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Beastie Boy Mike D explains Illin’ on the Colbert Report – “Mike D. of Beastie Boys made a guest appearance on “The Colbert Report” last night, but not to perform. Stephen Colbert invited him on to settle a recent disagreement between New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz and blogger Julieanne Smolinski.”

BLUE VELVETTE (David Lynch rap) – “Music video for “BLUE VELVETTE” by Cancer Merchant”

Somebody That I Used to Know – Walk off the Earth – 4 Guys and 1 Girl – 1 Guitar has nothing to do wth 2 Girls 1 Cup. Or does it?

George Mason University Green Machine plays Rage – Marching Band plays Rage against the Machine. That girl, dancing too enthusiastic, I hate that, but other than that, nice.

#learn

Oakland cops complicit in covering name-badges at Occupy protests disciplined – “both the cop and his supervisor have been disciplined for their roles in the incident (the cop for covering his badge, the supervisor for failing to report the illegal conduct). The supervisor, formerly a lieutenant, has been busted down to sergeant, and the officer has been suspended for a month”

glitchr turns facebook bugs into art – “glitchr, a project undertaken by lithuanian laimonas zakas, uses unicode characters to exploit programming bugs of common web destinations (including facebook, tumblr, and google), resulting in visually interesting textual digital art that overwrites the standardized formatting generally used by these sites.”

i’m fucking it – yeh sure, ronald

Bank of America ATMs In San Francisco Turned Into Truth Machines – “RAN activists took to the streets of San Francisco last night and turned every Bank of America ATM in the city into an Automated Truth Machine.”

Could You Be Addicted To The Internet? [POLL] – “Overall, our findings indicate that Internet addiction disorder has abnormal white matter integrity in brain regions involved in emotional generation and processing, executive attention, decision making and cognitive control”

The Valencia Street Swing – “A few weeks ago, some folks hung this swing from a tree branch across the street from Summit Cafe and it somehow managed to survive until late this afternoon.”

106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos – Year 2011 – “And thats some of the most beloved Street Art Photos posted in 2011 on Street Art Utopia!”

Bathtub Self-Portraits in Unusual Locations by Mariko Sakaguchi – “Japanese artist Mariko Sakaguchi photographs herself sitting in a bathtub in unusual locations like lecture halls, film sets, and offices.”

Designy Temporary Tattoos — Enamorado – “Look at this happy gentleman, with a spring in his step and but one thing on his mind: Love!” <3

New Facebook app lets you choose your last words. – “If I Die lets “you” post a final message to your wall and loved one when you’re dead. After installing the app, you choose three “trustees” (Facebook friends) who are charged with verifying your death.”

swissted – “drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters.”

LEGO stop-motion marriage proposal – “a proposal in stop motion by firepit productions”

Dutch ISPs Ordered To Block The Pirate Bay – “Despite claims that freedom of expression is at stake, today a pair of ISPs have been ordered to block The Pirate Bay. Following a demand from Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, the Court of The Hague ruled that Ziggo, the largest ISP in the Netherlands, and competitor XS4ALL have to block subscriber access to the world’s most famous torrent site.”

The End of the World – “Planet Earth, Every Street Description: And even if nothing happens, it will still be worth a laugh.” I’m attending. You?

How to Start a Revolution – “His booklet From Dictatorship to Democracy (which you can download as a PDF) provide a list of 198 “non-violent weapons”, including mock awards, alternative communication system, wearing of symbols, pray-in, boycott of elections, withdrawal of bank deposits, consumers’ boycott, renouncing honours, etc.”

The Restart Page – Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems – simulates restarts of old OS … nifty

Helmets Experiments – Includes a Balls, a Heads and a Sexual Collection. Yeh Balls Balls not Balls. Thinking of which, under Sexual there could be a balls version.

LIVE ! – album covers minus the dead ones

2011: The Year in Kickstarter – “So many exciting things happened on Kickstarter in 2011 that we had to celebrate. We scoured the site for the most fascinating stories of the year and we’re thrilled to share them with you here. Thanks!”

gracia studio: endémico resguardo silvestre – “scattered along the sloping terrain of valle de guadalupe, mexico, ‘endémico resguardo silvestre’ is a cluster of twenty hotel rooms, designed by san diego-based practice gracia studio.”

Les planètes du Système Solaire en chocolat – japanese chocolate candy looking like our planets, minus the ring of saturn

#lang:de

Wirtschaft voller Widersprüche – “Wo immer in unserem heutigen Wirtschaftssystem Regeln und Regulierungen von Vertretern der freien Marktwirtschaft propagiert werden, sollten wir kritisch sein. Es handelt sich häufig um einen billigen Bluff um eigene Interessen zu kaschieren, und dieses Metier beherrschen unsere Wirtschaftsexperten ja bekanntlich blendend.”

An den Originalschauplätzen – “Bei aller unterschiedlicher Einschätzung der Vorgänge, die zum Rücktritt von Nationalbankpräsident Philipp Hildebrand führten, lieferten die letzten Wochen einen erhellenden Einblick in die Mechanismen der Medien.”

Okkupiert die Ehe! – “Die Ehe ist out. Wer noch an sie glaubt, ist hoffnungslos romantisch. Junge Paare, die heiraten wollen, gelten als reaktionär. Eine Rettung ihres Rufes könnte die Öffnung der Ehe sein: mehr sprechen über das ganz Private.”

Watchlist: Inges Idee” – “Auf der heutzutage sehr heterogen genutzten, ehemals für die Stadt Berlin repräsentativen Potsdamer Straße werden auf einer Länge von 2 km sieben innerstädtische Situationen verdoppelt.”

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Pretty much every day i receive a notice from my flickr activity feed stating in not many more words “DEPRESSED added as favorite”.

I have to admit I find it quite depressing that this should be my most favored photo on flickr…

Not much more uplifting, but at least a little more indignado, in second place is “FRUSTRATED“. Maybe you can help me start a race to get FRUSTRATED to take the lead? Please visit and click favorite here:

Both photos are from 2007 Isabelle Krieg: KRIEG MACHT LIEBE at the Musee PasquArt in Biel-Bienne. The complete sentence that she created with tree branches was “REFUSE TO BE DEPRESSED OR FRUSTRATED”.

Twenty six years ago today my sister Sabin committed suicide. It is a sad day still for us, her family, and maybe some of her friends. But at the same time I still fully respect her decision to end her life young, she was twenty one at the time. She went out with dignity, with her ideals in tact, before life could corrupt her into heavy compromise and jaded routine.

Today in these harsh times with an uncertain future I more than ever stand in favor of every persons right to commit suicide. Over the years I flipflopped several times on the issue. Doubts about the ethical implications of such an act, influenced by some religious and spiritual reflections, made me hesitate. Then the violence and aggression involved made me turn against it. But now I am back and fully convinced, every person has the unquestionable right to end their life at the time they deem right. Of course this should not happen as a rash decision, as is often the case in teenage suicides. With teenagers it may most often not be the right decision and everything has to be done to prevent it. But if an adult takes the educated decision to end their life, for whatever reason really, they should be allowed to do so.

In recent times, with the #Occupy Movement turning me back into the political animal that I have always been, I have consulted my old favorite utopian model again, bolo’bolo. One central element in that book is called “nugo”, a gold capsule, protected by a combination lock, that contains a deadly poison. Every Individual can wear one of these around their neck and use it when they need to. The sentence that sticks out: Life is a fatal error to begin with and there is no greater horror than not being able to die [translation mine]. Ignore the 80s pathos for a moment, if you can, but this really does say it all, we are just trying to do our best here, but the nightmare that is our existence can become so overwhelming, that no one can be blamed for wanting to take a sexy exit.

R.I.P. Sabin

nagu: “Every ibu gets a capsule with a deadly poison, and can commit suicide whenever it wants. It can also demand aid for this purpose.”

nugo

Das nugo ist eine Goldkapsel, 3,7 cm lang und 0,9 cm im Durchmesser, die mit einem Drehkombinationsschloss gesichert ist, dessen siebenstellige Code-Zahl nur das betreffende ibu selbst kennt, und die eine bei Einnahme sofort tödliche Substanz enthält. Jedes ibu kann sein nugo von seinem bolo jederzeit beziehen, ähnlich wie das taku. Das ibu kann das nugo zusammen mit den taku-Schlüsseln an einer Halskette tragen, damit es sofort erreichbar ist, wenn es aus bolo’bolo aussteigen möchte. Wenn das ibu wegen einer Lähmung oder Verletzung sein nugo nicht selbst einnehmen kann, sind die ibus verpflichtet (siehe: sila), ihm dabei zu helfen.

Wenn das ibu genug von bolo’bolo, nima, yalu, fasi, yaka und anderem hat, dann hat es immer die Möglichkeit, endgültig zu verschwinden und dem (Reform-)Alptraum zu entkommen. Es soll nicht die Ausrede haben, dass es zum Leben verpflichtet sei, weil es Verantwortung für bolo’bolo oder andere ibus trage.

Das nugo erinnert das ibu daran, dass auch bolo’ bolo keinen Sinn hat, dass niemand und keine Gesellschaftsform dem ibu in seiner Verlassenheit und Verzweiflung helfen kann. Das Leben ist zum vorneherein ein fataler Fehler und es gibt keinen grösseren Schrecken als nicht sterben zu können.

This was part of some school art project, a performance of sorts. The woman walked around this chalk circle for 30 minutes.

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#stilloccupyingyourinternetz

Occupy News Bin – “I spent most of Thanksgiving creating a diorama of the UC Davis pepper spray incident which was installed in an empty newspaper bin on Market Street this morning (Black Friday).”

PEPPER SPRAYING COP – “Little did we know that Pepper Spraying Cop has cracked down on so many famous moments in history!!”

Occupy HOPE V2 – Shepard Fairey re-touches the Occupy Hope Design after receiveing feedback.

N.Y.P.D. Stops Reporters With Badges and Fists – “Over several days, New York cops have arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at reporters and photographers.”

UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident, Four Perspectives – Seen from 4 different angles, split screen

Occupy Wall St – The Revolution Is Love – “Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says ‘more for you is less for me.’ But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. This shift of consciousness is universal in everybody, 99% and 1%.”

We Are Many by Amir Amirani – “We Are Many is a documentary about the never-before-told story of the biggest protest in history, on 15 February 2003, and its legacy, through the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement. The day that saw an estimated 30 million people in over 700 cities around the world, gave birth to a new global social movement.”

MK12 ZeroFilm NYC Open – Occupy as Pong

Occupy Lulz – “Everything becomes a meme, eventually: Occupy Lulz.”

UC Davis Chancellor Kotehi walks to her car – UC Davis Students confront Chancellor Kotehi in silence as she walks to her car (higher quality). In reaction to the Pepper Spray Attacks on Friday.

Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis – “During peacefully Occupy Movement, police came in to tear down tents and proceeded to arrest students who stood in their way. Once students peacefully demanded the release of the arrested, a police officer unnecessarily pepper sprays the students to open a path for the rest of the officers”

Ray Lewis interviewed by wearetheother99 – respect

I love the 99% protesters! – “Good people, doing good things. I love you guys, and hope nobody else gets hurt!=/ My dad helped me make this because I’m still little.:( When I get a bit older, I’ll make loads more videos, and have my own channel!:)” 8 year old makes a video for the 99 %, with some help by her dad…

#watch and

#learn

The Nicest Place on the Internet – free hugs

LEGO logo for times magazine by sachiko akinaga – “japanese LEGO artist sachiko akinaga’s
sculpture of the iconic ‘T’ of new york times magazine”

Sleep Headphones – “Fall asleep faster – drug free! Block out snoring – without painful ear plugs! Relax with music – stress free!” is this the answer to my prayers?

Woman pepper sprays other Black Friday shoppers – “A woman trying to improve her chance to buy cheap electronics at a Walmart in a wealthy suburb spewed pepper spray on a crowd of shoppers and 20 people suffered minor injuries, police said Friday.” smells like a hoax

Flash Rob – “It’s a fad that started in Washington, D.C. back in April, when around 20 people filed into a high-end jeans store in Dupont Circle and quickly made off with $20,000 in stock.” I am tempted to find this way cool. But hey, my shoplifting days are way way back in the past.

Nude photo blogger reported to general prosecutor – “Blogger Aliaa El-Mahdy is seeing a backlash after a nude photo she took of herself and posted online spreads across the internet”

All Together Now – Everything the Beatles ever did. by ramjac – “Every Beatles tune, played together, sequenced in order of lengths, with the longest starting first and all 226 tunes ending together.”

Is the end of the world really nigh? – “Science is moving ever closer to understanding how, and when, humanity may be extinguished”

No time for novels – should we ditch fiction in times of crisis? – “When our daily news is apocalyptic, it’s irresponsible to read made-up stories. It’s time to start reading the serious stuff instead”

#lang:de

Die »Zeitgeistbewegung« bei den »Occupy«-Protesten – “Eine dieser Gruppierungen nennt sich »Zeitgeistbewegung«. Sie wurde 2007 von dem in den USA lebenden Peter Joseph gegründet, propagiert eine Abkehr von jeder Politik und Ideologie und will mit technischen Mitteln das nebulöse Ziel einer »ressourcenbasierten Wirtschaft ohne Geld« erreichen. Joseph stammt aus dem politischen Umfeld des rechtslibertären Politikers Ron Paul.”

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#occupy highlights (and some lowlights)

Interview with creator of Occupy Wall Street “bat-signal” projections during Brooklyn Bridge #N17 march – “Here’s a partial video of a beautiful sequence of light projections that appeared on the side of the Verizon building while tens of thousands of Occupy Wall Street participants marched across the Brooklyn Bridge tonight.” total absolute 99% highlight of the week. get #denisevega trending.

Shepard Fairey Doesn’t Get Occupy Wall St – “Recently, Shepard Fairey explained how he’s down with Occupy Wall Street and their message, but it’s hard to believe he ever bothered to understand what the movement is all about on even the most fundamental level in light of this new illustration he did to show “his support.”” yes. i have to say i agree, that obey does not get occupy. lowlight of the week.

UFO: Unidentified Flying Occupation. Tents float over UC Berkeley after cops trash encampment. – We are not allowed to pitch our tents? no problem, we will make them float … ha!

Occupy London takes over empty UBS bank – live – “Protesters open new front in anti-banking campaign They plan to use buildings as ‘Bank of Ideas’ Corporation to take St Paul’s camp to high court next week” this does feel like the next step. wish all countries had the same squatting laws as england.

Occupiers set up Occupy tent inside – “Yo, dawg, I heard you like occupations… so I pitched a tent inside your bank while you occupy the bank! ” tent turning into the symbol of the occupy movement.

the raid on zuccotti park – the police raid on liberty square set to frank sinatra’s new york new york.

Statement of Autonomy | NYC General Assembly – “We welcome all, who, in good faith, petition for a redress of grievances through non-violence. We provide a forum for peaceful assembly of individuals to engage in participatory as opposed to partisan debate and democracy. We welcome dissent.” I admire the egoless stance of thsi statement.

Inside Occupy Wall Street’s (Kinda) Secret Media HQ – “The revolution may never be televised, but if Occupy activists in a semi-secret media war room in New York’s Bowery district have their way, it will be livestreamed.”

Occupy Wall Street: you can’t evict an idea whose time has come | JM Smucker, Rebecca Manski, Karanja Gaçuça, Linnea M Palmer Paton, Kanene Holder, William Jesse – “It does not matter. We will reclaim our streets block by block: we will occupy our public spaces, everywhere, knowing that this idea cannot be evicted.”

Occupy Wall Street Loses Legal Bid to Rebuild in Zuccotti Park – Quinn Norton on how it all went down for occupywallstreet, temporary injunction, then overruled …

Occupy Zurich Eviction Circle 15-11-11 – “Occupiers form a circle at Occupy Zurich in face of Police Eviction. Pacific resistance in face of State Repression.”

2- Occupy Bern Bundesplatz 11.11.11 – our occupy bern efforts in video form.

Exclusive Video: Inside Police Lines at the Occupy Wall Street Eviction – “I just want to witness what is going on here,” I yelped. “You can witness it with the rest of the press,” he said. Which, of course, meant not witnessing it.”

Inside Occupy Wall Street – “How a bunch of anarchists and radicals with nothing but sleeping bags launched a nationwide movement” nice overview of the occupywallstreet movement focusing on the historical elements

Occupy With Aloha – “I sweetly sang lines like “You enforce your monopolies with guns/ While sacrificing our daughters and sons/ But certain things belong to everyone/ Your thievery has left the people none”. ”

Is Jay-Z Trying To Profit From Occupy Wall Street? – “‘Occupy All Streets’ is our way of reminding people that there is change to be made everywhere, not just on Wall Street. At this time we have not made an official commitment to monetarily support the movement.” and that’s another lowlight. of course.

#watch and

Losers – “A film about bullying.”

DJ Shadow – Scale It Back – music video using Memory Man

24 hours in Dubai – “A 24 hour timelapse of Downtown Dubai, starting at 4am local time on 11/11/11″

#learn

ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Platform – “Ever get frustrated that Twitter doesn’t let you simply search for your own Tweet from a year ago? ThinkUp’s got you covered.” and many more functionalities.

Marshall McLuhan ‘The Medium Is The Massage’ reissue – “‘The Medium Is The Massage’ celebrating 100 years of McLuhan‘s record of the book”

new york shots – “shots captured with disposable cameras left in new york’s lovely parks. SUPPORT THIS PROJECT – jump to my kickstarter” this so reminds me of photobots we used in the cyberhelvetia project

LEGO recycling containers by flussocreative – “‘leco’ is a system of recycling and storage containers, utilizing the look and practical design of LEGO building blocks.” these look a bit clunky but awesome.

Radiohead reveal three more King Of Limbs remixes – “After the release of the Radiohead remix vinyls and the album TKOL RMX 1234567, Radiohead reveal three more remixes from Anstam, Nathan Fake and Jamie xx.”

Switzerland Legalizing Up To 4 Marijuana Plants January 1 – “Citizens of Switzerland will soon be allowed to grow up to four marijuana plants each at home, according to government officials. Four people sharing a house can grow up to 16 plants, but only if each person tends to their own crop.”

Le Sibère Carnet de Christophe Courtois: cinéma – this guy assembled some movie posters to astonishing effect

Miranda July / It chooses You – “miranda july selling pairs of things, probably gives away her book”

Its a MIRACLE! Take that…. Jesus toast. – jesus spotted on a dogs asshole

Meanwhile, 6th And Mission – comic by wendy macnaughton compares 6th and mission with 5th and mission: “A block away. a universe away”

Nazi Bunker to Become Europe’s Largest Solar Power Plant – “A former Nazi bunker located in the Wilhelmsburg district of Hamburg, Germany is about to get a full-scale makeover. The building, which sorta looks like a giant LEGO, is set to become Europe’s largest renewable energy power plant.” I resist … I resist … and finally can’t conatin this joke in very bad taste, Solar Heil.

Sierra Zulu | Communism is not an opinion, it is a promise! – “A ragtag UN peacekeeping force operates a small camp guarding the no-man’s-land between Austria and the tiny agrarian microstate Soviet Unterzoegersdorf, the last existing bastion of the defunct Soviet Union. When an explosion occurs deep inside Soviet territory, the team is dragged into a bizarre conspiracy of industrial espionage, media madness and political intrigue.” monochrom make a movie.

Hepatitis C: The Last Chimpanzee Research Battleground – “the one remaining exception, the ground over which the deciding scientific and ethical battles will be fought, is hepatitis C.” not in my name.

Powerbags charge your gadgets wherever, whenever – “Powerbag creates a number of different products, which are all fully equipped with a charging system, including a battery, Apple connector, micro and mini USB connectors and an on-board USB post, meaning your bag will be able to charge up to four devices at all times.” Great, now make one with included solar panels.

PleaseCycle: ‘air miles’ for cyclists – “PleaseCycle is a new London start-up that allows organisations to reward their employees for cycling instead of taking fossil fuel-guzzling transport to work.” awesome

24 hours in photos – “This installation by Erik Kessels is on show as part of an exhibition at Foam in Amsterdam that looks at the future of photography. It features print-outs of all the images uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period…”
Michihiro Matsuoka
“These mechanical animals are the creation of Japanese artist and sculptor Michihiro Matsuoka”

Metrics used to track tweets, Elven – “The intelligence analysts… are tasked with sifting through millions of tweets, Facebook messages, online chat logs, and other public data on the World Wide Web to glean insights into the collective moods of regions or groups abroad.”

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#occupy resources

The San Francisco Sheriff That Shot Scott Olsen – the photo is so obviously photoshopped that I reserve some doubts.

If I can’t wear a short skirt, I don’t want your revolution – “Advising women to avoid arousing potential rapists is a gross misunderstanding of the nature of sexual violence.”

Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating – “People don’t want handouts. It’s not a class uprising and they don’t want civil war — they want just the opposite. They want everyone to live in the same country, and live by the same rules. It’s amazing that some people think that that’s asking a lot.”

Occupy Wall Street is not a Protest but a Prototype – “That’s what makes Occupy so very scary and so very promising. It is not a protest, but a prototype for a new way of living.”

The Occupied Wall Street Journal | – It now has a website. Great Job

L.I. Couple Seeks Trademark For – “Citing the potential of “Occupy Wall Street” to become a “global brand,” a Long Island couple has filed to trademark the name of the amorphous organization responsible for the protests and encampments in lower Manhattan and other U.S. cities” so cynical

OCCUPIED! PieceOPlastic – The Revolution Will Be Blogged | – occupy the interweb, one website at a time

I’m Getting Arrested – Android One-Click App That Lets People Know You’ve Been Arrested

Banksy Artwork for Occupy London Movement – “The Occupy London Movement has received a nice gift in the form of a sculpture from none other than artist Banksy it seems. The artist presents his take on the Monopoly game with Uncle Pennybags looking for a handout.”

Drumming and the Occupation – “Drumming has a loud voice in Liberty Square. Pulse is an important piece of our movement – they are integral to marches, morale, and the general mood of energy we have created. But many within Liberty Square feel as though their voice is being drowned out by the drumming, that it has become difficult to have the conversations that they think are important.”

Anonymous_-_ Survival_Guide_for_Citizens_in_a_Revolution – time to go shopping supplies yet?

A cultural thought experiment – “The diminishing marginal utility law dictates that the more money we have, the less utility we get from any additional incremental gain. And this bites the top 1% very hard indeed.”

An Overview of the Euro Crisis – “European leaders are meeting this week to deal with growing debt problems rattling investors worldwide. Here is a visual guide to the crisis.” The infographic of infographics, precise, clear, informative.

#watch and

“Lord Cain,” by Tim Heidecker (music) – “Because Herman Cain’s actual campaign ads just aren’t weird enough: “Lord Cain,” an opus by Tim Heidecker”

War Costs – “we want to introduce you to the elite among the gang of superrich: the war profiteers. War industry CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, putting them in the top 0.01 percent of income earners in the U.S.”

Fox News UK at the Occupy LSX – “Fox News UK’s Don Ronson reporting from the front line at the Occupy London Stock Exchange protest and meeting the proto-fascist hippy-sludge head on.” good fox mock [via b3ta]

Eclectic Method – Zombies – “Zombies mashup for the halloweenin’” ffffffffssssspoooky

android dreams – “A tribute to Ridley Scott and Vangelis, whose atmospheric work on Blade Runner has been a huge source of inspiration in my shooting time lapses”

Steve Jobs’ iBiography flies off the shelves – “Will Apple carry out Jobs’ goal of waging “thermonuclear war” on Android?” the korean animation version of the steve jobs biography

RAW VIDEO: Ground footage of Occupy Oakland march and crowd dispersal – coverage from Oakland, towards the end of the clip you can see protesters trying to help an injured person on the ground, the group are shot with teargas.

#learn

Let’s not make money – “a few great films that bring context to the current uprising and related issues.” list of 10 films/documentaries addressing the issues the occupy movement is about.

50 of the World’s Best Breakfasts – I tortured myself and watched through all these. Had a flare up from just watching, I think

Google Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back – “There’s no easy solution. Should a company be expected to maintain features indefinitely because a tiny fraction of their base loves them? There are tangible costs to maintaining old code, and fringe features can clutter an interface, making user experience worse for those that don’t use them.”

Submarine Cable Map – who owns the submarine cables?

Visual Trace Route Tool – Find, Track, and Map the Route to an IP Address – trace route tool

Artist Keiichi Matsuda assigns people fake personalities via Kinect – “The installation explores the construction and broadcast of identity online,” Matsuda told Wired.co.uk. “With social media, we create virtual personas through posting updates, keywords, links, and also by our connections and associations. We wanted to expose this digital aura, while questioning how this new way of defining ourselves may start to trap and enmesh us.”

energy efficient smart thermostat: nest – “‘nest’ is a sensing, automatic energy-saving thermostat, developed by the california-based nest labs company
founded by tony fadell and matt rogers.” it also learns your preferences. and it looks goddamn great.

Performance Artist Gives Birth at Brooklyn Gallery – “While she was expecting, about twenty people a day stopped by for a visit. The gallery won’t say how many actually witnessed the creation of the 9-pound, 2-ounce, 21-inch, flesh and blood work, nor will they release photos and video… yet.”

Kick Other Devices off a Wi-Fi Network with WiFiKill on Android – “The app disables the connection of other devices on the same Wi-Fi network” sounds evil.

Triticum Fever, by Dr. William Davis, author of Wheat Belly – “Modern wheat is the altered offspring of thousands of genetic manipulations, crude and sometimes bizarre techniques that pre-date the age of genetic modification.” Literally all my favorite food items contain weat, pasta, pizza, cookies, pies … this diet would kill me

Giant Lego Man washes ashore in Florida – “”No real than you are.” This suggests it has the same origin as Lego men who washed ashore in Zandvoort, Holland, three years ago, and then in Brighton, England.”

She Was A Camera – “As an early online community, camgirls learned to both live on and produce the web together. We were our own audience.”

Channel Four livestreams the devouring of a hippo – “If you’re looking for a video to watch while munching your sandwiches at lunchtime, why not head over to Channel Four to watch a live feed of a maggoty hippo being devoured?” No thank you

The building that will take 80 years to grow – “A Swedish design firm has created a two-storey retreat for students at a campus in Milan, but it will take 80 years to grow.”

I’M BANKSY – photographer Kim Guthrie portraits people wearing “i’m Banksy” tshirts

Prune Nourry’s Cow Humanoid Takes the Ganges – “Nourry continues to remix cultural mythology for Holy River by working with local artisans to build an 18-foot-high sculpture out of the clay from the Ganges, traditional trimmings and one hefty guilt trip.” can’t resist to say holy cow to that.

You are the Power of Open: 2011 Creative Commons Annual Campaign – It’s that time of the year again, yay, another CC tshirt soon

Update: Florian Rivière – More awesome Guerilla urbaine interventions

SKANDAL! BRONCO NACKT! – Berlin street artist Bronco pastes a stencil while he was naked. The stencil says he was naked while he did this. See what he did there?

Authors on Anarchism – an Interview with Alan Moore – “It was later, as I went into my twenties and started to think about things more seriously that I came to a conclusion that basically the only political standpoint that I could possibly adhere to would be an anarchist one.”

USA vs. The Rest of the World – “Dear, United States. This is how the rest of us see your measurement system.”

KALIBER10000 – “Having gratefully enjoyed every millisecond of that fifteen year run, its time has come and so we must bid adieu to Barney and the clan.” k10k pulls the plug

Miranda July: ‘Take a moment to connect with a stranger’ – “Sigh now in preparation”

The deification of Steve Jobs is Apple’s greatest marketing triumph to date – “Apple pays just £3.99 for the production of your £600 iPhone, and it is the workers who pay for their – and our – greed, so we can tweet and be moving dots on a map. As Mike Daisey said, also in the New York Times, Jobs could have done something about this. He could have really changed the world. He chose not to.”

#lang:de

Jetzt kann sich jeder einen Wasserwerfer bauen – “Die Zürcher Stadtpolizei verkauft neuerdings Wasserwerfer. Die Endmontage erweist sich als Herausforderung für Bastler.”

Petition Reitschule: Bleib, wie du bist! – “Ich sage «JA» zu einer lebendigen, alternativen und einzigartigen Reitschule, wie ich sie heute kenne und schätze. Reitschule: Bleib, wie du bist!”

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A friend of a friend pointed me to this very cool .pdf with instructions on how to print an infographic visualizing the distribution of wealth in Switzerland onto Swiss 10.- Franc banknotes, the Swiss version of OccupyGeorge.com.

As is turns out things are even more extreme in Switzerland than say in the USA or in Germany. While in the US 1 % of the population own 40% of the wealth, here in Switzerland this figure is 59%. Things get even more extreme when you look at the richest 10%, they own 71% of the wealth.

Any way you cut it, there is neither much left for the 99% nor the 90%.

These numbers are according to Hans Kippling’s Book “Reichtum ohne Leistung” as quoted here and here [german language articles].

Download the PDFs here:
Print-Instructions
Sample-Print

Feel free to spread the idea ;p

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#occupymyhead

Occupy George – “Money talks, but not loud enough for the 99%. By circulating dollar bills stamped with fact-based infographics”

Anonymous Hacks Police Websites and Data to Support Occupy Wall Street – “In solidarity with the Occupation Movement and the International Day of Action Against Police Brutality, allied #anonymous and #antisec vessels took aim at the corrupt bootboys of the 1%: the police. We hacked, defaced, and destroyed several law enforcement targets, leaking over 600MB of private information including internal documents, membership rosters, addresses, passwords, social security numbers, and other confidential data”

Occupy The Internet – “Are you interested in taking part in the recent global wave of revolution from the comfort of your home computer? Occupy the Internet!”

Occupying www.bekb.ch – Occupy your bank! ha ha, excellent occupy generator [via b3ta]

The Real Role Of Anonymous In Occupy Wall Street – “So far, the hacker collective known as Anonymous–or those claiming the name–has failed to live up to threats made via YouTube and social media. But they have brought a lot of buzz to the Occupy Wall Street movement.”

Rome Burns – “It’ s a sad end of an attempt in Rome of the globalized protest starting from Madrid through Occupy Wall street in NY and other 80 cities which managed a peaceful protest.”

Occupy protests around the world: full list visualised – “The Occupy protests have spread from Wall Street to London to Bogota. See the full list – and help us add more”

#RobinHood Global March – “We take from the rich and give to the poor.”

Protest by consensus – “This is a global protest, and it seeks to address a global problem: the monopolisation of wealth by the elite and the failure of free-market capitalism to create a liveable future for humanity.”

Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD – “The Occupy Wall Street protests have been going on for a month. And it seems the FBI and NYPD have had help tracking protesters’ moves thanks to a conservative computer security expert who gained access to one of the group’s internal mailing lists, and then handed over information on the group’s plans to authorities and corporations targeted by protesters.”

#watch and

Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side) – Spike Jonez and Olympia Le-Tan produced stop motion

Occupy Wall Street in Times Square, 15 October 2011 – “This is a time lapse movie made from images from a public webcam overlooking Times Square in New York City.” time lapse video of occupy times square

Bill Clinton’s ‘hilarious’ Funny or Die video – alright, i did have quite a chuckle.

“Sound” – “Hear from sound experts and friends of SoundCloud why sound is so important to the way we connect with the world.”

I AM NOT MOVING – Short Film – Occupy Wall Street – nice juxtaposition of the US sympathy for the middle-eastern uprisings vs. occupywallstreet

#learn

9 Essential Geek Books You Must Read Right Now – “Over the next nine weeks, Wired.com is presenting a collection of galleries intended to help people become better geeks, nine items at a time. This is the first of the series.”

Google Street View takes to the tracks for Swiss Alps railways – “The global mapping giant teamed up with Rhaetian Railway to put a Street View trike on a train car and push it through the picturesque Albula-Bernina line in the Swiss Alps, between snow-capped mountains and narrow valleys.”

Interactive Periodic Table of Swearing Extends Your Rude Vocabulary – “Artistic duo Modern Toss (aka Jon Link and Mick Bunnage) have turned their illustrated Periodic Table of Swearing into a physical, interactive machine.”

Cheese: The Most Stolen Food On The Planet – “A new report from the Center for Retail Research claims that cheese is the world’s most frequently stolen food, and as such, it has been labeled a “high risk food.”

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world – 2 swiss banks in the top 15 of the 147 companies who control 40% of global wealth, UBS 9. CS 14.

Densely-linked cluster of 147 companies control 40% of world’s total wealth – “a study published in PLOS One, analyzes the ownership structures of the world’s corporations and finds a tightly-knit cluster of 147 entities control 40 percent of the world’s wealth.”

Security Flaw Links BitTorrent Users to Skype Accounts – “Researchers have uncovered a major security flaw which allows outsiders to link a Skype account to a user’s download activity on BitTorrent. The exploit works without the knowledge of the victims and also allows outsiders to see the travel patterns of Skype users.”

Good to Know – Google – “Advice for staying more secure on the web and an overview of some of the security tools that Google offers.”

9-9-9 in One (Really Long) Graph – visualization of just how incredibly much cain’s 9-9-9 would favor the super rich

Peter Gronquist “The Evolution Will Be Fabulous” – “mix of gilded luxe brands, weaponry, skeletons and taxidermy”

occupy antartica – “I guess we did reach all seven continents”

Famous Capsules – pop culture icons created by gregory guillemin

Most relaxing song made by UK band Boffins – “So effective at inducing sleep, motorists warned not to listen to it Study says song was even more relaxing than a massage, walk or cup of tea”

Nasty Set – Tea Set by José Paulo Alves Corceiro – angry tea pot and cup

BOSCO VERTICALE « stefano boeri – “On flat land, each Bosco Verticale equals, in amount of trees, an area equal to 10.000 sqm of forest. In terms of urban densification the equivalent of an area of single family dwellings of nearly 50.000 sqm.”

Seven monks self-immolate – many more ready to die – “In the past seven months, eight current and formal monks and a nun have set themselves on fire in eastern Tibet. Four have died. For details of each self-immolation please see below.”

Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore And Kim Gordon Separate After 27 Years – “It’s a dark day for Sonic Youth fans. Bandmates Thurston Moore, 53, and Kim Gordon, 58, have decided to separate about 27 years of marriage, their label, Matador Records, announced in a statement Friday.” sad day indeed

10 million bees deaths reported in Florida – “Experts are saying that the massive amount of bee deaths display signs of pesticide poisoning, and state officials are currently testing the dead bees to determine if the pesticides were responsible for the mass deaths.”

#lang:de

Occupy Paradeplatz: Die O-Töne – “Porträt einer Bewegung ohne Kopf und Führung, montiert aus Gesprächen mit Bewegten.”

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Yesterday we went to Zurich, where well over 1000 people held a friendly, creative occupy protest at Paradeplatz right smack in the center of Zurich’s financial district. While elsewhere huge numbers showed up on this global day of protest (Rome 200’000, New York 50’000, Santiago de Chile 30’000, Madrid 15’000, Berlin 10’000) and in some places things escalated and got violent (Rome), the event in Zurich was totally peaceful and a true inspiration. The police tolerated the protest. From what i read on Twitter some 100 people stayed overnight and today there will be a brunch and hopefully the protest can grow, and then jump to other cities in Switzerland (Bern, plz). I am not sure sure when I can join next time, but in spirit I am there with you guys. Thank you all for the great fun.

Here are some more of my photos on flickr.

occupyParadePlatz Flickr-Pool

How to get involved:

the official website seems to be: occupyparadeplatz.ch, check out the latest there.

here’s Etherpad to offer your skills and help

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#occupy

We Are Winning – So What Do We Want? More Reflections from a Wall Street Occupier – “Yes, we speak a different language, a fearless and visionary one. We are shouting, with every ounce of passion and strength we can muster: Of course there is an alternative. It is us.”

Dear Occupy Wall Street, – “I know this because right now, I’m reading news reports about what you’re doing from across the globe, and talking to people sitting in the square, even though I’m thousands of miles away. You see? The whole world is watching. You did that. Whatever happens tomorrow, the whole world will be watching the New York authorities try to clean the people of America off the sidewalks of Wall Street.”

Faces of Occupied Wall Street – “I live half a block from Liberty Park, the homebase and nerve center of the Occupy Wall Street movement.”

OCCUPY WALL STREET AND MELANCHOLIA OF PARTY POLITICS « Billy Blogg – “Public opinion is shifting towards a belief that it is fundamentally unfair to allow those who created the financial crisis to continue to get wealthy while working people struggle to pay their bills.”

Today Liberty Plaza had a visit from Slavoj Zizek – “There is a danger. Don’t fall in love with yourselves. We have a nice time here. But remember: carnivals come cheap. What matters is the day after.”

#watch and

“Playa Time: Dust to Dust” – Burning Man 2011 Time Lapse -”From dust to dust, this time lapse covers over 5 weeks including the preparation of the event, from before the trash fence erection and after basically everyone except for DPW trickles out.”

5:46 am – Paris underwater, a video short

Don’t hold back, just push things forward – shaft vs. imperial march mashup, combines best of two worlds?

#learn

burning man: a brief history of the desert festival and black rock city – a quick overview containing some very impressive photos.

water bottle bike lock – “the ‘bottle lock’ by US-based bike accessory designers küat racks offers an innovative way to transport bicycle locks with less hassle. the design coils a 1.5-meter long braided steel cable lock within a case that resembles a water bottle, and thus snaps easily into common water bottle holders on bike frames.”

I’m in the 1%. But I support the 99% – “Last year, I earned a million dollars on Wall Street, but I’m sick of this society that skews the rewards for work so grotesquely”

Botanical Bakery – “Unexpected herbs spice up a range of shortbread from the Napa Valley”

Marni Kotak – “In my upcoming exhibition and performance, The Birth of Baby X, I will present the birth of my first child as a work of art.”

Greeks pay for economic crisis with their health – “Rising demand and cost-cutting put services at breaking point, while drug addiction, HIV and suicide rates increase” nice one, EU

Lulzsec hacker: we still have Sun emails, stored in China’ – “Sabu, the erstwhile leader of the hacking crew, says he is effectively on the run as he gives interview to Reddit readers about LulzSec’s achievements, Facebook, sentencing and more”

Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously? – “Last month it became apparent that not all VPN providers live up to their marketing after an alleged member of Lulzsec was tracked down after using a supposedly anonymous service from HideMyAss. We wanted to know which VPN providers take privacy extremely seriously so we asked many of the leading providers two very straightforward questions. Their responses will be of interest to anyone concerned with anonymity issues.”

What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs – “for all his talk of enabling individual expression, Jobs imposed paranoid rules that centralized control of who could say what on his devices and in his company.”

Fear Pics – September 2011 – Nightmare Fear Factory Flickr Stream shows people freaking out in their Haunted House

lang:de

Vorwärts nach Zürich Paradeplatz: Die neue Bewegung hat einen treffenden Ort gewählt – “Am kommenden Samstag soll in Anlehnung an die Proteste in New York das Zentrum des Schweizer Finanzplatzes besetzt werden. Wie ein Platz in Zürich zum Symbol wurde.”

Avaaz – Welt gegen Wall Street – “344,065 machen mit. Gemeinsam erreichen wir 500,000″

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Of course nobody who was invited to TEDxZurich this year is gonna dare to criticize the event, because all are afraid not to get the invite next year (which is one of the inherent flaws of this elitist, invitation-only conference model. But that’s a whole ‘nother discussion…). So I volunteer to take on the task, since I was not invited and probably never will be… Oh well…

After watching almost all the talks yesterday on the live stream – yes, i was that bored – i can confidently say, the TED format is not suited for translation into our Swiss-Germanic culture.

Let me explain. TED works really well, because it is totally embedded into California culture. Most of these guys bump into each other pretty much twice each year. Once at TED. But the second time in the Nevada Desert, most likely frying on acid, probably naked, at Burning Man. This sets the decorum. The 18 minute talks are designed for native-English speakers, California casual, eloquent, witty, who deliver their message fast and to the point.

At this years TEDxZureich most non-English speakers were struggling with the English language, and this (most shockingly) included both MCs, sorry Co-Hosts. The ideas didn’t come to live when delivered in such clunky, often clumsy English. At times I was almost ashamed to hear, how poor the English was and how thick the accent. A friend of mine had to stop watching the stream, because she was too embarrassed.

Which makes me wonder: Shouldn’t TEDxZureich allow people to speak in their native tongue? And work with simultaneous translations and/or subtitles to keep things international and English? Call it TED-DExZureich? This works very well for the Ars Electronica symposium and many other conferences.

But speaking of the MCs, sorry Co-Hosts, one of the two is a very large, very ugly very imposing man with a confusing, almost intimidating sense of humor. It’s not enough to keep saying, “It’s cool, man”. You would have to actually mean it, man. His uptight rigidity in time-keeping didn’t exactly help to make people get cheering after the talks. When he pointed out that there was a standing ovation at a TED talk shown on video, this sounded like a threat, and some people actually tried to produce that standing ovation the next round… In short, he is pretty much the exact antipole of California casual. But most importantly, [edit: all these things i just listed do not matter compared to the fact that] his English-language skills are almost as horrible as some of the speakers’. And now that is a true embarrassment.

How about the content? A few ideas were really quite inspiring, Molly Crotchett’s talk had a deep impact on me, hmmm… pills to change people’s ethical values, hmmm… I also loved Roman Gaus’ presentation of urbanfarming.ch, delivered with confidence and decent enough English. Some other talks contained nice ideas, but were delivered in such horrendous English, that they were torture. The WEF dude came and talked about the impact twitter had on politics. Seriously? That’s so 2008, man. The only two other true highlights were the talks delivered via video, one of which we have seen a million times (Mick Ebling). Isn’t that fail?

In short, yes, there were ideas worth spreading, but the language-issue and the MCs, sorry Co-Hosts, need to seriously be reconsidered for this format to work here.

edit: After feedback and some further reflection i want to apologize for calling one of the MCs large and ugly. I personally have no issue, if people should call me ugly, it does not touch me. But i understand that for some people this might be crossing the line.

In rereading what i wrote i also realize that i left out some thinking and context. My point was this: all the things i first listed about the MC, who I admittedly do not like very much personally, do not matter in the light that his English is simply not good enough for such a high profile event. You can’t on one hand host and create an exclusive, elitist, invitation-only event and then fail in such a basic thing as your English skills. So please, switch to German for future events. Also, if you create such an event, it would be very important to create an atmosphere where criticism is welcomed and invited. That’s all.

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#londonwhatchumacallit

Generation F*cked – "According to the Unicef report, which measured 40 indicators of quality of life – including the strength of relationships with friends and family, educational achievements and personal aspirations, and exposure to drinking, drug taking and other risky behavior – British children have the most miserable upbringing in the developed world. American children come next, second from the bottom."

Six social media 'celebrities' emerge from the riots – "In that short time span, a number of social media heroes and villains have emerged — victims of the violence, those standing up to rioters and those helping with the clean up operation."

Is Rioting Revolutionary? – "We are in a revolutionary moment. Prepare yourself: this global insurrection will unfold in ways we lefties may not like. There might be violence, although we desire nonviolence, and there might be pillaging, although we desire the peaceful transfer of wealth."

Handmade hashtag. Impromptu bulletin board gives positive voice to riot-struck Londoners – "The boarded-up window of Poundland’s Peckham branch has become an emotionally charged bulletin board for locals’ feelings."

Riot psychology – "In terms of policing, one of the clearest effects to emerge from studies of riots and crowd control is that an indiscriminate kicking from riot police can massively increase the number of people in the crowd who become violent."

Penny Red: Panic on the streets of London. – "a young man in Tottenham was asked if rioting really achieved anything: "Yes," said the young man. "You wouldn't be talking to me now if we didn't riot, would you?" "Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard, more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you know what? Not a word in the press. Last night a bit of rioting and looting and look around you."

Farewell youth clubs, hello street life – and gang warfare – This arcticle is a few weeks old, but receives new relevance now. "When we are all together with our hoodies up, no one wants to be around us," he said. "The youth club was just a place we could all go and have fun, at least we had somewhere to go. Now we walk down the streets, we get pulled over by police. There is nothing here for us."

If the rioting was a surprise, people weren't looking – "To behave in this manner young people have to believe they have no stake in the neighbourhood, and consequently no stake in wider society."

London riots: BlackBerry to help police probe Messenger looting 'role' – "We feel for those impacted by the riots in London. We have engaged with the authorities to assist in any way we can," Spence said. He added that RIM complies with UK legislation on the interception of communication and co-operates fully with the Home Office."

#watch and

SUPER MASSIVE RAVER VS THE RIOTS LONG feat. KILLA KELA – "After the recent riots in London Super Massive Raver decided to check out the damage. Featuring Killa Kela, and a Stevie Wonder cover."

Cache Rules Everything Around Me by Evan Roth, 2010 – a video made from animated gifs found online

Jay-Z & Kanye West – Otis – "Spike Jonze directed visuals for Jay-Z and Kanye West’s catchy “Otis” track from their Watch the Throne album"

Message from Anonymous: Operation Facebook, Nov 5 2011 – "Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from all around the world. Some of these so-called whitehat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments, such as those of Egypt and Syria." this was debunked right after… funny still.

A Day in California on Vimeo – tilt-shift time-lapse video

#learn

Burglar swipes work by artist KAWS from magazine office – "A burglar swiped a $100,000 piece of "graffiti art" from a Chelsea building, cops said yesterday. The suspect, wearing sunglasses, snatched the artwork — a 1999 Calvin Klein jeans ad featuring an acrylic image by artist KAWS — from the hallway of Complex magazine's office on West 23rd Street at about 6 p.m. on Aug. 4. The thief signed into the lobby as "Nat Heller," and then entered a security code to access the doors on the second floor.”

Conditions of Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei’s Detention Emerge – "Ai Weiwei, a prominent Chinese artist and dissident, said on Friday that he had been kept in a tiny room throughout his nearly three-month detention last spring and watched 24 hours a day by shifts of two uniformed military police sergeants who never left his side."

Tar Sands Action – "From August 20th – September 3rd we’re planning a peaceful protest in Washington DC to defuse the largest carbon bomb in North America."

The Antics Roadshow – "An hour-long special made by Banksy charting the history of behaving badly in public, from anarchists and activists to attention seeking eccentrics."

TRY HELVETICA – "Brazil needs more helvetica! And so the World!"

Welcome to Chill | Chill.com – not public yet, but this will be like turntable.fm, for watching videos together. sounds like fun.

Heello is Twitter for Pretending – "the shameless knockoff looks and behaves like a stripped-down version of Twitter, down to the tweets pings, followers listeners, and retweets echos. But it's shaping up to be more than that. Creative fakesters are using the blank slate to turn Heello into the parallel-universe version of Twitter."

Ninja Tune Statement on PIAS Warehouse Fire – i still can't quite wrap my head around this one. what hits me as ironic/outrageous: a Sony building got torched, but it contained a warehouse for many indie labels. if big corporations are considered a target, Sony would be a fitting one. as a result though, many independent labels might now struggle to survive.

Right-wing extremists tricked by 'Trojan' T-shirts – "Hundreds of free T-shirts handed out at a weekend right-wing rock festival in the eastern German state of Thuringia contained a secret surprise. Upon washing, the original graphic faded to reveal a clandestine message."

sarah illenberger: good weather exhibition – "meticulously created with analog handicraft instead of using a computer, sarah illenberger’s richly-detailed work opens up new perspectives on seemingly familiar, iconographically-charged forms and content. she expertly avoids imbuing her materials and subjects with artificial significance or forcing a meaning upon them"

Que le cheval vive en moi (May the horse live in me) – "The French artistic duo has been exploring trans-species relationships and the questioning of scientific methods and tools for 20 years now. This time their work involved injecting Marion Laval-Jeantet with horse blood plasma. Over the course of several months, the artist prepared her body by allowing to be injected with horse immunoglobulins, the glycoproteins that circulate in the blood serum, and which, for example, can function as antibodies in immune response. "

Turntable.fm’s “Slice of Pi” Email – "When you sign up to Turntable.fm, the popular social music streaming service, one of four notification options is “Send me e-mails at random times with a different subsection of the digits of pi.” They’re not kidding."

Android and iOS both fail, but Android fails better – "So why use Android? Because it requires less trust in Google than using iOS requires that you trust Apple. iOS has one official store, and it's illegal in most places to buy and install apps except through this store."

Australians: Remember to mark Pastafarian on this year’s census – "The Australian census is here and now is the time to mark Pastafarian as your stated religion, if you like."

Infinite USB port system – "The infinite USB concept aims to give you an unlimited amount of USB ports, as each cable has another on the back. Although the concept has been called "infinite" I imagine there would be problems if you wanted to add more than 5 devices this way"

Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbors – some ideas how to deal with yearly zucchini abundance. oh, plus some recipes

Plike paper sample booklet for Papyrus – “Visionandfactory Belgium invited Büro Destruct, Fons Hickmann and Stefan Sagmeister to take part on the first series of «Renowned designers on Specials» project for Papyrus Europe.”

The People of Burning Man – Home – "This book is the self expression counter culture bible of our generation. It's not surprising that traditional publishers found it too controversial to print. But thanks to massive support from the community, this book exists!"

#worthagoogletranslate

Analyse: Der rechte Abschied von der Politik

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i wouldn’t say brilliant, but this is quite good…

ideas? mail them to me.
or here’s an editable .png file

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#watch

Baaa – "Experiments in ovine geometry." cyriak remixes sheep

I'm Bradley Manning – "We are all Bradley Manning."

Kid Gives Speech After Learning To Ride A Bike – a bit thick on pathos, but great rethoric

FLASHMOB – TESTÉ SUR DES HUMAINS – "Here's the Flashmob organized by the "Testé sur des humains" team at TVA."

Porn Rental (with Michael C. Hall and Ben Schwartz) – <inside joke>"6 feet under"</inside joke>

The Mute Button – "For our latest mission 23 actors and 2 dogs infiltrated a public space and went on “mute” at coordinated intervals. The mission took place near the northern entrance to Prospect Park in Park Slope, Brooklyn."

Michael Jackson vs Mr. Bean – who's bad

Weezer – Paranoid Android – "Weezer, covering "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead" still the song i wanna die to

#read

Instagram Rises as Social Web Embraces Photo Sharing – "Digital camera sales may be weak, but thanks to cellphones, picture-taking has never been more of an everyday thing. Now a wave of mobile applications is letting people tweak their cellphone snapshots and share them with friends and strangers." did you know only 4 people worked at instagram?

Underground Website Lets You Buy Any Drug Imaginable – "Silk Road makes buying and selling illegal drugs as easy as buying used electronics — and seemingly as safe. It’s Amazon — if Amazon sold mind-altering chemicals." i wanna get high, so high…

Butter bean purée with dukkah recipe – "Both parts of this dish work brilliantly in their own right, but together they're something else" may not sound that exiting but check out the picture

First impressions of “Illuminazioni” exhibition at Venice Biennale – "Swiss art historian Bice Curiger, the curator of the Zurich Kunsthaus and co-founder of the art magazine Parkett, is only the third woman to be entrusted with this task and the sixth non-Italian. She has called her show “Illuminazioni”, and has invited 83 artists to take part. " chauvinism in art, maybe?

Censorship in Venice: sculptures covered up at Azerbaijan pavilion – "The country’s president protested that the works are insensitive and promote an overly strict image of Islam"

The Faux-Vintage Photo – "faux-vintage photography, while seemingly banal, helps illustrate larger trends about social media in general. The faux-vintage photo, while getting a lot of attention in this essay, is merely an illustrative example of a larger trend whereby social media increasingly force us to view our present as always a potential documented past."

Potholes, A Photo Series That Humorously Reimagines an Urban Blight – "The “Potholes” photo series by Canadian art duo Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano reimagines the infamous urban road terrors as benign and humorous–instead of destroying shock absorbers"

Gigantic Noah's ark replica aims for London Olympics – “Contractor Johan Huibers is finishing up work on construction of an ark that is (Biblically speaking) almost exactly the assumed size of Noah's ark, approximately 450 feet (136.17 metres) long and 75 (22.86 metres) feet wide.”

CRYSTAL OF RESISTANCE – THOMAS HIRSCHHORN – hirschhorn @ biennale venice, check out the stamp!

Google's YouTube policy for Android users is copyright extremism – "Denying access to pay-per-view videos for those who modify their Android devices is the antithesis of openness"

Jonathan Franzen: Read Some Erving Goffman. Please! – "When blurring the line between technology and the self, Kerim Friedman asserts that while you might be narcissistic, your telephone is not." and a review on owni.eu

Technology Provides an Alternative to Love. – "Let me suggest, finally, that the world of techno-consumerism is therefore troubled by real love, and that it has no choice but to trouble love in turn." that franzen rant

Google – "+1 buttons let people who love your content recommend it on Google search" yes yes, i had the button on the first day of it’s release and still not one soul has clicked it… worst website ever?

YouTube introduces Creative Commons option for uploaders, remixers – "YouTube + Creative Commons = awesome. Starting tomorrow at 9am Pacific time, YouTube will offer the option to license videos with the Creative Commons CC-By-3.0 license, and will introduce new remixing options in YouTube's cloud-based video editor."

This Guy Has My MacBook – "On March 21, 2011, my MacBook was stolen from my apartment in Oakland, CA. I reported the crime to the police and even told them where it was, but they couldn't help me due to lack of resources. Meanwhile, I'm using the awesome app, Hidden, to capture these photos of this guy who has my MacBook. "

YouTube unblocks video of 13yo Syrian boy allegedly tortured, killed by government thugs – "YouTube has reinstated access to a graphic, horrifying video of Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, a 13-year-old child who is reported to have been tortured, castrated, and killed by Syrian government thugs after being separated from his mother and father at an April protest against the Assad regime."

Love The Future, Free Ai Weiwei Poster – “Love The Future” is an OBEY inspired poster created by Andrew Lowe to help raise awareness for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who is currently being detained by the Chinese government."

GRAND THEFT AUTO IV – Map: Liberty City – liberty city received the full-on google map treatment including street view

Jonah Lehrer on the Wisdom and Foolishness of Crowds – "This research reveals the downside of our hyperconnected lives. So many essential institutions depend on the ability of citizens to think for themselves, to resist the latest trend or bubble. That's why it is important, as the Founding Fathers realized, to cultivate a raucous free press, full of divergent viewpoints."

Fragmentr – "Upload images that are at least 800px wide. Try to select images that will combine in interesting ways: a variety of colors, pattern and depth in your images will result in more interesting fragmentations." collaborative collage tool, works in chrome or safari only

At e-G8, "Wild" Silicon Valley Bigwigs and "Civilized" European Fogeys Make Plans for Your Internet – "Critics are claiming the massive international event is Sarkozy’s attempt at tightening governmental control of the internet."

Court forces Twitter to expose anonymous government critic – "There is some confusion today due to The Telegraph inarticulately tying this libel case, fought in U.S courts, to a forthcoming privacy case in the U.K., where footballer Ryan Giggs' superinjuncted penis was exposed on Twitter."

Sky, ITV and my daughter all agree: Barcelona are quite good – "In truth, the only punditry that mattered came from my own sofa and my youngest child, who observed: "Their players are better than ours."" true that

Twitter reveals secrets: Details of British users handed over in landmark case that could help Ryan Giggs – "For the first time, the American social networking site has bowed to a court action brought by a British group complaining that they were libelled in messages."

#lang:de

Es sind alle nicht ganz so nett: Über das aktuelle Gezerre um Mani Matter – "Seit Mani Matters Unfalltod ist sein Bild massgeblich von einem Freundeskreis um Joy Matter und ihr selbst geprägt worden. Zunehmend streiten nun divergierende Interessen um ein Stück Definitionsmacht an diesem Bild. Gut so: Auf einen Kopf von nationaler Bedeutung muss es mehr als einen Blick geben."

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#watch

The Roast of Facebook – - awww, almost makes you feel bad for myspace.

Gil Scott-Heron, "The People's Poet" – "The poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron died this afternoon in New York City, at 62." he was often reduced to that famous line, "the revolution will not be televised", which of course inspired this blogs tagline "the revolution will be blogged" which of course i should change to "the revolution will be blogged – but not here – because i have blog burnout syndrome"

World's least efficient machine – "it took the universe 14 billion years to make this video"

#read

Depeche Mode – official CD cover remixer – this cover remix was done by BD, but you can create your own. nice idea

Cook along with Steve Albini – "The producer has launched a food blog, sharing dishes he prepares for his wife. But he's not the only indie gastro geek …"

About that autopen – "What makes this news even more depressing? The president, who is on tour in Europe, didn't even sign it in person. According to a White House spokesperson, Obama used a device called an autopen, which mechanically reproduces a human signature."

"Literally Unbelievable" – a collection of outrage posts on facebook by people believing stories the onion published.

sonar.me – "Sonar uncovers the hidden connections you miss everyday, in real time, in the palm of your hand."

Tornadoes, climate change, and real scientific literacy – "Case in point: Tornadoes and climate change. If you want a simple, talking-point answer on whether the tornadoes of 2011 were caused by climate change, the best you're going to get is: Probably not, or at least, not entirely." aww snap, that would have been a snappy argument against global warming.

China used prisoners in lucrative internet gaming work – "Labour camp detainees endure hard labour by day, online 'gold farming' by night" great idea actually.

Pea and mint croquettes, plus conchiglie with yoghurt, peas and chilli recipes – "A fresh and healthy (ish) deep-fried snack, plus a pasta dish (or salad) with an unexpected bite" can't wait for the peas in my garden to be ready …

Mark Zuckerberg's new challenge: Eating only what he kills (and yes, we do mean literally…) – "The only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself," i have to say i respect that. best joke i read about this was a comment by some guy on twitter, that this might explain why no one has heard from MySpace Tom for some time.

Backlash in Germany at wisdom of Beijing exhibition – "Artist's arrest prompts a heated debate on ethical implications for country's museums" ahhh german dramaz, gotta love it

Prix Ars 2011 – the winners a announced

Happy guys finish last, says new study on sexual attractiveness – "Women find happy guys significantly less sexually attractive than swaggering or brooding men, according to a new University of British Columbia study that helps to explain the enduring allure of "bad boys" and other iconic gender types" fuck me, and i have a smiling pict on my facebook profile… done deal, changed it to a brooding picture.

OECD Better Life Initiative – "This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life."

Google invests $55 million in wind farms in California's Mojave desert – "Google announced today that it will invest $55 million in a large Mojave Desert wind energy farm."

Happier meals: four Toronto chefs reimagine the Big Mac combo – "Four local chefs turn the most famous dish at McDonald's into a five-star meal." it still mostly looks and surely smells like a Big Mac, but nice idea

Jerry Seinfeld, comedian – "Is there anything you regret? – No. Regret is very philosophical and very arrogant. It's like: "Things should go the way I want and when they go wrong something terrible has happened."

The Burning House – "If your house was burning, what would you take with you?"

cuadernistas – illustrations of the protest in spain

This Is England '86 / Vicky McClure wins Best Actress BAFTA – "Vicky McClure picked up the Best Actress BAFTA for her performance as Lol in Shane Meadows' drama which revisits the characters of his feature, This Is England, three years on." me likee vicky.

Hurt Locker Makers Target Record Breaking 24,583 BitTorrent Users – "After being honored with an Oscar for best motion picture last year, the makers of The Hurt Locker have now also secured the award for the biggest file-sharing lawsuit the world has ever witnessed. By targeting at least 24,583 alleged BitTorrent users, Voltage Pictures hopes to recoup millions of dollars in settlements to compensate the studio for piracy-related losses."

Ryan Giggs gets Taiwanese animation, pooped on by Twitter birds – "Ryan Giggs crying waterfalls of tears in court, while surrounded by Twitter birds."

Some 20,000 people participated in the biggest anti-nuclear protests for 25 years on Sunday. – "An estimated 20,000 people participated in the biggest anti-nuclear protest in Switzerland for 25 years on Sunday."

PlayStation Network Outage: The Real Costs [INFOGRAPHIC] – "Sony was still having trouble with the PlayStation Network, taking down its password resetting facility because of another Sony oversight: not realizing that hackers might be able to re-exploit any of the 77 million hacked accounts because of the information they obtained."

Understanding cities by riding bikes – "Invite a motorist for a bike ride through your city and you'll be cycling with an urbanist by the end of the day. Even the most eloquent of lectures about livable cities and sustainable design can't compete with the experience from atop a bicycle saddle."

reinhard dienes: sunday kitchen grocery – "the 'sunday' kitchen grocery, created by colombia-born, germany-based designer reinhard dienes, is a modular storage system adaptable to a range of common kitchen and garden needs."

#lang:not english

Ai Weiwei – und die rote Linie zwischen Kunst und Recht – “Ai Weiwei [...] has been close to the red line of Chinese law. As long as Ai Weiwei continuously marches forward, he will inevitably touch the red line one day […]. Ai Weiwei will be judged by history, but he will pay a price for his special choice”

SQUATters des champs – 2 guerilla gardeners arrested in geneva, in lausanne there is struggle, but they are fine

Johannes Mundinger: “Chatroulette-Porträts” – "Johannes Mundinger malt Jungs und Mädchen aus dem Internet. “Ist ja eigentlich schon länger wieder out, dieses Chatroulette. Aber nachdem im Netz mittlerweile, vom googlen bis zum Revolution starten, so alles möglich ist, ließ ich mir randomized Modelle für meine kleine Porträtserie zuschalten.”

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#vidz

Help Jimmy Jump! (english) – "HELP JIMMY JUMP TO PUT THE RED HAT "BARRETINA" INTO MOURINHO'S HEAD." he needz moniz.

"Friday" by Rebecca Black, as interpreted by a bad lip reader – "GANG FIGHT"!!!

La Machine à voyager – "Qui n'a jamais rêvé de s'échapper de son quotidien en pressant un simple bouton ?" cute french ad

Song A Day #810: Vegan Myths Debunked – damn, why did i just get a lancome ad before i could watch this video?

My Favorite Color – "this video is made of videos i found and really enjoyed watching .."

MVI 0090 – brutal kids lullaby

Green Tunnel – "A six month journey along the 2,200 mile long Appalachian Trail, condensed and reinterpreted into five minutes of stop-motion. "

Follow Your Interests. Discover Your World. Twitter. – 5 years! congratz

Flashman — The Proposition – brilliant jazzy track gets minimal animation treatment

Rebecca Black – Friday, as performed by Bob Dylan – this guy turned shit into gold

WILEY-100%PUBLISHING ALBUM ADVERT. – rad, playful album preview by wiley

how to hack video screens on times square – well done fake

One Minute Puberty – "Alexander Gellner takes us on an one minute animated journey of a boy’s experience with puberty."

stuff

paper miniatures – "celebrity and historical figures find a second life in these paper miniatures by people too, the collaborative efforts of russian designers alexei lyapunov and lena ehrlich."

D.I.Y. Cooking Handbook – "small kitchen projects that any cook can tackle. What they all have in common is that they are simple, seasonless and a clear improvement on the store-bought version." mmmhhh. can't wait to try the horseradish beer mustard. oh and the chocolate-hazelnut paste

South Park Comes to Life – "Someone envisioned what it might look like if the boys of South Park were in-fact real fourth graders, and the result is very impressive."

The Comic Book Guide to the Mission – "The Comic Book Guide to the Mission by Lauren Davis is a book about San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood: its people, history, food, and hipsters." a book about the mission, where i lived for 7 years 1986 – 1993 mostly showing what it has turned into thx to the dot com bubble and subsequent stuff

Safety Maps: A Do Project – "In case of cynicism, let’s meet at It's A Small World. I’ve marked the spot on this map:" is andy baio's contribution

Root Simple: Countdown – "Our new book comes out just about a month–April 26th" this will be a great book.

Plastic honeycombs may save disappearing bee populations (Wired UK) – "Allowing honey bee queens to lay their eggs directly into an artificial plastic honeycomb means the larvae do not need to be handled to be collected. " oh boy. really? plastic?

Think Quarterly – "You're now on the companion website, thinkquarterly.co.uk (also available at m.thinkquarterly.co.uk, if you're on the move)." google done a quarterly magazine webpage, but uhm flash?

pieceoplastic on Instagrid.me – love it, does that mean i can stop feeding my instagrams into my posterous blog?

Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power – "Japan's disaster would weigh more heavily if there were less harmful alternatives. Atomic power is part of the mix" 1. this guy is clearly jumping the gun, the danger aint over 2. missing the point still,. what about all the nuclear waste? thats the real issue yet unresolved.

Pica Pic | retro handheld games collection – ;}

Color's Ambitious Photo App Seeks to Reinvent Mobile Social Networking – "Say hello to Color, a new mobile photo-sharing application with a star-studded list of entrepreneurs and an eye-popping $41 million in funding. Its goal is nothing less than to become the ultimate local discovery tool." hmm mkay. pretty slim business idea here.

Seen On The Streets Of Tripoli – oh, silvio…

Study Finds Religion May Be Going “Extinct” in Some Countries – "Looking at census data from nine countries, a team of scientists have made the bold assertion that religion is headed for extinction and it’s all based on a mathematical model of the complex social motives behind joining religious groups" wishful thinking?

Guggenheim responds to proposed artist boycott – "Last week, a group of artists released a petition threatening their refusal to show their work at the Guggenheim’s planned branch in Abu Dhabi until working conditions on the site were improved. Today, Guggenheim Museum and Foundation director Richard Armstrong, and Deputy Director and Chief Curator Nancy Spector responded to the two artists, Emily Jacir and Walid Raad, who had initiated the protest in a letter also sent to the press. Below is their full response. "

Unreleased Bowie on BitTorrent: Pirate Sabotage Turned Cultural Blessing – "After a decade in the dark the unreleased David Bowie album ‘Toy’ has just hit BitTorrent. Bowie is reportedly “livid” at the leak but his fans, who have expressed themselves in hundreds of postings, appear to be universally delighted."

Amon Tobin's Chaos Theory Remixed Double LP – "Probably the awesomest thing I've seen for Ubisoft's Splinter Cell 3D is the new Amon Tobin album, Chaos Theory Remixed, a collection the Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Soundtrack songs remixed (naturally) and the OST for the Nintendo 3DS game."

s:s&s ep – hello, world: – best. ipad. game. ever?

Homeopathy Plus – "The whole of homeopathic prescribing is based on the principle that a substance treats or prevents symptoms that are similiar to those it produces."

Wow Your iPad Readers – "Our iPad-optimized view is app-like in its functionality, but pure HTML5 goodness on the backend: it supports touch interactions, swiping, rotation, and many other features of the iPad."

That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for The New York Times’ paywall to come tumbling down – "The New York Times paywall is costing the newspaper $40-$50 million to design and construct, Bloomberg has reported. And it can be defeated through four lines of Javascript."

Nutritional Labels for Eggs – "Thingiverse user dnewman used the Eggbot egg-decorating machine to draw a nutritional label on an egg."

Sync an iPhone With Multiple Computers – "If you own an iPhone, you may notice that when you plug your iPhone into a variety of computers, yours or other people’s, and you’ll find that your phone and iTunes want to wipe everything clean and start over, every single time."

2011 Japanese nuclear accidents – all the timelines, pretty acurate

Kiefer turns to Mother Nature – "Kiefer told The Guardian that talks are now underway to establish a joint German-French foundation which will look after the Barjac complex. The new organisation is driven by one aim: to allow nature to slowly reclaim the site, allowing Kiefer’s creations to be swamped by the encroaching earth."

Porn made for women, by women – "Independent female directors are making pornographic films aimed at women. Catalina May finds out what makes them so different"

Where in the world are the biggest penises? – "Click the map to get a full-size version of the world, colored according to the average penis size of every country."

Pictured: One Sea Turtle’s Worth of Plastic – "Pictured above are the stomach contents of a juvenile sea turtle accidentally captured off the coast of Argentina."

Sierpinski Hamantaschen: Sierpinskitaschen (First in the world?!) – "Somehow this year it dawned on me that the world was incomplete without a Sierpinski hamantaschen, or sierpinskitaschen. I scoured the vast reaches of the Interwebs, to see if this had been done before. I may have missed something, but it seems this has not."

What happens if a Japan-sized earthquake hits California? – "As Japan picks up the pieces after a 9.0-magnitude quake, anxious Californians confront worst-case-scenario forecasts for their state" after reading zeitoun recently, i really hope my friends would just back and leave. mass panic, looting, police brutality, corruption, japan was mostly spared of these. in california it will be rampant.

7 minimalistic posters representing various mental disorders – so simple. so strong

The Artist Who Lived Naked with Hundreds of Pigs – "Perhaps the sense of oneness is at the heart of what artist Miru Kim is doing by placing herself in the midst of the pigs, in her series, "The Pig That Therefore I Am". It's a reminder that we share many things: we and other animals bleed, feel, even have similar body parts."

Dieting is stressful and makes you irritable and angry – Telegraph – "Being on a diet makes people more likely to feel irritable and angry, a new study has shown. "

Embattled Tepco faces its BP moment over Fukushima nuclear disaster – "The Fukushima crisis has exposed Tokyo Electric Power Company to the unforgiving global scrutiny that BP faced"

Nihon Kizuna – Nihon Kizuna – now available to purchase

How To Occupy Oxford Street
"UK Uncut will be staging a huge simultaneous shut down of tax dodgers and banks on Oxford Street, Europe’s biggest high street. It’s up to you to make it happen."

All you need to know… – this book conatins all you'll ever need to know re: graffiti

Why the Quick Bar ("dickbar") is still so offensive – "It’s offensive because it’s deeply bad, showing complete disregard for quality, product design, and user respect, and we’ve come to expect a lot more from Twitter."

RDTN.ORG – "We have created this site in an effort to display the reliable data readings as they become available. While we are careful to evaluate new data sources, we welcome new reliable data from those on the ground in this crisis."

You are listening to Los Angeles – ambient music backdrop to live police radio transmission

Radiation Dose Chart – "This is a chart of the ionizing radiation a person can absorb from various sources"

#lang:de

"Nukular". Das Wort heißt "nukular" – "ZENSUR Das Schweizer Fernsehen zeigt vorerst keine Simpsons-Folgen, die von AKW-Pannen handeln"

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#japanquake

Japans Prime Minister Launches English-Language Twitter Account for Quake Updates – "The Japanese Prime Minister’s Office started an English-language Twitter account Wednesday, providing updates on the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake situation."

Japan Quake Map – "Paul Nicholl's Japan Quake Map http://bit.ly/gCeRep gives some idea of how big main quake's aftershocks are."

Fukushima 50 battle radiation risks as Japan nuclear crisis deepens – "Workers in protective gear – known as the Fukushima 50 – encounter myriad problems as Japanese PM demands answers"

2011 Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami | Architecture for Humanity – "Architecture for Humanity has been working in post disaster reconstruction since 1999 and has designed and built hundreds of homes, schools, clinics and community facilities for those affected" this is a great charity to support, according to joi ito

Kime : Patricia Schneider – "Mit dem Kauf einer dieser Grafiken könnt ihr die Region Miyagi unterstützen: Ich werde den gesamten Erlös der Caritas Schweiz zukommen lassen" swiss artist sells prints to raise funds for japan.

Herbal Support For Radiation, Wise Words from Dori Midnight the urban field guide – "The iodine in kelp helps draw out the radiation and protect your thyroid from radioactive uptake."

Multi Japan Live Video – Earthquake Edition – "Multi Japanese Video – Earthquake Edition"

More Earthquakes to Come in Japan – "Although certainly very big, today's quake was not totally unexpected. Technically, it was in fact an aftershock of the weaker quake earlier in the week—even though it may sound odd that an aftershock can be stronger than the main shock."

Japan quake causes day to get a wee bit shorter – "You won’t notice it, but the day just got a tiny bit shorter because of Friday’s giant earthquake off the coast of Japan."

Nuclear energy 101: Inside the "black box" of power plants – for those of us who have to say "The extent of my knowledge on nuclear power plants is pretty much limited to what I've seen on The Simpsons", an expert explains how it works and what could happen.

Japan Before/After – shocking before/after google earth satelite images

#vidz

Guilty! – "Someone helped themselves to the kitty Cat treats while I was out!! Lets see…..hmmmmmmm"

Fish – Mr Scruff – "This is my first attempt at stop motion and cut out animation, to a song by Mr Scruff called 'Fish'."

adult swim bumps – "not had much time to do my own stuff recently so here's a short collection of weird clips I made for adult swim, enjoy." by cyriak

Project Based Learning: Explained. – "Speed dating done right "

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as C-3PO and R2-D2 – "While on filming Paul, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost recreated a Star Wars conversation between C-3PO and R2-D2."

#stuff

With Destroyed, Moby Makes Sense of Shattered Musical Landscape – "On his upcoming effort Destroyed, Moby constructs synthetic symphonies out of sounds coaxed from broken-down gear during dead-of-night sessions in hotel rooms." It’s an insomniac artist’s way of making sense of the world during a time when the music industry, and everything else, seems to be falling into chaos.”

Artists boycott Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project – "More than 130 artists, curators and writers have signed a petition demanding that the museum improve working conditions"

Paramount Pictures Partner With BitTorrent Release Movie – "In a little over two months time, the long-awaited horror movie The Tunnel will receive its world premiere. Rather than a traditional theatrical release, the movie – which is set in abandoned real-life tunnels under Sydney, Australia – will make its debut online for free with BitTorrent. Simultaneously it will be released on physical DVD, to be distributed by Hollywood giant Paramount Pictures."

Szigeti G. Csongor: “Horn Blow” – “most of the people enjoyed blowing their car’s horns, doing it naturally, sometimes playing the horns for the sake of it. I felt the desire to take part in this strange communication game and I decided to create a device that would control different horn sounds”

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media – "Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda"

SXSW 2011: The internet is over – "Oliver Burkeman went to Texas to the South by Southwest festival of film, music and technology, in search of the next big idea. After three days he found it: the boundary between 'real life' and 'online' has disappeared"

A vomitous affair – "UK artist Lydia Leith has created the “Royal Wedding Sick Bag” for the occasion. “Throne up” into yours today!"

Hipster Trap Creators Have A History Of Duping Unsuspecting New Yorkers – "Urban Traps is a project where we lay traps for certain subcultures. Our goal is protect neighborhoods from infestation and collect different species for further study."

www.opensource.ch:Home – it's online

*unzips* – urinal politics

Root Simple: Harvesting and Drying Calendula – calendula love, nice guide

akasaka shinichiro atelier: small box house – "'small box house' by japanese studio akasaka shinichiro atelier is a two-storey residence in the western hillside of mount moiwa, sapporo" want!

Dealing with Internet Trolls the Cognitive Therapy Approach – " The super-executive summary for this post is: “On the Internet, don’t be right – be smart.”

Betty Dodson – "She is a founder of the pro-sex feminist movement[...], having left behind the more traditional feminist movement because she considered it banal, antisexual and over-politicized" and her

"Checking Out" – ""Toujours Soixante-Neuf!" ("Forever 69!") she wrote in a boldface double-entendre at the end, "Love, Good-bye, Sally"." still reading Thy neighbor's wife by guy talese, on the sexual liberation in the 60s and 70s and sally is one of the inspiring people he mentions.

I don't hate Macs, but they do give me a syncing feeling – "Until, that is, you try to do something Apple doesn't want you to do. At which point you realise your shiny chum isn't on your side. It doesn't even understand sides. Only Apple: always Apple."

Turn any web-page into a game of Katamari Damacy – "The KatHack is a great little Javascript bookmarklet; simply paste the text below in your location bar and you can turn any page into a fabulous game of Katamari Damacy."

Cory Doctorow: DRM is no friend of business – "But copyright activist, blogger and sci-fi author Cory Doctorow thinks content creators should steer clear of DRM."

The Twisted Psychology of Bloggers vs. Journalists: My Talk at South By Southwest – "For people in the press, bloggers vs. journalists is an elaborate way of staying the same, of refusing to change, while permitting into the picture some of the stressful changes I have mentioned. A shorter way to say this is: it’s fucking neurotic."

#lang:de

Nachruf: Günter Amendt, 19392011 – günter amendt obituary in german, he was the sex educator and drug activist who recentl got run over by a car driven by a guy high on cannabis

Allen Krisen ist gemein, dass sie als kaum vorstellbar galten – "Ulrich Beck, der Theoretiker der «Risikogesellschaft», analysiert die Katastrophe in Japan. Was bedeutet sie für unseren Umgang mit Gefahren – und was für unser Verständnis von Verantwortung?"

Abstimmung über Mühleberg wird wohl wiederholt – "Doch nach den Unfällen in Japan ist das Berner Resultat nicht nur politisch wertlos, sondern auch formal bedeutungslos."

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Gareth Bale Animation. Tottenham vs Inter Milan – "An animation by Richard Swarbrick @RikkiLeaks."

Spending Time With Felix Morelo – "I was walking around Brooklyn and saw the streets flooded with faces made out of chalk. Following their trail, I ran into a man sitting on a crate, rapidly making them as he scooted backwards. His name is Felix Morelo"

Serge Gainsbourgs Melody film – "Melody, a film based on Histoire de Melody Nelson made for French TV, was directed by Jean Christophe Averty with Gainsbourg and his lover Jane Birkin in the lead roles. Amazing." amazing, yes, but also a bit long

The smartest dog in the world – "Some days go better than others."

True Unique – "Combining the old with the new! That's what trueunique.de doesn't make your average custom bike store. At their store/gallery in the Berlin district Neukölln, Brian and Manuel combine history with technology and make the coolest bikes I'd ever seen"

JR at TED – "For our latest mission we staged an unauthorized autograph signing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art with an actor who bears a striking resemblance to King Philip IV of Spain. "

Sbiti – "Ein Tag im Leben des Berner Künstlers Sbiti Abdel Hay. Produziert wurde das Portrait von Nicolas Fojtu und Bjørn Schaeffner in der DokWerkstatt Bern "

Polizistinnen knutschen! – "“We make massive, monumental art. Besides, it’s obvious that the Voina Group would never kiss policemen. We prefer to fuck them with our 65-meter-Dick!”"

schmooze and abuse

Julian Assange, Cat Hater – "Now we can add “cat hater” to Julian Assange’s biography."

Maru is fine! – "Maru is safe. Thank you for worrying and praying."

Yarn Bombing Philidephia's Blue Line – ""Earlier today I got a message from a certain Ishknits yarn bombing artist telling me that she was heading out this afternoon to bomb SEPTA’s Blue Line and invited me to tag along to photograph it all for this blog."

Jetpack Plugin Brings WordPress.com Features To Self-Hosted Blogs – " Jetpack, a new plugin that brings WordPress.com features to self-hosted blogs. "

Introducing Zite, the iPad's Smartest Magazine Yet – "Watch out, Flipboard. As of Wednesday, you have some serious competition: a free app called Zite that is constantly learning what you like to read on the iPad and creating a magazine finely tailored to your needs."

Street artist Mr Brainwash sued over “copied” image – "Street artist Thierry Guetta, better known as Mr Brain­wash, is being sued by a photographer for copyright in­fringement over a well-known image of rap group Run DMC"

moviebarcode – movies comprimation done in a literal way…

URL Hunter! – "An experimental game using the URL bar as the game screen." wouldnt work on chrome for me

Steinski.com – I dont know who did this – "spotted on the web by Strictly Kev, ever on the alert."

This kid might have melted Puyol's brain with his creepy stare – "Barcelona eliminated Arsenal from the Champions League on Tuesday, TV cameras captured a young man performing what appeared to be some kind of crazy-eyed mind-meld with the back of Carles Puyol's head. "

Situationist App By Benrik – "What is Situationist? Situationist is an iPhone app that makes your everyday life more thrilling and unpredictable. It alerts members to each other's proximity and gets them to interact in random "situations"."

jimmy kets: brightside and shot in flanders – “I don’t feel the need to draw blood.  what fascinates me is that first impression, the way people present their exterior to the world.”

King Philip IV – "For our latest mission we staged an unauthorized autograph signing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art with an actor who bears a striking resemblance to King Philip IV of Spain. "

Amon Tobin Splinter Cell Remixes – "Amon Tobin‘s 2005 Splinter Cell game soundtrack has been remixed to coincide with the release of a new 3D version of the game."

Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer – Interactive Feature – "Choose from two different modes: novice, where the computer learns to play from scratch, and veteran, where the computer pits over 200,000 rounds of previous experience against you."

Pixel Trash Can – "From the second I saw this paper pixel trash can I fell in love with it and I knew that I wanted to make a real life model."

I'm 4 years old. AMAA. : IAmA – reddit community interviews a 4 year old
"What do you think about the world?I think it's pretty good, but not if you're alone or scared or dead or something like that." 

How anti-semitism entered the zeitgeist – for most "racism is black and white, and black and white only. But sadly, racism has many shades of grey: what should not have those shades – what should simply always be an unqualified shutting of the door – is the reaction to it." fucking zeitgeist

sick fearless bastard – "I loved both of the cats, but they were incredibly suicidal all the time" reminds me of my neighbors cat

Pixelhead – "Worried about your picture showing up on Google Streetview? Sick of photos of yourself appearing on sites like Facebook? Here`s the solution!"

lang:de

www.referendum-sozialhilfegesetz.ch – Datenschutz für alle – Referendum gegen die Abschaffung desDatenschutzes im Sozialhilfegesetz des Kantons Bern

The today of the future – Vortrag des Piraten und Netzaktivisten # Peter Sunde – "Als Gründer des File-Sharing-Dienstes The Pirate Bay ist der Schwede Peter Sunde eine umstrittene Person. Mit seinem neuen Mikrobezahldienst Flattr bietet er jetzt eine einfache Lösung zur Bezahlung von kreativen Inhalten auf dem Internet durch die Nutzer an" sa. 26. march, 16:00 zureich

opendata.ch – "In Kürze erhalten Sie hier Informationen zum ersten grossen Open Government Data Anlass in der Schweiz – am 24. Juni in Bern"

Schaubild: Der Baader-Gedeck-Komplex – "Ob der vielen Filme über die RAF, in denen die immergleichen historischen Figuren verkörpert werden, kann man schon einmal den Überblick verlieren. Wir haben aufgeräumt"

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The External World on Vimeo – "A boy learns to play the piano."

The Big LEGOwski – “The Lego-Version of the Big Lebowski. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.”

Mario Kart is back – "Rémi GAILLARD. The show continues on http://www.nimportequi.com" love that dude.

ENTER THE NINJA – super slow motion ninja raping plastic bottles

Riz Khan – Tariq Ramadan and Slavoj Zizek on the future of Egyptian politics – Riz Khan talks to Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek about the power of popular dissent, the limits of peaceful protest and the future of Egyptian politics.

VIEWS OF DETROIT – Exploring Film in Urban Planning – for awhile now i have been feeling the urge to move to detroit, this is why.

Hip Hop Panda Gets Groove On – "This is one of those stories where the headline sort of says it all. Well, here’s some context – it’s not CGI, it’s not a 3D Pixar movie, and it walks a fine line between adorable and menacing"

shizzle

Remnants of a Disappearing UI – "My method involved cleaning the iPad’s surface with a microfiber cloth, using an app for a short amount of time, then turning the screen off. Next, I photographed the iPad, positioning a light source and some black matte board to limit distracting reflections."

Review: Orgasm Inc. Probes Pleasure Profiteering – Indie sex-and-science documentary Orgasm Inc. deftly deflates the pharmaceutical industry’s hunt for a lucrative cure to female sexual dysfunction.

The Anarchist Cookbook Turns 40 – "Powell wrote the book as a 19-year-old antiwar activist, “pissed off,” as he would later write, “at the prospect of being drafted and sent to Vietnam to fight in a war that I did not believe in.” But the “secrets” he revealed were hidden in plain sight; he conducted most of his research at the New York Public Library—not exactly the stuff of WikiLeaks"

FC Zurich fans unveil Gene Simmons display, with giant tongue – "FC Zurich fans invoked the mighty Kiss to express their devotion to their club during last Saturday's 2-0 Swiss Super League win over Lucerne

Egypt crisis: What it says about protest and the internet – "In Four Lions, Chris Morris’ satire of jihadism, the protagonists discuss potential targets. Waj, the astonishingly thick man-child of the group, suggests “the internet”."

Russian performance art troupe Voina harassed, threatened and jailed – "When Banksy offered to pay $133,000 US to get artists Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolayev out of a Russian jail, the local court said “nyet!”. But Russians charged with murder are routinely released for a fraction of that amount. Oleg and Leonid belong to the artist group VOINA (which means “war”), and they have upset some very powerful people in Russia."

For the Horde!!! – "I suppose that as the Alliance vs. Horde conflict rages, it is only natural that overly-enthusiastic Horde patriots attack Alliance propaganda."

The 6 Crappiest Interview Questions – a good laugh

Faces of evil – "Hans Weishäupl took photographs of over 350 people in each dictator’s country and pieced particular parts of them together to create a new and alarmingly lively look for each of them." soon available as iPad app.

Database to foil yoga copytheives to launch – "A open Indian database of all yoga postures will go live soon. It's intended to serve as a reference for patent and copyright offices around the world"

Bush's Swiss visit off after complaints on torture – "Former President George W. Bush has canceled a visit to Switzerland, where he was to address a Jewish charity gala, due to the risk of legal action against him for alleged torture"

grindr goes straight – orly

Woman Hires Man To Rape Her Daughter So She Can Become A Grandma – "No this isn’t an Onion article, although we wish it were. A 53 year old woman (who will go unnamed to protect the identity of her daughter) has been arrested for plotting a rape so that she could become a grandmother." sickest thing of the week.

Top 100 Videos of All Time Tribute Poster – "Limited Edition Extra fine Quality print of the YouTube Top 100 Videos of All Time Tribute Poster "

Rough Mix Podcast 1 (walkin’ and talkin’) download and track listings – "It’s 3 hours of people talking over beats; not rap exactly, but around the neighborhood, with closely related Beat material, poetry, and whatever I wanted, because I could. I’ve broken it up into individual tracks for e-z listening on iTunes, your iPod, your phone, or your digital toothbrush"

Ze Frank’s Star.me Is Like Being In Kindergarten All Over Again – "Frank, who originally studied Neuroscience at Brown, most recently received $500K from Andreesen Horowitz, Betaworks, Lerer Ventures, Founder Collective, Gary Vaynerchuk and Ron Conway to focus on creating novel social games. Now the world gets to see the fruits of his labor."

julian king architect: a room for london – "the elliptical structure, 7 meters in diameter, encases a room of 42 square meters that will sit perched above the skyline of london, overlooking some of the city's most well-known sites."

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habi.gna.ch » Abfall-Kalender Stadt Bern 2011 – In den letzten Jahren habe ich den Abfallkalender der Stadt Bern als Google-Kalender zur Verfügung gestellt. Jetzt hat’s Entsorgung + Recycling Stadt Bern (ERB) geschafft [1], den Abfallkalender in einem praktischen Format auf der Seite der Stadt Bern zu veröffentlichen.

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filim

Keys to the Zebra – DJO – "we're throwing out a few quickies so people don't get the idea that we drowned in a vat of apple juice or got eaten by penguins."

Volkswagen Commercial: The Force – I hope the guy that came up with this got a pay raise.

Everything is a Remix Part Two: Movies – "Kirby Ferguson’s series Everything is a Remix started with a look at how songs are recycled from past tunes. This second installment is about movies, and how everything old is new again."

*New* 2011 SPFX Senior Mask Plays In Venice Beach – "The new 2011 Elder mask has some fun in Venice Beach!"

Pacman Laugh Video – "Some have also suggested it sounds like Mario swimming. Either way, this is hilarious"

Great mini-doc about Brazillian tattooist Maneko – "This is a fantastic mini-documentary (about 8 minutes) about vegan straight edge tattoo artist Maneko from Brazil"

Julian Assange Defends WikiLeaks on "60 Minutes" – "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a rare media appearance on 60 Minutes earlier today tell his side of the story in the face of mounting criticism and controversy"

schmutz und putz

The Middle Class Handbook – The Periodic Table of The Middle Class – i didnt find myself

Looking for Investors – bitch, stop hustling

Hosni Mubarak for sale on eBay – "Have you been searching long and hard for an experienced puppet to run your corrupt regime?"

When Should I Visit? – "When Should I Visit? finds the least busy time to visit the museums, galleries and theatres of London. It states the quietest day and provides a glanceable graph to judge the relative popularity of different days"

Christians protect Muslims during prayer in Cairo's dangerous Tahrir square – "The square in Cario continues to be a scene of violence between pro- and anti-Mubarak supporters who were wielding sticks and throwing rocks."

Yotam Ottolenghi's quick and healthy breakfasts – "Fast and flavourful breakfast recipes by Yotam Ottolenghi"

Don't Make Me Steal – "I PROMISE never to illegally download a movie if there was a legal alternative following the criteria on this page"

The Daily: Indexed – "Anybody else think it's weird that The Daily, News Corp's new iPad-only magazine, posts almost every article to their official website… but with no index of the articles to be found? They spent $30M on it, but apparently forgot a homepage!"

Why Journalists Aren’t Reporting the Real Story about Apple and Foxconn – "Why haven’t American technology journalists reported the truth about the working conditions at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China – a 430,000 person factory that manufactures around 50% of all the personal communications devices used in America?"

Metagames: Games About Games – "Most of these, like Desert Bus or Quest for the Crown, are one-joke games for a quick laugh. Others, like Cow Clicker and Upgrade Complete, are playable critiques of game mechanics."

Fly the Flag, Boys! – "The Swiss flag, which is one of only two square national flags (the Vatican has the other one), traces its heritage to banners used by the Holy Roman Empire"

Cyberspace and Reds (Deluxe Edition) by The Streets – "this is for all my android, nokia and blueberry haters. the deluxe edition of cyberspace and reds featuring fresh barz on the robots tune by frisco."

pac-man wedding cake! – "a wedding cake adapted from my original design to 80 cupcakes"

Guardian Davos journalist's sinister encounter with Swiss riot police – "A policeman pulled me off the train, bound my hands behind my back and frogmarched me into an icy field by the rail track"

HealCam: a ChatRoulette for health – "HealCam is a ChatRoulette variant that invites you to select a disease, medical condition, or health issue"

Juju's message to Mubarak – wait for the "oh and by the way …"

Louis Theroux: 'I'm not that comfortable doing polemic' – "What is it about Louis Theroux that makes people want to show him how odd they are?"

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online video killed the …

So You Want to Be a Journalist – c'est encore un journaliste

OK Go GPS Parade (Back From Kathmandu) – "This video documents the 8.5-mile parade we took through Los Angeles using Range Rover's Pulse of the City app to checkin and spell out the words "OK GO" with the route"

ferrell and reilly do bowie and crosby :: "little drummer boy" – "a long time ago, david bowie sang with bing crosby :: today, will farrell and john c. reilly recreated the magic :: click below to watch the original and the recreation ::"

WikiRebels – The Documentary | SVT Play – rough cut of swedish documentary on wikileaks and assange

15 year old Tells Establishment to Stick-it. – goose bumps

schmooze and abuse

Yahoo Trying To Unload Del.icio.us, Not Shut It Down – "Yahoo says that while Delicious doesn’t have a “strategic fit” at the company, it will not be shutting the service down entirely for now. In fact, it looks like Yahoo is going to find a new home for Delicious (a.k.a. sell)." so have we jumped the gun then?

10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange – "Unseen police documents provide the first complete account of the allegations against the WikiLeaks founder"

Gangsta Lorem Ipsum dummy text generator – "Vivamizzle ullamcorper, tortor izzle varius gangster, go to hizzle nunc ultricies turpis, ma nizzle da bomb yo mamma i saw beyonces tizzles and my pizzle went crizzle shizzlin dizzle dolizzle"

The Anonymous WikiLeaks protests are a mass demo against control | Richard Stallman – "The actions against MasterCard and Amazon are not 'hacking'. People are just finding a way to protest in a digital space"

Record Labels Blame Google For Piracy, Hint At Censorship – "The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the UK’s main recording industry trade body, came out with guns blazing against Google today. BPI says that search engines like Google are as popular as P2P applications as a source for illegal downloads."

The End Of Del.icio.us – "Hey, Yahoo?  Running del.icio.us cost you pennies, and bought you so much goodwill.  Now you’re just another of those scumfucks who acquires great services just to bury them.  But then, firing all those people before Xmas really showed what kind of people you are anyway, didn’t it" well said, mr. ellis

The Peacemaker, Ice-T produced TV series on gang mediation, debuts tonight – "For the last 20 years Spellman has dedicated his life to ending gang violence, putting it all on the line to mediate truces between rival gangs in Los Angeles – adversaries sometimes separated by less than one city block." hmm, time to start up my torrent client?

Veggie Masterpieces by Ju Duoqi – "The artist Ju Duoqi reproduces artistic masterpieces, like Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," using vegetables. Duoqi vegetable rendition of Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss" and Edvard Munch's "The Scream" are also excellent." 

Inside 'Anonymous': tales from within the group taking aim at Amazon and Mastercard – "Though it sounds like a coordinated organisation, the reality is that it's more like a stampeding herd – and members are fearful of standing up and being counted"

Gawker Commenter Database Hacked – "Our user databases do indeed appear to have been compromised. The passwords were encrypted. But simple ones may be vulnerable to a brute-force attack." and they are a target why?

WikiLeaks backlash: The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackers – "As Julian Assange is held in solitary confinement at Wandsworth prison, the anonymous community of hacktivists takes to the cyber battlefields"

swiss focus

Doppelt genäht – "so hat der Bundesrat gestern Frühabend den Auftrag erhalten, eine gesetzliche Regelung zu schaffen, damit die vereinfachte und damit massiv günstigere Verzollungsart durchgeführt werden muss."

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