hmmm. for some strange reason these mints look surprisingly like exstasy pills, i wonder…

but the guys [no gals?] @ oral fixation do sell mints. of all things.
and they do it so well, that i just spent a considerable amount of time on their website.
some of their hilariously named flavours have their own interactive microsites with games, videos, music: sugar free tibet [5% of profits go to free tibet organisations], night light. haven’t found one for 7 deadly cinnamon and that one does sound like fun.
or you can play mint tetris. there’s even a blog and you can build your own box of custom-order mints.

i wish they sold chocolate mints as well and that monty python scene could somehow be used… because these guys would.

[via bb]

Tags: sweets, anim, flash, interactive

Tags: politics, switzerland, zurich

digital nimbus has published a 3 hour [!] radio show including tons of music by meat beat manifesto/ jack dangers as well as an interview with the dOOd himself. noice! if you can bare the female presenters voice…
[edit: the longer i listen to this the more irritating she gets. but its actually quite a good laugh, so california… poor jack!]

82M whole show download: http://digitalnimbus.net/archive/may_2005/dn_142.mp3
33M interview only download: http://digitalnimbus.net/archive/may_2005/dn_142.mp3
the playlist and more info: here

Tags: meatbeatmenifesto, electronicmusic

okay so i admit it. i watch 24.
scary stuff! super paranoid! US american propaganda!

today i’ll watch the last episode of season 4, that aired, i believe, last monday or so.
in season 4 24 is still very well done televison. it still totally hooks you into the story line. keeps your pulse racing. and when one is done it still makes you long for the next episode. and: great gadgets!

but man, politically it has gotten sooo out of hand. i try, of course, to take the political stuff with a healthy dose of detachment and objectivity.
but the messages can be relatively subtle. what if i only catch the most obvious ones?

with season 4 it has finally gotten 100% clear that this tv series does not mainly aim to entertain, but its agenda is to participate in the political debate. fox and its openly right wing political agenda coming through.

attention: [spoilers] for instance, in a time when torture gets discussed very controversially in the US there are a surprisingly high number of torture-like scenes to be seen. the torture does not get questioned, on the contrary, it get covered up. this is strongly suggesting what the right wing claims, that torture should be an accepted means in certain cirumstances. for instance, the defense minister orders “torture” to be used on his own son, his son an environmental activist who also turns out to be gay; it is suggested that all of this he has become, because he hates his father and not so much his politics. in one particularly gruesome scene jack bauer barges into the CTU in-house medical facility with an injured suspect and orders the surgery in progress - on his girlfriends ex-husband, mind you - to be suspended so the suspect can be saved, because he might have some information to solve the case. the ex dies, the suspect as well. but he does spit out the info with his last breath. jack was right. again. [/spoilers]
somehow less surprising: when someone switches on the news on TV it’s of course fox news they tune into. and it goes without saying that everybody is still out to bring the US to its knees.

i recently read about this group of men in zureich, who watch 24 together, enthusiastically, claiming 24 is for them what sex and the city was for women, a way to bond over a TV series. they openly adore jack bauer, see him as a role model. a true hero. scary, huh? the sonntagszeitung ran an article about these guys and there was not one mention of the politics of the show, not even that it gets produced by the fox network. i wonder how much of the underlying politics these guys catch or if they are mostly engrossed with the gadgets?

so me, i won’t be watching season 5! but then again, i said that after season 2 and 3 already…

Tags: 24, tvseries, politics

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

[via]

mang

walder chocolatier neuchatel - my boss, for a few days last week, swears that walder makes a much better chocolate than domori. sounds like a pilgrimage to neuch is in order soon…

domori new website - speaking of which, domori has re-launched their website. much better! and much more deserving of this excellent product.

prix ars winners announced - the winners of this years prix ars have been announced last wednesday, and i am sort of klicking through the list totally anti-exited and wondering… what’s going on here?

chuck palahniuk interview mp3 - i love how he writes. but his voice is odd. as is mine. we should start a club. the odd-voiced club. [via boingboing]

HOWTO blog anonimously - want to be a blogging whistleblower and not get caught? this HOWTO explains it all.

comfort fit on tokyodawn - comfort fit has released a great instrumental hip hop album on tokyodawn. unfortunately the website is flash-based and you’ll have to click your way through it. [via de:bug newslist]

NY Times on simon curtis - pheew, what a story. how a prank can turn into a one-year prison sentence.

animang

squirrel webzen - nice, but when it comes to squirrels we really should let TEH expert do the job = missie w! [even is she is currently unavailable due to exams, freckled lovers in ireland and such]

jfk in cats vs. dogs - he he. [via b3ta newsletter]

pixaboy - okay okay, a very antropomorphic animang this. but its sorta like a tamagochi, you better feed it entertain it pet it, or else it will get VERY annyoing. [via frenzine . blog]

bumperball - bumperball would be a great game, if the controls were not totally counter-intuitive. like why do i have to press up to make it go left?

the difference betw. mang and animang. or is it the checksum?

ARSE - [via woo]

GODS

ART

[del.icio.us/new/pieceoplastic]

Tags: linkdump, mp3

oh damn. now my ps2 had to break down… of all times.

this fall the psp will be released and next spring the ps3. both i want…
but my fcuking ps2 of course had to poop out now of all times.
and ebay only sells crap when it comes to these types of things.
or you’d have to get reeeeealy lucky. which in gear i never do.

and the same goes for my mobile phone, it’s still working, just barely, but i can just tell it’s about to go. and i wanted to buy the new N91 when it will finally come out this fall.

fucksocks. why can’t gear have better timing?

Tags: gadgets, tech

pieceocast 013:
[see, i didnah forget…]

pieceocast013.mp3
[16:08 | 14.8 MB | 128kbps]

bureaucratic absence of presence . no reason for living . eggs

1. pieceocast intro: a loop from fingathing: reanimno, samples from deadwood s02 e03 and fred, the voice on my computer, says his bit, of course…
2. angelo badalamenti: mullholland drive theme
3. dr. alimentado: born for a reason
4. don: ten dollar love
5. aggro1: uraqt in the ladies’ room (mia vs meeting in the ladies’ room)
6. jay haze: appreciate
7. loo&placido: what about brixton
8. david lynch: daily report

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, djmix, mashup

phlow.de is a great source for netaudio news, in german. they have released a nice stand-alone flash music player, that will automatically stream the latest net audio to your mac or pc.
nice enough - it is surprisingly CPU intensive. but now make the source code available…

Tags: netaudio, flash,

hmmm. what to do about this?

a few years ago we registered the domains logowarriors.com, logowarriors.org & logowarriors.net. the plan was to start a platform for anti-globalist designers and their logos. my partner franziska made a first layout, which i still think is looking very good. we added some content, under collages and online space. the idea was to ask people to send us their collages and logos that would then automatically appear online. there would also be a message board/blog and a few other community tools.
but then we kinda got discouraged and stopped working on it. what if it would not work and nobody was interested? plus technically we were still too clumsy back then to do this propperly as a dynamic website using php/mysql. then we got busy doing other things… as you would, innit?

now. every year the bill comes in and every year i keep paying it.
but uhm, this is clearly going nowhere.
maybe somebody out there would be interested to help me/us get this project started?

maybe one question here: if you had to give up 2 of the 3 uri which one would you keep?
logowarriors.com, logowarriors.net or logowarriors.org?

Tags: anti-globalist, politics, design, community, platform

alex etel plays damian in the latest danny boyle movie “millions” and he does an excellent job. i loved the movie, bawled my eyes out…
and yes, go ahead, call me a hippie now.

Tags: movie