[teh glorious interweb what got stuck in my camino tabs this past week]
f***ball rulez da nation
The little things make all the difference – “2004 by Jonathan Monk.” sniffie, no english.
The football statues. – Zurich, Switzerland – “Most interesting is the fact that it was actually claimed by the two rent-a-cops (pictured in this panorama) that photography of these statues was illegal” amazing panorama shot of zurich trainstation. gotta love the cops!
Google Maps – euro08 google map. [via de-bug]
online video killed the …
AoC good times with a horse – “Having fun with a horse mount!” what a cunt, tbh.
Big Ideas (Don’t get any) – “I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something that they’re not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.” the resulting radiohead mashup is hella funky.
Roots Manuva – Buff Nuff – “Brand new video for ‘Buff Nuff’, the first single from forthcoming album ‘Slime & Reason’ released August 2008.” gief ice cream truck vendors like that .. lol.
Zürich Chamber Orchestra | Roller Coaster – “Avertiser: Zurich Chamber Orchestra ” [via ze frank]
Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane Video – “Some dude goes absolutely insane.” real or fake? [via bb]
Video Games and Sex – “Based on “Sex in Video Games” by Brenda Brathwaite and writings by James Portnow and Leigh Alexander.”
schmooze and abuze
Watchlist Spezial: Art Basel, Liste, Volta, Scope – rebel:art covers art basel.
Brits Fail To Cash In On Free £5 Notes – “The full extent of Britain’s financial inertia was laid bare today when passers-by in London and Manchester were offered a free £5 note, no strings attached.” only 28 took the free cash. shows just how immune to adverts we have become.
Are we creatures of habit in game worlds too? – “Human trajectories show a high degree of temporal and spatial regularity, each individual being characterised by a time-independent characteristic travel distance and a significant probability to return to a few highly frequented locations. […] I wondered if people are like this in game worlds…” i know i am … i have certain routines for awhile but then throw them all out and find new ones.
pieceoplastic – Plurk.com – some people claim plurk is the next big thing after twitter. it is certainly making twitter more gamey, putting it in a timeline, but, hmmm, it’s still offensive in it’s banality. i guess it’s still only fun for people with huge friends-lists.
What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web – “Why is Google making more money everyday while newspapers are making less? I’m going to pick on The Washington Post again only because it’s my local paper and this is a local example.”
Wayward Alzheimer’s patients foiled by fake bus stop – “A German nursing home has come up with a novel idea to stop Alzheimer’s patients from wandering off: a phantom bus stop. The bus stop, in front of the Benrath Senior Centre in the western city of Düsseldorf, is an exact replica of a standard stop, with one small difference: buses never stop there.” take that, you naughty alzheimers!
Radiohead songs finally on iTunes – “Radiohead’s back catalogue has appeared on iTunes, making them one of the last high-profile bands to put their body of work on Apple’s leading download store.”
How games will change the world – “within a few years, many – if not all of us – will be able to say the same. Soon we’ll all be playing at work.”
Steal This Footage – “in the spirit of cooperation and sharing, and by agreement with our interviewees, we are making this footage available to others who want to make films on this subject”
UK cops arrest six alleged BitTorrent music uploaders – “Cleveland police have today confirmed that six people have been arrested for allegedly sharing music files via the defunct BitTorrent tracker OiNK.cd.” oink.
Suggestion Book – About the Book – “Hey, would you like to make a suggestion? With that simple question and an enormous white Suggestion Box, Illegal Art canvassed the five boroughs of New York City”
WTF?! – “You’ve stumbled into WTF?! – a WoW inspired side-scrolling Flash-based RPG.” marx and freud as questgivers, no really.
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