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online video killed the …

The Bittorrent Song - “The famous bittorrent song! Dude plays keyboards while singing about torrents, ISO’s, cracks, hacks, and more.” [via b3ta]

Amazing Young Guitar Player - another incredible asian kid this time playing the guitar.

The 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies of All Time - “In today’s irony-saturated comedy landscape, it’s difficult to find a sketch show that doesn’t do fake ads in one form or another. In this feature, we’ve assembled fifty of the best. Unfortunately, many of SNL’s most infamous are no longer available online, due to NBC’s copyright-enforcing blitz a while back. But we did manage to unearth a surprising number of classics still lurking in the corners of the internet”

A More Friendly Tamer Grand Theft Auto Conan O’brien - GTA with lawabiding and nice people? funny.

ROCK BAND - ….hates me. [via ze frank]

banned commercial for glasses - “banned commercial for glasses, plz visit a doctor every now and then”

me likee

Little Brother » Download for Free - “Below you’ll find links to downloadable editions of the text of Little Brother. These downloads are licensed under a Creative Commons” cory doctorow’s latest book now available for free download, but for the first time i dont feel like reading it on a screen …

GUSTAV - VERLASS DIE STADT - 90 sec streams of the upcoming Gustav album. sounds awesome.

Freedent White - chewing gum advert, lets you create a wofty, a very cute white fantasy animal, i wish they existed for real, and take care of him tamagochi style…

schmooze and abuse

Boom times for virtual playgrounds - “158 online games and virtual worlds in development or up and running designed specifically for children. While some of that total are recognisable games, most should be classified as virtual worlds.” … “For kids, though, when they don’t have as many options in real life to decide what their house looks like, what type of clothes to wear, or where they go, virtual worlds must seem like a whole new land of opportunity.”

Gold Farmers - regine has a short interview with Ge Jin, director of the documentary Gold Farmers.

tun3r.com: your mood. your station - the radio interface now with city dials: “each City Dial shows all local webcasting AM/FM stations on the left (sorted by frequency), and popular international stations on the right (sorted by genre).”

Steampunk by Richard Morgan - “In the summer of 2007, I suggested to the New York Times that they should run a story on steampunk culture — how it had broken beyond mere tinkerers into domestic life. They gave it a green light and then killed the story for reasons unknown.” [via bb]

Steampunk Moves Between Two Worlds - “It is also the vision of steampunk, a subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly inventive age of dirigibles and steam locomotives, brass diving bells and jar-shaped protosubmarines. First appearing in the late 1980s and early ’90s, steampunk has picked up momentum in recent months, making a transition from what used to be mainly a literary taste to a Web-propagated way of life.”

The Big Word Project - Your websites define our words - “The Big Word Project is redefining words. Search for your word and link it to your website. Your website is then the new definition. Simple.” pay for the word link via paypal.

Hackers’ posts on epilepsy forum cause migraines, seizures - “Hackers who probably also think that torturing small animals is funny bombed an epilepsy foundation’s site with animations and link forwards to sites that serve up pulsating kaleidoscopic images.”

Old Man And The GTA: A 70-year-old’s Take on GTA IV - this guy describes, how he watched his 70 year old dad get into GTA, way into it ^^.

Addictomatic - “Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It’s the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what’s up and what’s now.” [via de-bug]

Henk Hofstra’s “Art-Eggcident” in Leeuwarden - “Dutch artist Henk Hofstra (who’s Blue Road we featured in April of last year) is back with a new environmental art project called ‘Art Eggcident’ in Leeuwarden, a city in the north of the Netherlands. Yesterday, several large eggs (each 100 feet wide) were spread on th Zaailand, one of the largest city squares in the Netherlands.”

Green Porno Star Isabella Rossellini Takes on Insect Sex - “In Green Porno, Sundance Channel’s new series of cellphone-friendly short films, Rossellini singlehandedly re-enacts mating rituals of the dragonfly, spider, bee, praying mantis, worm, snail and housefly by getting it on with cardboard cut-outs.”

PIG BLASTER - pig fart driven game …

follow-up from last weeks links

Banksy - The Cans Festival. - “Show of the Year. Show of the Decade. Possibly Show of the Century.” if graffiti is your thing …

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GTA IV ofc

Submit Your Grand Theft Auto IV Easter Egg Finds - “If previous games in the series are any indication, Grand Theft Auto IV is packed with hidden Easter eggs. Found any yet? Share them with us.”

Daily Show on GTA IV - “Apparently, even Robert Downey JR dressed in a tin can isn’t going to tempt American gamers out of their gaming lairs.”

Rockstar Support: No GTA Freeze Fix in Sight - “A very friendly, and obviously unhappy, fellow answered the phone who, after thanking me for not yelling at him and apologizing profusely for the problem, spilled quite a bit of beans on the issue.” kinda cute.

Nega-review: Grand Theft Auto IV - “it was actually relatively hard to pull negative quotes from most of the reviews of GTAIV. The praise about the game was absolutely overflowing, with many if not most reviews calling it the best game of the generation or, indeed, of all time.”

Grand Theft Auto IV Hustles Songs Through Amazon MP3 - “Players of Grand Theft Auto IV can buy songs they hear within the game from the Amazon MP3 store.” USA only atm …

online video killed the …

Blowing the Tetris Theme - “These kids are wasting their time, they could be playing the game.”

How To Check Your Testicles - “Just text BALLS to 83188″ file under: unintentionally hilarious. [via al4ie]

Tresling: Tetris + Arm Wrestling - “They said it couldn’t be done. Mixing Tetris and arm wrestling… not possible. But just like Stallone in “Over the Top,” the impossible happened, dreams came true, tears were shed.”

Staff Benda Bilili - “a really raw and excellent performance by a group of polio disabled musicians” [via ze frank]

schmooze and abuse

The Daily WTF - lovely broken image icon, check the last entry on the page. [thx michael, but i aint really collecting those anymore]

The Cans Festival - a street party of stencil art.

Location Of This Weekend’s Cans Festival in London - “the location of the The Cans Festival, A street party of Stencil Art that kicks off tomorrow in London… LEAKE STREET, LONDON SE1 7NN It’s a three minute walk from the London Eye, with the nearest tube being Waterloo.”

ICED - “ICED puts you in the shoes of an immigrant to illustrate how unfair immigration laws deny due process and violate human rights. These laws affect all immigrants: legal residents, those fleeing persecution, students and undocumented people.” it’s probably not tye best idea to release games with a message the same week GTA IV is released … but hey. [via bb]

Earth is losing dirt at an alarming rate - “We’re losing more and more of it every day,” said David Montgomery, a geologist at the University of Washington. “The estimate is that we are now losing about 1 percent of our topsoil every year to erosion, most of this caused by agriculture.” someone like myself, who has been digging in the dirt for the last 3 weeks, never would have thought losing dirt could be an issue.

Ars Electronica FESTIVAL - joi ito will be curating it. “Computers and the Internet has lowered the cost of communication and the creation and distribution of information so much that many fundamental notions of organizations, economics and property have completely changed or require major upgrades.”

Radiohead ‘Nude’ Contest Generates More Than 2,200 Remixes - “In the single month that Radiohead has been selling individual tracks for remixing its song “Nude” on through the iTunes store, no fewer than 2,239 remixes have been uploaded to the band’s website.”

Free game hopes to save gorillas - “Campaigners hoping to preserve Rwanda’s endangered mountain gorilla are attempting to raise awareness of its plight by making a game simulating the lives of the animals free to mobile phone users.” noble intention, but tbh i’d rather go on a rampage in liberty city.

Ghost Bike - “A Ghostbike is a junker bike that has been painted stark white and afixed to the site where a cyclist has been hit or killed by a car driver.”

Searchme Visual Search - this search engine provides screenshots of the results that can be navigated iTunes/iPhone style.

Web in infancy, says Berners-Lee - “The world wide web is “still in its infancy”, the web’s inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told BBC News. He was speaking ahead of the 15th anniversary of the day the web’s code was put into the public domain by Cern, the lab where the web was developed.”

Albert Hofmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - R.I.P. Mr. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

‘Free Tibet’ flags made in China - “Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say.” quite ironic.

Art of the videoblog - “This article initiates a poetics of Web video by considering the central features of one kind of video on the Web, the amateur videoblog, in terms of its functions, which include various affordances of use, and constraints, which include economics, technology, and viewing conditions. It takes as its central example an American videoblog called The Show With Ze Frank, which ran from 2006–2007, and which drew a passionate community of fans into collaborating in its creation. This article considers amateur Web video as a potentially democratic space for media production, offering an alternative to commercial media that involves ordinary citizens as participants and champions their creativity.”

Ten golden rules of videogame fanboyism. - “Ah, fanboys. What industry can truly call itself an industry without them? Those who prove themselves obsessively loyal to any product or corporation can be found among many communities.” and here are the golden rules to be a fanboy.

Grothendieck Circle - i read an article about this radical mathematician in last weeks sunday papers, i think … “The long-term goal of the Grothendieck Circle is to make publicly available (and in some cases translate) the material written by and about Alexandre Grothendieck as well as to provide biographical material on Grothendieck’s life and his origins.”

swiss focus

MUSEUM SANKELLER - eröffnung 8.5. 18:30 Blinzernfeldweg 4 in Köniz

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1. of may, international workers day, seems like a good date to publish this. in my heads i wrote and re-wrote the following text many times over, so please excuse if it now sounds clumsy.

i’ve been quiet on this blog these past few months. it’s because i have run out of steam. i received a horrible blow to my career plans and i have no idea what to do next with my life.

i am depressed - there, i said it.

a few months ago i was fired from my day job, a job, that i had been very happy about. i had worked as a web publisher for the web portal of a local newspaper with its three blogs. this job was ideal for me in so many ways; the work was interesting, it represented a good challenge, i saw it as an opportunity to learn many things, the pay was decent, it was a small and manageable commitment, 40%, that left me enough time to do my stuff on the side, yet secured a steady income to pay a big portion of my bills and - most important this - it seemed like the logical continuation of what i had been doing these past years.

there are not a whole lot of jobs like it around here. bern is a small city with two newspapers owned by the same media conglomerate.

i had never gotten any propper journalistic training and this was gonna be my entry point. this job was exactly what i had hoped to find these past few years, positioned exactly right where the so-called new and old media converge. i thought, it would be a way to get into what i wanted to do all along and actually get paid for doing so. i had very high hopes. i saw and still see this job as my big lucky break. and i failed …

to make things worse, they fired me in a really hard to understand and unfair manner. i got sacked without a warning, without being given a second chance. if this was football, i received the direct red card. no yellow card was ever shown. i did not receive a fair chance to change.

my boss was not very clear when giving his explanation of why he wanted to sack me, mumbling something about “interpersonal differences”. unfortunatly i never knew such interpersonal differences even existed. to this day i fail to really understand, what he was talking about. we did have a few differences, if under a stretch you could even call them conflicts, but these were regarding topical issues, more specifically the website we were working on, and they were never interpersonal.

during the first months, i had taken time to analyze the website regarding usability and organization as well as our workflow. and naturally i thought it was my duty to communicate the shortcomings i discovered. it is true, i can be edgy. and yes, i tend to have strong opinions and to speak my mind about them. but i usually do so in a direct, but, in my opinion, polite and respectful way. my boss, he must have seen this differently.

it is small consolation, that i understand that my boss is really struggling with his role as a superior. he is the type of boss who pretends to be your buddy until he turns into a total dictator within seconds flat. when he was in buddy mode, he would say stuff like “conflicts have their place in a work team”. and then the dictator turns around and sacks me.

at any rate, it feels to me like, i have been fired for being myself. these past months i have played and replayed all the scenes in my head and i simply don’t see a way how i could have been or acted any different. i was just the way i am. so i don’t get it. all i can think off is, my boss must have somehow hated me. or something.

was this the clash of new media with old media as one of my friends suggested? maybe. here was this classically trained journalist, who had somehow ended up responsible for his newspaper web-presence. and along comes some blogger and points out all that is wrong with the website he built? well, the truth hurts. the website is pretty awful and it was gonna take alot of work to make it more logical and useable. i had asked all the people i knew, what they thought about the website, if they found what they were looking for, if things were logically organized. i had asked people like my mum, my sister as well as some friends with various degree of techsavviness, and no one i asked understood the logic of the website. and these statements confirmed my own findings. is it not natural that i express these thoughts? but i guess i should have just shut up and webpublished click click click … oh well, i can’t.

so here it is: i give up. i retire. i don’t ever want to find another job, because the possibility of getting fired is simply too horrible. so what am i doing theses days? i am just numbing the pain, playing way too many video games, yeh those two, i actually played WoW so much, i got bored with it - that’s when GTA IV came along ^^. and i am working on our new vegetable garden. so today, for the first time in many years, i won’t go to the may 1. celebrations. since i am no longer a worker. since i am retired from the productive workforce.

what’s next?

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i always love it when one of them is in my life - and please excuse me for throwing “them” into one pot with what may well seem like such carelessness. but i really do believe that during our life’s we tend to encounter similar archetypes over and over again. i have met this particular archetype twice, as far as i can remember, once in san francisco and now here in bern. let me call the archetype the zen-simpleton. the first time i met him was in the form of a short order cook in a cajun restaurant and now he has come back as a news vendor near our new house here in bern. what these guys have in common is an inner glow and peace of mind that really shows in the way they do their job. these are guys are doing what may seem like boring and repetitive jobs with such compassion and loving simplicity, that it inspires me each time i see them. i wish i could be more like them. but even more, seeing them puts a smile on my face.

i used to go the cajun breakfast place in san francisco quite often, on my way to work, just because i loved to watch the short order cook going about his business with such love for detail and always a huge smile on his face. needless to say, the food he prepared was excellent. now, whenever i go buy a newspaper, i am looking forward to meeting this little man of italian decent, who seems so happy doing what he does, always friendly, always good for a small joke, a wink from his eyes, a smile. i go there three times a week, saturday to buy the gazetta dello sport, sundays for the sunday papers, and monday, again for the gazetta. it is now wednesday and i miss him. but! i won’t start buying panini just to go there more often … its never good to exagerate these things.

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meh

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online video killed the …

Parrot Dancing - “This is a video of a medium sulphur crested Eleanora cockatoo named Snowball” yup, and this is one funky ass parrot. [via b3ta]

It’s Not a Compound - “Mormon mash-up. Polygamists never get a fair shake. Mainstream breakfast-hour news gets regurgitated. There’s room for everybody in this compound!” [via bb]

“‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett” - “Something has happened to PBS favorite “Charlie Rose.” The erudite conversations and sober intellectualism have been replaced by an absurd world where illogic, inane dialogues, and open hostility rule.”

Carry On Wayward Son - try to do what i did, for the first time have it play in a hidden browser tab and then go on to check out the “band”…

Graffiti Research Lab - the complete first season - “Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season documents the adventures of an architect and an engineer who quit their day jobs to develop high-tech tools for the art underground.” [via rebel-art]

schmooze and abuze

Country Codes of the World - “The Country Codes of the World map includes 245 country codes, which encompasses all United Nations countries as well as numerous islands and territories.”

WordPress 2.5.1 - “Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix.”

Skype for your mobile - “Skype for your mobile is a mini, beta version of Skype that you can download on to your mobile.” [via alf4ie]

How-to: Make a PS3 Laptop of your very own - “In this installment we’ll take apart the PS3, identify the parts within, and then reassemble them in a more compact way.”

Pixel Pour - “the pixels are materialized through some medium that is not electronic and the hybridity is more about a semantic cross-over from pixel worlds of electronic games to the real world.” [via neatorama]

Nihilum live raid streaming - “Nihilum is hosting a raid streaming event. Watch us raid the newest instance Sunwell Plateau, live, through 4 raiders point of views.” watch the top guild raid … could be interesting. could be lame as hell.

jon chester painting home - my good friend jon made a website to show his amazing recent paintings.

LSD vs Alcohol vs Tree - cute cartoon.

Lolcats hiring; spelling skillz optional - “I can haz dream Job? My rezumez! let me showz u thm” if i wasn’t retired i would be apply

Plastic made from pig urine - “Denmark-based Agroplast wants to transform pig urine into plastic dinnerware and household items. We all have to have dreams, I suppose.” [via bb]

10,000 Pot Smokers Have Marijuana Smoke-Out While DEA Says No To Industrial Hemp - “10,000 people gathered on the University of Colorado’s Norlin Quadrangle Sunday, puffing joints till the air turned blue. University police stood by to maintain order, but no one was busted for smoking pot.”

Flock Browser: Eco-Edition - “Better yet, the Flock Eco-Edition browser comes pre-loaded with fresh content from the best sources from across the web.”

Third – Portishead - you can stream the whole depressing (^^), new album at last.fm.

The ‘Roid Week 2008 Pool - roid week at flickr.

WordPress 2.5 Admin Backend Category Shenanigans and How To Fix It - “The look is cleaner and admin panel is supposedly designed to be easier to use by new bloggers. Except that it isn’t (at least for experienced bloggers).”

penis and cock

Penis theft panic hits city.. - “Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.”

Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital - “Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.” penis theft, lol

The Web - with added cocks - “My revolutionary program adds cocks to any website!” here’s pieceoplastic.com [via b3ta]

swiss focus

Freedom in Tibet! www.myspace.com/swissartists4tibet - “Am 6. Juli 2008 werden sich mindestens 15′000 Menschen auf dem Bundesplatz in Bern Schweiz zu einem Monster-Solidaritätskonzert für die Tibetische Bevölkerung versammeln.” [thx ramax]

LlFJoFdM8T.gif - this incredibly lame, yet somehow very fascinating anim gif comes up top if you google “bsc yb”.

Befragung zum Thema EURO 2008 in Bern - “Herzlich willkommen bei unserer Befragung zum Thema EURO 2008 in Bern.” naja.

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streetart

Train Spamming - “Wohin mit all dem Spam? Auf die Straße, auf die Züge! Zur Freiheit, zur Sonne und so.”
spam headlines used to graffiti trains.

Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date - despite being watched by CCTV - “Banksy pulled off an audacious stunt to produce what is believed to be his biggest work yet in central London.” but is bigger better?

online video killed the …

cat playing a theramin - sorry for the awww effect. [via b3ta]

Internet - “A 1981 technological documentary about the birth of ‘internet.’” [via b3ta newsletter]

“Kids Who Don’t Play Video Games Are At Risk” - “Grand Theft Childhood authors Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson talk about their research and findings.” if you can get past the speedfreak presenter, these are some interesting findings. but it’s also great unintentional comedy.

Remote Control Super Mario Brothers Song - “I can’t imagine how much time this took to set up and rehearse. This guy plays the Super Mario Brothers theme on bottles with a remote-control car!” yap

Angry Wife Lashes Out in ‘YouTube Divorce’ Video - “A bitter wife allegedly threatened with eviction and divorce by her husband has turned to YouTube to air the couple’s dirty laundry.” what struck me was how badly facelifted the poor woman is.

miranda july - one pose per second - we are HUGE fans, go go go miranda. [via swissmiss]

Best Game Ever - “In an event similar to our Best Game Ever, several hundred people showed up to cheer on a random soccer team in Sweden. Go Hässelby!” i love this idea.

Will Ferrell as Bush w/Jon Stewart - will ferrell will (lol) never be my favorite comedian, but he really nailed gw bush.

zocken

Doeo - “Doeo is a beautifully made, fun little game from Marcus Richert (aka Raitendo) where you have to collect the required number of Doeo’s which spring up all over the place.” [via neatorama]

Molleindustria - “Molleindustria aims to reappropriate video games as a popular form of mass communication.” aims to convey political messages in fun games.

Super Blockquote: Hewlett-Packard, Workstations Division - “Hence, Super Blockquote, which arms you against the marketroid oppression of Thompson’s prose.”

Numbers Station Bingo - “Press the play button to start the station, and cross out the numbers as you hear them. If you get a straight line in any direction, then congratulations! You have been activated.” not sure i get it, but the interface is great.

schmooze and abuse

‘Nerdic’ Geek Speak Taking World by Storm? - “Do you speak Nerdic? Chances are you do — it’s reportedly one of the world’s fastest-growing languages.”

Radio Rabe - “T-Shirt design for Bern local radio station Radio Rabe”

Gang dressed as cops steals court papers - “Thieves dressed as policemen talked their way past guards at Johannesburg’s High Court, then locked them in a bathroom and stole highly sensitive documents”

German whizzkid got it wrong - “It was an incredible tale of a German schoolboy spotting a miscalculation by the US space agency, proving the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth were higher than initially believed. But the amazing story of the whizzkid versus the space bureaucracy turned out to be wrong”

The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service - “The service is intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write whatever they want, without being afraid to get shut down by their blog host.”

Wiki pinpoints Brazilian crime - “this under-reporting of crime is one of the motivations behind a new interactive website called Wikicrimes, created by Professor Vasco Furtado from the University of Fortaleza in northern Brazil. “The idea is very simple; when people are robbed it’s quite common for them to tell other people,” he tells me. “With wikicrimes this information will be available globally.”

IRC interview with Douglas Rushkoff - “Douglas Rushkoff in IRC ” transcript of the interview.

corporatized.net - “This is the beginning of what will become a much larger project looking at corporatism, fascism, and - more importantly - new possibilities for local, bottom up organizing and value creation. This place is about cology, economics, media, resocialization, local currency and ethics. Amongst other things.” douglas rushkoff’s latest project.

First extract of Mark E Smith’s autobiography - “In this first extract from his autobiography, introduced by Dave Simpson, he looks back at the formative moments of his childhood and the birth of the band”

‘I did heroin once, just to be sociable’ - “In the second extract from his explosive new autobiography, Mark E Smith, the wayward genius behind the Fall, offers his thoughts on everything from John Peel to the joys of Primark”

Fight Splogs - Wired How-To Wiki - “Splogs,” or spam blogs, are one of the methods spammers have adopted to manipulate the blogosphere for profit.”

Wired’s Geekster Handbook, a Field Guide to the Nerd Underground - a commentor asks, “but who thinks they share at least one attribute from all of those? Does that mean they’re super-geeks?!”

Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files - “An interesting side-effect of YouTube’s recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube.”

Developing long-term relations with robots - “Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London are leading an international project which is set to advance the relationship between robots and humans”

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thought-provoking rant of the week

Better Than Free - “From my study of the network economy I see roughly eight categories of intangible value that we buy when we pay for something that could be free. In a real sense, these are eight things that are better than free. Eight uncopyable values. I call them “generatives.” A generative value is a quality or attribute that must be generated, grown, cultivated, nurtured. A generative thing can not be copied, cloned, faked, replicated, counterfeited, or reproduced.” [via bengston]

online video killed the …

Devo-Mongoloid - love em. [thx klav]

Fanboy Supercuts, Obsessive Video Montages - Waxy.org - “This insane montage of every instance of “What?” from the LOST series started me thinking about this genre of video meme, where some obsessive-compulsive superfan collects every phrase/action/cliche from an episode (or entire series) of their favorite show/film/game into a single massive video montage.” i didnt watch all, but lovesd this one: Every “What?” from the LOST series.

Tom Cruise Scientology Deutsche original Übersetzung von Dr. Phillip Herforth - german performer delivers a babblefish translated tom cruise speech in german.

Urban Honey - “Jon Rolston is a young urban bee keeper.” he thought about chicken then went for bees. wise choice.

Robot Nexi by MIT - “This is Nexi, a small humanoid robot designed by MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robotics Group. Her arms, wrists, and hands are fully controllable, allowing her to grip and lift objects of up to 10 pounds, and her face features an array of movable (and quite expressive) features including eyes, eyebrows, eyelids, and mouth.” slightly creepy.

Canada on Strike - the whole south park episode with the boys encounter of the internet stars is now online.

The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time - timewaster alert!

Wendy O. Williams remembered. - Boing Boing - “10 years ago this week, former Plasmatics front-woman Wendy O. Williams died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Chainsaws, shaving cream, destroyed guitars, exploding cars, nipple spikes, anarchopornoveganism, rock ‘n’ roll.”

schmooze and abuze

Postcards From Yo Momma - “Does your mom still have an AOL account? Does she email you her random, yet charming, thoughts on life and love?” collection of the cute emails our mothers tend to send us.

Say No to Flickr Video - “All we are asking is for Flickr to be left as a Photography website and if they want Video create a sister site. ” not sure i agree, hmm…

Rules of Thumb - About Rules of Thumb - “With this website, you have at your fingertips all the best rules of thumb I’ve col­lected since book number one plus everything voted into the Main Collection by online contributors like you.”

Russian girls support Vladimir Putin with panties - “The ribboned red-and-white knickers will help tackle Russia’s shrinking population by encouraging girls to have more babies.” oh really?

A Capital City With The Devil in the Details? - “Presidential candidate John McCain keeps calling Washington the city of Satan. Turns out he’s not alone.” satan satan satan!!!!

Net gains and pains for journalism - “They also seem to have realised that anyone who wants to break into professional journalism needs to have some sort of online presence beyond a Facebook profile”

Bloggers, DIY Filmmakers Capture S.F. Olympic Protest - “midst bull-horned demonstrators, agitated protesters and throngs of motorcycle cops, bloggers posted messages, videos and photos with handheld cameras and phones, while indie-media correspondents streamed live interviews with dissidents and images of the unfolding scene.”

Watch as Olympic Torch Protests Hit San Francisco - “As thousands of activists mass in San Francisco to protest the Olympic torch relay through the city Wednesday, the events are playing out online.”

Lies I’ve told my 3 year old recently - “All fish are named either Lorna or Jack.” [via al4ie]

6 Insane Cults (That Would Probably Be a Lot of Fun) - “Politics, sex and religion are the three things you’re not supposed to discuss in mixed company. Fortunately, if you’re in a cult, odds are you get to discuss those topics as much as you want. In the right cults you probably get to discuss them while having group sex. If you’re allowed to speak, that is.”

Official Google Blog: Developers, start your engines - “In the same way that Blogger made it easy to create a blog, Google App Engine is designed from the ground up to make it easy to create and run web applications.”

LSD History Comic - the mind-boggeling drugs history as a comic. [via other michael]

Battlestar Galactica Returns to Stellar Ratings - “Battlestar Galactica roared back into action Friday night, as the Season 4 premiere delivered more than 2.1 million total viewers”

Meat Beat Doses the World With New Manifesto, ‘Autoimmune’ - “Today, the synth collector and sonic experimentalist is hobbled by psoriatic arthritis and, he jokes by phone, he’s “walking around like Howard Hughes.” The autoimmune disease hits you hard in the joints and digits — the worst possible places for guy who makes a living pounding on synths and sequencers.”

MEN ARE BETTER THAN WOMEN - “Are Men Better Than Women? watch! youtube.com — Well one interesting man definitely thinks so. Dick Masterson has been on a crusade to try and educate the world on why Men Are Better Than Women…” oh please.

SoapBoxxer - What’s Your Opinion? - “This site is a fun and interesting mish-mash of people’s opinions, questions, and thoughts. It’s simple to use and highly addicting, be careful!”

Pro-Tibet protesters climb Golden Gate Bridge cables - “Three demonstrators scaled cables near the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge today and unfurled banners intended to draw attention to Chinese human rights violations in Tibet.”

Home copying - burnt into teenage psyche - “for 18-24-year-olds, home copying remains more popular than file sharing. Two-thirds of people it surveyed copy five CDs a month from friends. Overall, 95% of the 1,158 people surveyed had engaged in some form of copying, including taking the music contents of a friend’s hard drive - 58% - and the more old-fashioned method of recording from the radio.”

Inkjet tattoo paper - “These decal papers enable you to use your inkjet printer to print ‘tattoos’ that look just like the real thing - from your own customised designs.”

Flickr: frenzy’s photos tagged with antarctica - amazing photos of an amazing art show in milano’s hangar biccoca.

STIFLES Product Fotos - “the stifles are 2,15 inch (5.5 cm) tall with 180° turnable heads. they are available in blind boxes (4000 in total) or in 20 boxes containers for wholesale and collectors.”

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Tags: video, lists, tibet, protest, china

something kinda messed up, i think, but i am glad it did. a few days ago the solid steel podcast rss feed announced it as the latest edition, but as it turns out it was aired back in january, on 11. 1. 2008 to be precise.

but no matter what, its a real gem of a dj mix by strictly kev dedicated to all things kraftwerk, using mostly music inspired by kraftwerk or versions of their songs spiced up with samples from interviews with them. many materials i had never heard before. i especially love the kalyanji anandji version of das model entitled Y.o.g.a. fantastic.

solid steel strictly kev [mp3]
solid steel strictly kev [playlist]

Tags: kraftwerk, djmix, dj, food