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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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 …

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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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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."

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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. "

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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.

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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

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

More Banksy In New Orleans – and more photos.

Banksy New Orleans – and yet more.

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."

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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).

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."

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.

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?

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

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.

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Bee-Boy dance crew drops dead – hopp yb!

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?”

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

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?

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."

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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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."

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

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."

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]

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

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.

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.

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”.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.”

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…

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

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

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

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

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

schmooze and abuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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