[teh glorious interweb what got stuck in my 
camino tabs this past week]
censorship/big brother weeek
Why was this Trocaire advert banned? – “the Broadcast Commission of Ireland (who regulate advertising) have seen fit to ban the following advert by the Irish charity organisation Trocaire”
Update on Turkey bans YouTube: all a “you’re a fag” flame war? – more infos on the turkish youtube ban.
Turkey: YouTube blocked by court order – “the Turkish government banned YouTube today because of videos “insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk”
‘Happy Slapping’ Outlawed in France – “A new law in France makes it a crime for anyone who is not a professional journalist to film real-world violence and distribute the images on the Internet.”
China’s Evil Censorship Continues: Bans LiveJournal – “according to an email we got today, China has blocked LiveJournal to prevent bloggers from giving political commentary.”
Steve Jobs, Spymaster – “The programmer, who asked not to be named, was convinced the Asteroid product was invented, a figment of Jobs’ imagination dreamed up to find the source of leaks — the old “canary trap.”
France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence – “The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists.”
killer vids
Soldiers – another very moving hillman curtis short.
Kirk Cameron And Bananas – the banana perfectly fits the human hand. proof that god exists!!!
Atheists nightmare debunked. Ray Comfort/Kirk cameron – and the kinda obvious spoof version.
non-englishness
Grand Theft Audio: San Semantik – GTA spoof hiphop release from swiss rapper semantik … the art work looks excellent.
Ist Ihr Sexleben umwelt- und klimafreundlich? – “Ein Ratgeber gibt Hinweise, wie man sein Sexleben grüner machen kann, und Sexläden stellen ihre Angebote um.”
bengston: Duzis per Combox – “Heute hat jemand per Combox duzis mit mir gemacht.” cute! is this the positive equivalent of someone ending a relationship via sms?
Or virtuel: des chinois à la mine – report on chinese goldfarmers [in french] some very interesting images.
geeky news mush
DEATHLESS – Street Art Gallery, Skate Boards, Spirituality – gallery in berlin offering a surprising combo of goods. how did spirituality get in there? the graphic art featuring ramana maharshi leaves mixed feelings, love the guy too much to see him commodified like that.
Illegal drugs can be harmless – “llegal drugs can be “harmless” and should no longer be “demonised”, a wide-ranging two-year study concluded today.”
Re-imaging History – “while computers enable easier and better photo manipulation, it is hardly a new phenomenon. Here is a sampling of some of the more famous altered photographs from the last century.”
Shutdown Day – “Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate!” see, even if i wanted to i couldn’t attend BlogCampSWitzerland, 24.3.2007 is shutdownday…
Battlestar Galactica Videomaker Toolkit – use dozens of effects and music clips from battelstar to make your own four-minute video
WikiCharts — Top 100 — 03/2007 – “This tool shows the articles from the English Wikipedia that are viewed most.” in personalities: 1. anna nicole smith 2. adolf hitler 3. george w. bush. or it was when i checked…
Spamtrap – “Spamtrap” is an interactive installation piece that helps me fine tune my spam email filter. My Spamtrap monitors an email address I created specifically to lure in spam.” [via wmmna]
boris hoppek – wild streetart creature guy.
The Simpson’s parody of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories – “[...] described by Bart “rated bad for everyone” – and that’s why we lurf it
The Wall – They Did It! – amazing street art project, gah.
The 50 Most Important People on the Web – “Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web.” aww, i am flabberghasted … [via metablog]
sleepnaked.org – “Not only is sleeping naked more comfortable, but it’s good for your health too.”
Anarchists flock to join Denmark rioters – i love the way this sounds, anarchist flocking. where they then frolicking?
Google Earth Anomalies – “One thing I like is when the satellite images they use are pieced together and form some sort of weird perspective anomalies. Here’s three of them that I found while looking at Chicago last night”
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