its still exiting, but its also starting to become a royal pain in the ass. all the shiny new gadgets, the cell phones, pdas, computers, mp3 players, they dont just work, they need updates, hacks, upgrades, battery replacements, etc. juggling all these gadgets is taking up more and more of our time.
and they have succesfully invaded public space, with cell phones ringing, iPods thumping, pdas shining everywhere…
we might be headed for some anti-tech times. and while most people will simply stop using their gadgets, others are getting quite militant in their anti-tech stance with the help of, ironically, more gadgets.

tvbgone.com sells a small generic remote control that neatly fits onto a keychain and that enables to switch off tvs in places where they disturb, in airports waiting rooms, pubs, banks… this is mostly a prank gadget.

cell phone jammers are much more invasive. effectivly blocking gsm waves they can create a disturbance in cell phones functioning properly within a certain perimeter. while this might “make sense” in certain situations, prisons with restricted cell phone use, or maybe movie theatres (apparently awhile ago there was quite a legal struggle in france to decide whether this was legal), swiss sunday paper le matin yesterday reported that the number of such signal-shields imported illegaly into switzerland is increasing. these gadgets have been around for awhile but apparently people must be starting to use cell phone jammers on trains, in bars, anywhere they want some peace of mind.

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Holes: with winter starting its next gruesome round, here’s fragment 8 of 50, bringing us holes as a possible solution… i dunno…

my words: a catastrophy scenario turned music, mashupped and dubbed to the max. with strings added as well. and did you know that 90% of all repairs are bellow standards? huh?

his words: Holes. London is full of holes and they are annoying so I made a track about it.

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exactly 12 years ago i got lucky. i was allowed to kiss these gorgeous lips for the very first time…

luci, self-proclaimed bishop and practicing masochist [and it is rumoured that he may in fact be the daughter of jesus christ!], has founded the church for pigs.

oink to that.

we can’t wait to attend mess, and hope it will be quite messy.

on april 7th the first international conference to fight graffiti will be held in berlin. the organisers are cdu politician karl henning and his organisation nofitti, their goal is to ban street art and graffiti from our cities once and for all aiming for the scandinavian zero tolerance model.

here’s the article in de:bug [in german].

here’s the link to the nofitti.de guestbook.

okay. so these guys are seriously saying that this is not art?

banksy hits brighton [via woostercollective.com]

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feedbeep - SMS alerts to your phone or pager about any RSS feed - hell no! or? maybe. hmm… [via waxy]

deconstructing the wall - pink floyd the wall mashups. some of them are not very well done, but i guess this is mashup negativland style. so still very cool. [via bb]

blanket copyright licensing fees on mp3 players - suisa is like the riaa for switzerland. they have proposed to introduce a blanket copyright licensing fee on all mp3 players sold in switzerland. because mp3 players can be used to record music. the same fees already applies to cd’s, every purchased blank cd is charged with a small fee. this is a very angry rant reacting to this proposition. in german. i would think the solution is quite simple, buy your mp3 players on your next trip to another country. [via sis]

madness magazine - cute, new, b3taesque web comic [via 4rthur]

iron hymen - is this a spoof sexual abstinence site? or is it a sexual abstinence site trying to be cool??? hmmm [thanx el g4to]

darwin in dub - darwinan theory toasted over dubby beats. strange? hell yeah. samples: 1 2 3 [via 4rthur]

twenty questions - some guy asks all our bootleg heroes 20 questions. they are all there: james hyman, dj zebra, loo&placido, frenchbloke… and there are some mp3 bootleg samples for every artist.

mario spoofing that lipsyncing dude - he he [via sis]

freed - kotke went pro-blogger and answers all the pressing questions here, like “do you ever see yourself buying a white suit and becoming the architect?” [via waxy]

worst tv clips of the week - neat. this is the parents television council list of inappropriate tv clips, updated weekly. so we can really study those clips to understand how wrong they are [via stay free!]

podcastery: the uptones: radiation - the california ska legends latest track & prefuse73: PaginaDosFeatTheBook - bleep gives out 1 mp3 for free. well, at least 1… [via de:bug]

pieceocast 5:

pieceocast005.mp3
[10:52 | 9.96M | 128kbps]

i lub u . beatlegs:

dj zebra: valentine mix
dj bc: hold it together now [the beastles]
dj zebra: c’mon fuck me
dj bc: mad world forever [the beastles]
beatallica: hey dude [beatallica 2004]
dj dangermouse: public service announcement [grey album]
ccc: sleeping [revolved]
dj food: raiding the 20th century (words and music expansion)
loo&placido: ribgy reggae

my podcast can be accessed here:

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a word about copyright: [more]

the revolutionary ethics of cybernetics are irrepressible, transformational, even downloadable. […]
economically, cyberculture is a digital communist: open-source, shareable, distributed according to need, not imprisoned in copyright.
socially, cyberculture is a born anarchist: emergent, flexible, self-organizing, a matter of mutual (digital) solidarities, not bureaucratic hirearchical authority.
politically, cyberculture is syndicalist: its very method of organisation a matter of distributed knowledge, cooperative sharing of information, creative forms of dissent, emergent ways of organising.
culturally, cyberculture is implicitely communitarian: blogs are incipient models of digital democracy, net activism is all about collective solidarity, flash mobs may be the first signs of a digital Paris commune.
in the midst of the contemporary history of reactionary politics, the logic of (digital) history will not long be denied.

arthur krocker: beams of light - adbusters # 57 vol 13 number 1

agree?

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lujah sogi…

edit: the german translation:

PROJECT the office for organization flat picture enters new terrain and produces real bitebite bites. In the context of the ‘ passages - interior Design 2005 ‘ we showed for the first time the public our interpretation of German cosiness: the sausage carpet, a delightful fusion from sausage and carpet. We say: “ago with the sausage. Let us a piece prosperity into the rooms carry. Because, sausage is too beautiful to be over only eaten.

[via anders michel who blames me and has it via google]