i always love it when one of them is in my life - and please excuse me for throwing “them” into one pot with what may well seem like such carelessness. but i really do believe that during our life’s we tend to encounter similar archetypes over and over again. i have met this particular archetype twice, as far as i can remember, once in san francisco and now here in bern. let me call the archetype the zen-simpleton. the first time i met him was in the form of a short order cook in a cajun restaurant and now he has come back as a news vendor near our new house here in bern. what these guys have in common is an inner glow and peace of mind that really shows in the way they do their job. these are guys are doing what may seem like boring and repetitive jobs with such compassion and loving simplicity, that it inspires me each time i see them. i wish i could be more like them. but even more, seeing them puts a smile on my face.

i used to go the cajun breakfast place in san francisco quite often, on my way to work, just because i loved to watch the short order cook going about his business with such love for detail and always a huge smile on his face. needless to say, the food he prepared was excellent. now, whenever i go buy a newspaper, i am looking forward to meeting this little man of italian decent, who seems so happy doing what he does, always friendly, always good for a small joke, a wink from his eyes, a smile. i go there three times a week, saturday to buy the gazetta dello sport, sundays for the sunday papers, and monday, again for the gazetta. it is now wednesday and i miss him. but! i won’t start buying panini just to go there more often … its never good to exagerate these things.

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online video killed the …

Parrot Dancing - “This is a video of a medium sulphur crested Eleanora cockatoo named Snowball” yup, and this is one funky ass parrot. [via b3ta]

It’s Not a Compound - “Mormon mash-up. Polygamists never get a fair shake. Mainstream breakfast-hour news gets regurgitated. There’s room for everybody in this compound!” [via bb]

“‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett” - “Something has happened to PBS favorite “Charlie Rose.” The erudite conversations and sober intellectualism have been replaced by an absurd world where illogic, inane dialogues, and open hostility rule.”

Carry On Wayward Son - try to do what i did, for the first time have it play in a hidden browser tab and then go on to check out the “band”…

Graffiti Research Lab - the complete first season - “Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season documents the adventures of an architect and an engineer who quit their day jobs to develop high-tech tools for the art underground.” [via rebel-art]

schmooze and abuze

Country Codes of the World - “The Country Codes of the World map includes 245 country codes, which encompasses all United Nations countries as well as numerous islands and territories.”

WordPress 2.5.1 - “Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix.”

Skype for your mobile - “Skype for your mobile is a mini, beta version of Skype that you can download on to your mobile.” [via alf4ie]

How-to: Make a PS3 Laptop of your very own - “In this installment we’ll take apart the PS3, identify the parts within, and then reassemble them in a more compact way.”

Pixel Pour - “the pixels are materialized through some medium that is not electronic and the hybridity is more about a semantic cross-over from pixel worlds of electronic games to the real world.” [via neatorama]

Nihilum live raid streaming - “Nihilum is hosting a raid streaming event. Watch us raid the newest instance Sunwell Plateau, live, through 4 raiders point of views.” watch the top guild raid … could be interesting. could be lame as hell.

jon chester painting home - my good friend jon made a website to show his amazing recent paintings.

LSD vs Alcohol vs Tree - cute cartoon.

Lolcats hiring; spelling skillz optional - “I can haz dream Job? My rezumez! let me showz u thm” if i wasn’t retired i would be apply

Plastic made from pig urine - “Denmark-based Agroplast wants to transform pig urine into plastic dinnerware and household items. We all have to have dreams, I suppose.” [via bb]

10,000 Pot Smokers Have Marijuana Smoke-Out While DEA Says No To Industrial Hemp - “10,000 people gathered on the University of Colorado’s Norlin Quadrangle Sunday, puffing joints till the air turned blue. University police stood by to maintain order, but no one was busted for smoking pot.”

Flock Browser: Eco-Edition - “Better yet, the Flock Eco-Edition browser comes pre-loaded with fresh content from the best sources from across the web.”

Third – Portishead - you can stream the whole depressing (^^), new album at last.fm.

The ‘Roid Week 2008 Pool - roid week at flickr.

WordPress 2.5 Admin Backend Category Shenanigans and How To Fix It - “The look is cleaner and admin panel is supposedly designed to be easier to use by new bloggers. Except that it isn’t (at least for experienced bloggers).”

penis and cock

Penis theft panic hits city.. - “Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.”

Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital - “Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.” penis theft, lol

The Web - with added cocks - “My revolutionary program adds cocks to any website!” here’s pieceoplastic.com [via b3ta]

swiss focus

Freedom in Tibet! www.myspace.com/swissartists4tibet - “Am 6. Juli 2008 werden sich mindestens 15′000 Menschen auf dem Bundesplatz in Bern Schweiz zu einem Monster-Solidaritätskonzert für die Tibetische Bevölkerung versammeln.” [thx ramax]

LlFJoFdM8T.gif - this incredibly lame, yet somehow very fascinating anim gif comes up top if you google “bsc yb”.

Befragung zum Thema EURO 2008 in Bern - “Herzlich willkommen bei unserer Befragung zum Thema EURO 2008 in Bern.” naja.

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streetart

Train Spamming - “Wohin mit all dem Spam? Auf die Straße, auf die Züge! Zur Freiheit, zur Sonne und so.”
spam headlines used to graffiti trains.

Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date - despite being watched by CCTV - “Banksy pulled off an audacious stunt to produce what is believed to be his biggest work yet in central London.” but is bigger better?

online video killed the …

cat playing a theramin - sorry for the awww effect. [via b3ta]

Internet - “A 1981 technological documentary about the birth of ‘internet.’” [via b3ta newsletter]

“Kids Who Don’t Play Video Games Are At Risk” - “Grand Theft Childhood authors Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson talk about their research and findings.” if you can get past the speedfreak presenter, these are some interesting findings. but it’s also great unintentional comedy.

Remote Control Super Mario Brothers Song - “I can’t imagine how much time this took to set up and rehearse. This guy plays the Super Mario Brothers theme on bottles with a remote-control car!” yap

Angry Wife Lashes Out in ‘YouTube Divorce’ Video - “A bitter wife allegedly threatened with eviction and divorce by her husband has turned to YouTube to air the couple’s dirty laundry.” what struck me was how badly facelifted the poor woman is.

miranda july - one pose per second - we are HUGE fans, go go go miranda. [via swissmiss]

Best Game Ever - “In an event similar to our Best Game Ever, several hundred people showed up to cheer on a random soccer team in Sweden. Go Hässelby!” i love this idea.

Will Ferrell as Bush w/Jon Stewart - will ferrell will (lol) never be my favorite comedian, but he really nailed gw bush.

zocken

Doeo - “Doeo is a beautifully made, fun little game from Marcus Richert (aka Raitendo) where you have to collect the required number of Doeo’s which spring up all over the place.” [via neatorama]

Molleindustria - “Molleindustria aims to reappropriate video games as a popular form of mass communication.” aims to convey political messages in fun games.

Super Blockquote: Hewlett-Packard, Workstations Division - “Hence, Super Blockquote, which arms you against the marketroid oppression of Thompson’s prose.”

Numbers Station Bingo - “Press the play button to start the station, and cross out the numbers as you hear them. If you get a straight line in any direction, then congratulations! You have been activated.” not sure i get it, but the interface is great.

schmooze and abuse

‘Nerdic’ Geek Speak Taking World by Storm? - “Do you speak Nerdic? Chances are you do — it’s reportedly one of the world’s fastest-growing languages.”

Radio Rabe - “T-Shirt design for Bern local radio station Radio Rabe”

Gang dressed as cops steals court papers - “Thieves dressed as policemen talked their way past guards at Johannesburg’s High Court, then locked them in a bathroom and stole highly sensitive documents”

German whizzkid got it wrong - “It was an incredible tale of a German schoolboy spotting a miscalculation by the US space agency, proving the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth were higher than initially believed. But the amazing story of the whizzkid versus the space bureaucracy turned out to be wrong”

The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service - “The service is intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write whatever they want, without being afraid to get shut down by their blog host.”

Wiki pinpoints Brazilian crime - “this under-reporting of crime is one of the motivations behind a new interactive website called Wikicrimes, created by Professor Vasco Furtado from the University of Fortaleza in northern Brazil. “The idea is very simple; when people are robbed it’s quite common for them to tell other people,” he tells me. “With wikicrimes this information will be available globally.”

IRC interview with Douglas Rushkoff - “Douglas Rushkoff in IRC ” transcript of the interview.

corporatized.net - “This is the beginning of what will become a much larger project looking at corporatism, fascism, and - more importantly - new possibilities for local, bottom up organizing and value creation. This place is about cology, economics, media, resocialization, local currency and ethics. Amongst other things.” douglas rushkoff’s latest project.

First extract of Mark E Smith’s autobiography - “In this first extract from his autobiography, introduced by Dave Simpson, he looks back at the formative moments of his childhood and the birth of the band”

‘I did heroin once, just to be sociable’ - “In the second extract from his explosive new autobiography, Mark E Smith, the wayward genius behind the Fall, offers his thoughts on everything from John Peel to the joys of Primark”

Fight Splogs - Wired How-To Wiki - “Splogs,” or spam blogs, are one of the methods spammers have adopted to manipulate the blogosphere for profit.”

Wired’s Geekster Handbook, a Field Guide to the Nerd Underground - a commentor asks, “but who thinks they share at least one attribute from all of those? Does that mean they’re super-geeks?!”

Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files - “An interesting side-effect of YouTube’s recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube.”

Developing long-term relations with robots - “Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London are leading an international project which is set to advance the relationship between robots and humans”

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thought-provoking rant of the week

Better Than Free - “From my study of the network economy I see roughly eight categories of intangible value that we buy when we pay for something that could be free. In a real sense, these are eight things that are better than free. Eight uncopyable values. I call them “generatives.” A generative value is a quality or attribute that must be generated, grown, cultivated, nurtured. A generative thing can not be copied, cloned, faked, replicated, counterfeited, or reproduced.” [via bengston]

online video killed the …

Devo-Mongoloid - love em. [thx klav]

Fanboy Supercuts, Obsessive Video Montages - Waxy.org - “This insane montage of every instance of “What?” from the LOST series started me thinking about this genre of video meme, where some obsessive-compulsive superfan collects every phrase/action/cliche from an episode (or entire series) of their favorite show/film/game into a single massive video montage.” i didnt watch all, but lovesd this one: Every “What?” from the LOST series.

Tom Cruise Scientology Deutsche original Übersetzung von Dr. Phillip Herforth - german performer delivers a babblefish translated tom cruise speech in german.

Urban Honey - “Jon Rolston is a young urban bee keeper.” he thought about chicken then went for bees. wise choice.

Robot Nexi by MIT - “This is Nexi, a small humanoid robot designed by MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robotics Group. Her arms, wrists, and hands are fully controllable, allowing her to grip and lift objects of up to 10 pounds, and her face features an array of movable (and quite expressive) features including eyes, eyebrows, eyelids, and mouth.” slightly creepy.

Canada on Strike - the whole south park episode with the boys encounter of the internet stars is now online.

The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time - timewaster alert!

Wendy O. Williams remembered. - Boing Boing - “10 years ago this week, former Plasmatics front-woman Wendy O. Williams died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Chainsaws, shaving cream, destroyed guitars, exploding cars, nipple spikes, anarchopornoveganism, rock ‘n’ roll.”

schmooze and abuze

Postcards From Yo Momma - “Does your mom still have an AOL account? Does she email you her random, yet charming, thoughts on life and love?” collection of the cute emails our mothers tend to send us.

Say No to Flickr Video - “All we are asking is for Flickr to be left as a Photography website and if they want Video create a sister site. ” not sure i agree, hmm…

Rules of Thumb - About Rules of Thumb - “With this website, you have at your fingertips all the best rules of thumb I’ve col­lected since book number one plus everything voted into the Main Collection by online contributors like you.”

Russian girls support Vladimir Putin with panties - “The ribboned red-and-white knickers will help tackle Russia’s shrinking population by encouraging girls to have more babies.” oh really?

A Capital City With The Devil in the Details? - “Presidential candidate John McCain keeps calling Washington the city of Satan. Turns out he’s not alone.” satan satan satan!!!!

Net gains and pains for journalism - “They also seem to have realised that anyone who wants to break into professional journalism needs to have some sort of online presence beyond a Facebook profile”

Bloggers, DIY Filmmakers Capture S.F. Olympic Protest - “midst bull-horned demonstrators, agitated protesters and throngs of motorcycle cops, bloggers posted messages, videos and photos with handheld cameras and phones, while indie-media correspondents streamed live interviews with dissidents and images of the unfolding scene.”

Watch as Olympic Torch Protests Hit San Francisco - “As thousands of activists mass in San Francisco to protest the Olympic torch relay through the city Wednesday, the events are playing out online.”

Lies I’ve told my 3 year old recently - “All fish are named either Lorna or Jack.” [via al4ie]

6 Insane Cults (That Would Probably Be a Lot of Fun) - “Politics, sex and religion are the three things you’re not supposed to discuss in mixed company. Fortunately, if you’re in a cult, odds are you get to discuss those topics as much as you want. In the right cults you probably get to discuss them while having group sex. If you’re allowed to speak, that is.”

Official Google Blog: Developers, start your engines - “In the same way that Blogger made it easy to create a blog, Google App Engine is designed from the ground up to make it easy to create and run web applications.”

LSD History Comic - the mind-boggeling drugs history as a comic. [via other michael]

Battlestar Galactica Returns to Stellar Ratings - “Battlestar Galactica roared back into action Friday night, as the Season 4 premiere delivered more than 2.1 million total viewers”

Meat Beat Doses the World With New Manifesto, ‘Autoimmune’ - “Today, the synth collector and sonic experimentalist is hobbled by psoriatic arthritis and, he jokes by phone, he’s “walking around like Howard Hughes.” The autoimmune disease hits you hard in the joints and digits — the worst possible places for guy who makes a living pounding on synths and sequencers.”

MEN ARE BETTER THAN WOMEN - “Are Men Better Than Women? watch! youtube.com — Well one interesting man definitely thinks so. Dick Masterson has been on a crusade to try and educate the world on why Men Are Better Than Women…” oh please.

SoapBoxxer - What’s Your Opinion? - “This site is a fun and interesting mish-mash of people’s opinions, questions, and thoughts. It’s simple to use and highly addicting, be careful!”

Pro-Tibet protesters climb Golden Gate Bridge cables - “Three demonstrators scaled cables near the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge today and unfurled banners intended to draw attention to Chinese human rights violations in Tibet.”

Home copying - burnt into teenage psyche - “for 18-24-year-olds, home copying remains more popular than file sharing. Two-thirds of people it surveyed copy five CDs a month from friends. Overall, 95% of the 1,158 people surveyed had engaged in some form of copying, including taking the music contents of a friend’s hard drive - 58% - and the more old-fashioned method of recording from the radio.”

Inkjet tattoo paper - “These decal papers enable you to use your inkjet printer to print ‘tattoos’ that look just like the real thing - from your own customised designs.”

Flickr: frenzy’s photos tagged with antarctica - amazing photos of an amazing art show in milano’s hangar biccoca.

STIFLES Product Fotos - “the stifles are 2,15 inch (5.5 cm) tall with 180° turnable heads. they are available in blind boxes (4000 in total) or in 20 boxes containers for wholesale and collectors.”

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something kinda messed up, i think, but i am glad it did. a few days ago the solid steel podcast rss feed announced it as the latest edition, but as it turns out it was aired back in january, on 11. 1. 2008 to be precise.

but no matter what, its a real gem of a dj mix by strictly kev dedicated to all things kraftwerk, using mostly music inspired by kraftwerk or versions of their songs spiced up with samples from interviews with them. many materials i had never heard before. i especially love the kalyanji anandji version of das model entitled Y.o.g.a. fantastic.

solid steel strictly kev [mp3]
solid steel strictly kev [playlist]

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the german world … of warcraft

EU Sunwell Event Progress - this website compares the progress of european WoW servers in the so-called sunwell event progress … you had to be there. in short, the whole server has to work together to progress a cause. why i link it: 26 of the top 30 servers are german servers. now as to why that is so, that could be quite an interesting topic for a game anthropologist comapring gaming culture on the various servers.

German Fans Craft Real Warcraft Armor - “A group of German World of Warcraft fans has put together a stunning recreation of the Paladin’s Tier 2 armor, aka the Judgement set. The group of professional craftsmen, known as BattleHeat, “spent several hundred hours” crafting the steel-and-leather armor”

The Myth of the Media Myth: Games and Non-Gamers - not written by a german, i think, but still noteworthy: “I’ve been outside. It’s overrrated. Traditionally Outside receives extremely high ratings by those who like to see others play it, and these people are in many cases comfortably ensconced Inside themselves.”

online video kills

How Do We Make Money on the Internet? - from the latest south park episode: “The boys create an Internet video they hope will end the strike.”

Shut Your F-ing Mouth, Laughing Baby! - “The Internet stars battle it out for theoretical dollars.”

The Clash London Calling Video - “London Calling video with MP3 overdub and some sync video edits.”

The Elephant Song - “Children’s music artist, Eric Herman, sings an incredibly cute song all about elephants… sort of… The video was created by his wife, Roseann, with the help of their 3 year-old daughter, Becca.”

DennisKnopf’s Videos - “German rapper and net artist Dennis Knopf’s channel on YouTube, called Bootyclipse, collects fragments of videos where a girl who is going to shake her booty in front of a camera has not appeared in the frame yet, and looped these moments.” [via sexblo.gs]

NSFW!!! Me and My Girlfriend - “Video compiled of people glancing into the camera from their home made porn.” [via VVORK]

Honey Badger-The Most Fearless Animal on Earth - “Guinness Book of World Records have named this specie the most fearless animal on earth. Just watch this video to see why.”

Korean drummer takes the show - and the drummer goes wicked. or should i say schmaltzy.

schmooze and abuze

Awesome Light Graffiti Pictures - “Long Exposure pictures can get pretty awesome if you have the right ideas. One of the coolest ideas is to make sweet light graffiti with this camera option.”

Art Attack - “ZEVS is known, among other things, for his billboard “bombings,” in which he targets commercial images with a spray can and lets the paint drip where it may. A recent series, “Liquidated Logos,” takes the graffiti concept one step further, matching the paint to the original trademarks and allowing it to run”

Even Charles Manson Digs Creative Commons - “Good old Charles Manson of the Tate and LaBianca murders has done the same thing. His recent album, “One Mind” is licensed in a way that allows anyone to share it with others, remix it and use it for non-commercial uses.” somehow the pundits who usually salute anything CC were not that sure how to take this news.

Top names withdraw from relay as torch becomes beacon for protest - “Beijing’s plans for the London leg of the Olympic torch relay suffered a setback yesterday when it emerged that a number of torch-bearers, including the BBC’s most senior journalist, have abandoned plans to take part in Sunday’s event.”

R.E.M. Blatantly Co-Opts Us, Doesn’t Give Credit at Improv Everywhere - “The above R.E.M. YouTube video was posted to their official “remhq” channel this afternoon. It seems that R.E.M. (or more likely some marketing person at Warner Brothers) replicated our Grand Central “freeze” mission for the purpose of marketing their new album. If you look closely you can see they actually branded the event itself; a few of the frozen people are holding umbrellas that say “R.E.M.””

R.E.M. vs. Improv Everywhere = Copyfight Nonsense - “A bloggy brouhaha erupted Tuesday after R.E.M. posted a video called “The Big Still” that some called a rip-off of a famous Improv Everywhere stunt.”

University of Rochester Press Releases - “Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file.”

The Serif - “FontFont have announced that they are to release Helvetica Serif” rather geeky april fools.

We heart it - “We Heart It is a social bookmarking tool for images and videos.”

Twitter / dopeboyfresh - a rather questionable example of twitter usage: “shauna’s coming over. gonna break out the (wink wink) jimmy hats.”

Arse Elektronika 2007 - “Taking up where the successful conference in autumn 2007 left off, this year’s Arse Elektronika stands under the motto “future” — and the ways in which the present sees itself reflected in it.”

Joshua Allen Harris’ Inflatable Sculptures - simply brilliant.

Der Unternehmer, ein Admiral und ein «Schweizer Fräulein» - “Reale und virtuelle Begegnungen mit drei Schweizer Bloggern”

sarkosy - almost endearing, i did say almost.

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