[teh glorious interweb what got stuck in my camino tabs this past week]
question of the week
gene therapy raises a lot of ethical questions. but what if we could influence human genes to become more cold-resistant, thereby reducing the amount of oil we consume? [interview with craig venter in das magazin – in german]
why the f*** are kittens still funny?
Strange Cat – I Has Invisible Piano. [via neatorama]
Feline Terrorism – kittie suicide bomber [via al4ie]
O_o_ my wife fancies ze frank
wonder_for_site – ze snowflake generator. [vie neatorama]
strike #2 – more on the writers guild strike from ze. [via waxy]
schmooze and abuze
Buy Nothing Day – BND is on the 23rd of november this year.
Religious scholars mull Flying Spaghetti Monster – “When some of the world’s leading religious scholars gather in San Diego this weekend, pasta will be on the intellectual menu. They’ll be talking about a satirical pseudo-deity called the Flying Spaghetti Monster …” i mean come on, who at this point still DOES NOT believe, that the universe was created by Teh FSM? [via bb]
It’s like AllOfMP3 for movies – “a movie site mirroring the cheap, DRM-free model … ZML has made a quiet debut over the last couple of months, but boasts over a thousand movies”. movies for download for a very reasonable price? tempting. much needed. would work. lets see how the legal battles go.
Taming Baby Rage: Why Are Some Kids So Angry? – “It is not the cartoons that make your kids smack playmates or violently grab their toys but, rather, a lack of social skills, according to new research.” i was an angry boy.
What the F***? – “The strange emotional power of swearing … suggests that taboo words tap into deep and ancient parts of the brain.” why we swear.
B3ta served DMCA notice for Photoshop Prince challenge – “A number of users of b3ta.com have been slapped with DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) notifications after posting images that poke fun at the pint-sized popstar’s ongoing crusade to rid the internet of unauthorised Prince material.” prince is gonna clean up teh interweb – yeh very likely.
How Addicted to Apple Are You? – “How Addicted to Apple Are You? You are 33% addicted to Apple!” i am proud to say, i am a recovering mac addict. [via habi]
A storm is brewing – “The changes to Warden effectively remove our ability as a community to police Blizzard’s activities, and may lead to undetected violations of personal privacy, among other possibilities.” blizzard introduced new software to fight the bots, but does this represent a privacy infringement?
Internet Map: City-to-City Connections – “Using their most recent city edges data (Feb 2007), I created a set of visualizations that display how cities across the globe are interconnected” [via swissmiss]
Miro – free, open source internet tv and video player – miro has gone 1.0. gratz!
90 suicides a day spur Japan into action – “The practice, which claims more than 90 lives each day, should no longer be seen as “the honourable way out” but as an act of desperation and – perhaps – preventable misery.”
Social networkers warned of risk – “A quarter of the 11 million Britons who use social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook may be leaving themselves open to identity fraud.”
Italy launches “gay baby” ad campaign – “A picture of a newborn baby wearing a wristband reading “Homosexual” will go up soon on billboards across Italy’s Tuscany region as part of a new campaign by the regional government to end homophobia.”
online videos killed the …
Cowbell Hero – weeee, finally a game i can play. like Guitar Hero but for Cowbells.
WoW 12 Step – i think the apology would have to go to the wow widows and others, who suffer most from wow addiction of their partner. but the cartoon is still funny.
Monty Python Lumberjack Sketch – “Monty Python’s full 6 minute sketch, not just the song.”
“You Must Be At Least 18 to View FOX News” – “FOX News Porn. Which is made entirely of video clips taken from FOX “News” broadcasts. ”
Hot Teen Busted By Dad Dancing On Webcam – oops, but it feels a little bit like a fake.
swiss focus
kunstsupermarkt – 82 Künstlerinnen und Künstler aus der Schweiz und dreizehn weiteren Nationen präsentieren und verkaufen am 8. Schweizer Kunst-Supermarkt ihre Werke.
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