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[teh glorious interweb what got stuck in my camino tabs this past week]

kazakhstan [blame borat]

WEB-сайт Правительства РК – this appears to be the official kazakhstan website … but check out “The Kazakhstan mass-media”. is it just me, or is this list empty?

WEB-сайт Правительства РК – “To ask a question”. i have one, “why is the faq empty?”

Welcome to Kazakhstan!!! – lovely url. www.kz. but not much going on here …

Kazakhstan – kazakhstan.com is a news network’s kazakh front.

netlabels

:: ocp :: music :: – with a subject line that reads “safe sex, some drugs & no rock’n’roll” and a label called plastic4records i had to link to this netlabel release. but i admit i have not heard it yet, w. a 33k connection i have better things to download.

mOOdS plateau release – breakbeat and sample heavy release on moodsplateau.

netlabelfestival 2006 – rote fabrik zürich – – if i still was a clubber, i would def. go to this festival … helas since i am a fat couch potato now…

the rest

Support the Commons | Creative Commons – interesting fundraising idea for CC “Watch our videos and we get paid!”.

stickersafari – the international sticker award exhibition – a sticker exhibition showing the stickers in their natural habitat. albeit it’s finissage time already.

A Call to Artists – and to Owners of Broken iPods – “Why does the portable player widely considered the hallmark of savvy design typically die in little over a year? Are ipods “made to break”? Or simply, as some critics have suggested, run-of-the-mill e-waste?”

Peter Kuper in Oaxaca — UPDATED – some excellent drawings by peter kuper, of World War 3 illustrated fame, who apparently has moved to oaxaca awhile ago and now documents the uprising with his drawings. [via bb]

Podfather – “The Podfather – Parts I, II and III Three special free shows from three doyens of podcasting – multi-award winning Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant (The Office, Extras) plus the round-headed idiot savant, Karl Pilkington.”

Cyberlovers Are Often Cyberliars – “Online daters, disappointed by potential partners lying about their age, weight or marital status, are turning to professional matchmakers to find love.” gah.

Yell – part 1 – trippy video collage. [via WFMU blog]

Explosion reported at PayPal headquarters – “A thick glass window exploded at the four-story San Jose-based PayPal headquarters Tuesday night, a San Jose fire captain said.”

Web zooms past 100 million sites – “There are now more than 100 million web sites on the Internet, which gained 3.5 million sites last month to continue the dynamic growth seen throughout 2006”

FairGame cracks iTunes using iMovie – “This script package takes an Apple-DRM-protected song (.m4p), and converts it using iMovieHD into an unprotected .mp3 file.”

tier4.wmv – “The Burning Crusade. This video will show you all classes tier 4 sets currently ingame.”

Piece By Piece : San Francisco Graffiti Documentary – “Take a journey into San Francisco’s mysterious graffiti underground. Witness the birth of the movement as told through the people that lived it.”

brag-not-brag corner

World of Warcraft Community Site -> – oh my, loookee who’s on top of the list – this week only.

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