online video killed the …

Cassetteboy – The Web for Beginners – “Something a bit different this time, not least because for once it’s totally legit.” more about the competition here: digital revolution short film competition

Beatles 3000 – “1000 years in the future, the legacy of John, Paul, Greg, and Scottie remains.” well, after all they invented the thumbs up sign, they really did.

Solution- We have the Technology – Energy Union 2009- Coldcut -v1 – a coldcut mix for their energy union project.

Ze Frank On America in Afghanistan Since 2001 – "With new U.S. troops heading to Afghanistan, Ze Frank takes an opportunity to radically oversimplify the last 8 years of the war."

schmooze and abuse

25 Hilarious WiFi Network Names – “Giving your WiFi network a funny or clever name is a great way to freak out your annoying neighbors without hiding in their bushes or peeping in their windows late at night.” hmmm, i do have a minor crush on one of my neighbors …

How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell – … [via b3ta]

N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton: The Word Cloud – "One hundred years hence, when historians are trying to understand race relations in late century Los Angeles, they will refer to Straight Outta Compton to get to the reality behind the analysis — and it'll still sound fresh as fuck. Herewith: Straight Outta Compton, the word cloud:" fuck is big, of course. so is yo.

Google Chrome For Mac Is Here! – "The wait is over. Google Chrome for Mac is now available in beta. It’s still missing a few features that are in the Windows version (like support for extensions), but the browser is lickety-split and more-or-less stable."

Streaming will never stop downloading – "Far from being a cure for the industry's woes, substituting streams for downloads wastes bandwidth, reduces privacy and slows innovation"

The monster that is – World of Warcraft – "$1.2 billion a year in revenue; 16GB of your hard disk; billions of hours played; acres of news-print; a Sam Raimi-directed (Evil Dead 2, The Spider-man trilogy) movie in the works; a billion-dollar grey market in gold and items; an episode of South Park; therapists creating in-game characters for addiction counselling and an astonishing… 11 million players! And relax. WoW is just a game" with infographic

Bay Area artist "shopdrops" at IKEA – "On Black Friday, Michele Pred joined the throngs at the Emeryville IKEA, but she wasn't exactly shopping. Instead, the Berkeley artist slipped into the wall-art section and covertly placed copies of signed prints she had designed into the racks."

FA denies England will use Viagra to help players rise to World Cup occasion – "• No discussion with regard to Viagra, says FA • 'Medical staff conducting detailed research'" englands’ players always play hard anyway.

England football team offered Viagra for World Cup – "ENGLAND'S football team will be offered Viagra for next year's World Cup games in South Africa in an attempt to boost their performance … on the pitch." england’s players will be hard … erm .. to beat.

Cheyenne Cherry Ransacked Apartment, Then Cooked Cat in Oven – "But just to be a complete dick, the 14-year-old stuck Hernandez's cat in the oven and cranked it to 500 degrees." äs nümmmerli.

Everything you need to know about HTML5 – "What's new in HTML5 and what happened to XHTML2"

Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges – "Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough."

the minaret shame contd.

Swiss senator Dick Marty says minaret ban is "completely incomprehensible". – "Switzerland’s image as a country of human rights has been rocked by the ban on the construction of minarets, according to a Swiss member of the Council of Europe."

MINARETT-VERBOT: NICHT IN MEINEM NAMEN – "Die Entscheidung vom vergangenen Sonntag gegen den Bau von Minaretten hat weltweit Schocks und Missbilligung ausgelöst und dem Ruf der Schweiz als ein Land der Toleranz und des kulturellen Pluralismus empfindlichen Schaden zugefügt. Zeigen wir der Welt, dass wir dieses Verbot aufs schärfste verurteilen und dass die Schweizer Bevölkerung sich grundsätzlich entschlossen gegen Angstmache und Vorurteile stellt."

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hoax of the week

WHO CAN EXPLAIN ????? – “We tried but didn’t make it…maybe only with phone brands or models ???” can you really make popcorn with mobile phones? hmm …

So the “microwave popcorn with your phone” thing is a hoax. Done how? – “Suggestions so far: trick editing (I don’t think so – OK, it’s on YouTube, but there’s no suggestion of a cut at all) or a heating element under the table.”

online video killed the

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU – “The new short film by Blu an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.” spectacular stopmotion graffiti animation.

Brighton Port Authority – Toe Jam – “Norman Cook aka Fat Boy Slim in collaboration with David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal” almost nekkid. almost.

Der HDL-Song – “DiEseS LieD IsT FüR aLLe MeInE LieBEn FReuNdE UnD soLCHe, DiE eS WerDeN wOLLeN! Hab euch alle meeeegaaaaaaa lüüüübbbb!!!!!!” another cute wannabe internet star. sings in german.

‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’ – sounds amazing – ly stupid. and midly funny.

Pizza Party (Unix) – howto order pizza using command line.

schmooze and abuse

The Other Side by Istvan Banyai – “wordless picture book devoted to the study of opposing vantage-points.” [via swissmiss]

Pixaboy EURO2008 – the pixaboy game was added to facebook.

WTF!? Internet Addiction Nominated for Entry in the Manual of Mental Disorders – “First, we all had mild Asperger’s. Now, Internet addiction disorder? Give a geek a break.” or a wired loony bin?

Timur Bekmambetov Punks the World With Viral Video – “Those fearing that their cubicle neighbor might engage in similar hysterics can breathe easy — it was all a sly bit of viral marketing from Timur Bekmambetov for Wanted.” yeh, but please do explain what a viral video having nothing in common with the movie should do to promote the movie?

Mystery on Fifth Avenue – “some of that furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets — messages, games and treasures — that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems and contraptions conceived by a young architectural designer named Eric Clough”

Field Guide to Firefox 3 – “the new and improved features you’ll see in the browser.”

SUCK UK – Mix Tape USB Drive – “Create your own unique mix tape
1. ADD YOUR OWN SOUNDS TO THE USB STICK.
2. PLACE THE STICK INSIDE THE TAPE STYLE GIFT PACK.
3. WRITE YOUR OWN MESSAGE AND PLAYLIST.
4. GIVE IT TO SOMEONE YOU LOVE.”

Artists for Tibet Poster – “Tibet Solitarity Concerts at the Bundesplatz Bern. Sunday 6th of July, 2008, 11AM – 7PM.” good job, but what do elephants and tibet have in common?

The One Flag – “We invite you to create a flag – free from language and well-worn clichés – that embodies the idea of global citizenship. A symbol that triggers pride and cohesion, whether worn on a backpack, displayed on a door, or flown on a flagpole.” another noble adbusters idea.

The man who fell off a sofa while laughing – and ended up in court – “A man was handcuffed, arrested and dragged before a court after falling off the settee with laughter while watching Have I Got News For You.” rofl.

Boy, 13, ‘hanged himself after he was bullied on Bebo for being a fan of Emo music’ – “A teenager said to have been bullied on the social networking site Bebo has been found hanged in his bedroom.” sounds a bit emo.

Wordle – Beautiful Word Clouds – “Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. ” it aint loading for me (camino), but the idea sounds great. [via waxy]

Zipidee – “Zipidee empowers PGC digi-good owners, from aspiring media moguls to large media companies, to generate revenue from their digital content” good thinking: stream = free, download = pay.

Get Started With the Yahoo HTTP Geocoder API – “Yahoo’s HTTP Geocoder API is easy to use, and its output is easy to incorporate maps into your applications.”

7 summer fragrance tips – i should somehow be able to slip this one to our downstairs neighbor, a 30 year old parfumwolke par excellence.

Vending machine provides release for anger – “This “Passive Aggressive Vending Machine” by artist Yarisa Kublitz is filled with fine China. When someone puts in a coin, and selects an object, the piece will fall to the bottom, shattering into a million tiny pieces.” dunno why it is called passive aggressive, this is pretty open aggressivity, but great idea still.

you bastard – meow

Cool Tool: Organizes desk-bound cords – “They’re cheap polyethylene sheets you either stick or screw to the edge of your desk and then snap the cables coming from your computer and peripherals into the recesses.” very! [via bb]

Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now – “Free downloadable version of the IDW comic collection “Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now,” which collects the six-issue comic of adaptations from Doctorow’s award-winning science fiction stories.”

Metallica Kills Early Reviews of Upcoming Album – “Oh, Metallica, why can’t you get it right? The band [...] has apparently unleashed another potentially damaging fiasco upon itself by forcing bloggers to take down reviews of their upcoming album.

Tom Sachs at Sperone Westwater – “The show is called Animals so there’s a fair amount of pieces which explore the presence of the animalistic in our everyday lives but there’s also some quirky machines and installations.”

The Guerrilla Gardening Homepage – last week i saw a report on tv. and here’s the website. weird homepage tho.

Jan Vormann – Dispatchwork – old walls fixed up with what looks like pieces of lego. [via neatorama]

german crap

Holunderblütensirup – “Man kann Holunderblütensirup mit Mineralwasser oder Sekt verdünnen, in heißem Tee trinken oder über Pudding geben.” i made some this week and already i suffer from hausfrauen-blues.

Hacker-Krimi mit Kultpotential: Die Millennium Trilogie von Stieg Larsson – “Denn nach dreimal 700 Seiten ist Schluss. Für immer. Der Autor Stieg Larsson ist nämlich bereits 2004 gestorben.” looks like a great book trilogy for the holidays.

ZU GAST BEI VERLIERERN – awwww. poor austrians. but they can still make it, while the swiss truely are the losers.

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instruments for dj’s

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!

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

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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 …

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

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

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

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.

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.”

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.”

beans – squish [via al4ie]

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.”

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]

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”

Die Wunderbäume – floating trees without trunks. lovely idea.

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

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

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

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.

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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the internet

Infoporn: Despite the Web, Americans Remain Woefully Ill-Informed – “More than a decade after the Internet went mainstream, the world’s richest information source hasn’t necessarily made its users any more informed.”

The Internet Makes Us Dumberer – “Despite the internet? Through that lens, this study is no surprise at all: Let’s foist the most distracting blink-box in history on a nation of idiots begging to be distracted and see if they linger on the boring parts.”

get the fuck off the internet! – vacations? boring!!!

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Ubisoft finds Lost and calls in Heroes – “Ubisoft has revealed the first details of its tie-in with hit series Lost, due out on Xbox 360, PC and PS3 in Q1 2008.” could be a very confusing game.

Human Brain Cloud: View – massively multiplayer word asociation “game”.

WoW hits 9 million – “Blizzard have announced that WoW has 9 million subscribers – and that’s before the Burning Crusade expansion pack is launched in China.” 9 million idiots like me?

schmooze

Disabled athlete may be too fast for his own good – “100 Metres in 10.91 Seconds by a Man With No Legs”

wordy windows tattoo – a rather odd choice for a tattoo, but funny.

Stop. – smart idea! and very effective. shadow graffiti.

Not a stranger – “I think the English language needs a new word: something that describes a person who is less than an acquaintance, but more than a stranger.”

PIKAPIKA: PIKA PIKA 2007 release! – “This animation was created from a lighting doodle project through which we met various people in various places.”

50 craziest celebrity baby names – “Glamour model Jordan and her former pop star husband Peter Andre have named their baby daughter Princess Tiaamii.” oh lord…

Physical Activity at Work – “People who work at their desks all day tend to stay in one position for a long time. The exercises in these videos are designed to counter the effects of sitting at your desk.” doing that as we speak, erm write…

Graffiti politics – “Printing, publishing, blogging – the normal modes of conveying information aren’t always the most effective, especially when your access to tools is limited or your message won’t wait.”

Redheads at Improv Everywhere – “or our latest mission, over 50 redheads rode the subway together and protested a Manhattan Wendy’s for their “racist logo.””

KissMat-2 Flash Game – kissing game, no really. kinda cute

[ The Devil's Dictionary Dot Com ] – “The Devil’s Dictionary was a newspaper weekly first collected as a book in 1906. ”

swiss focus

Bleicheli Stadtlounge – “The winning “Stadtlounge” or “city lounge” proposal, by artist Pipilotti Rist and the Carlos Martinez architectural firm, features a bright red surfacing that appears to have swept in like the tide, covering everything in its path.” [via BB]

LIFT in Asia – “Big news today: we can officially announce that LIFT is moving to Asia in 2008, adding a conference in Korea to the European event in Geneva!”

german/deutsch/tedesco

Leser-Reporter: Was macht die Nackte an der Tanke? – naked lady in a ferrari shopping at a gasstation makes the news in germany.

Nachtkritik – Rütlifeier von Ariane von Graffenried – ein theaterschmarrn zum rütli-theater.

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free music

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.

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

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]

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.”

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!!!”

“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.”

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

schmooze

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!!”

‘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.”

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]

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

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

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.”

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

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]

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

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.”

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.”

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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[via waxy]

i sure ain’t complaining. but i do think the test is planned to look the other way to make me buy adsl. go cable!