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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Christmas present from Daichi – "This is Christmas present for you from Daichi. I wish your merry christmas and happy new year!!" japanse beatbox merry xmas vid.

schmooze and abuse

Delicious Spaghetti Monster – "If you don’t celebrate Christmas because you belong to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, there’s no reason you can’t still enjoy delicious goodies this holiday season. Here’s instructions on how to make your own edible spaghetti monster, complete with edible googly eyes."

Israeli programmer hacks Kindle, breaks DRM protection – "Nothing makes you feel like you truly own your media and content like being able to do almost whatever you want with it. We’re already used to DRM for our MP3s and the limitations it puts on device selection and sharing, but the idea that the same kind of protection would be put on our books was a head-scratcher."

The xx – found this band on top of a few best of 2009 lists, and it’s really quite something…

After The Pirate Bay, Web Sheriff Takes On Jamie Oliver – "Defending the rights of The Village People, the legendary Web Sheriff threatened The Pirate Bay’s operators with legal action in an attempt to get compensation for the losses the six had suffered. The threats didn’t lead to much unfortunately, so The Village People and the infamous Sheriff are now pointing the gun at Jamie Oliver instead."

LISTS: 2009 – "This page aggregates all of the lists related to 2009. Please email me list suggestion."

Printing Your Toast – "Am Berner Design Award BEDA’09 erhielt der «Toaster» den 2. Preis. Er soll nicht nur als Gerät, sondern als ästhetisch wertvoller Einrichtungsgegenstand wahrgenommen werden." this printer was boingboinged.

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schmooze and abuse

purrcast – podcast made from purring cats. [via bb]

Nintendo, Microsoft and Philips flunk toxic test – “The Greener Electronics Guide is our way of getting the electronics industry to face up to the problem of e-waste.”

Google Thinks Spammers Might Be Giving Up – “Google won’t disclose numbers, but the company says that spam attempts, as a percentage of e-mail that’s transmitted through its Gmail system, have waned over the last year.”

Meet the women who won’t have babies – because they’re not eco friendly – “At the age of 27 this young woman at the height of her reproductive years was sterilised to “protect the planet”.”

Bicycles That Carry Powerful Beats, and Even a Rider or Two – “They are ordinary bicycles, not motorcycles, although these contraptions look and sound more like rolling D.J. booths. They are outfitted with elaborate stereo systems installed by the youths.” [via bb]

etoy wins VIDA AWARD 2007 with MISSION ETERNITY SARCOPHAGUS – “Spanish telecom giant Telefonica saves etoy.CORPORATION from bankruptcy and brings etoy’s mission to the next level.”

Secret Message from CSS-Tricks – neat CSS trick.

Google hopes to undercut coal with cheap, renewable energy – “the search engine behemoth has announced a plan to develop sources of renewable energy that will be cheaper than coal. The new initiative, RE<C will begin by focusing on solar power technology, and will also encompass geothermal energy production.”

What the French President Actually Said About Pirates, Networks, No DRM, and Fat Government Subsidies For Videogames – “Internet, c’est une “nouvelle frontière”, un territoire à conquérir. Mais Internet ne doit pas être un “Far Ouest” high-tech, une zone de non droit où des “hors-la-loi” peuvent piller sans réserve les créations, voire pire, en faire commerce sur le dos des artistes.”

applematters.png (image) – “A self-described Apple user … is targeting OS X enthusiast sites with defacements that accuse them of excessive fanboyism.”

EMBRACE – a very powerful short film by hillman curtis. [via swissmiss]

Hidden truths – The hidden truths in games. Pac-Man: “The Hidden Truth: Consume or die.” Super Mario Bros.: “The Hidden Truth: Guys will do pretty much anything if there’s a pretty girl involved.”

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drm music sharing bollocks

Jenner: $50 Per Year from Every Music Fan Would Save/Reinvent Music Industry – “$50 per year from every person who listens to music would “meet or exceed the current over the counter sales of the music industry at a far lower cost,” i would so be willing to pay that amount to get access to all music, in best quality, without drm, via p2p.

cr3ation b3ta – search artists and get a list of music found online. nifty.

Musicload: 75% of customer service problems caused by DRM – “Deutsche Telekom’s Musicload, one of the largest online music stores in Europe, has come out strongly against DRM on account of its effects on the marketplace and its customers, according to German-language Heise Online.”

online-video killed the …

irregular flow – what a sweet idea [via wooster]

Bruce Sterling in Belgrade – bruce sterling takes us on a walk through belgrad. and who would have thought, he’s a most entertaining tour guide.

I Hate Huckabees – “find this clip to be a fascinating window into the often frustrating atmosphere that takes over film sets, and goodness knows that good art often comes from tension and stress.” and here is how Lily Tomlin Reacts to Leaked Videos.

Extensions >> Nao Bustamante > A Story – careful, bloody. very hard to watch, but incredibly moving video by nao bustamante (who i had the great pleasure to be friends with while living in san francisco); its when she takes a phone call that this becomes a genius masterpiece. plus, nao bustamante’s website is back online …

YouTube – banksy – british tellie documentary on banksy [via rebel:art]

the show with zefrank – *sniffie* the last ze frank the show …

50 50 – “50 50 (2007) by Oliver Laric shows clips of fifty homemade 50 Cent performances of »In Da Club«, »Candy Shop« and »How We Do« taken from Youtube”

timewasters

Balls! – fun game, keep the white ball in the blue area, they grey balls will knock you about.

Boomshine – musical interface game, place a dot to set off a chain reaction collecting the dots.

other bother

Welcome to Desktopography – nature themed desktops by selected designers, sis was asked to contribute and he made one of the nicer ones.

/mathlete/ – “An alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon.” its made from wood and shaped like a pig as well …

TeamWiggly.com – “Team Wiggly is an underground collective on a mission to make the world a happier place.” cute. [via b3ta newsletter]

foldschool – cardboard furniture – “foldschool is a collection of free cardboard furniture for kids, handmade by you. The downloadable patterns can be printed out with any printer. Follow the instructions and assemble a stable piece of furniture.” [via habi]

Bum Rush the Charts – “On March 22nd, we are going to take an indie podsafe music artist to number one on the iTunes singles charts as a demonstration of our reach to Main Street and our purchasing power to Wall Street.” i somehow couldn’t find the info, did they made it or not … ???

twittervision – fun app visualising the world wide twitter on a map.

79 Versions of Popcorn – ti tu ti tu tu ti tu, ti tu ti tu tu ti tu, ti tu titi tuti tu titi tuti tu tu …

Does anybody want a PS3? – “With a day until the PS3 launches in Europe the Newcastle Virgin Megastore still has 72 left to pre-order. Is there any point? And I still can’t get a Wii. ”

Novell’s second Get a Mac spoof is online now – the sexy girl is linux. obviously.

Understanding Avatars, Part 3: Samples – looking at different meanings of what avatar can stand for, with examples. [via waxy]

balls.png – “Small balls, big balls, and a few that aren’t balls at all.” comparison of ball sizes… balls aka nuts are missing though.

The Big Book of Subversive Stickers: Books: Srini Kumar – “Sticker your car! Sticker your office! Sticker your dog! Sticker your life! Sticker your stuff! Sticker your world!” DO COMPUTERS PRAY? | TAX THE RICH | THANK GOD I’M AGNOSTIC

SUCK UK – DESIGN – “This mind boggling doormat reads differently depending whether you are walking in or out of the house.” [bia bb]

Maybe Google Wanted to be Sued: YouTube and Plan B – “By fighting a lawsuit, Google gets to prove the legitimacy of Internet video distribution – something that will probably never flourish under the “old media” regime.”

A solar-powered Wii? Yes, a solar-powered Wii! – “These two dudes have managed to harness the power of the Sun (the bane of any good gamer’s existence) and use it to power the Wii, a television and set of speakers.” Weeeee! or sorry Wiiiiiii!

Showdown – the saatchi gallery conducts a public voting for artwork … its round 2 already. my friend andrea nyffeler has submitted one of her pieces.

Italy bans mobile phones in classrooms – “Italy has banned schoolchildren from using mobile phones in class in an attempt to stop ringtones disrupting lessons and prevent pupils messing about with video cameras.”

Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services – “What we mean by ‘Web 3.0′ is that major web sites are going to be transformed into web services – and will effectively expose their information to the world.” it was bound to happen, since about web 2.1 we only puke.

Sticker prototype for uppity bloggers (is there any other kind?) – how’s my blogging? call 1-888-STFU-LOL. and the tshirt is out already: “How’s My Blogging?” Shirt – “Two Week Limited Run, Ends April 6″

FBI: Internet crime pays – oh noes, don’t link to this, it will encourage them .. oops i just did.

cocka-cola – Fuck Coke, quite literally [via rebel:art]

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steve jobs anti-drm activist – lol

Warner insists on copy protection – “Warner Music has rejected a suggestion from Apple boss Steve Jobs that record companies should remove copy protection software from digital music downloads.”

Steve Jobs: Apple Would Love to Sell Unprotected Music – the discussion in comments is heated … as it should be

Apple – Thoughts on Music – “Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will …”

art/streetart

Random Acts of “Public Embroidery” – “To give a little life to drab seats on buses and trains in Sweden, Ulrika performs random acts of “public embroidery”

PingMag – Anonyous Drawings – Berlin’s hot drawing exhibition – “Anke Becker from Blütenweiss started an “Anonymous Drawing” project where art works from around the world get presented and sold without revealing any information that relate to the artist.”

Rubikcubist by Invader – a genius continuation of his space invader aesthetics.

games

World of Warcraft Super Mario Theme – mashup video merging super marion and WoW.

Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians – “looking at CO2 production, 1,752 kWH/year per avatar is about 1.17 tons of CO2. That’s the equivalent of driving an SUV around 2,300 miles (or a Prius around 4,000).”

Microsoft’s role in building a gaming community – “On a daily trip through the Internet, a typical gamer may see more than a handful of negative Sony stories, but how often do you see negative Microsoft news? Not very often.”

German Past Haunts Gamers’ Future – “Germany, ever mindful of its troubled history, keeps as close an eye on its past as it does its present and future. And that may spell trouble for certain video games.”

swiss news

ANTI-BLOCHER-BUCH – Ein Dutzend Autoren, ein Ziel: Die Vertreibung des Justizministers. [not online though ...]

Stop-Piracy-Plakate kommentiert – die story war auch auf 20 minuten. ahhh.

anthrazit – Die 200 besten Websites der Schweiz 2007 > Weblogs – “1. Aeschbacher-Blog Von allen Promi-Weblogs der beste: Kurt bloggt emotional und persönlich und ermöglicht einen echten Blick über die Schultern direkt ins Herz. web: http://http://aeschbacher.blog.sf.tv/”

IP Phil – swiss lawyer/blogger on drm legal copyrights.

the messy rest

When Cory Doctorow Ruled the World – “Interviewing Cory Doctorow is easy. You just flip the on switch by asking the first question, and he emits a constant stream of brilliant, insightful stuff.”

JPG Magazine: Brave New Photography – “JPG Magazine is made by you! As a member, you can submit photos and vote on other members’ submissions.” the guy running this was at lift. nice stuff.

Liftlexicon – Home – “LIFT LEXICON is a -new- way to keep a record of the words spoken at each LIFT edition.”

Law Would Ban IPods When Crossing Street – “Walk, jog or bicycle across a New York street with an iPod plugged in your ears and you could get slapped with a $100 ticket under a new law proposed by a legislator from Brooklyn.”

habari – Google Code – wordpress fork that could be quite impressive.

Joost™ – “Yesterday, we were The Venice Project™. Today, we’re Joost™. Tomorrow, we’re yours!”

web2.0 in 5 minutes movie – data visualization & visual design – information aesthetics – “a (infographical?) movie, constrained to just text & pictures, explaining Web 2.0″

indexed: We’re all going to Hell. – sins and sub-sins …

googleSearchHistory – “I don’t like Google aggregating this data about me. It is possible to opt out. You can turn off search history recording in the settings page. You can also edit your history, including removing it entirely.”

kero » Blog Archive » 與菇有緣 ！！！ – i have no idea what it is saying but i love this blog

WIFI LIBERATOR Toolkit – 2007
“Wifi Liberator is an open-source toolkit for a laptop computer that enables its user to “liberate” pay-per-use wireless networks and create a free, open node that anyone can connect to for Internet access. ” [via gizmodo]

Little Mosque on the Prairie – Clash of Civilizations as a sitcom. blame canada, all episodes on google video. [via de-bug]

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while shopping around for a cd by french dub band brain damage i discovered this logo of the french stop drm movement on their record labels website. french anti-drm activists seem quite organised, organising flash mobs and stuff. yup, read that right, flash mobs are still going strong in france as well …

but the real news is a link to a page by emi france, where emi explains to its customers how they can make a copy of their copy-protected cd’s. lol. there are 3 rather envolved tutorials for various situations, describing how to make a copy using a normal cd-burner, with computers and cd-burners in computers. absurdities like that make it almost worthwhile.

le copie-control et le droit a la copy prive

wow

Warcraft Wonders of Tomorrow – lore sjöberg considers what future WoW extensions might bring. or should bring. i especially like his call for a third faction, one he names the apathetic one, one that is beyong good [alliance] vs. evil [horde]. i would join them.

Games and Culture — Table of Contents (October 1 2006, 1 [4]) – academic magazine on gaming culture has dedicated its latest issue to studies surrounding WoW.

whack

BabyToupee.com – finally. wigs for babies. babies usually look sooo boring. [via b3ta]

Google Maps – this building does look alot like a swastika from above. [via b3ta]

“Little Superstar” – its funny till it gets too weird. the voice and the smile of this kid make my toes curl. [via zefrank]

HansoExposed 9/8 70 Fragments – Complete – aha. lost explained.

Floppy Disk Bag – HOWTO make a bag from old floppy disks.

w00t

Nokia | Nseries: product,n95 – nokia is driving me crazy w. their pre-mature product announcements. way back when they announced it, i wanted the N91, but in the meantime they announced the N93, and now the N95, that look so much cooler. gief!

Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier? – was super mario theme knicked from an unknown funk band?

apparently-baked biz school prof who was soon fired – awwww i missed it. where is the video now …

MegaFon – Talk without Limits – voip software for mac os x, but a problem occurs to me, i dont only voip w. other mac users. or did i missunderstand?

woo

Eigene Domains für Montenegro und Serbien festgelegt – .me will be the hot new domain ending. consider the possibilities. german comedian otto comes to mind, see.me – feel.me – kill.me – grill.me [via de-bug]

I’m Banksy – me too. and so can you be. [via stillalive]

All you need is ubuntu – bill clinton digs ubuntu, but means the african saying “I am because you are”, not the operating system.

DRM Protest at Apple Store Midtown on Saturday at 3pm – frankly i often feel like there are more relevant issues than to protest drm. but hey. its still a valid cause. NYC is a bit far tho, so i won’t attend at this time.

October 3rd Declared “Day Against DRM” – international action day against drm. see my comment above.

Brain Damage – Spoken Dub Manifesto – amazing french dub/spoken word project. i love what hakim bay says, as does nicola at [via pasta & vinegar]

raster – wilhelm sasnal – “… his works often differ so much from each other that one could suppose they had been painted by numerous artists.” i love that in painters. [via frenzine]

Ars Electronica FESTIVAL – the webcasts of all the major talks in linz are online.

Simon Extreme for Mac OS X – “Simon Extreme is a reinterpretation of the classic 1978 Milton Bradley game Simon, complete with authentic gameplay and sound samples from the original game.” [via habi]

wääää

swissinfo – Historian Hans-Ulrich Jost says the vote on asylum and immigration reflects Switzerland’s xenophobic heritage – oh? no such thing as a humantiarian tradition in switzerland. at least we won’t have to correct our self-image then.

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voidstar has published a brilliant parody of the “home taping is killing music” campaign. [via bb, so technically i don't need to blog this, but hey ...]

i have read about apple switching to intel all week – with very mixed feelings, obviously – but i have not commented on it yet. but i just read a rant over @ cult of mac that makes me break my silencio stampa.

see, what i did not understand was WHY apple would have to switch to intel, if their goal was indeed to get into distributing hollywood movies?

well, it appears that this might have do with DRM. it seems that intel is heavily envolved in creating copy-protection systems and incorporating those into their processors on a hardware level, which needless to say will be very hard if not impossible to crack. sounds scary to me. i am someone, who thinks that already with iPod and iTunes stores apple went almost too far in bending over to the involved industries. their DRM policy is located right there on the cusp to still barely be called fair. but using an intel chip for its copy-protection capabilities would clearly cross that line. so let’s hope this turns out to be just another conspiracy theory.

what has not changed over night is apple behaving like the worst corporation out there. sad that. rilly sad… we naivly believed apple thought different…