today the autonomous republic of zaffaraya turns 20! big party tonite, freies land zaffaraya, bern, switzerland.
be there or stay square!

here are some nice photos of last years party.
and the wikipedia entry re: zaffaraya [in german]

Tags: zaffaraya, alternative lifestyle, party, switzerland, bern

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

changing the world and such

ecopedia - wiki encyclopedia focusing on alternative lifestyle techniques from how to grow your own food to alternative means of transportaion. unfortunately only in french. thus far. [thanx klav!]

dr. d’s surgery - dr. d shows some very inspiring, grandscale billboard liberations on his newly launched website. [via woo]

the rebranding of billy bailey - this cory doctorow short will appear in the newest issue of adbusters, and while we wait for it to get here in the mail…

delocator - enter a zip code and this website will list alternative cafes to starbucks. [via adbusters]

educating wesley - photo series picturing wesley, a kid growing up in an anarchist collective.

music what make me go “eep”

filewile: shlenco - a new filewile track is available for free download and just this week i received a preview copy of the excellent and stunning sunny days: knock knock ep on vinyl. [disclaimer: filewile’s dustbowl is a personal friend of mine]

matthew herbert: plat du jour - i mentioned this album about a month ago, well, it’s now officially out, and can be bought online. but attention, i am having the hardest time to download this properly and they are not responding to my emails.

sjam & kypski present the clocktave - flash movie that lets you observe in awe how these guys scratch up a band. [via beatmixed]

cruisebox: that podcast song - well, “eep” can be an expression of joy as well as of distaste, innit?

politics and such

The War on Terror | As viewed from the Bourne shell - geeky political humor.

douglas rushkoff: Suicide Bombs as Viral Media - raises some very interesting questions regarding the role of mainstream media and the suicide bombers.

The Logic of Suicide Terrorism - interview with a scientist who made an empirical study on suicide bombers and draws some very interesting conclusions. [blame al4ie.com coz i would never have thought i would link to the american conservative]

online file sharers ‘buy more music’ - hah. see?

curiosa

wer ist claudia? - interactive face remix tool [via damn i forgot…]

picking up girls made easy - this album was put out in 1975 with the following claim: “this amazing new record album will soon have you pick up girls automatically”. with a sample mp3.

erowid MDMA vault - just what it says on the tin. ecstacy pills galore.

sexual slang on wikipedia - as always with wikipedia: conclusive, empirical, thorough. [all via 4rthur]

the sun romantic death - video cut up using the beautifulagony.com orgasm portraits. [NSFW?]

worthaclick photos

rubbish drawing 1 | rubbish drawing 2 | rubbish drawing 3 - they literally are rubbish, more here [via woo]

oh mang - i am sooo tempted to say: “wassup dawg”, but i won’t. [via holymoly newsletter]

the naked truth - [NSFW?] museum leopold in vienna offers free entry to the exhibit “die nackte wahrheit” [= the naked truth] for naked or sparsely dressed visitors. and masses of people followed the invitation. german media is having a fieldday. kinda ugly. kinda cool.

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Tags: linkdump, mp3, alternative lifestyles, socialstudies, streetart

15/50 Nooloon’s Nozzle - “There is a funny little creature who’s name is Noolon and he has a musical nozzle on the front of his head where we have noses, this music is based on what you would hear if you were within a 200 meter radius of Nooloon.”

osymyso seems to be back on a one release a week ryhtm, and they are getting better and better! w00t! where can i meet Nooloon? he (or is it a she?) sounds amazing.

Tags: osymyso, free, mp3, music, download, music electronica

listen:

download: pieceocast025.mp3
[20:55 | 19.2 MB | 128kbps]

boc tears (they announced their next album w00t!) - artist? - life is … -

music borrowed [with all due respect] from:

1. pieceocast intro: a loop from fingathing: reanimno, samples from deadwood s02 e03 and fred, the voice in my computer, says his bit, of course…
2. boards of canada: amo bishop
3. saul williams: black stacy
4. kampion - invisible [filter]
5. plastic betrand: tout petit la planete
6. isolee: enrico
7. wax audio: imagine this

samples borrowed: 6fu, the office

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, djmix

… asks jon snow in yesterday’s channel 4 news snowmail:

A day in the life of London, maybe even a commonplace day in the life of a Muslim. I am cycling back from Channel 4 at ten thirty seven this morning past the back of Horse guards parade in line of sight of the back of number 10 Downing Street - suddenly on the edge of the park I notice armed police, four of them, their guns raised surrounding a tall Muslim man with a dark beard.

He is smartly dressed and has a brand new silver coloured camera bag on the ground at his feet. The voices are raised with the guns, in the time that I take to pass the guns lower, the bag is searched, the incident passes, no one seems to notice. Up on the mall a small knot of tourists are looking from a distance. One now normal unreported, maybe unreportable incident and a searing experience for one innocent Muslim man.
Which isn’t to say that the level of anxiety and tension which prompts such a scene isn’t all too understandable.

I am white, crazy-looking on a bike, with a shoulder bag across my back, yet I am not stopped in line of sight of number 10: here lies tonight’s central dilemma - do only bag carrying bearded Muslims need to worry about passing public buildings? Soon they will begin to keep away from them and what is shared, what is all of ours, will become places they no longer come to. Not just the pubs where they never might have drank anyway, but now the places that are central to our democracy and our identity…

Tags: politics, news,

iamfuckingterrified.com - clearly, this had to happen, and i for one think it’s quite funny…

We’re not Afraid search-engine - kk, it actually works with any logo… but here’s a search that’ll stun you.

Tags: werenotafraid, spoof, google

awhile ago a mashup by thepartyparty that had bush sing the john lennon song imagine went all around the blogosphere. i blogged about this here.

alfie is hosting another version by Wax that is even better: imagine this

Tags: mp3, mashup, bush, johnlennon

14/50 lazy phase - “I made a little track and then as if by magic ‘Lazy Bones’ sung by Paul Robeson just happend to fit almost perfectly on top and I couldn’t resist sampling it.”

Tags: osymyso, free, mp3, music, download, music_electronica

marseille is tough. stunningly beautiful, offering brilliant vistas on every corner, lively and amazing with all the various cultures living next to eachother. but tough.
the guy who sells us a tagine at the “marche arabe”, talks to me about sharm el sheick. he says, we don’t understand, he says we and seems to mean “we - the arabic world”, we don’t understand why these innocent people had to die in london and now these tourists, but we don’t understand either why nobody talks about all the innocent victims in iraq, all the people dying in their sleep, because a bomb missed its target. he means what the us army calls “collateral damage”. he asks why innocent victims in iraq are called “collateral damage”.
i agree with him, but it’s clear he won’t let me get a word in. he makes his point a second time. and then a third time just for good measure. i shut up, i listen.
later we go to see olympique marseille play young boys. the small kids walk in all smiling and innocent, but as soon as their team appears on the pitch they turn into raging lunatics, the chauvinistic pride and the toughness is already fully there. small kids, 5, 6 years old maybe. we sit in a family sector, but we know not to celebrate when young boys score first. a man, father of 3 kids, spots us as being from bern. he gives us a loooong mean look only barely making an effort to conceal his aggression in front of his kids.
the mythic, tough OM, olympique marseille, dominates the tough city. OM is everywhere. the OMcafe is located in prime location center stage of the vieux port overlooking everything. young boys lose, all is well. the kids turn back into their smiling and innocent selves.

Tags: marseille, football

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

steinski interview @ monkeyfunk - one of the true innovators in 80’s hiphop gives a refreshingly candid interview that shows he never allowed things to get to his head. [via beatmixed]

mouserugco.uk - is where you can buy a mouse mat looking like a persian rug. wansta have one.

nose piercing - holy crap, i wonder if this guys is breathing through his nose when he sleeps? wait, what was i looking for again… oh. this is good as well. and this even.

joi ito podcasts from an airplane - apparently joi made this while on an airplane using audio hijack, skype and the boeing connexion service on lufthansa flight 711. gotta love that geek.

ESRB Recalls San Andreas - the Entertainment Software Rating Board recalls GTA:San Andreas because of the Hot Coffee scenes. so wait, let me get this straight, killing hundreds of enemies is fine but one extremly well hidden sexscene egg is not?

dj mp3 sites - a site dedicated to indexing all the legal DJ mp3 downloading ressources. aha. noble effort. [via beatmixed]

something like mahna mahna - quite a hilarious mashup.

daily show on london bombings - oh yes, i am way late on that one… but it’s somehow never too late for a daily show, or is it?

google moon - here’s proof that the moon is in fact made of cheese. (zoom all the way in)

ss richard montgomery matter - “Fact: The US explosives carrier Richard Montgomery sank in the Thames Estuary in August 1944. It was loaded with 15000 tons of explosive munitions. The Admiralty decided to leave the wreck and its dangerous cargo undisturbed. The wreck lies just a few hundred yards offshore between an oil refinery and the several towns.” this freaked me out so i don’t even know why i even blog it here. (i am not afraid, i am not afraid, i am not…)

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Tags: linkdump, news, videos