[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited]

online video killed the …

How to pull out a tooth with a rocket… – apparently the son wanted to pull his tooth this way, the question remains, should you let him…

MIA — Paper Planes Brentwood Redux – "All I want to do is watch this video and so will you when you realize M.I.A. has lost her cred and she's living in Suburbia now." nice spoof

cows & cows & cows – coreographed cowbubbles… lololol

OLD SPICE REMIX: by Mike Relm – bitchin'

schmooze and abuse

One-pan wonder recipe – "I continue the tahini theme from last week with an unusual use of tahini as a raw paste rather than the more common diluted sauce." and another yumm.

‘Yes Men’ Use BitTorrent To Avoid Censorship – "The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo who expose the lies and social problems caused by governments and corporations. In their much awarded films they impersonate people in power to bring out the truth. Because the US Chamber of Commerce is suing their asses, they have now turned to BitTorrent to get their message out."

BP Photoshops Another Official Image Terribly – "This week it came to light that BP had photoshopped—poorly—an official image of their crisis command center. Apparently, that wasn't an isolated incident. Let's take a closer look at this view from a helicopter, shall we?"

osymyso: New tracks on Do Or D.I.Y. session. – "I recently made a 10 minute session for the brilliant show, Do Or D.I.Y. presented by People Like Us. The session is 10 minutes long and is comprised of all new osymyso goodness, I've never uploaded any of the bits contained in the mix before" and it’s all good again. osymyso must be the greatest music maker who never made it big. yet.

As Lindsay Lohan heads to jail, other famous faces who've had mugshots. – "The actress, 24, who turned up for prison looking more like a starlet than a jailbird, isn't the only well-known person to have seen the inside of a cell, as a new book highlights."

Fart-operated TV remote – "On Instructables, Schmidtn posted how-to instructions for his Fart Operated Random Channel TV Remote." this, sir, is a must-have!

The DJ Shadow Remix Project- Limited Edition CD – "The DJ Shadow Remix Project began as an experiment to see if we could engage and empower the online remixing community. Initially, Mike (Fiebach, of DJShadow.com) and I figured we'd award a prize through the site, stream a few winning mixes, and leave it at that. Eighty or so submissions later, I started thinking 'Hmm, maybe we should open this up a little.'

Ian Bogost – Cow Clicker – "Cow Clicker is a Facebook game about Facebook games. It's partly a satire, and partly a playable theory of today's social games, and partly an earnest example of that genre."

'The Breakup 2.0:' A look at how new media is used to end relationships – "I was interested in the ways in which people were using new media to break up with each other and also the ways in which new media — which is designed to create connections — creates all sorts of problems when you're using it to disconnect,"

The Physical Transformations Of Maradona & Dunga – pretty cool morphing job

Invaders to Tetris – made in lego now

Jessica Harrison – 2010 – splatter porcelain [via rebel:art]

Patti Smith — Dream Of Life — A film by Steven Sebring – my friend laura plotkin really recommends this documentary, tempted to order it.

Crime Scene : San Francisco's unluckiest thief – "the 31-year-old city resident rode a bicycle up to a woman Monday afternoon in the South of Market neighborhood, snatched an iPhone out of her hands, and then pedaled away. Problem was, the woman was carrying the phone as part of a company's demonstration of a real-time GPS tracking program. If the bandit would have taken a peek at the screen, he would have seen himself traveling across a map of San Francisco."

Ryan Babel’s intriguing story about swimming trunks – "find out exactly what happens when people like Ryan Babel start twatting on Twitter, convinced that other people actually give a tupenny ha’penny about their “hilarious” shopping anecdotes." another total babel fail

Football versus the vuvuzela – "The majority of football clubs look set to jump on the anti-vuvuzela bandwagon by banning the controversial instrument from games next season. Ryman Division One South side Whyteleafe became the first club in the country to officially prohibit the vuvuzela and, since then, others have followed suit." oh boy, this had to happen

Accaspokenword pema yo – acapella rap asking for some producer to work it

Taking Web Humor Seriously, Sort Of – "Goofy pictures of cats, Hitler screaming about Kanye West, Sad Keanu Reeves – these are the products of vast Internet collaboration. And we should take them seriously. Sort of." article might be locked now … ffs

Bill Murray on Ghostbusters 3, Get Low, Ron Howard, and Kung Fu Hustle
– "he is also a man beholden to no one, not the studios, not the audience, not even an agent."

English Premier League clubs ban vuvuzelas – "Fans hoping to replicate that famous vuvuzela World Cup drone back in England face disappointment after several Premier League clubs banned the deafening trumpets from their stadiums." thank god for that…

Glimpse – "Passing through the everyday spaces we inhibit, the door half opened always stirs up a sense of seduction and curiosity within us. Inspired by these ordinary yet inexplicable moments in our daily lives,I designed a mirror that gives an illusion of a door opening on any given surface."

Sergio Ramos: Charity Win, Follicular Fail – "We never want to mock or scorn footballers who take time out from their holidays to do charity work. That’s why we’re saying nothing. Nothing at all. Not a corn-rowed, plaited, braid of a word about Sergio Ramos and his head game situ in Senegal while working with UNICEF."

OFM vegetarian recipe special – "This Sunday’s Observer Food Monthly is a vegetarian special, guest edited by Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney."

The Ghosts of Facebook – "When you die, what happens to your Facebook profile? That’s a question that most Facebookers don’t really think about, but with 500 million members, the problems of death and ghost accounts are becoming very real for the website" might be locked now… ffs

crap at my parents house – "The goal of Crap At My Parents House is to pay homage to all of the weird crap that everyone's parents have. Please help in this project by submitting anything you deem funny, weird, odd, unique, strange, absurd, ridiculous or just plain terrifying."

Why Do Anonymous Geeks Hate Scientologists? – "NYU professor Gabriella Coleman opened this profoundly profanity laced academic talk with a question: why have internet enthusiasts been drawn to denounce Scientology so vehemently for two decades? Scientology, she explained, has provided a perfect nemesis for geekery."

Invisible Paris: Victims of Fashion – "On the Rue du Faubourg du Temple, an original shop sign stands witness to a period when men literally killed for a pair of shoes. These men were known as the Apaches, and they took their clothing very seriously!"

Ricky Gervais takes control – "But why weren't you trying? Was it fear of failure? "Honest answer: I think it was laziness." But you're so unlazy now. "I'm a workaholic." So what happened? "I found something I really loved."

swiss focus

Petition :: Zollgebühren – www.stopp-zollgebuehren.ch

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[teh glorious interweb what got stuck in my :flash: camino tabs this past week]

disturbing image of the week

NSFW: :flash: dragqueen.jpg – think before you click this, the image might get stuck in your head for … nah. its not that bad. or is it?

ff3

:flash: Firefox 3 Robot Themed Easter Egg – “Firefox 3, which was released on Tuesday, has a really cool Easter Egg. Just type “about:robots” in the address bar” [via waxy]

:flash: Mozilla Records 8DOT2 Million Downloads in First Day – “Mozilla’s Download Day ended at 11:18 PDT Wednesday, well on its way to setting its Guinness World Record goal with a staggering 8.2 Million downloads of the Firefox 3 browser — shattering all expectations the company had when organizing the event.”

:flash: What happens when Firefox renders a webpage? – “Inside Gecko is a visualization program created by Satoshi Ueyama, made with Processing which shows the reflow process of a browser while it translates the HTML code so as to present the page to the user.”

:flash: Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008 – “Download Day is here! Set a Guinness World Record Enjoy a Better Web”

comment: ff3 is awesome. but it still drives the cpu through the roof on my mac. so i’ll stick with camino. sadly. still. ffs. they said they fixed this.

online video killed the …

:flash: Slow-Motion Laughing Baby – “He just read last Sunday’s “Doonesbury.” babies are da devil ^^.

:flash: Totlol – Video for Toddlers, Infants, Preschoolers and Parents – “Totlol is a brand new community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years.” [via frenzy]

:flash: the Trons – self playing robot band – “the Trons practising “Sister Robot” in the lounge before their up and coming Ignition Fringe Festival shows!” botband rawks.

:flash: Breitbild.com – mach si stolz – cool animations for a mediocre swiss german hip hop track. not sure if it’s homophobic, towards the end you can spot a graffiti reading “fag”.

:flash: NSFW: A Beginners Guide To Sporn – “Since the Spore demo’s release, it’s become a bukkake wave sweeping the web: comedy pornographic images via Spore. Spornography – aka “Sporn”.”

:flash: my trip to liberty city – old. but still very funny. download it here.

:flash: PROOF
“Montage of girls giving the “Myspace salute” to verify their identity”

schmooze and abuse

:flash: Read at Work – literature presented as power point presentations so it can be read at work.

:flash: Why You Should Carry a Digital Camera At All Times – “Last Tuesday, Lori Mehmen looked out her front door in Orchard, Iowa and this is what she saw. She had a digital camera handy, and somehow managed to take this photo before crapping her pants and taking cover.”

:flash: hillmancurtis :: bridge – another rather nice hillman curtis short film.

:flash: The Microfame Game and The New Rules of Internet Celebrity – “There’s a new class of celebrity powered by the Internet. The stakes are smaller, but the rewards are within anyone’s reach. These are the rules.” [via swissmiss]

:flash: Age of Conan and other reviews – “And maybe that’s why it has sold so well – hardcore PC gamers finally have a game to really show off their machines.” yeh, and by not playing it manifest my hate of all things microsoft …

:flash: GIRL TALK – FEED THE ANIMALS – new mashup album, free to download, donations for the impending legal fees are already collected.

:flash: Puzzle Farter – exactly my kind of game: the goal is to fart about from level to level [via waxy]

:flash: Stewart Butterfield’s bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo – “In a long, rambling email to Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse, under whose aegis Flickr fell, Butterfield described the company as a tin-smithing concern, but found that there was no place for him as the company left its metallurgical roots.”

:flash: Charles and Ray Eames Stamps – “the Postal Service™ issued 42–cent commemorative stamps Charles and Ray Eames in a commemorative sheet featuring 16 different designs.” [via bb]

:flash: Swiss TV in German anthem blunder – “Swiss television has made an embarrassing error during live coverage of the European Championship football match between Germany and Austria” *chuckle*

:flash: SporeVote – “As part of marketing effort they have us competing for votes – the winner gets to donate 15K to the charity of their choosing.” how rather noble.

:flash: Accidental Breast Reduction Strikes Age of Conan – “uncom has stated that the changes to female characters’ breasts was an unintended side effect of the latest patch, and will be rectified shortly.” oh noes, smaller tits? one of the biggest selling points lost? fix that! now!

:flash: Blogger arrests hit record high – “More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report.”

:flash: The IKEA Fancy Dress Dinner Party – “Oh! Those IKEA room displays! Entire rooms full of furniture, lighting, rugs and notions. [...] It was an invitation that Jason Adair couldn’t pass up. He decided to have a Fancy Dress Party at IKEA.”

:flash: Naked Bike Ride 2008 – “i’m not naked you’re over dressed”

german

:flash: Neues iPhone kann fast alles, was ein normales Handy kann – “Allein die Tatsache, dass man jetzt im iPhone Namen suchen kann, indem man den Anfangsbuchstaben eingibt! Wow! Das kenne ich sonst nur von… jedem beliebigen anderen Handy” my point exactly.

ze’s corner

:flash: charity idea revised – “We could call it “Made of Money”. Basic concept: Money is collected and used as an art supply or building material for participatory installation(s), then at the end the money is donated to a charity.”

:flash: a fun charity idea – “we could build a small house out of spare change. we collect coins, then have an event where people can come and help build the house. Then when it’s over the money is donated to a charity that builds/operates homeless shelters.”

:flash: rational triggers for the emotoself – phrases people tell themselves to get motivated. and while i agree that my “mantra” (“i just wanna die”) is not exactly helping, this does sound a bit too new-agey-self-helpy to me. still cool to read through some of them.

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a new variant to the game: 1 search-term = 4 images: can you guess the word?
more like so –> GGG

GGG has been running for 2 month. we have published 50 GGG-strips.
thats 23 3-word-strips, 23 4-word-strips, and a few odd ones. monkeypunk [3] and Phlow [2], silverfang and TOmaxwell have suggested or contributed GGG-strips, the others were done by yours truely…
all of the puzzles have been solved – by a total of 14 people.
a few people have played for awhile and then dissappeared, others have stuck around quite some time…
here is how it breaks down:

phlow: 13
cory: 9
rrothechild VII: 5
worthy_m & monkeypunk: 4 each
Josella: 3
Jack, wurzeltod, RRT & habi 2 each
another road side attraction, Padd, Steve & Scott Tarpley: 1 each

now, if google would finally come around and see the beauty of this game and start to sponsor it, we would now proceed to hand to the top 3 players their hard-earned google shares… he he
[anyone has good connections to google and could line this up?]

here’s my favorite answer to a strip so far: this was an answer to strip: GGG031: 3 words 15. to this Anonymous answered: “A Cat”
awwwwww, thats sooo cute, no?

the search-engine-situation: around july 1. images.google.com has started to behave strangely. to put it mildly…
while before the result pages were very stable and reliable, now they seem to switch around more often.
this has made the game almost impossible at times, more of a lottery.
one problem is, if you’re trying to solve older GGG-strips, they wont check out any longer.
from what i observed, this is what seems to happens:
for any given search term there appear to be 2 sets of results pages.
these get switched every few hours or so. some images appear on both result pages.
for the sake of the game to work well, it would have to be these common images, that get used to make the GGG-strips.
but sometimes this is not possible for various reasons: the image is a give-away – it’s only a thumpnail leading to a dead link – no one image appears in both sets of results – its much more time consuming to make a GGG-strip.
and there is a more serious problem: every set amounts of days [have not figured that interval yet] google does a major re-shuffle of the search results, after which older GGG-strips do no longer check out.

i am not sure what to do. sometimes i am tempted to give up. also because i am slowly running out of ideas for new puzzles.
i need some feedback, please…

what can we do about the image.google.com problem?
shall we keep going anyway?
will more people start to contribute puzzles? please?
what should we, could we, change, make better, stop doing?

at any rate, i am quite pleased about this project. it was featured under yahoo new additions [maybe that pissed google off?] and quite a few blogs mentioned it.
i would also be interested to find out how people found the game?

i have not mentioned this project here for awhile:

can you guess what it says?

more like so? GGG[GoogleGuessingGame]

oh man. its pathetic. *moan* *bitch* *moan*

my interweb projects so far have all been jokes, no-go-zones, digital wastelands, with just the occasional search-engine-bot passing through. [at least the bots never failed to show up...] all failures, ’til recently, finally, when a project of mine started to pick up some nice traffic. but then, what do you know, *bam*, the “interweb” killed it.

i am talking about GoogleGuessingGame.net.
it went quite well and was alot of fun – before image.google.com decided to go all gay weird…

GoogleGuessingGame relied on image.google searches to create and later solve the image puzzles. a few days ago, all of a sudden, the search result pages have become totally unstable, shuffeling the result pages around eachtime.

maybe, just maybe, this could have something to do with the fact, that the game was playing with a “flaw” of sorts in the image.google engine. i mean, there is of course no reason that a given search term should return the same results eachtime. [but it always did, up until recently...]
and then maybe it did not help that yahoo took the game into its “whats new?” latest addition section…

but lets neither get grandiose nor paranoid here…
fact is that the game is not working anymore and this makes me quite sad …

can you guess what it says?

more like so? GGG[GoogleGuessingGame]

GGG – the blog
well, lookee here: its a new microsite/blog where the GGG-strips will get published from now on…
feel free to check it out and pass it on please…

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what does it say?

answer: still open. answer @ GGG microsite please

hints: in latin – [click more if you need more hints!] i think this one is almost too obvious – it has something to do with what is happening in bern switzerland this weekend

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what does it say?
answer: the solution was found. bravo monkeypunkie! in comments…

what is this: [GGG [=short for googleguessinggame] is a simple word guessing game: image.googling a slogan/pharse/saying/title – each word gets an image.google – from the top search result page one image per word gets chosen – can you guess what it is saying? – answers in comments]

hints: in english – [click more if you need more hints!] claim of a big multinational company – evil

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what does it say?
answer: still open…

what is this: GGG [=short for googleguessinggame] is a simple word guessing game: image.googling a slogan/pharse/saying/title – each word gets an image.google – from the top search result page one image per word gets chosen – can you guess what it is saying? – answers in comments
hints: 4 words [duh] – in german – film title