[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited]

online video killed the …

How to pull out a tooth with a rocket… – apparently the son wanted to pull his tooth this way, the question remains, should you let him…

MIA — Paper Planes Brentwood Redux – "All I want to do is watch this video and so will you when you realize M.I.A. has lost her cred and she's living in Suburbia now." nice spoof

cows & cows & cows – coreographed cowbubbles… lololol

OLD SPICE REMIX: by Mike Relm – bitchin'

schmooze and abuse

One-pan wonder recipe – "I continue the tahini theme from last week with an unusual use of tahini as a raw paste rather than the more common diluted sauce." and another yumm.

‘Yes Men’ Use BitTorrent To Avoid Censorship – "The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo who expose the lies and social problems caused by governments and corporations. In their much awarded films they impersonate people in power to bring out the truth. Because the US Chamber of Commerce is suing their asses, they have now turned to BitTorrent to get their message out."

BP Photoshops Another Official Image Terribly – "This week it came to light that BP had photoshopped—poorly—an official image of their crisis command center. Apparently, that wasn't an isolated incident. Let's take a closer look at this view from a helicopter, shall we?"

osymyso: New tracks on Do Or D.I.Y. session. – "I recently made a 10 minute session for the brilliant show, Do Or D.I.Y. presented by People Like Us. The session is 10 minutes long and is comprised of all new osymyso goodness, I've never uploaded any of the bits contained in the mix before" and it’s all good again. osymyso must be the greatest music maker who never made it big. yet.

As Lindsay Lohan heads to jail, other famous faces who've had mugshots. – "The actress, 24, who turned up for prison looking more like a starlet than a jailbird, isn't the only well-known person to have seen the inside of a cell, as a new book highlights."

Fart-operated TV remote – "On Instructables, Schmidtn posted how-to instructions for his Fart Operated Random Channel TV Remote." this, sir, is a must-have!

The DJ Shadow Remix Project- Limited Edition CD – "The DJ Shadow Remix Project began as an experiment to see if we could engage and empower the online remixing community. Initially, Mike (Fiebach, of DJShadow.com) and I figured we'd award a prize through the site, stream a few winning mixes, and leave it at that. Eighty or so submissions later, I started thinking 'Hmm, maybe we should open this up a little.'

Ian Bogost – Cow Clicker – "Cow Clicker is a Facebook game about Facebook games. It's partly a satire, and partly a playable theory of today's social games, and partly an earnest example of that genre."

'The Breakup 2.0:' A look at how new media is used to end relationships – "I was interested in the ways in which people were using new media to break up with each other and also the ways in which new media — which is designed to create connections — creates all sorts of problems when you're using it to disconnect,"

The Physical Transformations Of Maradona & Dunga – pretty cool morphing job

Invaders to Tetris – made in lego now

Jessica Harrison – 2010 – splatter porcelain [via rebel:art]

Patti Smith — Dream Of Life — A film by Steven Sebring – my friend laura plotkin really recommends this documentary, tempted to order it.

Crime Scene : San Francisco's unluckiest thief – "the 31-year-old city resident rode a bicycle up to a woman Monday afternoon in the South of Market neighborhood, snatched an iPhone out of her hands, and then pedaled away. Problem was, the woman was carrying the phone as part of a company's demonstration of a real-time GPS tracking program. If the bandit would have taken a peek at the screen, he would have seen himself traveling across a map of San Francisco."

Ryan Babel’s intriguing story about swimming trunks – "find out exactly what happens when people like Ryan Babel start twatting on Twitter, convinced that other people actually give a tupenny ha’penny about their “hilarious” shopping anecdotes." another total babel fail

Football versus the vuvuzela – "The majority of football clubs look set to jump on the anti-vuvuzela bandwagon by banning the controversial instrument from games next season. Ryman Division One South side Whyteleafe became the first club in the country to officially prohibit the vuvuzela and, since then, others have followed suit." oh boy, this had to happen

Accaspokenword pema yo – acapella rap asking for some producer to work it

Taking Web Humor Seriously, Sort Of – "Goofy pictures of cats, Hitler screaming about Kanye West, Sad Keanu Reeves – these are the products of vast Internet collaboration. And we should take them seriously. Sort of." article might be locked now … ffs

Bill Murray on Ghostbusters 3, Get Low, Ron Howard, and Kung Fu Hustle
– "he is also a man beholden to no one, not the studios, not the audience, not even an agent."

English Premier League clubs ban vuvuzelas – "Fans hoping to replicate that famous vuvuzela World Cup drone back in England face disappointment after several Premier League clubs banned the deafening trumpets from their stadiums." thank god for that…

Glimpse – "Passing through the everyday spaces we inhibit, the door half opened always stirs up a sense of seduction and curiosity within us. Inspired by these ordinary yet inexplicable moments in our daily lives,I designed a mirror that gives an illusion of a door opening on any given surface."

Sergio Ramos: Charity Win, Follicular Fail – "We never want to mock or scorn footballers who take time out from their holidays to do charity work. That’s why we’re saying nothing. Nothing at all. Not a corn-rowed, plaited, braid of a word about Sergio Ramos and his head game situ in Senegal while working with UNICEF."

OFM vegetarian recipe special – "This Sunday’s Observer Food Monthly is a vegetarian special, guest edited by Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney."

The Ghosts of Facebook – "When you die, what happens to your Facebook profile? That’s a question that most Facebookers don’t really think about, but with 500 million members, the problems of death and ghost accounts are becoming very real for the website" might be locked now… ffs

crap at my parents house – "The goal of Crap At My Parents House is to pay homage to all of the weird crap that everyone's parents have. Please help in this project by submitting anything you deem funny, weird, odd, unique, strange, absurd, ridiculous or just plain terrifying."

Why Do Anonymous Geeks Hate Scientologists? – "NYU professor Gabriella Coleman opened this profoundly profanity laced academic talk with a question: why have internet enthusiasts been drawn to denounce Scientology so vehemently for two decades? Scientology, she explained, has provided a perfect nemesis for geekery."

Invisible Paris: Victims of Fashion – "On the Rue du Faubourg du Temple, an original shop sign stands witness to a period when men literally killed for a pair of shoes. These men were known as the Apaches, and they took their clothing very seriously!"

Ricky Gervais takes control – "But why weren't you trying? Was it fear of failure? "Honest answer: I think it was laziness." But you're so unlazy now. "I'm a workaholic." So what happened? "I found something I really loved."

swiss focus

Petition :: Zollgebühren – www.stopp-zollgebuehren.ch

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

online video killed the …

wat? no videos this week?

schmooze and abuse

Recreation; BD Vintage Foto Droplets – "Drop JPG files (must be in RGB mode) on the droplet icons and let Photoshop do the job. Please read the “Read me” for further instructions." handy tool, but works with photoshop CS3 only.

zOMG u r funny, LOL – or CYU in Welsh – "It seems you can use OFN (O fy nuw) instead of OMG (Oh My God), and CYU (Chwerthin yn uchel) instead of LOL (Laugh Out Loud). If you want to LMAO, that's CFHYN (Chwerthin fy hun yn wirion), apparently." and WTF would be?

Bit Torrent Site The Pirate Bay Still Offering Free Music Downloads – "It’s not approved by the RIAA, of course. Instead, the feature steers visitors to a page that where they can illegally download 30 songs that just cost grad student Joel Tenenbaum $675,000. That’s the amount a federal jury decided he owed the RIAA after being found guilty of copyright violations for sharing the tunes via a filesharing network." nice symbolic action. “Don’t forget to seed, let everybody know: “I too downloaded them!” :+)” Joel Tenenbaum Track List – hugs to the RIAA (final)

AAKASH NIHALANI – "Aakash Nihalani is a Brooklyn based artist who works with the medium of tape in public places around New York." [via urban prankster]

5 Hacks You Can Explore With Your Kids – "As good parents we want to encourage exploration and discourage criminal records, but here are a few gray areas you can explore with your kids"

Radiohead Says No More Albums – "Radiohead said in a magazine interview that it wouldn’t release any more full-length albums, instead focusing on downloadable singles like its recently released “Harry Patch (In Memory Of)” and shorter EPs."

Multitask – "Think you can handle multiple games at once? See just how coordinated you are." i r fail captain. 47% only … amg.

Where i write: Fantasy and Science Fiction Authors – "I spend a lot of time thinking about people's environments — the places they build around themselves, the things they choose to live with. Is there a connection, I started to wonder if there was a connection between the places that writers work and their work itself." dont know any of the authors but some fotos are amazing.

FlyerPlanterboxes! – "As a life-long gardener who believes in creating green spaces, not to mention my years of working in the publishing field, I am happy to see a clever use of empty newspaper boxes around town; perhaps we no longer see these boxes chained to the posts, or even smashed by vandals; instead, we will see these flower boxes decorating our sidewalks."

Squirrel Portrait Photo, Banff Wallpaper – "My husband and I were exploring Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park-Canada when we stopped for a timed picture of the two of us. We had our camera set up on some rocks and were getting ready to take the picture when this curious little ground squirrel appeared, became intriqued with the sound of the focusing camera and popped right into our shot! A once in a lifetime moment! We were laughing about this little guy for days!!" !!!!! <3 squirrel !!!!!

iGoogle Releases Social Gadgets – "iGoogle, a personalized homepage that competes with My Yahoo, My MSN, My AOL, Netvibes and others, will release 19 new in-house and third party iGoogle widgets today that add new social and sharing features to users of the service."

Geek Graffiti ! – i like the one saying "i'm only popular on the internet"

Second Skin – Through 8/13 Only! – Watch the Documentary Film for Free – SnagFilms – "Second Skin takes an intimate look at three sets of computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by online virtual worlds. An emerging genre of computer software called Massively Multiplayer Online games, or MMOs, allows millions of users to interact simultaneously in virtual spaces." available just one day, i watched it. its ok. not mind blowing. but decent enough.

The Web's Dirtiest Site – "I got the overwhelming sense that I had landed in the Internet's equivalent of the parking lot behind a 7-Eleven. Gamers, geeks, and losers who had nothing better to do than post stills from videogames with obnoxious or occasionally witty inside jokes." D. Rushkoff thoughts on 4chan.

Phyto-Purification bathroom – 1 – "Using a natural filtering principle called phyto-purification, the bathroom becomes a mini-eco-system by recycling and regenerating the wastewater."

The Pain of Being a Redhead – "Do redheads feel more pain? Nobody likes going to the dentist, but redheads may have good reason." awww, the poor G-I-N-G-E-Rs…

Facebook Acquires FriendFeed (Updated) – "And so begins the next step in Facebook’s assault on Twitter."

How Fail Went From Verb to Interjection – "Time was, fail was simply a verb that denoted being unsuccessful or falling short of expectations. It made occasional forays into nounhood, in fixed expressions like without fail and no-fail. That all started to change in certain online subcultures about six years ago." and that’s so fail.

swiss/german focus

Bilderklau bei www.78s.ch [update] – "eine etwas längere geschichte, aber heute bin ich bei 78s auf einen beitrag gestossen, bei dem mir das foto extrem bekannt vorkam. es ist mein panorama vom joss stone konzert am gurtenfestival 2007, zugegebenermassen kein extrem gutes bild, aber immerhin." swiss blogger finds his CC licenced photo without the propper attribution on a magazine’s blog.

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IS CLICK MEK BIG

also:

ZOMFG teh pwnage

the admittedly pretty sick number here is 75’840. yep that’s the number of pvp kills. /hide

awhile ago i made this silly photoshoppery of my WoW char visiting me at my home:

meanwhile i have become a warlord. yeah i know, sick!

WoRL = WoW chars in their players RL environment. feel like contributing to the series: call for submissions here

[click to see it bigger]

char: pieceoplastc
class: hunter
level: 60
guild: we are no heroes
pet: punk

would you like to contribute? read this

what is this? WoRL = WoW chars in their players RL environment.

where is this going? over the last few days i have been trying to convince my guildies to contribute to this project – to no avail. one guy wanted to send me images, had them ready for me, but then his computer crashed. if some more care people contribute i plan to build a microsite, of course.

care to contribute? either photoshop it yourself, upload it to flickr or your blog, tag entries: WoRL. i will start a flickr group if some people send stuff there. or send me: a photo of your room (minimum 1024 x 768), and a screenshot of the entryscreen with your character. send images to WoRealLife[at]gmail[dot]com.

[stuffs what gots stuck in my browser this last week]
[200601? i knowwww]

:flash: radiohead remixed: me & this army – dj pz has released a whole album of radiohead remixes. not everything works, but some of the beats really rawk.

:flash: coldplay is shit | and even more shit – uping the drm restrictions to actually cripple a CD that is non-refundable.

:flash: netlabalism – coupla belgian guys trying to create a central hub for netlabels.

:flash: Blogger Threatened to be Sued by Sozialgericht Bremen for Appearing in Google – a german blogger wrote a critical article that appears in the top 10 on google and for that he gets cease and desisted. [via digg]

:flash: retrivr - search by sketching, i love it [via waxy]

:flash: flickrfling – the “test it now” link crashed my browser, but sounds nice. “by pointing the application to a news feed, you receive the last news in real time – rendered in pictures.” [via we-make-money-not-art]

:flash: sudoku solver freeware software – ahhhh, long awaited.

:flash: MapMe for skype – adds the mapping feature to skype, yeah the one that gizmo comes with outta the box… [via digg]

:flash: AllPeers FF extension – the FF extension that could give IE the long awaited deathblow. integrates P2P into your browser.

:flash: PSP and game SXX used to create a wintery ambient sound tool – memeree has made her new years resolutions true and blogs about her innovative ways to use the PSP.

:flash: CC supported – thank you – w00t, they made it.

more 2005 lists, anyone?

:flash: fark: pick the best photoshop images 2005 – some quite funny photoshopperage. [via digg]

:flash: best mashups 2005 – with working! download links.

:flash: top 50 videos of 2005 – with mostly working links as well.

and now, go to hell 2005. you sucked.

and now for some shifty humor:

:flash: monkey jockeys – yup, not only kids and robots make “nice” and appropriate jockeys, monkeys do as well. plus it rhymes. [via 4rthur]

:flash: howto create a podcast on osX – explained by french maids in garter belts… [via al4ie]

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to see it “normal” go here.
[disclaimer: this is a preussian helmet]