Laander

Get your headphones on, turn up the volume, lean back and close your eyes. This is gonna blow you away!

Start your virtual haircut by pressing play below:

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• Download Mp3
• On YouTube if you prefer

Here’s another few holophonic audio illusions if you crave more: One Man’s Blog

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I recently found this nice little plugin called StatusPress that shows your Facebook status on Wordpress. It’s been developed by Adam Walker Cleaveland (pomomusings.com) and serves a simple solution to bloggers who would like to easily integrate their Facebook status to Wordpress.

The initial release lacked a timestamp feature, which C. Scott Andreas (paradoxica) added. The only problem was that the plugin was not available as a widget – which is why I chose to continue where they laid off..

For this release, I have made some enhancements:

• NEW! Added the option to remove first name in the beginning of messages
• Available as a widget with options (controls)
• Option to enable/disable the timestamp
• Option to have the status item on your Wordpress page link to the facebook message
• A minor mathmatical calculation error fixed
• Tested to work with WordPress v. 2.7.1

Download the Plugin here!

Just after I finished the development and started writing this post, I found that Brian D. Goad (briandgoad.com) actually widgetized the plugin just as I. I have chosen to release it anyway

Quick setup instructions.

1. Login to Facebook and go to this link: http://www.facebook.com/minifeed.php?filter=11
2. Right click on My Status in the right column and copy the link
3. Download the Plugin, install it and activate the widget
4. Paste in the Facebook feed URL to the widget option and enjoy!

You can see a working demo on my sidebar to the right. Let me know i you have any questions or new feature requests!

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This year is going to be an exciting year – very exciting!

For this post I am going to break my own tenets and make a post about myself.. Me, me and only me. Yes, hell, I’ll even do it in detail for your entertainment (I just pray that anyone should find this interesting).

For the last two weeks, I’ve been skiing – in Austria and Norway respectively. First week was with a group of guys (including my good friend and neighbor Nicolaj) for one week of drunken Snowboarding in Saalbach, Austria. Great trip! Got to experience world famous afterskiing cabin Hinterhag, where people get drunk in Weissbier and Flying Hirsch and then head down the slope for 100-200 metres to get back into town – on skiis that is! We finished the week with an off-piste trip on the backside of some mountain, which ended up taking 4 hours of downhill, uphill and nearly cost us a seat in the bus home (we arrived 5 minutes before the bus drivers patience ran out). When we finally got home (bad seats + 16 hours bus drive = aching spine), i got a quick shower, ordered a pizza, had a long nights sleep and took off to the airport for a plane to Oslo (Norway). After hooking up with Stefan and Kasper (two family members), we left Kastrup airport, landed in Oslo and took a train til Kvitfjell, where we stayed for the following week. It’s been a nice stay – relaxed and cozy. Personally, I had a some great trips on Langrenn (cross-country skiing) throughout the Norwegian fjell.

Right now it’s 10:28 PM and I’m sitting in front of the dying fireplace, tapping my way through this post, while the rest of the +9 person cabin is at sleep. What will the next weeks, months bring? More excitement? Adventure and danger? New faces and fascinating foreign culture? Enlightened self-realization?

I’ll sleep on this for now, mold it through, work it and bring a post in the nearest future with my upcoming plans Good night!

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The guys over at Blog Action Day really deserves an applause. By now, over 12,000 blogs have participated in the event and that’s over 12 million readers in estimated audience!

In summary, Blog Action Day is about generating awareness on a particular subject though mass participation – this year poverty.
The idea: awareness through social media.
The weapon: blog posts.
The goal: fighting poverty through enlightment. Brilliant!

Well, for me to do my own contribution, I will ask you to consider buying a Simple Living t-shirt from Nadia Plesner Foundation. My cousine Kasper at A Question Of is delivering the fairtrade t-shirts, brought in directly from a well-established factory in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

Spread the word!

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Real cool post on Abduzeedo on typography flavoured with ornaments and fleurons – or “frilly bits” as it has come to be called. Check out a few previews below:

• Full post
• Tutorial on how the Abduzeedo wallpaper was done
• Nice post with resources for brushes and vectors

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I’ve recently began reading “Choke”, a novel by the guy behind Fight Club; Chuck Palahniuk. As with Fight Club, I’m completely enthralled by the straightforward provocative story line and edgy mentality towards life and how to live it. Some things are just totally absurd while others make so much sense – either way, it is awesome all the way through.

One of the chapters I’ve just finished describes a range of different internal employee codes and procedures that contains different meanings. I’m not sure what is true, if anything, and it would be great if anybody could elaborate on it with me. Nonetheless, it’s cool – and even more cool if it proves to be true!

Hotel

• Starts playing “Blue Danube Waltz” – evacuate the building

Hospital

• Paging “Nurse Flamingo” – fire in the building
• Paging “Dr. Blaze” – fire in the building
• Paging “Dr. Green” – a patient comitted suicide
• Paging “Dr. Blue” – a patient stopped breathing

Hard Rock Café

• “Elvis has left the building” – servers/waiters need to go to the kitchen to what dinner special has sold out

Broadway theater

• “Elvis has left the building“ - fire in the theater

Gorcery store

• Page “Mr. Cash” – call for an armed security guard
• Calling “Freight check to Woman’s Clothing” – somebody is shoplifting in that department
• Page “Sheila to the front” – somebody is shoplifting in the front of the store

Airport

• Paging “Mr. Amond Silvestiri” – there is a terrorist with a bomb
• Paging “Miss Terrilynn Mayfield“ - anthrax in the building

Store (in general)

• Announcing “need for quarters for checkstand five” – signaling a hot girl is at the checkstand

Any additions? I will be happy to update the list if you have any additional info or corrections.

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Now, this is cool!

Ad for a new Nintendo Wii game featured on YouTube – check it out: http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii

I encourage you to see it twice to get all the details

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With visual perfection, the japanese design agency WoW has made an animated short film called “WOW” – an artistic depiction of typo design. I like it a lot, subtle and stylish. Beautiful!

Permanent link here.

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Colors can be very intruiging and attractive. If used in the extreme, contrastive colors create a very strong, visual look with alot of energy embedded. Combining a multi-colored palette with a dark black base can turn out really exciting – judge for yourself:

Focus on the above is on the colors as they are the most interesting parts. Very effectful, but somehow also rather “flashy” in a webdesign cliché sort of way – what to you think?

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