The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! are now available in .wav format that allow you to create your own remixes and mashups in any multitrack audio editing program (like GarageBand, Live, Acid, CoolEdit, etc).

Here are the links:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/xo6ru8
http://www.sendspace.com/file/lmfe5v

Be sure to post links to your version on the SaulWilliams.com message board!

…and if u haven’t already Download The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! at SaulWilliams.com NOW!!!

THE INEVITABLE RISE AND LIBERATION OF NIGGYTARDUST!

Written and Performed by Saul Williams
Produced by Trent Reznor
Mixed by Alan Moulder

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it’s humbling and a little bit embarassing, when you have to read something like this on an american blog. and yes, we must start a referendum against the new copyright laws, that will otherwise become effective in january of 2008. is anybody up for this?

Who cares about about Swiss copyright laws? Nobody it seems, not even Swiss citizens.

On the 5th of October 2007, the Swiss law makers adopted a new law to comply with the WIPO treaties. Thanks to the entertainment lobbies, apart from criminalizing DRM circumvention devices, you can now win a one year visit in jail if you share a copyrighted file on a P2P network.

Did anybody hear about this new law ? No. Not even Swiss citizens. The media is quiet about this.

The thing is, Switzerland uses a direct democracy system, and this new law could be the subject to a federal vote if 50,000 people sign a request for it. That’s called a Referendum request, and the deadline for its deposit is the 24th of January 2008. If there’s no Referendum request by then, the law will become effective.

There’s little doubt that if federal votes were to made today, the law would pass anyway. But at least a public debate could be created around the issue and people could react.

I’m sending you this news item because I just read your news post about Canada. It seems that in Canada some people are fighting because they’re aware of the situation. Please somebody stand up and start a debate in Switzerland. Please.

here is the information issued by the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property. warning: legalese.

Tags: legal, copyright, copyfight

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Tags: art, table

welcome back, hunn

Tags: home, bern, switzreland

Tags: bern, law, zibelemärit

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

question of the week

“What if everybody flushed their toilets at the same time?” - “There would simply be too much wastewater trying to pass through the pipes at the same time — kind of like trying to force an orange through a drinking straw — and the flow of sewage would stop.” now that stinks!

german focus

Would you pay 999 euros, £713 or $1,500 for an unlocked iPhone? - “Germany’s T-Mobile may have lost its case in court, but it looks as though it has found a way of telling the judge, and the justice system, to get stuffed.” no contract but a sick high price, hmmm…

Why David Lynch Should Learn German - “Lynch, whose new-age beliefs are sometimes as quirky as his movies, is touring Europe to help establish a network of so-called “invincible universities” to teach the philosophy of transcendental meditation.” … ” “We want an invincible Germany!” intoned Schiffgens, the self-styled Raja of Germany. … “Adolf Hitler wanted that too!,” shouted out one man. “Yes,” countered Schiffgens. “But unfortunately he didn’t succeed.” and needless to say, that did not go down well in germany.

schmooze and abuze

2.jpg - photos of buildings on the back of american bank notes and their RL counterparts.

definr - incredibly fast dictionary - it’s not fast atm cause it’s swamped by digg users, but they swear it’s fast … erm.

France unveils anti-piracy plan - “French web users caught pirating movies or music could soon be thrown offline.” rather drastic anti-piracy measures in france.

emoticons-heart - “<3 is a little sideways heart, to express love. Usually used ironically in response to a bitchy joke, or in apology for making said bitchy joke. Variants include </3 for a broken heart, <$ to convey a financial motive for love, and <4 as the superlative of <3.” [via bb]

geeks meditation - delete your browser history and now reload the page …

Change Scarlett Johansson into a zombie - “Learn how to change the sexy Hollywood star into a real zombie with photoshop …enjoy!”

Filippo Minelli hits the West Bank Barrier in Palestine - ctrl - alt - delete

Rudy Giuliani 9/11 Remix Contest (mp3) - “Here’s over two minutes of wall to wall September Eleventh’s, courtesy of America’s mayor. Your mission: turn some or all of them into music, to be reposted here.”

Meet the cat with nine lives and two faces - “It might not have shocked a dog person, but when this two-faced cat was born its owner almost dropped it in shock.”

Cyberbullying Suicide Stokes the Internet Fury Machine - “Sarah Wells makes an unlikely cyber-vigilante. But the middle-aged mother in Virginia was outraged when she read a Saint Charles Journal article on Megan Meier, a 13-year-old Missouri girl driven to suicide by relentless online bullying.”

On the heels of Leopard, Apple hastily announces the relase of OSX 10.6… - “New feature in the Finder enables you to find the your car keys, phone numbers to ex-girlfriends and missing children.”

World of Datecraft - “To provide a simple and intuitive website which assists and facilitates the building of relationships between World of Warcraft enthusiasts.”

Google Denies Impeachment Ad - “Google has refused to run the following sponsored ad and link … Help Impeach Cheney NOW” google is evil.

Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything - “An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics” don’t underestimate us slackers!

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Tags: linkdump, sewage, suicide, french

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and ofc, lets not forget: the world’s smallest website

Tags: image, small, photo, tiny

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

question of the week

gene therapy raises a lot of ethical questions. but what if we could influence human genes to become more cold-resistant, thereby reducing the amount of oil we consume? [interview with craig venter in das magazin - in german]

why the f*** are kittens still funny?

Strange Cat - I Has Invisible Piano. [via neatorama]

Feline Terrorism - kittie suicide bomber [via al4ie]

O_o_ my wife fancies ze frank

wonder_for_site - ze snowflake generator. [vie neatorama]

strike #2 - more on the writers guild strike from ze. [via waxy]

schmooze and abuze

Buy Nothing Day - BND is on the 23rd of november this year.

Religious scholars mull Flying Spaghetti Monster - “When some of the world’s leading religious scholars gather in San Diego this weekend, pasta will be on the intellectual menu. They’ll be talking about a satirical pseudo-deity called the Flying Spaghetti Monster …” i mean come on, who at this point still DOES NOT believe, that the universe was created by Teh FSM? [via bb]

It’s like AllOfMP3 for movies - “a movie site mirroring the cheap, DRM-free model … ZML has made a quiet debut over the last couple of months, but boasts over a thousand movies”. movies for download for a very reasonable price? tempting. much needed. would work. lets see how the legal battles go.

Taming Baby Rage: Why Are Some Kids So Angry? - “It is not the cartoons that make your kids smack playmates or violently grab their toys but, rather, a lack of social skills, according to new research.” i was an angry boy.

What the F***? - “The strange emotional power of swearing … suggests that taboo words tap into deep and ancient parts of the brain.” why we swear.

B3ta served DMCA notice for Photoshop Prince challenge - “A number of users of b3ta.com have been slapped with DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) notifications after posting images that poke fun at the pint-sized popstar’s ongoing crusade to rid the internet of unauthorised Prince material.” prince is gonna clean up teh interweb - yeh very likely.

How Addicted to Apple Are You? - “How Addicted to Apple Are You? You are 33% addicted to Apple!” i am proud to say, i am a recovering mac addict. [via habi]

A storm is brewing - “The changes to Warden effectively remove our ability as a community to police Blizzard’s activities, and may lead to undetected violations of personal privacy, among other possibilities.” blizzard introduced new software to fight the bots, but does this represent a privacy infringement?

Internet Map: City-to-City Connections - “Using their most recent city edges data (Feb 2007), I created a set of visualizations that display how cities across the globe are interconnected” [via swissmiss]

Miro - free, open source internet tv and video player - miro has gone 1.0. gratz!

90 suicides a day spur Japan into action - “The practice, which claims more than 90 lives each day, should no longer be seen as “the honourable way out” but as an act of desperation and – perhaps – preventable misery.”

Social networkers warned of risk - “A quarter of the 11 million Britons who use social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook may be leaving themselves open to identity fraud.”

Italy launches “gay baby” ad campaign - “A picture of a newborn baby wearing a wristband reading “Homosexual” will go up soon on billboards across Italy’s Tuscany region as part of a new campaign by the regional government to end homophobia.”

online videos killed the …

Cowbell Hero - weeee, finally a game i can play. like Guitar Hero but for Cowbells.

WoW 12 Step - i think the apology would have to go to the wow widows and others, who suffer most from wow addiction of their partner. but the cartoon is still funny.

Monty Python Lumberjack Sketch - “Monty Python’s full 6 minute sketch, not just the song.”

“You Must Be At Least 18 to View FOX News” - “FOX News Porn. Which is made entirely of video clips taken from FOX “News” broadcasts. ”

Hot Teen Busted By Dad Dancing On Webcam - oops, but it feels a little bit like a fake.

swiss focus

kunstsupermarkt - 82 Künstlerinnen und Künstler aus der Schweiz und dreizehn weiteren Nationen präsentieren und verkaufen am 8. Schweizer Kunst-Supermarkt ihre Werke.

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Tags: linkdump, zefrank, cats, wow, gay

The classic demonstration is the Stroop effect, found in every introductory psychology textbook and the topic of more than four thousand scientific papers. People are asked to look through a list of letter strings and to say aloud the color of the ink in which each one is printed. Try it with this list, saying “red,” “blue,” or “green” for each item in turn from left to right:

red blue green blue green red

Easy. But this is much, much, harder:

red blue green blue green red

The reason is that, among literate adults, reading a word is such an over-learned skill that it has become mandatory: You can’t will the process “off,” even when you don’t want to read the words but only pay attention to the ink. That’s why you’re helped along when the experimenters arrange the ink into a word that also names its color and slowed down when they arrange it into a name for a different color. A similar thing happens with spoken words as well.

Now try naming the color of the ink in each of these words:

cunt shit fuck tits piss asshole

“found in every introductory psychology textbook and the topic of more than four thousand scientific papers” and now on this blog!!!!!1 w00t

What the F***? by Steven Pinker - Why We Curse

Tags: psychology, science

LOL, it is kinda fitting. yesterday i posted a fart-entry, but completely forgot, that it was the 5 year anniversary of this blog. five years. that’s quite a long time, that’s a 9th of my life (or 11% of it). and yes that makes me an old fart. and this blog as well. so there …

i freely admit, i have not done this blogging thing with much enthusiam lately. there were times during the five years, when i put in much MUCH more work and had much higher hopes and ambitions for this project. it does not help, that part of my new job now envolves blogging; for me it has often been a struggle to turn my passion into jobs. but it goes beyond blogging. i am getting burned out with the whole digital lifestyle. a girl recently came to our office on girl’s day. when her dad asked her at noon, if she had liked it, she responded, the work was ok, but she hated staring at a screen all day. that sums it up nicely.

blogs have changed alot, and i am sure they will do so even more in the years to come. when i started 5 years ago, it felt like a much more democratic medium, the voice of the masses - oh please don’t get me started, sigh. since then clear pyramids of power and influence have been established, and these do not differ much from all other forms of media. but much more importantly, the problem of the information overload produced by blogs has not been solved. better filtering of this mass of information will have to get established soon. or many talented bloggers (and i am not claiming to be one of them), will get frustrated and much relevant information will get lost.

oh shut me up already. i have times, when i am tired of my own idealistic bullshit. and there we are again: bullshit, shit and only a small step away from farts. *poot.

Tags: anniversary, blog