pinguins!
If you don’t preserve nature by switching off your computer, who will?
i love the series, especially the … erm … what are these animals called in english? - holding up a solar panel and the orang utan changing the lightbulp.
this is an ad campaign for particuliers.edf.fr.
[via eyebeam re-blog]
buy nothing day 2006 - no purchase necessary
today is Buy Nothing Day international, the day to help us ” remember that no one was born to shop”.
from the information email. “Recycling, protecting our waterways, driving hybrid cars — all the old environmental imperatives — are great, but it’s becoming obvious that they don’t address the core problem: we have to change our lifestyles, we have to change our culture, and we have to consume smarter and consume less”
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Rebooting the Ecosystem - “Repeat after me: We humans have screwed up our planet. Feels better, doesn’t it? Now that we’ve accepted this reality, at least we don’t have to argue about it anymore.”
Colombia’s Energy Drink: Putting the Coca Back in Cola - “Coca products were taboo for a long time in Colombia. Now Colombians can purchase coca wine, coca tea and coca cookies. The newest product is called Coca-Sek, an energy drink that is fast developing an international reputation — much to the irritation of the Coca Cola company.” [via WMFU]
Flickr: Camera Finder - “These graphs show the number of Flickr members who have uploaded at least one photo with a particular camera on a given day over the last year.”
Daisy_mp3 - open source mp3 player? yup, coming right up
Win a Daisy MP3 Player Kit - find a definition for the we-make-money-not-art blog and win daisy, the open source mp3 player.
Lincoln West Studio, LLC - the maker of the pez mp3 player now has a blog and announces “version 2 of the PEZ MP3 player”.
Banksy - Disneyland. California. - banksy has posted a video documenting his disneyland/guantatamo stunt. [via woo]
A New Take on Net Neutrality - “Every Time You Vote against Net Neutrality, Your ISP Kills a Night Elf” - hell yes! but but but, it might also concern us orcs, tauren, undead and trolls …
KKKramer - kramer a racist? oh … my … gawd …
The Secret World of Lonelygirl - “Nobody seems to have noticed the faint pink quotation printed beneath the flower: “It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.”
No Music Day - last week sometime was no music day … damn i forgot to observe it.
Line Rider Fun - Play the game and watch the best creations - “This website is dedicated to the coolest interactive game on the web.” [via ze]
How to Hack a Coke Machine - WikiHow - “This is something that almost no one ever notices, every coke machine with a LED screen is hackable.” [via stillalive]
Modern Day Robin Hood - cash hand outs [via stillalive]
Lyrics Celebrating Bank Merger Impress Only Copyright Lawyer - “A video of two Bank of America employees singing a version of U2’s “One” to commemorate their company’s acquisition of MBNA recently made the rounds of the blogs, prompting amusement and some ridicule from online viewers.”
One Bank…One Love - “For a darker reading of the BoA song, I recommend reading the lyrics side-by-side with U2’s, which helps bring out some of the subtext. Comparison after the jump.”
Loose Change Website - Version 2.0 - “The central premise of Loose Change is that the United States Government was, at the very least, criminally negligent in allowing the attacks of September 11th, 2001 to occur.”
universal sues myspace - “Universal Music Group, the largest music company in the world, has made good on CEO Doug Morris’s threat to sue MySpace, filing a lawsuit against the site today”
we will be vegetarians - “The entire world’s population will be vegetarian within the next 50 years, according to an article in New Scientist magazine.”
german/swiss
interview with GRRRR - interview with swiss artist Ingo Giezendanner alias GRRRR. i like this guys attitude, not soooo sure about his art. [in german]
interview with martin heller - interview with martin heller on mediaart and his project agentprovocateur.ch [in german]
Mehr Mut zum Risiko, liebe NZZ! - “Oder weshalb werde ich immer noch nicht täglich per E-Mail mit einer Liste der im Blatt erscheinenden Kommentare versorgt – mit Links zu den jeweiligen Texten, selbstverständlich?”
de:bug home style - DEBUG LESERPOLL 2006.
plastic
Choosing Good Plastics - “Almost everything you buy these days is injection-molded out of plastic. That’s because plastic is amazingly useful. It’s not going to go away.”
Plastics - “Plastics also can be custom-designed for innumerable uses, including polyethylene terephthalate for soda bottles, high-density polyethylene for milk bottles, polypropylene for ketchup bottles, expandable polystyrene for egg crates, low-density polyethyle…”
History of Plastics - “One can go as far back as the Old Testament to find references about natural materials used as fillers, adhesives, coatings, and the like. These materials were the precursors of modern plastic materials.”
Agile new plastics change shape with heat - “invented a class of materials so remarkable for their agility in changing shape as they react to heat, they might be described as acrobatic plastics.”
ElectroPlastique 1, Territoires Electroniques - “How pleasant to be soothed by some good-old-fashioned emergent software art! Check out these goodies: this guy knows what he’s doing. Probably requires some nonhuman, emergent art critic to do his work proper justice. (Bruce Sterling, Beyond the Beyond”)
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redundant PSPas far as newscontent this post is an old stinking fish.
nevertheless, i have almost reached the sad point, that has been looming on the horizon.
i will soon be owner of a fully functional yet utterly useless PSP.
my PSP runs firmware 2.0. so while it will still work as the excellent mp3-player that it is, and to watch videos, it will have lost it’s basic functionality as a game console. i am about to finish GTA: liberty city stories; down to the last quest actually. then i will have to decide; in order to play newer games - and i even own one such game (me & my katamari), that i have never once played, and i do have a few games on my list - i would have to upgrade the firmware, which would effectively mean i lose access to my homebrew software.
now, i am not a huge homebrew junkie. i have installed only a few games; but among them two real gems: a sudoku game, that can dramatically shorten any train ride, and psprhythm, a sexy interface designed by two german geeks, that transforms my PSP into a sweet retro-beatbox.
i am aware, that there might soon be a new hack allowing people to play homebrew on newer firmware. maybe it already exists. people are crafty. but running after these upgrades takes time, time i’d rather waste playing WoW tbh ;). i know how much times this takes, because i already went through the same ordeal once, when i - then without knowing any better - upgraded from firmware 1.5, still the firmware of choice for homebrew, to 2.0. back then it took a few months before a stable engine was ready.
other people go as far as buying a second PSP, one to run on the latest firmware, one to keep running firmware 1.5. but no way, dog. for me it is a matter of principal. sony’s policy to keep fighting these harmless hacks is just plain wrong. sony should welcome it, when users code homebrew games and software. they should see this as an asset, not as something to combat. the trick to add new features with firmware upgrades is not fooling noone; we all know what this is about …
soon my psp will be electro trash, functioning electro trash, i guess. silly. non mmporg’s are boring anyway…
edit: somewhat related: Protect your homebrew applications with DAS [via boingboing]
frenZINE issue #16 icons - 2006/11
issue #16 : icons
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what do a snowflake, an origami bird and a television have in common?!
they are all in a set of frenzine folder icons that you can download in this issue…
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tell a friend …
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swiss new tech
Viol collectif de Zurich - “Les enquêteurs utiliseront les natels ayant servi à filmer la scène”; in zurich 13 boys, 12 underage - 1 young adult, rapped a 13 year old girl on several occasions, they filmed this attrocity on their mobilephones and shared the videos with their friends. these videos will now be used as evidence against them. shocking.
new stuff by swiss mates
bengston: hanzo - awhile ago bengston released this amazing new track, now available on vinyl at juno.
da sign and the opposite: why you woo - new release by da funky bern bwoys. sadly, they also redesigned their website … as a frameset!!! - thought those were officially illegal by now - so i can’t link to the release page directly.
streching with smatman episode 1 - “Aerobic workout with Smatman to practice at home and keep yourself healthy.”
ubersuper - sis’ new blog. looking great in his usual function follows form = content follows design style.
the wire AKA what every other blogger and his dog on the planet linked to
Microsoft unleashes improved Firefox - the register had to release this update so people would get the joke: “[Update: The msfirefox site went offline earlier this morning. Which may or may not have something to do with Microsoft lawyers. Thanks for all the emails and we’re sorry for spoiling breakfast for some Mozilla fans.]” [thx klav]
27B Stroke 6 - “They aren’t directly on MySpace, of course — there’s no wi-fi on death row. But at least 34 of the 390 people awaiting execution in Texas have MySpace accounts maintained by friends or family.”
Kevin Mitnick’s Security Advice - when a hacker shares security advice we better listen. “Protecting yourself is very challenging in the hostile environment of the internet. Imagine a global environment where an unscrupulous person from the other side of the planet can probe your computer for weaknesses, and exploit them to gain access to …”
Someday, You Too Will Understand What You’re Talking About - deliciously arrogant title for a great reading list by bruce sterling.
Jello Biafra on Net Neutrality - jello still tells it like it is…
Air guitar T-shirt rocks for real - “The “wearable instrument shirt” is adaptable to both right and left-handed would-be rock stars.” how very PC of them.
196 PS2 titles not playing correctly on PS3 - “CNET Japan is saying over 196 PS2 titles are not playing correctly (or at all) on the PS3. Some games function but lack any type of sound.”
Flying Spaghetti Monster Sighted In Germany - “a real-life sighting of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in Germany has me convinced: the FSM is that invisible old man who lives on a cloud.”
How to Fix Shows Like ‘Lost’ - i thought Lost lost me when they “terminated” mr. echo. but this analysis is slightly better. [via bb]
9 great old punk videos - 9 vids for a nostalgic youtube session.
borat corner [and i still have not even seen the movie yet … which is prolly why i am still exited about it]
Borat Sequel? Let’s Hope Not - “To me… this is a HORRIBLE idea. Just plain HORRIBLE.”
Humiliated frat boys sue ‘Borat’ - borat sued by frat boys.
How I was duped by Ali G. - borat bashed by feminist.
free comic book download
TRANSMETROPOLITAN VOL. 1: BACK ON THE STREET - as a free download ! omg
TESTAMENT VOL. 1: AKEDAH - as a free download ! omg
and then
Kunstmuseum Bern | Six Feet Under - museum show dedicated to the way we deal with our dead. but a museum show named after a TV series? hmmmmm
Sony, Game Over? - tv report on problemchild sony: delayed ps3, exploding batteries etc. [french]
ARD plant eine Podcasting-Offensive - german tv station ARD plans to attack with podcast offensive. [german]
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french stop drm movement
while shopping around for a cd by french dub band brain damage i discovered this logo of the french stop drm movement on their record labels website. french anti-drm activists seem quite organised, organising flash mobs and stuff. yup, read that right, flash mobs are still going strong in france as well …
but the real news is a link to a page by emi france, where emi explains to its customers how they can make a copy of their copy-protected cd’s. lol. there are 3 rather envolved tutorials for various situations, describing how to make a copy using a normal cd-burner, with computers and cd-burners in computers. absurdities like that make it almost worthwhile.
le copie-control et le droit a la copy prive
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swiss non-crap
:: AGENT-PROVOCATEUR :: - “agent-provocateur.ch lanciert den 2. Wettbewerb für Videospots zum Hier und Jetzt: was ärgert, was schockiert, was bewegt, was belustigt, was regt zum Träumen an? Gefragt sind inhaltlich pointierte und ästhetisch provozierende Filme …”
HOT LOVE - SWISS PUNK & WAVE 1976-1980 - while waiting for the official release page on http://www.editionpatrickfrey.com/ this is a good enough description of the brandnew book covering swiss punk scene 1976-1980.
Swiss Artpunk MP3s - “The peaceful mountains of Switzerland may seem to not be the ideal place to inspire grimy, hateful music in the same way, say, the Lower East Side circa 1979 could get Lydia Lunch up on stage on the Bowery, but the country has produced some killer aural …”
Audio Blog: Thomas Hirschhorn - interview with thomas hirschhorn. podcast. some more info here.
Alfredo Häberli Design Development Zurich - swiss designer alfredo häberli’s website.
LIFT || A conference about technology in our society. - my attendee page for LIFT 2007.
swiss crap
Bergkäse muss aus der Bergregion stammen - “Ein Landwirtschaftsprodukt mit der Bezeichnung «Berg» soll tatsächlich aus einer Bergregion kommen.” a new regulation says, that cheese claiming to be mountain cheese now needs to be produced in the mountains … lol
… ausser wir werden verarscht (SwissBlogPress) - some interesting thoughts regarding SwissBlogPress.
cablecom vs. fredy
Noch mehr Ärger mit der Cablecom - “Das System der Schweizer Peering-Agreements wurde im Oktober erschüttert durch den Entscheid der Cablecom, unentgeltliche Peering- Agreements mit kleineren Schweizer Internet- Service-Providern (ISP) zu kündigen.”
Offener Brief an Cablecom-CEO Rudolf Fischer - go go go fredy!
Die Antwort von Cablecom-CEO Rudolf Fischer - buhhhhh cablecom ceo.
other bits and pieces
tracksfeed.com - “Tracksfeed.com is a simple tool that allows you to create your own online MP3 player. You can easily add MP3s, cover and logo images and create a simple but useful flash based MP3 player.” [via de-bug]
Eco-friendly bra doubles as shopping bag - “Lingerie manufacturer Triumph International Japan has unveiled a new type of brassiere that can be converted into a shopping bag. The “No! Shopping Bag Bra” is designed to promote the reduction of plastic bag consumption.” oh? whats wrong with plastic?
b3ta.com board - b3ta weekly challenge mashes up “teh internets” icons … [thx klav]
Row over Italian toilet artwork - “A toilet which flushes to the sound of Italy’s national anthem has been impounded by police in northern Italy, sparking great patriotic debate.” [via wmmna]
WorldChanging - “Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century is a groundbreaking compendium of the most innovative solutions, ideas and inventions emerging today for building a sustainable, livable, prosperous future.” [via wmmna]
13 Internet enemies in 2006 - List of the 13 Internet enemies in 2006 published by Reporters sans frontières.
When Being a Fake Rock Star Is Better Than the Reality - “Guitar Hero, a Videogame, Is a Big Hit With Bands; Aping That ‘Goofy Stance’” [via waxy]
Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 08 - the toys and games issue. must-have.
kayne west tantrum - “when he lost in the category for best video Kanye stormed the staged and unleashed a verbal tirade unbecoming of a gentleman.” shut up! he did spend a million … gah.
Designlicious - free calendar as pdf download. sadly the year is almost over …
Wired News: Social Bookmarking Showdown - where to park your bookmarks online, compares the various social bookmarking websites.
Oddworld Official Site Page - official website of this classic ps1 game. with demo version downloads.
germans
German DJs and their living rooms - this is VERY silly but somehow it got me totally fascinated for quite awhile. [via reblog]
Adieu Kopierschutz - “Sagen wir es so. Alles was kopierbar ist, wird kopiert. Das passiert nicht zum Schutz eines Einzelnen. Aber es hilft manchmal der Allgemeinheit weiter. Unter Schmerzen.” not sure i agree …
Kurzhörspiel 2.0 - “Das “Blogspiel”: Hörspiele vom Audioblog aus dem Internet zurück ins Radio - Eigentlich kann sich die Kreativität von Rundfunkmachern und Internetaktiven gegenseitig viel geben…”
blogspiel.de :: home - blogs mit radioanschluss. german portal for artistic and creative podcasts.
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