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most upsetting, a double-page spread with an add for mammut ski gear. it shows a snowboarder walking right smack through what looks like an anti-wef demonstration, obviously unphased by the waterthrowers the police is employing against the protesters. not funny. just dumb.

300 anti-wef demonstrators yesterday saturday 29.1. in basel encircled by 500 cops and only allowed to leave if they agree to show ID’s. most protestors from zurich were arrested upon arriving at the trainstation.

with apple and microsoft moving closer and closer, apple behaving more and more like microsoft, shall we start calling it applehard?
sonntagszeitung lists all the “evil” deeds apple has commited over these past few months against bloggers/journalists and by blocking iPod against non iTunes content with a firmware update. die dunkle seite des apfels = the dark side of the apple.

i have already bitched and moaned and complained and whined on this blog about my neighbor from hell aka ugly red - a few months ago.
well, she just got back - with a bang, must i add? - from a 3 month trip to new zealand. the other end of the world. where she belongs. if you ask me.
needless to say that the peace and quiet we were enjoying during her absence will be sourly missed. its daylong shrill giggling fits all the way to hysterics again, door slamming sessions when you are trying to fall asleep, pumping bad house music when trying to take a nap. oh fuck nooooo.
its just too fcuking unbearable when a person you have NO respect for can make your life so miserable. daily!
ugly red - you know the type. ugly as hell, shortcropped strawy red hair, extremly short and skinny, glasses. yet louder than the bomb. clearly compensating. pathetic.
what else? the words whore and cnut come to mind - eventhough i am quite sure this is not how she makes a living - she could not, even if she tried, is more to the point - and i certainly do not want to get anywhere near any of her shriveled up, i am sure, sexual organs. these words screamed, what am i saying, spewed at her while she lies on the messy floor under my dirty boot. she is lying there trying to wiggle her way out, while i spit every swearword in the book at her…

ah nice!

[so many great websites - so little time]
[or: stuff what got stuck in my browser tabs this last week or so]

.co.ck - teaser site for the new chris morris series. wooooooo. bring it on already.

pollinate.mov - the 2 broadcast designers mike goedecke and kane roberts talk about inspiration and invention, sort of yucky in parts, messagewise, but extremly well done. long download 45 minute .mov [via personal babblishing]

dsico: you fight like a girl - excellent new album by this ex-bootlegger/mashupper. they call it “raw electronic alt pop”… try walking, modulations or rescue to find out what they mean.

the friday project - fitness to practice - the cancer fundraiser album (and home of the london underground song - these guys are doctors?!)

the beast 50 most loathsome people in america 2004 - wait, bush is behind kerry? okay, the explanation works: “managed to lose to the most hated president in American history by virtue of his total inability to convincingly portray himself as a human being”.

turning the tables on spammers - wired article re: spammer con @ MIT

the thought project - life snaps by simon høgsberg. fun to read what these people were thinking when their photograph was taken.

hack the bid - i guess a few people really dont want the olympics in london.

monkey licks window - we want this monkey to come lick our windows clean, please.

someone comes to town, someone leaves town - excerpts from cory doctorow’s new novel

pieceocast 1:
[11:09 | 10.2 MB | 128 kbps | click the dancing badger]

this is a quick’n'dirty first podcast containing:

the chemical brothers remixed: the boxer (fujikato’s unusual remix)
sample from the daily show 24.01.05
dj signify: lex23 track 1
balinese monkeychant
sample from the daily show 20.01.05
lvke bu shi
dj bc the beastles: mother nature rump
eric b & rakim: i know you got sould (double trouble mix)
loo&placido: kids rock
sample from wipe out WEF demo bern 27.1.05

my podcast can be accessed here:

Technorati Tags: mp3, free, podcast

oh lookee, punctual like a swiss watch on xanax, here’s fragment 4 of 50, osymyso just done gave it away, it just sits there, ready to download, whatcha waiting for?

my words: catchy hookline, funkyass bastard beat deconstruction bits, pop sample transformed into wootastic creep show, my current 2nd favorite fragment.

his words: Bebadee. Wonky female vox nailed to a chunky beat AKA Berababubba. Freaky ending

dj riko: gatorade - is it in you?
dj riko: whistler’s deight
loo&placido: kids rock

edit: click the icons for a pleasant surprise

Downhill Battle - Eyes on the Screen: Share Eyes on the Prize in Your Community

Downhill Battle is now distributing copies of the legendary civil rights documentary “Eyes on the Prize”, which has been unavailable for ten years due to copyright restricitions. We are working to organize nationwide screenings on February 8.

“I would call upon everyone who has access to ‘Eyes on the Prize’ to openly violate any and all laws regarding its showing.”
Lawrence Guyot, Former leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

for the torrents click the images:

part 1

part 2

edit: eventhough this protest screening is geared very much towards the US, it also concerns their copyright laws etc, i have decided to try and organise a screening on the 8th of february at 8 here in bern, switzerland. hopefully @ cafe kairo. i’ll update here.

after the peaceful protests against WEF this last wknd in bern the focus is now on the massive police presence. the police is still not willing to produce the numbers of how many policemen were in service and of the costs for this exaggerated presence.

daniele jenni green party politician and a member of the bernese city legislative has put forward a motion for these numbers to be made public.

meanwhile the journalists tradeunion comedia is considering to take legal action against the police for disproportionate, repressive methods. among the 84 people arrested were 2 journalists. they were clearly deprived their journalistic freedom. the police insists on their version of the story that all the 84 detainees were people carrying materials, that would have been used for destructive acts. to be fair, among other things [for instance eggs! see photos online @ bernergazette] molotov cocktails and few cans of spraypaint were confiscated.
but the reasons why the 2 journalists were arrested seems frankly absurd (which allows doubts to arise if among the 82 others some might have been arressted for similar, flimsy reasons).
one of them writes for the leftist weekly newspaper WOZ and was arrested for carrying a short piece of barbed wire; something activists planned to hand to people in the streets as a symbolic performance. the piece was only a few centimeters long, so its really questionable how much harm it could have done. the other journalist works for local alternative radio station RABE and it is rumoured that he was arrested for carrying a filt pen. the RABE journalist claims he was kept handcuffed for 5 hours and even had to strip out of hisd clothes during his arrest. for carrying a filt pen…

crazy!

elsewhere fsrn.org has still not aired anything about the protests.
while telepolis has published a great article [in german].

for tomorrow thursday 27.01.05 18.15 hg bern a new demonstration is planned to adress among other things the attitude of the police and the city government not grating a permit for a propper demonstration.

okay, i admit it.
sometimes i am a bit on the thick side.
it finally occurred to me that my dj-mixes could be a form of podcast. so i finally set up a podcast feed for my blog.

this will pick up all the mp3s and the occasional own dj-mix i link to here.

add the link to your podcast software like ANT or iPodderX and bingo.

for instance: he said blah blah blah
[released december 2004 under a CC license]