[teh glorious interweb what got stuck in my camino tabs this past week]
[i am away on a short vacation. that’s why my linkdump is pretty much bunedited this week]
YouTube ordered to hand over user details – “A U.S. federal judge has ordered Google Inc. to hand over to media giant Viacom the records of every video users have watched on the video-sharing site YouTube, records that include users’ names and IP addresses.”
Sex Positions for Singles – “is a slide projected series of 80 images. It reflects my taste for incorporating vernacular uses of photography and is part of a collection of works called ‘Single Life’.” [via sexblo.gs]
Skype Laughter Chain – “At Skype we believe that face-to-face communication is the best kind, which is why we’ve created this Laughter Chain to promote our free video calling feature.”
Die Meringuage – Eine Masse mit verschiedenen Möglichkeiten – ein rezept wo funtzie.
WII SEX – “actually, the I-Player mode is surprisingly addictive”
Fernando Torres | Spain vs. Germany, June 29 – Best Goals of Euro 2008 – anyone else wondered what lehmann’s foot is doing so near torres but. he tried to hide it his rollover fall, but to me this is clearly a kick, a try to tackle.
That Violet Blue thing – “We didn’t attempt to silence Violet. We unpublished our own work. There’s a big difference between that and censorship.” not really, given the power BB has …
What the …? DMV offers license plate replacement – “Thanks to some text message-savvy grandchildren, North Carolina drivers whose license plates have the potentially offensive “WTF” letter combination can replace the tags for free.”
Kitty sitting on glass – squishhyyy
Is a UK Wired tired or inspired? – “British version of Wired magazine some time next year. […] Will you be buying Wired when it hits the shelves? And what do you want to see from it?”
65 things that look like Pac-Man – “Whenever you take a slice of pizza or cut a segment from a cake, he’s there.”
The physical value of sound – “Yuri Suzuki is an artist, musician and now a fresh graduate from the Design Products department. His project is concerned with revamping and giving new forms and meanings to the almost obsolete turntable”
FontStruct – Build, Share, Download Fonts
WoW No Longer World’s Biggest MMO? – “World of Warcraft will lose its undisputed status as the most popular massively multiplayer online world. It’s struggling to defend that title as Habbo Hotel, the web-based, social MMO from Finland”
Tableware by Kathryn Hinton – “Pieces include lettering on the prongs of forks that correspond with words imprinted in bowls and the Exhausted range (below), where cutlery follows the shape of objects it appears to collapse onto.”
Bullitt Chase Scene – “i’m a huge fan of ‘the king of cool’ and of all movie car-chase scenes. I thought it would be great to mashup famous chases with their GPS tracks.” [via bb]
Touch My Body (Green Screen Version), 2008, Oliver Laric – a guy green-screened the latest mariah carey video “His real hope is not that the piece will become an artworld cause celebre but that the larger public of YouTube surfers will adopt the piece and post remixes of their own.”
McDonalds sued over Happy Meal toyz – “Post-punk pioneers Devo say they are suing McDonald’s in the US over a Happy Meal doll that sports the band’s signature red flower pot hat.”
William Gibson Completely Deleted from BoingBoing Archives – “Ok, it wasn’t William Gibson. It was Violet Blue who was unceremoniously purged.”
One Post Wonder – “A collection of amazing blogs that have one post.”
THE SOUND OF EBAY – “Create your own eBay song by entering any eBay username and your email address. Push the “GENERATE” button, You will then be notified by email as soon as the song is ready for downloading. Enjoy the silence!”
Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage – “Stubble is the way to win a woman’s heart, a study has shown. Researchers found that women are more attracted to men with stubbly chins than those with clean-shaven faces or full beards.”
UNKLE Goes Widescreen, Remixes X-Files – “UNKLE is releasing four tracks from End Titles online for free, from four different sites.”
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