <p>In fact, almost every time I open a document that was given to me by a designer or a client, I am stuck with totally idiotic application settings and wonder why the hell damn Photoshop or worse, damn InDesign is behaving so freakishly strange on me today.</p> <p>Until I find out that my basic application settings again became an easy prey by my predecessor’s own funky set of application settings.</p> <p>Like my designer. I worship his work. But he uses Photoshop entirely different than anybody I really know. He is a genius with it but obviously he needs his kind of settings. So I use the crop tool recently to cut out a selection of his art work to send it on to a client. A pull open a rectangle that fits my crop selection and hit enter. WOOM. I am left with not my selection but with a 1x1 pixel small file. WTF!</p> <p>It took me an hour to find out that the crop tool also has a manual setting where you can “set” a specific width and hight. I have no idea what that is all about because what is the point in using the crop tool to custom fit a selection when the application has a value to override whatever you select?! For precision cropping? Oh come on! You can do better than that.</p> <p>The sick thing is, you can happen to override such “tool presets” quite easily by mistake. Just select a tool and hit the arrow up button e.g. and where initially no value was present a value of 1 pops up out of thin air. Again WTF!</p> <p>Or InDesign. I was rearranging pages in a layout. Typical task. But I wanted to keep my left and right pages together of course. Therefore I usually have the “keep spreads together” setting enabled (which results in a bracket around pages numbers, like so: [2-3] instead of 2-3).</p> <p>That was CS3 apparently because from CS4 on Adobe just switched around the way it works, now you must UNCHECK to disallow new page orders. Many people seem to get that wrong by now because I hardly see the [x-x] brackets any more in files I get. Now move pages - you will go nuts because InDesign realigns your spreads and turns left into right pages and randomly seems to add new empty pages.</p> <p>I really wonder what goes on in the mind of Adobe and why apparently nobody seems to complain with Adobe. Call their tech guys and they will blame you for the fault.</p> <p>Well yes OF COURSE it is my own fault you dumbheads but why? Because you keep messing up more and more your applications with every new version that comes out confusing your customers and users into eternity!</p> <p>Who else is on the verge of an Adobe caused mental breakdown, today?</p>http://panatlantica.org/post/411268656http://panatlantica.org/post/411268656Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:18:47 +0100Adobesoftware failureInDesignCreative SuitePhotoshop<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MiH-GByDneo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MiH-GByDneo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverphonic">Hooverphonic</a> - “The Wold is Mine”</p> <p>Who said Belgians could only make chocolate ;-)</p>http://panatlantica.org/post/409288014http://panatlantica.org/post/409288014Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:45:00 +0100hoovermaticmusic“You’re better off having a laugh, getting pissed and forget all about it.”http://panatlantica.org/post/405347927http://panatlantica.org/post/405347927Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:41:21 +0100<p><img align="right" src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky91dxMs1w1qzcnkx.png"/>Okay. Everybody who knows me knows what an early adopter and tech nerd I can sometimes be. Where ever a beta test, I <i>am</i> on the invite list.</p> <p>In the case of Google Buzz, I was just the same: hopped on the big band wagon the moment people said it will even be approaching.</p> <p>So no hesitation the moment Google asked me on the login screen of my Gmail account if I wanted to give Buzz a try. I have done so with other Google stuff. There were definitively great things. But also things I tried - like Google, Wave, Picasa or Android - that did make sense however just not to me. But there was nothing like Google Buzz before: Tried it, saw the point in it, however yawned at it, pressed the self-distruct button.</p> <p>I think Google has done something fundamentally wrong with Buzz. And it is not the <a target="_blank" href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/google-alters-buzz-to-tackle-privacy-flaws/">privacy dilemma</a> the service has been facing. It did something that existed already in many ways. Twitter. Identica. Tumblr. Facebook even. You name the service. But instead of offering a true advantage over other services or instead of offering a particular service to a even peculiar niche, it simply just copy-pasted Twitter’s functionality EXCLUDING the open-ness.</p> <p><b>Don’t do anything evil. </b></p> <p>Now we all know this phrase from Google. Yet they might be a bunch of good-meaning guys, why do you all of a sudden corner into a stance of Microsoftitis? Closed systems, closed APIs, only use OWN products in combination with other products…</p> <p>You know, the big success of the Facebooks and Twitters was that these services are to a certain degree open and interconnectivity is definitively regarded as bon ton.</p> <p>Take me. I’ve got tumblr for this blog. I totally love it. My tumblr-based blog sends any updates directly over to <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/panatlantica">my Twitter account</a> which in turn updates <a target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/stephan.uebelhoer">my Facebook</a> status message. Why do I do that? Well: I prefer tumblr as a blog service. I love Twitter for communicating. However I have tons of friends at Facebook who do not use Twitter or tumblr. - Now try doing that with Buzz…</p> <p><b>Followers like mad.</b></p> <p>One thing that “buzzed” me over buzz however: I instantly had a LOT of followers. Wow I thought. Well. No. I had many followers but the hell did they not really follow me. Not like on Twitter where communication amongst me and my followers and I follow is daily routine. So what’s the entire point in Buzz?</p> <ul> <li>Privacy remains shitty</li> <li>Lot’s of people on it that have no idea what its all about</li> <li>Little to no communication</li> <li>No real interchange of information with any other service</li> </ul> <p>So: today I have pulled the plug on Buzz. Deleted it entirely from my Gmail account. Not only disabled it.</p> <p>Do so too. Say no to Buzz. We don’t need it! Noone does!</p>http://panatlantica.org/post/405052360http://panatlantica.org/post/405052360Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:45:00 +0100BuzzGoogle