teh glorious interweb as it got stuck in my camino tabs this past week - the edited version.

economic crisis

There's one way to get people using Banks again… - I suppose this creative solution would only work for men though.

I'm ready to make a deposit - another rather creative b3ta solution to the banking crisis

Strike, Collapse, Rethink - "Taking the lessons of Buy Nothing Day one step further, many culturejammers began advocating a General Consumption Strike as the appropriate tool for reshaping the basis of our economies"

crime

Man killed wife in Facebook row - "A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook." and we always think the danger will come from elsewhere…

Caught on camera: The 'Artful Dodger' aged eight who stole thousands… but is too young to face charges - "He stuffs the loot in his pockets and darts out from behind the desk just in time to escape the notice of security guards who have entered the store. With astonishing cheek, the boy approaches them and horses around - firing an imaginary gun - before strolling out."

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world of goo - "This will get you the Windows version right away and access to Mac / Linux versions when they are ready (they are currently in beta). The Wii version is available on WiiWare. " this game looks very nice.

Why LittleBigPlanet Is Web 2.0 For Games - "I have seen the future of user-generated content on consoles, and it is the Beta version of Media Molecule's much-awaited LittleBigPlanet" shut up and give it to me already.

Preview: Gomibako (Trash Can) - "MAKUHARI–Think Tetris, but with garbage. That's the simplest description of Gomibako, a PlayStation Network puzzle game" iPhone/iPod Touch version, please.

Q&A: World of Warcraft Lead Producer J. Allen Brack - "We are interested in making WoW the most fun game that we can make it and that’s sort of been our philosophy for the last four years, it’s going to continue to be our philosophy. So, as far as Warhammer, I’m excited to see more games come out, I’m a gamer, I love playing games …"

online video killed the …

RiP: A remix manifesto - "In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers." and where can i download it?

La Pequeña Sarah Palin - "… a small candidate" muy disturbing.

Head Over Heels: Literal Video Version - "Ever wish songs just sang what was happening in the music video? Well now they do, in this second installment of literal videos!"

A Shared Culture's Web - "We were fortunate to have renowned filmmaker Jesse Dylan (director of the Emmy Award-winning "Yes We Can" video) offer to create a short film explaining the ideas behind Creative Commons."

Cute Monkey waiters in Japan - at the end of the video, which incidently made me kinda sad, the monkey seems to eat some edamame.

John Cleese on Sarah Palin - "The former Monty Python star shares his unsparing thoughts and views about vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin." good point, Sarah Plain is so absurd, monthy python could have written it. oops typo, nvm.

art & design

imbue - Drug Vend - "imbue takes his controversial 'Drug Vend' sculpture to Brighton Pier… "

Reset Cups for when you need to Ctrl/Alt/Del - "The ultimate in geek chic porcelain comes from MOD Design in Taiwan, whose little cups and circuit board saucers offer a tea break for those moments when you need to reboot or force quit your computer." [via neatorama]

TRANSFORMERS Guillaume Reymond - "l'artiste franco-suisse Guillaume Reymond présente un nouveau projet incroyable. Cette série de performances TRANSFORMERS rassemble divers types de véhicules, qui, assemblés selon des chorégraphies précises, font apparaître de gigantesques robots vus du ciel."

Porter x Buzz Rickson x William Gibson - "Porter, the famed Japanese bag makers, are back with a new collection of vintage military-styled bags"

The Art of the Brick: Life Size Replicas - "What would be better than another you made completely out of LEGO bricks?" [via neatorama]

schmooze and abuse

TAG A DUMMER - Howto turn Hummers in to Dummers. Upload Gallery and more.

McCain Photoshop contest! - "Thanks to Reuters for the excellent fodder! We're too lazy to photoshop this pic, but you might not be…" excellent material, terrible photoshoppery, but kinda worth it to scroll down to the LOLcats one.

Queen has fit of Google giggles - "Internet giant Google was given the royal seal of approval when the Queen had a fit of the giggles during a tour of its London headquarters." apparently that laughing baby video caused the fit of giggles

Internet use 'good for the brain' - "For middle-aged and older people at least, using the internet helps boost brain power, research suggests." pheew.

Tell McCain to End the Politics of Hate - "We urge you to join people of conscience from all races and backgrounds to reject the politics of division and fear, and come together to uplift the country and create a more equal and just society."

2008 - Poverty - Blog Action Day 2008 - "In 2008, the Blog Action Day theme is Poverty. Bloggers are free to interpret this as they see fit. We invite bloggers to examine poverty from their own blog topics and perspectives" drawing a blank, and hey, i guess that's poor

Poolga. iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers for the rest of us. - "We love our iPhones and we love customizing them. But we hate the standard wallpapers and cheesy nature themes available everywhere. That's why we create our own" [via swissmiss]

mccain flags - "while i was putting flags in poo around venice, people stopped, and smiled, and took photos and chatted and overall, became happy. maybe it was the message, or maybe it was the act."

Swiss town converts nuclear bunker into 'zero-star hotel' - "Tourists in Switzerland can soon sleep in the world's first "zero-star hotel," a former nuclear bunker several yards below the ground." looks very cozy.

Employees, not hackers, cause most corporate data loss - "According to a new study from Compuware, IT departments should take a bow—only 1 percent of corporate data losses this past year were due to hackers."

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he he, that one was easy.

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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."

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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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ipod touched

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.

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."

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]

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.

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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."

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. "

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!!"

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 …

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! :-P" his smile after the blooper makes it.i sometimes wish i had tourette. as an excuse.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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."

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.

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]

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).

lotus beachball - a rather nice anim gif

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

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."

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

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.

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

How to Clean Stuff - what sounds pretty dull, turns out to be quite interesting.

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.

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."

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.

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."

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."

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.

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."

370H55V license plates - 370H55V if read upside down spells … he he

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."

Bespoke veggies in Omotesando - vegetarian restaurant in japan [via joi]

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]

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

MixTube - "Create and share audio playlists made from YouTube videos."

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,"

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

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]

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. "

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

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

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teh glorious interweb as it got stuck in my camino tabs this past week - the edited version. oh boy, long list this week.

avast! shiver me timberz … etc. etc.

Talk like a Pirate - "Learn to talk like a pirate." the “official” instruction video. [via habi]

Official Google Blog: Google in one more language - "It recently came to our attention that Google was not accessible to a large, influential, and notoriously quick-tempered community: Pirates. As of today we are proud and rather relieved to announce that Google Search is available in Pirate."

scurvy dog! ’tis pirate zen 2008 - arr, the webzen links, me matey

ipod touchness

E-reader on your iPhone - "Geek goddess Cali Lewis reports that a free application from E Reader.com turns your i-device into an e-reader, allowing you to buy books which automatically show up on your iPhone or iPod Touch." and now how do i get cory doctorow’s book content onto my ipod? ffs

iPhone App Shifts Hypermiling Up to iPermiling - "Budding hypermilers can become iPermilers with an iPhone app that costs less than three gallons of gas. GreenMeter uses the iPhone's built-in accelerometer to tell drivers, in real time, how much their lead-footed ways are costing them in carbon emissions and fuel economy."

Apple iPhone: Now available in cupcake form - "The genius of these iPhone cupcakes cannot be overestimated. Nor can their tastiness, I suspect. The set of 12 cupcakes, each decorated to look like a familiar iPhone app, is so geekilicious that we're torn between admiring the artwork and wanting to eat every last one."

Star Wars: Force Unleashed in App Store - "Experience the Star Wars universe as never before. The devastating power of the Force is in your hands. You are Darth Vader’s Secret Apprentice, trained by the menacing Sith Lord to hunt down the last of the Jedi." this is what my mate tells me: sound is shit, design is crap, but the ui seems like a great idea, you do attacks via the drawing of symbols on the screen.

Things That Podcaster's Rejection From the App Store Is Not About - "Podcaster, so far as I can tell, complies with every written guideline in the SDK Agreement. If other guidelines exist, Apple should add them to the agreement. It doesn’t even make sense from a thou shalt not hurt Apple’s music revenue stream standpoint."

App Store: I’m out. - "You have to wonder if Apple wants the App Store to be a museum of poorly-designed nibware written by dilettante Mac OS X/iPhone OS switcher-developers and hobbyist students."

Snubbed by Apple Podcaster Developer Turns to Ad Hoc Distribution - "Whatever the case, Sokirynsky isn’t taking the news lying down. Instead he’s distributing Podcaster using the “Ad Hoc App Distribution” system as an alternate to the App Store."

Convert Avi’s to iPhone mp4’s for free - convert avi to mp4 using vlc

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THE FREE CULTURE GAME - "The Free Culture Game is a game about the struggle between free culture and copyright. Create and defend the common knowledge from the vectorial class. Liberate the passive consumers from the domain of the market." another great game (with a message) by molleindustria.

Bejeweled, Warcraft Combine to Form World's Most Addictive Game - "A version of the match-three game is set to launch next Thursday within the World of Warcraft MMO (massively multiplayer online), letting players kill time with puzzles during raids and long stints farming rare items."

Stepping into a world of hurt - "We tried to take the suck out of it," he said. "It's got the greatest hits of MMOs - 80% of what you know but 20% is new." BUT. sadly only available on PC again. so i am stuck with wow … yet again.

Spore and More: Activate against Electronic Arts - "Electronic Arts (EA) and Amazon have been the targets of a justified online rebellion the last couple weeks. The impetus for the backlash is EA's use of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology in its game Spore.”

Warcraft expansion gets release date - "The second expansion pack for the World of Warcraft (WoW) online game is going on sale from 13 November."

PAKIMONO! - oddly funny mac game, run around naked in copenhagen and jump in front of japanese tourist groups taking pictures.

online video killed the …

The 11 best film moments of Samuel L. Jackson yelling - "Many actors have trademarks in their on-screen performances. Robert DeNiro repeats things, Tom Cruise incredulously smiles and laughs, and Samuel L. Jackson yells."

Rollbots teaser trailer - "The official trailer for Rollbots, a new show coming to The CW4Kids in Febuary 2009!" geeky kids show trailer [via bb]

Two Guys Make Out CNN Lehman Brothers Report - "Two guys in a Howard Stern prank making out on CNN during Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy report."

Meme Breaks 1.0: scratch for great justice - "The Internet's most famous audio samples in DJ-friendly format."

Sneaky cat coming closer while not moving HORROR! - "Awesome vid, this cat is a sneaky bastard. Now with appropriate music ;)"

People Trapping Themselves in Balloons to Seduce You - "Dancing in a bubble — kind of like cage dancing? Just without the uncomfortably in your face slave-girl connotations. So maybe a PG-13 version of cage dancing in the vein of mermaids, fish lips and pirate fantasies?"

Devendra Banhart - Carmensita - watch out for natalie portman in this bollywoodesque music video.

schmooze and abuse

Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' campaign created with Macs - "Metadata found on Microsoft's creative copy used in its 'I'm a PC' ad reveals that the graphics were actually produced using Macs running Adobe Creative Suite 3. After the details were published on the Flickr photo sharing site, Microsoft scrambled to polish off the embarrassing details last night." that’s gotta hurt.

Schöner kleben 2008 - International Sticker Awards - "Forget Christo! Friday, the 3rd october we are celebreting a day of the International Sticker and create an Intervention Memorial: we will wrap the FIT Gallery in Berlin – Freie Internationale Tankstelle (Schwedter Str. 262, Prenzlauer Berg) in a spectacular mass performance with stickers."

Twitter Blog: Changes Afoot - "The most significant change you'll notice on the logged-in homepage (/home) is that we've moved the tabs that were on the top of the timeline to the right sidebar." better, much much better. no rilly.

TwitterKeys: Enhance your Twitter conversations - "TwitterKeys is a small tool we developed here at The Next Web Blog which provides you with a floating window with all these funny symbols you can use in Twitter."

TwitterKeys: the first 48 hours… - "A little more than 24 hours ago we posted a bookmarklet here titled TwitterKeys and then all hell broke loose. Here is what happened before we launched it and what has happened since."

Conflux: Vertical Bed - "During the Conflux weekend, Jamie O'Shea was submitting his body to polyphasic sleep, the practice of sleeping multiple times in a 24-hour period. The artist walked around the Conflux area with his Vertical Bed in a suitcase, found himself a nice spot, anchored his prostheses above subway vents or other rigid contact points and stayed there sleeping in an upright position for 40 minute intervals several times in a day." a fantastic project.

too - sergei brin blogs … so?

The story behind the Palin e-mail hacking - "A tech-savvy reader who monitors the hackers’ site e-mailed me a detailed explanation of how it went down, who was responsible, and how someone with a conscience warned a friend of the Palin family of the crime"

Inside Obama's Emails - "Obama reportedly joined the MoveOn.org mailing list while attending the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston." a timely parody thanx to the onion.

Phone comes preloaded with porn - "A university student who bought a mobile phone found it "contained pornographic images of a female employee from a Cairns Dick Smith Electronics store where she had just bought the phone" omg rofl.

It's Not Gold, Jerry! - "Looks like those Odd Couple ads starring the "comedy" duo of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld are going the way of Windows CE. Adding insult to injury? It isn't Gates that is being eased out. It's Seinfeld."

Cover Lay Down: Covers of The Clash classic Straight to Hell - "My usual pre-post iTunes search called up several great indiefolk and alt-folk covers of Straight to Hell, an underrated, unusually downbeat political song by old-school Britpunk faves The Clash." folksy stuff, in comments there is a M.I.A and a moby version, much better. [via bb]

Financial Melt Up - "In brief: there’s a real economy, and a speculative economy. While they are usually related to each other - even dependent on each other - that relationship changed over the past twenty years." lucid explanation by douglas rushkoff. now i have to decide, what should i start to fabricate?

Top 25 (Non-Obvious) Ways RSS Can Make Your Life Easier - "If you’re looking for ways to more fully incorporate RSS into your technology repertoire, here are 25 applications, sites and ideas that can help you make the most of RSS." led me to flightstats, where i was able to track my wife's trip to mexico … well, it didn’t work with all the features, since only flights in US are fully tracked. but nice stuff.

PMSBuddy.com - The free online PMS reminder - "PMSBuddy.com is a free service created with a single goal in mind: to keep you aware of when your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, daughter, or any other women in your life are closing in on "that time of the month"" bloody hell … they even built a facebook app.

Columbia Heights Suspicious Package: Weird Bear Costume? - "we get this image from Irving and 14th Streets of an odd looking bear costume wearing tattered clothing and posed over a trash can. A lot of our readers are telling us this is the reason for the suspicious package alert."

Pirate Party Official Raided after Uncovering State Trojan - "The spokesperson of the German Pirate Party saw his house raided after the party published a leaked document which showed that the government uses a homemade “trojan” to wiretap Skype conversations."

Chrome on Mac and Linux - "Codeweavers, those cross-system wizards behind Wine, have shown off their prowess by releasing a version of Google’s Chrome to Mac and Linux ahead of Google’s own attempts."

Copy Paste Character - seen this a few month ago, nice reminder

Review Copies of My Next Book - "This is unorthodox, but what the heck? I’d rather do some “pull” media than all that “push” stuff. " order a pre-copy straight from the dude via his blog, me likee.

Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny - "Author and cultural critic Cintra Wilson's forthcoming new book, Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny is a powerful, funny, and scary satirical novel about the nature of politics." i read wilson's previous novel, and this is a sure pre-order for me.

AGDC: Bruce Sterling keynote - "So my PC is like a towel. Cheap and old and the dullest thing in the world, I have always had one. “2008, computer pioneers, they still think computers are exciting!” They don’t get that computers in 2043 are like brick, forks, toothbrushes, towels." odd, but funny.

Banksy Cleans Up - Cave Painting - "The latest work by mysterious street artist Banksy revealed at Leake Street, London this weekend. See the Banksy tag bottom right of the cave. The CCTV cameras above this were wrapped in grey poly bags to protect them from overspray!"

Winterthurer Wirt will mit Muttermilch kochen - "Der Wirt des Restaurant «Storchen» in Iberg bei Winterthur will mit Muttermilch kochen. Laut kantonalem Labor ist das nicht erlaubt – aber auch nicht verboten." swiss chef wants to serve meals cooked with mothers milk. turns out, that is illegal.

Dance Dance Revolutionary INFORMATION - "Dance Dance Revolutionary is an arts initiative that aims to share information about radical activism through fun, participatory activities." they held a angela davis remix contest …

Rats Prefer Organic Food, Shouldn’t You? - "40 lab rats were offered a choice between organic and conventional biscuits by Swiss and Austrian scientists. The rats preferred the organic biscuits, which makes you wonder if rats are smarter than humans."

AirBed & Breakfast: Better Than a Cheap Hotel - "Forget Hotels" a bed and breakfast resource site using web 2.0 elements.

Witchcraft rumor sparks riot at Congo soccer game - "Accusations that a soccer player was using witchcraft during a match in eastern Congo sparked a riot that killed 13 people, a U.N.-funded radio station reported Monday." [via bb]

Top 10 Hip-Hop Songs that Sampled a Video Game - "I researched and tried to find as many hip-hop songs that I could that sampled a video game"

NIN Dazzles With Lasers, LEDs and Stealth Screens - "Nine Inch Nails fans are accustomed to such sonic and visual feasts whenever Reznor and company go out on tour. But this time around, NIN has pulled out all the stops, creating a groundbreaking, fully interactive visual display that is as much a part of the show as the band's instruments."

…and Finally… - "When is a robbery not a robbery but a mere redistribution of wealth? This is the question being tested in a wave of supermarket hold ups in Greece. With food prices soaring, Greek anarchists have decided do something about the problem by becoming modern day Robbin' Hoodies. The latest in a string of raids came last Thursday (4th) when around 20 unarmed people carried out the midday robbery of a supermarket in the northern city of Thesaaloniki."

Jill Greenberg - mcCain reworked

recipe of the week

Recette Raisiné - with one e it’s made from grapes, while Raisinée is made from apple and pear juice.

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Tags: [f]Art pour l'Art, c-word, couchPotato, gadgetMinded, streetArt, web-launch, wwWank by j. zup[ping]er
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