issue #21 – mexico | may 2011

from my trip to mexico back in 2008, so, this was hiding in my desk for almost too long…
i worked over a magazine that i found on a fleamarket in mexico city (no animation this time – since a lot of smartphones cant show that anymore… damn)

thanx to amy, my dear friend that i visited in mexico city/taxco

related links:
- flickr set mexico city
- flickr set taxco|oaxaca

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Eskmo 'We Got More' (Official Video) – Cyriak did it, tis awesome.

The Beaver Recut – "until a beaver hand puppet enters his life." and someone remembered the message you left on your wife's answering machine…

WikiWecaps Episode 1: Inside Wikileaks "Cablegate" – "What's in those leaked diplomatic memos? Learn here, all in 3:27 minutes of manic-paced cut-and-paced LOLvideo, complete with a Rachmaninoff score. "

Rudolph (You Don't Have To Put On The Red Light) – "Roxanne Versus The Red Nosed Reindeer Putting the 'Ho back in Ho Ho Ho"

Natalie Time Lapse: Birth to 10 years old in 1 minute 25 sec – "We take a photo every day (at least we tried to!) since birth until the present. Stop motion human growth!"

Beats by Dr Dre – Heaphone Review – "WOOW" the review is almost tedious until 5:30ish when it gets WOOOW.

foodie section

Fritter roulette recipe – "Crunchy corn and squash fritters with an added frisson of danger (well, ish)"

kale pesto spaghetti with butternut squash – i like the idea of a kale pesto, the rest is a bit too much maybe

basic pizza dough recipe – "You have seen the chefs on TV twisting and swirling their pizza dough in the air. Do you think it is impossible to make a good pizza dough at home and a good pizza in your oven? I will change your mind. "

schmooze and abuse

I recognise that mouth… – as obvious as it is brilliant.

Anonymous Wikileaks supporters explain web attacks – "'Coldblood', a member of the group Anonymous, tells Jane Wakefield why he views its attacks on Visa and Mastercard as defence of Wikileaks."

24 TRACKS OFF OF MY IPOD – "A COUNTDOWN TO XMAS" neat idea and interesting selction

2600 Magazine condemns DDoS attacks against Wikileaks censors – "2600 says that DDoS attacks are tactically unsound, as they create sympathy for these companies, and are used as a pretense for more attacks on Internet freedom."

On Wikileaks & student protests – "Obviously BBC news decided not to focus on the fact that thousands of people are on London’s streets today to fight against the idea of a university that follows a pure logic of efficiency. Re-structuring a public body purely according to the logic of the market is something that is done to society, and not only to the students."

Location-based Protesting – "Student protesters in London use Google Maps to outwit police “kettling”. Interesting use of icons. See the live map here."

Inside The Mind Of A PoWM – "I’m not sure which part of this list found at Walmart makes me more angry: The absolutely ATROCIOUS spelling or the fact that they crossed out the Captain! Not cool." poteos?

Prince Charles, Camilla's Car Attacked By Student Protesters In London – "In Britain's worst political violence in years, furious student protesters rained sticks and rocks on riot police, vandalized government buildings and attacked a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, after lawmakers approved a controversial hike in university tuition fees."

The 25 Greatest Internet Memes of 2010 – "From Sad Keanu, to endless auto-tune remixes, to people making fun of the real-life events of human beings in peril (or going insane) or even just harmless image memes that made all of us smile, here are the 25 greatest internet memes of 2010"

What Is LOIC? – "The idea behind LOIC is that it can allow you to participate in attacks even if you've no clue how to hack. Just download a copy of LOIC (available for Windows, Mac, and Linux!), punch in the target information like a URL or an IP address and zap."

ARTE Creative – coming soon! – "ARTE creative is an international platform and network for creative people – editorially animated, respectful and noncommercial. Explore, share and remix the very best of contemporary audiovisual creation – for free and without advertising! Create multimedia portfolios and showcase your projects!" yeh, but in strassbourg?

Cantona's call for revolution prompts about a dozen – "Since everyone takes their revolutionary financial advice from retired footballers and it's oh-so-easy to do, just how many people did follow through on Cantona's plan to bring down the banks?
About a dozen." a case of, that went well.

Wikileaks Cable Shows US Involvement in Swedish Anti-Piracy Efforts – "After the raid on The Pirate Bay’s servers in 2006, it became clear that the US had threatened to put Sweden on the WTO’s black list if they refused to deal with the Pirate Bay problem."

One Chance – "In the last 6 remaining in-game days on Earth, the player must make choices about how to spend his last moments. Will he spend time with his family, work on a cure or go nuts?"

Vuvuzelas Blare on Pirated Copies of Michael Jackson – "A novel anti-piracy measure baked into the Nintendo DS version of Michael Jackson: The Experience makes copied versions of the game unplayable and taunts gamers with the blaring sound of vuvuzelas. Instead of “Beat It,” players get “Bleat It.”"

United States of Autocomplete – input the state names into google and see what autocomplete comes up with. i just did the same for some swiss kantons, not that interesting ;{ bern gave berner zeitung, zurich gave zurich airport, basel gave basel tatoo

WikiLeaks site's Swiss host dismisses pressure to take it offline – "Swiss host Switch says there is 'no reason' why WikiLeaks should be forced off internet, despite French and US demands"

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StS' Beatles – "From the album "First your pants then your shoes" comes this evergreen hit of The Heatless. The band that could've gotten it all, but didn't want to." [via b3ta]

‘True Blood’ Sesame Street parody – the guy inisists on getting a true mud served. fast!

Roots Manuva – 'It's On' – "Brand new track from Roots Manuva which features on the Ninja Tune 20th anniversary box set release – Ninja Tune XX (http://www.ninjatunexx.net/boxset), released 20 September 2010."

Ninja XX 333 mural takeover – "a nice little film of the Ninja Tune XX mural Chu painted outside the 333 in Shoreditch the other week."

"Steve Jobs ‘Ninja Stars’ Rumor Gets Animated…" – Steve Jobs is a Ninja!

A Very Drunk Man vs. A Hill – "Who will emerge the victor, the soused dufus or the immobile hill?"

Weltrekord der Berliner Stadtreinigung – “Auf einer Fläche von 50×70 m bauten 150 Helfer aus 6.500 Mülltonnen das Motiv eines kleinen Eisbären auf dem Rollfeld des ehemaligen Flughafens Tempelhof auf.” this was done by berlin garbage disposal to motivate active garbage separation.

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rap chart – “grand taxonomy of rap names”

6 Mix Ninja special this Sunday – "Coldcut host a 2 hour show celebrating the 20th anniversary of the label this Sunday on 6 Music’s 6 Mix show . Special mixes have been compiled by myself, Mr Scruff, Daedelus and Toddla T (doing a Roots Manuva special)"

Tom Sachs at the Venice Biennale of Architecture – "Tom Sachs, who made a career revisiting contemporary icons such as Prada and the atomic bomb, has been given a large room to exhibit his take on the work and legacy of Le Corbusier."

Chet's Tune (Chet Atkins) – "In the case of Chet's Tune, we see the concept brought to life by some of the biggest names signed to RCA Victor, all gathered to help commemorate Atkins' 20th year with the label."

Very Cool ‘So You Need A Typeface’ Poster … – "Designer Julian Hansen has created a neat flowchart for deciding on what font to use on a project."

Google New – "The one place to find everythin new from Google" right, and no rss feed? noobs!

Apple Approves VLC Video Player for iPad – "Well, color us surprised (and delighted). Apple has approved VLC Media Player for iPad, an app that plays a multitude of movie formats unsupported by the tablet’s built-in video player."

Recursive Pizza – "Using mise en abyme to illuminate a relationship between the layers of material and our experience, and meta symbolic experience of pizza as a hearth, as meeting point, as cultural convergence, as party, as sculpture, as gift, as collage, as pie, and individuals as ingredients within pieces of a social pie adding up to something greater than their whole in a deliciously simple way." yeh but, did you have to spoil pizza for me?

Time Trumpet being remade for Comedy Central – "You may recall a somewhat short lived BBC series called Time Trumpet, which aired in 2006…
It was by no means a hit, but it was very funny, and now it seems that Comedy Central plan to adapt the original series for US viewers. They’ll collaborate with the original series creator, Armando Iannucci, on the adaptation."

Mario's Anatomy – "Here is an amazing look at the anatomy of our favorite plumber, Mario. It kind of humanizes the video game character, which makes him a bit more than just a Mushroom eating hero."

Meebo Celebrates Its 5th Birthday with New Design and BlackBerry App – "The company is releasing two new features for the Meebo Bar, which adds chat and drag-and-drop functionality to any website with a bar that rests at the bottom of the page. The first is highlight-to-share text functionality, while Meebo’s new embeddable buttons allow for drag-and-drop sharing of images or articles right on the page."

4chan cyber-protest takes down RIAA and MPAA – "Infamous internet imageboard 4chan has taken down the RIAA and MPAA's websites in a co-ordinated DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) campaign, supposedly in retribution for similar attacks against filesharing websites."

Swedish Pirate Party runs aground in election – "The Jolly Roger is flying at half-mast across Sweden today, after the country's Pirate Party failed to secure enough popular support to enter parliament. The party, which supports copyright reform, free speech and opposes state surveillance, polled just one percent of the total vote. That falls far short of the seven percent that the party secured in 2009's European Parliament elections, and also short of the four percent threshold required to enter parliament."

Michael Jackson MMO in development – "In early 2011, a massively-multiplayer online game based on the life and work of Michael Jackson will launch on the PC. It's going to be called "Planet Michael"."

The Hamburg derby looked like fun – "Break out the water cannons and riot gear, because the Hamburg derby is back." left wing vs. right wing football at its best, we can watch bundesliga again… go st. pauli!

Credit Card Survival Tool – "Multi-functional survival tool with 11 functions (see above)"

Dulce Pinzon: “Superheroes” – "Superheroes (2004–ongoing) intends to broaden our collective definition of the term hero, a label often used in American culture, but not always applied to the heroic everyday acts of work and family commitments." she takes photos of mexican immigrants in new york at their workspaces wearing superhero costumes.

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Eine Glacé der Migros erhitzt die Gemüter – "Die Markenimitationen der Migros sorgen bei den Herstellern des Originalprodukts oft für Ärger. In einem jüngsten Fall hat der Grossverteiler die Grenzen offenbar überschritten und muss jetzt Konsequenzen ziehen" migros retires its Jane and Mary's ice cream, too baltant a copy of ben and jery's? i think its another genius brand re-appropriation by the generic food supermarket chain in switzerland.

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Making Future Magic: iPad light painting – "We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad."

Не говорите ктоя…. – they dubbed him yoda cat, and he is sad…

how to snap like a diva – "how to snap…. read the title… snap"

Everything is OK Montage – “meditation is a waste of good shopping time”

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BREAKING: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to Host Opposing Rallies in Washington D.C. – "This October 30th, will you Restore Sanity with Jon or Keep Fear Alive with Stephen?"

Yotam Ottolenghi's beetroot and saffron rice recipe – "Serve with stewed green beans and yoghurt." will do, yottam, will do.

Open Source Facebook Contender Releases Code to Public – "Diaspora, an open source challenger to Facebook, hit its first milestone Wednesday, releasing code for fellow hackers to test drive and improve."

Yoga bear in Finland – shots of a female brown bear doing her morning stretches

Team Ico Collection: Out In 2011, Has Some Surprises – "The Team Ico Collection – a high-definition remastering of two of the PS2 generation's finest titles – will be out next year, the developers said earlier today at the Tokyo Game Show."

ToneCheck stops you from sending passive aggressive (or plain aggressive) e-mails – "Windows only (for now): ToneCheck is an e-mail plug-in that checks the content of your e-mails for tone and alerts you to language that may be misunderstood or interpreted as particularly negative."

Meet the new Twitter.com – "An easier, faster, and richer experience."

Banksy forgers sentenced to community service – "The pair who sold fake prints claiming they were by the graffiti artist have also been banned from selling anything on the internet for five years"

Grilled Vegetables with Miso Glaze (Japan) – "enjoy these tasty grilled vegetables: slices of eggplant, zucchini, onion, and shiitake mushrooms, cooked on a griddle and finished with a miso glaze."

Four Lions / Background Reading – "We've received many enquiries for background material on the film so taking the Quran as given, here's a selection of good and readable books."

Former Employees of Zynga Reveal Company's Shady Idealogy – gamrFeed – "According to a recent article from the SF Weekly blogs, the unofficial company policy at social game developer Zynga is about as underhanded as you can get. The article alleges it has quotes from former employees on what constitutes a culture of copying at the developer of the internet crack sensation FarmVille."

Damning Zuckerberg IMs confirmed – “A series of "embarrassing and damaging" IMs from Mark Zuckerberg have been confirmed by The New Yorker, and by the Facebook founder himself"

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/ – Rss subscribe

"Def Surrounds Us" b/w "I've Been Trying" | DJ Shadow – "Both are beasts, and both are classic Shadow. Free download for 24 hours." get tjem free while you can.

Mir gefällts und es gefällt mir! – iSmile.de – deep german shit

swiss focus

So funktioniert's – “Als STANDARD- oder PREMIUM-Mitglied wird Ihr Smartphone zum Portemonnaie”

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Howard – “Do you remember when we met? You were brilliant, witty, gorgeous to look at…something’s changed. Film by Julia Pott” [via ze frank]

Keyboard Cat Redux – had to be done

OEDIPUS (starring… vegetables) – "The story of OEDIPUS in 8 minutes performed by vegetables"

DJ Greyboy's french bulldog DJ MAMA on the scratch pt. 2 dog scratching – "MAMA, flexing her DJ skills"

POP MOONWALK's WAL-MART – "Hip Pop Shoppin'" and i LOLd

Best Penalty Kick Ever? Ezequiel Calvente Penalty for Spain U19 vs Italy U19 (24/07/10) – total class

The WTF moment of a reporter – "Puts the basket ball half a court away"

"Serenity Now" RE-CUT – "A re-arrangement of Seinfeld scenes into an action-thriller movie trailer. The song playing throughout is "Vicious Traditions" by the Veils."

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Mila's Daydreams – these pictures show pure desperation, the story of a mum who can't stand the void when her baby is taking naps… but ok ok, its cute and creative as wel [via b3ta]

Things I Did Last Night – mate, i understand. you were desperate, since i was doing your sister who you usually have sex with…

Sneaky New App Avoids Awkward Chats, Sends You Straight to Voicemail – "If you’ve ever dreaded making a phone call and anxiously wished for a voicemail greeting as you dialed, you know exactly why this app is a genius idea. It strips away the awkwardness of a voice-to-voice call while still letting you claim to have attempted direct communication. How perfectly passive-aggressive!"

The energy-efficient way to power your accessories. – "When the Apple Battery Charger recharges your batteries, it not only maximizes battery performance and lifespan, it also conserves energy." want!

World Cup 2010 – North Korean flops shamed in public – "Reports claim coach Kim Jong-Hun was made to work on a building site and expelled from the Workers' Party of Korea." if true, fucking sad!

iPad owners are selfish elitists, non-owners are independent geeks – "iPad owners are wealthy, sophisticated, educated, and score very low in tests designed to chart altruism and kindness. In short, they're rich and smart, but also spoiled and cruel." guily as charged.

Quite possibly the best Robots.txt file ever. – deffo up there

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacks Octopus Paul – "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian leader, says Paul the Octopus, the sea creature that correctly predicted the outcome of World Cup games, is a symbol of all that is wrong with the western world." makes perfect sense.

Man hit by six meteorites blames aliens – 'I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit six times has to be deliberate.'

Spain's Catalonia bans bullfighting – "Catalonia became the first Spanish mainland region to ban bullfighting after its parliament voted Wednesday to outlaw the tradition on animal cruelty grounds."

Google Develops a Facebook Rival – "Google Inc. is in talks with several makers of popular online games as it seeks to develop a broader social-networking service that could compete with Facebook Inc., according to people familiar with the matter."

HTML5 Pacman – neat, flash can now go back to animations

Sniper Jesus – "sweet Photoshop of a well-armed Lord Jesus"

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent – 6. up from … The Yes Men Fix The World

"The Yes Men" Movie Dodges Legal Challenge by Launching on BitTorrent – "Culture jamming pranksters The Yes Men have released their latest film on BitTorrent, unable to do so via conventional distribution channels because they are being sued by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce."

Gorillaz: Escape to Plastic Beach Debuts for iPhone and iPad – "The Damon Albarn-fronted music project / virtual band Gorillaz finally has an official video game to call its own — Gorillaz: Escape to Plastic Beach ($1.99) and Gorillaz: Escape to Plastic Beach for iPad ($1.99)."

Super Heroes vs. the Westboro Baptist Church – "who can win against a counter protest that includes robots, magical anime girls, Trekkies, Jedi and…kittens?"

The Queen has joined Flickr – "Ladies and gentlemen, please rise from your seats for the national anthem, because the Queen has joined Flickr."

EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers | Electronic Frontier Foundation – jailbreaking your iphone is now legal, gratz and thx eff

Will Gamers Be the New Green Superheroes? – "With more than 500 million gamers worldwide and a billion more expected in the next decade, there is no denying the collective power of their force. But can this very real human resource do more than save the virtual planet?"

Wikileaks Publishes Massive Dump of Military Records – "Whistleblower site WikiLeaks today published US military logs covering classified information about Afghanistan, spanning from 2004 through 2009. This is being called the biggest military leak in history. Needless to say, the US government is none too happy about this."

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Innenraum-Komposter gewinnt James Dyson Award – a cool composting device that can be used indoors won the prestigous designaward [german text]

Switzerland's World War II Bunkers Get a Second Life – "Oschwald says clients from 30 countries use the underground facility at Saanen to store their digital data, "anyone from a student storing files from his computer to an international corporation that wants its data accessed from anywhere in the world."

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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'

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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."

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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!!!!

online video killed the …

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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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.

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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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USA vs. Slovenia Decided by Koman Coulibaly's Disallowed Goal – "Koman Coulibaly quickly had his Wikipedia page defaced following the US v. Slovenia 2-2 draw. Right now, he's not a very popular man in America." i think the BBC commentator said it best, the ref just got confused as there was lots of pushing and shoving in the box. but as it turns out if you watch the slow motion replay, it was actually fouls against US players, and none by an amercian player. all i can say, Blatter, when the fuck are you going to allow video replay for referees? first the irish disallowed by the hand of frog and now maybe the US stuck in the group stages, all because the blatter mafia are stubborn old men?

Vuvuzela Time! – View any website like you're at the South Africa World Cup! – yes, had to be done, adds much needed vuvuzela to your web browsing.

Hitler and the vuvuzela at the 2010 Fifa World Cup. – watch it fast, Will Be taken down soon… and watching this, i realized how happy i am i didn’t invest in a new tv, sorry, home entertainment system, lol, for this worldcup…

Maradona e a Vuvuzela – i was pondering similar photoshoppery ideas.

France vs Mexico on Twitter – "Three minutes extra time added. French burst into tears." warren ellis being sarcastic.

Man Killed By Family For Watching World Cup On TV – "Police say a South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup match instead of a religious program was beaten to death by his family in the northeastern part of the country." deserves a red card.

Radio head: South Africa calling – "As the BBC ponders the possibility of a vuvuzela-free option for viewers watching the football, a niche radio station offers the opposite scenario. Vuvuzela Radio broadcasts the boisterous sound of the plastic trumpets without the accompaniment of any football. It's non-stop, ad-free and hard-going." gah.

What makes the sound of vuvuzelas so annoying? – "Lack of control over a noise source has been shown to increase its perceived annoyance. So your best bet might be to crack open another beer and try your best to enjoy the atmosphere." wow, great advice, lets just all get drunk… sigh.

Franz Beckenbauer labels England’s football ‘kick and rush’ – "FRANZ BECKENBAUER stuck 'Das Boot' into England yesterday – rubbishing our football as "kick and rush"." strange headline by the sun, beckbauer stuck what in? a boat?

Vuvuzela-Filter – instructions howto filter vuvuzela sound out from tv signal using logic on a mac mini, but sadly for me this is not an option, as it would mean getting a new tv since my audio out is broken [in german]

World Cup 2010: how to silence the vuvuzelas on your TV – "By far the biggest talking point at this World Cup has been how the vuvuzelas drown out everything but there could be a way to tune out their frequency on your television."

The Nextmen – World Cup Mix 2010 – England Expects – "A mix celebrating the 2010 World Cup in South Africa with, er… a slight England bias. Put it on and pray for good performances from the lads!"

ENG – USA the lego version – "A Lego reenactment of this year's World Cup game between the USA and England"

World Cup organiser considers vuvuzela ban after TV complaints – "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."

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OK Go – End Love – Official Video – "Much like all the bands other videos, this is brilliant – but much like the all the bands other songs, its shite." hey, its a video band. maybe.

Caravan FAIL – "Maybe parking the caravan in this garage wasn't such a good idea." he wanted a flatbed caravan.

Brazilian baby dancing samba (original) – how can a baby be so muy macho?

Soccer's Lost Boys: World Cup Dreams and Nightmares – "As South Africa hosts the 2010 World Cup, the focus will be on many of the continent's brightest stars in soccer, including Chelsea's Didier Drogba and Inter Milan's Samuel Eto'o. In "Soccer's Lost Boys," correspondent Mariana van Zeller explores the dark side to the sport's global popularity, what has been called "the new slave trade." decent documentary on this tragic subject with a very timely release date.

Running on Empty – "What if tomorrow, everyone’s car disappeared." i loved these parts of 28 days later…

DANCING ALONE TO PONY – "When R&B singer Ginuwine's jam Pony came out in 1996, it became the classic soundtrack to grinding, and its (admittedly, hilarious) refrain "ride it, my pony" a fixture in American pop culture. "Dancing Alone to Pony" — a tumblr blog compiling solo videos of people dancing to the track. The site has encapsulated this micro-meme." i am sooo tempted to add a vid.

Girl Deletes Boyfriend’s World of Warcraft Characters (Rage Ensues) – "Such is the case with the video embedded below, which features the poor bastard’s girlfriend recording the experience while explaining her logic for deleting all those WoW characters"

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The IT Crowd – 4oD – this is outraegous. season 4s first it crowd episode is available online. for UK viewers only… can someone please create a screen grab and … you know hint hint…

I-Spot Annoying Fanboys – "Our illustrated guide to the most annoying fanboys from zealous toy collectors to Apple acolytes and everything in between – as voted for by you" [via b3ta]

INTERVIEWS : RICHARD HERRING – "As is traditional, we turned this over to our messageboard members for their questions. Thankfully Richard didn't get too annoyed by this and actually answered them. Hooray." even "how's your cock these days?" was answered.

Hidden posters of Notting Hill Gate Tube station, 2010 – "Discovered in Notting Hill Gate tube station, 2010 – wholly inaccessible so please don't ask the staff! These are official photographs so please credit London Underground."

Why Russian Art Group Voina ‘Dicked’ a St. Petersburg Bridge – "Yeah, Russia sucks, Russian authorities are blatantly corrupt, but what are you going to do about it? Well, St Petersburg’s renegade art-group of political pranksters – Voina (War) – turned a historic bridge into one giant “Fuck You!” to the Russian federal agencies." hmm, i smell a new genre, vulgart

Eizo Pin-up Calendar 2010 – more than integral nude – "This pin-up calendar offers you more than the usual integral nude : X-ray girls literally !" boned!

'Loved': The game that hates you – "During the course of your first ten minutes with the title, you might be called a girl, an "ugly creature", "disgusting", told that you control nothing, or instructed to throw yourself onto spikes. Combined with the stark black-and-white design, it's not exactly the most friendly title you'll play this year."

Answers 2.0: Flickr co-founder launches Hunch.com – "The latest company she’s co-founded, Hunch.com — a small, eleven-person outfit — is designed to answer any question, whether it’s what kind of dog you should rescue from the pound, how best to respond to a personal insult or which conference to attend. As it recommends, it also learns, developing over time unique profiles of its users." still testing…

Bruce Sterling Interview: Cities – "But I'd also like to point out that large financial centers in certain cities around the planet are certainly going to kill millions of us by destroying our social safety networks in the name of their imaginary financial efficiency. You're a thousand times more likely to die because of what some urban banker did in 2008 than from what some Afghan-based terrorist did in 2001."

The IT Crowd We want you to be the first to know that we’re going to have an exclusive online premiere of the first episode of The IT Crowd series 4 from Friday this week! – "We want you to be the first to know that we’re going to have an exclusive online premiere of the first episode of The IT Crowd series 4 from Friday this week! More details will follow."

Long Road to Adulthood Is Growing Even Longer – “Baby boomers have long been considered the generation that did not want to grow up, perpetual adolescents even as they become eligible for Social Security. Now, a growing body of research shows that the real Peter Pans are not the boomers, but the generations that have followed. For many, by choice or circumstance, independence no longer begins at 21.” i am 48 and still a baby.

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MOVE OVER, CHICKEN WING! – "Impress all the other soulja boys and girls with these hot, barely choreographed summer dances!" bust a move, …erm… buster.

Mark Frauenfelder | Colbert Report – boingboing's mark frauenfelder s on the colbert report, wicked shoebox guitar solo there.

SURRA DE BUNDA – nosebutt with the … erm … butt, as seen on jon stewart.

'Ahead of the Game' – Trailer for a new film for 2012 [HD] – '"Ahead of the Game' is a feature length documentary set in the heart of the neighbourhoods hosting the London 2012 Olympics.
It is a personal exploration of the multi billion pound project as seen through the eyes of AJ, a 20 year old who grew up in poverty on the estates of the East End.
With the world's media focused on the Games, AJ exposes the reality of development in one of the poorest places in the UK."

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Report: Pentagon launches "manhunt" for Wikileaks founder. Founder: "Yoo-hoo, I'm in Vegas!" – "In the Daily Beast today, Philip Shenon reports the Pentagon has launched a "manhunt" for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has… just announced he'll be in Vegas tonight. Huh? The Defense Department is upset at Wikileaks and Assange for publishing a number of secret and sensitive documents, and the "Collateral Murder" video." runnnnnn!!!!!

Denmark Leads the World in Meat Consumption, United States Fifth – "According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the average Dane devours 321 lbs. of meat a year. This edges out New Zealand (313 lbs. per person) for the top spot. The United States, at 275 lbs., is fifth — also following the tiny nations of Luxembourg (312 lbs.) and Cyprus (289 lbs.) For the sake of comparison, the average citizen of the United Kingdom eats 175 lbs. of meat a year, and the typical Frenchman 222 lbs." aha, that explains why the danes are so aggressive, i wondered when i visited copenhagen.

Radiohead frontman: Music industry on verge of collapse – "It will be only a matter of time – months rather than years – before the music business establishment completely folds. (It will be) no great loss to the world."

BIT.TRIP RUNNER – very fun looking retro game, wii only though.

Fried Eggs on Corn Tortillas with Two Salsas (Huevos Divorciados) – "The eggs are "separated" by their salsas—one is topped with fiery red, the other with jealous green." as seen on regine debattys facebook page.

Your Brain on Computers – Plugged-In Parents – "The boy, who Ms. Im estimates was about 2 1/2 years old, made repeated attempts to talk to his mother, but she wouldn’t look up from her BlackBerry. “He’s like: ‘Mama? Mama? Mama?’ ” Ms. Im recalled. “And then he starts tapping her leg. And she goes: ‘Just wait a second. Just wait a second.’ ”
Finally, he was so frustrated, Ms. Im said, that “he goes, ‘Ahhh!’ and tries to bite her leg.”

Walking the Dead – "the shoes were all of the same brand and he had worked out that the company was a defunct one that had been dedicated to turning out footwear for the deceased. That’s right – the dead. Apparently, wearing filthy Birkenstocks was just as bad form when leaving this world as when living in it and an entire industry had dedicated itself to solving this problem. So that explained why this company had been manufacturing shoes that were up-to-the-minute fashion-wise, but didn’t have to withstand a whole lot of walking. Well, any walking."

The Herbaliser 'Herbal Tonic' Free Album Mini-mix – "Free album mini-mix of the forthcoming best of album from The Herbaliser 'Herbal Tonic', mixed by DK."

Freedom From Porn – ipad adds re-decorated.
The Tourist Lane
"For our latest mission, we created separate walking lanes for tourists and New Yorkers on a Fifth Avenue sidewalk. Department of Transportation “employees” were on hand to enforce the new rules and ask pedestrians for their feedback on the initiative. "

Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed – "Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking."

Swiss solar innovator wins Millennium Technology prize – "The inventor of a low-cost solar cell that could be used to build electricity generating windows has been awarded this year's Millennium Technology Prize."

Charles Eames and photos of solar power history – "This gorgeous photo shows designer Charles Eames demonstrating his Do Nothing Machine, an experimental solar-powered toy he made in 1958." fantastic photo of my favorit designer.

Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club – "The fictional high school chorus at the center of Fox’s Glee has a huge problem — nearly a million dollars in potential legal liability. For a show that regularly tackles thorny issues like teen pregnancy and alcohol abuse, it’s surprising that a million dollars worth of lawbreaking would go unmentioned. But it does, and week after week, those zany Glee kids rack up the potential to pay higher and higher fines."

Restaurant tells diners to eat up or else – "An Australian restaurateur fed up with the waste left by diners has ordered her customers to eat everything on their plates for their sake of the earth or pay a penalty and not return. Chef Yukako Ichikawa has introduced a 30 percent discount for diners who eat all the food they have ordered"

Was Barack Obama In the 1993 Music Video For 'Whoomp (There It Is)'? – "Finally, a Barack Obama conspiracy theory for the rest of us! Everyone from Tea Partiers to hip hop message boards thinks Obama was an extra in the music video for Tag Team's single "Whoomp (There It Is)"."

Wired News (and Adrian Lamo) report alleged Wikileaks "Collateral Murder" video leaker – "Wired News senior editor (and former hacker) Kevin Poulsen and reporter Kim Zetter have unveiled the identity of an Army intelligence analyst arrested over charges that he provided Wikileaks with the "Collateral Murder" video."

Solar Equation in Melbourne – "The solar animation on the balloon is generated by live mathematical equations that simulate the turbulence, flares and sunspots that can be seen on the surface of the Sun." installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, visitors can influence the projction using an ipod touch.

Your Brain on Computers – Attached to Technology and Paying a Price – "As computers have changed, so has the understanding of the human brain. Until 15 years ago, scientists thought the brain stopped developing after childhood. Now they understand that its neural networks continue to develop, influenced by things like learning skills."

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Lingerie ad features woman in burqa (maybe NSFW) – "provocative TV commercial for online lingerie shop Liaison Dangereuse." pretty hawt. but isn’t burqa the one where even the eyes are covered though?

I Am – "I Am is not only a film but a social experiment that took strangers in Philadelphia and asked them to finish this sentence. "I am ___.""

Avatar Days – HD – "This is short film directed by Gavin Kelly I worked on a while ago called "Avatar Days". What makes this one special is the fact that it was filmed, vfx'ed and comped all in just 4 days" reminds me of my silly photoshop project here and here.

Tim Schafer's Brutal Legend: Behind the Gatefold – "interface designer Joe 'codeloss' Kowalski goes awesomely in-depth on work he put into the menu and title screen systems — a system brilliantly aping the wonderful yesteryear of gatefold sleeves and ballpoint-pen scrawled notebooks." currently playing and loving the game.

Tahuna Breaks – Giddy Up (HD) – 'A cheeky song about a naughty topic visually depicted within a parody of a 70s childhood classic. **contains adult content**'

bee test – "Hang on.. there was a bee in there? " i didnt see no bee either, but but but… so cute. the girl.

schmooze and abuse

Hear Me Roar – "If people mistake your gender that frequently I would personally suggest maybe a new hairstyle or different clothing before resorting to posting a sign OR I’d tell my friends how to correctly spell “Kick Me”." how? why? did this guy lose a bet?

Apple Co-Founder Ron Wayne’s Long, Strange — and Sad — Trip – "We don’t hear much about Ron Wayne, one of the three founders of Apple Computer in 1976. That might be because he gave back a stake that would be worth $22 billion today a mere 12 days after he got it from his partners, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak."

T!R!A!S!H % H!U!M!P!E!R!S – possibly TEH most annyoing ringtones ever?

Hurl Berl – "Since promising to increase aid to Africa in 2005 Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi has actually cut it. His broken promises cost lives, so we should hurl him out of the G8."

Dutch Football Federation, 2010 FIFA World Cup: T-shirt – this has been done before, but it works really well in the football context.

Chuck & Beans – how to get comments on your blog. lets try, hmm, how do i missssspell something again?

The Hurt Locker producers to sue illegal file-sharers – "Voltage Pictures, the company behind Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker, has filed lawsuits against alleged illegal file-sharers of the movie in the US." *shiver*

Louise Bourgeois R.I.P. – "how to survive in dogtown?" very beautiful hommage to louise bourgeois.

Fincube – "How could a temporary and simple living unit, coping with the demands of a mobile society and its nomadic lifestyle, look like?" want.

Apple invites authors to self-publish on iPad bookstore – "Getting a book deal isn’t easy (I can personally vouch for that), and Apple is now an alternative to the traditional publisher. The company this week opened a new portal for independent authors to self-publish their books for the iBooks Store open to iPad (and soon iPhone) customers." yeh but, in switzerland we still cant buy books on the ibooks store…

Jus' Checkin' – "A comic about the perils of the Internet, especially if you're a comment-hungry, egocentric artist."

Marina Abramović Made Me Cry – quite some people fell into tears

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present—Portraits – the flickr stream

MoMA’s Abramović Becomes the Biggest Show in Town – "The crew at MoMA has this social media thing totally under control and I suspect everyone will look to them from now on to set the pace." i think she imagined, everyone of these people will be dead some day.

Favela Painting: On a Mission to Color the Community – "Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn originally came to the favelas of Brazil in 2005 to film a documentary about hip hop for MTV, but after MTV left, they decided to stay. Soon after, the Dutch duo known simply as Haas&Hahn began Favela Painting, an organization dedicated to bringing “outrageous works of art to unexpected places.”"

The Future of Magazines? – "The only real differentiation between the Wired application and a multimedia CD-ROM is the delivery mechanism: you download it via the App Store versus buying a CD-ROM at the now defunct Egg Head store at your local strip mall. And I really mean that comparison. For all of the interactivity that was touted in the Flash prototype, what we’ve really ended up with is a glorified slide show." yes, some of these critiques hold true. but. no more paper! and not having to wait weeks and weeks fr my latest issue of wired!

behind the logo – "That's why we want you to rebrand them. Your brief is to create a logo for BP which shows that the company is not 'beyond petroleum' – they're up to their necks in tar sands." Greenpeace UK

QuitFacebookDay.com – "Sick of Facebook's lack of respect for your data? Add your name and commit to quit!" some people mean it… a few days later i read, this was a total fail.

How to Return Facebook's Privacy Settings to What You Signed Up For – "Online privacy expectations are evolving, but whether Facebook likes it or not, a lot of us want the privacy settings we signed up for when we joined the service. Here's how to use Facebook's new privacy controls to regain your original privacy." done that.

swiss/german focus

Icke & Er – L.I.B.E. 2010 – "Seit ihrer "Exit-Strategie" aus dem Musikbusiness hatte man so gut wie nichts mehr von ihnen gehört. Nun präsentieren Icke & Er ein 17 Track starkes Album, das alle musikalischen und weltanschaulichen Grenzen sprengt."

Piratencamp2010 – meeting of the swiss pirate party in 1337 Vallorbe, obviously.

Fussball im Park – "Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple."

Johan Cruijff
 

Nein, wir sind kein Fight Club. Aber trotzdem soll gelten, dass weder Spielfeldgrösse noch Spieldauer vorgegeben sind. Das Heimteam bringt den Ball und setzt die "Pfosten". Der Rest ist Verhandlungssache.
 

Teamregeln

Teams bestehen aus mindestens 4 Spielern. Die Spieleranzahl kann man natürlich auch erweitern, falls beide Teams mehr als 4 Spieler vor Ort haben. Die optimale Anzahl Spieler ist jedoch auch etwas vom Park abhängig. Falls mal Spieler fehlen sollten, kann auch zu dritt gespielt werden. Auch hier gilt, dass das Heimteam letztendlich entscheidet.

Der Teamname muss den Namen des Parks beinhalten (schliesslich geht’s ja auch um die Parkkultur der Stadt Zürich). Teamdresses sind kein Muss. Schliesslich sollte man sich mit seinen Mitspielern blind verstehen..
 

Spielplan

Ziel ist es, ein Spiel pro Woche zu spielen."

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rap against rape – "rap against rape, early '90's dublin" you really don’t want to laugh…. [via b3ta]

LOST In 3 Minutes – "Everyone's talking about it, few people seem to understand it – but I do, so I thought I'd help you out!"

Pixel – A pixel art documentary – "An 11 minute documentary exploring the merits and impact of pixel art, animation and chiptune music."

iPad + Velcro on Vimeo – "Two of mankind's greatest inventions, together at last." yes yes if only the velcro sound wouldn't make me cringe…

Reggie Watts: F_ck Sh_t Stack – "Music video for Reggie Watts, directed by Duncan & Ben." made my week!

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Freedom from Porn – "As one can see in the relaxed posture Apple imagines for its future users, the iPad is about to offer an entirely new porn experience. The user experience of the device and its dimensions will make it a perfect hand for porn viewers." one-handed porn viewing ftw!

Blizzard Calls DRM a “Losing Battle” – "Recently this year a lot of video game publishers started using more advance DRM methods to battle piracy.
Blizzard on the other hand is saying that there is no win-win situation by using DRM and most likely will harm you in the long run." losing battle? lost battle more like.

Red Dead Redemption Short Film to Air This Saturday on Fox – "It's not often that machinima reaches a mainstream television audience, but that's exactly what's going to happen this Saturday on Fox. Rockstar has announced that a short film made entirely in the Red Dead Redemption engine will air at midnight Eastern and Pacific time on Saturday, May 29."

M.I.A. Takes Revenge on New York Times Writer Lynn Hirschberg – "Well, it seems that M.I.A. wasn't too happy with the piece. She just tweeted "CALL ME IF YOU WANNA TALK TO ME ABOUT THE N Y T TRUTH ISSUE, ill b taking calls all day bitches ", accompanied by a phone number. We just called the phone number… and it seems to be Lynn Hirschberg's." well played, m.i.a. i read the article, schoolbook example of how some journalists breach trust.

Smoking two year old Ardi Rizal on 40 cigarettes a day – "At just the tender age of two, Ardi Rizal's health has been so ruined by his 40-a-day habit that he now struggles to move by himself." orily

The IT Crowd gets fifth series – "Channel 4's Bafta-winning sitcom has been recommissioned, says its creator, Graham Linehan" and season 4 will start airing in june!!! woot woop.

Firefox tool erases Justin Bieber from Web – "Justin Bieber is everywhere. And if you're like so many others over the age of 15, you've seen enough. Luckily, a new Firefox add-on lets you remove all mentions of Bieber from the Web in one fell swoop."

After Lost: what to watch now? – "Goodbye Lost – after six years of island life, there's suddenly a great big gap in my viewing schedule. Question is: what should fill it?" none of these sound too appealing…

MiLi iPhone Projector – "Hi-Res LED Video projector docks with your iPhone/iPod Touch to show videos and movies – Project a screen up to 70 inches in a dark room"

PIXXXEL : – "When naked bodies are finally ready to play, they come out of the screen as flesh and pixels entities. All we now have to do is invent new ways to hide those unchaste sights between third dimension, blur and pixelated sweat…"

If I were President… : – "Architecture rêvée par un président très joueur. Où quand la folie des grandeurs devient folie d’un gamer."

The official Cyanide & Happiness iPhone app – "Cyanide & Happiness (As seen on the internet!) has finally made it's way to your iPhone/iTouch/iPad/other iThing! Comics, shorts, really exciting news, it's all right at your fingertips!"

Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons – "Secret apartheid-era papers give first official evidence of Israeli nuclear weapons" israel sellng nukes to apartheit south africa, file under: news from aburdistan.

Play Pacman on the Google home page today – Boing Boing – "In case you haven't seen it already… Google has turned its home page banner into a playable Pacman board for the game's 30th anniversary. Just insert a coin!" yeh, gone now…

Ashes to Ashes ends and everything becomes less clear – "Hold up though, who's this at the end? A new arrival in Gene Hunt's purgatory? Does that keep the door open, just a crack, for maybe more to come?"

Ashes to Ashes: co-creator Matthew Graham says goodbye to Gene Hunt – "So Gene Hunt will definitely not be returning to television? No, says Graham he will not. Although, "if Hollywood came calling …" goddamn, i want the 90s version… want want want.

swiss focus

Amnesty International criticises Swiss record in immigration and minarets. – "Swiss public discourse is increasingly racist and xenophobic, according to Amnesty International in its annual round-up of global human rights abuses."

Open Broadcast – "ON – eine Woche lang schalten wir das schmucke Radio Village in Basel ein. Tagsüber ON topic: Nachdenken über Radio und seine Zukunft. Am Abend ON stage: Konzerte und Livejams zwischen Musik und Wortkunst. ON ist auch eine Woche Spezialprogramm ON air auf Open Broadcast. Wir sind ON – während der ART | Basel! " swiss user-generated radio station.

Liip lanciert mit "Radios" eine der ersten Schweizer iPad Apps – "Die iPad App "Radios" spielt Schweizer Radios, zeigt Hintergrundinformationen zur laufenden Musik, sowie dessen Künstler an und funktioniert als dekorativer Screensaver mit immer passendem Bildmaterial zum Radioprogramm." swiss radio station iPad app, collects meta information about the musicians getting aired.

Win a trip to San Francisco! – "Quench your thirst for freedom! SWISS will be operating direct flights from Zurich to San Francisco, city of boundless possibilities, six times a week from 2 June 2010."

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Hexstatic present – Trailer Trax video – "Hexstatic celebrate the release of their ‘Trailer Trax’ album this Monday with a video mix based on the accompanying AV show." another hexstatic album incoming. woot.

Mukhtars Fødselsdag – Flash Mob – "On May 5th it's Mukhtar's, a bus-driver in Copenhagen, Birthday. In 2010 he had no idea that a large group of people had planned to celebrate him…" as cheesy as it is cute.

The Horn of Bunty – "NSFW b3ta humor video"

Bart's Blackboard – “Here is a little project I've done. It's every line Bart Simpson ever wrote on the Springfield blackboard in our office”

Sexy Robots – "It is the future and all music is made by robots. Sexy robots."

Fastest animals on Earth in slow motion – "truly awe-inspiring slow motion wildlife camera technology."

LOST with Sarah Silverman! – "Sarah Silverman sits down with LOST executive producers Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof to discuss what mysteries will be revealed on LOST on the finale."

Seinfeld Trailer – "George" RE-CUT – "A re-arrangement of Seinfeld scenes into a dramatic movie trailer." epic dramaz.

BBC-Dokumentation: The Virtual Revolution – "The Virtual Revolution is a British television documentary series presented by Aleks Krotoski, which began airing on BBC Two on 30 January 2010. A co-production between the BBC and the Open University, the series looks at the impact the World Wide Web has had since its inception 20 years ago. The series took on a different approach to BBC documentary making by encouraging an open and collaborative production." watched the whole damn thing, learned nothing new, stuck with a strange crush on aleks…

UP THERE – "Here is the final documentary. We're very excited to bring these painters' story down to sidewalk level, for everyone to see."

schmooze and abuse

The Geek Alphabet – "As a geek, you definitely know your ABCs, but do you know these? From A to Z, “away team” to “zork,” here is [GAS]’s take on the Geek Alphabet." how poetic them geeks are.

Lost Hacking Documentary Surfaces on Pirate Bay – "After collecting cobwebs in a studio vault for the better part of a decade, an unreleased documentary on the 2003 hacking scene leaked onto the Pirate Bay Thursday. Narrated by actor Kevin Spacey, the 90-minute Hackers Wanted follows the exploits of Adrian Lamo, who pleaded guilty in 2004 to cracking the internal network of The New York Times."

Girl Talk — Feed the Animals – "To the right of the track list, there’s a list of which songs are being played, as they’re played, using the list compiled by Waxy.org." html 5 in action.

Hidden Image on Iron Fence – "It looks like an old, rusty fence, right? Just take a step to the left and look at it again." brilliant idea.

LifeLock CEO’s Identity Stolen 13 Times – "Remember the CEO that published his Social Security number in company ads to prove how well their identity theft protection service worked? Well, guess what happened? Hint: 13 is NOT his lucky number." a typical case of woopsie.

The Pirate Bay – “The world's most resilient bittorrent site – "LOL! AS U MITE HAS READ OR NOTICD, PEEPS ONCE AGAIN R TRYIN 2 SHUT US DOWN. DIS WILL NOT SUCCED, LOL."

Did M.I.A. ‘eff up’ by giving her album an un-google-able name? – "M.I.A. recently named her new album “/\/\/\Y/\”, which is supposed to spell out MAYA, except using forward and back slashes. It seems like this was ’something kewl’ to do in order to exploit typography + the modern usage of slashes in order to signify the directory-based lifestyle that we live on the web. However, as ‘clever’ as this might be typographically, I wonder if it is a ‘complete disaster’ for the sake of Search Engine Optimization." ungoogleable! whataword!

"I'm Not Unemployed. I'm NSFW." Shirt – "Limited run! Ends May 31st! Printed to order starting next week. Only $15.99" maybe tha’s the solution, turn my unemployment into attitude.

BBC 'sorry' for WM presenter Queen death joke – "The BBC has apologised after a radio presenter said the Queen had died."

1 000 000 SoundClouders – Thanks A Million! – "Ta-da! Big day today. At 10:29 Berlin time this morning, our one millionth user signed up for a SoundCloud account. A bigger than words thank you to every single one of you, building SoundCloud for you truly is a great pleasure." hey, you’re welcome.

ARS Electronica | Prix – "GOLDEN NICAS & GRANT 2010" the same three artists win every year. glad i am not going any more.

ATD23: The Street Fighter Mixtape | Akira The Don – "It was supposed to be EASY… a simple, quick, fun thing I could do in a day and fulfil April’s mixtape quota. A mix of Street Fighter related music. There’s tons of it"

The Pirate Bay Goes Down Following Legal Pressure – "The Pirate Bay is suffering some temporary downtime as their bandwidth provider has stopped passing through traffic. A week ago, Hollywood got an injunction to effectively shut down the Pirate Bay by threatening its provider with huge fines. The Pirate Bay team is currently working on a solution."

german focus

Die schönsten Geschichten aus dem Jahr 1996 – 20 Jahre SZ-Magazin – "1996 erfand Tom Kummer sein erstes Interview im SZ-Magazin. 2010 erfinden wir ein Interview mit ihm." amusing idea, poor execution.

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Worst Wedding DJ EVER! (ORIGINAL) – "no description available" and no description needed… wait till he starts to slap his drums.

Funny dancing dog – cats ruled the internetz, then finally there was techno dog.

Albi Saner dräit düre – HALLIHALLO dr Bienvenu.

No Fun – Eva and Franco Mattes – "Online Art Performance by Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org 2010." says so much about our time.

Babies – Movie Trailer – "Babies is a documentary film by Thomas Balmes, depicting the early lives of four infants growing up in Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco and Tokyo, respectively." babies!!!11!

LittleBigPlanet 2 Preview – "Taking a cue – and a queue, actually – from social networks, every player will now have their own activity stream, a Twitter-esque timeline that is constantly being updated with exactly what they, their PSN friends, and any other LBP player whose work they've hearted, have been doing in the game."

schmooze and abuse

Trash Humpers / Warp Films to release Harmony Korine's new feature – "It’s a fearless soul that makes a film like Trash Humpers" i am too scared to buy this…

Kon + Amir Present: The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time – "These days, everyone loves hip-hop. But how much does the average fan really know about the building blocks that formed the foundation of the genre's entire sound?" great resource.

The rise and fall of an Internet sensation – "On Feb. 15, Thomas Bruso's already unpredictable life took an abrupt detour. It was the day he ceased being Thomas Bruso and became Epic Beard Man, Internet sensation. That day, Bruso pulled on his custom-made "I am a motherfucker" T-shirt, snapped on his fanny pack, and met the pot-smoking buddy he calls Ugly Bob at the bus stop at Fruitvale and MacArthur in Oakland. They boarded a San Francisco–bound AC Transit bus, planning to buy some weed in the city."

Lost in Lost: Season six, episode 15 – "But, as always, Lost gave us more questions than answers." lost lost me too.

in Bb 2.0 – a collaborative music/spoken word project – "play these together, some or all, start them at any time, in any order." [thx van]

The Incredible Shrinking Man – "A public research into the implications of genetically downsizing the human species to better fit the earth." its a decent plan.

Open Facebook Alternatives Gain Momentum, $115K – "The funding is not through the capital market and not through the venture capital system, but through civil society,” said Moglen. “This is a signal to Facebook, and I am sure Facebook is getting it."

Boat That Rocked, The [2009] – the other day we watched this movie, it is kinda meh, much overacting, too hyper, but the music is brilliant. this website gives you minute by minute tracklist. fantastic service!

A study in cow dynamics – "Happy cows tend to copy each other. And happy cows are also more productive by various measures such as the amount of milk they produce."

The Yes Lab for Creative Activism – "The Yes Lab is a series of brainstorms and trainings to help activist groups carry out Yes-Men-style projects on their own." looking for donations

German court orders wireless passwords for all – "Germany's top criminal court ruled Wednesday that Internet users need to secure their private wireless connections by password to prevent unauthorized people from using their Web access to illegally download data." there dies the free wifi movement.

Banksy's Road Trip Continues – Yesterday, Toronto. Today, Boston. – "For us, Banksy has given people a new reason to get out of their homes, explore their cities on a scavenger hunt trying to find pieces that have been put up in both heavily trafficked areas as well as those off the beaten path."

Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options – "To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook says it wants to offer precise controls for sharing on the Internet."

HTC calls for halt to sales of iPad, iPhone and iPod in US – "The fight between Apple and HTC, maker of mobile phones using Google's Android platform, is growing increasingly acrimonious with the Taiwanese firm calling for the regulatory authorities to halt the sale of iPhones, iPads and iPods in the US." rrrr, cat fight!

Steam for Mac now available, 57 launch games including free Portal, and LucasArts classics – "Tipsters are telling us that the Steam for Mac service is now live … sort of. While the client makes the rounds, and the beta whitelist has been lifted, it appears Valve isn't quite ready to break out the cigars."

Arts: Swiss Artist Catalogs Mutant Insects Around Nuke Plants – "Scientific illustrator Cornelia Hesse-Honegger details these minute mutations in the so-called true bugs she collects near nuclear facilities and areas of chemical contamination. True bugs don't travel far, and they "suck the liquid from the plants they live on," she says. "So if the plant is contaminated, they take a lot of radioactivity into their bodies."

For The Win » News – "Imbued with the same lively, subversive spirit and thrilling storytelling that made LITTLE BROTHER an international sensation, FOR THE WIN is a prophetic and inspiring call-to-arms for a new generation" the new cory doctorow novel is out and as usual available for free download. this will be the first book i read on my iPad.

Poster Boy in Jail – "Think of all the people out there who commit real crimes, yet live their lives unpunished, and compare them to the actions of an artist who was only making the streets and subways look a bit more interesting. This world is really messed up."

Chavez tops Twitter in Venezuela – "The Twitter account of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has become the most popular in Venezuela, with more than a quarter of a million followers. Mr Chavez says he has hired 200 people to read through the many messages he receives on the social networking site. He says over 18% of the messages he receives are hostile."

Sociologists invade World of Warcraft, see humanity's future – "A sociological field study no longer means packing up; it means plugging in. Books, articles, and US government funding make it clear that World of Warcraft and Second Life have become legitimate locations for academic research into everything from gold farming to "goon culture" to humanity's future."

Organic Potatoes at Safeway: You’re Doing It Wrong! – "The sight of these Melissa’s organic potatoes individually-wrapped in petroleum-based plastic wrap* really struck me as a serious marketing misstep. The people who are buying organic potatoes in the first place will also be the first ones to balk at this kind of over-done packaging that seems to miss the whole point." in theory, yes, they should balk, but …

South Africa World Cup 'just for the rich' – "South Africa's street vendors, barred from selling their goods near the World Cup stadia, say the strict regulations are threatening their livelihood"

Ninja Tune XX (Limited Edition Box Set) – "Pre-order now, pay £80.00 (available for a limited period only, full price £100.00) and guarantee your copy for delivery on the release date, September 20th 2010." and pre-ordered it is.

Dead Footballer Booked For Diving – "A Croatian footballer who collapsed and died during a match was booked by the referee for simulating a foul before he realized he had died." he then gave him the red card for dying.

Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis – "The biggest contradiction may be: How can a generation whose cultural trademark is a refusal to grow up have a midlife crisis? " orily?

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sexy as fcuk soft drinks – is it summer yet?

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Belvoir Fruit Farms – "Lightly sparkling Belvoir spring water. Naturally delicious refreshment." these drinks look awesome as well…

Le nuove BIBITE DI LURISIA – best chinotto ever! slow food.

online video killed the …

Requiem for Detroit – great documentary on the rise and fall of the motor city.

GET OUT OF THERE! – "Montage of people saying "Get Out Of There!". List of films are in the original blog post: http://www.pajiba.com/guides/get-out-of-there-the-video.php" after about 20 sec of this, i got outta there…

Matthew Herbert on "Symphony X" for Recomposed – "British electronic music artist Matthew Herbert explains his approach to the adaptation of Gustav Mahler's unfinished 10th Symphony for Deutsche Grammophon's acclaimed series Recomposed."

KenLoachFilms's Channel – "The best films from one of the greatest directors of all time, in full" so far i have watched Ae fond kiss.

Mama Bear, Björk, is trying to shake a baby bear from a tree in Bärenpark Bern – "Mama Bear, Björk, is trying to shake a baby bear from a tree in Bärenpark Bern. At the end, she simply breaks the tree…" comes with awww-warranty.

A Tiny Apartment Transforms into 24 Rooms – "Gary Chang, an architect, decided to design a 344 sq. ft. apartment to be able to change into 24 different designs, all by just sliding panels and walls. He calls this the "Domestic Transformer." i find this guy cute, especially when he speaks about the light.

Obama Aided by Daily Show Writers – "Well, it turns out the POTUS got a bit of comedy support from some of The Daily Show writers. Good job, Daily Show writers. Though I'm disappointed you couldn't convince Obama to do a bit with the "Go Fuck Yourself" gospel choir."

Keyboard Cat After Dentist – "The poor cat butchers his hit tune after a little too much anesthetic at the dentist!"

Dub FX 18/04/2009 'Made' – "www.dubfx.bandcamp.com" [via ze]

Rakete – brings back memories from when we were kids…

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Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative – "Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed." yeh but, which place will assemble everyone?

Persistence Pays Parasites – "I carefully tapped in my password, clicked the login button, and then felt my stomach do a slow flip-flop as I saw the URL that my browser was contacting with the login info"

view to corrupt – "each time you view this page it writes a portion of your IP address to a random location in the image shown above – with each view the image becomes more corrupted.” love the idea.

Recomposed by Matthew Herbert – Mahler Sinfonie 10 – will be released: 28.5.2010

DEEPHORIZON – "We exclusively use aeriall images from the oil spill. The files are ready-mades but we waived our right to use them "as is" and decided to use a special digital technique to produce a statement about the disconnection of form and color and about contemporary and futuristic imaging procedures." a new project by Ubermorgen, sort of meh.

Estranged Sex – very strong erotic photography, with brains

FOUR LIONS – IN CINEMAS MAY 7 – its finally launching. wish i was in england to watch this, mek screenie, k?

What Flavor is Internet Ice Cream? – "How to represent the Internet in edible form? That's the challenge that the Boston-based Toscanini's faced when they decided to honor this year's Internet culture conference ROFLCon with a new flavor. There are lots of directions you could go with this. Red Bull-flavored ice cream with swirls of espresso. A Mountain Dew-base flavor with chocolate bacon chunks. Something wildly ironic from Humphry Slocombe maybe?"

DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid – "In the wake of Republican Governor Jan Brewer's appalling anti-immigrant law, me and Chuck D were rappin' and we decided to put together an update of his classic track By The Time I get To Arizona. Anyone who knows about hip hop from the early 90's remembers John McCain's unwillingness to endorse creating a local version of Martin Luther King's birthday."

Fight Club – "MISSY SAYS: “1st RULE: You do not talk about FIGHT CLUB. 2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about FIGHT CLUB." NSFW suicide girl fight club pix.

Take back our country from right-wing tabloids – "For years cigarette packets have come with health warnings, it's about time the Daily Mail came with similar warnings. You can print these out onto A4 self-adhesive label sheets (available from your local stationers) to stick to the front of the Daily Mail and spread the word." i contemplated to create german stickers to place on our one and only tabloid, blick. but, too lazy, as usual.

MOS DUB – by Max Tannone – mashup of mos def raps and dubby reggae, i kinda decided to stop downloading mashups, but this is tempting me, ill listen online some more. (ended up not downloading it)

MayDay 2010, Moscow – russian ultra-nationalist group the national bolsheviks with their black communist flags, which looks somehow sexy.

'Bin Laden doesn't really do jokes' – "Can suicide bombers be funny? Chris Morris thinks so. As he releases his first feature film, he gives a rare interview" they can. is the answer.

ich will nach bern zurück!!

Waldstadt Bremer – Idee – ein pfahlbauerhaus auf einem see oder ein haus im wald! das tönt gut. ich will nach bern zurück!

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Colbert Opens Show with Rube Goldberg Machine – "In honor of his guests OK Go, whose latest viral music video you've already seen a dozen times so I don't need to describe it to you, Stephen Colbert kicked off last night's Colbert Report with an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine." fischli weiss stole this idea from rube goldberg?

Airspace Rebooted – "A visualisation of the northern European airspace returning to use after being closed due to volcanic ash." sick.

Chatroulette Speed Painting #1 – "Painting random people online, using my wacom tablet."

Armando Iannucci's Time Trumpet – David Cameron – "clip from episode 6 of Armando Iannucci's Time Trumpet, which looks back at the election of David Cameron and the rising popularity of the BNP under Diana Tinkman." visionary!

Boobquake Day Causes Earthquake – "A Purdue University student calls for women to wear skimpy clothing to prove an Iranian madman wrong."

HELLO Z.E. WORLD ! – loled at this guerilla marketing strategy for zero emissions cars by renault…

M.I.A, Born Free on Vimeo – very strong video, more like a mini movie, contains violence, nudity and gingers…

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Caponata recipe – "An old-school Sicilian classic gets the Ottolenghi treatment. Just be sure you save some for the next day, too" mmmhhh, dinner soon?

Is Banksy a Green Party supporter? – "Perhaps then, the most reliable way to tell if Bansky really is a Green Party supporter is to wait for the inevitable response from King Robbo."

The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash – "The PC revolution is almost coming to an end, and everyone's trying to work out a strategy for surviving the aftermath."

Stephen Walter's The Island – "The artist, a Londoner with a love of his native city, offers up a huge range of local and personal information in words and symbols.” [via b3ta]

First Annual Everybody Draw Mohammad Day – "some clever chappie (I don't know who) has declared May 20, 2010 "Everybody Draw Mohammad Day," in support of Matt Stone and Trey Parker and in opposition to religious thuggery." dare i drwa one?

iPhone's Gay Social Networking App Leads to Murder of Phoenix Man, Police Claim – "Murder? Apparently there's an app for that, too." also watch jon stewart poking fun at apple, knocking in doors? there’s an app for that too.

Dirty Dozen Foods – Pesticide Residue on Fruits and Vegetables – "The Environmental Working Group takes that government data and publishes an annual list of the Dirty Dozen, those foods most likely to have high pesticide residues. This year, celery takes the number one spot, and both blueberries and spinach make an appearance (displacing lettuce and pears)."

Gorillaz Talk Plastic Beach, Subtle Environmentalism and ‘Sunshine in a Bag’ – "Wired.com: Are you up on the Twitter and everything? Albarn: I haven’t got a computer. But I do like drum machines and keyboards — everything I can get my hands on." a wise man.

Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash, in Flash. – "Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash, in Flash. Big improvement. (Better: Adobe Flash CS4 crashed twice while I threw this together.)” wat! flash crashed? never!

”Child Pornography Is Great,” Anti-Pirates Say – "Child pornography is great,” he said enthusiastically. ”It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they have done that, we can get them to start blocking file sharing sites." sounds reasonable.

What's in a name? For Simon Duncan's band, a £200,000 Banksy… – "The new work by Banksy was sent unexpectedly last week to Duncan, a 41-year-old web developer, as compensation for the world-renowned graffiti artist having coincidentally chosen the name of Duncan's band as the title for his film, Exit Through the Gift Shop." just a cool dude, this banksy fellah…

chillout song – "I received an email from a woman named Laura, who had recently moved to a new city for a new job. She was overwhelmed with anxiety and asked me to write her a song to help her calm down." his latest crowdsourced song documented here, gotta love this man.

2 Girls 1 Cup – Analysis – "A collection of twenty of the most-viewed YouTube reaction videos were downloaded and then edited to start at the same time. This was possible by listening for the start of the audio for the 2 Girls 1 Cup video. Each of these videos were then processed to collect data about optical flow and volume."

The Ginger Wars: What's with all the redhead hate? – "But increasingly as of late, redheads have been the victims of a rising tide of mockery, bigotry, and violence. Here's a brief timeline of the weird and escalating Ginger Wars."

Nazi pedophile, torturer, cult leader in Chile dies – "Nazi pedophile, torturer, and cult leader Paul Schäfer died in a prison hospital in Chile last week. The German-born Evangelical Christian raped children, founded and ruled over a Jonestown-like agricultural commune, and oversaw a torture and assassination outsourcing service for the bloody regime of Augusto Pinochet." most evil man ever?

Introducing Nokia N8 – finally… this does look like an awesome phone, opensource, 12 MB cam, decent design…

Police Seize Jason Chen's Computers – "Last Friday night, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen's home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers."

What does Facebook publish about you and your friends? – "Any information you see below is visible to anyone on the Internet through normal use of the Facebook Graph API." spooky

Priligy, First Pill To Stop Premature Ejaculation, Goes On Sale In UK – "The UK is bracing itself for the release of the first pill designed to end premature ejaculation. Medical trials have shown that just one tablet of the drug Priligy can make men last up to three times as long during sexual intercourse." tempting. not!

Berlin: Farbattacke am Rosenthaler Platz – "Mein Tipp: BMW war’s – denn es gab bereits eine Kampagne bei der der Künstler Robin Rhode durch Farbe fährt. Bin gespannt, wer wirklich dahinter steckt… "

Mr Scruff Vs Kirsty Almeida 'Pickled Spider' – "Mr. Scruff and Kirsty Almeida were in a recording studio. It was very dusty and covered in cobwebs. As they tidied up, a small spider appeared. It ran up and down the keyboard, trying to escape. Mr. Scruff pressed the record button and Kirstry began to sing. A big spider appeared and played the bassline" topnotch scruffian track.

iPhone symphony app up for PRSF new music prize – "An idea to allow people to create their own "satellite symphony" through an iPhone app has been shortlisted for a new music prize."

Like Button – "Like Button is a collection of links shared by your Facebook friends from most popular sites. " like!

John Kelly channels Joni Mitchell – "LAT: The folk scene you came out of had fun creating personas. You were born Roberta Joan Anderson, and someone named Bobby Zimmerman became Bob Dylan.
JM: Bob is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I." joni rips bob a new one.

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blood hell, i am enjoying ashes to ashes so much right now. but sadly it is already in its last season. so i am already hoping that there will be a 90s version to the time travel meta series, which would only be fair after ashes to ashes covered the 80s and life on mars the 70′s. i admit, it would have trouble finding a decent david bowie song to be named after. season 3 of ashes to ashes is pure awesomeness so far. the writers seem to have so much fun, the actors as well. brilliant storylines. keep firing up the quatro, gov.

i would even go as far as to say, ahes to ashes makes my all-time-favorite tv-series list, alongside twin peaks, 6 feet under and of course life on mars. state of play also comes to mind, and wonderland. oh and firefly, obviously. and on the comedy end of things the it crowd and maybe brasseye, even if that last one wouldn’t qualify as a tv series propper. and please please don’t ask me to put these into a list now.

on the other hand lost has turned into nothing more than a chore to watch. just give us the ending already and let us bicker endlessly how none of this holds up and how so many strings remain inconclusive. just give up, there is no way it will ever all make sense.

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south park censored [yo pssst matt and trey, somehow "leak" the uncensored version to the interwebz, it will spread like wildfire...]

A Statement from Matt and Trey – "We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn't some meta-joke on our part. Comedy Central added the bleeps. In fact, Kyle's customary final speech was about intimidation and fear. It didn't mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too."

South Park's Matt & Trey receive death threats, RevolutionMuslim quotes Boing Boing – "The site embedded my interview with Matt and Trey in that post, and referenced portions of the interview in making the argument that the two should face death for this episode of South Park."

South Park Muhammad episode censored – "US Muslim group warns creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker they could 'wind up like Van Gogh' for depiction of prophet"

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Massive Jihad – "Hallo. If you are interested in jihad or jihad related activities, then you should probably watch Massive Jihad!" this guy also prefered to publish his animation anonymously…

Brett Domino: Justin Timberlake Medley – "Brett Domino and Steven Peavis perform a medley of Justin Timberlake hits using assorted miniature instruments and lap tray travel bags"

The Daily Mail Song – We're aware this video won't mean an awful lot if you've never heard of The Daily Mail, but on the plus side, you've never heard of The Daily Mail.

Musician explains volcano's name – "Eliza Geirsdottir Newman, an Icelandic musician, sang an exclusive song to Al Jazeera to helped clarify the word's correct pronunciation." w. ukulele!!!

When Copyright Goes Bad (English) – "Ben Cato Clough and Luke Upchurch's "When Copyright Goes Bad" (from Consumers International) is a great, 15-minute mini-documentary on what copyright can do, what it is doing, and what it needs to stop doing."

Hey Guys!!! – The Beauty "Gurus" of YouTube – "Can you make it all the way through this video? If you do, you may want the last 2 minutes of your life back. Sorry. Possibly the most annoying video ever made."

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Alphonso mango and curried chickpea salad recipe – tonite's dinner

Yotam Ottolenghi: Exclusive recipes from his brilliant new book – as i want to cook every recipe on this page, especially the paella and the ratatouille.

One last thing … Henry Rollins – "SPOILER ALERT! Singer, actor and all-round righteous dude Henry Rollins isn't amused when Rich Pelley tries to ruin his new show Sons Of Anarchy"

Fantastic Plastic Mag – M.I.A. – Born Free – SoundCloud – rockin punky M.I.A. track that kinda made my day….

Blogger: Show cleavage to test cleric’s quake theory – “Time for a Boobquake,” she wrote. “On Monday, April 26, I will wear the most cleavage-showing shirt I own. … I encourage other female skeptics to join me and embrace the supposed supernatural power of their breasts. Or short shorts, if that's your preferred form of immodesty.”

'Code Red': iPhone/iPad app for men who need to track women's menstrual cycles – "It keeps track of periods. It keeps track of them for men. It is, in fact, strong enough for a woman but made for the men who love them"

Street Art At Its Best: Said Dokins' Avionazo en la Plazuela – "This intervention is a way to make a satirical reflection on the mechanisms of threat and power in which we are engaged, the political farces and scenarios created at the expense of the suffering and disruption of others."

YouTube kills Hitler and your fair use videos – "YouTube is killing your fair use videos. Their automated filtering system, Content I.D., makes it incredibly easy for a copyright owner to immediately disable any video that contains their copyrighted content."

The Plan to Map Every Tree in San Francisco – "Every tree in San Francisco will soon be accounted for online, thanks to a new, Wikified project that aims to plot them all."

Armando Iannucci: The day I joined the DIY revolution and set up my own police force "We, the People, spoke, and established that in Wigan you could be arrested for: whistling made-up tunes; carrying small dogs when they can clearly walk; starting talking when your turn is clearly over, and touching too much fruit or vegetables in the supermarket."

audiotool.com – Start making music today — right in your browser. We provide all the tools to get you started!

Gang Starr's Guru dies of cancer – "Legendary rapper was 43 when he passed away"

How Apple Lost the Next iPhone – "The Gourmet Haus Staudt. A nice place to enjoy good German ales. And if you are an Apple Software Engineer named Gray Powell, it's also a nice place to make the honest mistake of losing the next-generation iPhone."

More Is A Bore – “Opening Party 7th May 5-23 PM with following graphic designers work exhibited: 75B (NL), Anthony Burrill’s (UK), Christopher David Ryan (USA), Gorilla (NL), Karl Maier (AUS), Robert Samuel Hanson (UK/D) Ryan Dixon (UK), Büro Destruct (CH)”

A world without planes – “Despite all the chaos and inconvenience of our disrupted flight schedules, we should feel grateful to the unruly Icelandic volcano – for allowing us briefly to imagine what a flight-less future would envy and pity us for.”

Vacation rentals, private rooms, sublets by the night – Accommodations on Airbnb – “Rent nightly from real people in 3181 cities in 124 countries.”

The Circle of Leaf – "Flickr user robherr created this fantastic image, summing up life, death, beauty, youth, age and decay in a handful of leaves."

Graffiti and Hip Hop Legend Fab Five Freddy Curates Youtube – "On the homepage of YouTube, graffiti and hip hop legend Fab Five Freddy introduces a selection of videos, talks about graffiti, hip hop, and Banksy's film Exit Through The Gift Shop."

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KittehRoulette – refresh for random kittehs of the internet – no penis here, pheew

The Gift, by Carl Erik Rinsch – "Five short films. Five genres. Five of RSA's hottest directors. One unifying piece of dialogue." this is an excellent short film, the others are also worth checking out.

Tina Fey Unveils "The Sarah Palin Network" on SNL – "Tina Fey reprised her role as Sarah Palin on tonight's episode of Saturday Night Live with an unveiling of the fictional "Sarah Palin Network" in what turned out to be a smart, tight and thoroughly funny sketch."

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Teen hammers father to death over computer game – "A 14-year-old boy killed his sleeping father with a sledgehammer after his parents told him not to play a computer game overnight and took away the keyboard."

Fancy Horse Makes Blizzard $2 Million in Four Hours – "The Blizzard Pet Store is offering two new virtual pets to World of Warcraft players today, one of which has generated over $2 million in sales in its first four hours."

Apple’s New Developer Agreement Unlevels the iAd Playing Field – "Apple told us last week that it would not prevent third-party ad networks from embedding ads in applications for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, even though those networks would compete with its own iAd platform."

Chris Morris: the Orson Welles of British comedy? – "With the impending release of a new film and biography, the enigmatic creator of Brass Eye faces a choice: venture into the limelight, or risk compromising the exposure of his work"

The 30-Second Rule, A Decision Tree – "You’ve just dropped food on the floor. Should you eat It? This handy flow chart will help you decide, but if you subscribe to the 10 second, 20 second, or 30 second rule, you’ll have to read fast!"

BAD BOY KUMMER von Miklos Gimes – a brief description of the movie and some additional info is online.

Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy – "It’s better to be loved than to be feared. It’s only when you can’t make them love you that you want them to fear you. Apple has jumped the gun. We weren’t done loving you before you made us fear you."

Suicide Statistics – infographic a look at suicide statistics.

The Amazing Media Habits of 8-18 Year Olds – "Kids consume a hell of a lot of media–and more all the time. Basically, if kids are awake, they're consuming media."

Useless Fliers – "Download a pdf of it!" and some more

Thinkstank, Useless Flier Cargo cult advertising.  A flier… – "Cargo cult advertising. A flier that exists for no apparent reason, and which you can take a piece of with you to remind you that it was there."

After iPad, Rivals Offer Hybrid Variations – "Just as Apple’s iPhone shook up a complacent cellphone industry, the company’s iPad is provoking PC makers — and non-PC makers — to fight back with new devices."

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Most Terrible Voice in The History of Voices – der gutmensch in mir schämt sich wenn ich lache… [via b3ta]

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN. – "New York invasion by 8-bits creatures ! PIXELS is Patrick Jean' latest short film, shot on location in New York."

banksyfilm's Channel – youtube channel for the new banksy movie.

Iraq: Wikileaks video of US military killing journalists – "Wikileaks claims to have obtained and decrypted video that shows US occupying forces in an Apache helicopter intentionally firing on a dozen civilians in Baghdad, including journalists working for the Reuters news organization: 22-year-old Reuters photographer, Namir Noor-Eldeen, and his driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40." the comments in the background make this extremly shocking. sounds like guys playing a video game.

Kid Shows How to Parallel Park – "Kid showing how to parallel park with a car toy."

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Swiss Army brand extension social media – "Found this in the spam folder, where most such “social media for bloggers” goes. But: Victorinox has a fragrance now? Huh? Why? I mean, I get it that smelly liquids cost nothing to make and they sell for a ton of money, but a Swiss Army cologne? "

Malcolm McLaren, RIP – "Malcolm McLaren, former manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls, countercultural impresario, and record producer, has died." punk's not dead

Get ready to have your mind blown – here's something that few people realize about the number pi.

Warp Films launches Download Store – "DRM-free downloads, scaled to fit any device, are available now from www.warpfilmstore.com with All Tomorrow's Parties, Shane Meadows' Le Donk and Arctic Monkeys Live At The Apollo amongst the first releases." bought le donk for ipod, had to isquint it for it to work, but still nice.

Lebowski Fest 2010, Bowling Night – "Lebowski Fest was back in town this weekend with plenty of Dudes, Maudes, Walters, a couple of Jesus' and even a member of Autobahn"

PERGOLA at the Palais de Tokyo – "The Palais de Tokyo in Paris gave the name of Le Corbusier's disappeared building extension to its latest exhibition. Pergola is indeed dedicated to Poltergeists, Against the background of a haunted modernity, silhouettes of erased lives demand restitution."

I was an internet meme: the "Hello My Future Girlfriend" kid. – "Yes, I am gay. I like the cock. I have never had a relationship with a woman. Was recently broken up with again, so my 3rd long term relationship ended mainly because I do not work out, which I'd like to, and will start doing soon." awww, no future girlfriend ever…

What’s the difference between brown eggs and white? – "The only difference between a brown and white egg is the color of the shell. Despite what you may have heard, one isn't healthier, more "natural," or more eco-friendly than the other."

swiss german focus

Neue Lieder braucht die YB-Kurve – “Hemmige (nach em Mani Matter)
Gäub-Schwarz mis Härz mir liebe üsi Stadt
Egal wär chunnt mir mache jede platt
Glich wo Du spielsch mir si immer drbi
Wöu mir YB-Fans si

la la la la

Mir singe für Di mir stöh hinger Dir
U isch der Wäg o dunku mir gö mit
Ewig treu Bärn mir liebe Di
Wöu mir YB-Fans si

la la la la” habe die yb fans schon oft diese mani matter melodie singen gehört. dies ist der text.

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