[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited]

#watch

Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces – "When Christian Schallert isn't cooking, dressing, sleeping or eating, his 24 square meter (258 square feet) apartment looks like an empty cube. To use a piece of furniture, he has to build it. "

Gummy Bears Stop Motion – "Ten pounds of gummy bears animating tetris, breakout, and other random stuff."

"Reality 86'd" A film by David Markey – "A road documentary shot from the inside of the last Black Flag tour ever (the 1986 "In My Head" US tour.) Greg Ginn along with Henry Rollins, Cel Revulta, and Anthony Martinez comprise the final line up of the band."

ROME – 3D experiment by google and dangermouse, view in chrome browser

Vegan Black Metal Chef Episode 1 Pad Thai – mhhh pad thai, yuck goth.

Death Cab For Cutie's – "Home Is A Fire," video by Shepard Fairey and Nicholas Harmer
"Video concept by: Shepard Fairey and Nicholas Harmer"

REGGIE WATTS: IMPROVISED DECONSTRUCTION on Vimeo – shitfuckstacking great

BATTLES — Watch the Ice Cream video – mhhh ice cream

In heaven everything is fine. – still a great song, thanx for the reminder.

Squirrels! – "I set up my iPhone on a tripod and fed these squirrels some stale bread." hate the demonic beasts. no. they are NOT cute.

Guardiola responde a Mourinho: sugus de piña – even pep agrees

Mourinho Critica los Caramelos Sugus – no really, why? why are they blue? finally even mourinho seems to have a point

#read

Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden – "The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different."

Beck Remixes Jamie Lidell – ""Completely Exposed" is a disjointed piece of funk pop from R&B abstractionist Jamie Lidell's most recent solo album, last year's Compass. Now, that album's co-producer, Beck, has reworked the song into something more booming and spacious; the remix is for the taking below (e-mail address required). "

Man Tracks Down Stolen Laptop Online, Updates Progress via Twitter – "Sean Power was able to track down his stolen laptop online using the tracking software Prey and discovered it was being used by Paolo Votano, co-owner of Oficina Latina NYC (at the time Sean was out of town on business). Sean updated his progress via Twitter, with his followers doing additional research and two of them even helped recover the laptop."

Flaming Lips Pack Heady Psych Rock Into Gummy Skulls – "There’s always this dread as groups get old and set in their ways. They need to have their routine, where one day is very much like the next. And I’m not really like that." interview

Fan Xiaoyan – "Sculptor Fan Xiaoyan has created several part woman, part metallic warrior pieces that I would not want to run into in a dark alley. Clearly the ‘Terminator’ movie franchise did not have the market on kickass half man/half machinery cornered."

Google and Danger Mouse team up for steerable 3D in-browser video – "Tablets and smartphones may be all the rage these days, but here's something computers can do that they can't, for now anyway: display an interactive 3D environment like the one in "3 Dreams of Black", a browser experience from Google and musician/producer Danger Mouse"

MorningPics – Delivering past Instagram memories to your inbox every morning – "Wake up every morning to a small reminder of a special moment you captured and shared on Instagram." beta signup available

Cellphones Could Be Killing Bees [STUDY] – "A recent study, conducted by Daniel Favre at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, sheds more light on the issue by showing that cellphone signals are seriously affecting — or even killing — bees. To conduct the study, Favre tested honeybees’ reactions to nearby cellphones in different modes: off, standby and making a call."

Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death – "It’s like naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk… It’s as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes “Jew” and “Gypsy.”"

Phone radiation found in Swiss study to affect biological processes – "Electromagnetic radiation produced by radio antennae or mobile phones can affect biological processes, such as electrical brain activity during sleep, say researchers."

Pants Are Overrated – Hobbes And Bacon – "Calvin’s daughter, Bacon meets Hobbes for the first time." calvin, 27 years on, has a daughter named bacon.

Pink Rabbit Plastic Bag set 10 bags by WonderlandRoom on Etsy – "This plastic bag looks like a rabbit, it will make people smiling. A set is composed of 10 bags."

Fact checking: Let’s hope it matches the editors’ bias – "How can a freelancer lose his job? Simple: By actually being a journalist."

Zurich residents vote on assisted suicide – "Voters in Zurich are being given mixed messages about whether to allow or prevent people from being able to decide how to end their own lives."

Boy Builds Tiny Wheelchair for Paraplegic Baby Rabbit – "When his father found an abandoned baby rabbit that was paralyzed from the waist down, young Liam O’Rourke of Tucson designed and built a wheelchair for the wee animal"

Who Mourns for Osama? – "But why do we on the left keep silent, allowing ourselves to be seduced by the greatest mass media propaganda machine ever constructed? I suspect we do not protest because we too are afraid that if a debate erupts around the merits of Osama's politics, if he is read as closely as some French philosophers continue to this day to read Mao, then the total intellectual, moral, and spiritual vacuity of the left's worldview will finally be plain for all to see. The left has nothing to offer, so it must promote the illusion that no one else has anything to offer either."

Wife, friends defend artist over gallery 'sex show' – "Speaking just days after it was publicly announced Cheng Li has been sent to a labor camp for one year for "disturbing public order", wife Ma told China Daily she fully supported his decision to go ahead with the show."

▶ the broken places. – combines music and photos, moby streaming his latest album

23,322 Expendables Downloaders Accused in BitTorrent’s Biggest Lawsuit – "A massive list of 23,322 U.S. Internet users are expected to receive a settlement letter in which they are accused of illegally downloading The Expendables on BitTorrent."

Anonymous: From the Lulz to Collective Action – "Anonymous provides discrete micro-protest possibilities that aren’t otherwise present in a way that allows individuals to be part of something greater. You don’t have to fill out a form with your personal information, you aren’t being asked to send money, you don’t even have to even give your name but you do feel like you are actually part of something larger."

To Sit or Not to Sit – "First, encourage men to continue using the urinals in public toilets, while at home insist they both urinate and squeeze their last dribbles into the sink rather than into the toilet, then rinse the sink with a generous splash of water." word, brother man.

Statigr.am – Fun and useful metrics for your Instagram account

Freitag Fake Snake Collection – "At Freitag's newly opened NYC shop you will find over 1,000 of the Zurich-based brand's one-of-a-kind bags cut from used truck tarpaulins, but you will also find a surprising twist on their main material. Showing a softer side of Markus and Daniel Freitag, the brotherly duo's Fake Snake limited edition handbags reveal a more malleable take on tarp. "

AnonOps accuse coup leader of 'bullying' – "Members of Anonymous have hit out at a splinter group that has seized control of AnonOps, the online operations hub of the ‘hacktivist’ collective and home to the group’s IRC chat server, leaking the IP addresses of some 653 users onto the Internet."

freitag reference at 10 corso como – "the freitag 'roadkill project' references the numerous animals that have probably been killed by the trucks in which the company gets their used tarpaulins"

Artist Slays Louis Vuitton in Intellectual Property Dispute – "In a move designed to draw attention to the genocide in Darfur, in 2008 a young fashion student took the decision to juxtapose an image of a starving child with a Louis Vuitton-inspired bag. The French fashion giant responded by sending in their lawyers in pursuit of crushing damages. This week, however, they lost not only the case, but the all-important PR battle."

Nudie Foodies Bring Food Fetishism Mainstream for Japan Tsunami Relief – "The Nudie Foodies are 18 "cover model-caliber food bloggers" who are stripping down and contributing recipes for a book whose proceeds will benefit organizations providing assistance to Japan's tsunami victims. "

VEGAN tattoo is (probably) made from animal products – "a young woman proudly shows off her new "VEGAN" inner-lip tattoo to her friends; they offer her a string of congratulations that comes to an abrupt end when one friend points out that black tattoo ink is made from burnt animal bones, and thus the VEGAN in question will forever have an animal product in her mouth"

We're the new Sex Pistols! – no taboo rappah.

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“Intermittent reinforcement,” he said. “My friend Matthew, he leads our guild, he told me about it. It comes from experiments with rats. Imagine that you have a rat who gets some food every time he pushes a lever. How often do you think he pushes the lever?”

“As often as he’s hungry, I suppose. I kept mice once — they knew when it was time for food and they’d rush over to the corner of the cage that I dropped their seeds and cheese into.”

“Right. Now, what about a level that gives food every fifth time they press the lever?”

“I don’t know — less?”

“About the same, actually, After a while, the rats figure out that they need five presses for a food pellet and every time they want feeding, they wander over and hit it five times. Now, what about a lever that gives food out at random? Sometimes one press, sometimes one hundred presses?”

“They’d give up, right?”

“Wrong! They press it like crazy, All day and all night. It’s like someone who wins a little money in the lottery one week and then plays every week afterward, forever. The uncertainty drives them crazy, it’s the most addictive system of all. Matthew says it’s the most important part of game design — one day you manage to kill a really hard NPC with a lucky swing, and it drops some incredibly epic item, and you make more money in ten seconds than you made all week, and you have to keep going back to that spot, looking for a monster like it, thinking it’ll happen again.”

“But it’s random, right?”

“I’m not sure,” he said. “Matthew says it is. I sometimes think that the game company deliberately messes up the odds so that when you’re just about to quit, you get another jackpot.” He shrugged. “That’s what I’d do, anyway.”

“If it’s random, it shouldn’t make any difference what you do and where you play. If you flip a coin ten times and it comes up heads ten times in a row, you’ve got exactly the same chance of it coming up heads an eleventh time than if had come up all tails, or half and half.”

from cory doctorow: for the win, another great read that for reason i am taking ages to finish reading on my iPad.

teh glorious interweb as it got stuck in my camino tabs this past week – the edited version.

online video killed the …

Fiat Cinque Tank – 500 tank ftw. i want one! gotta love the smirk on the drivers faces.

Jason Jones: Behind the Veil – The Complete Saga – "Jason Jones's reports from Iran taught us so much about Persia and its people. For example, I'd been under the impression that Iran was a Scandinavian nation where the citizens traveled everywhere on pogo-sticks and subsisted solely on bumblebee pie. Turns out at least half of that is untrue." in case you missed this, watch it now.

Video: 8-bit arcade classics are back, in Lego form – "Lego Arcade, by YouTube user MlCHAELHlCKOX, whose Lego/game obsession goes back several years to his original Lego Marios"

Origins of the Moonwalk – "As some people already know, a dance move called the moonwalk (a.k.a. backslide) had been existed before it became the "moonwalk". The video features the ancient moonwalkers and other greats who possibly influenced MJ's style of dancing." wer hats erfunden?

Operation Midnight Climax – Episode 1- What's In The Bottle? – "The year is 1953 and the CIA has just been formed. We meet Jake Kowalski (Quinton Flynn) and his Army buddy Reed Spencer (Todd Cahoon) in an undisclosed location where Jake, now a CIA spook, tells Reed about the government's MKULTRA campaign and the covert plans to administor LSD to unsuspecting brothel patrons while they are "filmed for research purposes", behind two-way mirrors." cia lsd wtf

Winston Churchill backed by band from the future – "Churchill gives a dazzling rendition of his 1941 proclamation, aided by wayward time travelers."

Gay Geeks Stage WOW Pride Parade – "Judging from this video of a well-attended gay pride parade set in "World of Warcraft" land, when avatars get down, they don't always get down opposite" i dont think i know one gay wow player… sadly.

Dancing Inmate's Michael Jackson tribute – "A tribute performed by 1,500 CPDRC Inmates on June 27, 2009 in memory of Michael Jackson."

schmooze and abuse

Celebrities Upside Down Pictures – "Photoshop celebrities and politicians upside down while their face stays intact"

You've been Tangoed: Ginger tom upstages David Dimbleby on BBC Question Time – "As David Dimbleby and the panel yakked on about political issues, proceedings were suddenly enlivened by the unexpected arrival of a cat. And no one was more surprised than the ginger tom's owner Jackie Ellery, who was watching at home when her missing pet appeared."

TweetCraft – "TweetCraft is an in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft." PC only as far as i can tell.

Giving up my iPod for a Walkman – "When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week." and 30 years from now, a teenager will review the ipod with just as many questions.

Get tooled up for guerilla gardening – "Next time you see a well-heeled couple stopping to dig through their bags, look again – things might not be what they seem. You could be witnessing a pair of guerilla gardeners engaged in their covert battle to plant flowers and vegetables in neglected urban spaces. It can be illegal, so campaign members are often forced to hide their work."

Michael Jackson First Artist to Sell Over 1 Million Downloads in a Single Week – "As Michael Jackson’s body is being prepared for transport to a public viewing at the Neverland Ranch, his music rules the charts once again."

Pirate Bay to sell to private company, go legit – "OK, that's weird. – OK, that's kind of ominous and interesting."

Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde Discusses the Site’s Future – "On the day that The Pirate Bay announced that they will be sold to a commercial company for $7.8 million, Tomas Wennström secured an audio interview with TPB spokesman Peter Sunde." everything has been said about this. i just shut up and sulk.

My dirty weekend in Glastonbury's Hippy Land – "We sent the most anti-festival (and anti-music, anti-mud, anti-dancing) writer we could find to Glastonbury. Did the Green Fields work their magic?" please dont miss the hilarious photo set.

Taking the Michael Jackson thing a bit too far… [PIC] – "This is actually disturbing if real."

laboratory tests of vegan restaurants in la – "Is your vegan food really vegan? We pull out all the stops to test 17 LA area vegan restaurants for non-vegan ingredients, and to find out why seven of them failed miserably." i worked in a “vegetarian” restaurant once where they used gelatine.

Stweet – "Stweet is a mix of street and twitt, offering a real new way to discover geolocalised twitts from Twitter on a Google Street View panorama."

James Barnett – Paintings of Video Games – "A series of landscapes painted from video games. These aren't from screenshots I found online; I navigated around inside of each of the games until I found a composition I liked, and then made a painting of it."

Orioto – Mikaël Aguirre – same as above, but better.

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online video killed the …

The Astounding World of the Future – "A funny mid-20th century newsreel featuring amazingly accurate predictions of the year 2000." [via b3ta]

The Beatles: Rock Band – game trailer, will get released 09. 09. 09

Media banned from Tiananmen Square – "The BBC's James Reynolds tried to enter Tiananmen Square, but was turned away. Men wielding umbrellas attempted to obstruct filming in the area." anyone else feel like hitting the stupidly giggling chinese cop?

Stephen Colbert gets sued – "Host Jon Stewart and correspondent Stephen Colbert talk about material that cannot be used. Colbert tells the story of how he got sued over a piece."

Baby Talk, Bla Bla Bla!!!! – "A baby is talking in her language, Funny!" she sounds arabian.

INTERVIEW PROJECT – david lynch interviews ordinary people he meets on the road, filmed by his son.

Dan & naD – a palindromic sketch – "This sketch is a palindrome – i.e., it's the same backwards as it is forwards. It's arguably not the funniest sketch on Youtube, but it's almost certainly one of the only ones that was written using a spreadsheet."

schmooze and abuse

I-Spot Iconic Game Characters – "From Pac-Man to Left 4 Dead, delve into the nostalgia tweaking, heart-warming, time-wasting world of the greatest iconic games characters of all time, including Donkey Kong, Zelda, Mario, Horace and loads more." [via b3ta]

7 Factors That Led to Crisis – "As I was working on Bailout Nation, I struggled to find a way to communicate the myriad forces that combined to cause the collapse. The book details the many elements involved, but I wanted a visual way to depict what I took 20 chapters to explain."

Drama Button – "The Drama Button – for all of life's unnecessary drama" nice enough, it’s just a different melody than the one we know and love from dramatic chipmunk.

The Crack Garden, San Francisco, CA – "Inspired by the tenacious plants that pioneer the tiny cracks of urban landscapes, a backyard is transformed through hostile takeover of an existing concrete slab by imposing a series of "cracks". The rows of this garden contain a lushly planted mix of herbs, vegetables, flowers, and rogue weeds retained for their aesthetic value." no worries, this garden is not growing crack.

Jogger Hits Tree While Tweeting, Hurtles Toward Global Infamy – "I am somewhat disappointed that my 15 minutes of fame stem from running into a tree whilst tweeting" lolololol such a metaphor.

China Blocks Twitter, Many Social Media Sites, Ahead of June 4 Tienanmen Anniversary – "I first heard about it through @rmack, more here on Mashable, many other media reports coming out now."

Artists Abused in Pirate Bay Trial Strike Back – "Hiphop group Advance Patrol was used by the music industry in the Pirate Bay trial, portrayed as artists suffering losses from illegal downloading. However, the group itself was never consulted, and they are now striking back at the music industry by releasing their new album for free – on The Pirate Bay, of course."

The Biggest Pavilion in the Venice Biennale – "At the 53rd Venice Biennial (opening to the public on 7th June), a completely new pavilion will be presented – the Internet Pavilion. With the theme for this year's biennial, “Making Worlds”, it is only logical that the Internet is represented, for the first time, by a pavilion of its own." it’ll be very interesting to see, how the biennale presents the internet.

How Tetris conquered the world, block by block – "That addictive puzzler Tetris – created 25 years ago by Russian Alexey Pajitnov – has a legitimate claim to being the videogame that conquered the world"

Every time you masturbate…God kills a kitten – "first appeared in print in BarFly magazine as the image below, prior to the year 2000."

Apple Rejects EFF Updates App, Claims Parody Content Is Objectionable – "But this morning Apple rejected the app. Why? Because it claims EFF's content runs afoul of the iTune's App Store's policy against "objectionable" content." just the guys you want to mess with, apple.

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teh glorious interweb as it got stuck in my camino tabs this past week – the edited version.

2008 –> 2009 = same crap . different year

Best Browser Arcade Games 2008 – "we're proud to present ten of the best browser arcade games released in 2008. Fancy a 100-metre sprint event? Hit Benzido up. Thinking about dino racing? Get acquainted with Pixeljam Games."

One year in 40 seconds on Vimeo – "Images from the same spot through one year. Audio captured at the same place."

DJ Earworm – United State of Pop 2008 (Viva La Pop) – "A Mashup of the Top 25 Hits of 2008, according to Billboard. Download the audio at djearworm.com
and don't forget to watch it in high quality.."

BD Tannenbahn Organic Tshirt – "Men's AA Organic Shirt Light, form-fitting shirt for men, 100% organic cotton, Brand: American Apparel, nature 1 color flock print" post-xmas tshirt by BD.

online video killed the …

The Making of LittleBigPlanet – "Evans talks about the creative process that led to the creation of LittleBigPlanet. Fans will be particularly interested in the video snippets from the first proof-of-concept demo that Media Molecule showed to Sony" yeah, but WHY IS THE GAME SO FOOKIN IRRITATING IF IT’S SO GREAT?

Germans create 'future hotel' – “Scientists in Germany have developed the "Hotel Room of the Future" to show hotels how they can use the latest technology to make guests feel more comfortable.” gief.

The Invisible Rope – guys holding up an invisible rope on a snowy street and in a mall, check people’s reactions. however i am not sure why they move their hands in the mall.

Wind Waker Unplugged – "The original music is from the Legend of Zelda series. (Mostly from The Wind Waker.)" split screen multi instrumentalist rendition thereof. is thereof a word? too lazy to google it.

Lost Skier – "Rob Lathan is lost again. This time he’s a skier roaming the streets of NYC looking for the slopes."

Dog eats Bean Burrito in 1 second – "Bubba loves his burritos." well, if he’d really love them, would be wolf em down like that?

schmooze and abuse

DestroyTwitter 1.0.0 Beta release – "This is a big day. After exactly ten days of design and development, I'm both proud and excited to release the first beta version of DestroyTwitter. It's pretty self-explanatory, but I'll go over what's included nonetheless." the destroy flickr app is nice too.

SHIKITO in Brown – "Shikito is the icon for Superdeux’s new B*Shit line, a lovingly satricial streetwear brand that reminds us whose #%@ is the baddest." now that's a shit toy. literally.

Top 500 worst passwords – "From Mark Burnett's 2005 book Perfect Passwords: Selection, Protection, Authentication, a table of the "Top 500 Worst Passwords Of All Time."" and i thought 12345 was safe.

Facebook nudity policy angers nursing moms – "Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies." well well now, nursing moms should not get too upset or they might spoil the milk. or spill it.

iFog for iPhone – "iFog: treat your iPhone screen like a window: blow air on your iPhone and watch as the screen fogs up. Then use your finger to write messages, sketch, and even play tic-tac-toe. Just like a real window on a cold winter day!"

GTA IV makes fun of Apple, predicts iPhone 3G reception problems – "GTA IV came through with the great biting social commentary that we’ve come to expect from Rockstar. Check out these pics from the game (from an Internet cafe) which do a great job of mocking Apple and users of Apple products."

India moustaches 'face the chop' – "The famous beards and moustaches of India – seen as representing a huge tradition to the outside world – are under threat, a new book says."

ALL REBEL ROCKERS Limited Edition Ultra Deluxe – very very tempting, when’s my birthday again?

Latisse: New eyelash-lengthening drug approved – "Could a new eyelash-lengthening drug curb the envy of stubby-lashed ladies? The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has green-lighted Latisse, which lengthens, thickens and darkens eyelashes when dabbed daily on the lash line on the lids with a disposable wand." and soon we can braid our eyelashes, yay.

Outrage Over Ivanchuk: The Great Chess Doping Scandal – "Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk refused to submit a urine sample for a drug test at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden and is now considered guilty of doping. The world of chess is outraged that he could face a two-year ban." is there a more absurd “sport” for a doping scandal?

No Pants 2k9 Details for NYC at Improv Everywhere – 'All are invited to participate in the 8th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride. The event will take place at 3:00 PM on Saturday, January 10"

Q&A: Somali Pirate Explains How To Steal Ships – "I was a fisherman before I turned to piracy, a crewmember of a small fishing boat. We used to capture lobsters and sharks."

How to embarrass yourself – "Seriously, stop." no seriously now, stop!

Surgeon busted for using human fat to fuel cars – "A former Beverly Hills plastic surgeon is in trouble with the law because he fueled his car with human fat sucked from his patients." and his name wouldn’t be tyler durden by any chance?

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ordered from the most appealing to the most appalling (no offense plz)

also check out: Flickr Fantasy cake

teh glorious interweb as it got stuck in my camino tabs this past week – the edited version. oh boy, long list again this week. i should probably get a day-job. and i wish i would/could.

ipod touched

:flash: iPhone App Developer s Frustration – "Let’s face it, a number of iPhone developers are pissed at how Apple has been treating them — the prohibitive $100 fee to register as an Apple developer, the proprietary development tools, the overreaching nondisclosure agreements (NDA), the possibility of your app being banned. Worse, developers are cowering in fear and playing along lest Apple get temperamental and exclude them from collecting their slice of the very profitable Apple pie." the timeline.

:flash: Another Competing iPhone App Zapped By Apple – "I’ve said before that Apple should not reject apps unless the code is malicious. More important is to have criteria applied equally to all apps. Making up new reasons to reject an app only makes a closed platform appear even less open, especially when the app may appear to compete with Apple. Apple should be treating its app developers like royalty. These people are going to keep the iPhone as the platform of the future."

:flash: Announcing: Zen Bound! – "What is 'Zen Bound'? In short, Zen Bound is a calm and meditative game of wrapping rope around wooden sculptures – a simple task that can become surprisingly complex." coming to the iphone/ipod this fall, a sure will-buy. [via waxy]

:flash: Loot Master Released on iTunes – loot master looks like an interesting game for ipod touch. but sure yet, wait to hear fromm someone who played it.

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:flash: Germany arrest over gamer death – "A man arrested by police in Germany on suspicion of the murder of an internet gaming enthusiast in Nottingham is facing extradition proceedings."

:flash: Games less virtual, more reality – "While most massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) are based on fantasy worlds, there is a growing trend for a new kind of game that merges the real world with the virtual. "

:flash: A Car's life – YouTube game (1st Level) – "How to play:
A "Click" button would appear for a quick second, time your click perfectly to advance ahead. Happy gaming!!"

:flash: The Superstruct Game – "Superstruct is the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you’ll help us chronicle the world of 2019–and imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face." starts october 6. [via zefrank]

online video killed the …

:flash: tourette's weatherman blooper – "Everything seems fine and dandy, until he gets a nasty tick. No better way to play it off on live TV than to shut up and smile! " his smile after the blooper makes it.i sometimes wish i had tourette. as an excuse.

:flash: grey fluffy clouds – "Made a video for this hilarious song off the Y4K album… little grey fluffy cloud… monotonous, and dull …" so right he is, what a stupid question, what were the skies like when you were young.

:flash: Jesus Is My Friend by Sonseed – as warren ellis put it, "You must all suffer"

:flash: collection of videos that make you feel better – "i’d like to get a collection going of media that you watch when you need to feel better" i added the frolicking sheep video we made in ireland.

:flash: kammenos dimosiografos – the show must go on, radio speaker keeps reading while behind him a fire spreads.

:flash: Bill O'Reilly on Sarah Palin email hack – "Looks like Bill O'Reilly skipped the First Amendment section of Journalism 101. He thinks owners of websites that posted Sarah Palin's hacked emails should be prosecuted along with the hacker who broke into her account."

art and design

:flash: Metal plates send messages to airport x-ray screeners – "the pictures say it all, it's a "carry on" communication system. These metal places contain messages which will appear when they are X-Rayed." brilliant, but depending on the message you place, this could make for a looooong session with airport security. By Evan Roth.

:flash: Nina Katchadourian – Sorted Books – combines book spines to create short stories. [via bb]

:flash: Annamarie Ho – Betelnut Girls – "Betelnut, a mild stimulant, is consumed throughout Asia; only in Taiwan, however, is it sold by binlang xi shi, scantily-clad girls in glass booths found on street corners and highways, catering to a clientele consisting primarily of working-class men. Binlang Xi Shi (Betelnut Girls) recreates one of these booths with a hired actress playing the role of the betelnut girl."

:flash: Peter Thuvander – Iyo Yoyo – "An induction powered yoyocharger for Apple. And since solarchargers don´t work at night or in Sweden half the year, this should be a smash hit. " hope this goes into production.

:flash: Vitra Eames Elephant – "To celebrate the 100th birthday of Charles Eames in 2007, Vitra introduced a limited anniversary edition of the Eames Plywood Elephant, the legendary furniture sculpture that was designed in 1945 but never produced for general distribution or sale." made of plastic. me want one. [via swissmiss]

:flash: The Tantrum Throwing Alarm Clock. – "This is the alarm clock that pounds its fists and opens its mouth while "shouting" its alarm. As your selected wake-up time approaches to within five minutes, its feet and body will begin to glow, and when the alarm sounds, it begins tapping its arms lightly" for those of us who don’t have kids (yet).

:flash: lotus beachball – a rather nice anim gif

:flash: "In Case Of Civil Unrest…" – 1. Remove cement 2. Break into pieces 3. Throw

:flash: Conflux 2008: notes from the panel Cartography of Protest and Social Changes – "On Sunday September 14, i had the great pleasure to host a panel on Cartography of Protest and Social Changes with 3 artists and activists i admire a lot: Brooke Singer, John Emerson and Lize Mogel."

:flash: Stefan Sagmeister installation removed by Amsterdam Police – "It seems that the Amsterdam police were called by a resident of one of the overlooking buildings early Sunday morning to report that someone was “stealing an artwork”. As the story goes, people were pocketing a few of the coins, which was also expected, but things got a bit out of hand when a resident saw this happening. So the police responded, and, in a rather bizarre instance of police efficiency, they proceeded to “secure” the artwork, by sweeping up the entire installation." lolololol

:flash: Welocme to Songbike – "The "SongBike" is a mobile broadcasting unit for bicycles that composes compositions based on the locations that it travels to. The resulting sounds are uploaded to the project's website while instructions for building your own bike and recording/broadcasting unit are also included." typo, their’s.

:flash: magda trzaski – "i really enjoy reading about how artists work, and how much everyone's process varies. here, i'm going to try to share some of my process with you. i hope you find it interesting, and please leave your thoughts." very inspiring artist blog [via raymi]

schmooze and abuse

:flash: How to Clean Stuff – what sounds pretty dull, turns out to be quite interesting.

:flash: FRED CIGARETTES – Lausanne – Switzerland – politically correct swiss cigarettes without additives, with “get firefox” logo and the website – i assume – under a CC license. almost makes you want to start smoking again.

:flash: F*** You (What's on her mind ?) – "Why a little girl on her age doing act like that ?
Maybe she's only follower from TV action, I don't know.
I can't understand."

:flash: Muxtape – "There was a popular misconception that Muxtape only survived because it was “flying under the radar,” and the moment the major labels found out about it it’d be shut down. In actuality, the labels and the RIAA read web sites like everyone else, and I heard from them both within a week or so." the story of muxtape told by its creator.

:flash: MySpace takes aim at iTunes – "One of the most intriguing features of MySpace music is that it will give users the option to create playlists of up to 100 songs, and listen to them all for free. Typically, streaming music supported via ads does not allow users to pick exactly what song they can listen to, or will only make available a limited number of songs from each artist."

:flash: Project 10 to the 100th – "Maybe the answer that helps somebody is in your head, in something you've observed, some notion that you've been fiddling with, some small connection you've noticed, some old thing you have seen with new eyes."

:flash: Radiohead/ Remix/ Reckoner – "After the overwhelming response to the Nude Remix Project, Radiohead, iTunes and Garageband are teaming up again giving you the opportunity to remix "Reckoner", another track from the band's latest album "In Rainbows"." with a facebook widget so artists can pimp their remixes.

:flash: Prosthetic Fetishes and Fan Erotica: Sci-Fi Predicts Future of Sex – "To give the sex-tech revolution a virtual dose of Viagra, Grenzfurthner invited dozens of sci-fi authors, technophiles, sexperts and futurists to San Francisco for this week's Arse Elektronica, a three-day conference about the ever-titillating intersection of sex and technology."

:flash: 370H55V license plates – 370H55V if read upside down spells … he he

:flash: Man farts at officer, charged with battery – "While being booked at the police station "[Jose] Cruz then allegedly moved closer to one of the officers and passed gas, the station reported. In the complaint, the investigating officer wrote that police noticed a 'very strong' odor." As a result, Mr. Cruz was charged with battery."

:flash: Bespoke veggies in Omotesando – vegetarian restaurant in japan [via joi]

:flash: P8tch: welcome – "The QRCode on the p8tch is a URL. If you scan the code with your iPhone, Mobile Safari will take you directly to that URL. If it's a Google Maps link, your iPhone will take you directly to the map. If it's a YouTube link, you'll see the movie fullscreen. Cool, right?" [via hannes]

:flash: Where is Your Username registered – exactly what it says on the tin. nice one [via swissmiss]

:flash: MixTube – "Create and share audio playlists made from YouTube videos."

:flash: G1 Android Phone: Neither Open nor Exciting – "It is not a 'wow' device but it is an interesting launch for Google and a good first effort,"

:flash: Home of the GoogleGoatse Shirt – "Google logo. Goatse. T-shirt. Shirts are 100% cotton, made by American Apparel. Available in white only." [via waxy]

:flash: Poken™ – "Open-API-based Poken technology will become the standard for connecting people in the real world and enhancing their interactions online. Poken revolutionizes your social networking experience. It’s reviving the handshake… With a twist. Connect where it matters: when you meet face-to-face. Be real." [via laurant haug]

:flash: PlayStation 3 video DRM: two strikes and you're out – "As one Ars reader found out, and Sony confirmed for us, you have to be careful about what happens to your system once it's filled with video content: you have one download, one redownload, and that's it. "

:flash: a long ass walk :: AfricaTrek – "a remarkable story about a couple that walked from south africa to israel :: a mini series is coming out on PBS soon"

and last but very much not least

:flash: Panti-Christ World Domination – “panties made for women who know what they want. designed in switzerland since 2003″

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avast! shiver me timberz … etc. etc.

:flash: Talk like a Pirate – "Learn to talk like a pirate." the “official” instruction video. [via habi]

:flash: Official Google Blog: Google in one more language – "It recently came to our attention that Google was not accessible to a large, influential, and notoriously quick-tempered community: Pirates. As of today we are proud and rather relieved to announce that Google Search is available in Pirate."

:flash: scurvy dog! ’tis pirate zen 2008 – arr, the webzen links, me matey

ipod touchness

:flash: E-reader on your iPhone – "Geek goddess Cali Lewis reports that a free application from E Reader.com turns your i-device into an e-reader, allowing you to buy books which automatically show up on your iPhone or iPod Touch." and now how do i get cory doctorow’s book content onto my ipod? ffs

:flash: iPhone App Shifts Hypermiling Up to iPermiling – "Budding hypermilers can become iPermilers with an iPhone app that costs less than three gallons of gas. GreenMeter uses the iPhone's built-in accelerometer to tell drivers, in real time, how much their lead-footed ways are costing them in carbon emissions and fuel economy."

:flash: Apple iPhone: Now available in cupcake form – "The genius of these iPhone cupcakes cannot be overestimated. Nor can their tastiness, I suspect. The set of 12 cupcakes, each decorated to look like a familiar iPhone app, is so geekilicious that we're torn between admiring the artwork and wanting to eat every last one."

:flash: Star Wars: Force Unleashed in App Store – "Experience the Star Wars universe as never before. The devastating power of the Force is in your hands. You are Darth Vader’s Secret Apprentice, trained by the menacing Sith Lord to hunt down the last of the Jedi." this is what my mate tells me: sound is shit, design is crap, but the ui seems like a great idea, you do attacks via the drawing of symbols on the screen.

:flash: Things That Podcaster's Rejection From the App Store Is Not About – "Podcaster, so far as I can tell, complies with every written guideline in the SDK Agreement. If other guidelines exist, Apple should add them to the agreement. It doesn’t even make sense from a thou shalt not hurt Apple’s music revenue stream standpoint."

:flash: App Store: I’m out. – "You have to wonder if Apple wants the App Store to be a museum of poorly-designed nibware written by dilettante Mac OS X/iPhone OS switcher-developers and hobbyist students."

:flash: Snubbed by Apple Podcaster Developer Turns to Ad Hoc Distribution – "Whatever the case, Sokirynsky isn’t taking the news lying down. Instead he’s distributing Podcaster using the “Ad Hoc App Distribution” system as an alternate to the App Store."

:flash: Convert Avi’s to iPhone mp4’s for free – convert avi to mp4 using vlc

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:flash: THE FREE CULTURE GAME – "The Free Culture Game is a game about the struggle between free culture and copyright. Create and defend the common knowledge from the vectorial class. Liberate the passive consumers from the domain of the market." another great game (with a message) by molleindustria.

:flash: Bejeweled, Warcraft Combine to Form World's Most Addictive Game – "A version of the match-three game is set to launch next Thursday within the World of Warcraft MMO (massively multiplayer online), letting players kill time with puzzles during raids and long stints farming rare items."

:flash: Stepping into a world of hurt – "We tried to take the suck out of it," he said. "It's got the greatest hits of MMOs – 80% of what you know but 20% is new." BUT. sadly only available on PC again. so i am stuck with wow … yet again.

:flash: Spore and More: Activate against Electronic Arts – "Electronic Arts (EA) and Amazon have been the targets of a justified online rebellion the last couple weeks. The impetus for the backlash is EA's use of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology in its game Spore.”

:flash: Warcraft expansion gets release date – "The second expansion pack for the World of Warcraft (WoW) online game is going on sale from 13 November."

:flash: PAKIMONO! – oddly funny mac game, run around naked in copenhagen and jump in front of japanese tourist groups taking pictures.

online video killed the …

:flash: The 11 best film moments of Samuel L. Jackson yelling – "Many actors have trademarks in their on-screen performances. Robert DeNiro repeats things, Tom Cruise incredulously smiles and laughs, and Samuel L. Jackson yells."

:flash: Rollbots teaser trailer – "The official trailer for Rollbots, a new show coming to The CW4Kids in Febuary 2009!" geeky kids show trailer [via bb]

:flash: Two Guys Make Out CNN Lehman Brothers Report – "Two guys in a Howard Stern prank making out on CNN during Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy report."

:flash: Meme Breaks 1.0: scratch for great justice – "The Internet's most famous audio samples in DJ-friendly format."

:flash: Sneaky cat coming closer while not moving HORROR! – "Awesome vid, this cat is a sneaky bastard. Now with appropriate music "

:flash: People Trapping Themselves in Balloons to Seduce You – "Dancing in a bubble — kind of like cage dancing? Just without the uncomfortably in your face slave-girl connotations. So maybe a PG-13 version of cage dancing in the vein of mermaids, fish lips and pirate fantasies?"

:flash: Devendra Banhart – Carmensita – watch out for natalie portman in this bollywoodesque music video.

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:flash: Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' campaign created with Macs – "Metadata found on Microsoft's creative copy used in its 'I'm a PC' ad reveals that the graphics were actually produced using Macs running Adobe Creative Suite 3. After the details were published on the Flickr photo sharing site, Microsoft scrambled to polish off the embarrassing details last night." that’s gotta hurt.

:flash: Schöner kleben 2008 – International Sticker Awards – "Forget Christo! Friday, the 3rd october we are celebreting a day of the International Sticker and create an Intervention Memorial: we will wrap the FIT Gallery in Berlin – Freie Internationale Tankstelle (Schwedter Str. 262, Prenzlauer Berg) in a spectacular mass performance with stickers."

:flash: Twitter Blog: Changes Afoot – "The most significant change you'll notice on the logged-in homepage (/home) is that we've moved the tabs that were on the top of the timeline to the right sidebar." better, much much better. no rilly.

:flash: TwitterKeys: Enhance your Twitter conversations – "TwitterKeys is a small tool we developed here at The Next Web Blog which provides you with a floating window with all these funny symbols you can use in Twitter."

:flash: TwitterKeys: the first 48 hours… – "A little more than 24 hours ago we posted a bookmarklet here titled TwitterKeys and then all hell broke loose. Here is what happened before we launched it and what has happened since."

:flash: Conflux: Vertical Bed – "During the Conflux weekend, Jamie O'Shea was submitting his body to polyphasic sleep, the practice of sleeping multiple times in a 24-hour period. The artist walked around the Conflux area with his Vertical Bed in a suitcase, found himself a nice spot, anchored his prostheses above subway vents or other rigid contact points and stayed there sleeping in an upright position for 40 minute intervals several times in a day." a fantastic project.

:flash: too – sergei brin blogs … so?

:flash: The story behind the Palin e-mail hacking – "A tech-savvy reader who monitors the hackers’ site e-mailed me a detailed explanation of how it went down, who was responsible, and how someone with a conscience warned a friend of the Palin family of the crime"

:flash: Inside Obama's Emails – "Obama reportedly joined the MoveOn.org mailing list while attending the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston." a timely parody thanx to the onion.

:flash: Phone comes preloaded with porn – "A university student who bought a mobile phone found it "contained pornographic images of a female employee from a Cairns Dick Smith Electronics store where she had just bought the phone" omg rofl.

:flash: It's Not Gold, Jerry! – "Looks like those Odd Couple ads starring the "comedy" duo of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld are going the way of Windows CE. Adding insult to injury? It isn't Gates that is being eased out. It's Seinfeld."

:flash: Cover Lay Down: Covers of The Clash classic Straight to Hell – "My usual pre-post iTunes search called up several great indiefolk and alt-folk covers of Straight to Hell, an underrated, unusually downbeat political song by old-school Britpunk faves The Clash." folksy stuff, in comments there is a M.I.A and a moby version, much better. [via bb]

:flash: Financial Melt Up – "In brief: there’s a real economy, and a speculative economy. While they are usually related to each other – even dependent on each other – that relationship changed over the past twenty years." lucid explanation by douglas rushkoff. now i have to decide, what should i start to fabricate?

:flash: Top 25 (Non-Obvious) Ways RSS Can Make Your Life Easier – "If you’re looking for ways to more fully incorporate RSS into your technology repertoire, here are 25 applications, sites and ideas that can help you make the most of RSS." led me to flightstats, where i was able to track my wife's trip to mexico … well, it didn’t work with all the features, since only flights in US are fully tracked. but nice stuff.

:flash: PMSBuddy.com – The free online PMS reminder – "PMSBuddy.com is a free service created with a single goal in mind: to keep you aware of when your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, daughter, or any other women in your life are closing in on "that time of the month"" bloody hell … they even built a facebook app.

:flash: Columbia Heights Suspicious Package: Weird Bear Costume? – "we get this image from Irving and 14th Streets of an odd looking bear costume wearing tattered clothing and posed over a trash can. A lot of our readers are telling us this is the reason for the suspicious package alert."

:flash: Pirate Party Official Raided after Uncovering State Trojan – "The spokesperson of the German Pirate Party saw his house raided after the party published a leaked document which showed that the government uses a homemade “trojan” to wiretap Skype conversations."

:flash: Chrome on Mac and Linux – "Codeweavers, those cross-system wizards behind Wine, have shown off their prowess by releasing a version of Google’s Chrome to Mac and Linux ahead of Google’s own attempts."

:flash: Copy Paste Character – seen this a few month ago, nice reminder

:flash: Review Copies of My Next Book – "This is unorthodox, but what the heck? I’d rather do some “pull” media than all that “push” stuff. " order a pre-copy straight from the dude via his blog, me likee.

:flash: Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny – "Author and cultural critic Cintra Wilson's forthcoming new book, Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny is a powerful, funny, and scary satirical novel about the nature of politics." i read wilson's previous novel, and this is a sure pre-order for me.

:flash: AGDC: Bruce Sterling keynote – "So my PC is like a towel. Cheap and old and the dullest thing in the world, I have always had one. “2008, computer pioneers, they still think computers are exciting!” They don’t get that computers in 2043 are like brick, forks, toothbrushes, towels." odd, but funny.

:flash: Banksy Cleans Up – Cave Painting – "The latest work by mysterious street artist Banksy revealed at Leake Street, London this weekend. See the Banksy tag bottom right of the cave. The CCTV cameras above this were wrapped in grey poly bags to protect them from overspray!"

:flash: Winterthurer Wirt will mit Muttermilch kochen – "Der Wirt des Restaurant «Storchen» in Iberg bei Winterthur will mit Muttermilch kochen. Laut kantonalem Labor ist das nicht erlaubt – aber auch nicht verboten." swiss chef wants to serve meals cooked with mothers milk. turns out, that is illegal.

:flash: Dance Dance Revolutionary INFORMATION – "Dance Dance Revolutionary is an arts initiative that aims to share information about radical activism through fun, participatory activities." they held a angela davis remix contest …

:flash: Rats Prefer Organic Food, Shouldn’t You? – "40 lab rats were offered a choice between organic and conventional biscuits by Swiss and Austrian scientists. The rats preferred the organic biscuits, which makes you wonder if rats are smarter than humans."

:flash: AirBed & Breakfast: Better Than a Cheap Hotel – "Forget Hotels" a bed and breakfast resource site using web 2.0 elements.

:flash: Witchcraft rumor sparks riot at Congo soccer game – "Accusations that a soccer player was using witchcraft during a match in eastern Congo sparked a riot that killed 13 people, a U.N.-funded radio station reported Monday." [via bb]

:flash: Top 10 Hip-Hop Songs that Sampled a Video Game – "I researched and tried to find as many hip-hop songs that I could that sampled a video game"

:flash: NIN Dazzles With Lasers, LEDs and Stealth Screens – "Nine Inch Nails fans are accustomed to such sonic and visual feasts whenever Reznor and company go out on tour. But this time around, NIN has pulled out all the stops, creating a groundbreaking, fully interactive visual display that is as much a part of the show as the band's instruments."

:flash: …and Finally… – "When is a robbery not a robbery but a mere redistribution of wealth? This is the question being tested in a wave of supermarket hold ups in Greece. With food prices soaring, Greek anarchists have decided do something about the problem by becoming modern day Robbin' Hoodies. The latest in a string of raids came last Thursday (4th) when around 20 unarmed people carried out the midday robbery of a supermarket in the northern city of Thesaaloniki."

:flash: Jill Greenberg – mcCain reworked

recipe of the week

:flash: Recette Raisiné – with one e it’s made from grapes, while Raisinée is made from apple and pear juice.

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:flash: Train Spamming – “Wohin mit all dem Spam? Auf die Straße, auf die Züge! Zur Freiheit, zur Sonne und so.”
spam headlines used to graffiti trains.

:flash: Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date – despite being watched by CCTV – “Banksy pulled off an audacious stunt to produce what is believed to be his biggest work yet in central London.” but is bigger better?

online video killed the …

:flash: cat playing a theramin – sorry for the awww effect. [via b3ta]

:flash: Internet – “A 1981 technological documentary about the birth of ‘internet.’” [via b3ta newsletter]

:flash: “Kids Who Don’t Play Video Games Are At Risk” – “Grand Theft Childhood authors Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson talk about their research and findings.” if you can get past the speedfreak presenter, these are some interesting findings. but it’s also great unintentional comedy.

:flash: Remote Control Super Mario Brothers Song – “I can’t imagine how much time this took to set up and rehearse. This guy plays the Super Mario Brothers theme on bottles with a remote-control car!” yap

:flash: Angry Wife Lashes Out in ‘YouTube Divorce’ Video – “A bitter wife allegedly threatened with eviction and divorce by her husband has turned to YouTube to air the couple’s dirty laundry.” what struck me was how badly facelifted the poor woman is.

:flash: miranda july – one pose per second – we are HUGE fans, go go go miranda. [via swissmiss]

:flash: Best Game Ever – “In an event similar to our Best Game Ever, several hundred people showed up to cheer on a random soccer team in Sweden. Go Hässelby!” i love this idea.

:flash: Will Ferrell as Bush w/Jon Stewart – will ferrell will (lol) never be my favorite comedian, but he really nailed gw bush.

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:flash: Doeo – “Doeo is a beautifully made, fun little game from Marcus Richert (aka Raitendo) where you have to collect the required number of Doeo’s which spring up all over the place.” [via neatorama]

:flash: Molleindustria – “Molleindustria aims to reappropriate video games as a popular form of mass communication.” aims to convey political messages in fun games.

:flash: Super Blockquote: Hewlett-Packard, Workstations Division – “Hence, Super Blockquote, which arms you against the marketroid oppression of Thompson’s prose.”

:flash: Numbers Station Bingo – “Press the play button to start the station, and cross out the numbers as you hear them. If you get a straight line in any direction, then congratulations! You have been activated.” not sure i get it, but the interface is great.

schmooze and abuse

:flash: ‘Nerdic’ Geek Speak Taking World by Storm? – “Do you speak Nerdic? Chances are you do — it’s reportedly one of the world’s fastest-growing languages.”

:flash: Radio Rabe – “T-Shirt design for Bern local radio station Radio Rabe”

:flash: Gang dressed as cops steals court papers – “Thieves dressed as policemen talked their way past guards at Johannesburg’s High Court, then locked them in a bathroom and stole highly sensitive documents”

:flash: German whizzkid got it wrong – “It was an incredible tale of a German schoolboy spotting a miscalculation by the US space agency, proving the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth were higher than initially believed. But the amazing story of the whizzkid versus the space bureaucracy turned out to be wrong”

:flash: The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service – “The service is intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write whatever they want, without being afraid to get shut down by their blog host.”

:flash: Wiki pinpoints Brazilian crime – “this under-reporting of crime is one of the motivations behind a new interactive website called Wikicrimes, created by Professor Vasco Furtado from the University of Fortaleza in northern Brazil. “The idea is very simple; when people are robbed it’s quite common for them to tell other people,” he tells me. “With wikicrimes this information will be available globally.”

:flash: IRC interview with Douglas Rushkoff – “Douglas Rushkoff in IRC ” transcript of the interview.

:flash: corporatized.net – “This is the beginning of what will become a much larger project looking at corporatism, fascism, and – more importantly – new possibilities for local, bottom up organizing and value creation. This place is about cology, economics, media, resocialization, local currency and ethics. Amongst other things.” douglas rushkoff’s latest project.

:flash: First extract of Mark E Smith’s autobiography – “In this first extract from his autobiography, introduced by Dave Simpson, he looks back at the formative moments of his childhood and the birth of the band”

:flash: ‘I did heroin once, just to be sociable’ – “In the second extract from his explosive new autobiography, Mark E Smith, the wayward genius behind the Fall, offers his thoughts on everything from John Peel to the joys of Primark”

:flash: Fight Splogs – Wired How-To Wiki – “Splogs,” or spam blogs, are one of the methods spammers have adopted to manipulate the blogosphere for profit.”

:flash: Wired’s Geekster Handbook, a Field Guide to the Nerd Underground – a commentor asks, “but who thinks they share at least one attribute from all of those? Does that mean they’re super-geeks?!”

:flash: Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files – “An interesting side-effect of YouTube’s recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube.”

:flash: Developing long-term relations with robots – “Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London are leading an international project which is set to advance the relationship between robots and humans”

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:flash: Rockstar Social Club Announced – “Today Rockstar announced a new website called the Rockstar Social Club. Essentially a high tech leaderboard, the first supported game will be (drum roll) Grand Theft Auto IV (surprise!). Compatible with Xbox LIVE and PSN, players can register starting April 15th to track all sorts of neat stuff they do in GTA IV when it’s released April 29th.”

:flash: 15-Year-Old Killed For Not Passing Game – “When 15-year-old Olivier Baptiste refused to hand over the video game he was playing to his 18-year-old friend William Suarez, Suarez pulled out a .32-caliber Smith and Wesson from his waistband and shot Baptiste in the head.”

:flash: Legal battle over Warcraft ‘bot’ – “The makers of World of Warcraft are locked in a legal battle with a firm that has produced a tool to automate many actions in the virtual world.”

online video killed the …

:flash: Goodness Gracious Me – Going out for an English – nice one, to be reminded of this hilarious GGM sketch, that is based entirely on reverse stereotypes. [via bb]

:flash: Getting Tight with Tarantino! – “Here is another ode to great film directors from Paul Proulx. This time, he features the work of Quentin Tarantino. Enjoy!”

:flash: Record label finds singing monks – “A record label’s search for a group of monks to record a Gregorian chant album has ended after an Austrian monastery submitted a YouTube clip.”

schmooze and abuze

:flash: Lolcat Guys Squeeze Laughs Out of Graphs – “Calling all graph nerds and lolcat fans: GraphJam, the latest project from the duo behind I Can Haz Cheezburger?, wants your savvy pop-culture observations in visual form.”

:flash: Top 10 April Fools’ Pranks for Nerds – “Here are the top 10 tech-related April Fools’ jokes to play on friends and co-workers. The best geek pranks make a gadget or a co-worker’s computer appear “broken.”"

:flash: The Carrot Some Vegans Deplore – “TWO things that you can find a lot of in Portland, Ore., are vegans and strip clubs. Johnny Diablo decided to open a business to combine both.”

:flash: Sculpta Sutra – “Sculpta Sutra is the world’s first 3D guide to the Kama Sutra.” [via sexblo.gs}

:flash: Flickr: Discussing Help CC gather interesting re-use photo stories! in Creative Commons (pls read the rules) - "We here at the CC HQ are compiling interesting re-use stories of cc-licensed photos on Flickr. This is super important to helping us explain to the larger community as to why CC is important to photographers. We have a short time frame to get this all done and would REALLY appreciate your help."

:flash: Dork Talk: Douglas Coupland - "I remember in the 80s when cellphones first started to pop. I remember how, if you saw someone using a cellphone on a street, you immediately thought they were an asshole: gee, my phone call is so important I have to make it right here and right now! Twenty years later, we're all assholes."

:flash: Angry BBQ - hates winter

:flash: Lunchtime Quiz: Monty Python - "So don’t stop being silly – see how you do with this quiz about one of the UK’s finest exports." i failed miserably. [via neatorama]

:flash: The Great Tantra Challenge – “On 3 March 2008, in a popular TV show, Sanal Edamaruku, the president of Rationalist International, challenged India’s most “powerful” tantrik (black magician) to demonstrate his powers on him. That was the beginning of an unprecedented experiment.”

:flash: South Park Studios – most southpark episodes are now available to watch online.

:flash: Muxtape – “Muxtape is a service for creating mixtapes.”

:flash: Mixwit :: media playground – “It’s your mix, so make something unique. Add pictures, photos, artwork, drawings… Anything you want. It’s easy!” [via rho]

:flash: Color Wars 2008 – “To join a team: log on to twitter, search for the team of your choice, then follow that team.”

:flash: Top 10 Wired Reader Self-Portraits, Decided by You – “Possibly one of the hardest photo assignments, the dreaded self-portrait, was no match for our shutterbug audience. Over the last two weeks, readers have shown us themselves through their own — often twisted — eyes and picked the best of their peers.”

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:flash: Guess My Crime! – fun guessing game that just proves, crime is fun for everyone. [via b3ta]

:flash: ForumWarz Postmortem: Interviewing the Game’s Creators – “ForumWarz is my newest obsession, a web-based game like nothing I’ve ever played. In short, it’s a parody of Internet culture in the form of a real-time role-playing game.”

:flash: Forumwarz – A free browser-based RPG about Internet Culture – “You can start playing right away. What could you possibly lose?* *a large percentage of Forumwarz players have lost their dignity. Play at your own risk.”

:flash: Gimme5games – how fast can you type the alphabet backwards? i suck and will not publish my time. [via neatorama]

schmooze and abuse

:flash: What’s in the Swiss embassy’s car park? – “Mark Brown went where no arts correspondent has gone before in search of some vintage graffiti” [via gebsn]

:flash: FreakAngels » Episode 0003 – and 003 is out …

:flash: Photoshop Money Celebrities Pics – “There’s a new craze going in United Kingdom – people take pictures of themselves partially covered with folded banknotes (mostly with queen Elizabeth) in the foreground.” [via b3ta]

:flash: Late Night Shopping 2 – fat kids at the mall are the topic of this rather catchy animation/tune. [via b3ta]

:flash: No impact from Energy Saving Day – “The UK’s first Energy Saving Day has ended with no noticeable reduction in the country’s electricity usage. E-Day asked people to switch off electrical devices they did not need over a period of 24 hours, with the National Grid monitoring consumption.” hmmm, thats rather dissapointing.

:flash: Wuala, your files online – “Wuala, your free online hard-disk Access. Backup. Share. Publish. Discover.” i am giving this a test spin, ask me for invites.

:flash: On why I am not running (Lessig Blog) – “I have decided a run for Congress would not help the Change Congress movement. I explain the thinking in this 5 minute video”

:flash: Ein Science-Fiction Roman des Internetzeitalters – german documentary (arte) about cory doctorow. but since when is geek pronounced ‘dschiick’, like jeek almost. well nvm, cory is a jeeky geek.

:flash: Anthology Recordings – first digital reissue label.

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instruments for dj’s

:flash: Tenori-On is finally here – “Tenori-On, the fantastic instrument by Toshio Iwai and Yamaha, will be launching in the UK. This September, Yamaha will showcasing this brand new and visually stunning interactive live performance instrument through a selection of carefully selected record shops across the country.” when in switzerland??? gief!

:flash: Controller One – musical instrument for DJ – turntable meets synthesizer in this new vestax instrument/turntable.

zocken

:flash: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King – “Blizzard Entertainment’s latest expansion to World of Warcraft – Wrath of the Lich King – adds a host of epic content to the existing game world.” oh noes …

:flash: Statetris-Europe – tetris-like game using european states, and no worries there are hints for the microstates.

:flash: The genealogy of WoW /dance moves – “Okay, this actually made me squeal in delight. Some utter genius has mapped out some of the moves that “inspired” the WoW dance patterns: hardly inspiration in some cases, as you can see.” idd, *squeal***

schmooze and abuse

:flash: The Henry Rollins Show – America Is Under Attack – henry rollins rant for intenet freedom. [via bb]

:flash: Teen Arrested for Recording 20 Second Movie Clip – “Jhannet Sejas, a 19 year old girl was immediately arrested by the police after she recorded a 20 second clip from the movie “Transformers” that she wanted to show to her little brother. She now faces up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.” erm.

:flash: Is sugar more addictive than cocaine? – “Although quantifying substance addiction is difficult, if the answer to this question turns out to be definitive and “yes,” it’s likely that few people will be surprised.”

:flash: anymails – visualisation of my email inbox – “Anymails is a visualization of my received emails. I have investigated how I can use natural metaphors to visualize my inbox, its structure and attributes.”

:flash: beans – squish [via al4ie]

:flash: Polyvore – Explore – “The Polyvore editor lets you create sets using items saved from different web sites. The items you can use are listed in the editor tabs. You can also search for items by keyword, site, or color. After you have created a set, you can save, tag and share it with your friends.”

:flash: Guys And Dolls – “For some people finding a partner in life can be difficult.. 10 years ago, a small factory in California began making alternative partners.” disturbing but great. [via waxy]

:flash: International Podcastersurvey – Results – pdf download. “[we conducted an] International Podcastersurvey early this year and we are happy to present you some of the basic results of this study now”

:flash: Die Wunderbäume – floating trees without trunks. lovely idea.

:flash: Type the sky | Slanted – alphabet created by upwards shots in urban surroundings, letters are formed by the sky delinated with buildings.

:flash: I suppose he has to earn his keep, somehow – another great idea regarding the pagan wheatfield god/thing/something.

:flash: Cthulhu – a neat origami Cthulhu, why neat? —> [via neatorama]

:flash: BBC Corrupted – “Today the BBC made it official — they have been corrupted by Microsoft. With today’s launch of the iPlayer, the BBC Trust has failed in its most basic of duties and handed over to Microsoft sole control of the on-line distribution of BBC programming. From today, you will need to own a Microsoft operating system to view BBC programming on the web. This is akin to saying you must own a Sony TV set to watch BBC TV. And you must accept the Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) that the iPlayer imposes. You simply cannot be allowed to be in control of your computer according to the BBC.” sad.

:flash: About Blackle – Energy Saving Search – “Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black.” is black the new … erm … black?

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free music

:flash: Cracked Pepper: Online now – “Cracked Pepper pisses on Revolved from a great height and I can’t wait to get everything online.” beatles mashup album by CCC.

:flash: l a b r a d o r Summer Sampler 2007 – “Well, putting the massive 68-track Labrador Summer Sampler 2007 on our server didn’t work quite as smoothly as we’d hoped.”

gaming

:flash: Real World Racer: A Google Maps Racing Game – “for maximum enjoyment, make “bvvv, bvvvvv” noises as you accelerate and “EEEEE” noises as you turn” [via b3ta]

:flash: The 10 Hardest PC Games – “ten brilliant PC games that are so hard they should have come with a hair loss warning. Complete all ten and yours is the world and all that’s in it, and what’s more you’ll be a man, my son.”

:flash: World of Warcraft Addiction Stories – “How about this…A couple were just sentenced to prison because they were TOO BUSY WITH WoW TO FEED THEIR BABY!!!”

:flash: “I’d close World of Warcraft!” MUD creator Richard Bartle on the state of virtual worlds – “If you could take over control of one major MMORPG – which would you choose and what would you do with it? I’d take over World of Warcraft and I’d close it. I just want better virtual worlds.”

:flash: Google Fight : Make this fight with googleFight pieceoplastic VS jan zuppinger – is it a problem if my chat alt beats my real name?

schmooze

:flash: FFFFOUND! – “FFFFOUND! is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user’s tastes and interests for an inspirational image-bookmarking experience!!”

:flash: ‘I don’t think bloggers read’ – “Andrew Keen says the internet is populated by second-rate amateurs – and that it is swiftly destroying our culture.”

:flash: The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face. – “When the iPhone was first announced, CEO Steve Jobs spewed enough BS to cover a football field full of babies 3 feet deep in bullshit” [via b3ta]

:flash: Digital Arts Week in Zurich – review of digital arts week.

:flash: Guardian Monthly R.I.P. – oh noes, we just received a letter informing us that they are stopping publication of our latest favorite mag.

:flash: The Arousal Industry – ““It’s nice to be naughty,” claims the buxom hotty in a certain widely disseminated ad for True.com, one of online dating’s biggest players.”

:flash: FETISH BUBBLEGIRLS/// – “There are sprayers who work several days on a commission for the municipal waste management. There are others who sneak through dirty subway tunnels to write their name on a train within five minutes at night. And there’s TILT who prefers painting on n

:flash: Rampage puts tank’s owner right off track – guy steals tank to flatten mobile phone antenas, cause he claims he suffers from their emissions [via de-bug]

:flash: CROOKED LITTLE VEIN: A Preview – “Fuck Harry Potter: the first chapter of CROOKED LITTLE VEIN now available for your perusal.”

:flash: Shop Staff Strip Off In Protest At Packaging – “Wimbledon shoppers got an eyeful of a cheeky display this afternoon when staff at Lush stripped off.”

:flash: iPhone delivers more misses than hits – “Apple and AT&T deliver plenty of great features in the iPhone, but the list of shortcomings is too extensive to ignore.”

:flash: Wish for rain to wash away Homer – “Pagans have pledged to perform “rain magic” to wash away a cartoon character painted next to their famous fertility symbol – the Cerne Abbas giant.” may explain the shitty weather we’ve had recently…

:flash: quick and rough but…. – good throw, homer. but pagans prolly still are not amused.

:flash: I’m Your Biggest Fan! – “Reviving the lost art of the fan letter. A little appreciation goes a long way.”

:flash: Miro – free, open source internet tv and video player – democracy player is now called miro and their website just relaunched.

:flash: Get the hell off our internet. – one man’s vendetta to get junk off “our” internet. i think…

:flash: Roadsworth Hits The Tour De France – “Roadsworth’s Tour de France installation in the UK”

:flash: Shhhhh! look! there’s another one! – oh, what comes there

:flash: David Cerny – uplne oficialni stranka – csek artist made a piece called brownnosers.

:flash: Happy Blogiversary – happy 10. birthday, blog “he spell check on Microsoft Word has yet to awaken to the concept of the blog. Type in “blogging,” for instance, and you will promptly earn a disapproving underscore in red, with the suggestion that “bogging,” “clogging,” “flogging” or “slogging” (unappetizing alternatives all) might, in truth, be the word you seek.”

german

:flash: Zur Zukunft des Internet – “Gegen Bill Gates Microsoft und Co. waren die Pharaos Waisenknaben. Daran kann man sehen, wie man in 30 Jahren zum reichsten Mann der Welt wird, indem man sich in einem rechtslosen Raum ein Monopol schafft und die Vertragsfreiheit sowie die Wahlmöglichkeiten abschafft. Wir fangen gerade erst an, uns zu fragen: Muss das eigentlich sein? Das bedeutet in der Konsequenz, dass der Staat, und der Staat ist nicht die Politik, der Staat, das sind wir, die Bürger, hat klar versagt und hat sich von der Computerindustrie versklaven lassen. Jetzt kann man sich auch vorstellen, was wünschenswert wäre, nämlich mehr Wahlmöglichkeiten.” Ein Gespräch mit Peter Weibel.

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humor

:flash: My Life As An RSS Junkie – my name is jan zuppinger, and i am an rss addict.

:flash: Bumper B3ta Book of Sick Jokes free download – “The Bumper B3ta Book of Sick Jokes is utterly disgusting. ” Download the book as a PDF (14mb)

:flash: EURO 08: Erlebe Emotionen … und was für welche! – the EURO 2008 slogan with an ironic twist.

:flash: Skid mark underwear hides money from burglars – “Leave the “Brief Safe” in plain view in your laundry basket or washing machine at home, or in your suitcase in a hotel room — even the most hardened burglar or most curious snoop will “skid” to a screeching halt as soon as they see them” [via bb]

:flash: Worth1000.com: Apple’s Next Product – “How Do You Like Them Apples?”

communication

:flash: YouTube – In My Language – “This is not a look-at-the-autie gawking freakshow as much as it is a statement about what gets considered thought, intelligence, personhood, language, and communication, and what does not.” [via bb]

:flash: Bush no longer “miserable failure”: Google tackles googlebombs – well, he still is, but no longer on google.

:flash: Survived My Internet Vacation
“I recently took a vacation and, in a moment of deranged optimism, decided to take a vacation from the internet at the same time.”

gaming

:flash: Idiots live on the Internet – “Just play your games and ignore the online idiots, because they will always be there at some point or another.”

:flash: Mini Friday
Mini Friday is a Habbo-like virtual world that runs on mobile phones [via pasta & vinegar]

:flash: cyberwhoring earns more Gold than goldfarming – finally an idea how i can raise the 5000 gold for my flying mount.

:flash: Tobold’s MMORPG Blog: How big is Azeroth? – “The Isle of Wight, a small island in the channel between the UK and the European continent, is 146 square miles, and thus bigger than the World of Warcraft including Outland.”

and then some

:flash: 20 Greatest Guitar Solos Ever, With Videos – “We’ve found listening to these great classics a very moving experience, so we took it a step further and dug up a video link for each of the top 20!” [via bb]

:flash: The end of oil is closer than you think – “The one thing that international bankers don’t want to hear is that the second Great Depression may be round the corner.”

:flash: joel veitch vs. Coca Cola – the resolution – “Coca-Cola de Argentina and unsigned British ska band 7 Seconds of Love reach arrangement.”

:flash: MISSION ETERNITY mov – a promotional film presenting the latest etoy project.

:flash: Spacek – 1st Stroke (Funkstörung Remix) – review of this rather excellent funkstörung remix …

:flash: Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD – that explains it…

:flash: Shredder 1.0 – finally! the much needed shredder for websites. [via frenzine]

:flash: Pirating the 2007 Oscars – “After the MPAA decided to ban all screeners in 2003, I started tracking the distribution of Oscar screeners online to see how effective their ban was.” as it turns out almost all nominees for this year’s oscars were pirated.

:flash: www.myspace.com/blowthecity – “Please send us your peronal designed balloon! No rules, just put something on it, whatever/ however you like. Somewhere in the end of february we’ll blow our city!” [via wooster]

:flash: Pic Quiz Game – i have no intention to win “two VIP tickets to The BRIT Awards 2007″ yet i had fun with this quiz guessing musical duos from illustrations.

:flash: Mitchum Man – it is ofc conveying all the wrong stereotypes, but i somehow enjoyed taking this quiz … uhm, i know = pathetic.

:flash: kids are a gift – cute short film [via waxy]

:flash: MAKE: Blog: A low impact woodland home – and cheap too “I estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).”

:flash: Wooster Collective: Broken Link – hah reminds of a now defunct project we once did.

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art

:flash: Interview with Ubermorgen – regine has a great interview w. ubermorgen. how’s that for an artists’s statement: “For this we are willing to put our careers, our money and our time at risk.”

:flash: hansbernhardblog – hans bernhard blogs the drugs he takes w. his breakfast and diner.

:flash: Dormitory – “Dormitory, by Chinese photographer Wang Qingsong, is a huge picture showing dozens of people trying to find intimacy while they are living on top of each other in cage like minimal spaces.” photos

music

:flash: Update on The Beachles: An Interview with Clayton Counts – apparently he has received various business offers after the buzz surrounding his mashup project, but “Every dollar I make will help to demolish the old model of distribution. And seeing how my website is still getting several thousands of hits a day, I’d say that I’m off to a pretty good start.”

:flash: Scissor Sisters – create your own scissor sisters video. here’s me and my wife.

:flash: muppets NWA mash up Video – lovely.

:flash: Telephone music – a beatles song made up of ringtones and other mobile phone sounds makes for a rather nice advert, but don’t buy what they are selling!

humor

:flash: The Bumper B3ta Book of Sick Jokes – aha, the book of sick jokes is now available at amazon. l33t.

:flash: This person might be hiv positive – a hiv campaign wields humorous situations. [via b3ta]

news

:flash: World of Warcraft game ‘delayed’ – well i knew, ofc, but the delay in the release of TBC even made the bbc news???

:flash: Sex Drive Daily – “Men should masturbate almost daily to help them avoid cancer.” omg …

:flash: EA virals in the news – “The EA virals were featured on the news in Britain last night in an unintentionally hilarious piece bemoaning the influx of commercials on YouTube.”

:flash: Mirror.co.uk – THE PLAYSTATION PRIORY – “INSIDE THE REHAB CLINIC FOR KIDS ADDICTED TO COMPUTER GAMES..” srz caps.

:flash: Google Checkout dumps Ze Frank – “Ze Frank recently tried using Google Checkout to raise funds for his superb video show, and the deal is that you can sponsor an on-screen rubber duckie for anything up to $50.”

:flash: 27B Stroke 6 – “Cops Use Suspect’s GPS, Google Earth to Find Pot Fields” oh, but of course…

:flash: YouTube – jesus camp trailer – this documentary shows how the religious right plans to assure its future generation. [via al4ie]

copyfight

:flash: BitTorrent Site Admin Sent to Prison – “The 23 year old Grant Stanley has been sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months of home detention, and a $3000 fine for the work he put in the private BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents.”

:flash: Free Culture blog – Down With DRM Video Contest Winners Announced! – “And the winners are (in no particular order):”

swiss

:flash: LIFT || A conference about technology in our society. – the lift 07 speaker line up is out.

:flash: BATTLE OF BANDS – “Da Sign & The Opposite haben es geschafft und sind von der Orangmusic Jury (Bligg, Emel, Slädu, Alex Grob) von 400 zu den 4 Bands gewählt worden, die auf Schweizer Clubtour gehen und um den ersten Platz ringen. Der Finalist eröffnet am 14.12 im Hallenstadion Zürich Christina Aguilera.”

:flash: Frozen in Memories, but Melting Before Their Eyes – New York Times – the melting of swiss glaciers makes it to the NYtimes. [thx michael]

:flash: swissblogpress – “Swissblogpress ist ein Netzwerk von etablierten und unabhängigen Blogs, die regelmässig zu bestimmten Themengebieten publizieren.” in anderen worten, blogs die nicht auf dieser liste erscheinen sind weder etabliert noch unabängig? elitäres nervt immer.

and

:flash: Schmap – Photo Inclusion – photo of mine included in milano city guide. oops link borked … thx habi

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now that it’s over

:flash: friday the 13th – “Strangely, there is evidence to suggest that Friday the 13th is actually unlucky. Psychologists have found that some people are especially likely to have accidents or fall ill on Friday the 13th[citation needed]. This has been attributed to such people feeling a heightened state of anxiety on that day (see nocebo effect)”

zocken

:flash: Interview with a High Warlord – interview with 3 players, who made rank 14 in WoW.

:flash: What is your real-life World of Warcraft Race and Class? – a tauren druid? no bloody way, man.

:flash: swords and sandals – perfect game for times when WoW is down. hilarious.

:flash: Berner Gesundheit | EMOXgame – a little flash game we conceived and designed for a non-smoking campaign – quite awhile ago actually, it finally made it online.

:flash: Chasm – cute point’n'click game.

the rest

:flash: Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters – adbuster now has a video blog.

:flash: Rock Band Name Origins at WHAT’S IN A NAME – as in: “THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – 60′s experimental band associated with pop artist Andy Warhol, they took their name from a paperback book they found on the street – the book was about sex in America.” [via bb]

:flash: SexyBeast – canine perfume?!? i wonder how it combines with that lovely wet dog smell?

:flash: Jobless man asks judge for jail time – this guy may have watched prison break and thought to himself, hmmm good idea.

:flash: grrrr_gibmer.mov – i had never seen this collaboration between swiss cartoonist GRRRR and rapper big zis. nice animations. [via stillalive]

:flash: JAJAH – web-activated telephony – “Insert your phone number * Insert your friends phone number * Click “CALL” ” voip site.

:flash: Abducted by aliens? Call now for compensation – “A German lawyer hopes to drum up more business by pursuing state compensation claims for people who believe they were abducted by aliens.”

:flash: danilo pasquali book1 – oh the joys of blasphemy. slightly nsfw.

local

:flash: www.sous-soul.ch – the new club in town. will it be as great as komfort?

:flash: SWITCH innovation awards 2006 – switch innovation awards 2006 was won by etoy with mission eternity. “Die Preisverleihung findet am Dienstag, 17. Oktober 2006 im Museum für Kommunikation in Bern statt.”

:flash: cleanpolitics – not only in switzerland xenophia is used to get votes in politics. we are with you bretheren in austria.

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filim

:flash: High Writer – “NYC writer KATSU demonstrates the functionality of the latest tool from the Graffiti Research Lab: The High Writer”. [via stillalive who also links to this video of two israeli boys playing jackass]

:flash: Punk Rock in the Holy Land – interviews with israeli punk bands about terror religion and other themes.

:flash: MASH SF – a documentary on bike riders in SF. [via habi]

:flash: GameVideos.com – Real life Space Invaders – that space invaders in a movie theater video.

:flash: Video explains the world’s most important 6-sec drum loop – the definitive history lesson on one of the most sampled breaks ever, amen.

:flash: Helvetica – a film about a font, if i understand it correctly.

:flash: and then, sudddenly, a chair flew in – democracy in action. [via WMFU]

zocken

:flash: Endgame on Google Map – “Start a game with 2-25 other online players. – Randomly receive a set of countries with troop hitpoints based on real world population data.” not as scary as it sounds.

:flash: Noodle Fury! – shoot the noodle boxes, funnnnn!

:flash: コダマ – drag&whack game. [via 4rthur]

:flash: Welcome to Flow in Games – mouse control the thingie to eat the thingies. and manipulate the soundscape.

“the network”

:flash: Who Wants to Be a Rocket Pirate? – “People who want to make webcomics are invited to submit their ideas to [warren ellis] for membership in the Rocket Pirates, a webcomics collective which will be housed at http://www.rocketpirates.com”.

:flash: MISSION ETERNITY – etoy’s new project mission eternity officially launched this week in san diego. they are looking for “angels”.

:flash: Book: ctrl[space] : Rhetorics of Surveillance – regine writes a bookreview on a book dedicated to surveillance technology in art.

:flash: Books – CcWiki – list of books released under a creative commons license, like for instance GAM3R 7H30RY, that could be worth a read.

:flash: EnBW Spamrecycler – “data waste turns to art. send your spam emails to spam@spamrecycling.com. watch while your spam is recycled into pieces of art”. there’s your solution.

:flash: *argl* happy 10. anniversary, flash – vote for the best flash sites in 10 years of flash history. meanwhile my love/hate relationship with flah continues.

:flash: Preripped von Warner – the future of the music industry is DVD as a data carrier, much more space and possibilities. warner finally catches on, and they include music pre-ripped for mp3 players. sure, but is it pre-drm’d too?

:flash: The Interweb Medley!!- the catchiest interweb songs mashed up . outch. [via bb]

:flash: Flickr: Photos from Abby Walton – “a photo a day, same expression.” remarkably consistent. [via rhizome]

:flash: OneWebDay – “The mission of OneWebDay is to create, maintain, advance, and promote a global day to celebrate online life: September 22, 2006″ not sure about this, but could be fun.

:flash: Truthful Translations of Political Speech – “These are galleries of translations of popular politicians as made by audio collage artists from around the planet”. [via lessig]

crap. or: i don’t know how to classify these

:flash: your penis is perfect – i of course don’t need this mat in my urinal, coz i already know… but for some guys this might be … errr … perfect.

:flash: CareerBuilder Monk-e-Mail – well, helloooo mr. monkey.

:flash: ImAllFake – not pornographic. yet pornographic. know what am saying?

:flash: After 40 years’ burrowing, Mole Man of Hackney is ordered to stop – “almost half a century of nibbling dirt with a shovel and homemade pulley has hollowed out a web of tunnels and caverns, some 8m (26ft) deep, spreading up to 20m in every direction from his house.” gotta love this geezer.

:flash: VISIONAIRE – i like the mini-animated thumpnail thingies, when you click … oh fuck, flash! find a solution for permalinks! now!

:flash: Spectacle Designs – glasses made from records, finally i know what to do with my 5000+ record collection. [via bb]

swiss interest

:flash: Main Page – BarCamp Switzerland – aha. barcamp makes it to switzerland.

:flash: euro08.bern.ch – der berner slogan wettbewerb zur euro08.

microautism

microautism seemed like such a scientific term, when i read it in jPod, but it turns out coupland has made it up. google only finds 2 sites mentioning microautism:

:flash: ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE – in german.

:flash: the pagan agenda – the other mention of microautism is only found in google cache.

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:flash: Top 20 Gayest Video Game Characters

and katamari’s king cosmos made it to #5

:flash: List of video games considered the worst ever

the article is considered disputed on wikipedia, but it still has tons of valid info in there.

screenshot of SNES Revolution X

:flash: Top Online Games

:flash: Online, no Install

:flash: MMORPG

more stuff

:flash: meebo me widget! – web-based im chat widget, this could be useful, i guess, i just can’t see how yet.

:flash: del.icio.us network badges – look like so:

zocken

:flash: DICEWARS – fun dice game. screams to go multi-user. [via waxy]

:flash: Shout N Dodge – in this game you control the ship by making noises into the microphone.

:flash: BBC – Doctor Who – Cyberman Game – a rather complex dr. who game.

:flash: Haluz – Adventure game – another very difficult point’n'click puzzle game a la hapland. love the design on this one.

actually useful information – no no it does exist

:flash: The Best Media in Life is Free – blog that links to CC materials.

:flash: Mouse Party – brains of mice on drugs and scientific facts, wooo. [via de-bug blog]

:flash: STICKER NATION – “this book is filled with over 400 sayings and slogans big, bold vinyl stickers that peel right out of the book-ready to spread your message”, created by Srini Kumar of StickerNation.com.

:flash: Local Blogger Josh Wolf Jailed for Mission Protest Video – blogger arrested for refusing to hand out video footage he shot during last summer’s G8 protest in the Mission District. [via bb]

:flash: Empathic Painting: Interactive stylization using observed emotional state – if art changes with your mood, can we then still say “art is in the eye of the beholder”? [via guardian]

:flash: Greenbulb – color filters for mobilephone cams. [via popgadget]

:flash: Mapping Sex in America – lets users add sex stories to places in the US.

:flash: N.H. Woman Bakes Cookies on Dashboard – i always wondered, would it be possible to fry an egg on there?

schmideo

:flash: DIE-CAST FILMS – from the About page to this film: “Hello you! If you’re reading this then you’re either bored, misguided or haven’t mastered mouse control, whatever the case, there’s very little to say.” [via b3ta newsletter]

:flash: Fighting for Net Neutrality and Internet Freedom – the net neutrality video by leslie hall and her gang has its moments – towards the end when joel veitch’s cats start to show up. oh and the dancing baby is in there as well. [via b3ta newsletter]

oops

:flash: Stephen Colbert Causes Chaos on Wikipedia, Gets Blocked from Site – lol

:flash: Beppe Grillo’s Blog: Adolf Gibson – actor gibson allegedly says “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” and wham gets a hitler mustache photoshopped at beppe’s.

:flash: BBC News Player – “Police in West Sussex are trying to track a group of teenagers seen in mobile phone footage of a potentially fatal game. Two girls are shown being spun at high speed on a roundabout powered by a moped.” aha, there is a backlash to that troubling video.

:flash: VVORK » – Darth Vader tries to clean the Black Sea with Brita Filter.

:flash: Coke Goes 2.0 – starting next week coke and apple will start to hand out free music [insert long hesitation here] is that a good thing?

and then

:flash: Snakes On A Plane :: Send a Message From Samuel L. Jackson! – send someone a prank snake on the plane message. in america only [via waxy]

:flash: Tisha_b’av by David Harris Ebenbach – simple yet beautiful, says f. and i agree.

:flash: information – recurssive image thingie. [via 4rthur]

:flash: Song of the Sausage Creature – by Hunter S. Thompson – hunter s. thompson in praise of his ducati: “Maybe this is the new Cafe Racer macho. My bike is so much faster than yours that I dare you to ride it, you lame little turd. Do you have the balls to ride this BOTTOMLESS PIT OF TORQUE?”

swiss media

:flash: Pendlerblog: Liebe Süddeutsche Zeitung – die unglaubliche geschichte, wie 20min.ch alle links, die über pendlerblog reinkommen, an einen artikel über käufliche blogger auf der südeutschen zeitung weiterleitet.

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bloggers interview bloggers

:flash: pasta and vinegar » Interview of Regine Debatty – regine debatty of wmmna interviewed.

:flash: trendbeheer » Blog Archive » interview VVORK – vvork interviewed.

:flash: pieceoplastic interviewed – sadly, this intreview is not done yet. but this is YOUR chance. [disclaimer: this is just one of my silly jokes. i AM aware, that i do not belong to the list of interview-worthy bloggers]

the relevant side of the web

:flash: blog.myspace.com/billybragg – billy brag made myspace change their unfair user agreement through his intervention. [via waxy]

:flash: Montréal -40° C – amazing combo of movie and animation in this video clip. [via wooster]

:flash: baby breakdancing – o m g

:flash: Corn Plastic to the Rescue – plastic made from corn only sounds greener. [via bb]

:flash: Listening Post – why we all lose in the kazaa settlement.

:flash: 200+ Artists – list of 200+ artists. loads of clickage for some good finds.

:flash: REUBEN LORCH-MILLER – love the flags [via vvork]

:flash: TENORI-ON report – an instrument with its own blog? sure, tenori-on by toshio iwai has one.

:flash: stabliser: canine – sign up to get the stabalizer debut album for free [via bengston]

:flash: 100º – get used to it – apparently the weather will get hotter still till oh around 2050, when our bones will finally melt.

the silly super-relevant side of the web

:flash: The Bumper B3ta Book of Sick Jokes – you can actually pre-order the sick joke book @ amazon

:flash: Crawley kids in a tilgate park – this is why youtube is relevant [via 4rthur]

:flash: Rachel Blake at Lost Panel Comic Con 2006 – Rachel Blake confronts the lost actors and producers, they seem genuinely surprised – Hanso Exposed – -: rachel blake’s secret blog.

:flash: Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence- “Three girls march toward the White House on Elm St. in Washington, DC, as part of the Inderpendance Day Parade.” i find the typo in the image description funniest.

pwnage

:flash: 826 cakes! – look, someone bakes cakes in computer console shapes. [via popgadget]

:flash: WoW fitness programm – finally someone looks at the problem of WoW addiction from the inside. [via pasta&vinegar]

:flash: Towelboy – prowl in a towel. take a shower and then pick up girls wraped in just a towel. it’s also a viral advert for some shower gel, who’s name i refused to really notice.

:flash: Gorillasuit+Who We Are – “The above game has no other purpose than to annoy your neighbors.” a game of screeching monkeys.

:flash: Overkill Apache! – the pacifist in me rebels, but the gamer in me loves this game.

german/swiss

:flash: McDonald’s profitiert von WM – “Fussball-WM treibt Quartalsgewinn bei McDonald`s in die Höhe”. puke-orama!

:flash: Swiss Spice – we swiss love our salt and pepper, yet

:flash: bbq illegal in kanton zureich and others – da wird man ja als vegi zum bbq aktivisten.

:flash: YB muss für Robbie zurückkrebsen – YB oder Robbie Williams? die antwort ist so klar wie sie wirklich zum kotzen ist. aber, viel wichtiger, bewi espace.ch gibt’s jetzt alle artikel mit user comments und da geht’s natürlich ab.

:flash: Wo ist Gontschar? – elsa fitzgerald schreibt einen konträren artikel zum radsport am tv. und ich bin möglicherweise der einzige mann auf diesem planeten der mit ihr einig geht, für mich ist rad am tv höchstens ein schlafmittel.

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zocken

:flash: i hate world of warcraft! – the law of equilibrium. just think, as much as we love it there must be people out there who equally hate it. seems logical. [thx f (and i am sorry you had to google "i hate world of warcraft")]

:flash: Just Plain Loco – is loco roco racist? the announced game for the psp sounds like it could be fun, but might it purvey racist stereotypes? [via b3ta newsletter]

:flash: Download Quinn 3.3.2 for Mac – here you can still download the great mac os X tetris variant game (you can play against other players via a server), that was blocked by the tetris company. [via bb]

:flash: Nudist Trampolining – whoever came up with this game idea? oh mang.

:flash: chimp playing pacman – wrong. this chimp is pwning ms. pacman.

stuffs

:flash: I knows me some ugly myspace showdown – another much needed zefrank initiative. and damn do i agree, some of these are ugly. is ugly the new cool? hell yeah.

:flash: The Size Of Our World – planet earth is not very big, or is it?

:flash: One Person is One Pixel – but hey, i also feel rather small all of a sudden. [both via waxy]

:flash: Apple dropping fight to force bloggers to reveal sources – finally!

:flash: Stolensidekick now has a UK angle – the stolensidekick saga made it to england via an ebay auction.

:flash: Jamaica – rasta shows a group of tourists how to light a spliff and reveals his rather disturbing laughter. must sample this. [via 4rthur]

:flash: ビッグビートの若大将 – “Amazing mashup of Yuzo Kayama (a Japanese singer from the past) and Fatboy Slim.” [via joi ito]

:flash: thievery corporation: versions – this cd looks like a must have: "collection of Thievery Corporation remixes features 18 dubbed-out versions of songs from The Doors, Sarah McLachlan, Astrud Gilberto, Nouvelle Vague, Wax Poetic feat. Norah Jones, Anoushka Shankar, Transglobal Underground". and it also features some amazing artwork.

tanks

:flash: Seen in Basel, Switzerland – wooden tanks on the board of the river in basel.

:flash: Marianne Jørgensen kunst – danish artist dresses a tank in pink. [via wooster]

lang:de

:flash: voll assi toni – lang:de german. voll assi toni philosophiert über frauen und sex. vorsicht: derb. [thx klav]

:flash: » Die 10 besten Schweizer Blogs – herr leu meint, dieser bescheidene blog gehöre zu den 10 besten der schweiz. aber hallo mann. danke schön.

:flash: eiger bergsturz webcam – nice.

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footish corner

:flash: time for a cuppa – ok, this is fun, throw teabags and try to hit the football shaped cuppa that moves around the room. nice splashage.

:flash: The Simple Game – and yet another football flash game intended to go “viral”. and again we wonder, might there be a worldcup coming up or sumink?

:flash: Footballers Wives Game – “everyone plays dirty. Not a sports fan? Not a problem. Not familiar with the BBC America primetime show? Not to worry. When you play the game you create your own soap opera. Being a Footballer and a Footballer’s wife has its advantages, but it isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be.”

:flash: Ti amo campionato – the whole story regarding juventus cheats and the corruption in the italian calcio turned into a song presented in an absurd italian tv setting, ci siamo. [via wmmna]

:flash: franz van der grunen – hossa, franziska sent me the missing panini on page 27, i am teh psyk3d.

coolness

:flash: if the earth was a sandwich – another brillant ze frank project, here’s the song. so relevant it makes not only him want to throw up. *gulp*

:flash: Mojizu – A Contemporary Character Design Community – imagine pictoplasma adopting a myspace/community approach – which will never happen, of course. and that’s exactly why mojizu had to step up to fill the gap.

:flash: V-scratch – valerio spoletini, a graduating student at the
university of art & design lausanne [is it just me or does this guy really look a lot like me?] creates a tool, using the processing scripting language, that visualises dj scratches. [via wmmna]

:flash: BD tshirts – everybody tries to cash in on football, BD decides to sell tshirts of beards and pipes. now thats kewl. [via leu]

:flash: Per SMS und Internet zum Widerstand – “In 60 spanischen Städten fordern Jugendliche bezahlbareWohnungen.” and we was there. well, almost. well, we were. but, oh its a long story.

absurdness

:flash: BBC News ‘wrong Guy’ is revealed – the bbc thinks the guy is the expert they’ve invited, the guy thinks it is part of his job interview. oh lord, what a royal mixup. [both via nouvo]

:flash: derek abbott’s animal sound page – frog sound in different languages: “kvæk-kvæk kwak kwak croak/ribbit (USA) kvaak croa croa quaak quaak quak-quak bre-ke-ke/kuty kurutty/kurutty (pron: kurutch) cra cra kero kero kva-kva croac croac ko ack ack ack vrak vrak” i am not kidding [via bb]

arsehumor

:flash: Derek And Clive Monkeys – the tragic tale of how jane mansfield got them lobsters up her bum, and don’t missunderstand him, a nice bum it is … [via b3ta]

:flash: Bad Joke Generator – enter a theme and some keywords to generate bad jokes galore. [via 4rthur]

:flash: jan just got OWNED!!! – you can insert any name, really, jan is JUST an example. i nevar evar get pwned!!!1 [warning: some sick images in there]

geek corner

:flash: 2LDK end song – ok, anyone who has seen the japanese splatter movie 2DLK and wonders who made the marvelous end song, the song is by this little known artist ando yuko and the song is called “rinjin ni hikari ga sasu toki”, but i could not actually find it on her website either. so that went well…

:flash: BRUCE STERLING AUDIO DOWNLOAD | MAzine – and our weekly bruce sterling rant give us today [via wmmna]

:flash: Katamari Damacy performance – performance group plays scenes from games in real-life settings, here katamari damacy.

:flash: Meditation Found To Increase Brain Size – “People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don’t.” hate to say i told you so.

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