[teh glorious interweb what got stuck in my camino tabs this past week]
game of the week
DEFENDER of the favicon – “The idea was to push the concept of generated favicons further and pack a thrilling retro shooter in 16×16 pixels using JavaScript, canvas and data: URIs.” the result? a wee lil kickass game! [via waxy]
pizza pizza and some other foods
Around the World In Pizza Time – “If we could bastardize the Italian tradition by adding things like pineapple and barbecue sauce, then what have other cultures done to further alter the face of pizza as we know it?” well, a finnish kid, fellow wow-player, told me he eats pizza with kebap, shrimp and pineapples … rofl.
Amazing Pizza Spinning Kid video – meet the junior pizza spinning champion. who does one day want to open a restaurant.
Marmelade de figues noires au gingembre et a la verveine citronnelle – i am making this today!
Blood Orange-Argan Oil Dressing – the de facto salad sauce dicovery of the year. ffs. lurrrrffff it!
Ben & Jerry’s makes ‘Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road’ – “Ben & Jerry’s has done it again: Hoping to honor rocker Elton John before his first-ever Vermont performance, Vermont’s crazy-cool confectioner has whipped up a flavor just for him”
online video killed the …
Sticks – ‘High Noon’ – “They’re back and still sticky – this time with a western flavour ” [via b3ta]
Daruma-otoshi skyscraper demolition – “New skyscraper demolition method by Kajima Corporation.” [via neatorama]
failed building demolition – to cheerz from the crowd.
Google My Maps (Part III of “The Googling”) – “The “Google Maps” guys are back and everything seems back to normal…or is it?”
schmooze and abuse
Lessons Learned. – “Finally, when we did post a response that drew heated comments, we didn’t have a way to coordinate with our moderators and join the conversation in a consistent way. We screwed up. And we’re sorry.” mkay, apology kinda accepted. but i did remember getting shunned by xeni for simply editing a post in my noob blogging days.
quillp – where books find friends – “Discover new books matching your taste – find people with the same taste in books as you – find new books you might like – find out what your friends are reading” this sounds interesting, wouldn’t mind a beta invite. anyone?
mowercycle.jpg – “This MowerCycle was created by some DIY-genius out of an old bicycle and a broken lawnmower” i so could use one of these. [via neatorama]
Circle Up Now – A Global Day of Action – “View the amazing photographic results of ‘A Global Day of Action!'”
SoundCloud – “SoundCloud is an online audio platform for music professionals.” its in beta. but i could throw you an invite.
They never learn – “They never learn… poor stixel men…”
Oregon Country Fair Photos – “I know that I’m gonna sound like the hippy that I’ve spent my adult life mockingly sniggering at, but the energy there was pretty fantastic. Now, where did I put my mushrooms…” they are next to the bong, doofus.
H&M becomes HIV – “To coincide with the German fashion week in Berlin, XOOOOX liberated two advertising billboards in Berlin Mitte.”
Be A Doll-An Action Figure of YOU – “Have you ever wanted to have a Mini-Me ? How about immortalizing yourself in a doll?”
Speak Out Against Copyright Extension! – “Please sign the petition below (even if you’re not from the EU). We’ll use your support to help us lobby in Brussels. We’ve already collected 12458 signatures – please add your own!”
Teens herald the death of e-mail – “teens [are] shunning e-mail in favor of other platforms such as texting, instant messaging and social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.” email has become incredibly unsexy …
Sex Pistols ‘praise Allah’ at EXIT Festival – “In a bizarre and misjudged gaff midway through their Sunday night set, the ageing rocker asked the crowd: ‘So who thinks America should still be in Iraq?’ The question was met by boos and jeers, prompting Rotten to wave his arms in mock Muslim prayer chanting, ‘Praise Allah, Praise Allah’ repeatedly. The main stage crowd were initially taken aback by the mystifying gesture, before boos began echoing around the crowd.” ha ha!
Shouting Vase holds your anger – “Primal scream therapy that doesn’t bother the neighbors” how very considerate.
Women arrested in sex competition – “Nine British women were facing prostitution charges after being arrested at the weekend for taking part in an oral sex competition in the Greek holiday island of Zakynthos” an oral sex competition? why does no one invite me to these things?
Radiohead “House of Cards” and Creative Commons – “Exciting for Creative Commons is that the data (although not the music) used to produce this music video are being made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License” radiohead are such fooking do-gooders, that i need a scandal soon or i will have to stop believing in the band.
‘World’s oldest blogger’ dies in Australia at 108 – “An Australian woman described as the world’s oldest Internet blogger has died at the age of 108 after posting a final message about singing “a happy song” in her nursing home.” no one too old to bl.., nah fuck that.
Banksy uncovered: The nice middle-class boy who ‘became the graffiti guerrilla’ – “The notion that Banksy is Gunningham, 34, who was educated at the 9,240-a-year Bristol Cathedral School, will shock the artist’s fans, fond of their hero’s ‘anti-establishment’ stance.” yeh sure. whatever.
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