[teh glorious interweb what got stuck in my camino tabs this past week]

an ode to myspace

www.myspace.com/kamloopsmusic - “For your info… the whole project (ie the music, vocals, mixing, video creation and editing was all done in 1 day (yeah, yeah…I know it may look and sound like it was! lol)” oh really? we never would have thought with such deep lyrics: “Thanks for finding me on myspace A beautiful place Thanks for finding me on myspace By clicking on my face)”.

www.myspace.com/knutdereisbaer - knut is on myspace! it’s all good now [via de-bug]

www.myspace.com/mikeshiva - “TRETEN SIE EIN IN DIE WUNDERBARE WELT DER HYPNOSE!” make sure to turn off your speakers before you enter mike shiva’s myspace page. when i read the comments i can’t shake the feeling that mike shiva does not really get sarcasm.

hip hop dead or dying

Hip Hop Isn’t Dying, It Just Sucks - “I’m not saying hip hop is dying or dead. But I am saying that if hip hop wants to be more than top 40 fluff, if it wants to mean something to people like it did in the 80’s and early 90’s, if it wants to speak for a generation, then it needs to get out of the money game and start getting back into making real music for real people. It is the only way.” [via beatmixed]

The 25 Worst Rapper Names of All Time - “you know when you’ve heard a good rap name. And just as certainly, you know when you’ve heard a bad one. We count down the 25 worst.”

lists of the week

April Fool’s Pranks For Nerds - - “Geeks love April Fools’ Day. Once a year, we get to take advantage of our non-geek friends’ and co-workers’ flimsy grasp on technology. The best geek pranks involve making a gadget or a piece of software appear “broken.”

TOP 30 Wordpress Plugins in Blogosphere - “I compiled a true TOP 30 list of the most popular plugins in blogosphere”

odds and ends

Internet suicide inquest opens - “The inquest into a man’s apparent suicide, which was broadcast live on the internet, will open today. The body of Kevin Whitrick was found at his home in Telford, Shropshire, on March 21 after a chat room user contacted police to report that the father-of-two had “self-harmed” while online.”

Origins of the word w00t - “w00t” was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for “Wow, loot!”

Cort Doctorow ETech 2007 - see, he does wear a cape and goggles and blogs from high-altitude balloons. in reference to this onlinecomic.

Collecting: Skulls - “A collection of photographs of the back end of white vans that, to me at least, look like skulls.”

Michael Jackson wants Vegas robot - “Michael Jackson is in discussions about creating a 50-foot robotic replica of himself to roam the Las Vegas desert, according to reports.” excellent.

Pink plan to deter male drivers - “Traffic officials in a Swiss city are hoping to stop men using parking spaces reserved for women drivers by painting them pink and adding flowers.” the swiss city in question is bern! omg

My life as a bearded dwarf - “Similarly, a visible copy of World of Warcraft makes me want to shout: “I don’t seek to nullify my rampant sexual dysfunctions by pretending to be a Paladin called Thrusthammer Orcbash! IT’S FOR WORK!” Of course, the person I want to shout this to the most is myself.” what a hilarious read…

Thai Zoo Hopes Porn Will Get Sluggish Pandas to Mate - “Chuang Chuang the panda has been spending his days in front of a big screen television watching panda porn.”

Recycled Paper Coffin :: Ecopod Environmentally friendly Coffin - “Ecopod is a revolutionary design in coffins made from naturally hardened, 100% recycled paper.” [via bb]

Blog death threats spark debate - “Prominent blogger Kathy Sierra has called on the blogosphere to combat the culture of abuse online.”

skype is gaining acceptance… - how extremly cute and symbolic to see habi’s parents goof off with skype.

Buddha Machine: spiritual, generative transistor radio - “It is the single most interesting gadget I’ve held all month. It doesn’t feel like something manufactured this decade. ”

Viacom Sues YouTube - the dailyshow covers Viacom Sues YouTube, Demetri Martin suggest to kids to make their own dailyshow.

Desktop Tower Defense - “A live action puzzle game written for fun in flash. You have to stop your enemies, or ‘creeps’, from travelling all the way across the screen.”

nine inch nails: current - another NIN remix project in apple’s garageband format.

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Tags: linkdump, myspace, hiphop, lists, aprilfools

well, i missed the mahler exhibit… me = stupid.

© mahler

blanquet has ms and produces masses of +18 materials. i dunno why i made one sentence from those two pieces of information … some dude wanted to confiscate my camera for taking these photos. and oh boy, what a loss it would have been. me = crap photographer.

the fumetto offical blog [written by the very dangerous - bring garlic! wurzeltod] publishes a daily contest. stupid me had missed that part. me = sloppy blog reader.

this piece by peter blegvad reminded sis and w+ of stefan g. bucher’s daily monster. but ofc. me = braindead.

the official fumetto website produces a 403 error when you input the adress like this: http://fumetto.ch. n00bs!

HTTP Error 403.6 - Forbidden: IP address of the client has been rejected. (HTTP-Fehler 403.6 - Verboten: IP-Adresse des Clients wurde verweigert.)

me = anti-www activist.

btw. suzanne was wearing [from bottom to top], doc martens [up to her knees almost], stripey socks sporting a white skull [up to her knees for real], a red kilt for men [= down to her knees], some sort of frontal hipbag/thing sporting another white skull [containing pens, guns and such things … we assume], a tshirt saying “pathology specimen” and sporting a red skull, librarian glasses and her hair in braids. she also carried around the only skull-free item on offer, a jacket with 3 buttons, and, this is why i blog this, one of them was THE most appropriate button ever. it says, and i hope i remember it correctly: “aren’t we a ray of bloody sunshine”. now, i dont know suzanne THAT well, but i think this button pretty much sums her up. thx!

Tags: fumetto, comicbook, festival

heute bin ich nach aarau gefahren, um mir die retrospektive von martin disler anzuschauen. nach aarau! da wird einem schon beim blossen gedanken unwohl. ein kaff irgendwo in der mitte der schweiz und genau so bieder, wie man sich das eben vorstellt.

das kunsthaus ist von weitem her erkennbarm weil an der mauer der folgende satz prangt:

ich möchte erwiedern:

der herr am eingang zur ausstellung sagt zu mir: “sie sollten ihre tasche an der garderobe abgeben”. wenn er “sie sollten” sagt meint er “sie müssen”. demonstrativ stellt er sich mir in den weg.

der typ stinkt grausam aus dem maul, also sage ich zum ihm, “und sie sollten mal wieder ihre zähne putzen”. ich meine, er muss. abwartend stehe ich vor ihm. er geht sich die zähne nicht putzen, und rückt auch sonst nicht von der stelle.
ich knalle mein tasche neben dem eingang auf den boden und stapfe in die ausstellung rein. “da kommt man extra in dieses provinzloch und wird auch noch schikaniert”, denke ich, versuche mich nun aber trotz allem auf die kunst einzulassen. vieles ist mir zu geschmiert, am besten gefallen mir noch die zeichnungen und die neueren skulpturen, speziell die mit den gibsverschmierten haaren.

auf dem weg zurück zum bahnhof bemerke ich eine design cafebar, wie es sie offenbar überall gibt; sieht wie echt aus, ausser dass hier bloss olle muttis drinsitzen. etwas weiter hinten gibt es einen bio-beck. da kauf ich mir ein bio. lougegipfeli. die verkäuferin nimmt mein kleingeld entgegen und sagt, “isch jo wie zöut”. huch, nach luzern gehe ich doch gleich erst …

vielleicht morgen mehr zu luzern mit sis und w+. dies soll keine drohung sein… und auch kein versprechen.

Tags: martindisler, kunst, schweiz, aarau

tomorrow i am going to visit the comix-festival fumetto in lucerne and hopefully meet up with my friends wurzeltod and sis. wurzeltod has (official)-blogged an interesting piece on the evolution of speechballoons:

During the 18th century, British caricaturists changed the shape of speechballoons from gothic speech-bands or flags into fluffy balloons, our modern speechballoons.

i quite like the speech-band solution tbh, especially this example [borrowed from the same website]:

Bernhard Strigel: Saint Anne and Angel 1506/07

on the band it says: “Ego sum angelus domini at te missus”. and this would be one of the moments i wish i understood latin. i think it means: “i am the angel dominating yo ass, missus”, or does it not?

Tags: comic, festival, fumetto, switzerland, lucerne

etc.

[via www.dumpr.net/museumr.php]

Tags: museumr, flickr, mashup

[via … - rebelart - …]

edit: and here’s another one, the alphabet formed with chunks of ground beef wrapped in cellophane [via boingbong]

Tags: typography, art, photo

while others today will travel to zurich to talk about blogs and maybe blog about talking about blogs, i was kindly asked to blog Helvetica50 this afternoon. so, i will be in zurich, but attending the actually cool event ;) …

Helvetica50
16:00 - 20:00 Museum für Gestaltung Zürich Ausstellungsstrasse 60 Zürich
23:00 - ?? Freitag-Hallen, Maag-Areal
(download the programm .pdf)

a typeface turns 50 and there will be a birthday celebration.
(i mentioned this event here before)

helvetica50.wordpress.com
flickr.com/photos/helvetica50zurich

today in das magazin nr. 12 24. - 30. 03. 2007: Hans Küng: Wir Sind Helvetica. (even if they now publish some articles online, sadly das magazin still does not offer a clever internet service… so i can’t link to anything other than their fairly useless website)

Tags: font, typeface, helvetica, zurich, party

[teh glorious interweb what got stuck in my camino tabs this past week]

drm music sharing bollocks

Jenner: $50 Per Year from Every Music Fan Would Save/Reinvent Music Industry - “$50 per year from every person who listens to music would “meet or exceed the current over the counter sales of the music industry at a far lower cost,” i would so be willing to pay that amount to get access to all music, in best quality, without drm, via p2p.

cr3ation b3ta - search artists and get a list of music found online. nifty.

Musicload: 75% of customer service problems caused by DRM - “Deutsche Telekom’s Musicload, one of the largest online music stores in Europe, has come out strongly against DRM on account of its effects on the marketplace and its customers, according to German-language Heise Online.”

online-video killed the …

irregular flow - what a sweet idea [via wooster]

Bruce Sterling in Belgrade - bruce sterling takes us on a walk through belgrad. and who would have thought, he’s a most entertaining tour guide.

I Hate Huckabees - “find this clip to be a fascinating window into the often frustrating atmosphere that takes over film sets, and goodness knows that good art often comes from tension and stress.” and here is how Lily Tomlin Reacts to Leaked Videos.

Extensions >> Nao Bustamante > A Story - careful, bloody. very hard to watch, but incredibly moving video by nao bustamante (who i had the great pleasure to be friends with while living in san francisco); its when she takes a phone call that this becomes a genius masterpiece. plus, nao bustamante’s website is back online …

YouTube - banksy - british tellie documentary on banksy [via rebel:art]

the show with zefrank - *sniffie* the last ze frank the show …

50 50 - “50 50 (2007) by Oliver Laric shows clips of fifty homemade 50 Cent performances of »In Da Club«, »Candy Shop« and »How We Do« taken from Youtube”

timewasters

Balls! - fun game, keep the white ball in the blue area, they grey balls will knock you about.

Boomshine - musical interface game, place a dot to set off a chain reaction collecting the dots.

other bother

Welcome to Desktopography - nature themed desktops by selected designers, sis was asked to contribute and he made one of the nicer ones.

/mathlete/ - “An alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon.” its made from wood and shaped like a pig as well …

TeamWiggly.com - “Team Wiggly is an underground collective on a mission to make the world a happier place.” cute. [via b3ta newsletter]

foldschool - cardboard furniture - “foldschool is a collection of free cardboard furniture for kids, handmade by you. The downloadable patterns can be printed out with any printer. Follow the instructions and assemble a stable piece of furniture.” [via habi]

Bum Rush the Charts - “On March 22nd, we are going to take an indie podsafe music artist to number one on the iTunes singles charts as a demonstration of our reach to Main Street and our purchasing power to Wall Street.” i somehow couldn’t find the info, did they made it or not … ???

twittervision - fun app visualising the world wide twitter on a map.

79 Versions of Popcorn - ti tu ti tu tu ti tu, ti tu ti tu tu ti tu, ti tu titi tuti tu titi tuti tu tu …

Does anybody want a PS3? - “With a day until the PS3 launches in Europe the Newcastle Virgin Megastore still has 72 left to pre-order. Is there any point? And I still can’t get a Wii. ”

Novell’s second Get a Mac spoof is online now - the sexy girl is linux. obviously.

Understanding Avatars, Part 3: Samples - looking at different meanings of what avatar can stand for, with examples. [via waxy]

balls.png - “Small balls, big balls, and a few that aren’t balls at all.” comparison of ball sizes… balls aka nuts are missing though.

The Big Book of Subversive Stickers: Books: Srini Kumar - “Sticker your car! Sticker your office! Sticker your dog! Sticker your life! Sticker your stuff! Sticker your world!” DO COMPUTERS PRAY? | TAX THE RICH | THANK GOD I’M AGNOSTIC

SUCK UK - DESIGN - “This mind boggling doormat reads differently depending whether you are walking in or out of the house.” [bia bb]

Maybe Google Wanted to be Sued: YouTube and Plan B - “By fighting a lawsuit, Google gets to prove the legitimacy of Internet video distribution - something that will probably never flourish under the “old media” regime.”

A solar-powered Wii? Yes, a solar-powered Wii! - “These two dudes have managed to harness the power of the Sun (the bane of any good gamer’s existence) and use it to power the Wii, a television and set of speakers.” Weeeee! or sorry Wiiiiiii!

Showdown - the saatchi gallery conducts a public voting for artwork … its round 2 already. my friend andrea nyffeler has submitted one of her pieces.

Italy bans mobile phones in classrooms - “Italy has banned schoolchildren from using mobile phones in class in an attempt to stop ringtones disrupting lessons and prevent pupils messing about with video cameras.”

Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services - “What we mean by ‘Web 3.0′ is that major web sites are going to be transformed into web services - and will effectively expose their information to the world.” it was bound to happen, since about web 2.1 we only puke.

Sticker prototype for uppity bloggers (is there any other kind?) - how’s my blogging? call 1-888-STFU-LOL. and the tshirt is out already: “How’s My Blogging?” Shirt - “Two Week Limited Run, Ends April 6″

FBI: Internet crime pays - oh noes, don’t link to this, it will encourage them .. oops i just did.

cocka-cola - Fuck Coke, quite literally [via rebel:art]

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Tags: linkdump, drm, p2p, video

download: pieceocast078.mp3 [8:43 | 8 MB | 128kbps]

title: kartoffeln und fleisch
two germans, brothers from another mother, sing about potatoes and meat plus a few food related samples make up today’s pieceocast.
jan delay compares himself to a potato, bland and without taste, and asks: “if this comparison holds true, how can i be so incredibly cool?”
and the bo marley singer sings, he loves meat, meat is the best, despite that fact he only ever eats pasta.

enjoy this podcast, if it occasionally reappears, produced despite being a vegetarian…

playlist: music borrowed [with all due respect]:
1. pieceocast intro: a loop from squarepusher: rotate_electrolyte; fred, the voice in my computer, samples from movie ”
2. jan delay: kartoffeln
3. bo marley: fleisch

playlist: samples borrowed:
the island - proof

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Tags: podcast, djmix, mp3, kartoffeln, fleisch, meat, potatoes

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Tags: war, iraq, art, protest, stitching