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online video killed the …

Money (That’s what i want) - sweet animation [via b3ta]

Myspace Kid Flips Out - myspace used to bully younger brothers? or younger brother too obsessed with myspace?

iBand - “The first iPhone band.” iBand website.

Music using ONLY sounds from Windows XP and 98! - “A piece of music I made using some of the various sounds Windows XP and 98 come with. The music is about 1:31 long. After that, I show the sounds which were used.”

burgerdance - michele roten’s column today reminded me of this. the blatant glorification of consumerism is still the epitomee of bad taste.

YesWeCan - i somehow missed this video. goosebumps. obama speech snipplets turned into a song.

schmooze and abuse

FreakAngels » Episode 0002 - i just love to be served my quality comic book via rss. wee …

Lessig ‘08 - Change Congress. - “I will decide in the next week or so whether it makes sense to advance that movement by running for Congress.”

Backpack Multiuser (and single-user) - backpack has added multiuser features.

Autism Breakthrough - “Two years ago, working with pictures and symbols on a computer keyboard, she started typing and spelling out words. The computer became her voice.”

Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 - “Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (pronounced /ˈalˌbin/) was a name intended for a Swedish child who was born in 1991.” [via bb]

Brain control headset for gamers - “Gamers will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and emotions alone. A neuro-headset which interprets the interaction of neurons in the brain will go on sale later this year.”

Scribd - “The Scribd Platform is a broad set of tools and services designed to help you customize, integrate, deploy, and monetize fully-formatted documents on your website without extra software.” the PDF killer?

StealThisWiki - “Steal This Wiki is a collaborative update of Abbie Hoffman’s seminal work, “Steal This Book”.” the first version of the updated version is now available for download [via bb]

Guantánamo, Evil and Zany in Pop Culture - “because of some unfortunate confusion on an airplane between a “bong” and a “bomb,” our slacker antiheroes are shipped off to the moviemakers’ idea of the worst prison imaginable. On April 25, on a screen near you: “Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantánamo Bay.” Seriously, dude.”

Stifles arrived in Bern - “BD’s first vinyl toy series “Stifles セザクン” finally arrived from the plant. More informations within next month.”

IE Global: Freeze Events in London and Toronto at Improv Everywhere - “This past Saturday “frozen in time” missions happened in both London and Toronto. They were inspired by our Frozen Grand Central mission and organized via Improv Everywhere Global. ”

DAEMON - this book sounds like a fun read, but joi gives away a little too much for my taste …

Faith Fighter - “Faith Fighter is the ultimate fighting game for these dark times. Choose your belief and kick the shit out of your enemies. Give vent to your intolerance! Religious hate has never been so much fun.” [via rebel-art]

File Destructor 2.0 - “Send trashed files and blame your faulty computer, instead of confessing that you are a lazy bum who just wants to play videogames.”

TIM AND PUMA MIMI - Zurich/Tokyo/New York - Andere - www.myspace.com/timandpumamimi - i love this band, he is from zurich, she from tokyo. sometimes they perform with her singing over skype.

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Tags: linkdump, video, obama, religion, game

rssart.cc - art feeds via RSS

we soft launched RSS Art earlier this year. the spammers have already discovered us, so it’s about time we make it public.
alot has happened this year already, we moved house, i lost my job … but RSS Art is fun.

so far there are only two blogs: RSS Art 001 and RSS Art 000 .

the latter is of course not really an artists blog. it’s more like the beta blog of the project, where i will occasionally publish my pathetic attempts at being creative.
the first is by my lovely and very talented partner franziska nyffeler.

we hope to attract more artists, who want to explore with us this form of publishing their work.

if you know someone, that you think should participate in this project, please point them this way, or contact us here, for us to contact them.

we plan to create a propper portal of sorts, where the latest additions to the various RSS Art blogs will appear. if anyone has an idea for a technical solution to accomplish this, please let me know. it runs on wordpress.

so now, without further ado, access no longer denied. please enter and enjoy! (oh and if you like it, subscribe to the feed ;P)

Tags: rss, art, feed, swiss, switzerland

or is it george harrison? [via neatorama]

Tags: music, humor, video

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wow-moments (non World of Warcraft wow) of the week - or: i almost blogged this!

FreakAngels » Episode 0001 - “FREAKANGELS is a free, weekly, ongoing comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield. ” lovely! fantastic! the main character somehow reminds me of wurzeltod, maybe? plus: I WANT that helicopter!!!

Amplive - Rainydayz Remixes - “After a cease & desist put the breaks on Amplive’s Radiohead In Rainbows remix project, the online music community reasonably wondered if the tracks would ever see the light of day. Well, here they are.”

Amplive, Radiohead: Radiohead approve Amplive remix album. Download available now. - “After a cease and desist order, it seemed certain that Amplive’s remix of Radiohead’s In Rainbows would never see a official release. Fortunately, both sides have come to an agreement, and Amplive’s Rainydayz Remixes is now available for download.”

Wordie - like flickr but without the photos. “Wordie lets you make lists of words and phrases.”

me = louis theroux fan!

America’s most hated family - interview w. louis regarding one of his documentaries, “how those beliefs can be held by very urbane, intelligent, professional people.”

LouisTheroux / Series 3 - upcoming louis theroux documentaries.

online video killed the …

Hot Asian Girls Beat Down White Guy - dont click this link. i did, and regret it. but in my defense, who with any testosterone in their system wouldn’t click such a headline?

ME TELLIN YOU MOTHA FUCKAS OFF - like, yo! [via bb]

GOOD GOLLY there’s a lot to accomplish today! - on the to-do-list: eating bananas with a freaky smile. [via bb]

5min - Life Videopedia - “The idea behind 5min is very simple: any solution can be visually explained in no more than 5 minutes.”

Meanest Man Contest : Throwing Away Broken Electronics - catchy CC licensed tune w. video [via bb]

schmooze and abuze

Have games had their punk moment? - “In socio-political terms, games are the punk of the early 21st century - this is the youth ‘fad’ that parents and politicians most fear […]”

Sleep at work - “Stick these on your eyes so you can sleep while on the job. ”

I Have a Deram … Draem … Gosh Darn It! - i has typo.

Pants to Guantánamo: Agent Provocateur and Reprieve make a cheeky statement about detention without charge or trial - “Happy Valentine’s Day? With exquisite timing, lingerie darlings Agent Provocateur unveil their latest product, a pair of Guantánamo orange knickers emblazoned with the message “Fair Trial My Arse.”” i’m in. [via sex.blo.gs]

The Online Life of NIU Killer Stephen Kazmierczak - another valentine’s day killer and “a few blogs went to work at discovering his online accounts and other trails he’s left online.” and waxy collected.

Zuma - another addictive online flash game …

Mini-muscleman: Meet the world’s smallest bodybuilder - “Pint-sized Romeo is well-known in his hometown of Phagwara, India - for his ability to lift 1.5kg dumbbells - despite his overall 9kg body weight.” [via neatorama]

5 Reasons Why Illegal Downloaders Will Not Face a UK Ban - “So in summary: Insert Toilet Flushing Sound FX Here”

Illegal downloaders ‘face UK ban’ - “People in the UK who go online and illegally download music and films may have their internet access cut under plans the government is considering.”

l337 Eye Chart - rofl omfg

Casulo: An Entire Apartment’s Furniture in One Small Box - just what it says on the tin erm box [via swissmiss]

NO MORE INTRUSIVE PAPARAZZI PHOTOS ON HOLY MOLY - “one of the biggest names in paparazzi jacks it in due to ethics and morals and the worlds biggest pop star gets her knickers photographed by 30 people an hour after being released from a mental institute, you KNOW there’s a problem on the shop floor.” that’s a start. [via osymyso]

The Birthday Thing - “One thing we’ve decided to do, as a small celebratory birthday thing is, initially for a month, make a book of mine available online, free, gratis and for nothing. Which book, though…? Ah, that’s up to you.” [via bb]

Banksy-Diebstahl in Berlin - a banksy was stolen off a wall in berlin and this was done carefully to conserve it so it could go into a collection.

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Tags: linkdump, louis, theroux, warren, ellis, wordie, video

[via ze frank]

Tags: valentine\'s, day, love, sexy

over these past 2 weeks i have been watching the 2008 africa nations cup with great interest, what an incredible tournament. it had a dissapointing ending with egypt taking it away. i wanted cote d’ivoire - cameroon the be the final, and cote d’ivoire to win, big fan of their current squad.

but the reason i blog this, is because of the way this tournament has been covered on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_African_Cup_of_Nations. it was fantastic, how the results were updated almost instantly during the games. but even more i feel like i have learned so much not only about african football, squads and players but about africa in general, geograhically as well as politically, with the amount of information available on wikipedia just a few clicks away. the tv was still on, but how boring it has become to just watch football. so the laptop was on my knees the whole time and click click click …

big thanks to the anonymous wikipedians for a great great job, can’t wait to follow euro 2008 on wikipedia …

Tags: africa, nations, cup, 2008, wikipedia

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TorrentFreedom Offers 100% Anonymous and Unrestricted BitTorrent - “TorrentFreedom promises to put the user back in control, by offering a new BitTorrent-optimized, zero-logging, 100% anonymous VPN service, guaranteed to punch a hole through throttling ISPs.” but at a cost: 17.- $ a month…

Martin Holzapfel | Desk - our future desk?

Dancing man wearing a horse mask cooks wild mushrooms - “The mushroom in this video looks like Amanita muscaria, which are very poisonous!” meh

Previously On Lost - a new genre: recap-rock, lol. this band makes songs that recap previous lost episodes. [via waxy]

Schleicher geblitzt! - the wolfs are back in switzerland! “Einer Luchs-Kamera gelang dieser Schnappschuss.”

Not Dead Beatles Go With The Flow - “the still alive Beatles have chimed in to recognize the Maharishi’s passing”.

A morning full of keynotes - hannes gassert liveblogs the lift08 keynotes.

Lift conferences, webcams & interviews - as bruce sterling says: like being there, without the fondue

Just Can’t Get You Off My Mind - “Depeche Mode (”Just Can’t Get Enough”) vs. Pet Shop Boys (”Always On My Mind”)”

Murakami REVOKed - grafiti artists re-worked a murakami billboard in LA. “murakami found it “so wonderful, he had to have it for his collection.” Our billboard is now on its way to Tokyo.”

Ruptures call safety of Internet cables into question - International Herald Tribune - “Four undersea communication cables have been cut in the past week, raising questions about the safety of the oceanic network that handles the bulk of the world’s Internet and telephone traffic.”

Frozen Grand Central at Improv Everywhere - “Over 200 Improv Everywhere Agents froze in place at the exact same second for five minutes in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Station.”

Free the Music - “As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.” if you happen to live in in the US, UK or germany that is …

Play A Multiplayer Online Game While Surfing The Web: PMOG - “Want to play a MOG (multiplayer online game) passively while surfing the web all day? Then you’ll like PMOG”

Yahoo! and the future of the Internet - Google’s answer to the announced merger: “Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC?”

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Tags: linkdump, lift, lift08, wolf, mushrooms

all the lift08 videos are getting uploaded at nouvo.ch/liftvideo. “like being there without the Swiss fondue” as bruce sterling expresses it.

Tags: conference, swiss, switzerland

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Quentin Tarantino Provoked by Paparazzi - “Tarantino took it to a different level. After the man didn’t answer his question of “What’s going on here?,” Tarantino decided to slap him and threaten him with a beat-down.”

Slimmer, sexier PS3 coming this fall? - hmmm, and i was just about to buy one … might have to wait til fall now.

Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends on Google Video - my all-time favorite BBC documentary series now available on google video. but one question remains unanswered: what’s louise theroux up to these days?

Maurizio Cattelan - Kunsthaus Bregenz - until 24.3.2008

Microsoft kauft Yahoo: Drei Gründe zum Jubeln - de-bug blog fasst ca. alle meine gedanken zum microsoft - yahoo deal zusammen. und ich kann weiterhin schmollen.

desk experiment - experiment to do right now at your desk. and it really is true.

Find Other Web Sites Hosted on a Web Server - “Find other sites hosted on a web server by entering a domain or IP address above.”

GodTube.com - scary: “GodTube.com is a video-driven social network designed for both Christians and non-Christians to share the message and love of Christ.” [via osymyso]

Independent Online Edition - download 10 tracks of the upcoming compilation YOU DON’T KNOW: NINJA CUTS for free. [via bengston]

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Tags: linkdump, youtube, video, louis, theroux