the black sheep campaign used by SVP (xenophobic rightwing party of switzerland) during last years elections is getting imitated around europe:

discovered in sevilla and uploaded to flickr by regine of we-make-money-not-art.com

Tags: swiss, politics, xenophobia,, sevilla, svp

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zocken

Rockstar Social Club Announced - “Today Rockstar announced a new website called the Rockstar Social Club. Essentially a high tech leaderboard, the first supported game will be (drum roll) Grand Theft Auto IV (surprise!). Compatible with Xbox LIVE and PSN, players can register starting April 15th to track all sorts of neat stuff they do in GTA IV when it’s released April 29th.”

15-Year-Old Killed For Not Passing Game - “When 15-year-old Olivier Baptiste refused to hand over the video game he was playing to his 18-year-old friend William Suarez, Suarez pulled out a .32-caliber Smith and Wesson from his waistband and shot Baptiste in the head.”

Legal battle over Warcraft ‘bot’ - “The makers of World of Warcraft are locked in a legal battle with a firm that has produced a tool to automate many actions in the virtual world.”

online video killed the …

Goodness Gracious Me - Going out for an English - nice one, to be reminded of this hilarious GGM sketch, that is based entirely on reverse stereotypes. [via bb]

Getting Tight with Tarantino! - “Here is another ode to great film directors from Paul Proulx. This time, he features the work of Quentin Tarantino. Enjoy!”

Record label finds singing monks - “A record label’s search for a group of monks to record a Gregorian chant album has ended after an Austrian monastery submitted a YouTube clip.”

schmooze and abuze

Lolcat Guys Squeeze Laughs Out of Graphs - “Calling all graph nerds and lolcat fans: GraphJam, the latest project from the duo behind I Can Haz Cheezburger?, wants your savvy pop-culture observations in visual form.”

Top 10 April Fools’ Pranks for Nerds - “Here are the top 10 tech-related April Fools’ jokes to play on friends and co-workers. The best geek pranks make a gadget or a co-worker’s computer appear “broken.”"

The Carrot Some Vegans Deplore - “TWO things that you can find a lot of in Portland, Ore., are vegans and strip clubs. Johnny Diablo decided to open a business to combine both.”

Sculpta Sutra - “Sculpta Sutra is the world’s first 3D guide to the Kama Sutra.” [via sexblo.gs}

Flickr: Discussing Help CC gather interesting re-use photo stories! in Creative Commons (pls read the rules) - “We here at the CC HQ are compiling interesting re-use stories of cc-licensed photos on Flickr. This is super important to helping us explain to the larger community as to why CC is important to photographers. We have a short time frame to get this all done and would REALLY appreciate your help.”

Dork Talk: Douglas Coupland - “I remember in the 80s when cellphones first started to pop. I remember how, if you saw someone using a cellphone on a street, you immediately thought they were an asshole: gee, my phone call is so important I have to make it right here and right now! Twenty years later, we’re all assholes.”

Angry BBQ - hates winter

Lunchtime Quiz: Monty Python - “So don’t stop being silly – see how you do with this quiz about one of the UK’s finest exports.” i failed miserably. [via neatorama]

The Great Tantra Challenge - “On 3 March 2008, in a popular TV show, Sanal Edamaruku, the president of Rationalist International, challenged India’s most “powerful” tantrik (black magician) to demonstrate his powers on him. That was the beginning of an unprecedented experiment.”

South Park Studios - most southpark episodes are now available to watch online.

Muxtape - “Muxtape is a service for creating mixtapes.”

Mixwit :: media playground - “It’s your mix, so make something unique. Add pictures, photos, artwork, drawings… Anything you want. It’s easy!” [via rho]

Color Wars 2008 - “To join a team: log on to twitter, search for the team of your choice, then follow that team.”

Top 10 Wired Reader Self-Portraits, Decided by You - “Possibly one of the hardest photo assignments, the dreaded self-portrait, was no match for our shutterbug audience. Over the last two weeks, readers have shown us themselves through their own — often twisted — eyes and picked the best of their peers.”

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Tags: games, flickr, twitter, youtube

what did you look like?

[via zefrank]

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Tags: kid

as amazing and beautiful as ever …

issue #19 - daydreaming | sleepwalking | march 2008

[some of the drawings you might recognise from a new project: rssArt 001]

related links:
- Lee Hadwin who draws in his sleep
- sleepless - bedtime stories
- Robin Whitmore - dream diary

Tags: screenmagazine, flash

Bernard-Henri Lévy, veteran of the French left, in the Spanish centre-right paper El Mundo, called for a boycott of the games to “save sport, honour and many lives”. Of Chinese attacks on Tibetan dissidents, he wrote: “In front of this cynicism I think that there is still time to make use of tough language.” He added: “Will Beijing never cede? Will a boycott never work? We will never know unless we try.”

[via rebel-art]

meanwhile closer to home, sonntagszeitung yesterday reported how china is trying to extend their media censorship to switzerland. DJ and tibet activist pablo lobsang was being interviewed in front of the chinese consulate for local tv station TeleBärn, when someone charged out to interrupt the interview, and shortly after the police arrived to stop the filming.

Makenoize 4 Tibet

Reporters Without Borders calls on the National Olympic Committees, the IOC, athletes, sports lovers and human rights activists to publicly express their concern about the countless violations of every fundamental freedom in China.

After Beijing was awarded the games in 2001, Harry Wu, a Chinese dissident who spent 19 years in prisons in China, said he deeply regretted that China did not have “the honour and satisfaction of hosting the Olympic Games in a democratic country.”

sign this petition

This site is dedicated to the debate about whether the 27 EU countries should take note of numerous reports about China’s human rights record - and boycott the Beijing Olympic Games, which are scheduled to begin on August 8 2008. It is sponsored by those who want a genuine debate about a boycott.

1. The human rights crackdown arising from the organisation of the Olympics goes against the very spirit of Olympism

2. In spite of explicit promises made prior to the awarding of the Games by the Chinese regime to improve the human rights, the situation has deteriorated

3. Freedoms of expression and information have worsened - journalists are being prevented from reporting the reality of what is happening in China

4. Heightened crackdown on all religious freedoms in Tibet and in mainland China

5. Genocide is currently taking place in China with the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, in Tibet and in Darfur

6. Families are being forcibly removed from their homes for the construction of the Olympic village, with no offer of compensation

Tags: free, tibet, boycott, beijing, 2008

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

easter

the untold story … - and that’s about all i have to say re: easter holiday. oh wait, maybe this:

Google’s Top 17 Easter Eggs, Gags, and Hoaxes - “Google makes your life easier with great search, but did you also know it’s loaded with pranks, goofs, and put-ons? We show you the best of the bunch.”

twitter

colorwar 2008 - “And now it has gone haywire. I regret having caused a day of spam…but…”

S.F. Activists Use Twitter, Pirate Radio to Manage Anti-War Protesters - “San Francisco anti-war protesters marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq are using the micro-blogging service Twitter to coordinate their movements throughout the day.”

Twitter / bedtime - little stories people post on twitter just before going to bed. [via ze frank]

online video has killed the …

Michael Jackson - Trifon Aleksandrov - this video has me chuckling all morning already. “A guy doing his own interpretation of Michael Jackson’s song “Bad” during the Bulgarian “Music Idol” TV show. He didn’t make it to the final.”

The Profit - The movie Scientology doesnt want you to see. - “Years ago, in 2001, several film directors worked on a documentary called “The Profit”, indirectly telling the story about how the Scientology came to be what it is today. Before it could be released, the CoS managed to get it banned, even after it claimed that it was totally unrelated to Scientology. But now it has been leaked. See for yourself.”

The Creation of a Character - truely great stop motion animation. i especially love waht it says on the sign the character holds up towards the end. [via b3ta]

Miranda July: How to Make a Button - “This instructional video was made for us by Miranda July, a lady from California who writes short funny stories that are sometimes sad and occasionally sort of weirdly hot.”

Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Last Message - “Sir Arthur C. Clarke, a giant in the science fiction genre and early proponent of the geosynchronous satellite orbit, has died. Recently, Sir Arthur videotaped his reflections on his 90th birthday, in which he talked about the future of space travel and more.”

“Hot Hot Sex” Video Removed from YouTube - “After weeks of criticism from YouTube commenters, the creator of the popular fan-made “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex” video finally pulled it offline.”

Test Your Awareness: Do The Test - “Test your awareness. Transport for London has released an Advert for commuters to test their awareness by taking the test.” [via habi]

schmooze and abuze

World of Warcraft Shines Light on Terror Tactics - “Virtual terrorists blowing themselves up and spreading disease inside World of Warcraft could provide counterterrorists with a window into real-world plots.”

Spiritually uplifting courthouse installation of Flying Spaghetti Monster - “People of all religious denominations will be overjoyed to learn that a statue of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was installed on the Cumberland County Courthouse Lawn in Crossville, Tennessee today.”

Think Periodically - “Out of my interest for Chemistry and my heritage I chose to get his tattoo done almost a year ago.”

mildly sleazy uses of facebook - “clearly, we should have sex.”

Australian Man Gunned Down in Driveway by Killer Robot - “An 81-year-old Australian man has shot himself dead with an elaborate suicide robot built using plans he downloaded from the Internet.”

The Many Views of Abbey Road - “It’s such an iconic image that whenever you see a group walking single file on a zebra crossing, you automatically think of Abbey Road. It’s been imitated, honored, lampooned, and recreated by countless artists.”

Billboard Liberation Front’s talk at Vooruit, Ghent - “i was in Ghent for the festival The Game is Up! at the Vooruit. Artists who study the relationship between art and consumerism were invited to perform, and present their work to explore this year’s theme: Art for Sale.”

The Pirate Bay to BBC: We Don’t Want To Be Information Slaves - “The BBC has published a podcast which takes a look at piracy through the ages, also covering the modern concept of ‘intellectual property’. Of course, no story of piracy would be complete without discussing The Pirate Bay”

Pirates - BBC podcast - “Pirates are not just peg-legs, parrots and pistols. In this three part series, Nick Rankin finds out how they have adapted to changing times.”

Japan appoints cartoon cat named Doraemon as ambassador to promote animation - “Japan has created an unusual government post to promote animation, and named a perfect figure to the position: a popular cartoon robot cat named Doraemon.”

Interview: Perplex City Creators Craft ‘We Tell Stories’ - “Penguin has challenged some of its top authors to create new forms of story - designed specially for the internet…”

We Tell Stories - story told as a sort of online game.

Battlestar Galactica Streams Into Season 4 - “The wait for season four is almost over, though, and BSG junkies can get their fix online 10 hours before the show airs on TV. The final season premiere will stream live on SciFi.com from noon to 1 p.m. April 4 — get your lunch orders in now.”

Tibet Protest Photos 080315 - a collection of photos and videos covering the protests in tibet.

In Rainbows Music Video Contest Judged by Radiohead in conjunction with aniBoom - “It’s the perfect match between revolutionary music and the mind blowing possibilities of animation. The *In Rainbows Music Video Contest* judged by Radiohead is here.”

Radiohead Launches In Rainbows Video Contest - “Radiohead has invited fans to create animated videos for any of the songs on the band’s groundbreaking In Rainbows album, and you don’t even need to be an animation expert to enter.”

espacio+coches.jpg - amount of space required to transport the same amount of people.

Street Art At It’s Best #2 - indeed!

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Tags: linkdump, radiohead, tibet, twitter, easter

for what it’s worth, here’s a DJ mix i did over 9 years ago for the occasion of the 40. anniversary of china’s invasion to tibet.

free tibet mix [45:00 | 51.5 MB | 160kbps]

tracklist:

boards of canada: olson
fila brasila: throwing down a shape
boards of canada: happy cycling
lo fi allstars: bonus beats
meat beat manifesto: prime audio soup (b.o.c. remix)
hardfloor: time for sum jammin shit
double d. & steinski: it’s up to you
cornershop: candyman (rob swift remix)
q-bert: dirtstyle deluxe shampoo edition
boards of canada: aquarius
consolidated: this is fascism (lionrock remix)
freddy fresh: portion
tosca: ambient emily
emperor’s new clothes: leaders and believers (u.n.k.l.e. remix)

Tags: free, tibet, djmix, dj, mix, podcast

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free tibet

Tibet: more deaths, injuries in Lhasa as crackdown grows - the latest news blog-style.

How you can help Tibet - “The following are some of the ways you can make your voice heard to support Tibet”

Faces of the Tibet Protesters - “The fifteen Tibetans who staged the independence protest in Lhasa’s main Barkhor Square on March 10 must have known that they faced torture, arrest, and imprisonment at the hands of the occupying Chinese forces.”

Senator Obama “Condemns” China’s Use of Force in Tibet - “Senator Barack Obama is the first U.S. presidential candidate to issue a statement on China’s crackdown in Tibet (issued March 14).”

spitzer’s ho

Prostitution in a wired world - “the inner workings of modern-day sex work: text messaging to clock in the client, electronic fund transfers, a Web site featuring color photos, prices and rankings.”

ashley dupre’s mysapce page - “I am all about my music, and my music is all about me… It flows from what I’ve been through, what I’ve seen and how I feel. I live in New York and am on top of the world.” is laying under Spitzer also on top of the world, assuming they did it in the missionary position.

Spitzer’s escort: ‘I love who I am’ - “Dupre is a 22-year-old would-be singer from New Jersey, the New York Times reported Wednesday. She has not been charged with any crime.”

online video killed the … what was before again? … star

Smoke on the Yangtze - a riot. [via osymyso]

Watch Higher Quality YouTube Videos - “Watch Higher-Quality YouTube Videos The URL Hack. Add &fmt=18 to the end of a normal YouTube URL. If there’s a high quality version available, that extra string will cause it to load. ”

schmooze and abuse

Ask Jabba! - “Jabba the Hutt has decided to take an interest in the Human planet called ‘Earth’.In what little spare time the holy Hutt has, he may or may not choose to answer filthy Earth Human scum questions.” alfie’s latest project.

Congratulations of finding the worlds longest domain name - “The worlds longest domain name. You won’t find a longer domain name currently on the internet.” hmm , maybe this is not true. (see next)

The World’s Longest Domain Name - “http://www.thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com/ claims to be the world’s longest domain name. But is it? It turns out that this is a matter of definition.”

Free range workers - “A response to the similarities between many office working conditions and battery farmed hens.” [via rebel-art]

RSF | Cybermanifs - 24 hours against censorship, cyberdemonstration organised by reporters without frontiers.

Google your way to a wacky office - “If your ideal workspace includes a slide, a games room, a ‘chill-out’ aquarium and plenty of free food then you had better get your CV into Google.” report from zurich’s google office.

Control. Escape. [via] - cute.

Blog Fight! WordPress and Movable Type Square Off - “It’s the bloggers equivalent of the Mac vs. Windows flamewar — WordPress vs. Movable Type.”

The new tattoo that is sweeping the country. After the first day, 15 people had gotten it. - i admit, i did consider getting this tatoo. for a second. the moustache tatoo.

Photoshop Disasters - a blog dedicated to photoshopage, that went wrong [via swissmiss]

Net Surrealism: Paintings by Jeremiah Palecek - paintings of internet memes [via bb]

17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You - “Have a link. Seriously: if you want bloggers to link to you, you need to have something linkable. Your upcoming TV show, protest march, product or soccer tournament is literally unbloggable unless you put it on the Web somewhere first.”

there he goes again - “He could name no instance of my “laud[ing] the appropriation of intellectual property” because that’s not my schtick. Indeed, as I repeatedly insisted in Free Culture (see pages 10, 18, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 139, 255), what others call “piracy” I was emphatically not writing to defend. Indeed, I criticized it as “wrong.”"

A Facebook Application To Find Blood Donors Fast - “But there may be a better way - leverage the social networks to get the word out. If shortages of a certain type of blood occur in a certain zip code, having a database of willing donors in that zip code to contact may be the most efficient way to solve the problem quickly.”

How a desperate father fought demons - “TWO YEARS ago, he was a high-flying IT specialist for a leading bank. Then the young Scot was introduced to a life of adventure in the magical online land of Azeroth. Today Arklore - the “virtual name” by which he wishes to be known in this story - works for a fast-food restaurant.”

Would you play a GTA MMORPG? - “Now imagine a GTA with thousands of people all trying to live the same dream. It would be a nightmare - the streets filled with joyriding maniacs, smashing Dodge Chargers through shop windows, machine gunning everyone in sight. Total anarchy.”

BD Spacy 125 - a free font dedicated to a scooter? sure, why not.

Ups, I’m a zombie - the hazards of eating nutella: “Nutella-Glas beim Stolpern über Loch nicht losgelassen. Glas kaputt, Hand dann auch. ”

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Tags: tibet, online, demonstration

yay, i will be going to heaven after all! i have been recycling, not getting rich, all that. well ok, maybe in the drug department i may have sinned, but that’s well over 20 years ago. so can i please be forgiven and book me a spot in paradise. but then again, i think hell will be the place where all the cool people are gonna hang out, damn.

The Vatican has put together a list of seven “social” sins that includes excessive wealth, drug abuse, littering, genetic tampering and creating poverty.

The seven social sins are:

1. “Bioethical’ violations such as birth control

2. “Morally dubious” experiments such as stem cell research

3. Drug abuse

4. Polluting the environment

5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor

6. Excessive wealth

7. Creating poverty

The original deadly sins:

1. Pride

2. Envy

3. Gluttony

4. Lust

5. Anger

6. Greed

7. Sloth

from | via

Tags: sin, vatican, list

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online video killed the …

I wish my wife was a horse - catchy mr. pitchy track!

Watching Banksy - “For over an hour, Jeremy Gibbs stood across the street from a fresh piece by Banksy on Essex Road and filmed people who stopped to look at the piece and take photos.”

ROFLMAO! - one of the funnier machinima anims i have seen in ages, roflmao. [via bb]

I Am Legend’s Original Ending - “This ending below is what we should have seen.”

All 5 seconds movies in 5 Min - it’s 5:30 long, but hey …

schmooze and abuse

Digg for sale — Google and Microsoft may be buying - “Digg has been working with influential investment bank Allen & Co (the ones that recently got Slide a half billion dollar valuation) for a few months now, and pitching big tech and media companies on a sale”

Sex swappers: the voice of reason - “I can’t seem to leave internet gender swapping alone. Quiet at the back.”

Online gamers play at swapping gender - “Fifty four percent of men said that they had portrayed a female character online; a move they said allowed them to flirt with other players and explore a different side of their personality.”

The goodbye email from Jimmy Wales’s girlfriend - “Here’s the goodbye email from Rachel to Jimmy and an IM conversation that strongly suggests Wales violated Wikipedia’s rules to encourage favorable changes to Marsden’s Wikipedia profile.”

Is Your Child a Tagger? - “Is your child a tagger? The City of Santa Ana, California, published this handy-dandy guide for parents to determine whether your kid is a graffiti vandal.”

NIN - Ghosts - FAQ - “Ghosts I-IV is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license.”

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Tags: linkdump, wikipedia, streetart, banksy, machinima