Updates from January, 2010

  • ruff linkage 201003 + 4

    Jan Zup[ping]er 07:44:47 on 23.1.2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply

    [weekly linkdump, somewhat edited]

    online video killed the…

    La Puerta – A stop motion animation by Limow and Sam3 – kinda love the sound, even if its hard to listen to.

    Exclusive unseen video footage of the Miracle on the Hudson, flight 1549 New York City – "Exclusive unseen time lapse video footage of the Miracle on the Hudson, US Airways flight 1549 as it is struggling to stay afloat and avoid the barrage of an ice attack."

    exit through the gift shop – a banksy film, duration: 85 minutes, premiering at sundance soon.

    Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany – "Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war."

    Karen Finley's *very* NSFW "Tales of Taboo" – "NSFW. Listen with headphones. Trust me." potty mouth finley.

    One Frame of Fame – Got a webcam? Help us finish off our music video! – “We need a little help from you and your webcam to finish off the music video for our new single ‘More is Less’.”

    death metal rooster meets furiously pecking parrot – after death metal here’s bird metal

    sleeveface – How to Sleeveface. just that.

    schmooze and abuse

    Thank you parking notes! – collection of notes people leave on other people's cars.

    Wu Tang Vs The Beatles – "Wu Tang acapellas over beats made with samples of Beatles songs. Produced by Tom Caruana http://www.teasearecords.net"; some work surprisingly well.

    Lost? Catch up in 10 minutes – "In case you haven’t followed last few seasons’ plot, or you didn’t understand it, or it didn’t in fact exist, the Reduced Shakespeare Company has boiled down the previous 103 hours of the television series into less than 10 minutes and will be performing the show to a live audience in Covent Garden onJanuary 28." wouldnt mind seeing that, because, wait, wasn’t there an icebear?

    Joseph Ducreux / Archaic Rap – "On the interweb, his eccentric self-portrait has inspired a series of exploitable macros, featuring “archaic reinterpretation” of popular rap lyrics superimposed over the artwork." joseph ducreux, 18th century french painter, turned into a 4chan internet meme.

    fucking snow :D – mildly nsfw, well, maybe in china.

    breakfast floss set – "Wake up late? No time for breakfast or oral hygiene? Boy, do we have a fix-it for you…" bacon flavored floss…

    Former boyfriend used Craigslist to arrange woman's rape – "A Wyoming man is accused of posing online as his former girlfriend and soliciting someone to act out a violent sexual fantasy."

    Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues – “James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.”

    Perp caught through World of Warcraft Boing Boing – “Indiana cops caught a fugitive by getting Blizzard to turn over the IP address from which he was playing World of Warcraft.”

    What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google – "This shows Google’s remarkable power as a source of data on a range of human behaviors, emotions, and opinions. It gives us insights into what people might care the most about concerning a given topic."

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  • ruff linkage 201002

    Jan Zup[ping]er 08:48:35 on 9.1.2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply

    [weekly linkdump, somewhat edited]

    dude!!!!

    Two Gentlemen of Lebowski – what if … william shakespeare wrote the big lebowski

    The Church of the Latter-Day Dude – "Come join the slowest-growing religion in the world – Dudeism. An ancient philosophy that preaches non-preachiness, practices as little as possible, and above all, uh…lost my train of thought there." joined!

    The Big Lebowski goes literary – "For some, The Big Lebowski represents a lifestyle choice more than it does a piece of cinema: take the followers of the internet-based religion Dudeism who emulate the attitudes of the film’s main character; or the fans that attend the annual Lebowski Fest."

    Lhasa R.I.P.

    Lhasa – Rising (Official Video) – and another lhasa de sela video.

    CON TODA PALABRA – the very talented lhasa de sela has passed away much too young, aged 37, a few days ago.

    schmusic

    Prepare for Gucci… – "If you don’t think you’ll last till Monday check out below, I’ve got a nice little exclusive bonus track for you AND the official tracklist…" monday it is.

    BO MARLEY – Masters Of The Universe – "After their undying classic album from 2007/09 Bo Marley are finally back with a vengeance – and a massive ghettoblaster! Always ready to rock your backyard, street corner or..er..local super market the Harlev homeboys are once again powering up their Chariot Of Fire (aka. the Bo mobil) and drop a floor-devastating cassette" yup, you read that right … cassette! digital dowload also available, cc-licensed.

    online video killed the …

    Best FAILS Of 2009 (VIDEO) – "Everyone is good at something. These people just happen to be good at failing" be warned, some are hard to watch.

    Sesame Street: Celebrity Lullabies – w. ricky gervais. wait for it …

    Usher/Goat – "This is Olympic Quality tech + humor! Great Job!!"

    parkour motion reel – "Illustrated with technical pen,frame by frame. I admit it might not be the best, or the quality isn't perfect, just a shot at animating the old flip book whatever-you-call-it way. =D" another flipbook-type stopmotion animation.

    A Heavy Metal Baby to Remember – gotta love the pacifier!

    Angry Hot Chick Destroys Boyfriends PS3 – i lol'ed when he asked her to get him a drink …

    schmooze and abuse

    The 50 Best Protest Signs Of 2009: Pics, Videos, Links, News – "We saw some really great protest signs in 2009. Thanks to our President for being a socialist, gay people for being gay, and Kanye West for interrupting Taylor Swift." loves the one saying “NO Pubic Option …”

    How Terry Gilliam Weathered Loss of Heath Ledger to Finish Fanciful Imaginarium – "But all those obstacles pale next to the tragedy Gilliam (pictured) faced in January 2008, when his star actor Heath Ledger died halfway through production on The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the director’s latest cinematic flight of fancy."

    my thoughts on Banksy / Robbo – "By incorporating Robbo’s piece into his own , Banksy was in fact preserving Robbo’s history since people like to preserve Banksy. Now, what Robbo did in return was pretty great as well. That’s what I got." street mashup.

    Banksy: I don’t believe in global warming – "Übrigens wurde der eBay-Banksy, über den ich hier vor Weihnachten berichtet hatte, jetzt für 10.994 € verkauft." omg. banksy sold for 10K on ebay.

    Matt Frei's diary: Dangerous minds – "They are all the products of relative prosperity and higher education. After all, Osama Bin Laden and his deputy also came from a privileged background." asks how people from wealthy backgrounds fall into terrorism.

    Do minaret yourself – "N'hésitez pas à télécharger, imprimer, découper, plier et coller votre propre minaret d'appartement! , plier et coller votre propre minaret d'appartement! Ou passez directement à l'atelier retirer votre exemplaire sérigraphié sur carton gris." best DIY minaret yet.

    You Drive What? – "Youdrivewhat.com is here to show the rest of the world what (for some reason) you feel is an awesome ride. You decided to paint your car like a child’s cereal character; you may find yourself on youdrivewhat.com." created by “the people of walmart” guys.

    The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2010 – "For the eleventh time, Inkwell rings in the New Year with a visit from Well member Bruce Sterling, to address the State of the World and Things Various and Sundry. Bruce used to write novels when there were bookstores, and used to write for magazines and newspapers when magazines and newspapers existed. Nowadays he travels a lot when trains are running and when airports aren't clogged by security theater." always a great read.

    Adidas Turns the Sneaker Into an Augmented Reality Device – "Adidas has created a virtual 3-D world that can be accessed using an upcoming line of five men’s sneakers in an idea that ties into one of the technology trends of the year: augmented reality."

    Teen and Transgender Comparative Study – "The series is a correlation of two stages of transformation, pairing teen girls (12-14) with like adult male-to-female transsexuals. The Teen and Transgender Comparative Study is currently showing at The Hammer Museum in Nine Lives, curated by Ali Subotnick." eerie matches. [via sex and blogs]

    Warwick High Girl Is Taking Chess World By Storm – "Google the name "Abby Marshall" and chess, in fact, and you'll discover a host of Web sites that cover her matches like those of a sports celebrity – with interviews, pictures and comments from fans, including one describing this "badass" devotee of the much-maligned King's Gambit opening move as a "chess hero.""

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  • ruff linkage 200947

    Jan Zup[ping]er 07:24:10 on 21.11.2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply

    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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  • ruff linkage 200945

    Jan Zup[ping]er 08:38:06 on 7.11.2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply

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

    online video killed the …

    Indian Beatles – "Some kinda weird bollywood beatles clones." a bit over-enthusiastic, maybe. [via b3ta]

    'The Golden Age of Video' by Ricardo Autobahn – "'The Golden Age Of Video' is a promotional device for the forthcoming untitled Ricardo Autobahn album."

    schmooze and abuse

    A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families – "Hence, a survey. I asked fellow parents to donate their children for a few minutes, and name a selection of Lego pieces culled from the Lego parts store." i wonder if it the same differences exist in germanspeaking legoplaying families. [via b3ta]

    Big Ben (big_ben_clock) on Twitter – "BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG – about 1 hour ago from API" ;P

    Why do we have an IMG element? – "On February 25, 1993, Marc Andreessen wrote: I’d like to propose a new, optional HTML tag: IMG Required argument is SRC="url"." that’s how. the answer to why is, because we like pretty pictures of kittens.

    Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really) – "The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine to add additional safety features. Now, a bird dropping a piece of bread on a section of the accelerator has, according to the Register, shut down the whole operation." one bird and a piece of bread can do that? we are soooo doomed. black hole incoming.

    low gravity fail – cute astronaut animation. ;)

    The Twitter Times – "The Twitter Times is a real-time personalized newspaper generated from your Twitter account" sort of interesting.

    Wu-Note Project – wu-tang clan covers redone as if they were blue note sleeves.

    Scientists perform sex change operation on papaya – "Researchers help frustrated farmers by simplifying the complex sex life of this succulent fruit." wait a minute, fruit have sex organs? no way not to remember that next time i eat my daily apple.

    Comedy Central orders the Onion TV pilot – "Comedy Central is teaming with satirical newspaper the Onion for a half-hour scripted comedy." sounds like a plan good for a few laughs.

    Kerixep – very simple, very nice flash puzzle game, level 26 was toughest for me…

    EMI Sues BlueBeat for Selling Beatles Tunes Online – "The entire catalog of stereo Beatles albums will soon be legitimately available in digital, albeit physical, form. Apple Corp. and EMI announced the pre-order availability of 30,000 16-GB Apple-shaped USB drives containing 14 albums in lossless 24-bit FLAC (better than CD quality) and 320 Kbps MP3 formats, 13 short documentary films about the albums, album art, “rare photos” and expanded liner notes, all accessible directly or through a Flash player that automatically loads on Macs and PCs. It’s quite a statement — especially the 24-bit depth of the lossless files, which allows more gradations between volume levels than standard 16-bit (CD-quality) audio files. The only catch — they cost $280. EMI and Apple Corp. plan to release the drives on Dec. 8." when beatles joins the digital “revolution”. i quite like the dongle idea.

    anyone gotta bone for Paris? – they both go, yapp yapp yapp yapp yapp yapp…

    World of Warcraft ordered to shut down in China again – "A Chinese government agency, the General Administration of Press and Publication, has once again revoked the permit required to operate the game." gold farmers should be happy about this.

    Dutch hacker holds jailbroken iPhones "hostage" for €5 (Updated) – "One Dutch hacker managed to find and hack into jailbroken iPhones, though it seems the hacker was more interested in a few euros than malicious ends. However, the incident is another reminder that users of jailbroken iPhones need to be more vigilant about security." cheeky cunt.

    Halloween 2009: Making Mario – "They returned home and one mustache later, the Mario brothers were cavorting on the front lawn." i resisted to post any halloween stuff, till luigi and mario were just too adorable.

    swiss focus

    Einladung zur Piratenversammlung vom 05. Dezember 2009 in Bern | Piratenpartei Schweiz – "Am 5. Dezember findet in Bern die erste ordentliche Piratenversammlung (PV) der Piratenpartei Schweiz statt. "

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  • ruff linkage 200944

    Jan Zup[ping]er 08:46:23 on 31.10.2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply

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

    my wife did it

    Theater Basel – Jekyll und Hyde – my beautiful partner did the backdrop animations for this theater project in basel.

    here’s the schedule:
    JEKYLL UND HYDE     – stückinformation

    and an unreadable review in baseldiitsch just for the lulz:

    Claude Bühler – Premiere am Theater Basel – unreadable. swissgerman. outch.

    recipe of the week [in german, sorry - l2usegoogletranslate]

    Gâteau au raisiné Saft Kuchen aus der Romandie – c’est magnifique!

    online video killed the …

    Вивальди "времена года",Лето-3часть – ze russian accordeon boy genius. gotta love the headbump.

    Cartman Covers Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" – "Cartman singing "Poker Face" over a montage of Stan fighting Japanese whalers." the whale sorry whole episode is great, of course, but this you must watch.

    Flintstones in Stop Motion. – "We did this stop motion sequence for Cartoon Network's "Flintstones: On the Rocks" a few of years ago. There have been a number of requests that we post this….Click on the image to watch." winnnrarrrrr!

    Jon Stewart on McCain's Anti-Net-Neutrality Bill – "Try as I might, I never quite understood the net neutrality debate. All I knew was nerds cared very deeply about it, so I assumed it had something to do with Cheeto taxes or Real Doll tariffs. But on last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart broke it down into simple terms even a touched halfwit like me can understand." public service. and the website he mentions actually does exist! pro.

    schmooze and abuse

    World of Warcraft and Philsophy – "Continuing with the ongoing Popular Culture and Philosophy series, World of Warcraft and Philosophy, (Wrath of the Philosopher King) will be hitting bookshelves on November 1st. This collection of essays and short fiction addresses the ethics, economics, and metaphysics of Azeroth and its inhabitants." i ordered this (along with my next game card … o.O.)

    Google Wave as an RPG environment – "Ars Technica reports on the nascent Google Wave RPG scene, in which wavesters are amusing themselves by using Google's collaboration tool s a surprisingly effective (for some games) means of keeping track of the action in game"

    Motorola Droid – want! finally! smokes the iphone on so many levels. and even the design is growing on me.

    Innovation in Open Networks – Creative Commons, the Next Layer of Openness – "A few months ago, McKinsey & Co. asked me to write an article for their online magazine What Matters. The edited article, "Creative Commons: Enabling the next level of innovation" was just posted to their site. Following is the unedited original version." joi does not say a word, but was he unhappy with the edits? maybe?

    URBAN CURSOR – "Urban Cursor is a GPS enabled object designed to facilitate social interaction and play in public space."

    No Need To UNplug – "It’s not that people are reckless or unconcerned about the environment, but sometimes simple and easy things like this becomes too much of an effort."

    Explain DRM to Your Dad – "Then you have your loved ones caught in the middle of a growing debate. How do you explain to your dad why he can't play that music file? " does it work with mums?

    Internet addresses set for change – "The internet regulator has approved plans to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, in a move that is set to transform the online world."

    Neue Arbeiten von SpY – “I updated my website with new interventions in Madrid, NYC, Rotterdam, Bilbao… this summer I was in NYC and I worked a bit on the streets … I Hope you like it!” we do we do.

    Lord Mandelson to ban illegal filesharers – "Lord Mandelson will today set out plans to ban computer users who illegally download music and videos from the internet." and next he’ll announce his marriage to … uhm which pop star? … boy george? like sarkosy and bruni, erm. farfetched? i think not!

    Felice Varini's town-sized illusion – "The buildings in the town of Vercorin in the Swiss Alps contribute to an impressive piece by Felice Varini, called Cercle et suite d'éclats. The pattern was projected on the town from the vantage point, then traced and painted."

    Scareware launched from tech blog – "Visitors to technology blog Gizmodo are being warned that they could have picked up more than tips about the latest must-have gadget." endgadget is probably having a field day.

    Chamber Sues the Yes Men – "The Chamber of Commerce is suing the Yes Men over the parody press conference the group pulled off last week." oh, come on.

    Facebook users protest over news feed – "1,175,000 Facebookers have joined the group "Change Facebook back to normal!!", and this is not the only discussion board. "Please give us our old news feed back!" boasts 530,000 member by now. And they still grow. Fast." i joined.

    Cybercrooks Trick Gawker Into Serving Malware-Laced Ad – "Remember when the global economic crisis was supposed to drive legions of desperate, unemployed computer programmers into cybercrime? It turns out the real threat comes from unemployed advertising agents."

    Tobold's MMORPG Blog: Facebook games: Scam or useful tool? – mmo player analyzes facebook.

    Average Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World – infographic.

    Crack & Shine: London's graffiti scene – ""Graffiti is .. a controversial subject dividing opinion and rousing powerful debate, yet almost nothing is known about the true motivations and inspirations of the artists themselves. This book offers an exclusive insight into this thriving, contemporary sub-culture,” writes Isobel Evans in the introduction to the new book, Crack and Shine." book.

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