[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited]

online video killed the …

Production process of the official 2010 FIFA World Cup match ball Jabulani – "Watch the production process of the official 2010 World Cup match ball Jabulani." you mean they arent stitched by nigerian children with bleeding fingers? awww…

schmooze and abuse

424. It's pronounced twenty-ten. – from 1001 rules for my unborn son

New Year's Resolution Generator – generates generic new year’s resolutions, some are mildy funny.

The Decade’s 10 Most Dastardly Cybercrimes – "Now that the zero days are behind us, it’s time to reflect on the most ingenious, destructive or groundbreaking cybercrimes of the first 10 years of the new millennium."

Poly-Play – Der einzige Videospieleautomat der DDR (DDR Computer, DDR Arkade, game machine, gdr, Spielautomat) – "Der Poly-Play-Automat aus dem Kombinat Polytechnik und Präzisionsgerätewerke Karl-Marx-Stadt war der einzige in der DDR hergestellte Videospieleautomat." this was the only arcade game of the GDR, in communist germany developped by a team of 12 technicians. the games can all be played online here.

Of The Treatment of Women in WoW, part 2 – “This is different from flirting. Flirting is flattering. This is an insult. The message here is “your role is not to give your opinion on this intelligent topic, your role is to be cute”.”

Of the Treatment of Women in WoW, Part 1 – "Since I don’t exactly have what it takes to conduct a scientific study of wow life as a woman, I’ll stick to my own experiences, my opinion of them and how I deal."

Demi Moore's lawyers threaten Boing Boing over photo analysis blog post – "Lawyers representing Demi Moore sent a threatening letter to Boing Boing over the holidays which demanded that we remove a post I published in November, or face legal consequences."

Map of the Most Remote Places on Earth – "This map by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy is an attempt to demonstrate what areas of the world are comparatively accessible by land and water travel." pretty much no black spots.

The Top 10 Most Important Tweets of 2009 – "Without further ado, here’s this year’s The Top 10 Most Important Tweets of 2009 and their importance for Twitter, the online landscape, media and journalism, and how we communicate."

Running World of Warcraft in Ubuntu Linux – "Over my Christmas break, I decided to try out the latest version of Wine with my most frequently used Windows application, which is called World of Warcraft (or WoW). Just so that it's clear that I am not antisocial, this didn't take away much time spending with friends and family, as it actually took me less than an hour to do the whole thing."

Twitter's List Of 370 Banned Passwords – "Twitter appears to have learned from its security scare earlier this year and seems to be taking password security more seriously than most Internet services." in other words, if you use one of these passwords change it nauuuu!!!

Op-Chart – Picturing the Past 10 Years – history of the decade in neat lil icons.

Vote for 2009’s Sexiest Geeks – and of course, moot is on top… or was when i checked.

'Futurama' meets 'Fifth Element' fan art – "Flying cars? Check. A redhead lead named Leelo/Leela? Sure. A "Futurama" fan drew the Comedy Central series "Fifth Element"-style, pic below."

Arrrr! The Top 10 Pirated Movies of 2009 – “10) The Knowing 9) X-Men Origins: Wolverine State of Play 7) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince 6) District 9 5) Twilight 4) The Hangover 3) Rock N Rolla 2) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 1) Star Trek”

swiss focus

HOT SQUAT CALENDAR 2010 – Kalender 2010 der bieler hausbesetzer LaBiu.

Späte Rache an Werber? – "Mit Farbbeuteln haben Unbekannte in Dübendorf ein Bürohaus verunstaltet. Im Gebäude ist die Werbeagentur eingemietet, die die SVP-Wahlplakate gestaltet." these guys are responsible for the graphics for the racist/xenophobic campaigns for the swiss svp party, most recently with the minaret vote. now their offices were the target of a colour balloon attack.

delicious.com/pieceoplastic or subscribe to this RSS feed – with all the typos.

[teh glorious interweb what got stuck in my :flash: camino tabs this past week]
[i am away on a short vacation. that's why my linkdump is pretty much bunedited this week]

:flash: YouTube ordered to hand over user details – “A U.S. federal judge has ordered Google Inc. to hand over to media giant Viacom the records of every video users have watched on the video-sharing site YouTube, records that include users’ names and IP addresses.”

:flash: Sex Positions for Singles – “is a slide projected series of 80 images. It reflects my taste for incorporating vernacular uses of photography and is part of a collection of works called ‘Single Life’.” [via sexblo.gs]

:flash: Skype Laughter Chain – “At Skype we believe that face-to-face communication is the best kind, which is why we’ve created this Laughter Chain to promote our free video calling feature.”

:flash: Die Meringuage – Eine Masse mit verschiedenen Möglichkeiten – ein rezept wo funtzie.

:flash: WII SEX – “actually, the I-Player mode is surprisingly addictive”

:flash: Fernando Torres | Spain vs. Germany, June 29 – Best Goals of Euro 2008 – anyone else wondered what lehmann’s foot is doing so near torres but. he tried to hide it his rollover fall, but to me this is clearly a kick, a try to tackle.

:flash: That Violet Blue thing – “We didn’t attempt to silence Violet. We unpublished our own work. There’s a big difference between that and censorship.” not really, given the power BB has …

:flash: What the …? DMV offers license plate replacement – “Thanks to some text message-savvy grandchildren, North Carolina drivers whose license plates have the potentially offensive “WTF” letter combination can replace the tags for free.”

:flash: Kitty sitting on glass – squishhyyy

:flash: Is a UK Wired tired or inspired? – “British version of Wired magazine some time next year. [...] Will you be buying Wired when it hits the shelves? And what do you want to see from it?”

:flash: 65 things that look like Pac-Man – “Whenever you take a slice of pizza or cut a segment from a cake, he’s there.”

:flash: The physical value of sound – “Yuri Suzuki is an artist, musician and now a fresh graduate from the Design Products department. His project is concerned with revamping and giving new forms and meanings to the almost obsolete turntable”

:flash: FontStruct – Build, Share, Download Fonts

:flash: WoW No Longer World’s Biggest MMO? – “World of Warcraft will lose its undisputed status as the most popular massively multiplayer online world. It’s struggling to defend that title as Habbo Hotel, the web-based, social MMO from Finland”

:flash: Tableware by Kathryn Hinton – “Pieces include lettering on the prongs of forks that correspond with words imprinted in bowls and the Exhausted range (below), where cutlery follows the shape of objects it appears to collapse onto.”

:flash: Bullitt Chase Scene – “i’m a huge fan of ‘the king of cool’ and of all movie car-chase scenes. I thought it would be great to mashup famous chases with their GPS tracks.” [via bb]

:flash: Touch My Body (Green Screen Version), 2008, Oliver Laric – a guy green-screened the latest mariah carey video “His real hope is not that the piece will become an artworld cause celebre but that the larger public of YouTube surfers will adopt the piece and post remixes of their own.”

:flash: McDonalds sued over Happy Meal toyz – “Post-punk pioneers Devo say they are suing McDonald’s in the US over a Happy Meal doll that sports the band’s signature red flower pot hat.”

:flash: William Gibson Completely Deleted from BoingBoing Archives – “Ok, it wasn’t William Gibson. It was Violet Blue who was unceremoniously purged.”

:flash: One Post Wonder – “A collection of amazing blogs that have one post.”

:flash: THE SOUND OF EBAY – “Create your own eBay song by entering any eBay username and your email address. Push the “GENERATE” button, You will then be notified by email as soon as the song is ready for downloading. Enjoy the silence!”

:flash: Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage – “Stubble is the way to win a woman’s heart, a study has shown. Researchers found that women are more attracted to men with stubbly chins than those with clean-shaven faces or full beards.”

:flash: UNKLE Goes Widescreen, Remixes X-Files – “UNKLE is releasing four tracks from End Titles online for free, from four different sites.”

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tv preacher jerry falwell died earlier this week and boingboing used strong words to condemn this man’s legacy:

Bigoted religious phony Jerry Falwell went to hell today. Voices of American Sexuality collected some of the stupidest things he said while he was befouling the living world:

but check out the google ads boingboing had today. only online can such a huge discrepancy between editorial and advertising content coexist on the same page.

clck it bigger

[stuff what got stuck in my browser tabs this last week or so]

banksy roundup:

:flash: as we are still in awe with banksy’s terrific action last week in new york we are glad to see it has created quite a stir: the radio interview w. banksy on npr – the reuters press statement.

easter bunny corner:

:flash: professional hasard of a chocolate bunny [via wooster]

:flash: bunny rap – this rapping bunny made the rounds last year, but its still cute.

:flash: bunny suicides – *chuckle* [via frau w.]

the we love em corner:

:flash: onion eating monkeys of omsk – “Monkeys at a village zoo in Omsk, Russia, are on hunger strike after their keepers failed to satisfy their addiction to onions. The little beasts are sitting in their monkey house, sulking, and refusing to eat the delicious bananas, kiwis and papayas prepared for them.” just think of the farts… [via popbitch newsletter]

:flash: net disaster – (i think this is done in flash?) now you can bring disaster upon any website you dislike, for instance: friedeggsoplastic.com (goes well with the easter theme), spilledcoffee-laun.ch, etc. [via 4rthur]

:flash: four seasons positions – kinda awful kinda kewl, flash animations of sex positions – sponsored by a condom brand. [via fleshbot, i believe...]

:flash: winner by 7 seconds of love – another fun anim with kittens by rathergood.com joel veitch [via b3ta]

rants & raves corner:

:flash: koalas are shit – apparently written by an 8th grader from pittsbourgh, and this may well be why the word “pits” is almost in the name of that place. “Koalas have sharp claws but they are weak. They all small and fat and they be climing trees.” [via al4ie]

:flash: glassdog: boing boing ka-ching ka-ching – boingboing is my daily news! but this guy definately has a point with his thoughts about the ads on boingboing. and even in the rss feed! tss [via waxy]

:flash: douglas rushkoff rant on the issues that moved america this last week or so – “President Bush has, for the very first time in is entire presidency, cut his vacation short in order to return to the White House and sign an arguably unconstitutional bill forcing a feeding tube to be shoved back down the throat of a brain-dead woman in Florida.”

geek corner:

:flash: PS3 – i quite like the look of this, but its a spoof i’m afraid [via hmmm... sorry]

:flash: howto set up a local mirror of your wordpress blog on macos x – does just that, and i will do this. someday. i promise.

:flash: yahoo creativecommons search – woo [via lessig]

:flash: top 10 bittorrent sites – [via sis]

mp3 outta da corner:

:flash: dj zebra – processed ring (de la soul vs kasabian) – lady sovereign – random (brucker and sinden remix) [via boomparty.net - ah i wish i was in manchester in april]

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