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Netzstaub and The Lunatic Fringe have recently been thinking about the same thing I was thinking about: multi-language support in weblogs. I’ve been blogging rarely, but when I did, I couldn’t really decide which language to choose. Now I basically decided to just stick to English as I could need some exercise (not that I wouldn’t need that for German, too…) and most of the German readers can read English good enough while most of the anglo-/american people I know are not that savvy in foreign languages.

Then again, there are reasons why bl0rg.net should probably just switch to running something like WordPress with Polyglot, which enables you to have parts of your blog entry in different languages and only display the fitting parts as the reader chooses. On the other hand, I’d like to keep each language completly seperate, that is writing a blog article in English and then having the option to translate it as a whole to German and presenting the reader the best-fitting version of the article. (Just how Apache does it with MultiViews).
Time to write my own blog software… (with blackjack! and multi-language support!)

There’s a Radio Chaotica podcast
now, I’ll be adding the old shows as I have time.

We’ve been busy bees, folks. Not only have we finished five Saugnapf shows in the last weeks, we also
have a few Radio Chaotica
shows ready for your listening pleasure.

Saugnapf is our music-from-the-net show,
mostly done by netzstaub,
supported by me, dividuum of the bl0rg crew and lately by julian, too. For you non-german people
out there: It’s a music show, don’t ask, go downloading!

My favorite Saugnapf shows as of now (get
Bittorrent to download!):

• 8-bit special from 23-01-2005
  (DJ netzstaub)
• MOD special from 27-02-2005
  (DJ neingeist) WARNING: I’m talking crap.

Also, there’s a few Radio Chaotica shows
available for download. I’d recommend starting with

• the last one
  (Torrent),

this time about the concept of a “culture flatrate”, moderated by me and
Julian
(of fairsharing.de).

The “culture flatrate” is to be seen as an alternative to the ongoing criminalisation
of music downloads on the internet. (Again, for the british: sorry, it’s
a lot of german, so probably nothing for you guys.) Please check out the
Radio Chaotica podcast,
I’ll be adding the old shows as I have time.

The next Radio Chaotica
show will be about the topic Podcasting,
so if you have no idea what a podcast is (and you do understand german), tune
in on Querfunk on the 21st march, 16:00 CET.

And I’m not the only one. The slashdot-mastering netzstaub is dispersing dust again and my beloved is now hating humanity electronically in her misanthropia weblog (both located at dataheaven-on-earth bl0rg.net). Last but not least, Hannes – the latest member of the Entropia hall of fame – is also blogging, somewhere (It’s down. I’m checking.)

Alicia und ich waren in “Elling – eine neurotische Heldenkomödie” am Sandkorn-Theater. Sehr amüsant! Nun muss ich mir auch noch den erfolgreichsten norwegischen Film aller Zeiten anschauen.

Wir haben eine Sendung produziert, zu hören auf Querfunk vom Mittwoch auf Donnerstag 21.10. um 00:30 oder als Sneak Preview auf der Seite zur Sendung.

Demokratiebedarf-KA hat, wie Nagi sagt, “es um ein Haar geschafft, der Karlsruher Montagsdemo Stil beizubringen”. Leider waren die Veranstalter nicht ganz ihrer Meinung. Brauchen wir eine montagige Free Speech Zone?

Demokratiebedarf-KA ist Demokratie zum Mitnehmen, schnell bei Coffee Box einen Latte geschnappt, das Powerbook unter den Arm und den iPod ins Ohr geklemmt und noch ein Twohand bei Demokratiebedarf-KA
erstanden und auf zur Montagsdemo! Demonstration take-away und chocolate-flavoured!

Verpasst nicht die Sonderedition “monochrom”! Ich bin schon gespannt auf die Weihnachtsaktion.

Hardcore Ragga Jungle a Go-Go! Bikini Bandits, Kill, Kill, Kill!

Bong-Ra is some fine crispy breakcore. It is what would happen if you cross an old Rastafari with Alec Empire. Turn up the volume! For all the cheap heads out there: Don’t miss the free download.

UTZ UTZ. (KAWUMM.)

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I hate Movable Type. Struggling with the comment spam (about certain drugs helping men be men again, you know), I tried to install the SCode plugin; with the effect that now no comments can be posted anymore. I suspect that it’s the braindead BSD philosophy that lead to two broken Perl versions on bl0rg.net. One is the antique 5.00503, the other one is Perl 5.8. Thanks, BSD, now I know why you use a helldemon as your mascot.

Maybe I should enhance BKNR‘s blogging features, when I have more time learning Lisp, but then again… BKNR is just another bastard love child of Manuel, a knight of just that punk BSD philosophy, I can already hear his demonic laughter.

I love toys. My new one is Toogle, an image search engine that displays its results in ASCII Art, using the search term itself:

I’m posting a screenshot, the HTML would be >100KB… Link via
Grand Text Auto, a group blog about interactive narrative, games, poetry, and art. One of my favourite blogs, indeed.