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My GPS tracker was a little confused because it has acrophobia — or maybe it was the fact that it was stored in the front pocket of my jumpsuit … But I think you get the idea.

We left the plane at an altitude of 4000 meters above ground.

When releasing the BagHack more than a year ago I did expect to get some response. But it turned out to be way more popular than I thought it is.

People in the US, the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Germany are now proud owners of a small blue bag with lots of style. (Did I forget anyone?)

Greg from daddytypes.com postet an extended tutorial how it is build, including a set of images that explain the process in more detail. He uses it as a bag for diapers

The non-DYIers among you still have the chance to join the circle of blue coolness by ordering one of the remaining originals.

This is the first inofficial web-preview via Mowecam of the IKEABagHack.

The IKEABagHack is a hack of the famous IKEA bags that serve as shopping baskets inside IKEA stores. Outside the stores these bags are widely used by young people to transport great amounts of laundry and/or emtpy bottles.

The basic idea behind this hack is to transform a huge inconvenient bag into a small fashionable bag. This should not be achieved by complex cuts, but by folding the IKEA bag. (The working title was iFolder). Only two straight cuts have to be made.

Instructions:

• Remove the bottom of the original bag by opening the seam.
• Also remove the seam on the side.
• Fold the bag (aka the long piece of blue plastic) in half. The handles of each side should be opposite of each other.
• After the process of folding two seams have to be made on the left hand side and ond the right hand side of the handles.
• Then remove the two loose remaining pieces behind one of the seams. (This is the ugly but quite simple part of cutting.)
• Turn the cloth through the open pocket in the middle and add another seam at the bottom.
• Twist the bag completely and your done.

The bag has three pockets that are big enough to hold the essentials of the semi-digital urban coffeehouse visitor: A small laptop, a power supply and a magazine.

A big thank you to Carolin, the goddess of sewing-machines.

[UPDATE] I published some picture of the IKEABagHack at flickr.
[UPDATE2] A lot of readers of the IKEABagHack kept on asking if we sell it. For those are not familiar with DIY this is your chance to get your BagHack.

Today we (Bas, Jonas, Richard, Sascha) were incredibly lucky to get a sneak preview of the most enlightening event in Germany this year: The Luminale 06. (No, it’s not about soccer this time!)

Jonas says, the Iluminale was the only thing you could see when you were on the moon tonight.

Our guest blogger Klasomat, der Kaiser vom Kiez says: “st.pauli rockt ja so die scheiße, leude. ich mein, weiß ja jeder, aber gestern ham die ja soooo die scheiße gerockt. “ohne hertha fahrn wir nach berlin!” HA! st.pauli wird pokalsieger und 2008 meister! so sieht das aus. WIR SIND POKAL!”

And make sure you check out his great video!

I guess Kiezkicker was wrong when he said: “Im DFB-Pokal Achtelfinale trifft St. Pauli auf Hertha BSC Berlin. Meiner Meinung nach eher einschläfernd, diese Paarung…”

Migrating the content from Nucleus CMS to WordPress.

Image test with Sylt:

Image test with Sylt, tiny version:

PlugIns installed:

• Bunny’s Technorati Tags
• Weighted Categories
• Image Browser (with the “better placement” option)

Theme:

• Almost Spring by Becca Wei, slightly modified. (Thank you for the good work, Becca!)

Known Bugs:

• Reference to registered members in comments got lost. (Could be fixed someday… lots of typing and clicking will be required.)
• mod_rewrite not enabled yet, so the URI-rewriting is not working yet.

To Do:

I added some color (mainly #cc6600) and upgraded to Nucleus v3.21.

Instead of blog-blabbering some bullshit about the great new iTunes feature — Oh yes, I do love podcasting! — I uploaded a remix of Richard's Experiement of Programming by Accident aka Richard's Chaos. I added some color to it, captured ever frame on my harddrive (using saveFrame()) and save it as a video.

A couple of days ago I got a hold of sas21's DV-Cam and used it with my little capture program

The upper half of the images shows a shapshot of the scene which is the source for the image in the lower part.
At the moment I am working on transforming the images it creates into sound.

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