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#watch and

anderson cooper has a giggle fit over depardieu's public urination – and now wait for the remixes

Graffiti Wars on Vimeo – king robbo vs. banksy – the documentary (video was taken down…)

What does being two look like? – it may seem a little cruel, but it's pretty great

Raw Video: French Bread From a Vending Machine – "French baker Jean-Louis Hecht has rolled out a 24-hour automated baguette dispenser, promising warm bread for hungry night owls, shift workers or anyone else who doesn't have time to pick one up during their bakery's opening hours."

Birmingham Riots 2011 | How it all began… – some interesting insights how the riots in birmingham might have started

#learn

Ulric Collette | Portraits génétiques – "Un travail de recherche photographique sur les ressemblances génétiques entre membres de même famille"

Getting High for Less: Easier Access to Better, Cheaper Heroin Cripples Small Towns – "Black tar dealers employ what is referred to as a "Pizza Hut/Domino" delivery model. After a phone order, dealers will come to you at your preferred drop-off location – be it at home or an undisclosed parking lot. After the hand-off is complete, the dealer follows up with a phone call to ensure users received a satisfactory high." finally. state of the art drug dealing.

Slavoj Žižek · Shoplifters of the World Unite – "Slavoj Žižek on the meaning of the riots" the smart analysis are slowly showing up

Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists – "Rising greenhouse emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report" Not a The Onion Headline? omg zomfg

The Lives of Hitler, Jesus and Michael Jackson in Pictograms – "… neat minimalist pictrogram timelines of historical and pop culture villains and heroes, dig ‘em hard. Sabine Troisvallets of design house H-57 has creatively illustrated seven noteworthy fates."

TS Icon – "The solution: We created a custom font containing the icons, elements and logotype that could then be controlled via simple CSS styling." font contains all social network icons

Dropping In On The Demented Utopia Of The Gathering Of The Juggalos – odd. disturbing. strangely engrossing. while reading this i kept thinking, that movie Idiocracy, remember that one, it’s here already.

Playfire – social network for gamers

Why CCTV has failed to deter criminals – "After the London riots, one thing is certain: anyone promoting CCTVs for deterrence is most likely selling something, probably CCTVs."

Penny Red – "This book brings together her diverse writings, showing what it is to be young, angry and progressive in the face of an increasingly violent and oppressive UK government." a book of writings from the one voice on the uk riots that did not embarass.

How Did BART Kill Cellphone Service? – "The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system initially claimed a phone service shut-down was performed by telecoms, but that's not the latest story" the how.

Collector Beastie Boys Action Figures – "Yes! These are the very same dashing figures that you feast your eyes on in the video. [...] The proceeds aka $ will be split between two very worthwhile charitable organizations that work with kids with cancer:"

Peter Crouch gets haircut from elderly riot victim – "I wasn't expecting to get a hair cut but I needed one and was in a barber shop, so I thought 'why not!?' Aaron did a great job." yay for aaron biber!

Pochoir: “Riot” – street sign to the riot

street tag iPhone app – the graffiti solution for whimps like myself

England riots: pair jailed for four years for using Facebook to incite disorder – "Two men – whose posts did not result in riot-related event – sentenced at Chester crown court after arrests last week"

Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery – "This is what David Cameron got wrong: you can't cut police budgets at the same time as you cut everything else. Because when you rob people of what little they have, in order to protect the interests of those who have more than anyone deserves, you should expect resistance—whether organized protests or spontaneous looting. And that’s not politics. It’s physics."

» The PDF with the ORIGIN – program is online! ORIGIN – aha, it's getting more concrete

Anonymous protests BART (happening now) – "#opbart protestor starts yelling at the crowd "All this over cell phone service?!" to which someone replies "We're protesting the shooting of Oscar Grant!" and someone else yells "I'm not! I'm here about the cell phone thing!". This pretty much sum up the feel of the protest. Many folks upset, but not really over the same things. "

Hipster Ipsum – "Pitchfork whatever helvetica gluten-free, etsy mustache echo park. Echo park dreamcatcher twee, food truck butcher etsy synth carles jean shorts letterpress photo booth locavore cosby sweater craft beer.'

Bleep: Filtered – An unsigned competition & compilation in association with Warp Records, SoundCloud & Transition Mastering – "Bleep: Filtered is a brand new Unsigned Competition and Compilation offering unsigned artists a unique chance to have their tracks A&Red, mastered, released, promoted, marketed and sold to the public. "

charlotte dieckmann + nils ferber: parasite farm – "the 'parasite farm' by charlotte dieckmann and nils ferber is an indoor compost system that can be easily integrated into your current living environment."

The Invisible Man - Eli Klein Fine Art Exhibitions – chinese artist paints himself to blend into the background

My Name Is Me | Supporting your freedom to choose the name you use on social networks and other online services. – "Supporting your freedom to choose the name you use on social networks and other online services."

Stop Coddling the Super-Rich – "While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks."

Banquesy: The Frenchman – known as Blek le Rat – accusing Banky of stealing his 'guerilla art' style – "Banksy does not give interviews but in his unofficial biography he says of Blek le Rat: ‘Every time I think I’ve painted something original I find out that Blek le Rat has done it as well, only 20 years earlier.’"

Obey Copenhagen Post 2 (Bad) – OBEY GIANT – shepard fairey got punched in copenhagen, there are deffo two sides to this story. there is a lot to be said about street art going commercial and being used to justify certain unpopular measures. but punch him? nah

Sand Glass LED Traffic Lights by Thanva Tivawong – "using the sand-hour-glass as its model. LED lights trickle down to make an obvious statement, regarding the time left for the lights to change. Easy and intuitive."

#swiss focus

SVP-Plakate Verhunztexten – bisher gefällt mir "sei anders!" und "schweine wählen svp" am besten

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#cats

Top 30 lolcats sleeping in odd positions » OWNI.eu, News, Augmented – "Life as a cat can be difficult when all you need to do is sleep all day. This is proven after viewing how our furry friends can relax in the most contorted positions…."

Cat Reactions (NSFWish) – "People on the internet like pictures of wacky things. They also like pictures of cats."

‪Kittens on DJ Decks‬‏ – i have to say the middle one does a very great job on tweaking the faders

#watch

The art of ‘pakour’ in Gaza – documentary about "two young men in Gaza who have been practicing pakour since 2009 and posting videos of their acrobatic feats on Youtube."

‪2D Photography Rube Goldberg‬‏ – "This is our Photography-themed Rube Goldberg Machine. We hope you all enjoy the clip!"

‪Thank You Mask Man‬‏ – "An animated short film of written by and staring Lenny Bruce" apparently this was animated after a few years after lenny bruce died

‪Whale "Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe"‬‏ – ha ha remember this song from 1994? quite fun

#read

Search engines change how memory works – "Thanks to search engines, most simple facts don't need to be remembered. They can be accessed with a few keystrokes, plucked from ubiquitous server-stored external memory — and that may be changing how our own memories are maintained."

r4 rally by yann terrer + jérôme garzon – "'r4 rally' is a concept car by parisian designers yann terrer of tylt design and jérôme garzon of machin machin. focusing on the energy cycle, this proposed redesign is a solar-powered vehicle which integrates nanotechnology with environmentally friendly materials. based on the iconic outlines of the renault 4"

Google+ Fan Art Compilation – "Here’s a roundup of some of the more popular images circling around Google+, listed roughly in the order of their appearance."

You look a little DOWN Mr.Murdoch? – thankfully the ginger next to him has a great hair day

Got PMS? Take a Look at These Milk Ads! – "So, ladies, are those great ads for milk or the greatest ever?" erm, my question is this: why would milk even need to advertise? don't we all buy it anyway?

Sabih | Yotam Ottolenghi – "A rich, moreish Iraqi-inspired combination of aubergine, egg, bread and all manner of other tasty goodies"

David Lynch Music Foundation – "DLF Music is the David Lynch Foundation’s newest venture – an online charity music label where music fans can download for good. This intern-fueled non-profit organization assures that the funds raised from music sales go directly to the David Lynch Foundation. DLF Music brings you exclusive, never-before-heard tracks donated by top artists, offering music as a reward for contributing to a great cause."

DJ Shadow: On futile ground? – "DJ Shadow has taken a stand against the web's impact on musicians. He tells Angus Batey why he's 'marketing' his new album by covertly placing it in London charity shops"

philips philanthropy by design: chulha smokefree stove – "'chulha' is a low-smoke stove, developed through the philanthropy by design program by philips electronics, that has been engineered for grassroots-level production and implementation in indian communities."

Gojee – like StumbleUpon for recipes

Holy Rats! The Temple of Karni Mata – "In the temple itself, there are approximately 20,000 rats living freely. They are called kabbas and people pay their respects to them from all around the world."

Beehive fences keep African elephants away from crops – "Like many animals, elephants are afraid of bees. So scientists recruited farmers in northern Kenya to test different types of barriers and found that fences made of beehives were far more effective than traditional thorn-bush fences at thwarting nighttime elephant raids."

Quick and Easy Fire Starters – "These little babies are made out of paper egg cartons, dryer lint and old candle stubs. Once lit, they burn long and mightily."

Barack Obama Unwittingly Narrates Experimental Creation Myth – "You know that we truly are living in a remix-driven society when even the President’s audio book is up for grabs as fodder for narration of an experimental short animation flick. Everyone knows Barack Obama as President of the USA, but now they may also come to know him as Son Of Strelka, Son Of God thanks to this “creation myth” from Dan Warren." yeah, but whata voice.

Austrian driver's religious headgear strains credulity – "An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear"." I'n'I Pastafarii

Wired publishes Manning chat logs in full – "info@adrianlamo.com: I'm a journalist and a minister. You can pick either, and treat this as a confession or an interview (never to be published) & enjoy a modicum of legal protection." lamo is scum. but what else is not new?

etón Raptor Orange | The Eton Webstore – i so want one, especially because it has a bottle opener as well

Adam Curtis Blog: RUPERT MURDOCH – A PORTRAIT OF SATAN – "Rupert Murdoch doesn't like the BBC And sometimes the BBC doesn't seem to like Rupert Murdoch either."

Solar Cells Can Now Be Printed on Anything, Even Paper and Fabric – "Researchers at MIT have figured out how to print photovoltaic cells on every-day materials like paper or fabric — and the process is practically the same is printing this article out on your desk printer."

Animated GIFs Triumphant – "But to my eye, GIF is the most popular animation and short film format that's ever existed. It works on smartphones in millions of people's pockets, on giant displays in museums, in web browsers on a newspaper website."

Woman Faces Jail Time For Growing Veggies In Front Yard – "A Michigan woman is looking at the prospect of 93 days in jail because she planted vegetables in planters in her front yard and refused to abide by the town elders' interpretation of the planning code, WJBX reports."

Survivalist Essentials – "the Raptor by Eton is a weather-resistant solar-powered charger. The built in compass, altimeter and barometer will keep you headed the right direction while the AM/FM radio keeps you informed and upbeat on your way there. As if that wasn't enough, the device also comes equipped with a USB cell phone charger, digital clock, alarm and NOAA weather alerts for good measure."

edouard françois: tour végétale de nantes – "tour végétale de nantes', a residential structure located in the future eco-neighborhood of prairie-au-duc in nantes, france."

Forthcoming Food – DJ Food has teased a mystery release, "more info soon…"

Hollis Brown Thorton’s digital nostalgia – "The movies/cassettes/video games embody our modern form of story telling, our contemporary myths and heroic adventures."

How books can help to create icons? – dust-jackets for books arranged to create pixel images.
Bee Hotel – i am not convinced the bees would fancy all the plastic and wiring, but this is still amazing

Ghostfunk | Max Tannone – "Released in July 2011, Ghostfunk pairs one of my favorite hip-hop artists, Wu-Tang member Ghostface Killah, with vintage African funk, high-life, and psychedelic rock music"

Radiohead – The King Of Limbs: Live From The Basement – "We’ve been waiting for this one for quite some time, but here it is in full. Radiohead performing their latest album ‘The King Of Limbs’ in full." Video seems to be private, but all tracks on soundcloud etc.

virtual tour barcelona – for a virtual visit to barcelona, and other cities eg bern has 4 maps.

Superhero Garden Gnome Mod – "My yard has a maniacal possum that will stop at nothing until he controls the entire area behind the compost pile. That's why every backyard needs a hero."

Mr Talion: “musca domestica” – street artist sticks huge stickers of flies onto adverts.

Julia Kim Smith: “With Banksy” | rebel:art – is banksy just a big hoodie wearing macho in private?

Millions of jellyfish invade nuclear reactors in Japan and Israel (PHOTOS) – "A nuclear reactor in Japan was forced to shut down due to infiltration of enormous swarms of jellyfish near the power plant. A similar incident was also reported recently in Israel when millions of jellyfish clogged down the sea-water cooling system of the power plant."

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#watched

Eclectic Method – The Apocamix – just in time for the apocalypse…

A Group of Hipsters Discussing Today’s Most Exclusive Music – deep! the cow could take a wife. infinity remix song.

I Like Vegetables — Parry Gripp – "Rock that cabbage!"

Rap attack on climate change sceptics hits home – "Droppin facts all over this wax While bizness be crying about a carbon tax"

Australian dies after 'planking' on balcony, police say – "Australian police say a man who plunged to his death from a seventh-floor balcony on Sunday was participating in the internet craze of "planking"."

Planking, Laying Face Down In Public With Your Arms To The Sides – "Planking, a fad gaining popularity in Australia, where people lay face down in public spaces with their arms to the sides."

A Love Story… In Milk – a rebel milk bottle falls in love with another

#read

urinal dress – gah, where is duchamp when you need him?

Duchamp was here – it appears that duchamp was indeed there

Proven: Vegetarians Most Likely To Enjoy Oral Sex – "A study carried out on no less than 256,370 OkCupid users has determined that vegetarians are indeed most prone to enjoy giving oral sex than meat eaters."

Judgment Day Open Thread: How are you planning to celebrate The Rapture on May 21? – "My cousin John says that tomorrow evening, he's buying up a bunch of blow-up sex dolls, filling them with helium and releasing them to heaven."

Study: Religious people still have sex, they just feel worse about it – "It seems that both religious men and women and atheists have sex at roughly the same rate. Both groups also reported watching pornography, masturbating, even pursuing affairs, at roughly the same rate. The main difference between the religious and the non-religious was that the devout felt guilty about it. "

Preview Miyuke Mayabe's Ico Novel Finally Translated To English – "Almost a decade since it was published in Japan, Miyuke Miyabe's Ico: Castle In The Wind, a non-canonical novel based on Fumito Ueda's cult classic PS2 game, will finally see an English translation and North America this August."

Apple triggers 'religious' reaction in fans' brains, report says – "For Apple fans, the brand triggers a reaction in the brain that's not unlike that of religious devotees, according to a BBC documentary series that cites neurological research."

Pirate Party Servers Raided by German Police – "This morning German police confiscated the servers of the Pirate Party, currently the sixth largest political party in Germany. Details of the raid are still scarce, but initial information indicates that the raid was targeted at a service running on the Party’s servers. The timing is unfortunate with the Pirate Party participating in the upcoming election in Bremen this Sunday."

Your 5-Day Forecast! #Funny – and more rapture humor.

rapture day prank Amazing…. – "Amazing. All the atheists will be hiding on Saturday."

Atheists Do It Better: Why Leaving Religion Leads to Better Sex – "A new study shows that religious people have as much sex as atheists, but with less sexual satisfaction and more guilt."

The Tunnel – "The horror film, The Tunnel, is being offered for free, as a torrent. If you like it, you can kick in some money here. "

Make your Franklin – "Make your Franklin suggest each of you to re-create a symbol of modern society : the 100$ banknote."

Portal prank: covering up crosswalk button sign – "Someone's replaced crosswalk button with this funny reference to Portal, an addictive puzzle-game"

Exploding watermelons put spotlight on Chinese farming practices – "New food scandal as fields of watermelons are destroyed after farmers mistakenly apply growth accelerator"

Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised – pretty visualization of a mashup

Living in SF Means… – "Broke-Ass Stuart reflects on living in the city by the Bay" with illustrations by wendy macnaughton

Wendy MacNaughton – kickass san francisco illustrator

French 3 Strikes Suspended Due To Anti-Piracy Security Alert – "Following a weekend security breach at Trident Media Guard, the outfit spearheading data collection for France’s 3 strikes anti-piracy drive, the country’s HADOPI agency has severed interconnection with the company. This means that, pending an enquiry, French file-sharers are no longer being tracked, a major embarrassment for the government."

mikeydoodles. lil' star wars – "Here’s all the Lil’ Star Wars characters I’ve done so far"

Seen On The Streets Of Berlin – Isaac Cordal, goddamn genius

zaha hadid: chanel mobile art pavilion paris – "zaha hadid's mobile art pavilion has found its permanent home outside of the institute du monde arabe in paris after a world tour – inclusive of new york, tokyo and hong kong – that began in 2008."

Shepard Fairey and McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage – "Shepard Fairey, that designer most famous for creating (stealing?) the iconic Obama image, has designed the cover for the new edition of Marshall McLuhan’s famous book, The Medium is the Massage. Fairey is known for creating art that often makes reference to the way propaganda is used by the powerful to control the masses into obeying."

Banksy’s Real Name is… – "In January, the real name of the enigmatic Banksy was being auctioned off on eBay. It was never revealed for whatever reason, but out of frustration, the man with the information decided to post it “Banksy-Style” through graffiti. It didn’t work out well for him this time, either."

3D Printed Strandbeest by Shapeways – "3D print-on-demand website Shapeways is now offering official reproductions of kinetic artist Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests. Remarkably, they arrive into being fully functional with no assembly required."

FA CUP 360 – impressive 360 panorama of the FA Cup Final, allowing people to tag themselves via facebook [via habi]

FREE AI WEIWEI – "If you don't speak out, and don't clear your mind, then who are you" Ai weiwei

Maria Fischer – book with stitched hyperlinks [via lopetz]

Street Art Stickers "outdoor WC" – nice one

L019: Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen – "Bitcoin is a P2P currency that could topple governments, destabilize economies and create uncontrollable global bazaars for contraband." xeni on twitter has asked for a women version, named bitchcoin, her choice of words…

Tear Down This Wall: Why Open WiFi Is Safer Than You Think – "If you’re just some guy on a home network with just one laptop, your home network is not going to be any more dangerous than doing some work at a coffee shop, even if you leave it wide open"

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#watch

Watch The Beastie Boys' 'Fight For Your Right Revisited' – "The Beastie Boys teased their short film, Fight For Your Right Revisited, yesterday afternoon by releasing the portion that serves as the visuals for their new single, "Make Some Noise." But now we have the entire film ready for your early-morning gut-busting pleasure as this is easily one of the funnier things I've seen so far this year."

"From Sketch: Régine Debatty" (DE) – blogger regine debatty of wmmna talking about her blogging career while doodling

Green Is the New Red – "Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege,"

Mel's Hidden Talent!!! – girl can imitate a surprising number of animals sounds, most of them well

Extreme ironing on the M1 motorway – "A man has been spotted doing his ironing on the closed side of the M1 motorway." the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt

Radiolab Presents Symmetry – "This striking Radiolab video made by Everynone was inspired by Radiolab's Desperately Seeking Symmetry episode."

Wiley 'Numbers in Action' – Official music video – "The official video for Wiley's brand new single 'Numbers in Action'" one of THE best i have seen in agesl

#read

Street Artist Space Invader Arrested in LA? – "The Los Angeles Police Department caught and arrested two French nationals vandalizing buildings with “buckets of grout and pieces of tile” near the LA Museum of Contemporary Art’s Little Tokyo gallery this past Friday. One of the vandals seems to be the famed French street artist Space Invader"

'Attack the Block' is fast, funny, and very British – "With a vigorous score from Basement Jaxx and Steven Price, Attack the Block is what we would expect from one of the UK's best comedy talents; hilarious, and very very British, "blud"."

Banksy exhibit 'inspires criminals', police insist – "The exhibit kind of glorifies graffiti," said Sergeant Augie Pando, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, who helps oversee his force's anti-graffiti campaign. "It puts taggers on front street." orly?

All Your Base are Belong to Us: how 50 years of videogames conquered pop culture – "In All Your Base Are Belong to Us, Harold Goldberg's comprehensive, new history of videogames, the author details the humble origins of what would become a multibillion dollar company, Blizzard Studios."

Euthanasia coaster: assisted suicide by thrills – "a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely — with elegance and euphoria — take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster's track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death."

Flickr To Crowdsource Footage of Royal Wedding – "In a bid to capture some of the many eyeballs that will be trolling through Royal Wedding footage following the April 29 event, Flickr has launched a group and contest to crowdsource related photographs from around the world."

Apple iOS 4 Has Been Secretly Tracking iPhone & iPad Users’ Locations – "At Where 2.0 today in Santa Clara researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden announced today that Apple’s iOS 4, which runs on the iPhone and iPad, has been secretly saving the device user’s location data since the software’s release a year ago." yeh, we knew that for months now, no?

Lady Gaga Won’t Allow “Weird Al” Yankovic To Release Parody Song – "UPDATE 2: Turns out Lady Gaga’s manager did not tell her about the parody, she loves the song."

RockMelt Social Browser Now Available on iPhone – "if you’re a user of the RockMelt browser on Mac or PC, everything you do is in the cloud, so whatever happens on the iPhone version is also visible on any devices running RockMelt."

Sergio Ramos dropped Copa del Rey trophy under moving bus – they won playing anti-football and then proceeded to destroy the trophy? seems fitting.

Weird Al snubbed by Lady Gaga, releases his parody without permission as fair use – "You're going to love this. Lady Gaga denied Weird Al the right to release his parody of BORN THIS WAY, only the second time in his career that he's been denied [ed: the other refusal came from Prince]. [...] So instead of selling a couple hundred thousand or a million copies… he gave PERFORM THIS WAY away for free to his 2 million followers on Twitter."

You are listening to Deep Thought – "You Are Listening To Deep Thought," in which big thinkers like Bucky Fuller, Terrence McKenna, and Aldous Huxley lay out their cosmic raps (snagged from YouTube) on top of ambient soundscapes culled from SoundCloud."

Hackers Attack Change.org in Response to Ai Weiwei Campaign – "Online petition platform Change.org is suffering denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the wake of a campaign calling for the release of Chinese artist and activist Ai WeiWei."

10 Charts About Sex – "All the data below, even the most personal stuff, has been gleaned from real user activity on OkCupid. Some of it our users have told us outright by answering match questions; some of it we've had to learn from observation."

Is Chocolate the Tastiest Natural Cough Medicine of All? – "As if we needed another excuse to have some chocolate, new research shows that it may be an effective cough suppressant, too."

Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted' – "In an extract from her memoir, Bossypants, Tina Fey considers the pros and cons of breastfeeding, explains why male comedy writers pee in cups – and has some choice words for her detractors"

FY google maps – fu

back of a webpage – some are way funny

Notebook brand Moleskine launches iPhone app – "Classic notebook brand Moleskine, which is a firm favourite amongst artists, writers and creative types, has launched an application for iPad and iPhone devices."

The best of Google Video on MetaFilter – "In that spirit, click inside for a list of some of the most popular Google Video-centric content posted here over the years."

Variety loses to punk band in album cover dispute – "Hollywood trade newspaper Variety has lost in its attempt to pursue a trademark claim in Delaware against the punk band The Vandals."

fornasetti: nucleare vade retro – "during milan design week 2011, a vinyl sticker 'nucleare vade retro' was given to designboom and international guests at the annual fornasetti party, held in the archive of piero fornasetti and (his son) barnaba's private home and garden."

D.I.Y. Real Life Version of Steve Buscemi Eyes by Alex Pardee – "Alex Pardee has created a mask that you can print out so that you can add Steve Buscemi Eyes to everything around you."

The Pirate Bay Plugs Hybrid File-Sharing Platform – "In recent years the file-sharing world has become more diverse than ever before. Torrents, streaming and cyberlockers have all entered the mainstream with millions of users. Tube+ is a newly launched website that brings most of these sharing platforms together."

#googletranslate

Offline Flattr – "Vor acht Monaten kursierte das Projekt “Urban Economy” noch als Street-Art-Streich im Netz – und ist inzwischen Realität geworden: Flattr gibt es jetzt auch als Offline-Variante!"

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#vidz

Earth's gravity mapped in colourful geoid visualisation – "This psychedelic space blob is the most accurate representation yet of gravity's tug on planet Earth."

The Story of Bottled Water (2010) – "Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces."

Akira Kiteshi – Pinball (Hexstatic video edit) – "Hexstatic video edit for Pinball."

Blow Up Jeff Koons' Balloons With A Bazooka – "The game is set in a large museum during a Jeff Koons retrospective. The viewer is given a rocket launcher and the choice to destroy any of the work displayed in the gallery. If nothing is destroyed, the player is allowed to look around for a couple of minutes and then the game ends. However, if one or more pieces are destroyed, an animated model of Jeff Koons walks out and chastises the viewer for annihilating his art."

"Share The Air" Presentation – someone made the valid point, if color can get it, this project should easily get vc funding as well. lolololol

#stuff

Jack draws anything – "Welcome to my website. I will draw anything you like to raise funds for the Sick Kids, just ask me. My name is Jack and I am 6 years old."

WHERE THE FUCK IS THIS – "Did you ever find a picture on the internet and thought „Where is this ?“. We can help you find this place! "

The ideas, hopes and challenges of today’s robots – “For three full days, robots have taken the center stage and all those sessions ended up forming a coherent picture made of several key ideas and questions surrounding what will be major market in the future.”

Radioplayer | UK radio in one place.
BBC's 'Radioplayer' goes live – “Radioplayer, the partnership between the BBC's radio department and commercial radio organisations, is now live on the web.”

Butting In: Portrait Made of Over 20K Used Cigarette Butts – "Overall, there are 20,394 cigarette filters making up the legendary singer’s face." smoking hot serge gainsbourg portrait.

Mother captures the magical moment a rainbow forms over her young son's head – gah. kitsch!

'Fuck This, I'm Out' – Banksy Piece – no, you missread that, it’s A banksy piece, not banksy’s piece.

This is how cheese is made, right? – well, yes, of course it is, how else?

How To Hack the New York Times Paywall … With Your Delete Key – "Frustrated by the idea of paying for what was once free, some New York Times readers have devised widely publicized methods for subverting its newly erected paywall. Their efforts, it turns out, may have been for naught."

Google +1 Button, Recommending Things To Your Friends – "Google has launched their new +1 button, which lets you recommend things to your friends through your Google Profile."

Shoot an Iraqi by Wafaa Bilal – “Art is meditation,” continues Bilal, “you could meditate on aesthetic, but also you could meditate on pain and unfortunately, I’m not privileged or in a position to meditate on aesthetic.” now as a book”

Aua Wir Leben Poster – "Poster, web and info-booklet design for the Contemporary Theater Festival «Auawirleben» 2011 in Bern, Switzerland. "

Quakebook Blog – "The official Quakebook Blog – A Twitter-sourced charity book about how the Japanese Earthquake at 2:46 on March 11, 2011 affected us all. All proceeds from the QuakeBook Book go to the Japan Red Cross."

SPENT – can you make it through the month?

3eanuts – "With the last panel omitted, despair pervades all."

Louis Vuitton sues artist, again – “In a T-shirt sold in 2008 to raise money for victims of violence in Darfur, artist Nadia Plesner depicted an African child holding a Louis Vuitton-style bag. So Louis Vuitton sued her. When she recently included the same design in a painting, it sued her again.”

Color App Hack Lets You Spy On Anyone’s Photos Anywhere – “"Over the weekend, he put that idea to the test. Using a jailbroken iPad and an app called FakeLocation, Wysopal was able to set his device’s location to anywhere in the world. Launching Color a moment later, he found, as predicted, that he could see all the photos of any person at that location."”

Another Photographer Mixes Nudity With NYC – “"Next month photographer Erica Simone will unveil her nude self-portraits in an exhibit titled "Nue York: Self-Portraits of a Bare Urban Citizen." The 20 photographs feature Simone all over the city—from the Bowery to the Bronx—sans clothing."

What really happened in Trafalgar Square – "A riot," said martin Luther King Jr, "is the language of the unheard." There are an awful lot of unheard voices in this country. What differentiates the rioters in Picadilly and Oxford Circus from the rally attendees in Hyde Park is not the fact that the latter are "real" protestors and the former merely "anarchists" (still an unthinking synonym for "hooligans" in the language of the press). The difference is that many unions and affiliated citizens still hold out hope that if they behave civilly, this government will do likewise."

Denis Cotter: for the love of food – "Denis Cotter’s fourth book, for the love of food, is a collection of recipes with a focus on home cooking and the pleasures of preparing and sharing meals." if this is anything like his previous 3 books, this will be an excellent inspiration, full of simple yet imaginative vegetarian recipes. coming out 14. april.

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Food Liberation Army: Kidnapping Ronald McDonald – "I thought that I had taken a rubber statue from a store, but apparently I had done something much worse."

B Movie, A Mini Documentary on Banksy – this video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Banksy … ??? WTF dude. here it currently is: b-movie

The Flaming Lips Release Song via 12 YouTube Videos – "the Flaming Lips have just released a new song that can only be heard if 12 YouTube videos are played simultaneously."

Akay: Robo-Rainbow – Instrument of mass destruction (complicated technical solution to aide in simple acts of vandalism).”

last weeks news

Riise makes heartbreaking apology after falling over – i am not a huge fan of riise, but this statement broke my heart.

Fresh Stuff From Eyesaw – what would that be, fishing for posters?

Death of Output – "Back at the end of 2006, when Trevor Jackson’s Output Recordings folded, I put together a 3 hour tribute mix of my favourite"

Pasadena family enforces its trademark of the term "Urban Homestead" – "The Dervaes Family, who run a great urban farm in Pasadena, CA, is catching a lot of heat from urban homesteaders. They are objecting to a letter the Dervaes Family sent out a couple of days ago to let bloggers know that the terms "urban homestead" and "urban homesteading" are trademarks owned by the Dervaes Institute. They registered the terms in 2008." woot its been boinboinged

Oakland Homesteading School Caught in Trademark Tussle (Updated) – "“They’re trying to own something that’s being used for the common good,” Blume said, whose appeared alongside others in an OC Weekly blog post this week. “These terms have been around since the mid-70s, in magazines like Mother Earth News and others.” With a fairly common term like “urban homesteading,” the trademark bar to enforcement can be high, although the Dervaes did register two terms, “Urban Homestead” and “Urban Homesteading” in October of last year. “In order to win in a trademark infringement lawsuit, Urban Homesteading, the people claiming as a trademark would have to show that the mark is not descriptive or generic,” said Jed Wakefield, a San Francisco lawyer not associated with the case, “And if it’s descriptive, people would associate it with them and not basic concept of urban homesteading."

[Updated]: Dervaes Family Trademarks "Urban Homestead" Term: Legal Battle Follows – "This past week, the Dervaes Institute, the parent organization run by the Dervaes family, started sending out "normal, professional and informative" letters to anyone using the following trademarked terms: URBAN HOMESTEAD®, URBAN HOMESTEADING®, PATH TO FREEDOM®, GROW THE FUTURE®, HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION®, FREEDOM GARDENS®, LITTLE HOMESTEAD IN THE CITY®"

Cookies Sold by String Dangling From San Francisco Apartment Window – "San Francisco entrepreneurs Eve, Kathleen and Clem of Fat Cookies deliver their oven fresh product (baked in their second story apartment) to their customers below by way of an ingenious bag and string hoist. To get your fix next time you’re in Dolores Park, follow Fat Cookies on twitter"

Why Are You People Defending Apple? – "I don’t like where this is headed, and I think that many who consider themselves technophiles are completely dropping the ball by rationalizing what Apple has done."

The Tribes of Burning Man by Steven T. Jones – "The Tribes of Burning Man is a new book by Steven T. Jones (aka Scribe) on how Burning Man is transforming American society."

papierlose zeitung – "Die Papierlose Zeitung ist ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt von Bleiberecht Zürich und Bildung für alle."

gegen-pelz.de campaign – how about this one, fox wears woman

Infographic: Crime, organised – "Just how organised is organised crime? Think of it as the world's largest and most illicit social network."

BACK TO THE FUTURE : Irina Werning – like ze's young me/now me project, but with professional photos

Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack – "the Anonymous response was swift and humiliating. HBGary's servers were broken into, its e-mails pillaged and published to the world, its data destroyed, and its website defaced."

Laurie Anderson | Tender anarchy is a great goal – "’ I don’t think anarchy needs to be angry. In fact, I think tender anarchy is a great goal."

The King of Limbs : Where are you? – "The King of Limbs”, the latest album by Radiohead is now available for pre-order and will be released on Saturday.”

Cthulhu ski mask – "hand-knit Cthulhu hat from his mother as a surprise gift." lucky dude him

Search Optimization and Its Dirty Little Secrets – blame it on the ginger

Diamond Dave, San Francisco Rabble Rouser and Revolutionary Rebel – "The reason Dave has been able to keep going strong for all these years is that he’s always changing, adapting, seeing what’s new, always with a great appreciation for the creativity and genius of the next generation. He’s not frozen in time, he is of his time — in the most radical, uncompromising way." i was recently looking for this guy online, i remember him from the punk concerts at the farm. he knows like one poem.

Root Simple: Cleaning the Sink with Baking Soda and Lemons – "It is possible to keep a sink white and shiny without bleach or other toxic cleansers. I took pictures this week while I was cleaning to prove it."

Ivan Argote – great work from the edge where social experiments and art meet

Bike Drawings – "Welcome to a strange land where bike pedals are sometimes attached to your seat but we all get around just fine anyway. If so inclined, draw a bike from memory and email it to bikedrawings@gmail.com"

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Douglas Rushkoff » Me, Losing It – "I got really tired of listening to brand managers talk about their “Twitter strategies,” and by the time my closing keynote came around, it felt like I had watched the corporatization the net recapitulated over the course of the afternoon"

Art installation looks like burning building – "Isabelle Hayeur, an artist from Montreal, created "Fire with Fire," an artwork that simulates a fire in a "four-storey heritage building in the downtown eastside.""

Simpsons — The XXX Parody – "But instead, everybody else in Springfield seems to be getting their shorts eaten, until Marge finally decides to let her blue hair down, and show you and Homer how wet and wild it can get underneath that green dress"

oops – "oops || appropriated digital video || 2009 ||"

Il était une fois… les technologies du passé. – "Once upon a time… vintage technologies."

Charlotte: No no no – "Filmed after a long car ride, Charlotte had a lot to say…"no""

A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight? – "Try as you might, you can't walk in a straight line without a visible guide point, like the Sun or a star. "

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How WordPress Themes Actually Work [INFOGRAPHIC] – "This one serves as a sort of “cheat sheet for how your blog works” and takes the reader through the basics of a normal WordPresstheme."

Wikipedia's list of common misconceptions – "The Wikipedia entry for "List of common misconceptions" is chock-a-block with fascinating tit-bits that you can amaze and disabuse your friends with"

ai weiwei's shanghai studio demolished – "authorities have stayed true to their decision to demolish ai weiwei's shanghai studio, located in the northern district of jiading. destruction of the building has begun."

Why Twitter Was the Only Company to Challenge the Secret WikiLeaks Subpoena – "The government has almost certainly made secret requests for WikiLeaks-related material from other companies. But only Twitter (successfully at least) fought to have to have those orders brought into the open. Here’s why"

Banksy's identity eBayed – "Yours, for $25,000 or best offer, is the identity of Banksy, street artist. Allegedly!"

Banksy (Yes, Banksy) on Thierry, EXIT Skepticism & Documentary Filmmaking as Punk – "Thierry’s entertainment potential wasn’t difficult to spot – he actually walks into doors and falls down stairs. It was like hanging out with Groucho Marx but with funnier facial hair. Thierry arrived at a point when my world was becoming infested with hipsters and heavy irony, so his exuberant man-child innocence was fun to be around."

New Wagon Christ LP imminent – "Wagon Christ has a new album called ‘Toomorrow’ set for release in March. The excellent Celyn Brazier is on artwork duties again and you can hear a track from it here."

Nugget From The Net: Dude Makes Feature-Length Grand Theft Auto IV Machinima – "I haven’t had a chance to watch the whole movie, but from what I’ve seen, the action is well choreographed, and it has a super odd voiceover. It’s an impressive feat, though, so definitely check it out:"

100 quotations every geek should know – "One thing that every geek can do is quote their favorite geek-culture media, whether it's movies, books, television, theater or music. The GeekDads have tried to compile a list of such quotes for your enjoyment."

Facebook will NOT end on March 15th. Hoax news story spreads like wildfire – "A story is spreading like wildfire across Facebook this weekend, claiming that the world's most popular social network is closing on March 15th. The reason? CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims that "managing [Facebook] has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.""

Seen On The Streets Of Ponte A Poppi, in Casentino (near Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy) – street hacks

Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics – "Many people will use this terrible tragedy as an excuse to put through a political agenda other than my own. This tawdry abuse of human suffering for political gain sickens me to the core of my being. Those people who have different political views from me ought to be ashamed of themselves for thinking of cheap partisan point-scoring at a time like this."

A LETTER FROM CHUCK D TO HIP- HOP (2) – "As far as RAP and HIP-HOP, it’s like USA Olympic basketball, the world has parity now and have surpassed the USA in ALL of the basic fundamentals of HIP-HOP – TURNTABLISM, BREAKING, GRAFFITI, and now EMCEEING with succinct mission , meaning and skill. Skill-wise rappers spitting three languages, have created super rappers to move the crowd with intensity and passion."

Apple Users Forced to Pirate VLC Player? Whatever Next? – "Last year, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users were delighted to learn that VLC media player had become available for their device via the App Store. But now, thanks to a licensing and copyright dispute, that particular party has been cut short and the software pulled offline. Bizarrely, the only way people can get this free and open source software now is to pirate it. You couldn’t make it up."

Marcel Walldorf: “Pinkelnde Petra”, 2010 – sculpture of a peeing police woman won an art price, the right wing media goes berserk in germany

ViCKi LEEKX – M.I.A.s ViCKi LEEKX mix – free

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Bern: Unbekannte werben mit gefälschten YB-Flyern – "Am Weltcupanlass in Adelboden sind im Zuschauerbereich Flyer mit politischem Inhalt verteilt worden. Auf den Flugblättern befindet sich ein grosses YB-Logo und dazu der Satz: «Aus YB zu Bern, nein zum AKW Mühleberg»"

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TURF DANCING in the RAIN | DANSE SOUS LA PLUIE – "Dancers are No Noize (red jacket), Man (back jacket), BJ (striped shirt), Dreal (white shirt). Directed and edited by Yoram Savion"

Painting Reality – IEPE – "500 liters of waterbased environmentally-friendly paint on asphalt spread by 2000 cars. 25.04.2010 Rosenthaler Platz, Berlin"

Cee Lo Green – FUCK YOU (Official Video) – wicked editing in this mildly NSFW video

Eclectic Method – 8 Bit Mixtape on Vimeo – "trying to play me out like as if my name was sega"

Update: Banksy – 2 videos of recent banksy interventions, i rather like the dolphin one.

10 Rules for Radicals – "Rogue archivist Carl Malamud's 10 Rules for Radicals is the transcript of his keynote at the 19th World Wide Web Consortium conference in 2010. It's a thrilling and often hilarious account of his adventures in liberating different kids of information and networks from various bureaucracies in his storied and exciting career. " says boingboing, and we trust em… don't we?

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Washington, We Have a Problem – "How broken is Washington? Beyond repair? A day in the life of the president reveals that Barack Obama’s job would be almost unrecognizable to most of his predecessors—thanks to the enormous bureaucracy, congressional paralysis, systemic corruption (with lobbyists spending $3.5 billion last year), and disintegrating media."

Crap Graffiti » Celebrating the inept – "Celebrating the Inept! Please send us photos of crudely drawn cocks and toilet wall art."

Yotam Ottolenghi's fig salad recipe – "Late summer and early autumn are peak time for figs. Any other time of the year, you will probably be getting fruit from great distances and, as figs don't ripen after picking, this normally means bland and dry. A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin."

swiss_german (swiss_german) on Twitter – this blog claims to introduce a swiss german word per day, but i'm afraid, it is a total joke, there is not ONE swiss german, but many dialects, and this happens to be the one from basel.

Pirate Bay Documentary in the Works – "Notorious filesharing website The Pirate Bay is a long-standing enemy of the movie industry, but one Swedish filmmaker has plans to create a documentary called TPB AFK about the three founders of the site, and their reactions to being found guilty of being accessory to crime against copyright law and fined about $3.6 million."

Black Tie Beach – "For our latest mission we had several hundred agents spend a day at Coney Island / Brighton Beach wearing black tie attire. We covered a mile-long stretch of beach with a diverse group of people of all age"

As a black man, it bothers me when white people avert their gaze too quickly or give some other indication that they're nervous … – "As a black man, it bothers me when white people avert their gaze too quickly or give some other indication that they're nervous, but not in the way you'd think. I feel GUILTY for making them nervous, like it was my fault, or something. Any advice? : AskReddit" AskReddit goes all over the place, good read though. i like the urinals bit

San Francisco Values – "The people behind proposition 8 put out a new ad last week for some reason. In addition to the usual manipulations and outright lies they’ve employed throughout their campaign, ably deconstructed by Stop8.org, this ad was bookended by the phrase “San Francisco values” replete with scary music."

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Worst Wedding DJ EVER! (ORIGINAL) – "no description available" and no description needed… wait till he starts to slap his drums.

Funny dancing dog – cats ruled the internetz, then finally there was techno dog.

Albi Saner dräit düre – HALLIHALLO dr Bienvenu.

No Fun – Eva and Franco Mattes – "Online Art Performance by Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org 2010." says so much about our time.

Babies – Movie Trailer – "Babies is a documentary film by Thomas Balmes, depicting the early lives of four infants growing up in Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco and Tokyo, respectively." babies!!!11!

LittleBigPlanet 2 Preview – "Taking a cue – and a queue, actually – from social networks, every player will now have their own activity stream, a Twitter-esque timeline that is constantly being updated with exactly what they, their PSN friends, and any other LBP player whose work they've hearted, have been doing in the game."

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Trash Humpers / Warp Films to release Harmony Korine's new feature – "It’s a fearless soul that makes a film like Trash Humpers" i am too scared to buy this…

Kon + Amir Present: The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time – "These days, everyone loves hip-hop. But how much does the average fan really know about the building blocks that formed the foundation of the genre's entire sound?" great resource.

The rise and fall of an Internet sensation – "On Feb. 15, Thomas Bruso's already unpredictable life took an abrupt detour. It was the day he ceased being Thomas Bruso and became Epic Beard Man, Internet sensation. That day, Bruso pulled on his custom-made "I am a motherfucker" T-shirt, snapped on his fanny pack, and met the pot-smoking buddy he calls Ugly Bob at the bus stop at Fruitvale and MacArthur in Oakland. They boarded a San Francisco–bound AC Transit bus, planning to buy some weed in the city."

Lost in Lost: Season six, episode 15 – "But, as always, Lost gave us more questions than answers." lost lost me too.

in Bb 2.0 – a collaborative music/spoken word project – "play these together, some or all, start them at any time, in any order." [thx van]

The Incredible Shrinking Man – "A public research into the implications of genetically downsizing the human species to better fit the earth." its a decent plan.

Open Facebook Alternatives Gain Momentum, $115K – "The funding is not through the capital market and not through the venture capital system, but through civil society,” said Moglen. “This is a signal to Facebook, and I am sure Facebook is getting it."

Boat That Rocked, The [2009] – the other day we watched this movie, it is kinda meh, much overacting, too hyper, but the music is brilliant. this website gives you minute by minute tracklist. fantastic service!

A study in cow dynamics – "Happy cows tend to copy each other. And happy cows are also more productive by various measures such as the amount of milk they produce."

The Yes Lab for Creative Activism – "The Yes Lab is a series of brainstorms and trainings to help activist groups carry out Yes-Men-style projects on their own." looking for donations

German court orders wireless passwords for all – "Germany's top criminal court ruled Wednesday that Internet users need to secure their private wireless connections by password to prevent unauthorized people from using their Web access to illegally download data." there dies the free wifi movement.

Banksy's Road Trip Continues – Yesterday, Toronto. Today, Boston. – "For us, Banksy has given people a new reason to get out of their homes, explore their cities on a scavenger hunt trying to find pieces that have been put up in both heavily trafficked areas as well as those off the beaten path."

Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options – "To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook says it wants to offer precise controls for sharing on the Internet."

HTC calls for halt to sales of iPad, iPhone and iPod in US – "The fight between Apple and HTC, maker of mobile phones using Google's Android platform, is growing increasingly acrimonious with the Taiwanese firm calling for the regulatory authorities to halt the sale of iPhones, iPads and iPods in the US." rrrr, cat fight!

Steam for Mac now available, 57 launch games including free Portal, and LucasArts classics – "Tipsters are telling us that the Steam for Mac service is now live … sort of. While the client makes the rounds, and the beta whitelist has been lifted, it appears Valve isn't quite ready to break out the cigars."

Arts: Swiss Artist Catalogs Mutant Insects Around Nuke Plants – "Scientific illustrator Cornelia Hesse-Honegger details these minute mutations in the so-called true bugs she collects near nuclear facilities and areas of chemical contamination. True bugs don't travel far, and they "suck the liquid from the plants they live on," she says. "So if the plant is contaminated, they take a lot of radioactivity into their bodies."

For The Win » News – "Imbued with the same lively, subversive spirit and thrilling storytelling that made LITTLE BROTHER an international sensation, FOR THE WIN is a prophetic and inspiring call-to-arms for a new generation" the new cory doctorow novel is out and as usual available for free download. this will be the first book i read on my iPad.

Poster Boy in Jail – "Think of all the people out there who commit real crimes, yet live their lives unpunished, and compare them to the actions of an artist who was only making the streets and subways look a bit more interesting. This world is really messed up."

Chavez tops Twitter in Venezuela – "The Twitter account of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has become the most popular in Venezuela, with more than a quarter of a million followers. Mr Chavez says he has hired 200 people to read through the many messages he receives on the social networking site. He says over 18% of the messages he receives are hostile."

Sociologists invade World of Warcraft, see humanity's future – "A sociological field study no longer means packing up; it means plugging in. Books, articles, and US government funding make it clear that World of Warcraft and Second Life have become legitimate locations for academic research into everything from gold farming to "goon culture" to humanity's future."

Organic Potatoes at Safeway: You’re Doing It Wrong! – "The sight of these Melissa’s organic potatoes individually-wrapped in petroleum-based plastic wrap* really struck me as a serious marketing misstep. The people who are buying organic potatoes in the first place will also be the first ones to balk at this kind of over-done packaging that seems to miss the whole point." in theory, yes, they should balk, but …

South Africa World Cup 'just for the rich' – "South Africa's street vendors, barred from selling their goods near the World Cup stadia, say the strict regulations are threatening their livelihood"

Ninja Tune XX (Limited Edition Box Set) – "Pre-order now, pay £80.00 (available for a limited period only, full price £100.00) and guarantee your copy for delivery on the release date, September 20th 2010." and pre-ordered it is.

Dead Footballer Booked For Diving – "A Croatian footballer who collapsed and died during a match was booked by the referee for simulating a foul before he realized he had died." he then gave him the red card for dying.

Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis – "The biggest contradiction may be: How can a generation whose cultural trademark is a refusal to grow up have a midlife crisis? " orily?

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Colbert Opens Show with Rube Goldberg Machine – "In honor of his guests OK Go, whose latest viral music video you've already seen a dozen times so I don't need to describe it to you, Stephen Colbert kicked off last night's Colbert Report with an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine." fischli weiss stole this idea from rube goldberg?

Airspace Rebooted – "A visualisation of the northern European airspace returning to use after being closed due to volcanic ash." sick.

Chatroulette Speed Painting #1 – "Painting random people online, using my wacom tablet."

Armando Iannucci's Time Trumpet – David Cameron – "clip from episode 6 of Armando Iannucci's Time Trumpet, which looks back at the election of David Cameron and the rising popularity of the BNP under Diana Tinkman." visionary!

Boobquake Day Causes Earthquake – "A Purdue University student calls for women to wear skimpy clothing to prove an Iranian madman wrong."

HELLO Z.E. WORLD ! – loled at this guerilla marketing strategy for zero emissions cars by renault…

M.I.A, Born Free on Vimeo – very strong video, more like a mini movie, contains violence, nudity and gingers…

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Caponata recipe – "An old-school Sicilian classic gets the Ottolenghi treatment. Just be sure you save some for the next day, too" mmmhhh, dinner soon?

Is Banksy a Green Party supporter? – "Perhaps then, the most reliable way to tell if Bansky really is a Green Party supporter is to wait for the inevitable response from King Robbo."

The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash – "The PC revolution is almost coming to an end, and everyone's trying to work out a strategy for surviving the aftermath."

Stephen Walter's The Island – "The artist, a Londoner with a love of his native city, offers up a huge range of local and personal information in words and symbols.” [via b3ta]

First Annual Everybody Draw Mohammad Day – "some clever chappie (I don't know who) has declared May 20, 2010 "Everybody Draw Mohammad Day," in support of Matt Stone and Trey Parker and in opposition to religious thuggery." dare i drwa one?

iPhone's Gay Social Networking App Leads to Murder of Phoenix Man, Police Claim – "Murder? Apparently there's an app for that, too." also watch jon stewart poking fun at apple, knocking in doors? there’s an app for that too.

Dirty Dozen Foods – Pesticide Residue on Fruits and Vegetables – "The Environmental Working Group takes that government data and publishes an annual list of the Dirty Dozen, those foods most likely to have high pesticide residues. This year, celery takes the number one spot, and both blueberries and spinach make an appearance (displacing lettuce and pears)."

Gorillaz Talk Plastic Beach, Subtle Environmentalism and ‘Sunshine in a Bag’ – "Wired.com: Are you up on the Twitter and everything? Albarn: I haven’t got a computer. But I do like drum machines and keyboards — everything I can get my hands on." a wise man.

Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash, in Flash. – "Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash, in Flash. Big improvement. (Better: Adobe Flash CS4 crashed twice while I threw this together.)” wat! flash crashed? never!

”Child Pornography Is Great,” Anti-Pirates Say – "Child pornography is great,” he said enthusiastically. ”It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they have done that, we can get them to start blocking file sharing sites." sounds reasonable.

What's in a name? For Simon Duncan's band, a £200,000 Banksy… – "The new work by Banksy was sent unexpectedly last week to Duncan, a 41-year-old web developer, as compensation for the world-renowned graffiti artist having coincidentally chosen the name of Duncan's band as the title for his film, Exit Through the Gift Shop." just a cool dude, this banksy fellah…

chillout song – "I received an email from a woman named Laura, who had recently moved to a new city for a new job. She was overwhelmed with anxiety and asked me to write her a song to help her calm down." his latest crowdsourced song documented here, gotta love this man.

2 Girls 1 Cup – Analysis – "A collection of twenty of the most-viewed YouTube reaction videos were downloaded and then edited to start at the same time. This was possible by listening for the start of the audio for the 2 Girls 1 Cup video. Each of these videos were then processed to collect data about optical flow and volume."

The Ginger Wars: What's with all the redhead hate? – "But increasingly as of late, redheads have been the victims of a rising tide of mockery, bigotry, and violence. Here's a brief timeline of the weird and escalating Ginger Wars."

Nazi pedophile, torturer, cult leader in Chile dies – "Nazi pedophile, torturer, and cult leader Paul Schäfer died in a prison hospital in Chile last week. The German-born Evangelical Christian raped children, founded and ruled over a Jonestown-like agricultural commune, and oversaw a torture and assassination outsourcing service for the bloody regime of Augusto Pinochet." most evil man ever?

Introducing Nokia N8 – finally… this does look like an awesome phone, opensource, 12 MB cam, decent design…

Police Seize Jason Chen's Computers – "Last Friday night, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen's home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers."

What does Facebook publish about you and your friends? – "Any information you see below is visible to anyone on the Internet through normal use of the Facebook Graph API." spooky

Priligy, First Pill To Stop Premature Ejaculation, Goes On Sale In UK – "The UK is bracing itself for the release of the first pill designed to end premature ejaculation. Medical trials have shown that just one tablet of the drug Priligy can make men last up to three times as long during sexual intercourse." tempting. not!

Berlin: Farbattacke am Rosenthaler Platz – "Mein Tipp: BMW war’s – denn es gab bereits eine Kampagne bei der der Künstler Robin Rhode durch Farbe fährt. Bin gespannt, wer wirklich dahinter steckt… "

Mr Scruff Vs Kirsty Almeida 'Pickled Spider' – "Mr. Scruff and Kirsty Almeida were in a recording studio. It was very dusty and covered in cobwebs. As they tidied up, a small spider appeared. It ran up and down the keyboard, trying to escape. Mr. Scruff pressed the record button and Kirstry began to sing. A big spider appeared and played the bassline" topnotch scruffian track.

iPhone symphony app up for PRSF new music prize – "An idea to allow people to create their own "satellite symphony" through an iPhone app has been shortlisted for a new music prize."

Like Button – "Like Button is a collection of links shared by your Facebook friends from most popular sites. " like!

John Kelly channels Joni Mitchell – "LAT: The folk scene you came out of had fun creating personas. You were born Roberta Joan Anderson, and someone named Bobby Zimmerman became Bob Dylan.
JM: Bob is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I." joni rips bob a new one.

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La Puerta – A stop motion animation by Limow and Sam3 – kinda love the sound, even if its hard to listen to.

Exclusive unseen video footage of the Miracle on the Hudson, flight 1549 New York City – "Exclusive unseen time lapse video footage of the Miracle on the Hudson, US Airways flight 1549 as it is struggling to stay afloat and avoid the barrage of an ice attack."

exit through the gift shop – a banksy film, duration: 85 minutes, premiering at sundance soon.

Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany – "Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war."

Karen Finley's *very* NSFW "Tales of Taboo" – "NSFW. Listen with headphones. Trust me." potty mouth finley.

One Frame of Fame – Got a webcam? Help us finish off our music video! – “We need a little help from you and your webcam to finish off the music video for our new single ‘More is Less’.”

death metal rooster meets furiously pecking parrot – after death metal here’s bird metal

sleeveface – How to Sleeveface. just that.

schmooze and abuse

Thank you parking notes! – collection of notes people leave on other people's cars.

Wu Tang Vs The Beatles – "Wu Tang acapellas over beats made with samples of Beatles songs. Produced by Tom Caruana www.teasearecords.net" some work surprisingly well.

Lost? Catch up in 10 minutes – "In case you haven’t followed last few seasons’ plot, or you didn’t understand it, or it didn’t in fact exist, the Reduced Shakespeare Company has boiled down the previous 103 hours of the television series into less than 10 minutes and will be performing the show to a live audience in Covent Garden onJanuary 28." wouldnt mind seeing that, because, wait, wasn’t there an icebear?

Joseph Ducreux / Archaic Rap – "On the interweb, his eccentric self-portrait has inspired a series of exploitable macros, featuring “archaic reinterpretation” of popular rap lyrics superimposed over the artwork." joseph ducreux, 18th century french painter, turned into a 4chan internet meme.

fucking snow – mildly nsfw, well, maybe in china.

breakfast floss set – "Wake up late? No time for breakfast or oral hygiene? Boy, do we have a fix-it for you…" bacon flavored floss…

Former boyfriend used Craigslist to arrange woman's rape – "A Wyoming man is accused of posing online as his former girlfriend and soliciting someone to act out a violent sexual fantasy."

Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues – “James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.”

Perp caught through World of Warcraft Boing Boing – “Indiana cops caught a fugitive by getting Blizzard to turn over the IP address from which he was playing World of Warcraft.”

What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google – "This shows Google’s remarkable power as a source of data on a range of human behaviors, emotions, and opinions. It gives us insights into what people might care the most about concerning a given topic."

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[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited]

dude!!!!

Two Gentlemen of Lebowski – what if … william shakespeare wrote the big lebowski

The Church of the Latter-Day Dude – "Come join the slowest-growing religion in the world – Dudeism. An ancient philosophy that preaches non-preachiness, practices as little as possible, and above all, uh…lost my train of thought there." joined!

The Big Lebowski goes literary – "For some, The Big Lebowski represents a lifestyle choice more than it does a piece of cinema: take the followers of the internet-based religion Dudeism who emulate the attitudes of the film’s main character; or the fans that attend the annual Lebowski Fest."

Lhasa R.I.P.

Lhasa – Rising (Official Video) – and another lhasa de sela video.

CON TODA PALABRA – the very talented lhasa de sela has passed away much too young, aged 37, a few days ago.

schmusic

Prepare for Gucci… – "If you don’t think you’ll last till Monday check out below, I’ve got a nice little exclusive bonus track for you AND the official tracklist…" monday it is.

BO MARLEY – Masters Of The Universe – "After their undying classic album from 2007/09 Bo Marley are finally back with a vengeance – and a massive ghettoblaster! Always ready to rock your backyard, street corner or..er..local super market the Harlev homeboys are once again powering up their Chariot Of Fire (aka. the Bo mobil) and drop a floor-devastating cassette" yup, you read that right … cassette! digital dowload also available, cc-licensed.

online video killed the …

Best FAILS Of 2009 (VIDEO) – "Everyone is good at something. These people just happen to be good at failing" be warned, some are hard to watch.

Sesame Street: Celebrity Lullabies – w. ricky gervais. wait for it …

Usher/Goat – "This is Olympic Quality tech + humor! Great Job!!"

parkour motion reel – "Illustrated with technical pen,frame by frame. I admit it might not be the best, or the quality isn't perfect, just a shot at animating the old flip book whatever-you-call-it way. =D" another flipbook-type stopmotion animation.

A Heavy Metal Baby to Remember – gotta love the pacifier!

Angry Hot Chick Destroys Boyfriends PS3 – i lol'ed when he asked her to get him a drink …

schmooze and abuse

The 50 Best Protest Signs Of 2009: Pics, Videos, Links, News – "We saw some really great protest signs in 2009. Thanks to our President for being a socialist, gay people for being gay, and Kanye West for interrupting Taylor Swift." loves the one saying “NO Pubic Option …”

How Terry Gilliam Weathered Loss of Heath Ledger to Finish Fanciful Imaginarium – "But all those obstacles pale next to the tragedy Gilliam (pictured) faced in January 2008, when his star actor Heath Ledger died halfway through production on The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the director’s latest cinematic flight of fancy."

my thoughts on Banksy / Robbo – "By incorporating Robbo’s piece into his own , Banksy was in fact preserving Robbo’s history since people like to preserve Banksy. Now, what Robbo did in return was pretty great as well. That’s what I got." street mashup.

Banksy: I don’t believe in global warming – "Übrigens wurde der eBay-Banksy, über den ich hier vor Weihnachten berichtet hatte, jetzt für 10.994 € verkauft." omg. banksy sold for 10K on ebay.

Matt Frei's diary: Dangerous minds – "They are all the products of relative prosperity and higher education. After all, Osama Bin Laden and his deputy also came from a privileged background." asks how people from wealthy backgrounds fall into terrorism.

Do minaret yourself – "N'hésitez pas à télécharger, imprimer, découper, plier et coller votre propre minaret d'appartement! , plier et coller votre propre minaret d'appartement! Ou passez directement à l'atelier retirer votre exemplaire sérigraphié sur carton gris." best DIY minaret yet.

You Drive What? – "Youdrivewhat.com is here to show the rest of the world what (for some reason) you feel is an awesome ride. You decided to paint your car like a child’s cereal character; you may find yourself on youdrivewhat.com." created by “the people of walmart” guys.

The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2010 – "For the eleventh time, Inkwell rings in the New Year with a visit from Well member Bruce Sterling, to address the State of the World and Things Various and Sundry. Bruce used to write novels when there were bookstores, and used to write for magazines and newspapers when magazines and newspapers existed. Nowadays he travels a lot when trains are running and when airports aren't clogged by security theater." always a great read.

Adidas Turns the Sneaker Into an Augmented Reality Device – "Adidas has created a virtual 3-D world that can be accessed using an upcoming line of five men’s sneakers in an idea that ties into one of the technology trends of the year: augmented reality."

Teen and Transgender Comparative Study – "The series is a correlation of two stages of transformation, pairing teen girls (12-14) with like adult male-to-female transsexuals. The Teen and Transgender Comparative Study is currently showing at The Hammer Museum in Nine Lives, curated by Ali Subotnick." eerie matches. [via sex and blogs]

Warwick High Girl Is Taking Chess World By Storm – "Google the name "Abby Marshall" and chess, in fact, and you'll discover a host of Web sites that cover her matches like those of a sports celebrity – with interviews, pictures and comments from fans, including one describing this "badass" devotee of the much-maligned King's Gambit opening move as a "chess hero.""

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teh glorious interweb as it got stuck in my camino tabs this past week – the edited version. motherfucking week 43 already? and what i do this whole year? besides losing my job???? ffs

Obama!

McCain Campaign Volunteer: Attack Story Snowballed Out Of Control – "A campaign worker who claimed she was the victim of a politically-motivated attack in which she was beaten, kicked and cut, now admits that she made the whole story up."

Science is for Faggots – "Leaked promotional material from Sarah Palin's upcoming ad council campaign."

In Quotes
"What did they say about: [ ] [search]” google collects and presents quotes by the candidates in this presidential race.

Sarah Palin: The Wink Heard Around The World: A LEGO® creation by Ochre Jelly – "Palin winked quite a few times. Rather cheekily. To mark this moment in history, here is one of her trademark winks, captured in LEGO."

street art

Herzampel – lovey-dovey traffic light hack.

40+ Streetartists You Should Know Besides Banksy – "Everyone knows who Banksy is– but the international streetart community has hundreds of other great artists that deserve your attention. Here's a selection of the very best." Blu is missing, among others, but the list is decent.

Banksy: Let Them Eat Crack – "Urban art legend Banksy – at least we think it’s him – offers up his take on the recent finance fiasco. Trust him to say it how it is. "

online video killed the …

little boots READY FOR THE FUN!!! hot chip tenorion cover – "ok are you ready for the FUN?!? here is cover of hot chip's ready for the floor, its not exactly perfect but best i can do on the amazing tenorion!!!" [via waxy]

Wassup 2008 – "Its been eight long years since the boys said wassup to each other." wassahhhhhh.

バンダイ　『ツッツキバコ』　動画 – odd yet sexy gadget pokeage.

Best Man Fail – epic fail.

schmooze and abuse

Skiving Aussie fingered on Facebook – "An Oz call centre employee has become an overnight net celeb down under after an email exchange between him and his firm's workforce manager regarding a "sickie" escaped into the wild yesterday." his last email response is the best part of it.

A visual history of 11 successful blogs – "Many of the blogs that have a huge following today go back to much more humble beginnings. This post is a look at how they got started and what they looked like in their early days, compared to today." all of them did change their layout but nothing extremely fundamental.

Calling All WordPress-loving Icon Designers – "Well, here’s a golden opportunity. Want to design the new WordPress icons?"

Gmail’s Newly Launched Emoticons Feature a Pile of Shit – "Gmail recently launched emoticons for their gmail service and they have added some fun emoticons to set themselves apart from the crowd. One thing that is quite notable is the pile of shit with 2 flies flying around it." that’s just .

2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools – "This 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world." wikipedia dvd for offline usage.

The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure – "The new research found that cells lining mice’s blood vessels naturally make the gas and this action can help keep the rodents’ blood pressure low by relaxing the blood vessels to prevent hypertension (high blood pressure)." see? farts are great and i hate to say i told you so.

Real Ad Men Talk About Mad Men – "Looking for a little fact in the fiction of Mad Men, Wired.com is asking some real-world ad executives to talk about the show’s realism and relevance to the advertising industry today."

Online divorcee jailed after killing virtual hubby – "A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband's digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking” arrested?

Please fix the iPhone – "Sure, nothing is perfect, but this site brings together little musings and lustful tech haiku about the finest phone and how to make it even better."

10 Very Good Reasons Why You Should Grow a Giant Beard – hmm, tempting. what do you think honey?

The women addicted to Facebook friendships – "FACEBOOK is to blame for "friendship addiction", a leading psychologist warned today. Women are particularly vulnerable because their self-worth stems from relationships with others and Facebook compels them to "acquire" hundreds of friends”

zip file quine – a zip file in a zip file in a zip file, the geek version of the matryoshka doll.

Holographic Interface – "this short feature demonstrates the simple of the possibilities of having the holographic shadow instead of a pda or a cell phone, or a computer for that matter. " [via sis]

Swiss roll over keyboard security – "Swiss researchers claim they have worked out ways to remotely sniff what you're typing on a wired keyboard. They've not yet published full details, but do have two videos online which they say demonstrate that they can monitor electrical pulses from up to 65 feet away and work out what you've typed." sshhhh, don’t tell em.

What’s your internet? – "Just came across a great post from Noisy Decent Graphics about his internet. I have nothing to add but a copy + paste the whole thing"

My Internet – "1. My Internet doesn't use flash, evahhh. Unless it's a video, and then only for video. 2. My Internet prefers html text wherever possible. 3. My Internet lets me use my email address or my usual username as a username. It doesn't give me one or make me create a new one. etc. asf.” i happen to agree with most of it.

Run – missnamed game. only run? you have to jump as well, or die a miserable falling death… [via neatorama]

Job seekers warned over CV theft – "Job seekers have been warned to be particularly careful when sending their CVs to employers' websites or online recruitment agencies."

Switzerland Places Ban on the Humiliation of Plants – "A law protecting the dignity of plants? Laugh if you will. I’m down on my knees in respect and awe. At last the Western World is realizing the dire importance of taking other species into account. Recently, the Swiss Parliament asked a panel of philosophers, lawyers, geneticists and theologians to determine the meaning of dignity when it pertains to plants." don’t insult broccoli, bitch, plants have rights too.

Video Game Skills – "We all know that video games make for really awesome murder simulators and serial killer training programs. That's why we love them so much. But what if you could learn other skills from them that didn't involve shooting people with guns? I know, it sounds absurd"

Fuzz Crime Scene Scarf – "Create your own crime scene with this extra-long, extra cozy knit scarf. The Fuzz by Fred is acrylic wth a touch of spandex for extra oomph" love the name “the fuzz”. if i owned one, hint hint, xmas soon, i would prolly think of it that way. “the fuzz”

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banksy schmanksy

:flash: Fresh Stuff From Banksy On The Streets Of New Orleans – 3 years after katrina it’s banksy’s turn to hit new orleans.

:flash: More Banksy In New Orleans – and more photos.

:flash: Banksy New Orleans – and yet more.

:flash: banksy on advertising – Banksy: "The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little."

apple schmapple

:flash: newtonica – this game for iphone/ipod touch looks fun, but costs 5.50. hmm, call me cheap but i'll stick to my free tris … while it lasts (see bellow).

:flash: how to make an iPhone last 36 hours – "Hang on, though – no 3G, no location, hourly data, limited calling? Sounds to me like he might as well have bought an iPod Touch… and a proper phone."

:flash: Steve Jobs's Obituary, As Run By Bloomberg – "The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today — and inadvertently published it in the process. Some investors were undoubtedly rattled to see, as our tipster did late this afternoon, the Apple CEO's obit cross the wire and then suddenly disappear." what do you mean, he ain’t dead? and i sold all my stock, damn.

:flash: KILLER APP – "Here at infurious, we would love to work with Apple to ensure a content rating system can be put in place to allow material that is no more offensive than many of the R rated films available to download on iTunes." wait, apple censored a comicbook?

:flash: Apple bans comic book on iPhone – "It seems the Murderdrome comic book might offend someone, and that isn't allowed by Apple's SDK"

:flash: Two Finger Play: Over, for now – "Thus, it's with great sadness that I must announce that I'll be pulling Tris from the App Store on Wednesday, August 27th, to remain in Apple's systems but publicly unavailable until I work out a solution to this." tris is only the most amazing tetris implementation ever. get it while you still can.

online video killed the …

:flash: Bee-Boy dance crew drops dead – hopp yb!

:flash: Treadmill Race Across Azeroth – “We hook up treadmills to World of Warcraft and run a brutal race from Shadowglen to Darnassus. Turns out your character continuously runs 12mph, you know who can't do that?”

:flash: Heavy Metal Monk – "an italian monk who sings heavy metal- what more could you ask for? the bands name is 'Fratello Metallo'"

:flash: The CERN black hole – "Stolen from Misunderstood Universe. Because its HILARIOUS." and just a lil bit scary. ok, very. noooo, nothing’s gonna happen. or?

:flash: Leaving fear behind – "Leaving Fear Behind (in Tibetan, Jigdrel) is a heroic film shot by Tibetans from inside Tibet, who longed to bring Tibetan voices to the Beijing Olympic Games."

:flash: Leaving Fear Behind (complete film) – and there it is.

:flash: Soulja Boy Myspace Hacked – Soulja Boy on how his myspace got hacked.

:flash: The Daily Show's 8 Best '08 Olympic Moments – "I can only assume that I've got myself a nasty Olympics hangover. Luckily, I've got some hair of the dog here with the best of The Daily Show's coverage of the Beijing games." worked like a charm to get me out of my post-olympics blues.

:flash: Paid to Party – "Paid to Party is the funky fresh debut EP from Sean Ward."

jan the music nazi says: buy these!!!!11!!

:flash: roots manuva : slime & reason – can be pre-ordered now, release date 1. sept. 2008.

:flash: 14 Tracks : Steve Barker's Dubwise assault – "Steve Barker is one of the UK's leading authorities on dub/reggae and has been hosting and curating the hugely influential 'On The Wire' radio show for BBC Radio Lancashire since 1984." wikid riddim inna rootsical cultjah.

schmooze & abuse

:flash: Furby Gurdy circuit bend – "The Furby Gurdy combines the "guts" of 4 Furby toys which can be made to produce music noise one after another by winding a handle, similar to a regular hurdy gurdy."

:flash: YouTube Comment Snob – "YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox extension that filters out undesirable comments from YouTube comment threads." [via bb]

:flash: 1 in 10 Native American deaths alcohol related – "Almost 12 percent of the deaths among Native Americans and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related — more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says."

:flash: Free Realms – "Sony's free to play MMO might look a bit lightweight for the hardcore, and you certainly won't find many level 70 raids happening, but it might just harbour a bit more depth than you were expecting." this game actually looks like fun. [via endgadgeted]

:flash: ey, i want my hand back – cute cartoony graphic.

:flash: As he turns 50, is this what Michael Jackson should really look like? – "But for Michael Jackson, it seems, the time for a comeback has passed. 'I'm tired,' he said last week. 'I've got nothing left to give. I just want to be left alone. Is that so bad?'" the image of how michael jackson would look like had he not … gotta love photoshop.

:flash: FriendFeed – "Discover what your friends are sharing" lets users create a meta feed of all their user uploads, eg. http://friendfeed.com/pieceoplastic. share the shareage.

:flash: Fake following – "One of the new features of FriendFeed (a Twitter-like thingie) is "fake following". That means you can friend someone but you don't see their updates. That way, it appears that you're paying attention to them when you're really not. Just like everyone does all the time in real life to maintain their sanity." why not flat out not-follow? *sigh* at socialsoftware “politics”.

:flash: things to say during sex – flowchart = "rehorical questions" ??? “oh, you enjoyed that, huh?”

:flash: SongBlitz Music Game Start – "SongBlitz is a game that puts your musical knowledge to the test. " i can report, i didn’t get addicted, but this shit has the potential.

:flash: Opentape – "Opentape's creation and design are proudly inspired by Muxtape's success and sleek interface. We were sad with it's untimely shutdown and wanted to let the web mixtape movement continue." take that RIAA et al.

:flash: i spent all day watching porn – porn font [midly NSFW] [via swissmiss]

:flash: burning man map on flickr – burning man black rock city geotagged.

:flash: Piadini Recipe – "Serve hot, with slices of cheese, and perhaps olives, radishes or a little tomato for a quick lunch."

:flash: beckham busted – but but but victoria, eyes have their own rules.

:flash: Record-Setting Thief Steals 2,396 Bikes – “So what does one do with thousands of bicycles? [...] he was saving them to melt them down during the next spike in scrap metal prices or was hording them for the eventual energy apocalypse.”

:flash: OMG – »Oh God, There Is No God«, 2002 by Marc Bijl. ofc there is no god, there can only be the ONE flying spghetti monster.

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online video killed the …

The Bittorrent Song – “The famous bittorrent song! Dude plays keyboards while singing about torrents, ISO’s, cracks, hacks, and more.” [via b3ta]

Amazing Young Guitar Player – another incredible asian kid this time playing the guitar.

The 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies of All Time – “In today’s irony-saturated comedy landscape, it’s difficult to find a sketch show that doesn’t do fake ads in one form or another. In this feature, we’ve assembled fifty of the best. Unfortunately, many of SNL’s most infamous are no longer available online, due to NBC’s copyright-enforcing blitz a while back. But we did manage to unearth a surprising number of classics still lurking in the corners of the internet”

A More Friendly Tamer Grand Theft Auto Conan O’brien – GTA with lawabiding and nice people? funny.

ROCK BAND – ….hates me. [via ze frank]

banned commercial for glasses – “banned commercial for glasses, plz visit a doctor every now and then”

me likee

Little Brother » Download for Free – “Below you’ll find links to downloadable editions of the text of Little Brother. These downloads are licensed under a Creative Commons” cory doctorow’s latest book now available for free download, but for the first time i dont feel like reading it on a screen …

GUSTAV – VERLASS DIE STADT – 90 sec streams of the upcoming Gustav album. sounds awesome.

Freedent White – chewing gum advert, lets you create a wofty, a very cute white fantasy animal, i wish they existed for real, and take care of him tamagochi style…

schmooze and abuse

Boom times for virtual playgrounds – “158 online games and virtual worlds in development or up and running designed specifically for children. While some of that total are recognisable games, most should be classified as virtual worlds.” … “For kids, though, when they don’t have as many options in real life to decide what their house looks like, what type of clothes to wear, or where they go, virtual worlds must seem like a whole new land of opportunity.”

Gold Farmers – regine has a short interview with Ge Jin, director of the documentary Gold Farmers.

tun3r.com: your mood. your station – the radio interface now with city dials: “each City Dial shows all local webcasting AM/FM stations on the left (sorted by frequency), and popular international stations on the right (sorted by genre).”

Steampunk by Richard Morgan – “In the summer of 2007, I suggested to the New York Times that they should run a story on steampunk culture — how it had broken beyond mere tinkerers into domestic life. They gave it a green light and then killed the story for reasons unknown.” [via bb]

Steampunk Moves Between Two Worlds – “It is also the vision of steampunk, a subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly inventive age of dirigibles and steam locomotives, brass diving bells and jar-shaped protosubmarines. First appearing in the late 1980s and early ’90s, steampunk has picked up momentum in recent months, making a transition from what used to be mainly a literary taste to a Web-propagated way of life.”

The Big Word Project – Your websites define our words – “The Big Word Project is redefining words. Search for your word and link it to your website. Your website is then the new definition. Simple.” pay for the word link via paypal.

Hackers’ posts on epilepsy forum cause migraines, seizures – “Hackers who probably also think that torturing small animals is funny bombed an epilepsy foundation’s site with animations and link forwards to sites that serve up pulsating kaleidoscopic images.”

Old Man And The GTA: A 70-year-old’s Take on GTA IV – this guy describes, how he watched his 70 year old dad get into GTA, way into it ^^.

Addictomatic – “Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It’s the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what’s up and what’s now.” [via de-bug]

Henk Hofstra’s “Art-Eggcident” in Leeuwarden – “Dutch artist Henk Hofstra (who’s Blue Road we featured in April of last year) is back with a new environmental art project called ‘Art Eggcident’ in Leeuwarden, a city in the north of the Netherlands. Yesterday, several large eggs (each 100 feet wide) were spread on th Zaailand, one of the largest city squares in the Netherlands.”

Green Porno Star Isabella Rossellini Takes on Insect Sex – “In Green Porno, Sundance Channel’s new series of cellphone-friendly short films, Rossellini singlehandedly re-enacts mating rituals of the dragonfly, spider, bee, praying mantis, worm, snail and housefly by getting it on with cardboard cut-outs.”

PIG BLASTER – pig fart driven game …

follow-up from last weeks links

Banksy – The Cans Festival. – “Show of the Year. Show of the Decade. Possibly Show of the Century.” if graffiti is your thing …

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:flash: I wish my wife was a horse – catchy mr. pitchy track!

:flash: 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.”

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

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

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

schmooze and abuse

:flash: 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”

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

:flash: 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.”

:flash: 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.”

:flash: 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.”

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

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on our way to the ferry to ireland driving across the south of england we had a few hours to kill. so we did the obvious thing; we stopped in bristol to go searching for an original banksy… or is that an original robert banks? i know, that’s a pretty lame thing to do and we are both very embarassed to behave like such groupies… there was a funny situation when we noticed another chap, camera strapped around his neck, doing the very same thing. it took us some time – btw. bristol is surprisingly graffiti-free considering it is hometown to the most famous graffiti artist worldwide. the banksy we finally did find, was the crap one; the one with the guilty lover hanging by his fingertips from a bedroom windowsill. that same day in the guardian we read, that bristol council has put this very piece under a preservation order. and how symbolic that is. this must be one of the very few non-political works banksy ever did. it’s got a tongue-in-cheek, slightly humerous message, one that is not threatening to the masses (mehrheitsfähig). but even more shocking to me, was how poorly it was done. it only works from far away, once you check it out from up close by it’s more like a mural than a graffiti piece, the technique utilised looks very clumsy.

i do wonder how banksy feels, that out of all his work the most harmless piece was the one placed under a preservation order… this might forever after become the bristol/banksy tourist trap. while for the rest of bristol they impose zero tolerance on graffiti and streetart.

or did we missunderstand and in fact the “banksy” was this arrangement of trash under his signature?

i still bought the book banksy wall and piece, but the cheaper, paperback version with the sticker on it that reads, “now with 10% more crap”.

[via does not apply - dna - waxy]

banksy is genius – as if we needed any more confirmation… this is some of his recent work in the west bank.
more images @ wooster = via

dressed as a british pensioner banksy hits new york’s most famous museums (all of them).

[via wooster]

edit: not sooo wooster exclusive. check current exhibitions @ banksy.co.uk: metropolitan museum nyc MOMA nyc brooklyn museum nyc american museum of natural history nyc