[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited]

#watch and

Charlie Chaplins Great Dictator-Speech set to contemporary Clips – "You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let’s use that power – let us all unite." with transcript of the whole speech.

How to Dress Punk for Girls – "It's anything that normal people wouldn't do" hmmm

Rafael Nadal collapses with cramp during interview – cramps or orgasm, youn decide

Chris Morris comments on Twitter – "compulsive twitterers are the closest to people who advertise themselves as psychopaths."

#learn

Modeselektor ft. Thom Yorke – "So it was no big surprise when we found out he’d be making a guest appearance on the latest Modeselektor LP – Monkeytown."

9/11 Memorial: Reflect – 9/11 memorial poster

Megan Herbert Wall Stickers – "When Megan Herbert was renovating her apartment she found herself drawing "pictures and little things straight onto the walls themselves." Now the Reykjavik-based illustrator has a better option in her eight different removable wall decals by The Wall Sticker Company. "

Pictoplasma focus – Interview with Joshua Ben Longo – we make money not art – "That Josh, He sure is special and handsome, I am going to give him a million dollars to make that dream movie no one knows about" and someone should! great interview, regine.

Butternut squash and tahini spread recipe, plus batata harra – "A squash paste that's incredibly moreish, plus a classic Lebanese and Syrian take on roast potatoes"

Mightybell – “A Mightybell Experience is a goal or topic organized as a series of steps for people to do.”

Chili peppers’ surprising pain relief – "Neurogesx is currently running clinical trials to study other uses for capsaicin. Who would have thought that this natural compound, evolved to keep people away from it, would be so alluring?"

Greenpeace: White Roofs, Polar Bear – "White is the new green – Simply painting your roof white reflects the sun’s rays, which helps cool down the environment. in the fight against global warming, one degree cooler in our cities equates to three degrees cooler at the poles. Which means a better chance of survival for animals like the Arctic Fox, whose home is melting at a rapid rate."

Public Enemy's Chuck D: UK riots signify 'new world order' – "This is a new world order, if you push people they're going to fuck shit up," he said. "But there is enough to go round for everyone. Tell your government that. Equal rights are important." Tell us how it is, Chuck.

Clockwork Fagin (Free Preview of a story from Steampunk!) eBook: Cory Doctorow – "Get a preview of the anthology by sampling one of these inventive tales for free—Cory Doctorow's “Clockwork Fagin,” in which orphans use the puppet of a dead man to take control of their lives."

JR Puts Faces on Palestine and Israel – "The artist set up photo-booths and printing salons in Israel’s Tel Aviv and Haifa and Palestine’s Bethlehem and Ramallah cities, providing a thousand people a day with giant black and white posters of their faces to paste anywhere, in exchange for a personal beliefs statement."

Artist Jay Shells Establishes the ‘Metropolitan Etiquette Authority’ – "In addition to the much needed “Pay Attention While Walking” sign he had a few others addressing some of the pet peeves bound to eat away at New Yorkers."

DRC Music | Kinshasa One Two – "A collective of producers gathered by Damon Albarn recently visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to produce a new album for Oxfam. T-E-E-D (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs), Dan The Automator, Jneiro Jarel, Richard Russell, Actress, Marc Antoine, Alwest, Rodaidh McDonald and Kwes all made the trip with the plan – to make an album in 5 days."

Occupy Wall Street | September 17th – "On September 17, we want to see 20,000 people flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months."

JP Morgan explains the euro crisis with lego – banker asks his son (9) to explain the euro crisis using euro action figures. subtle!

Pixels Per Person – "The aim of Pixels Per Person was to develop an information support system in the form of installations that would give a tangible existence to the public WiFi network in the city of Geneva."

Clients from Hell – "And then he ask me make Sunday work for only same prices!!!" an interview with the guy who started the clients from hell blog

Pipilotti Rist: 'We all come from between our mother's legs' – "she will hang a string of 300 pairs of white underpants along the south bank of the Thames. The pants, in three sizes, will be lit from within to form a bizarre outdoor light sculpture called Hip Lights, one of two new works that Rist has created specially for the Hayward show."

The true threat is not a super-villain skulking in the desert – "Ten years after 9/11, the world has moved on. Realisation is dawning that the great danger to western democracy was never a shadowy super-villain skulking in the desert, but inequality, alienation and economic collapse."

Q&A: Richard Stallman on free software, the UK riots, and 'malicious' DVDs – "Facebook is not your friend. Facebook's business model is collecting [...] people's personal data. You shouldn't use it, it's a harmful thing. I recognise it's occasionally been used to do some good things, but it's still basically a bad thing."

Mentally disabled man robbed of his epic Superman collection – "If there is a Superman, I hope he reads Boing Boing and will come help Mike get his collection back." that's low, sooo low

9|11: The Winners – "For some people, the terrorist attacks have been a gold mine"

An afternoon with the English Defence League – "Tired, hot and frustrated — they've been drinking since breakfast." Penny Red describes the EDL march

container summer residence – great for nature lovers – great vacation location on sardinia made from three shipping containers.

Essential Mix – All the (?) Essential Mix ever, 914 so far dating all the way back to 1993

Banksy accuses Channel 4 film of distortion over 'war of the walls' – "Artist complains of inaccuracies in programme about his feud with the underground graffiti hero King Robbo"

Safecast and CC0 – "Plagiarism is when someone takes someone else's work and represents it as their own. In many cases, this is not illegal, just unethical. For instance, if I take someone's idea and use it in my academic paper, or take Safecast data and make it look like I did it all myself, that would be plagiarism, not a copyright violation. It is unethical, but not necessarily illegal. On the other hand, using a picture of Mickey Mouse in a presentation could be argued as an illegal copyright violation, but most would probably argue that it is ethical."

Designing systems for transparency robustness – "Public figures and institutions in power should be forced to be transparent and private citizen should have privacy and the right to speak without fear of retribution or persecution. I think this is essential for democracy and open society and we need to push for and enable this to happen."

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waldorf: fashionist

somewhat related: Every Once In A While, Brand Get It Right (This Is One Of Those Times)

massimo gammacurta via rebel:art

and here’s a dj mix i made some years back: free tibet mix

Bra bandits hit Nanuet

and then: Swedish women bare breasts in protest at swimming pool

teh glorious interweb as it got stuck in my camino tabs this past week – the edited version. oh boy, long list again this week. i should probably get a day-job. and i wish i would/could.

the track that made my week

Smiley Culture – Shan-Ah-Shan – me love this track becoz this track is so radicoooooo….

apple schmäpple, iPöd töch etc. and what not

steve jobs is still not dead part …erm… lost count – “The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the origin of a false report on a CNN citizen journalist Web site that Apple’s chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, left, had a heart attack and was hospitalized.”

fring iphone – "fring is now available on the App Store making it easy for anyone to use fring on the original iPhone, iPhone 3G or iPod touch. All you need to do is download fring on the App Store and within minutes you can make free calls with other fringsters™ or via fring using Skype, Skype-out or any SIP providers you choose." wait, voip on the iphone is possible after all? still testing…

Obama uses iPhone to win support – "US Democratic candidate Barack Obama is set to turn the iPhone into a political recruiting tool with an application aimed at getting the vote out."

Crisis Averted: Apple to Keep iTunes Store Open – "iTunes devotees will today breathe a sign of relief after a ruling that could have forced Apple to close the iTunes store is rejected." see bellow.

Apple Hears Developers Nixes iPhone NDA – "iPhone developers are free at last to talk about their applications. Apple has officially dropped the nondisclosure agreement that prohibited developers from discussing the iPhone’s operating system, application code and development kit."

Apple threatens to shutter iTunes over proposed royalty hikes – "Apple has threatened to close down its iTunes Store should regulators approve a royalty hike that would grant artists a 66 percent increase in commission for each song sold through online download services." pay the artists more? apple says hell no and threatens to throw a tantrum.

Last.FM Releases Highly Anticipated iPhone App Update – "Last.FM has finally released the highly anticipated update to their iPhone application. Initial App Store reviews for the debut of the Last.FM app weren't very high."

street-, [f]art and dissign

lifeclock – "Life Clock. Clock Mecanism Slowed down 61320 Time. Each number represent Year"

Michelle Brand’s Stunning Plastic Bottle Chandelier – "One of the most stunning pieces at this year’s 100% Design was this gorgeous recycled plastic bottle chandelier by Michelle Brand. Composed entirely from cut-off bottle bases [...]"

Send a quick txt to the pigeons – From next month, you can watch your words go up in smoke as part of an art installation in London's Trafalgar Square. Called Memory Cloud, the work by architects/designers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos will, over three evenings in October, create a huge cloud of smoke on to which the artists will project messages sent by members of the public via text message.

"Failure Takes Practice" from Vinchen – i sooo agree with the sentiment, this would have kinda made my day, if the implication of the saying wasn't so depressing.

Roadsworth at Urban Prankster – "Initially motivated by a desire for more bike paths in the city and a questioning of “car culture” in general, he continued to develop a language around street markings and other elements of the urban landscape using a primarily stencil based technique."

Mark Jenkins: homeless polar bears art prank – "We made a series of human-like homeless polar bears and installed them around DC to get people to think about the issue (of melting arctic ice) with more empathy."

zocken

Future football stars start here – "If you ever had the desire to live the life of a top football player both on and off the pitch but lack the real world ball skills, then Football Superstars might be able to help. The online game combines a football simulation with a virtual world and lets players work their way up towards superstar status, earning money as they go."

ugh…got addicted to this little game – "click below for a time suck ::"

Blizzard wins Warcraft bot payout – "World of Warcraft creator Blizzard has won $6m (£3.36m) in damages from the makers of a software 'bot'." yay, more money for blizzard.

snurkbeddengoed.nl – sleep in a cardboard comforter for a cause

What is Pest Control? – "Banksy has a casual attitude to copyright and encourages the reproduction of his work for your own personal amusement, so it's with regret that he finds himself having to deem pieces either
'real' or 'fake'."

Play light-Bot, a free online game on Kongregate – brilliant AI bot game, lots of fun that made me joyfully waste a good half hour.

online video killed the …

Peaches – Fuck the Pain Away, sung by Miss Piggy – "There was an assignment in my class in which we were to give a short presentation on pretty much any subject. I decided to make a music video."

John Lydon Country Life Commercial – let’s hope the butter ain't Rotten, Johnny.

Couric / Palin Open – "Couric / Palin Open – Gov. Palin and Katie Couric get real and adorable" [thx f]

Google homepage back – google timewrap video pasting together screenshots from 2007 to 1998, gotta love the title.

Mobiles and the urban poor – "Bruce Sterling, science-fiction and tech journalist talks about the implications of money digitization. His though-provoking presentation dealt with how virtual money systems are the financial services for the new urban poor." bruce has this knack for adressing whole countries, you koreans have to. i heard him do it to you swiss. is there such a thing as the swiss? still amazing tho.

XXX Party Clip Video – "they tossed together the most NSFW yet SFW clip we have ever seen." this is a commercial and we don't usually endorse commercials, but!

caduta modella - – model stmbles and falls in milanos prada catwalk

Borat irrompe in passerella – "Uno dei protagonisti del prossimo film di Sacha Baron Cohen, forse lo stesso interprete di 'Borat', è stato fermato dalla polizia dopo aver fatto incursione sulla passerella di Agatha Ruiz De La Prada."

Dance Floor Dale – "WE'VE HOSTED THE VIDEO HERE AS IT KEEPS GETTING BANNED ELSEWHERE DUE TO SOME EXPLICIT SCENES (ALLEGEDLY)."

schmooze and abuse

How Now Busted Cow? – “Meet Michele Allen. The Ohio woman, 32, was arrested Saturday night after she got liquored up and began chasing kids and blocking traffic in her Middletown neighborhood. Allen was wearing a cow costume at the time of her arrest…” [via b3ta]

Music stars unite to seek control – "UK pop and rock stars are taking action to try to gain ownership and control of their work from record labels. Robbie Williams, Radiohead, Kaiser Chiefs and The Verve are among the acts who have signed up to a new pressure group, the Featured Artists' Coalition." a noble cause.

Ninja Tuna Album USB Memory Stick – "Want it on a limited edition tuna shaped USB key? Well you're in luck!" must-have.

MC Frontalot :: Final Boss – nerdcore star mc frontalot has a new CD out, it’s called Final Boss and – you guessed it – it’s about gaming.

A Look at the Clickjacking Web Attack and Why You Should Worry – "There’s a nasty new security threat making waves on the web. Actually, clickjacking, as this attack is known, isn’t entirely new, but because no one has yet come up with an effective solution, it remains a serious threat. And clickjacking is the worst sort of security risk — it’s transparent to the unwitting user, simple to implement and difficult to stop." as usual we should worry. and then we kinda just don’t.

Huge System for Web Surveillance Discovered in China – "A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words." sigh, china.

CBS Gets a Rude Lesson in Citizen Journalism – "Network's iPhone App Turns Up Some User-Generated NSFW Pics to Mobile Site – Like a lot of news networks, CBS jumped on the citizen journalism bandwagon with a free iPhone app, Eyemobile for iPhone, to make it easy for users to upload news to its user-generated news site, CBSeyemobile.com. Interesting, though, the citizens' definition of "news." "

wordpress-cli – Google Code – "Welcome! This theme provides a bash-like interface to your WordPress blog." seriously geeky wordpress theme. find some examples here.

head conference hub at Liip Fribourg – "<head> web conference is coming to Switzerland. From the 24th to the 26th of October we'll host a so called hub at our office in Fribourg where attendees can gather, exchange ideas and knowledge and, of course, watch life streams of the conference sessions."

Rososo, the peaceful newsreader – "Rososo shows you which bookmarks have updated, and hides the rest. It is a good alternative to newsreaders, which, like your email inbox, tend to accumulate obligation and guilt."

419 The Nigerian Scam- "Inspired by his best friend's ordeal but having only $180 to spare, a Canadian student created a movie that won a film festival last week, in Virginia, and had the worldwide premiere at the West Hollywood International Film Festival. There is the trailer and more info about the movie – called "419: the Nigerian Scam". "

map of springfield .gif – ffs, springfield is huge.

Guide to Green Travel – "According to Terrapass, each passenger is responsible for 695 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions on a cross country flight. When you count up each passenger's carbon footprint after the flight, it equals a very dirty plane trip. So what's a responsible citizen of the earth to do? Give up traveling for good?"

The scariest thing about Sarah Palin isn't how unqualified she is – it's what her candidacy says about America – "Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove." [via bb]

MiniMotel makes airport campouts possible, still awkward – "The MiniMotel is a tiny, fold-up tent with everything you need to camp out in an airport or other transit station, including an inflatable air mattress, alarm clock, reading light, toothbrush and paste, and even earplugs." yay, earplugs!!!

Sacha Baron Cohen invades Milan fashion week – "Milan's prestigious fashion week has been hijacked by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in his alter ego of Bruno, the flamboyantly camp Austrian fashion reporter." i think he wore a toilet seat, seee video above.

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ordered from the most appealing to the most appalling (no offense plz)

also check out: Flickr Fantasy cake

teh glorious interweb as it got stuck in my camino tabs this past week – the edited version. oh boy, long list again this week. i should probably get a day-job. and i wish i would/could.

ipod touched

:flash: iPhone App Developer s Frustration – "Let’s face it, a number of iPhone developers are pissed at how Apple has been treating them — the prohibitive $100 fee to register as an Apple developer, the proprietary development tools, the overreaching nondisclosure agreements (NDA), the possibility of your app being banned. Worse, developers are cowering in fear and playing along lest Apple get temperamental and exclude them from collecting their slice of the very profitable Apple pie." the timeline.

:flash: Another Competing iPhone App Zapped By Apple – "I’ve said before that Apple should not reject apps unless the code is malicious. More important is to have criteria applied equally to all apps. Making up new reasons to reject an app only makes a closed platform appear even less open, especially when the app may appear to compete with Apple. Apple should be treating its app developers like royalty. These people are going to keep the iPhone as the platform of the future."

:flash: Announcing: Zen Bound! – "What is 'Zen Bound'? In short, Zen Bound is a calm and meditative game of wrapping rope around wooden sculptures – a simple task that can become surprisingly complex." coming to the iphone/ipod this fall, a sure will-buy. [via waxy]

:flash: Loot Master Released on iTunes – loot master looks like an interesting game for ipod touch. but sure yet, wait to hear fromm someone who played it.

zocken

:flash: Germany arrest over gamer death – "A man arrested by police in Germany on suspicion of the murder of an internet gaming enthusiast in Nottingham is facing extradition proceedings."

:flash: Games less virtual, more reality – "While most massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) are based on fantasy worlds, there is a growing trend for a new kind of game that merges the real world with the virtual. "

:flash: A Car's life – YouTube game (1st Level) – "How to play:
A "Click" button would appear for a quick second, time your click perfectly to advance ahead. Happy gaming!!"

:flash: The Superstruct Game – "Superstruct is the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you’ll help us chronicle the world of 2019–and imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face." starts october 6. [via zefrank]

online video killed the …

:flash: tourette's weatherman blooper – "Everything seems fine and dandy, until he gets a nasty tick. No better way to play it off on live TV than to shut up and smile! " his smile after the blooper makes it.i sometimes wish i had tourette. as an excuse.

:flash: grey fluffy clouds – "Made a video for this hilarious song off the Y4K album… little grey fluffy cloud… monotonous, and dull …" so right he is, what a stupid question, what were the skies like when you were young.

:flash: Jesus Is My Friend by Sonseed – as warren ellis put it, "You must all suffer"

:flash: collection of videos that make you feel better – "i’d like to get a collection going of media that you watch when you need to feel better" i added the frolicking sheep video we made in ireland.

:flash: kammenos dimosiografos – the show must go on, radio speaker keeps reading while behind him a fire spreads.

:flash: Bill O'Reilly on Sarah Palin email hack – "Looks like Bill O'Reilly skipped the First Amendment section of Journalism 101. He thinks owners of websites that posted Sarah Palin's hacked emails should be prosecuted along with the hacker who broke into her account."

art and design

:flash: Metal plates send messages to airport x-ray screeners – "the pictures say it all, it's a "carry on" communication system. These metal places contain messages which will appear when they are X-Rayed." brilliant, but depending on the message you place, this could make for a looooong session with airport security. By Evan Roth.

:flash: Nina Katchadourian – Sorted Books – combines book spines to create short stories. [via bb]

:flash: Annamarie Ho – Betelnut Girls – "Betelnut, a mild stimulant, is consumed throughout Asia; only in Taiwan, however, is it sold by binlang xi shi, scantily-clad girls in glass booths found on street corners and highways, catering to a clientele consisting primarily of working-class men. Binlang Xi Shi (Betelnut Girls) recreates one of these booths with a hired actress playing the role of the betelnut girl."

:flash: Peter Thuvander – Iyo Yoyo – "An induction powered yoyocharger for Apple. And since solarchargers don´t work at night or in Sweden half the year, this should be a smash hit. " hope this goes into production.

:flash: Vitra Eames Elephant – "To celebrate the 100th birthday of Charles Eames in 2007, Vitra introduced a limited anniversary edition of the Eames Plywood Elephant, the legendary furniture sculpture that was designed in 1945 but never produced for general distribution or sale." made of plastic. me want one. [via swissmiss]

:flash: The Tantrum Throwing Alarm Clock. – "This is the alarm clock that pounds its fists and opens its mouth while "shouting" its alarm. As your selected wake-up time approaches to within five minutes, its feet and body will begin to glow, and when the alarm sounds, it begins tapping its arms lightly" for those of us who don’t have kids (yet).

:flash: lotus beachball – a rather nice anim gif

:flash: "In Case Of Civil Unrest…" – 1. Remove cement 2. Break into pieces 3. Throw

:flash: Conflux 2008: notes from the panel Cartography of Protest and Social Changes – "On Sunday September 14, i had the great pleasure to host a panel on Cartography of Protest and Social Changes with 3 artists and activists i admire a lot: Brooke Singer, John Emerson and Lize Mogel."

:flash: Stefan Sagmeister installation removed by Amsterdam Police – "It seems that the Amsterdam police were called by a resident of one of the overlooking buildings early Sunday morning to report that someone was “stealing an artwork”. As the story goes, people were pocketing a few of the coins, which was also expected, but things got a bit out of hand when a resident saw this happening. So the police responded, and, in a rather bizarre instance of police efficiency, they proceeded to “secure” the artwork, by sweeping up the entire installation." lolololol

:flash: Welocme to Songbike – "The "SongBike" is a mobile broadcasting unit for bicycles that composes compositions based on the locations that it travels to. The resulting sounds are uploaded to the project's website while instructions for building your own bike and recording/broadcasting unit are also included." typo, their’s.

:flash: magda trzaski – "i really enjoy reading about how artists work, and how much everyone's process varies. here, i'm going to try to share some of my process with you. i hope you find it interesting, and please leave your thoughts." very inspiring artist blog [via raymi]

schmooze and abuse

:flash: How to Clean Stuff – what sounds pretty dull, turns out to be quite interesting.

:flash: FRED CIGARETTES – Lausanne – Switzerland – politically correct swiss cigarettes without additives, with “get firefox” logo and the website – i assume – under a CC license. almost makes you want to start smoking again.

:flash: F*** You (What's on her mind ?) – "Why a little girl on her age doing act like that ?
Maybe she's only follower from TV action, I don't know.
I can't understand."

:flash: Muxtape – "There was a popular misconception that Muxtape only survived because it was “flying under the radar,” and the moment the major labels found out about it it’d be shut down. In actuality, the labels and the RIAA read web sites like everyone else, and I heard from them both within a week or so." the story of muxtape told by its creator.

:flash: MySpace takes aim at iTunes – "One of the most intriguing features of MySpace music is that it will give users the option to create playlists of up to 100 songs, and listen to them all for free. Typically, streaming music supported via ads does not allow users to pick exactly what song they can listen to, or will only make available a limited number of songs from each artist."

:flash: Project 10 to the 100th – "Maybe the answer that helps somebody is in your head, in something you've observed, some notion that you've been fiddling with, some small connection you've noticed, some old thing you have seen with new eyes."

:flash: Radiohead/ Remix/ Reckoner – "After the overwhelming response to the Nude Remix Project, Radiohead, iTunes and Garageband are teaming up again giving you the opportunity to remix "Reckoner", another track from the band's latest album "In Rainbows"." with a facebook widget so artists can pimp their remixes.

:flash: Prosthetic Fetishes and Fan Erotica: Sci-Fi Predicts Future of Sex – "To give the sex-tech revolution a virtual dose of Viagra, Grenzfurthner invited dozens of sci-fi authors, technophiles, sexperts and futurists to San Francisco for this week's Arse Elektronica, a three-day conference about the ever-titillating intersection of sex and technology."

:flash: 370H55V license plates – 370H55V if read upside down spells … he he

:flash: Man farts at officer, charged with battery – "While being booked at the police station "[Jose] Cruz then allegedly moved closer to one of the officers and passed gas, the station reported. In the complaint, the investigating officer wrote that police noticed a 'very strong' odor." As a result, Mr. Cruz was charged with battery."

:flash: Bespoke veggies in Omotesando – vegetarian restaurant in japan [via joi]

:flash: P8tch: welcome – "The QRCode on the p8tch is a URL. If you scan the code with your iPhone, Mobile Safari will take you directly to that URL. If it's a Google Maps link, your iPhone will take you directly to the map. If it's a YouTube link, you'll see the movie fullscreen. Cool, right?" [via hannes]

:flash: Where is Your Username registered – exactly what it says on the tin. nice one [via swissmiss]

:flash: MixTube – "Create and share audio playlists made from YouTube videos."

:flash: G1 Android Phone: Neither Open nor Exciting – "It is not a 'wow' device but it is an interesting launch for Google and a good first effort,"

:flash: Home of the GoogleGoatse Shirt – "Google logo. Goatse. T-shirt. Shirts are 100% cotton, made by American Apparel. Available in white only." [via waxy]

:flash: Poken™ – "Open-API-based Poken technology will become the standard for connecting people in the real world and enhancing their interactions online. Poken revolutionizes your social networking experience. It’s reviving the handshake… With a twist. Connect where it matters: when you meet face-to-face. Be real." [via laurant haug]

:flash: PlayStation 3 video DRM: two strikes and you're out – "As one Ars reader found out, and Sony confirmed for us, you have to be careful about what happens to your system once it's filled with video content: you have one download, one redownload, and that's it. "

:flash: a long ass walk :: AfricaTrek – "a remarkable story about a couple that walked from south africa to israel :: a mini series is coming out on PBS soon"

and last but very much not least

:flash: Panti-Christ World Domination – “panties made for women who know what they want. designed in switzerland since 2003″

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and ofc, lets not forget: the world’s smallest website

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and let’s not forget this book: The Zen of Farting

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and now for some spot-the-difference:

so? did you find them?

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or is the genre called: headimmersive art?

yeh well ofc, spaceinvaders.de, space-invaders.com and all the others

these may not be permalinks, so here’s the info for late clickers:
image 1: fischli weiss @ kunsthaus 6.6. – 9.9.2007
image 2: olaf breuning @ museum fur gegenwartskunst 25.8. – 21.10.2007
image 3: san keller @ galerie brigitte weiss 22.8. – 6.10.2007

also: check out this low quality video with no further info as to what where who … why even. no i think why is a given. pheew.

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and maybe this: NSFW! so you wanna be artistic with vegetables NSFW?