[stuff what got stuck in me browsertabs this last week or so]

tecH:.

bikerefinder.ch - you can register your bike, if it gets stolen and somebody finds and reports it you will receive an sms within 30 minutes. [almost as cool: SpotScout, receive via sms the location of free parking spots in some major cities] - classify under: truely helpful uses of mobile technology

my next mobile phon - *lechz* *drool* [via al4ie]

H(yper)S(onic)S(ound) - must get one of these to subliminallly get rid of my neighor from HELLLLLLLLLL, juss kiddin [via bb]

21publish - group blogging, or cooperative publishing, for enterprises, clubs, groups of friends… [via online guardian]

yagoohoogle - started as a april fools joke but took off like a rocket [via online guardian]

satsang via sms - only in india [via bb]

moblo.co.uK:.

mat brown bbc norwich interviu - mat brown co-founder and übercoder of moblog.co.uk gets interviewed for bbc norwich.

WebUser wins gold award - and it’s only the biggest internet mag in the UK, we were informed by an impatient al4ie…

arT:

rubber johnny by chris cunnigham - pixelsurgeon review [ with spoilers] of the next soon to be released warp movie

the 2 second chuckle of the weeK:.

i look like my dog - funny till you notice its a dogfood commercial. outch

musical gemS:.

Funky16Corners - funk soul classics reviewed with downloads. eg the young holt trio: give it up [via 4rthur]

mastermix dot org old school bootleg mp3 - yup, just that! [via waxy/links]

NIN thefanremixes - NIN made their song the hand that feeds available as a garageband file, and here’s the remixin result

learn spanish or die corner

prohibido contaminar la mente con publicidad - via other michael via olivander

[swiss] tv moment of the weeK:.

swiss tv had the “great” idea to show the inaguration of 43 km transalpine lötschberg tunnel in a 3 hour live transmission. after what seemed like hundreds of deeply moving interviews with monosylabic “mineurs” - no idea how these are called in engrish - [tv presenter: “so how do you feel now that this break through is about to happen?” goofy looking mineur (wearing neon coloured workgear): “great …” tv presenter: “so what are you going to do next?” mineur: “dunno …” etc. etc.], finally the great moment: the symbolic blasting of the last few meters of rock.
however however however…
the first detonation did not break through as planned and while we were enjoying the spectacular images of the detonation in superslowmotion, everybody had to wait for a good half hour, till the dust settled and the poisonous gases evaporated, to even notice this failure.
HYSTERICAL! but i guess you had to be there…

question of the weeK:. why does the smell of my own farts not bother me?

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Tags: gadget, mp3, linkdump, fun

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okay, so i agree. but what’s wrong with plastic…

[image via blackspotmusic.org where they also have an excellent article entitled civil disobedience, p2p written by downhillbattle.org that has appeared in the latest issue of adbusters. and the dj spooky mix is ace! if you can get the flash or sumink player to work…]

re: pieceocast. please don’t ask. software trouble. ugh. i got everything ready, but my hands are tied.

Tags: quote, musicindustry, huntersthompson, freeculture

it seems that there is a worm out there that will delete all mp3’s from an affected pc’s harddisk, whipe out entire mp3 collections.

now, this so sounds like a rumour spread by the music- and filmindustry? yeah, it does huh…
but apparently it’s quite real. heise.de quotes sophos [a producer of anti-virus solutions] and describes that the worm is disguising as a dvd-ripping tool “AnyDVD 5.1.0.1 Crack+Keygen By Razor.exe” on emule and other filesharing networks. [macs are not affected. pheew] luckily W32/Nopir-B is not very widespread as of yet.

i find this somehow very amusing and puzzling at the same time. why would anyone go through the trouble of coding such a virus? what’s going on here? maybe we are dealing with a fan of pope benedict XVI who is quoted saying that “Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion.”
[via tonspion]

Tags: tech, mp3, news

who owns culture? “Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy and professor Lawrence Lessig talk music, remixing, artistic freedom and the law.” and the audio of this recent talk is available here. 45M download, so i can’t download it yet and i pray that it will still be available on friday, when i get back to having a real interweb connection… but hey… [via waxy/links]

creativecommons.ch has been launched with a blog. the swiss version of the creative commons license is now available for feedbacks as a license draft. [via circle.ch/urs]

Tags: creativecommons, switzerland, lawrencelessig, freeculture

email can make you stupid - carrie mclaren’s (of stay free!) rant about the effects of email.
Emails ‘pose threat to IQ’ - the guardian article he quoted about the study.

“The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis, according to a survey of befuddled volunteers.

Doziness, lethargy and an increasing inability to focus reached “startling” levels in the trials by 1,100 people, who also demonstrated that emails in particular have an addictive, drug-like grip.

Respondents’ minds were all over the place as they faced new questions and challenges every time an email dropped into their inbox. Productivity at work was damaged and the effect on staff who could not resist trying to juggle new messages with existing work was the equivalent, over a day, to the loss of a night’s sleep.”

this is why i usually enjoy spending a few weeks a year up here in the mountains where only a lousy, whiney, miserly 56k dial up line connects me to the interweb… the first few days up here can be kind of tough, but after that i am quite happy to fall into a two-times-a-day online rhythm. same with gprs. i am actually quite happy that it is still so totally overpriced, because otherwise i would check email all the time via my mobile phone.

hoppla. thanx to my rss reader i just per chance saw this update over at stay free!… outch.
UPDATE: This “study” is based on very sketchy research and appears to be part of a publicity campaign by Hewlett Packard. Thanks to the Daily Heights for setting us straight.

Tags: tech, email, addiction, news

screamixadelica - primal scream remixed

after the clash, pulp, the prodigy, the chemical brothers it is now the turn of primal scream to get the mashup/remix treatment. as usual you get to download a whole album of top remixes/mashups and are kindly asked to donate to a charity in return. with remixes by soundhog, cry.on.my.console, dunproofin, and more.
or here’s the torrent file for the whole album.

Tags: remix, mashup, mp3,

coming up end of may, burning flipside, an art and music festival/temporary community held near austin, texas - inspired by the great burningman festival in nevada. hmmm. this is tempting. its closer than nevada, i have never been to texas (i have no exes in texas yet) and its also not in september right at the same time as ars electronica in linz… i am a little worried about the “church night” and all that however.

oh, and i heard about this because they are currently looking for noise and sound to use in the rocket that they are building for this years festival.

Tags: festival, temporarycommunity, music, art

since yesterday i screwed up the link to the nick hornby story @ the guardian here are some quotes from it:

We step on to the street, and pass a young man with a sky-high Afro. “Oh God, I was dreading this,” says Hornby. “It was great when it was cool to be bald, but now hair’s back in fashion.” […] “He made the mistake of having hair, which I always think is vulgar and rather unfashionable and cheap.” […] “I wouldn’t call it depression now. It’s just a sort of strain of English miserablism, where you know everything is crap and everyone who pretends it isn’t is kidding themselves. Yeah, this is the best it will ever get.”

Tags: hornby, literature, hair, interview

[stuff what got stuck in me browsertabs this last week or so]

hubba hubba

jan.mp3 - this was al4ie’s b-day present to me… much very teh bestest. from his Orgasmatones project.

wordpress usability study - i don’t agree with all the findings but its a good effort [via el otro miguelito]

can nick hornby be so miserable? - the guardian’s simon hattenstone asks the question.

via woo

cum* - sex obsessed belgian streetartists re-did their website.

catfight - the first issue of female graffitimag features some very strong work. pdf download.

[img via frenzine/f]

niah niah

podscope - text-based search tool for podcasts. [via waxy/links]

.phonq - need more clickhouse? here’s a new blog specialising on netlabels.

amazon free mp3s - amazon made a list of all the free mp3s they offer for download. [via bb]

can you make suethepresident.com - downhillbattle donates the domaine name to someone willing to make this happen…

slow … down … week - i’ve had 3 of these weeks just now. good idea!

zoink

sabine schimmel - more odd german art websites [via de:bug mailinglist]

photos of sex offenders - they called it a great “shoppery resource” @ b3ta.

scratch o phonic - the ultimate gadget for scratchhappy djs, portable boombox with scratch pad. this can’t be real, or can it? reminds me of nathan barleys portable phone with scratch capability. [via beatmixed]

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Tags: odd, flash, linkdump, fun

sorry, no mix this week. i am having some trouble with the latest version of traktor, the dj software i use, because as it turns out it does not really work well on my good ole powerbook. it needs 1 Ghz | 512M RAM, while this here first generation G4 titan powerbook only has 500 Mhz | 256 M of RAM… so i can’t really produce a mix this week. i still have to fiddle around and see if i can get things to work. ugh.
or then re-install the old version of traktor?
or buy a new ‘puter?
itsah killer…

instead here are 2 very strange german songs, in a genre called “deutsche schlager”. be warned, swiss/chinese olympic gold medalist donghua li may be a great gymnast, but he can’t really sing, so be prepared to cover your ears.
first, he will “do it” to heidi, following the truely grandiose intro, and then you will hear his supremly off-key rendition of “schön ist [es] auf der welt zu sein”.

classify under: odd extreme.

donghua li: heidi [1.9M | 1:19 | 192 kbps]
donghua li: schön ist [es] auf der welt zu sein [1.3M | 0:54 | 192 kbps]

both tracks are from a cd entitled “olympiasieger donghua li präsentiert seine lieblingslieder”.

also quite odd: Rolf Is a Nazi: A SongFight Tribute to The Sound of Music, you guessed it, cover verions of songs from “the sound of music” soundtrack. try the sound of music and doremi [via otro miguel]

the pieceocast can be accessed here:

this will pick up all the mp3’s i link to from my blog.

earlier pieceocasts:

to find the earlier pieceocasts please check this list with links and stuff.
or look directly in this folder.

a word about copyleft: [more]

Tags: podcast, mp3