20 Magazines for free
Apple's iPhone user's have access to more content due to a partnership of Apple and Zinio. The trick is that those digital magazines are only made available to iPhone users by checking the User Agent of the browser. All you need to do is to change the User Agent in your browser to the Phone that is used by the iPhone and then access the magazine, which include Technology Review, Macworld, Lonely Planet and ... Playboy and Penthouse.
Firefox users can install the User Agent Switcher add-on and configure it with the following User Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419 (United States)
If you have done this, just visit the Zinio iPhone page: http://imgs.zinio.com/iphone/
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The europeans and the ball
It's all about balls these days. A friend of mine is creating a casual game for the open handheld game console Pandora. Above you see a screenshot of the game. As there is a major sport event here in Switzerland, in which balls play a crucial role ;), he quickly designed some levels that fit to this major sport event. There is one level for each country. The game is still in beta, but I will report about it when it's finished :).
Five-Minute Time Freeze at Grand Central Station
On January, 31 about 247 people agreed to go to NYC's Grand Central Station and just stand still for five minutes. Below you can watch the video of this amazing performance. It is produced by Improve Everywhere, a performance group around Charlie Todd. The slogan of the group is "We Cause Scenes". The group carried out over 70 missions so far.
Call-In shows getting more and more ridiculous
A friend send me the shot above that he took of his television last night while zapping through the TV stations. He couldn't believe what
he saw on StarTV and so do I. It's amazing how silly and braindead stupid these Call-In shows are and what's even worse how they can
still exist. The word written in the photo does not even exists in any dictonary and can at best be translated as "asshole duck", which
I've never heard of and most probably will never read or hear again.
