die schweizer medien rätslen über den young boys spieler ghezal. es fallen worte wie seltsam und unerklärlich, wenn sein plötzliches verschwinden anfangs dezember erwähnt wird.
mein erster gedanke zum thema, ghezal’s verschwinden erklärt sich mit dem seltsamen und unerklärlichen resultat der minarett abstimmung.
teh glorious interweb as it got stuck in my camino tabs this past week – the edited version.
online video killed the …
Little Kid does worlds best Batman Spoof – "This little kid gets a Batman costume for Halloween and has way to much fun, See why in the video!" his mum probably skipped a day of giving him his ritalin. [via b3ta]
FLAIRS – TRUCKERS DELIGHT – "Truckers Delight animated video clip directed by newcomer wunderkid Jérémie Périn who takes the song's title (a tribute to those little pleasures that the lonely truck- driver indulges himself in) and takes it to the next level." sexist, offensive, but very well done animation.
Hand thierry henry ireland french 2010 football world champion ship – i hate you, thierry henry! leave barca, get out of my life.
act now – "frame by frame 2D animation to the subject of change climate change" this video was made by my friend karen from hamburg for the raise your voice youtube contest.
Youth Soccer Goalie Scores on her own Team!!! – cute.
Unusual Stop Motion: Videogame – stop motion video that reinvents the medium and could almost be performed analogue.
schmooze and abuse
Life on Mars star's turn in Marks & Spencer ad attacked over 'sexism' – "Life on Mars actor Philip Glenister's spot in Marks & Spencer's Christmas TV campaign has been accused of being sexist toward women." orily?
Queen: We sank the Armada, we can sink some P2P pirates! – "The Queen opened the UK parliamentary session yesterday and announced that an Internet disconnection bill would be coming soon. But will it actually be legal?" orily?
Listen to ‘World’s First Twitter Album’ – "Anyone with half a brain can put a song onto Twitter by pasting in the URL for a song. For some, that isn’t enough — they figured out how to paste entire songs into the 140-character Twitter window." yarily.
warp20 (elemental) – sorry, warp, you fail to deliver my goods, i am forced to search the interweb to finally hear the music i ordered months and months ago. this osymyso mix is fantastic stuff!!!
Pets love 'em…. – “Annoying cut out 'n' stick eyes for pets.”
Clients From Hell – "A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers." we all know some anecdotes like these…
Pirate Bay Retires World’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker – "Operators of The Pirate Bay shuttered the site’s BitTorrent tracker on Tuesday, six years after it was founded. Trackers — the servers that bootstrap each BitTorrent download — are no longer necessary with enhancements like DHT and PEX that allow peers to locate one another without accessing a central server, site operators wrote in the Bay’s blog."
NERD THRONE. – "NERD THRONE. This 7-foot tall chair is made entirely of Japanese Famicom (Nintendo) cartridges."
heffer pitcher – "An utterly irresistible and modern gift, both on the giving and receiving ends." didnt they mean to say udderly.
Banned Xboxs flood online marketplaces – "Over the past week Microsoft has banned nearly one million users from the online gaming service after finding that they had modified their consoles to play pirated games. Since the ban is connected to the console rather than a gamer's online account, many modified Xboxs have appeared online being sold by banned users." do not buy an xbox! ok ok, i mean on ebay.
Video Game Requires Kissing – "The DS has a mic and a touchscreen, so… one time, she asked me to say "I love you" a hundred times into the mic. I was on the airplane when she asked me that, so I was like, no way."
Me and Belle de Jour – ‘Could it be Brooke?’ – "A couple of months went past, and after Belle de Jour won the award for Best Written Blog from the Guardian and the whole BdJ phenomenon kicked off, I had my eureka moment – I was sitting on the tube one morning and suddenly thought: ‘Could it be Brooke?’"
I’m Belle de Jour – "Finally the anonymous sex blogger from Diary of a London Call Girl comes clean to The Sunday Times. She's Dr Brooke Magnanti"
Why Are Eggs Harder to Peel? – "The reason why might surprise you -older eggs are easier to peel, and the eggs we eat are fresher than ever! As an egg ages, it loses both moisture and carbon dioxide, which causes the air bubble between the shell and the membrane to get bigger." this is why i love neatorama, i often wondered about this.
The History of the Internet in a Nutshell – “Here’s a brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, projects, sites, and other information that should give you at least a partial picture of what this thing we call the Internet really is, and where it came from.”
Wife posed as girl in online trap – "A suspicious wife posed as a teenager online to catch her husband propositioning girls in a chatroom, Cardiff Crown Court has heard." sucks to be him. and her!
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teh glorious interweb as it got stuck in my camino tabs this past week – the edited version.
online video killed the …
Just add water… – "Ever feel like something was… missing? Also available on YouTube in HD That’s right folks. Water is coming to LittleBigPlanet as part of a future Downloadable Addon Kit. WATER. \o/" sackboy can swim, woohee!
Hey Alan,Alan, Alan, Alan,Alan,Alan… – "i really want a video of just that shark going tooodalooooo over && over again. ahahahhaa" wait for the shark, wait for it, there!
boom boom pow – kid using apple store to create his audition tapes. cute. [via bb]
schmooze and abuse
Information Is Beautiful – "Ideas, issues, knowledge, data – visualized! See what you think" home of them nice infographics.
Translation Party – feed a phrase into this translator that translates it back and forth from japanese and english till “equilibrium” is found …
Camper Kart : KEVIN CYR – "Camper Kart … investigates habitats and housing; recycling and ecology; exploration and mobility."
Camper Bike : KEVIN CYR – "Camper Bike, a functioning sculptural piece, built in April 2008."
The Sandinista Project — free for one day only! – "Joe Strummer of the Clash would have been 57 today. So today seems like a good day to give Clash fans a present."
Lamebook – "From Lame to Fame" facebook fails collected on the lamebook.
Sex-toy recycling company and the iPhone orgasm app – "Waste not, want not; the mantra of 2009 is also the business plan of dreamscapes' Sex Toy Recycling Program. Stop giggling and read! This is environmentally responsible stuff. " start to recycle your dildos, kk?
How to Manage Your Online Life When You're Dead – "Firms like Legacy Locker, Asset Lock and Deathswitch now help people plan for their death by collecting details like your passwords while you're living. Of course, you could just write your passwords on a piece of paper." yes ok, but these servives charging money for this are evil.
Crosswalk Sign Hacks at Urban Prankster – "Make sure you read the instructions carefully next time you’re about to press the button at a crosswalk." you might just reset the universe.
Personas – "Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person – to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data." i had much aggression on mine. puzzled.
Moss Graffiti – "Guerrilla gardening and street art come together in this recipe for green mayhem. Get out there and spread some spores!" better than “get out their and spread your seed”?
God Trumps Part I – "Struggling to choose the top religion? Can't decide between Bible-thumping evangelism or benign, gentle Buddhism? Make the process fun and easy with God Trumps, our cut-out-and-keep metaphysical card game for all the family." i loled. [via warren ellis]
iPhone Dethrones Rebel XTi as Most Popular Camera on Flickr – "Despite its minimal camera features, the iPhone has just surpassed Canon’s Digital Rebel XTi as the most popular camera used by members of image-sharing website Flickr." is that sad or is that sad? apple should have really really really put a better camera into the iphone from the start.
Italian bloggers' silent protest – "Italian bloggers went on strike in July to protest against government measures that they claim could kill the internet. They say the Alfano decree restricts the rights of bloggers to express their opinions without fear of comeback." and how exactly will going on strike help in this situation?
Where the Premier League's players come from – "In the past two decades, the composition of England's top-flight teams has changed dramatically." thats putting it mildly. great visualization.
Having Beef over Kool Keith – About Female Sex and the Crisis of Masculinity during a Night Out in London – "Taste is context, but the context has changed. It did. The outcome is that everything is much more complicated now. In fact sometimes you get the impression, complication is the new normativity. But still. Aren’t we lucky? " god, ze bunz is sooo smart and smart is sooo sexy. i so would. he he. sorry, was that a bit sexist? more like sexual. the distinction between sexist and sexual might often get slightly blurred in discussions like these. but hey, still smart stuff.
New work by Blu at FAME festival – "this factory is destroying the territory and killing a lot of workers ’cause of its big lack of security measures and high environmental pollution. the direct consequence is that Taranto has one of the highest rate of death by cancer in italy." [via rebel:art]
Radiohead Leak Their New Track To BitTorrent – "During the last few days a new Radiohead song was mysteriously released onto the Internet. The track is called “These Are My Twisted Words” and until today it was unclear where it had come from. Now, thanks to a post on the band’s blog, it seems the boys could’ve had it planned all along, as they are now linking to the song on Mininova."
Twitter tweets are 40% 'babble' – "A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are "pointless babble."" yeh duh. wait, ONLY 40%???
Thought control is taking games to the next level – "Don't think of an elephant. Impossible, right? It's hard to direct your thoughts on cue, but that's just what the new thought-control games want you to do."
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BALLACK V BENNY HILL
Ballack vs Tom Henning Remix sprint
HENNING TOM Y JERRY BALLACK
BALLACK PACMAN VS TOM HENNING
Ballack v Ovrebo – Mortal Kombat
[teh glorious interweb what got stuck in my 
camino tabs this past week]
george carlin r.i.p.
Seven Words – shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. he’s right, it’s got a very nice rythm.
George Carlin: A YouTube Obituary – “Here’s a short selection of George Carlin’s best YouTube YouTube flicks. If you’re a fan, I know you’ll enjoy them; if you’re one of the uninitiated, well, better late than never.”
footie
Luca Toni – “Cow’s arses, banjos, donkeys, clown shoes, muppet puppets … yep, this week’s Photoshop versions of Italy’s misfiring hitman left no stone unturned.” i am a fan, but i admit. he did look rather clumsy.
Chancellor Merkel goes fussball crazy – “Chancellor Angela Merkel has become so wrapped up in the team effort that she sends players regular text messages before and after games and has even been invited into their dressing room for pep talks.” oh noes, another powerful woman creaming her panties over footballers?
Allo raymond – making fun of raymond domenech is the good strategy. it is hard though cause he mostly pisses people off.
graffiti/street art
blu at hangar bicocca milano – me = incoming! blu’s website
Scott Wade’s Dirty Car Art Gallery – artist creates artwork on dusty cars.
Nerd-Graffiti – “What happens if some IT comes into our real life?”
REVERSE GRAFFITI: Clean Green Street Art hits San Francisco! – “The Reverse Graffiti Project imbues the guerrilla tactics of street-art with an eco-friendly element, detourning the definition of graffiti by actually cutting through and cleaning up grit to leave a lasting impression.”
online video killed the …
How to torment telemarketers with one word – “Dedicated to those wonderful people who phone me every day.” yes!
Where The Hell Is Matt? – matt, the globetrotting dancing dude, has a new video up.
Blonde does the escalator rail spin! – “it’s really hard to stop …”
The 10 Best Fan Made Hip Hop Videos With Sims Of All Time – “Fan made music videos featuring The Sims aren’t exactly new. Still, have you seen these things lately? They are the funniest thing.”
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain ownage – “Nirvana famous song ‘Smells like teen spirit’ by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain” and curt has officially turned in his grave.
Heavy Load – punk band featuring musicians with learning disabilities. i am down with the down syndrome drummer.
Rayman singing Sexbomb – Rayman and Globox singing Sexbomb. yeh …
schmooze and abuse
The Many (Geeky) Faces of Bill Gates – “Transition One: Coder to Negotiator, Transition Two: Founder to Fortune 500 CEO, Transition Three: Monopolist to Savvy Defendant, Transition Four: Captain of Industry to ‘Venture Philanthropist’”
Flooded London Gallery – “the Medcalf Gallery in London debuted “Flooded London”, a photographic depiction of the future of London as it is overtaken by the rising sea.” preview of things to come.
Yeondoo Jung – kids drawings recreated as photos.
A Marxist analysis of the Simpsons – “Rather than being a satirical examination of American working class life and alienation under capitalism, the show has been transformed from satire to spectacle.” damn man, communists sure know how to take the fun out of everything.
Michel Gondry Picks 25 Classic Music Videos – “Michel Gondry, the French-born director of acclaimed offbeat movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, has also directed numerous groundbreaking videos for the likes of Björk and the White Stripes. He offers his picks of the best videos of the last 25 years, in no particular order.”
Big Lebowski 8-Inch Figures – dude!
The Paper Version of the Web – “We don’t usually get to see this handmade stage of the web, but some folks have been thoughtful/narcissistic enough to upload photos of their UI sketches, and I find them fascinating.”
Nintendo ‘least green tech firm’ – “Games firm Nintendo has come bottom of a ranking of the world’s most eco-friendly electronics firms.”
Dance powered phone charger for Glastonbury Festival – “Orange today unveiled a prototype phone charger which harnesses the kinetic energy of your dance moves to allow you to make calls.”
RETRO Reality – retro game chars in real-life settings.
My Headphones Almost Killed My Cat – “I guess I never really noticed or thought about the fact that they were enclosed in this big thick plastic case.” i so know this, struggled many times with these unbreakable plastic packaging materials.
By Open Sourcing Symbian, Nokia Kicks Off the Mobile Age – “Symbian co-founder Nokia announced Monday night that it is buying the 52 percent of the software maker that it doesn’t already own and releasing its mobile operating system under an open source license.”
The 13 Most Common Female Courtship Gestures and Signals – “The female techniques that you are about to see give you a basic understanding and a few small and maybe unknown female tips.”
Hackers Crack London Tube’s Ticketing System – “Dutch security researchers rode the London Underground free for a day after easily using an ordinary laptop to clone the “smartcards” commuters use to pay fares, a hack that highlights a serious security flaw” haXXorz.
Announcing the “Internet for Everyone” campaign – “Today Google joined a national initiative of public interest, civic and industry groups to help launch the Internet for Everyone campaign, whose goal is to make ubiquitous and open broadband access f every American a priority in the next administration.” so noble. so not evil. so goo… i think i am gonna puke now.
Man named God arrested for selling cocaine – “Whether his name is a blessing or curse the man named God Lucky Howard was arrested by undercover detectives for selling cocaine in his neighborhood.” god, can you sell me some crack when you get released from prison. please?
PictoplasmaNYC – “Pictoplasma NYC – Conference on Contemporary Character Design and Art New York, September 5-6, 2008 Away from its usual home in Berlin, the Pictoplasma Conference is about to touch down in the heart of Manhattan.” if only ny wasn’t so bloody unaffordable.
http://www.belluard.ch – Since 1983 the festival Belluard Bollwerk International takes place every year in the beginning of the summer in Fribourg (CH). At this year’s festival which takes place from June 24th til July 5th 2008, 19 projects – will be presented.
Wonderland: Postcard from Azeroth – “In a moment of brilliance (I suspect fuelled by gin), my guildmates sent the guild a postcard each … from Azeroth.” what strikes me is that they had everyone’s rl adress.
Teens use technology to party in strangers’ pools | Register Hardware – “Tech savvy teens are using Google Earth’s splendidly clear aerial shots of the UK to launch a summertime craze – pool crashing.”
german crap
Markus Notter | Regierungsrat des Kantons Zürich – website of a swiss politician, that gives the illusion you actually meet him. [via swissmiss]
Nokia erwirbt Berliner Startup Plazes – “Nokia kauft das Berliner Startup Plazes.com. Der weltweit führende Handyanbieter baut damit seine Internetplattform Ovi weiter aus.”
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