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[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited]

iBad

iPad is iBad for freedom – “With new tablet device, Apple’s Steve Jobs pushes unprecedented extension of DRM to a new class of general purpose computers”

The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience? – Millions of websites use Flash. Get used to the blue legos.

8 Things That Suck About the iPad – apple ipad – Gizmodo – agree on all accounts. not getting one of these. seems like they took all the mistakes they made on the iPhone and amplified those instead of getting rid of them.

online video killed the

Chris Morris's Four Lions: 'jihadist comedy' – "How not to buy bomb-making bleach " the latest chris morris comedy.

Friday Film Pick: RiP! A Remix Manifesto – "The NFB recently made the entirety of RiP: A Remix Manifesto available for online viewing. For free. In HD."

schmooze and abuse

Unhappy Hipsters – "it's lonely in the modern world" [via b3ta]

Ten Word Wiki – The Express Till For The Internet – "Ten Word Wiki is an Encyclopedia for the ADD generation. We Describe Everything In Ten words" [via b3ta]

Every day the same dream – "Every Day The Same Dream plays at issues of lives led in quiet, soul-sapping desperation by forcing you to subvert your own easy routines and comes fully loaded with a gut-punch for anyone who has been or is currently a wage-slave office drone."

Boing Boing: Games To Get – games recommended by the boingboing crew.

Will I get laid on Valentine’s Day? – looks like i might ^^

Spirit – particularly cute xkcd cartoon.

World Economic Forum – Home – fake or real? very well done mediahack.

Mute Button Pacifier (Baby Blue): Baby – ha ha haaaaa

app.itize.us – minimalistic iPhone iPod app reviews. nice.

GENTRY – floppy disc art.

gnop – reverse pong, you control the ball not the paddle.

One of the best environmental films ever made, Dreamland shakes the soul – "There is one reason, above all the others, that the Academy Awards are not worth paying any attention to this year: the documentary Dreamland is not up for best picture, best documentary, or best anything." ok, ok, we heard ya…

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Endlich wieder eine Schweizer Comedy Figur, die es in sich hat. Auch weil die alten Giacobbo Figuren vorallem eines sind, alt.

Doch leider gibt’s keinen direkten Link zum Sketch auf sf.tv, seufz… Klick hier dann dort – so last century.

Burri über Promis

hah. finally. the new episodes of the hilarious IT crowd are being filmed soon. can’t wait.

meanwhile the [edit: link fixed. thx habi] cut scenes have appeared on youtube, and they are, oh well, cut scenes, but still brilliant imho.

disclaimer: i am aware that this was mentioned on boingboing and since everyone reads bb no need to mention here, right? but helas ffs … the IT crowd!!!1! w000

last week i received a copy of the four-disc set coyle & sharpe: these 2 men are impostors [after very briefly mentioning it on my blog; thx so much mal!].
the 3 CDs and 1 DVD contain a ton of material and most of it is absolutely hilarious. on one of their original album covers the title reads: “the insane (but hilarious) minds of of coyle & sharpe”, that about sums it up. during the early to mid 60′s coyle & sharpe performed man on the street interviews for their radioshow on KGO “san francisco street auditions”; apparently they were pioneers of this type of prank-interview, that we now are quite accustomed to. imagine a kooky scientist version of borat or samantha b. and you’re almost there. some of this is WAY geeky. love it.

of course it is always amazing what the presence of a microphone or video camera will do to make people behave different from the way they normally would (guy gomma comes to mind …). yet some of the schemes and scenarios these guys get away with are almost unbelievable. often coyle & sharpe seem to approach their “victims” with a preconceived plan or notion of what they want to talk about. but i like them best when they just improvise, going with whatever presents itself in the interview. that’s when they start to really feed off of each other and keep pushing their pranks further into ever more absurd territory. at times you can hear them crack up in laughter themselves, the laughs in turn gets weaved into the tale. in certain situations they wait until the very last moment to reveal the humourist nature of the interview, pushing the interviewees pretty darn close to utter outrage and/or frustration. in “grevenz” they attempt to convince a guy, that he is hypnotised and can no longer communicate; the guy (named stephen king btw) keeps repeating “i can still speak” until he finally walks off. for “polilingua” coyle & sharpe interview a swiss man asking him about the four languages that our countries has, they then start to improvise the languages they plan to impose in a multi-lingual san francisco – another one of my favorites.

at times the quality of the audio is a bit rough, but on the whole this just adds to the experience. what this cd does best is that it humbles a tragic hipster like myself, who usually does not bother with “old” stuff. to some extent coyle & sharpe can certainly be seen as precursors of the “fake news” shows (daily news, colbert report) we have come to rely on during these last few years. things are often expressed best by just spinning them to the absurd.

more info: coyle & sharpe official website
buy: buy cd here (with audio samples)
a recent podcast interview with mal sharpe
the warbler on youtube
coyle & sharpe flickr set
first read about them here

schmid von supersach.ch schreibt in einem kommentar:

“Ich habe noch fünf Folgen von Scharmör, die ich nächstens auf meiner Page veröffentlichen werde. Leider habe ich nicht noch mehr Folgen. Falls jemand noch welche hat soll er sie doch auch veröffentlichen, so dass wir hoffentlich einmal alle beisammen haben.”

unbedingt! da sage ich, super sach! lieber scharmör, wir haben dich nicht vergessen. gief dvd!