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money redecoration

understand the real value of money - “On Dollar, Euro and Yen notes, some of the most important events of the last century.”

Refacing Government Tender - Flickr set of one guys scribbles on american banknotes. [via bb]

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Bill O’Reilly’s Producer (Unseen Footage) - the much awaited peek behind the curtain.

Bill O’Reilly Flips Out — DANCE REMIX - “Here’s a great dance mix version of the Bill O’Reilly freak-out video that made the rounds this week” [via bb]

Lawrence Weiner :: - the latest hillman curtis movie is on lawrence weiner, conceptual artist from brooklyn.

10 optical illusions in 2 minutes - “Samsung presents 10 optical illusions in 2 minutes to promote the new SOUL mobile phone.” anotehr one of those too-bad-its-a-commercial…

BART SIMPSONS VOICE IS A LADIE!!!! - yeh, duh. but its actually cool to see her in person.

The Day There Was No News - “Today there was no news. And here is the proof.” done before, but this one is well done, eerie, strong, moving.

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Google Friend Connect - “Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site.” the fight for the social layer in browsers has entered the next phase.

Bicyclists on LA freeways - “Last Friday, around 30 bicycle riders (and a few inline skaters) took to the freeways during rush hour, racing past cars stuck in traffic. … the aim was “to raise questions about the transportation infrastructure. In a city ruled by cars, why is it that you can get places faster on bikes?” [via bb]

Picasso’s Guernica in 3D - somehow stunning.

And now, live from Wimbledon, the interactive Pong championships 2008 - “this will happen, mark my words” agreed!

Sightseeing in Liberty City - Flickr set: “A side by side comparison of a photo tour in New York City and Liberty City…crazy details! More coming soon!”

DAD? - blog of photoshopped images with the dad and child heads swapped. [via bb]

ECB_LA_28k.png - eboy LA poster. [via bb]

The Passively Multiplayer Online Game, PMOG - “This game allows you to leave traps or gifts on any web page. You can also take missions across the internet, discovering new content while leveling up.”

riots | green | floor | grass | germany - shall we call this lawnmover art. or sumink [via rebel:art]

Googling My Keyboard - another could be meme.

swiss/german focus

Bruno Spoerri - “iischalte” Bodeschtändige… elektronisch (Switched-on Switzerland) [1974] - “Bruno Spoerri plays the EMS Synthi 100. Great and rare swiss album, and still no CD release yet!”

Street-Art-Sellout - mal wieder - “Ich bin enttäuscht. Der Grund: Der Kanadier Dan Bergeron (aka fauxreel), der einige Billboards in schöner Détournement-Manier verfremdet hatte, z.b. “Quick Lobotomy” oder “Donald Trump“, hat sich kaufen lassen! Für eine Guerilla-Street-Art-Aktion! Gleich in fünf kanadischen Städten kleisterte er seine Vespa-Motive.” so wahr!

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The Bittorrent Song - “The famous bittorrent song! Dude plays keyboards while singing about torrents, ISO’s, cracks, hacks, and more.” [via b3ta]

Amazing Young Guitar Player - another incredible asian kid this time playing the guitar.

The 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies of All Time - “In today’s irony-saturated comedy landscape, it’s difficult to find a sketch show that doesn’t do fake ads in one form or another. In this feature, we’ve assembled fifty of the best. Unfortunately, many of SNL’s most infamous are no longer available online, due to NBC’s copyright-enforcing blitz a while back. But we did manage to unearth a surprising number of classics still lurking in the corners of the internet”

A More Friendly Tamer Grand Theft Auto Conan O’brien - GTA with lawabiding and nice people? funny.

ROCK BAND - ….hates me. [via ze frank]

banned commercial for glasses - “banned commercial for glasses, plz visit a doctor every now and then”

me likee

Little Brother » Download for Free - “Below you’ll find links to downloadable editions of the text of Little Brother. These downloads are licensed under a Creative Commons” cory doctorow’s latest book now available for free download, but for the first time i dont feel like reading it on a screen …

GUSTAV - VERLASS DIE STADT - 90 sec streams of the upcoming Gustav album. sounds awesome.

Freedent White - chewing gum advert, lets you create a wofty, a very cute white fantasy animal, i wish they existed for real, and take care of him tamagochi style…

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Boom times for virtual playgrounds - “158 online games and virtual worlds in development or up and running designed specifically for children. While some of that total are recognisable games, most should be classified as virtual worlds.” … “For kids, though, when they don’t have as many options in real life to decide what their house looks like, what type of clothes to wear, or where they go, virtual worlds must seem like a whole new land of opportunity.”

Gold Farmers - regine has a short interview with Ge Jin, director of the documentary Gold Farmers.

tun3r.com: your mood. your station - the radio interface now with city dials: “each City Dial shows all local webcasting AM/FM stations on the left (sorted by frequency), and popular international stations on the right (sorted by genre).”

Steampunk by Richard Morgan - “In the summer of 2007, I suggested to the New York Times that they should run a story on steampunk culture — how it had broken beyond mere tinkerers into domestic life. They gave it a green light and then killed the story for reasons unknown.” [via bb]

Steampunk Moves Between Two Worlds - “It is also the vision of steampunk, a subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly inventive age of dirigibles and steam locomotives, brass diving bells and jar-shaped protosubmarines. First appearing in the late 1980s and early ’90s, steampunk has picked up momentum in recent months, making a transition from what used to be mainly a literary taste to a Web-propagated way of life.”

The Big Word Project - Your websites define our words - “The Big Word Project is redefining words. Search for your word and link it to your website. Your website is then the new definition. Simple.” pay for the word link via paypal.

Hackers’ posts on epilepsy forum cause migraines, seizures - “Hackers who probably also think that torturing small animals is funny bombed an epilepsy foundation’s site with animations and link forwards to sites that serve up pulsating kaleidoscopic images.”

Old Man And The GTA: A 70-year-old’s Take on GTA IV - this guy describes, how he watched his 70 year old dad get into GTA, way into it ^^.

Addictomatic - “Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It’s the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what’s up and what’s now.” [via de-bug]

Henk Hofstra’s “Art-Eggcident” in Leeuwarden - “Dutch artist Henk Hofstra (who’s Blue Road we featured in April of last year) is back with a new environmental art project called ‘Art Eggcident’ in Leeuwarden, a city in the north of the Netherlands. Yesterday, several large eggs (each 100 feet wide) were spread on th Zaailand, one of the largest city squares in the Netherlands.”

Green Porno Star Isabella Rossellini Takes on Insect Sex - “In Green Porno, Sundance Channel’s new series of cellphone-friendly short films, Rossellini singlehandedly re-enacts mating rituals of the dragonfly, spider, bee, praying mantis, worm, snail and housefly by getting it on with cardboard cut-outs.”

PIG BLASTER - pig fart driven game …

follow-up from last weeks links

Banksy - The Cans Festival. - “Show of the Year. Show of the Decade. Possibly Show of the Century.” if graffiti is your thing …

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GTA IV ofc

Submit Your Grand Theft Auto IV Easter Egg Finds - “If previous games in the series are any indication, Grand Theft Auto IV is packed with hidden Easter eggs. Found any yet? Share them with us.”

Daily Show on GTA IV - “Apparently, even Robert Downey JR dressed in a tin can isn’t going to tempt American gamers out of their gaming lairs.”

Rockstar Support: No GTA Freeze Fix in Sight - “A very friendly, and obviously unhappy, fellow answered the phone who, after thanking me for not yelling at him and apologizing profusely for the problem, spilled quite a bit of beans on the issue.” kinda cute.

Nega-review: Grand Theft Auto IV - “it was actually relatively hard to pull negative quotes from most of the reviews of GTAIV. The praise about the game was absolutely overflowing, with many if not most reviews calling it the best game of the generation or, indeed, of all time.”

Grand Theft Auto IV Hustles Songs Through Amazon MP3 - “Players of Grand Theft Auto IV can buy songs they hear within the game from the Amazon MP3 store.” USA only atm …

online video killed the …

Blowing the Tetris Theme - “These kids are wasting their time, they could be playing the game.”

How To Check Your Testicles - “Just text BALLS to 83188″ file under: unintentionally hilarious. [via al4ie]

Tresling: Tetris + Arm Wrestling - “They said it couldn’t be done. Mixing Tetris and arm wrestling… not possible. But just like Stallone in “Over the Top,” the impossible happened, dreams came true, tears were shed.”

Staff Benda Bilili - “a really raw and excellent performance by a group of polio disabled musicians” [via ze frank]

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The Daily WTF - lovely broken image icon, check the last entry on the page. [thx michael, but i aint really collecting those anymore]

The Cans Festival - a street party of stencil art.

Location Of This Weekend’s Cans Festival in London - “the location of the The Cans Festival, A street party of Stencil Art that kicks off tomorrow in London… LEAKE STREET, LONDON SE1 7NN It’s a three minute walk from the London Eye, with the nearest tube being Waterloo.”

ICED - “ICED puts you in the shoes of an immigrant to illustrate how unfair immigration laws deny due process and violate human rights. These laws affect all immigrants: legal residents, those fleeing persecution, students and undocumented people.” it’s probably not tye best idea to release games with a message the same week GTA IV is released … but hey. [via bb]

Earth is losing dirt at an alarming rate - “We’re losing more and more of it every day,” said David Montgomery, a geologist at the University of Washington. “The estimate is that we are now losing about 1 percent of our topsoil every year to erosion, most of this caused by agriculture.” someone like myself, who has been digging in the dirt for the last 3 weeks, never would have thought losing dirt could be an issue.

Ars Electronica FESTIVAL - joi ito will be curating it. “Computers and the Internet has lowered the cost of communication and the creation and distribution of information so much that many fundamental notions of organizations, economics and property have completely changed or require major upgrades.”

Radiohead ‘Nude’ Contest Generates More Than 2,200 Remixes - “In the single month that Radiohead has been selling individual tracks for remixing its song “Nude” on through the iTunes store, no fewer than 2,239 remixes have been uploaded to the band’s website.”

Free game hopes to save gorillas - “Campaigners hoping to preserve Rwanda’s endangered mountain gorilla are attempting to raise awareness of its plight by making a game simulating the lives of the animals free to mobile phone users.” noble intention, but tbh i’d rather go on a rampage in liberty city.

Ghost Bike - “A Ghostbike is a junker bike that has been painted stark white and afixed to the site where a cyclist has been hit or killed by a car driver.”

Searchme Visual Search - this search engine provides screenshots of the results that can be navigated iTunes/iPhone style.

Web in infancy, says Berners-Lee - “The world wide web is “still in its infancy”, the web’s inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told BBC News. He was speaking ahead of the 15th anniversary of the day the web’s code was put into the public domain by Cern, the lab where the web was developed.”

Albert Hofmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - R.I.P. Mr. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

‘Free Tibet’ flags made in China - “Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say.” quite ironic.

Art of the videoblog - “This article initiates a poetics of Web video by considering the central features of one kind of video on the Web, the amateur videoblog, in terms of its functions, which include various affordances of use, and constraints, which include economics, technology, and viewing conditions. It takes as its central example an American videoblog called The Show With Ze Frank, which ran from 2006–2007, and which drew a passionate community of fans into collaborating in its creation. This article considers amateur Web video as a potentially democratic space for media production, offering an alternative to commercial media that involves ordinary citizens as participants and champions their creativity.”

Ten golden rules of videogame fanboyism. - “Ah, fanboys. What industry can truly call itself an industry without them? Those who prove themselves obsessively loyal to any product or corporation can be found among many communities.” and here are the golden rules to be a fanboy.

Grothendieck Circle - i read an article about this radical mathematician in last weeks sunday papers, i think … “The long-term goal of the Grothendieck Circle is to make publicly available (and in some cases translate) the material written by and about Alexandre Grothendieck as well as to provide biographical material on Grothendieck’s life and his origins.”

swiss focus

MUSEUM SANKELLER - eröffnung 8.5. 18:30 Blinzernfeldweg 4 in Köniz

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Parrot Dancing - “This is a video of a medium sulphur crested Eleanora cockatoo named Snowball” yup, and this is one funky ass parrot. [via b3ta]

It’s Not a Compound - “Mormon mash-up. Polygamists never get a fair shake. Mainstream breakfast-hour news gets regurgitated. There’s room for everybody in this compound!” [via bb]

“‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett” - “Something has happened to PBS favorite “Charlie Rose.” The erudite conversations and sober intellectualism have been replaced by an absurd world where illogic, inane dialogues, and open hostility rule.”

Carry On Wayward Son - try to do what i did, for the first time have it play in a hidden browser tab and then go on to check out the “band”…

Graffiti Research Lab - the complete first season - “Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season documents the adventures of an architect and an engineer who quit their day jobs to develop high-tech tools for the art underground.” [via rebel-art]

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Country Codes of the World - “The Country Codes of the World map includes 245 country codes, which encompasses all United Nations countries as well as numerous islands and territories.”

WordPress 2.5.1 - “Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix.”

Skype for your mobile - “Skype for your mobile is a mini, beta version of Skype that you can download on to your mobile.” [via alf4ie]

How-to: Make a PS3 Laptop of your very own - “In this installment we’ll take apart the PS3, identify the parts within, and then reassemble them in a more compact way.”

Pixel Pour - “the pixels are materialized through some medium that is not electronic and the hybridity is more about a semantic cross-over from pixel worlds of electronic games to the real world.” [via neatorama]

Nihilum live raid streaming - “Nihilum is hosting a raid streaming event. Watch us raid the newest instance Sunwell Plateau, live, through 4 raiders point of views.” watch the top guild raid … could be interesting. could be lame as hell.

jon chester painting home - my good friend jon made a website to show his amazing recent paintings.

LSD vs Alcohol vs Tree - cute cartoon.

Lolcats hiring; spelling skillz optional - “I can haz dream Job? My rezumez! let me showz u thm” if i wasn’t retired i would be apply

Plastic made from pig urine - “Denmark-based Agroplast wants to transform pig urine into plastic dinnerware and household items. We all have to have dreams, I suppose.” [via bb]

10,000 Pot Smokers Have Marijuana Smoke-Out While DEA Says No To Industrial Hemp - “10,000 people gathered on the University of Colorado’s Norlin Quadrangle Sunday, puffing joints till the air turned blue. University police stood by to maintain order, but no one was busted for smoking pot.”

Flock Browser: Eco-Edition - “Better yet, the Flock Eco-Edition browser comes pre-loaded with fresh content from the best sources from across the web.”

Third – Portishead - you can stream the whole depressing (^^), new album at last.fm.

The ‘Roid Week 2008 Pool - roid week at flickr.

WordPress 2.5 Admin Backend Category Shenanigans and How To Fix It - “The look is cleaner and admin panel is supposedly designed to be easier to use by new bloggers. Except that it isn’t (at least for experienced bloggers).”

penis and cock

Penis theft panic hits city.. - “Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.”

Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital - “Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.” penis theft, lol

The Web - with added cocks - “My revolutionary program adds cocks to any website!” here’s pieceoplastic.com [via b3ta]

swiss focus

Freedom in Tibet! www.myspace.com/swissartists4tibet - “Am 6. Juli 2008 werden sich mindestens 15′000 Menschen auf dem Bundesplatz in Bern Schweiz zu einem Monster-Solidaritätskonzert für die Tibetische Bevölkerung versammeln.” [thx ramax]

LlFJoFdM8T.gif - this incredibly lame, yet somehow very fascinating anim gif comes up top if you google “bsc yb”.

Befragung zum Thema EURO 2008 in Bern - “Herzlich willkommen bei unserer Befragung zum Thema EURO 2008 in Bern.” naja.

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Train Spamming - “Wohin mit all dem Spam? Auf die Straße, auf die Züge! Zur Freiheit, zur Sonne und so.”
spam headlines used to graffiti trains.

Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date - despite being watched by CCTV - “Banksy pulled off an audacious stunt to produce what is believed to be his biggest work yet in central London.” but is bigger better?

online video killed the …

cat playing a theramin - sorry for the awww effect. [via b3ta]

Internet - “A 1981 technological documentary about the birth of ‘internet.’” [via b3ta newsletter]

“Kids Who Don’t Play Video Games Are At Risk” - “Grand Theft Childhood authors Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson talk about their research and findings.” if you can get past the speedfreak presenter, these are some interesting findings. but it’s also great unintentional comedy.

Remote Control Super Mario Brothers Song - “I can’t imagine how much time this took to set up and rehearse. This guy plays the Super Mario Brothers theme on bottles with a remote-control car!” yap

Angry Wife Lashes Out in ‘YouTube Divorce’ Video - “A bitter wife allegedly threatened with eviction and divorce by her husband has turned to YouTube to air the couple’s dirty laundry.” what struck me was how badly facelifted the poor woman is.

miranda july - one pose per second - we are HUGE fans, go go go miranda. [via swissmiss]

Best Game Ever - “In an event similar to our Best Game Ever, several hundred people showed up to cheer on a random soccer team in Sweden. Go Hässelby!” i love this idea.

Will Ferrell as Bush w/Jon Stewart - will ferrell will (lol) never be my favorite comedian, but he really nailed gw bush.

zocken

Doeo - “Doeo is a beautifully made, fun little game from Marcus Richert (aka Raitendo) where you have to collect the required number of Doeo’s which spring up all over the place.” [via neatorama]

Molleindustria - “Molleindustria aims to reappropriate video games as a popular form of mass communication.” aims to convey political messages in fun games.

Super Blockquote: Hewlett-Packard, Workstations Division - “Hence, Super Blockquote, which arms you against the marketroid oppression of Thompson’s prose.”

Numbers Station Bingo - “Press the play button to start the station, and cross out the numbers as you hear them. If you get a straight line in any direction, then congratulations! You have been activated.” not sure i get it, but the interface is great.

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‘Nerdic’ Geek Speak Taking World by Storm? - “Do you speak Nerdic? Chances are you do — it’s reportedly one of the world’s fastest-growing languages.”

Radio Rabe - “T-Shirt design for Bern local radio station Radio Rabe”

Gang dressed as cops steals court papers - “Thieves dressed as policemen talked their way past guards at Johannesburg’s High Court, then locked them in a bathroom and stole highly sensitive documents”

German whizzkid got it wrong - “It was an incredible tale of a German schoolboy spotting a miscalculation by the US space agency, proving the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth were higher than initially believed. But the amazing story of the whizzkid versus the space bureaucracy turned out to be wrong”

The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service - “The service is intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write whatever they want, without being afraid to get shut down by their blog host.”

Wiki pinpoints Brazilian crime - “this under-reporting of crime is one of the motivations behind a new interactive website called Wikicrimes, created by Professor Vasco Furtado from the University of Fortaleza in northern Brazil. “The idea is very simple; when people are robbed it’s quite common for them to tell other people,” he tells me. “With wikicrimes this information will be available globally.”

IRC interview with Douglas Rushkoff - “Douglas Rushkoff in IRC ” transcript of the interview.

corporatized.net - “This is the beginning of what will become a much larger project looking at corporatism, fascism, and - more importantly - new possibilities for local, bottom up organizing and value creation. This place is about cology, economics, media, resocialization, local currency and ethics. Amongst other things.” douglas rushkoff’s latest project.

First extract of Mark E Smith’s autobiography - “In this first extract from his autobiography, introduced by Dave Simpson, he looks back at the formative moments of his childhood and the birth of the band”

‘I did heroin once, just to be sociable’ - “In the second extract from his explosive new autobiography, Mark E Smith, the wayward genius behind the Fall, offers his thoughts on everything from John Peel to the joys of Primark”

Fight Splogs - Wired How-To Wiki - “Splogs,” or spam blogs, are one of the methods spammers have adopted to manipulate the blogosphere for profit.”

Wired’s Geekster Handbook, a Field Guide to the Nerd Underground - a commentor asks, “but who thinks they share at least one attribute from all of those? Does that mean they’re super-geeks?!”

Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files - “An interesting side-effect of YouTube’s recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube.”

Developing long-term relations with robots - “Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London are leading an international project which is set to advance the relationship between robots and humans”

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Rockstar Social Club Announced - “Today Rockstar announced a new website called the Rockstar Social Club. Essentially a high tech leaderboard, the first supported game will be (drum roll) Grand Theft Auto IV (surprise!). Compatible with Xbox LIVE and PSN, players can register starting April 15th to track all sorts of neat stuff they do in GTA IV when it’s released April 29th.”

15-Year-Old Killed For Not Passing Game - “When 15-year-old Olivier Baptiste refused to hand over the video game he was playing to his 18-year-old friend William Suarez, Suarez pulled out a .32-caliber Smith and Wesson from his waistband and shot Baptiste in the head.”

Legal battle over Warcraft ‘bot’ - “The makers of World of Warcraft are locked in a legal battle with a firm that has produced a tool to automate many actions in the virtual world.”

online video killed the …

Goodness Gracious Me - Going out for an English - nice one, to be reminded of this hilarious GGM sketch, that is based entirely on reverse stereotypes. [via bb]

Getting Tight with Tarantino! - “Here is another ode to great film directors from Paul Proulx. This time, he features the work of Quentin Tarantino. Enjoy!”

Record label finds singing monks - “A record label’s search for a group of monks to record a Gregorian chant album has ended after an Austrian monastery submitted a YouTube clip.”

schmooze and abuze

Lolcat Guys Squeeze Laughs Out of Graphs - “Calling all graph nerds and lolcat fans: GraphJam, the latest project from the duo behind I Can Haz Cheezburger?, wants your savvy pop-culture observations in visual form.”

Top 10 April Fools’ Pranks for Nerds - “Here are the top 10 tech-related April Fools’ jokes to play on friends and co-workers. The best geek pranks make a gadget or a co-worker’s computer appear “broken.”"

The Carrot Some Vegans Deplore - “TWO things that you can find a lot of in Portland, Ore., are vegans and strip clubs. Johnny Diablo decided to open a business to combine both.”

Sculpta Sutra - “Sculpta Sutra is the world’s first 3D guide to the Kama Sutra.” [via sexblo.gs}

Flickr: Discussing Help CC gather interesting re-use photo stories! in Creative Commons (pls read the rules) - “We here at the CC HQ are compiling interesting re-use stories of cc-licensed photos on Flickr. This is super important to helping us explain to the larger community as to why CC is important to photographers. We have a short time frame to get this all done and would REALLY appreciate your help.”

Dork Talk: Douglas Coupland - “I remember in the 80s when cellphones first started to pop. I remember how, if you saw someone using a cellphone on a street, you immediately thought they were an asshole: gee, my phone call is so important I have to make it right here and right now! Twenty years later, we’re all assholes.”

Angry BBQ - hates winter

Lunchtime Quiz: Monty Python - “So don’t stop being silly – see how you do with this quiz about one of the UK’s finest exports.” i failed miserably. [via neatorama]

The Great Tantra Challenge - “On 3 March 2008, in a popular TV show, Sanal Edamaruku, the president of Rationalist International, challenged India’s most “powerful” tantrik (black magician) to demonstrate his powers on him. That was the beginning of an unprecedented experiment.”

South Park Studios - most southpark episodes are now available to watch online.

Muxtape - “Muxtape is a service for creating mixtapes.”

Mixwit :: media playground - “It’s your mix, so make something unique. Add pictures, photos, artwork, drawings… Anything you want. It’s easy!” [via rho]

Color Wars 2008 - “To join a team: log on to twitter, search for the team of your choice, then follow that team.”

Top 10 Wired Reader Self-Portraits, Decided by You - “Possibly one of the hardest photo assignments, the dreaded self-portrait, was no match for our shutterbug audience. Over the last two weeks, readers have shown us themselves through their own — often twisted — eyes and picked the best of their peers.”

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easter

the untold story … - and that’s about all i have to say re: easter holiday. oh wait, maybe this:

Google’s Top 17 Easter Eggs, Gags, and Hoaxes - “Google makes your life easier with great search, but did you also know it’s loaded with pranks, goofs, and put-ons? We show you the best of the bunch.”

twitter

colorwar 2008 - “And now it has gone haywire. I regret having caused a day of spam…but…”

S.F. Activists Use Twitter, Pirate Radio to Manage Anti-War Protesters - “San Francisco anti-war protesters marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq are using the micro-blogging service Twitter to coordinate their movements throughout the day.”

Twitter / bedtime - little stories people post on twitter just before going to bed. [via ze frank]

online video has killed the …

Michael Jackson - Trifon Aleksandrov - this video has me chuckling all morning already. “A guy doing his own interpretation of Michael Jackson’s song “Bad” during the Bulgarian “Music Idol” TV show. He didn’t make it to the final.”

The Profit - The movie Scientology doesnt want you to see. - “Years ago, in 2001, several film directors worked on a documentary called “The Profit”, indirectly telling the story about how the Scientology came to be what it is today. Before it could be released, the CoS managed to get it banned, even after it claimed that it was totally unrelated to Scientology. But now it has been leaked. See for yourself.”

The Creation of a Character - truely great stop motion animation. i especially love waht it says on the sign the character holds up towards the end. [via b3ta]

Miranda July: How to Make a Button - “This instructional video was made for us by Miranda July, a lady from California who writes short funny stories that are sometimes sad and occasionally sort of weirdly hot.”

Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Last Message - “Sir Arthur C. Clarke, a giant in the science fiction genre and early proponent of the geosynchronous satellite orbit, has died. Recently, Sir Arthur videotaped his reflections on his 90th birthday, in which he talked about the future of space travel and more.”

“Hot Hot Sex” Video Removed from YouTube - “After weeks of criticism from YouTube commenters, the creator of the popular fan-made “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex” video finally pulled it offline.”

Test Your Awareness: Do The Test - “Test your awareness. Transport for London has released an Advert for commuters to test their awareness by taking the test.” [via habi]

schmooze and abuze

World of Warcraft Shines Light on Terror Tactics - “Virtual terrorists blowing themselves up and spreading disease inside World of Warcraft could provide counterterrorists with a window into real-world plots.”

Spiritually uplifting courthouse installation of Flying Spaghetti Monster - “People of all religious denominations will be overjoyed to learn that a statue of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was installed on the Cumberland County Courthouse Lawn in Crossville, Tennessee today.”

Think Periodically - “Out of my interest for Chemistry and my heritage I chose to get his tattoo done almost a year ago.”

mildly sleazy uses of facebook - “clearly, we should have sex.”

Australian Man Gunned Down in Driveway by Killer Robot - “An 81-year-old Australian man has shot himself dead with an elaborate suicide robot built using plans he downloaded from the Internet.”

The Many Views of Abbey Road - “It’s such an iconic image that whenever you see a group walking single file on a zebra crossing, you automatically think of Abbey Road. It’s been imitated, honored, lampooned, and recreated by countless artists.”

Billboard Liberation Front’s talk at Vooruit, Ghent - “i was in Ghent for the festival The Game is Up! at the Vooruit. Artists who study the relationship between art and consumerism were invited to perform, and present their work to explore this year’s theme: Art for Sale.”

The Pirate Bay to BBC: We Don’t Want To Be Information Slaves - “The BBC has published a podcast which takes a look at piracy through the ages, also covering the modern concept of ‘intellectual property’. Of course, no story of piracy would be complete without discussing The Pirate Bay”

Pirates - BBC podcast - “Pirates are not just peg-legs, parrots and pistols. In this three part series, Nick Rankin finds out how they have adapted to changing times.”

Japan appoints cartoon cat named Doraemon as ambassador to promote animation - “Japan has created an unusual government post to promote animation, and named a perfect figure to the position: a popular cartoon robot cat named Doraemon.”

Interview: Perplex City Creators Craft ‘We Tell Stories’ - “Penguin has challenged some of its top authors to create new forms of story - designed specially for the internet…”

We Tell Stories - story told as a sort of online game.

Battlestar Galactica Streams Into Season 4 - “The wait for season four is almost over, though, and BSG junkies can get their fix online 10 hours before the show airs on TV. The final season premiere will stream live on SciFi.com from noon to 1 p.m. April 4 — get your lunch orders in now.”

Tibet Protest Photos 080315 - a collection of photos and videos covering the protests in tibet.

In Rainbows Music Video Contest Judged by Radiohead in conjunction with aniBoom - “It’s the perfect match between revolutionary music and the mind blowing possibilities of animation. The *In Rainbows Music Video Contest* judged by Radiohead is here.”

Radiohead Launches In Rainbows Video Contest - “Radiohead has invited fans to create animated videos for any of the songs on the band’s groundbreaking In Rainbows album, and you don’t even need to be an animation expert to enter.”

espacio+coches.jpg - amount of space required to transport the same amount of people.

Street Art At It’s Best #2 - indeed!

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Tags: linkdump, radiohead, tibet, twitter, easter

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

free tibet

Tibet: more deaths, injuries in Lhasa as crackdown grows - the latest news blog-style.

How you can help Tibet - “The following are some of the ways you can make your voice heard to support Tibet”

Faces of the Tibet Protesters - “The fifteen Tibetans who staged the independence protest in Lhasa’s main Barkhor Square on March 10 must have known that they faced torture, arrest, and imprisonment at the hands of the occupying Chinese forces.”

Senator Obama “Condemns” China’s Use of Force in Tibet - “Senator Barack Obama is the first U.S. presidential candidate to issue a statement on China’s crackdown in Tibet (issued March 14).”

spitzer’s ho

Prostitution in a wired world - “the inner workings of modern-day sex work: text messaging to clock in the client, electronic fund transfers, a Web site featuring color photos, prices and rankings.”

ashley dupre’s mysapce page - “I am all about my music, and my music is all about me… It flows from what I’ve been through, what I’ve seen and how I feel. I live in New York and am on top of the world.” is laying under Spitzer also on top of the world, assuming they did it in the missionary position.

Spitzer’s escort: ‘I love who I am’ - “Dupre is a 22-year-old would-be singer from New Jersey, the New York Times reported Wednesday. She has not been charged with any crime.”

online video killed the … what was before again? … star

Smoke on the Yangtze - a riot. [via osymyso]

Watch Higher Quality YouTube Videos - “Watch Higher-Quality YouTube Videos The URL Hack. Add &fmt=18 to the end of a normal YouTube URL. If there’s a high quality version available, that extra string will cause it to load. ”

schmooze and abuse

Ask Jabba! - “Jabba the Hutt has decided to take an interest in the Human planet called ‘Earth’.In what little spare time the holy Hutt has, he may or may not choose to answer filthy Earth Human scum questions.” alfie’s latest project.

Congratulations of finding the worlds longest domain name - “The worlds longest domain name. You won’t find a longer domain name currently on the internet.” hmm , maybe this is not true. (see next)

The World’s Longest Domain Name - “http://www.thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com/ claims to be the world’s longest domain name. But is it? It turns out that this is a matter of definition.”

Free range workers - “A response to the similarities between many office working conditions and battery farmed hens.” [via rebel-art]

RSF | Cybermanifs - 24 hours against censorship, cyberdemonstration organised by reporters without frontiers.

Google your way to a wacky office - “If your ideal workspace includes a slide, a games room, a ‘chill-out’ aquarium and plenty of free food then you had better get your CV into Google.” report from zurich’s google office.

Control. Escape. [via] - cute.

Blog Fight! WordPress and Movable Type Square Off - “It’s the bloggers equivalent of the Mac vs. Windows flamewar — WordPress vs. Movable Type.”

The new tattoo that is sweeping the country. After the first day, 15 people had gotten it. - i admit, i did consider getting this tatoo. for a second. the moustache tatoo.

Photoshop Disasters - a blog dedicated to photoshopage, that went wrong [via swissmiss]

Net Surrealism: Paintings by Jeremiah Palecek - paintings of internet memes [via bb]

17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You - “Have a link. Seriously: if you want bloggers to link to you, you need to have something linkable. Your upcoming TV show, protest march, product or soccer tournament is literally unbloggable unless you put it on the Web somewhere first.”

there he goes again - “He could name no instance of my “laud[ing] the appropriation of intellectual property” because that’s not my schtick. Indeed, as I repeatedly insisted in Free Culture (see pages 10, 18, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 139, 255), what others call “piracy” I was emphatically not writing to defend. Indeed, I criticized it as “wrong.”"

A Facebook Application To Find Blood Donors Fast - “But there may be a better way - leverage the social networks to get the word out. If shortages of a certain type of blood occur in a certain zip code, having a database of willing donors in that zip code to contact may be the most efficient way to solve the problem quickly.”

How a desperate father fought demons - “TWO YEARS ago, he was a high-flying IT specialist for a leading bank. Then the young Scot was introduced to a life of adventure in the magical online land of Azeroth. Today Arklore - the “virtual name” by which he wishes to be known in this story - works for a fast-food restaurant.”

Would you play a GTA MMORPG? - “Now imagine a GTA with thousands of people all trying to live the same dream. It would be a nightmare - the streets filled with joyriding maniacs, smashing Dodge Chargers through shop windows, machine gunning everyone in sight. Total anarchy.”

BD Spacy 125 - a free font dedicated to a scooter? sure, why not.

Ups, I’m a zombie - the hazards of eating nutella: “Nutella-Glas beim Stolpern über Loch nicht losgelassen. Glas kaputt, Hand dann auch.