laurent aks:

My buddy Ouriel Ohayon of Techcrunch France kindly asked me to write an article about the Swiss web 2.0. Tough task, as the legendary Swiss discretion combined with the fact that this country is indeed three (and a half) distinct cultural regions. But I am a man of challenge and I have a secret weapon: you my dear readers.

So if you know some good hot Swiss web projects who deserve TechCrunch exposure, please let me know using the comments below or by email at laurent@liftlab.com.

apparently so: the list of swiss web 2.0 projets is building up nicely in comments. anything not on there?

Tags: swiss, web2.0, switzerland

f. just got back from the documenta in kassel - verdict: so so - and has posted two very funny, fantastic photos to flickr, showing that german museum guards seem to have a pretty aweful sense of placement.

“irgendwo muss ich mich ja hinstellen” - i gotta place myself somewhere… one of them told her.

…

Tags: documenta, art, german, germany

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

the internet

Infoporn: Despite the Web, Americans Remain Woefully Ill-Informed - “More than a decade after the Internet went mainstream, the world’s richest information source hasn’t necessarily made its users any more informed.”

The Internet Makes Us Dumberer - “Despite the internet? Through that lens, this study is no surprise at all: Let’s foist the most distracting blink-box in history on a nation of idiots begging to be distracted and see if they linger on the boring parts.”

get the fuck off the internet! - vacations? boring!!!

zocken
Ubisoft finds Lost and calls in Heroes - “Ubisoft has revealed the first details of its tie-in with hit series Lost, due out on Xbox 360, PC and PS3 in Q1 2008.” could be a very confusing game.

Human Brain Cloud: View - massively multiplayer word asociation “game”.

WoW hits 9 million - “Blizzard have announced that WoW has 9 million subscribers - and that’s before the Burning Crusade expansion pack is launched in China.” 9 million idiots like me?

schmooze

Disabled athlete may be too fast for his own good - “100 Metres in 10.91 Seconds by a Man With No Legs”

wordy windows tattoo - a rather odd choice for a tattoo, but funny.

Stop. - smart idea! and very effective. shadow graffiti.

Not a stranger - “I think the English language needs a new word: something that describes a person who is less than an acquaintance, but more than a stranger.”

PIKAPIKA: PIKA PIKA 2007 release! - “This animation was created from a lighting doodle project through which we met various people in various places.”

50 craziest celebrity baby names - “Glamour model Jordan and her former pop star husband Peter Andre have named their baby daughter Princess Tiaamii.” oh lord…

Physical Activity at Work - “People who work at their desks all day tend to stay in one position for a long time. The exercises in these videos are designed to counter the effects of sitting at your desk.” doing that as we speak, erm write…

Graffiti politics - “Printing, publishing, blogging - the normal modes of conveying information aren’t always the most effective, especially when your access to tools is limited or your message won’t wait.”

Redheads at Improv Everywhere - “or our latest mission, over 50 redheads rode the subway together and protested a Manhattan Wendy’s for their “racist logo.””

KissMat-2 Flash Game - kissing game, no really. kinda cute

[ The Devil’s Dictionary Dot Com ] - “The Devil’s Dictionary was a newspaper weekly first collected as a book in 1906. ”

swiss focus

Bleicheli Stadtlounge - “The winning “Stadtlounge” or “city lounge” proposal, by artist Pipilotti Rist and the Carlos Martinez architectural firm, features a bright red surfacing that appears to have swept in like the tide, covering everything in its path.” [via BB]

LIFT in Asia - “Big news today: we can officially announce that LIFT is moving to Asia in 2008, adding a conference in Korea to the European event in Geneva!”

german/deutsch/tedesco

Leser-Reporter: Was macht die Nackte an der Tanke? - naked lady in a ferrari shopping at a gasstation makes the news in germany.

Nachtkritik - Rütlifeier von Ariane von Graffenried - ein theaterschmarrn zum rütli-theater.

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Tags: linkdump, internet, streetart, switzerland

seit tagen terrorisiert mich eine fiese, kleine fliege. gerade jetzt turnt sie auf meinen füssen rum und das krabbeln treibt mich fast zum wahnsinn. wenn sie auf meiner glatze rumturnt ist es am schlimmsten - und muss ich erwähnen, dass dies ihr lieblingsort für ihre gehetzten spaziergänge ist? heute morgen musste mein frau sehr früh raus, um ihren zug nach kassel zu erwischen. ich wollte eigentlich bloss kurz aufwachen und mich verabschieden und dann gleich wieder einschlafen. doch adolf - denn ja, die fiese, kleine fliege hat jetzt einen namen - hatte andere pläne. zuerst surrte er mir im ohr um und fand dann immer wieder die einzige unbedeckte hautstelle um mich wachzukitzeln. normalerweise kille ich ja keine tiere, aber adolf würde ich sofort an der wand zermalmen, wenn ich bloss könnte; doch klein heisst flink heisst nervös heisst unschlagbar.

die frage des tages: soll ich in eine fliegenklatsche investieren?

[img source: meierstein.de]

Tags: lang:de, german, fliegen

hossa.
wo bleibt der sommer?
oder vielmehr die sonne?
da macht man mal bisschen pause, aber nix mit badi und an der aare pläuscheln.

ist noch jemand optimistisch, dass dieser sommer doch noch was wird?

Tags: lang:de, sommer, sommerloch

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

free music

Cracked Pepper: Online now - “Cracked Pepper pisses on Revolved from a great height and I can’t wait to get everything online.” beatles mashup album by CCC.

l a b r a d o r Summer Sampler 2007 - “Well, putting the massive 68-track Labrador Summer Sampler 2007 on our server didn’t work quite as smoothly as we’d hoped.”

gaming

Real World Racer: A Google Maps Racing Game - “for maximum enjoyment, make “bvvv, bvvvvv” noises as you accelerate and “EEEEE” noises as you turn” [via b3ta]

The 10 Hardest PC Games - “ten brilliant PC games that are so hard they should have come with a hair loss warning. Complete all ten and yours is the world and all that’s in it, and what’s more you’ll be a man, my son.”

World of Warcraft Addiction Stories - “How about this…A couple were just sentenced to prison because they were TOO BUSY WITH WoW TO FEED THEIR BABY!!!”

“I’d close World of Warcraft!” MUD creator Richard Bartle on the state of virtual worlds - “If you could take over control of one major MMORPG - which would you choose and what would you do with it? I’d take over World of Warcraft and I’d close it. I just want better virtual worlds.”

Google Fight : Make this fight with googleFight pieceoplastic VS jan zuppinger - is it a problem if my chat alt beats my real name?

schmooze

FFFFOUND! - “FFFFOUND! is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user’s tastes and interests for an inspirational image-bookmarking experience!!”

‘I don’t think bloggers read’ - “Andrew Keen says the internet is populated by second-rate amateurs - and that it is swiftly destroying our culture.”

The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face. - “When the iPhone was first announced, CEO Steve Jobs spewed enough BS to cover a football field full of babies 3 feet deep in bullshit” [via b3ta]

Digital Arts Week in Zurich - review of digital arts week.

Guardian Monthly R.I.P. - oh noes, we just received a letter informing us that they are stopping publication of our latest favorite mag.

The Arousal Industry - ““It’s nice to be naughty,” claims the buxom hotty in a certain widely disseminated ad for True.com, one of online dating’s biggest players.”

FETISH BUBBLEGIRLS/// - “There are sprayers who work several days on a commission for the municipal waste management. There are others who sneak through dirty subway tunnels to write their name on a train within five minutes at night. And there’s TILT who prefers painting on n

Rampage puts tank’s owner right off track - guy steals tank to flatten mobile phone antenas, cause he claims he suffers from their emissions [via de-bug]

CROOKED LITTLE VEIN: A Preview - “Fuck Harry Potter: the first chapter of CROOKED LITTLE VEIN now available for your perusal.”

Shop Staff Strip Off In Protest At Packaging - “Wimbledon shoppers got an eyeful of a cheeky display this afternoon when staff at Lush stripped off.”

iPhone delivers more misses than hits - “Apple and AT&T deliver plenty of great features in the iPhone, but the list of shortcomings is too extensive to ignore.”

Wish for rain to wash away Homer - “Pagans have pledged to perform “rain magic” to wash away a cartoon character painted next to their famous fertility symbol - the Cerne Abbas giant.” may explain the shitty weather we’ve had recently…

quick and rough but…. - good throw, homer. but pagans prolly still are not amused.

I’m Your Biggest Fan! - “Reviving the lost art of the fan letter. A little appreciation goes a long way.”

Miro - free, open source internet tv and video player - democracy player is now called miro and their website just relaunched.

Get the hell off our internet. - one man’s vendetta to get junk off “our” internet. i think…

Roadsworth Hits The Tour De France - “Roadsworth’s Tour de France installation in the UK”

Shhhhh! look! there’s another one! - oh, what comes there

David Cerny - uplne oficialni stranka - csek artist made a piece called brownnosers.

Happy Blogiversary - happy 10. birthday, blog “he spell check on Microsoft Word has yet to awaken to the concept of the blog. Type in “blogging,” for instance, and you will promptly earn a disapproving underscore in red, with the suggestion that “bogging,” “clogging,” “flogging” or “slogging” (unappetizing alternatives all) might, in truth, be the word you seek.”

german

Zur Zukunft des Internet - “Gegen Bill Gates Microsoft und Co. waren die Pharaos Waisenknaben. Daran kann man sehen, wie man in 30 Jahren zum reichsten Mann der Welt wird, indem man sich in einem rechtslosen Raum ein Monopol schafft und die Vertragsfreiheit sowie die Wahlmöglichkeiten abschafft. Wir fangen gerade erst an, uns zu fragen: Muss das eigentlich sein? Das bedeutet in der Konsequenz, dass der Staat, und der Staat ist nicht die Politik, der Staat, das sind wir, die Bürger, hat klar versagt und hat sich von der Computerindustrie versklaven lassen. Jetzt kann man sich auch vorstellen, was wünschenswert wäre, nämlich mehr Wahlmöglichkeiten.” Ein Gespräch mit Peter Weibel.

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Tags: linkdump, games, mp3, iphone, internet, blogs

also: check out this low quality video with no further info as to what where who … why even. no i think why is a given. pheew.

Tags: tetris, photo, image

copyright warnings on 100% legit dvd’s: i goddamn bought the bloody dvd, so explain to me why on earth i would have to wait through minutes of fbi warnings and anti-piracy clips each time i start it up. ok ok, it’s probably just a few seconds, but it sure feels like minutes. this is especially annoying on dvds of tv series, where starting and stopping the dvd is part and parcel of the viewer experience.

Tags: rant, dvd, piracy

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

birthdays

The computer virus turns 25 - “The computer virus turns 25 years old this year. It’s been a rocky quarter-century, but according to Richard Ford and Eugene Spafford, two computer scientists writing in this week’s issue of the journal Science, viruses can look forward to a long,fruitful life.”

Upgrading Jamaica’s Cultural Shareware: Trojan Records at 40 - “One of the funniest things I noticed going through Trojan’s archives is how many cover versions of American pop culture were in play,” Miller says.”

DJ Spooky: How a Tiny Caribbean Island Birthed the Mashup - “you can think of the whole culture as a shareware update, a software source for the rest of the world to upload.”

iphone killers

Free the iPhone : Support wireless freedom! - “Apple touts the iPhone as the “Internet in your pocket” — but it’s not. You can’t use it without signing on with AT&T, and once you do they cripple services, limit what you can do and restrict where you can go on the wireless Web.” hope this works.

My Mom Hand-Knit An iPhone - “a kid needs his own iPhone so he won’t play with his dad’s. So I asked my mom if she could knit one. And she did. Frankly, I think it’s cooler than the Steve Jobs version.”

Teen iPhone hacker predicts two weeks: Interview - “What motivates you to do this? I need a summer project :) And wouldn’t I look cool walking around with a T-Mobile iPhone?”

openmoko.com - this linux opensource iPhone killer looks kinda great.

humor

bort - borat is kind of a muppet.

batman’s recurring dream - i believe i can fly.

schmooze

Three blind mice - “I really have to emphasize again that the procedure was extensively researched and done by people who were aware of the risks and possible complications and that it should not be casually attempted.” i can’t watch.

Squelch that belch: Cows that burp less could help climate crisis - “Manners aside, getting cows to burp less could help reduce global warming. Using modern plant-breeding methods to find new diets for cows that make them belch less is a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, scientists reported this week.” does that work against human farts? ok ok, lets not go there.

5 reasons why EVERYONE should know how to Photoshop their head onto someone else’s body - “5. Because while a middle-aged mommy blogger up in Seattle might be a little bit blah, you’re sure as heck gonna sit up and take notice when you see that blogger lady’s profile picture that looks like THIS” [via sk-rt]

DSC_0005 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - cupcake pixeled super mario.

handsoap - “this is actual soap. shaped like little hands! each ‘hand’ is hand made. wash your hands with hands.” i can’t decide if i want to say eww or aww. [via neatorama]

Should we simplify spelling? - “They’ve been campaigning for a century to make the spelling of the English language easier and recently picketed a spelling bee in the US to make their point.” and there are many typos in teh interviu.

Cliff Pickover’s RealityCarnival - “News that shatters the ice of our unconscious!” i wish this website had a RSS-feed.

Streamy Online - the digg killer? [via digg] “Streamy is a new way to read and share the best stories on the Web.”

tun3r - very cool online radio interface. [via de-bug]

The Pirate Bay WILL NOT Be Shutdown After All - “The Swedish BitTorrent tracker site considers filing charges for slander or official misconduct against the Swedish police officer involved.”

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics - “if at least some abstemiousness is due to shyness and the inability to find partners (while the promiscuous have relatively little trouble in this regard), then the answer might be to establish a government-funded dating service: bring us a used condom and we’ll get you a date.” makes 100% sense to me.

The Grafitti Frame. - that’ll work, fight graffiti with graffiti.

Open-Source Journalism: It’s a Lot Tougher Than You Think - “we’ll need support services: without this support, citizen journalists up against entrenched power structures will likely end up at best nowhere, at worst toast.”

Add More Jam! - that would be a good morning indeed.

LOST Theory Generator - Produces random LOST theories - “The numbers, when decoded correctly, give the exact date and time of the end of the world.” ??? zomfg *runs*

Terrorist organization logos - “terrorist organizations have logos. It recently occurred to me that someone had to actually design those logos. But how did they decide who gets to do it?”

Psychic TV - Hell Is Invisible…Heaven Is Here - a new psychic tv album …

odd lists

Guess You Did Not Know This! - “There are over 18,000 pieces of plastic floating on every sq. kilometer of ocean today.” great list of odd facts.

Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature - “Why most suicide bombers are Muslim, beautiful people have more daughters, humans are naturally polygamous, sexual harassment isn’t sexist, and blonds are more attractive. ” erm… not sure about some of these.

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Tags: linkdump, lists, virus, birthday

gestern gabs bei meinem lieblingsbeck zum chnebubrot gratis eine weltwoche.
keine ahnung wieso.

daheim dann habe ich mir genüsslich mein brot bestrichen, die weltwoche vorerst noch verschmäht. als ich dann beim weltwoche durchnblättern mein sandwich verschlang, fand ich im brot ein mittellanges, weisses haar mit rötlich gefärbten spitzen.

ewwww.

ob nun zwischen dem haar im brot und der gratis weltwoche ein zusammenhang besteht, kann ich nicht sagen. ich weiss nur, dass die weltwoche lesen und brot essen nie mehr das gleiche sein wird. und da ich auf brot nicht verzichten kann, springt leider die weltwoche über die klinge.

Tags: beck, brot, haar, lang:de, german