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IN BED WITH INVADER – “Shot in winter 2011, this movie invite you to spend one night in Paris with the street artist Invader.”

Spike Lee / The Dolly Shot – “A montage of unique dolly shots from the films of Spike Lee. Music: “Bra” by Cymande”

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Let’s Ride the Magic General Strike Bus – well, it certainly won’t be the posters fault if May Day fails. some fantastic pieces.

Update: Filthy Luker – gotta love these scary AND cute sculptures

Klouchebag – Klout parody determines your level of douchbagery on twitter

The Pirate DVD King of Long Island, “Big Hy” Strachman, Keeps Soldiers in Free DVDs – “‘Big Hy’ — his handle among many loyal customers — would almost certainly be cast as Hollywood Enemy No. 1 but for a few details. He is actually Hyman Strachman, a 92-year-old, 5-foot-5 World War II veteran trying to stay busy after the death of his wife.” arrest that, hollywood

Laurie Penny: A papier-mâché puppet and a badly tuned guitar… how to go on strike when you haven’t got a job – “Whatever future these young people collectively create – and sooner or later, they’ll have to come up with one – the meaning of direct action, the meaning of work, and the meaning of success and failure itself will be redefined. That’s not something to dismiss in haste.” does the left really only set themselves up for failure? hmm

May Day General Strike posters – !!!

Bruno Neri, the footballer who stood up to fascism – “The players are lined up in the centre of the pitch, standing in front of the still unfinished stands and all are giving the fascist salute. Except for one: Bruno Neri.”

YouAreMinecraft Live Map – asks people to upload minecraft avatars

Joebot: Memes @ Gallery 1988 – “Straight from the World Wide Web and into your hearts comes the new hit album “Haters Gonna Hate” from The Internets! Now you can sing along with hit songs such as “Friday”, “Trololo”, and “Bed Intruder Song”.”

Sex toys found on Swiss trains for sale – “A vast array of weird and wonderful items from the Swiss rail network’s lost-and-found department is now on sale, including butt plugs, dildos and worn underwear.”

Descriptive Camera – “The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene.”

Mr Oizo 3000 – Mr. Oizo New EP Stade 3, free to download

The hidden side of your soul: How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot – “The FBI had set up its fake CP site for precisely this situation. When investigators had a lead on someone specific, they e-mailed the person with a custom password and the site URL.”

The True Size of Africa – Can you fit the USA, China and India inside African Continent? Yes. And Much more…

Holy cow … – “how google drive terms compare to dropbox and Microsoft. ..wow.” whatever happened to Don’t be Evil?

Tour for GHOSTS WITH SHIT JOBS, a Lo-fi Sci-fi Feature by Jim Munroe – “By 2040, the economy has flipped and North Americans are a cheap labour pool for wealthy Asian markets. A Chinese documentary show focuses on the “ghosts” (Cantonese slang for white people) unlucky enough to have been born into the slums of Toronto in a special report that translates as “Ghosts With Shit Jobs.”"

Occupy Wall Street: what is to be done next? | Slavoj Žižek – “How a protest movement without a programme can confront a capitalist system that defies reform”

How Can I Recharge My Depleted Motivation? – “Regaining your motivation involves a combination of combatting the sources of its depletion and tricking yourself into taking the first step.”

Various & Gould: “Zu Gast Arbeit” – strong work by german street artist duo various & gould for instanbul group show OUTSIDE-in, the swept a street in the city with a mix of sand and blue pigment addressing the issue of migrant workers in the cities

Some Objections To Occupy May 1st – “As the call has spread around and become something inseparable from Occupy as a movement, there have been a number of objections or concerns about a May 1st general strike.” reading through some of the comments makes me lose all hope…

Chains of oppression: Katie Roiphe, Lena Dunham and the sexual counter-revolution. – “Female sexual autonomy itself is what’s really unorthodox today. Agency and self-determination, the right to own our own desire – those are the kind of forbidden fantasies women across the world still pant over in private, unable to pronounce for fear of being slut-shamed.”

The History of File-Sharing – “Last century filesharing was a fringe hobby, only for geeks who were lucky enough to own a computer that could dial into the World Wide Web. How different is that today, where filesharing has become daily routine for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. In just a few years swapping files has become mainstream. Time to take a step back and see how it all came about.”

More OWS Arrests, Staggering Police Presence At Federal Hall – “the first eight arrests, which occurred across the street from Federal Hall, and wrote that they were prompted by the protesters’ desire “to draw attention to statements made by police commanders over the last few days that protesters were not allowed to lie on the sidewalks.” This interpretation of the law, despite a court ruling from 2000, has forced protesters off the sidewalk on Broad Street and onto the stairs of Federal Hall.”

Dani Alves: ‘At Barcelona we are taking football back to its origins’ – “Barcelona’s buccaneering right-back explains that staying true to attacking principle is secret of Catalan club’s ongoing success”

IHTFP Hack Gallery: Tetris on the Green Building – “MIT hackers have long considered “Tetris on the Green Building” to be the Holy Grail of hacks, as the side of the building is a wonderful grid for the game.”

Why And How To Strike On May Day – “We are striking to halt the flow of capital, reclaim a tool of resistance, and unify movements against exploitation, repression, and corruption.”

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apokalypse now (and then) – “In den aktuellen Katastrophen und weltpolitischen Ereignissen spitzen sich die tiefgreifenden globalen Umwälzungen der vergangenen 25 Jahre dramatisch zu. Je nach Perspektive werden sie von den Menschen als Krise oder als Chance auf einen Neuanfang interpretiert. Auf nahezu allen Ebenen politischer, philosophischer und künstlerischer Diskurse erleben wir eine Konjunktur apokalyptischer Rede.”

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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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Reggie Watts: Humor in music – “Watts knows this audience well”

Poetic Terror 3: The Final Detonation (Terrorismo Poético 3: O Desembesto Final) – “Short film about urban intervention and street art.”

2012 & The End Of The World – “Why (some) people think the world will come to an end during 2012.”

TotalRandomness512′s Channel – silent video by a kid with a serious heart condition who died a few days after posting this. very moving.

NextLevel Squad – gasmasks! and wicked next generation dance moves

Riley on Marketing – riley has already figured this out

TateShots: Maurice Sendak – “Maurice Sendak, the creative genius behind books such as ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and ‘In the Night Kitchen’, is an illustrator whose work has been seen by millions of people all over the world.”

How to Film a Revolution – a tutorial – Occupy the Movie – “Big brother, we are watching you. Part of OCCUPY THE MOVIE, an indy film series aiming to be entirely funded by the 99%. Join us, become a crowd funding produce”

robotarm scratch – created by daito manabe and motoi ishibashi

#learn

Richard Prince Lawsuit Focuses on Limits of Appropriation – “recycle and remix culture is gaining speed so rapidly that trying to bring order to it was, even now, like trying to hit a moving target.” well… if then NYT starts to say so…

A break a day, every day, all year. – steinski did a mix for “a break a day” soundcloud.com/365breaks

Kyle Bean: “Soft Guerilla” – “A series of weapons made from harmless materials for a feature article centred around the topic of ‘Guerilla Gardening’ and ‘Yarn Bombing’.”

Fireplace – fireplace software. yup. interactive as well.

Book Review – Art & Activism in the Age of Globalization – “The quality of the book extends way beyond its premise. Art & Activism in the Age of Globalization is composed of 30 essays by artists, art historians, philosophers, cultural critics, social scientists, curators, theatre directors, etc. I expected at least one or two of these texts to be bland, too scholarly, or cliché.” thank you regine.

Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99% – I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook”

WonderLand – “a unique but rather simple and elegant artificial lighting and household objects (from vegetables to plastic bags)”

Drexciya: Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller I – “You’ve heard bits and pieces of Drexciya, you grasp their importance, but you feel guilty: you don’t really know Drexciya’s music, and you should. But where on earth do you begin?” the electro gods lineage is clear – kraftwerk, drexciya, aphex twin, boards of canada

In Caffeine We Trust: Infographic Print For Tracking Your Coffee Consumption Data – “In Caffeine We Trust: Infographic Print For Tracking Your Coffee Consumption Data”

Car Atlas – Rainbow, 2,500 Toy Cars Arranged in a Circular Rainbow – “London-based artist David T Waller created Car Atlas – Rainbow, a beautiful art installation using nearly 2,500 toy cars arranged in a giant circular rainbow pattern.”

The Boombox Project, A Photobook of Vintage Boomboxes – “The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground is a photo book by photographer Lyle Owerko featuring fine art photographs of vintage boomboxes.”

Wormworldsaga.com – Part 2 – part 2 is out

Illustrated Map of Argentina’s Primera División Stadiums and Clubs – “all the details you could possibly want on Argentina’s Primera División for the 2012 Clausura”

The Family – “Over 10 years ago, Jocelyn Bain Hogg followed and portrayed the protagonists of organised crime in South London. Gangsters, funerals, big rings, big cigars, diamond-encrusted knuckle duster, more funerals, pimps and prostitutes”

be afraid be very afraid – this graphic gave me a fou rire this morning …

#Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You – “On those rare occasions when we want to form a crowd, our tech can work a strange, dark magic.”

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Poses.mov – yolanda dominguez has women pose in those impossible model poses in the street

Cristiano Ronaldo in LOVE with Jose Mourinho – meow

pedro reyes: baby marx at walker art center – "baby marx, an ongoing project by mexican artist pedro reyes that looks at the potential for mass entertainment to operate as a radical educational tool. an architect by training, reyes works across platforms and disciplines-including design, installation, and video-to explore sites and scenarios of collective interaction."

Ghosts With Shit Jobs – mockumentary portrays US economy from 2040 shows the jobs americans have to do that no chinese would do

Polish Spiderman Wreaks Havoc – he's a bit of a prick. but a few scenes are great

June Bum Park 1 Parking – korean guy parks cars with his hands

Pig Farms: an Animal Equality documentary – mmmh, jamon…

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Stocking Is the New Planking – recreates stock photography poses

The End – "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." orly? as flash game about death

Wikibituaries – "Everybody knows that all the major news media maintain a load of obituaries on the shelf ready for when ageing or particularly hardcore public figures drop off the twig, and equally there's the old wikideaths lark of killing people off on Wikipedia. Why not bring the two together to create a resource where a community of – admittedly probably a bit morbid – people maintain a resource of user-generated obituaries for slebs and other public figures?"

Genre busting: the origin of music categories – "Where did the terms retro-nuevo and skronk originate? Or hip-hop? Michaelangelo Matos runs through an exhaustive catalogue of music's phrasemakers and trendsetters"

Narco cinema: b-movies – "The name says it all. Narco cinema churns out low-budget, action-filled B-movies that star drug dealers, corrupt cops and politicians, strippers, explosions, blood baths but also plenty of trucks and those vehicles that are twice the size of my flat. "

OpenART i Örebro – Open Art Biennale features Mark Jenkins

From utopia to dystopia and back again – See No Evil, Bristol – "This weekend saw the final unveiling of the the See No Evil project in Bristol; Europe’s largest street art exhibition. It is, to say the very least, an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement. Graffiti artists not just from Bristol but around the globe descended on Nelson Street, transforming the whole area from drab, urban decay into what feels like a new – almost virtual – space."

Why IP Addresses Alone Don't Identify Criminals – "First, an IP address doesn't automatically identify a criminal suspect. It's just a unique address for a device connected to the Internet, much like a street address identifies a building."

Twitter traffic during the riots – "The Guardian has compiled a unique database of more than 2.5m tweets related to the riots, showing that the majority of surging social media traffic occurred after the first verified reports of incidents in an area" slow twitter is slow.

‘The Lady’ Trailer and Shepard Fairey Poster: Luc Besson Tackles Political Resistance – "The Lady stars Michelle Yeoh as Burmese revolutionary leader Aung San Suu Kyi — this is a real-life story of political oppression and resistance. The first teaser trailer, which shows Yeoh in character taking the stage in front of a throng of wildly cheering supporters, has just dropped. Along with it comes the film’s first poster, designed by Shepard Fairey"

World Press Photo – "View the entire collection of winning images from the 54th World Press Photo Contest."

Knit Your Own Mini Ninja – "Knitting kit to knit your own mini ninja Includes: booklet, yarn, felt, darning needle, knitting needles, needle & thread, and toy stuffing"

Can’t Take the Heat – "Burning Man started at Baker Beach, and we can reclaim Black Rock City here within San Francisco limits if we can visualize The Playa happening at home. Here are a few suggestions for taking a Burner staycation."

eve bailey: shoulder path – "'shoulder path' project concentrates on the form generated by a backward roll. the shapes of the structure fold and unfold recording the geometry of the successive positions of the action."

From Goblin to Morricone: the art of horror movie music – "The scariest horror films don't just make you want to cover your eyes, but your ears, too. Stephen Thrower on movie music with real menace" stephen thrower of coil/cyclobe reviews trends in horror film music through the decades

Say Something Nice – "For our latest mission we constructed a custom wooden lectern with a megaphone holster and an attached sign that read, “Say Something Nice.” The lectern was placed in public spaces around New York and then left alone."

David Graeber: Bursting capitalism's bubble. – "there seems to have been a profound contradiction between the political imperative of establishing capitalism as the only possible way to manage anything, and capitalism’s own unacknowledged need to limit its future horizons lest speculation, predictably, go haywire. When speculation did go berserk, and the whole machine imploded, we were left in the strange situation of not being able to even imagine any other way that things might be arranged. About the only thing we can imagine is catastrophe."

If PHP Were British – "would_you_mind { // Code here } actually_i_do_mind (Exception £e) { // Politely move on cheerio('Message'); }"

ryo yamada: infinite landscape – "'infinite landscape', an architectural installation in the center of a lake at the museum of contemporary art in sapporo, japan. a narrow path leads visitors from land over the water towards a box modestly clad with oriented strand board, OSB. upon entering the enclosed structure, the internal walls and roof are black, blocking the passage of light and indirectly, a sense of direction or time."

Pablo Delgado's small world – "Tiny figures are popping up all over London's East End thanks to this Mexican artist"

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

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

cows & cows & cows – coreographed cowbubbles… lololol

OLD SPICE REMIX: by Mike Relm – bitchin'

schmooze and abuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Invaders to Tetris – made in lego now

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

swiss focus

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

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vuvuzela cup 2010

Spain vs Holland /Netherlands 1-0 Full Lego Highlights 2010 World Cup FInal – "Lego WC FINAL"

BBC 2010 World Cup 2010 Closing montage – the stadiums as eerie spaceships that landed in south africa, impressive.

Pepe Reina speaker Show in Madrid – Mundial Sudáfrica 2010 – this brought tears to my eyes, every team needs a Pepe Reina

Dutch unveil new brand of ‘Total Bastard Football – "After decades of careful refinement, precision training and deep aesthetic study – then canning all that nonsense – Sunday’s World Cup was the scene for the unveiling of Dutch football’s latest revolution, the new style of ‘Total Bastard Football’."

Paul the Oracle Octopus goes eight for eight, is amazing – "Eight picks, eight correct, eight tentacles. Paul the Oracle Octopus is clearly the biggest winner of the World Cup after recording a perfect prognostication record whether he knows it or not (he probably doesn't)."

Asi Narro Camacho El Gol De Iniesta – "El ex-seleccionador español canto el gol que dio a España el Mundial en la retransmisión de España"

Casillas besa a Sara Carbonero (His Girlfriend) – and suddenly he smooches the interviewer…

Pitch invader tried to put hat on World Cup trophy before final – "Notorious and prolific pitch invader Jimmy Jump did it again, this time coming oh-so-close to getting his hands on the World Cup trophy just before the final. A team of security men wrestled him to the ground just before he could get one his signature red caps on the trophy in what might be his biggest invasion yet." goooo jimmy!!!!

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Alyssa Milano To Old Spice Man: Are You Strong Enough To Be My Man? – "One of them happens to be Alyssa Milano, who not only got cards but multiple video responses from the Old Spice man himself. Alyssa Milano replies with a video of her own and asks for a $100,000 donation to take the relationship to the next level. Classic! Watch the video below."

YouTube – @OhDoctah vs. @OldSpice (cc: @Dove) – "The Old Spice guy is a fake! He is not a man that women want. Women want a real man! Women want me, because I'm a real man! I choose Dove and so should you!"

Star Wars Subway Car – "For our latest mission, we staged a reenactment of the first Princess Leia / Darth Vader scene from Star Wars on a New York City subway car. The white walls and sliding doors on the train reminded us of the rebel ship from the movie, and we thought it would be fun to see how people would react to a surprise appearance by the iconic characters. "

Crazy Old "DJ" – "I WILL PARTY WITH THIS MOTHER FUCKER!!!" from comments

An Anarchist Speaks – "A provocative anarchist perspective on the Toronto G20 protests that you would never get from the mainstream media – worth watching, swear words and all."

Police State Canada – "Provocation and police terror at the G20 summit in Toronto"

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Meat Free Monday – “If you’ve come here today it’s because you care about what you eat and about what’s happening to our climate. We do too. That’s why we started Meat Free Monday.” good first step to Meat Free Every Day Of The Week ;]

Vegetarian recipe special: the chefs (part one) – "Fabulous meat-free recipes, from Jamie Oliver's aubergine tabbouleh to Heston Blumenthal's garden salad" some sound yummie. but tonite’s dinner will be:

Fried cauliflower with tahini recipe – niammmmmmmmmm! soon on a plate near you

Conway's Game of Life in HTML 5 – "Welcome to sixfoottallrabbit's implementation of John Conway's Game of Life, using the HTML 5 canvas element. The Game of Life is a cellular automaton, which means that it consists of a grid of cells which can be in one of a finite number of states. Given any state, there are rules that govern what the next state of the grid will be."

Why She Hates It, Why You Do It, and 6 Simple Ways to Make It a Non-Issue – "I recently discovered that my beautiful wife doesn’t really like video games. Not really at all, actually. Something like hate is probably closer to the mark … once in a while we’d fight about video games but not very frequently or furiously. She would joke about throwing my stuff away while I was at work, I would mock-threaten divorce and we’d go about our lives. Typical, you say. End of story, right? Well, maybe not."

Analysis: Blizzard's real problem with Real ID and the way to solve it – "One week ago, Blizzard announced plans to change its forums, requiring users to post under their real names using as system called Real ID. Six solid days of backlash from its community and mass media attention later, Blizzard backed off on Real ID."

Cocaine levels surprisingly high in Swiss water. – "The waste water in Swiss towns contain surprisingly high traces of cocaine, according to a study by Bern University." this then may be why i LOVE swimming in the river?

How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made – "How do you take the social web by storm in a day, winning over even the coldest of hearts and gaining international aclaim – with commercials?"

Recording Industry vs. The People – “The RIAA's "business plan" is even worse than I'd guessed it was. The RIAA paid Holmes Roberts & Owen $9,364,901 in 2008, Jenner & Block more than $7,000,000, and Cravath Swain & Moore $1.25 million, to pursue its "copyright infringement" claims, in order to recover a mere $391,000."

Best Album Art of All Time, Readers’ Choice Edition – "being the democratic crowdsourcing technophiles that we are, we’re serving up a healthy sampling of your choices for best album art of all time in the gallery below."

Calvin Klein Jeans Replaces Racy Billboards with QR Codes – "This past weekend, Calvin Klein Jeans replaced three of its billboards — two in downtown New York and one on Sunset Boulevard in LA — not with another racy montage of scantily clad models, but with a bright red QR code under the words “Get It Uncensored.”"

Crocheted Car Cozy – "Smart Car sporting a crocheted cozy. It was created by Magda Sayeg for the Il Lusso Essenziale art festival in Rome."

Lawrence Lessig: ASCAP's attack on Creative Commons – The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has launched a campaign to raise money from its members to hire lobbyists to protect them against the dangers of "Copyleft." Groups such as Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are "mobilizing," ASCAP describes in a letter to its members, "to promote 'Copyleft' in order to undermine our 'Copyright.'" "

pOnd – "Peanut Gallery invites you to experience pOnd, a one-button zen relaxation game that celebrates the simple beauty of the natural world."

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The Queen of Spain pays the team changing room a visit – it all goes well and then puyol comes out of the shower half naked…

20 stunning pictures of World Cup 2010 fan – loved the egg head

Hitler finds out that Germany loses against Spain in the Fifa World Cup Semi Finals 2010 – watch it fast, it probably will dissappear soon.

Arjen Robben: Internet star – "Dear Internet, We love you."

Octopus predicts Spain over Germany – "Octopus oracle Paul is predicting Germany will be defeated by Spain at the World Cup semifinal." fucking A, i LOVE paul.

07.04.2010 – relax, its a vuvuzela

Colombians make World Cup trophy out of cocaine – "The naughty statue was discovered by an anti-drugs agent at Bogota international airport. Rumors that the statue was in a box addressed to a "D. Maradona" are unfounded, and mostly made up by me."

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Pollution on canvas : Alexandre Orion – "Alexandre Orion, author of Ossario, intervention made by selective cleaning in the Sao Paulo road tunnels, reuses the soot collected during the intervention to paint on organic cotton canvas: Pollution on Canvas."

BIG BAG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU – "an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end."

monty python football – germany vs. greece… philosophers football

'Yup, I'm a racist' t-shirts sold at Lexington's July 4th Festival – "when I heard that there were people at the Lexington July 4th Festival selling t-shirts with the slogan, “Yup, I’m a racist” emblazoned on the front, I just had to see for myself. So I jumped in the car with my trusty video camera in hand, and drove down to the festival."

TORTUCAM GOPRO HD HERO TORTUGA TURTLE – i leik turtle

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Blizzard backs down over gamers using real names – "Following a barrage of criticism, World of Warcraft publisher Blizzard has backed down on the need for gamers to use their real names on its forums."

Frida Kahlo in Aluminum Cans – "Phoenix-based artist Emily Costello made this portrait of Frida Kahlo out of (apparently) pieces of aluminum cans."

Prevent Eye Strain – Wired How-To Wiki – "Eye strain is no joke. Serious eye strain can lead to persistent headaches, muscle pain in the head, neck and upper back, as well as long term problems like myopia."

Nerd Merit Badges – "1.5", fully embroidered, Velcro-backed. Attach to your jacket, your backpack, or the lid of your over-clocked, battle-scarred laptop"

New Media Parabolic Solar Cooker – "It is too hot for cooking in the house. So thought it’d be a good time to experiment with solar cooking… I call it the New Media cooker, but maybe it’s more accurate to call it the film/video cooker."

Why never to ask favours from the designers – "Story goes : Shannon (the secretary) has lost her cat and has asked David (the graphic designer) to help with a lost poster. This is their email correspondence…"

EPICWIN – "It’s a streamlined to-do list, to note down all your everday tasks, but with a role-playing spin."

Breakfast Topic: Real ID or Real bad IDea? – “Yesterday, it got even stranger. Blizzard suddenly announced that the new forums would display everyone's real first and last names if they chose to post on them. For some reason, Mark Zuckerberg's idea of opt-in privacy is becoming the norm. The Facebook founder has said that when people share more, the world becomes more open and connected. It's a maverick notion, and people always have the option to keep mum on things, after all. In many ways, it works for social media. And there's the rub.”

Nao vs. “Nao” – "Nao: You seem like an angry and aggressive Woman…“Nao:” If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention!" nao is a friend of mine from a while ago, here she conducts a self-interview regarding her appearance in the reality tv show "work of art – the next great artist".

McMansions and Chicken Coups. Interview with Urban Homesteader and Somatic Psychotherapist Rachel Kaplan – 'Part of my story is about a search for home and belonging, a long history of moving from place to place looking for something that felt right. We came to this particular place, which we call Tiny Town Farm, after being forced to move from a rental property. That karmic kick in the pants finally made it clear that the search for home was out of our hands, and pretty much an inside job. It wasn't about finding the perfect farm, our own little acre. It was about how we felt about where we lived, and our ability to really root in place." this is an interview with an old friend of mine, rachel kaplan, regarding urban gardening, perma culture and more. very deep stuff. such an eloquent thinker.

Prank leaves Justin Bieber facing tour of North Korea – "There are now almost half a million votes to send Bieber to the secretive communist nation. The contest, which ends at 0600 on 7 July, saw North Korea move from 24th to 1st place in less than two days, several thousand votes ahead of Israel."

Never leave the house without one! – that!

Follow Team HTC – Columbia with Google Maps and My Tracks – "Experience the Tour de France like never before. Track all nine riders from Team HTC – Columbia and see their exact locations and real-time telemetry data"

iCade – iPad Arcade Cabinet – "How cool would it be to slide your iPad into a desktop-sized arcade cabinet and rock it old school with some Pac-Man or Space Invaders?" fun? is that a rhetorical question?

Google's YouTube, Apple's iTunes temporarily hacked – "Hackers spent the 4th of July adding pop-up windows to popular YouTube videos and separately juicing the sales of a Vietnamese developer's books on iTunes."

The Sexual Revolution and Children: How the Left Took Things Too Far – "Germany's left has its own tales of abuse. One of the goals of the German 1968 movement was the sexual liberation of children. For some, this meant overcoming all sexual inhibitions, creating a climate in which even pedophilia was considered progressive."

Mister Jalopy's Business Card – "So, now I have a business card! Just Google me!"

A Guide To Evil Dictator Facial Hair – hmm, facial hair makes an impression

Bing Maps 2010 Tour De France – mkay.

iTunes accounts hacking more widespread than initially thought. The facts, and what you should do. – "On Sunday we reported details of how one specific app developer had managed to hack iTunes users accounts and use them to purchase his own apps – making it to the top of the iTunes charts."

The IT Crowd – Features – The IT Crowd Game – Channel 4 – you enjoy the tv show, now play the game

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let’s face it. the germans will win this worldcup. sad as it is, of the remaining teams in the tournament, they have the strongest team. by far! the only team that could have beaten them were brazil. on a good day … ok, on a very good day.

but while everybody and their vuvuzela-hating dog seems to rave how the germans play a much more attractive football than in previous years, i just don’t see it that way. and i really really tried to be open to see the beauty in their game. yes, there is more technical ability in the team. yes, they actually win games instead of just relying on their unbelievable luck – as most previous german squads did… but no, they don’t play a beautiful football. and here are my top 5 reasons:

emotionless

football is all about emotions. it is fascinating to watch a team or individual players struggle with their emotions, to see how they might start to doubt in their abilities, then suddenly find confidence again and flare up with great exuberance. these emotional ups and downs are what make football fun to watch. almost all teams you’ll ever watch seem prone to emotional flare ups. not so the germans.

the germans seem extremely rational in their approach to football. let’s assume that there is no way that they don’t actually experience these emotions, the doubt, the fear, the nervousness, since these are part and parcel of human nature, isn’t it almost eerie how they somehow never seem to show them? they must have somehow found a way to push emotions aside. as a result they play more like emotionless robots. as we have seen time and time again this is very effective, but it is definitely not a lot fun to watch.

take the example of klose. this past season he hardly ever played for his club. every other player in this position would be insecure, or at least experience some doubts. not so klose. he just slams in goal after goal after goal. and even his goal celebration seems almost mechanical, no real joy there, just a little squirt of “jetzt aber”.

shock and awe

this well known military tactic seems to be what the germans use to win their games. watch any german game and you will notice that the first 10 to 15 minutes they play extremely aggressive football. germans just steamroll their opponents at the start of the game, they commit most of their fouls in the first 15 minutes. every player, including their strikers, rushes toward the opponents ball carrier, often two three players gang up for this and often they are just barely keeping it civil enough not be bookable offenses. they take that risk, because it helps them achieve what they want, which is to intimidate their opponent. they don’t try to impress with their skill, as brazilians or other teams do, but to put the living fear into the other team.

as a result german teams are feared, not respected. this type of behavior can be compared to that of schoolyard bullies. very often even the referees seem to get intimidated by it. when the spanish referee gave klose a red card for this type of bullying, the german team put in a lot of effort to criticize him after the game. the media intimidation seems to have worked. again they get away with much too much at the start of every game, with the referees turning a blind eye to their excessive aggressiveness.

physicality over technique

i love to watch football for the skill, the fast paced tricks and gems, the touches of genius, the surprising twists and turns. very little of that can be seen in the german game. while it is true that there is a little more skill in team, with özil and – at times – with schweinsteiger, most of what makes them win is still their physical dominance. it’s fast, it’s aggressive, and most of all it is very very very physical. but it lacks the fun factor.

everyone in germany is raving about the multikulti truppe, how all these players from different cultural backgrounds were integrated, how they have players with turkish, tunesian, polish, spanish, whatnot roots. but just check out their player with roots in ghana and tunesia. they look very very german when it comes to technical skills, playing the typical german “hauruck” fussball. of all these players with roots in different cultures only özil seems to have kept some flare and creativity. isn’t this strange? it almost looks as if they made a conscious effort to play in such a way. again, it might be effective, but it is not at all fun to watch.

no stars

football comes alive because of the stars. the messis, the ronaldos, the rooneys. you can like them, or not like them, but they add to football with their personalities, their stories, their style.

german teams generally don’t have stars. the only german star, ballack, was injured for the tournament. and some people wondered if the young team could cope with him missing out. strangely the team seems almost relieved by his absence.

there’s a german dictum, one of the so-called “deutsche tugenden” that have been cited many times before, the german virtues: “der star ist die mannschaft”, the star is the team. in theory i can maybe agree, but in practice, you need the stars to make football interesting to watch.

they use black magic

just kidding.

but seriously, something is not right. for instance, if you compare how argentina played in their previous games and then against germany, the difference seems almost unbelievable. argentina in their previous four games had created many great chances, and it was often only their opponents goalkeepers, who had to pull incredible stunts do deny them many more goals.

messi alone had at least 10 unbelievable shots denied by goal keepers, all of them were precise and placed in the corners. against germany every shot went straight towards the keeper. every single one! that is bizarre. and almost a little bit spooky. i mean, yes, the german play destructive football, they probably pressed messi harder than all the other teams. but how every single argentinian shot could go straight towards the keeper, not even forcing him to pull out one difficult save, that is more than a little bit weird. of course it is futile to argue the what if and could have beens, but if lampard’s goal would have been accepted, as it should have been, maybe we would have seen a different game.

another german dictum: “das glück erzwingen”. “to force one’s luck” would be my translation. for them this means fighting and fighting and fighting until luck finds you. ok, so far so good. but how can a german team at the same time force bad luck onto their opponents?

edit: looks like tom mallows of dangerhere.com agrees: It is still the same old Germany

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Top World Cup Players on Facebook, Day by Day – "Millions of people around the world have been actively supporting – or complaining about – their favorite teams and players. Below, players are sized according to the number of mentions on Facebook during each day of the World Cup."

The Evolution of the World Cup Ball – stunning.

vuvuzela hits – double cd

1284 – O último gol do Pelé (Subtitle: EN, ES) – "Pelé: "Se desse para fazer um replay na minha vida, talvez se eu fizesse o meu último gol com a Seleção Brasileira, eu gostaria"

# France # Interview de Grégoire Tauxe – david blanc proofs, its ALL in the subtexte [in french]

Links! And a new German South Park style music video! – “German band Basta have come out with a new version of their song "Gimme Hope Joachim" and it's just as delightful as the first. Mostly because Poldi and Schweinsteiger are still holding hands.”

Ronaldo reacts to post-defeat close-up by spitting – “Whether done with rude intentions or not, the immediate reaction from many on Twitter was to accuse him of acting like a sore loser. The Daily Mail, meanwhile, is going with the easy headline of: "Cristiano Ronaldo's Spitting Mad at TV Camera after Portugal Exit" and Irish television pundits are debating the intent.”

Ow, Get Out Of My Face (GIF) – “Argentina's Gabrel Heinze attacked a cameraman, was it warranted?”

England Vs Germany On Twitter – "Here comes Emile Heskey, because apparently England are not losing badly enough"

Is France in the grip of an existential Crisis? – “But this is how it feels being French at the moment. It is only natural that we see in our team's behaviour a reflection of Sarkozyism which has fuelled our current crisis since the presidential election in May 2007. When the French president tells a member of the public at the Paris agricultural fair who doesn't want to shake his hand to "sod off, you cretin," why shouldn't a French footballer call his coach a "filthy son of a whore"?"”

Dog vs. Vuvuzela – Dog Wins – "This is Glacier – The Greater Swiss Mountain Dog. She completely owns the vuvuzela as you can see. 10 Month old female."

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Cranbrook Deer – "The dog eventually left limping—since posting here we have been able to contact the lady. THE DOG IS OKAY, but traumatized."

This is England 86: a trailer for Shane Meadows' debut TV drama – "Director Shane Meadows makes his TV debut on Channel 4 in September with This Is England 86, a four-part followup to his Bafta-winning film. The drama serial revisits the same Grimsby gang during the Mexico World Cup."

The Freedom Charter on Vimeo

iPhone4 vs HTC Evo – lol

I Am The World's Most Interesting Intern – "Greg Justice here, Social Media intern in the Communications department for Cisco Systems. I AM THE WORLD'S MOST INTERESTING INTERN."

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BitTorrent Only TV-Show Becomes Huge Success – "Supported by many BitTorrent sites and other major players in the P2P-scene, the exclusive BitTorrent release of the first episode of Pioneer One has become a huge success. With more than a million downloads in two weeks, and over $20,000 in donations to work on future episodes, the project’s success has exceeded the expectations of its makers." while i write this Transmission just went ding!

Rude Boy: Jamaican Music on Japanese Consoles – "This album is a collection of reggae, ska, dub, and everything in between, played on a variety of game consoles."

Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook. – "CONGRATULATIONS! YOUR PARENTS JUST JOINED FACEBOOK. YOUR LIFE IS OFFICIALLY OVER. "

With World Watching, Wikileaks Falls Into Disrepair – "Would-be whistle-blowers hoping to leak documents to Wikileaks face a potentially frustrating surprise. Wikileaks’ submission process, which had been degraded for months, completely collapsed more than two weeks ago and remains offline, in a little-noted breakdown at the world’s most prominent secret-spilling website."

Free Range: Hash – “I just made out with your husband! #kidding #hewishes #likeIwouldadmititanyway #ToddPalin”
Amazing how rich and complex 140 characters with a few symbols thrown in can be.

Hackers Can Turn Your Home Computer Into A Bomb and Blow Your Family to Smithereens! – if i was a terrorist i would probably think right now, damn, why didnt i think of that…

coilhouse 5 cover – "it features Kenyan model Ajuma Nasenyana, channeling Jamaican-American superwoman Grace Jones in a monumental image by Iranian-born, Paris-based photographer Ali Mahdavi."

proclaiming my love at a scenic overlook on top of a mountain – "tree carving"

Facebook Becoming a Prime Source for Divorce Case Evidence – "It’s all good and fine to propose via Twitter these days or to change your relationship status at the altar, but when your love has faded and your thoughts turn to divorce, you’d better un-friend your soon-to-be-ex long before the ink dries. What he or she sees on your profile may very well be used against you in court. "

New From Evan Roth: Graffiti Analysis: Sculptures – "Evan Roth has just launched a new project that is currently on exhibition at the Kunsthalle Museum. It's a 3D printed data visualization of a 7 second tag, frozen in time."

Safe Passage – "new media project about human rights in Israel, allows the user to experience interactively the restrictions on movement between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and understand the grave consequences resulting from the separation of Gaza and the West Bank for people living in the two areas"

Icelander’s Campaign Is a Joke, Until He’s Elected – Biography – "No one has to be afraid of the Best Party,” he said, “because it is the best party. If it wasn’t, it would be called the Worst Party or the Bad Party. We would never work with a party like that."

The Life of Tobias Wong, Designer – "Given this history, many people who were close to him believe that his death was not an act of will, but, like other sleepwalking episodes, a bizarre out-of-character act that ended tragically."

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Art Basel 2010: Swiss Art Award fuer Internet-Analysen der Kuenstler Wachter und Jud – "Es existiert eine geheime Sperrliste, zu englisch blacklist, an die sich zehn Schweizer Internet-Provider halten, andere Provider nicht. Die Liste soll kinderpornographische Inhalte sperren: Wer solche gesperrten Inhalte aufruft, gelangt auf eine Seite von KOBIK, der Koordinationsstelle zur Bekämpfung der Internetkriminalität. Das aktuellste Kunstprojekt "Blacklist" von Christoph Wachter und Mathias Jud bildet Teil der Sonderausstellung "Swiss Art Awards" der Art Basel, die am Mittwoch ihre Tore öffnete."

Balduin «4» – "After last year's trip to the rainbow, Balduin travels further and serve his fourth fresh meal of 22 creative cooked tracks. As simply as the album title, Balduin will release it for the first time only on digital stores worldwide."

Bleiberecht-Kollektiv Zürich – "Wir nehmen die unmenschliche Schweizer Asyl- und Migrationspolitik nicht länger widerstandslos hin. Deshalb besetzen wir seit letzten Samstag die kleine Schanze in Bern."

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Human LCD : Close Up Video ( SOUTH KOREA ) – "High school students cheering for their soccer teams.
The most amazing thing is that they do this with their CLOTHES (not holding up cards). they have a jacket that is one color on the back, one on the front, and that they can open or close to show a third color shirt on the inside."

Black Stars Shining – "10 year period in which they ascend to the heights of the Ghanian music industry and make a global splash with their brand of Highlife music mixed with Hip Hop technique and style. … It's just the kind of thing that can motivate you if you're looking for a Ghana win on Tuesday when they play Germany in the World Cup."

Rubber Film – "Robert is a tire. An all season tire, by the looks of him. Well worn, but still lively as we realize when Robert literally comes to life, using psychic energy to raise himself upright and take his first tentative rolls towards self determination." a movie by quentin dupieux aka mr. oizo

kitty riding tortoise part1 – cat says, i leik turtle. i say, i hate back ground music though…

Refait – "Refait" is a remake of the football WorldCup match between France and Germany (Seville, Spain, 1982). Shot by Pied La Biche in Villeurbanne (France), every aspect of the fifteen last minutes of the match was carefully reconstructed : players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama etc."

Lakers Win, Fans Riot, YouTube Shows It All – "What do you do when your team wins the NBA Championship? Start a riot, naturally, and/or upload footage of that riot to YouTube. Today, YouTube’s CitizenTube is replete with footage of the chaos that broke out last night after the Los Angeles Lakers’ victory."

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EL SHOW DI CAPELLO.flv – "Fabio Capello y sus reacciones durante le partido que dio a Inglaterra el paso a octavos del Mundial de Sudáfrica" i spotted an ellbow in there, against his co-worker.

World Cup 2010: Into Africa – Goal Diggers – "John Oliver learns about the rich African culture at the World Cup, like their traditional hand-carved FIFA ballpoint pens."

John Terry – Dive for the ball – one of the absolute highlights of this worldcup so far…

BZZZZZZ: YouTube Gets A Vuvuzela Button (Seriously) – "YouTube always has had a way with pranks. Some time in the last hour, the world’s largest video portal activated a new button on some videos that looks like a tiny soccer ball. Clicking it will activate an endless, incredibly annoying sound that sounds vaguely like a swarm of insects. Or, for anyone who has been watching the World Cup, like the dreaded Vuvuzela"

World Cup 2010: Italy fans suffer torment of first round exit – "No hope: Father and son go through the emotional turmoil of elimination together" oh how cruel

USA vs Algeria World Cup Match Could Set New Internet Traffic Record – "The dramatic ending to the World Cup match between the USA and Algeria could set a new record for Internet traffic."

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Bounce – "A fun and easy way to share ideas on a website."

The Black CNN – When Hip Hop Took Control – "The Black CNN – When Hip Hop Took Control (Radio 4) was the story of a pivotal moment: the release of Public Enemy's Fight the Power 21 years ago. Presented by Soul II Soul's Jazzie B, it traced the cultural roots and legacy of music which frontman Chuck D labelled "the black CNN"."

Today's Guardian – "This site shows all the articles from today’s issue of the Guardian or, on Sundays, Observer newspapers" very nice interface for the iPad.

The Spanish Baby Jumping Festival of El Colacho – babies!!!

Rivane Neuenschwander’s Playful but Serious Art – "Games figure heavily in much of Ms. Neuenschwander’s art, especially games meant to make the spectator a participant in a work."

iPadVision｜Wallpapers – some rather nice iPad wallpapers by a japanese designer

Everything you need to know about the internet – "A funny thing happened to us on the way to the future. The internet went from being something exotic to being boring utility, like mains electricity or running water – and we never really noticed. "

The writer and director is passionate about technology and Twitter, but is also a champion of old-school studio sitcoms that are filmed in front of an audience – "We were shooting a scene where he was being bullied, and the kids who were bullying him really put their hearts into it. And I looked at the monitor and burst into tears – I don't know whether it was because I felt they were bullying Richard, or whether they were bullying Moss, but I felt really super-protective at that point."

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- respect to undiano mallenco. finally a ref who had the guts to sanction the germans for their very violent game. just observe it yourself next game, the germans usually start their games playing physically very hard and violent. i guess this serves to intimidate the opponents – and usually the ref as well. but it’s in those first minutes of a game that this kind of bullying needs to be stopped. well done.

- when? how much more shit like this do we need? first the irish get their spot at the worldcup denied by the hand of frog. now the americans may not make it out of the group stage. and all because of stupid mistakes by ref that could so easily be avoided with video replay… only every other sports uses video replay, why not football? come on blatter, stop being a stubborn old man.

- swiss ref busacca really has a problem with home crowds. we know this all too well from the swiss league. it seems to me that busacca tries very hard not to be influenced by the power of home crowds. he tries so hard in fact that he tends to overcompensate and turn the other way becoming almost too harsh AGAINST the home team. this kind of attitude seems to fit well with swiss mentality. home team southafrica was his latest victim.

i must be one of the few people in switzerland, who feel ashamed at the way the swiss won their game against spain last night. they won, that’s good i guess, but how? they won playing extremely destructive football, 8 – 9 defensive men behind, and then going for counter atttacks. and even the goal they did create was very scrappy and not at all beautiful.

this is how inter milan won the champions league, or the greeks won the european championship in 2004. good for them, but sad for football.

let’s face it, this is a huge tournament and the stakes are huge. but if the northern koreans can almost deny the brazilians a win, and the swiss can even win against spain, things are just going the wrong way. switzerland has never won against spain yet, and for good reason. and that’s really ok. ours is a small country and a small league. the worldcup should have a different kind of beauty than winning games at all cost.

i think that there need to be rules that punish this type of tactics, destructive football takes all the fun out of “the beautiful game”. or it will get more and more boring.

- World Cup organiser considers vuvuzela ban after TV complaints, Fifa says it will take action if it finds grounds to do so – “In the days of the struggle (against apartheid) we were singing, all through our history it’s our ability to sing that inspired and drove the emotions.” aha there’s hope still…

- democracy born in chains [pdf] – hearing all these statements delivered with so much pathos about the ANC, nelson mandela and how symbolic it is, that now the worldcup is held in southafrica, i recommend to read the chapter “democracy born in chains” in naomi kleins book “the shock doctrine”. puts things in perspective.

- The Nextmen – World Cup Mix 2010 – England Expects – ingerland ingerland ingerland – ingerland ingerland ingerland…

- vuvuzela 2010 – if you cant fight it, join in, in that sense i downloaded the Vuvuzela App. Yup there’s an app for that…

this being an 80% fashion, 20% fandom decision, which flip flop should i order?

(100% fandom would be: 1. brasil (but that flip flop is too clichee), 2. netherlands, 3. cote d’ivoire, 4. spain, 4. england, 6. argentina)

or

or

and yes, i am tempted to order all three models, so i can adapt my footwear according to the game that day. (actually, this one is the best 100% fashion based, but uhm lol, new zealand?)

havaianas

biete:

p6, p14, p16

2, 6, 12, 22, 27, 30, 37, 49, 50, 80, 83, 87, 95, 97,

100, 108, 109, 112, 116 (2), 118, 122, 125, 128 (2), 132, 137, 142, 144, 146, 150, 154, 155, 173, 174, 178, 183, 186,

202, 204, 208, 212, 221, 264, 265, 266, 270, 279, 280, 283, 287, 298,

307, 311, 343, 347 (2), 350, 351, 353, 357, 358, 361, 363, 367, 370, 371, 373, 375, 379 (2), 386, 390,

401, 408, 411, 412, 421, 429, 457, 466, 467, 469, 476, 480, 498,

502, 509, 518, 522, 533, 537, 539, 560, 561, 564, 573, 576, 579, 581, 585, 589, 591,

602, 605, 609, 614, 631, 634

suche:

p5, p7, p9,

10, 17, 25, 26, 29, 34, 39, 43, 46, 56, 58, 62, 66, 69, 74, 75, 82, 86, 99,

103, 104, 113, 124, 135, 136, 139, 141, 156, 158, 160, 162, 169, 172, 176, 180, 185, 188, 194, 198,

215, 219, 224, 227, 228, 232, 246, 276, 278, 282, 289, 291, 295,

301, 313, 318, 324, 328, 330, 335, 338, 341, 345, 349, 369, 385, 391, 393, 396, 397, (69)

404, 413, 415, 419, 420, 423, 449, 451, 452, 455, 456, 459, 471, 482, 491, 495, 496, 497,

500, 501, 506, 508, 525, 529, 530, 534, 538, 542, 551, 556, 565, 570, 571, 575, 584, 588, 597,

604, 613, 616, 617, 621, 633, 637

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 :flash: camino tabs this past week]

george carlin r.i.p.

:flash: Seven Words – shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. he’s right, it’s got a very nice rythm.

:flash: 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

:flash: 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.

:flash: 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?

:flash: 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

:flash: Scott Wade’s Dirty Car Art Gallery – artist creates artwork on dusty cars.

:flash: Nerd-Graffiti – “What happens if some IT comes into our real life?”

:flash: 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 …

:flash: How to torment telemarketers with one word – “Dedicated to those wonderful people who phone me every day.” yes!

:flash: Where The Hell Is Matt? – matt, the globetrotting dancing dude, has a new video up.

:flash: Blonde does the escalator rail spin! – “it’s really hard to stop …”

:flash: 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.”

:flash: 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.

:flash: Heavy Load – punk band featuring musicians with learning disabilities. i am down with the down syndrome drummer.

:flash: Rayman singing Sexbomb – Rayman and Globox singing Sexbomb. yeh …

schmooze and abuse

:flash: 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’”

:flash: 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.

:flash: Yeondoo Jung – kids drawings recreated as photos.

:flash: 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.

:flash: 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.”

:flash: Big Lebowski 8-Inch Figures – dude!

:flash: 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.”

:flash: Nintendo ‘least green tech firm’ – “Games firm Nintendo has come bottom of a ranking of the world’s most eco-friendly electronics firms.”

:flash: 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.”

:flash: RETRO Reality – retro game chars in real-life settings.

:flash: 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.

:flash: 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.”

:flash: 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.”

:flash: 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.

:flash: 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.

:flash: 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?

:flash: 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.

:flash: 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.

:flash: 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.

:flash: 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

:flash: Markus Notter | Regierungsrat des Kantons Zürich – website of a swiss politician, that gives the illusion you actually meet him. [via swissmiss]

:flash: 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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usually i REALLY don’t like cristiano ronaldo. no doubt, he is very skilled, but he plays a much too flashy style of football for my taste, he seems way too narcissistic and full of himself. i like the lampards and the inestas of this (football) world.

but tonite i am the hugest cristiano ronaldo fan. go on, portugal, send the germans home, so that we can finally start to enjoy this tournament… yeh.

(but of course it is alread clear that klose, who so fa had the worst tournament possible, will score two lucky goals late in the game to equalize and the germans will pass to the semi finals on penalties. as per bloody usual)

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

f***ball rulez da nation

The little things make all the difference – “2004 by Jonathan Monk.” sniffie, no english.

:flash: The football statues. – Zurich, Switzerland – “Most interesting is the fact that it was actually claimed by the two rent-a-cops (pictured in this panorama) that photography of these statues was illegal” amazing panorama shot of zurich trainstation. gotta love the cops!

:flash: Google Maps – euro08 google map. [via de-bug]

online video killed the …

:flash: AoC good times with a horse – “Having fun with a horse mount!” what a cunt, tbh.

:flash: Big Ideas (Don’t get any) – “I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something that they’re not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.” the resulting radiohead mashup is hella funky.

:flash: Roots Manuva – Buff Nuff – “Brand new video for ‘Buff Nuff’, the first single from forthcoming album ‘Slime & Reason’ released August 2008.” gief ice cream truck vendors like that .. lol.

:flash: Zürich Chamber Orchestra | Roller Coaster – “Avertiser: Zurich Chamber Orchestra ” [via ze frank]

:flash: Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane Video – “Some dude goes absolutely insane.” real or fake? [via bb]

:flash: Video Games and Sex – “Based on “Sex in Video Games” by Brenda Brathwaite and writings by James Portnow and Leigh Alexander.”

schmooze and abuze

:flash: Watchlist Spezial: Art Basel, Liste, Volta, Scope – rebel:art covers art basel.

:flash: Brits Fail To Cash In On Free £5 Notes – “The full extent of Britain’s financial inertia was laid bare today when passers-by in London and Manchester were offered a free £5 note, no strings attached.” only 28 took the free cash. shows just how immune to adverts we have become.

:flash: Are we creatures of habit in game worlds too? – “Human trajectories show a high degree of temporal and spatial regularity, each individual being characterised by a time-independent characteristic travel distance and a significant probability to return to a few highly frequented locations. [...] I wondered if people are like this in game worlds…” i know i am … i have certain routines for awhile but then throw them all out and find new ones.

:flash: pieceoplastic – Plurk.com – some people claim plurk is the next big thing after twitter. it is certainly making twitter more gamey, putting it in a timeline, but, hmmm, it’s still offensive in it’s banality. i guess it’s still only fun for people with huge friends-lists.

:flash: What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web – “Why is Google making more money everyday while newspapers are making less? I’m going to pick on The Washington Post again only because it’s my local paper and this is a local example.”

:flash: Wayward Alzheimer’s patients foiled by fake bus stop – “A German nursing home has come up with a novel idea to stop Alzheimer’s patients from wandering off: a phantom bus stop. The bus stop, in front of the Benrath Senior Centre in the western city of Düsseldorf, is an exact replica of a standard stop, with one small difference: buses never stop there.” take that, you naughty alzheimers!

:flash: Radiohead songs finally on iTunes – “Radiohead’s back catalogue has appeared on iTunes, making them one of the last high-profile bands to put their body of work on Apple’s leading download store.”

:flash: How games will change the world – “within a few years, many – if not all of us – will be able to say the same. Soon we’ll all be playing at work.”

:flash: Steal This Footage – “in the spirit of cooperation and sharing, and by agreement with our interviewees, we are making this footage available to others who want to make films on this subject”

:flash: UK cops arrest six alleged BitTorrent music uploaders – “Cleveland police have today confirmed that six people have been arrested for allegedly sharing music files via the defunct BitTorrent tracker OiNK.cd.” oink.

:flash: Suggestion Book – About the Book – “Hey, would you like to make a suggestion? With that simple question and an enormous white Suggestion Box, Illegal Art canvassed the five boroughs of New York City”

:flash: WTF?! – “You’ve stumbled into WTF?! – a WoW inspired side-scrolling Flash-based RPG.” marx and freud as questgivers, no really.

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after last night this is now truly a football season to forget. young boys, our local team in bern, has a chance to win the swiss championship, but then lost the all deciding last game in the most pathetic manner. in all the other european championships that i follow, my least favorite teams win (in order of my dislike: real madrid (aka ichos de puta), bayern munich (aka stinketown), inter milan, manU). fc barcelona turns into the new fc hollywood and excels only in drama off the field this season. and then last night in moscow chelsea slips (first didiers hand then terry’s foot slip) and loses the champion’s league final on penalties …

the only thing that could make the season any worse would be, if germany wins the euro, that is about to be held in switzerland/austria … oh please god, no!!!!!!!111!!!!!111