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.

Geben Sie bitte nachstehender Petition auch Ihre Stimme – sie wird in Zeitungen muslimischer Länder veröffentlicht, sobald wir 100.000 Unterschriften gesammelt haben.

Sunday´s vote against the building of minarets has sparked shock and widespread condemnation from all corners of the world, tarnishing Switzerland´s reputation as a land of tolerance and cultural pluralism.

Let´s show that we strongly disagree with the ban and that Swiss people remain genuinely committed to fight fear and prejudice.

Add your voice to the petition below, and it will be delivered to newspapers across the muslim world when we reach 100,000 signatures.

sign here

Ich schäme mich für das Resultat der Minarett-Initiative! – saturday 14:00 bundesplatz, bern. i’ll be there if my cold is gone.

jon stewart and john oliver making fun of it all

- Treffpunkt ist um 17.45 in der Bahnhofshalle
- Punkt 18.00 Uhr fallen wir alle zusammen auf den Boden, mitten in der Menge der Pendler, und bleiben dort während 4 Minuten wie tot liegen. Dies als Symbol für alle Menschen die durch Schweizer Waffen sterben, die wir aber nie zu Gesicht bekommen
- wichtig ist, dass alle möglichst rot angezogen sind -> visueller Effekt
- nach den 4 Minuten kann jeder wieder seine Weg gehen

Während dessen werden Flyer an Passanten verteilt, die über die Initiative und den Smartmob informieren.”

Smartmob für ein Ja zur Initiative “Exportverbot von Kriegsmaterial”

online video killed the …

Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple – "Note: No cuts are repeated." sad, more like.

9.12 DC TEA PARTY – MARCH FOOTAGE WITH INTERVIEWS – "we went to Washington DC to document the Tea Party protests against, well, a lot of things, including health insurance reform, the IRS, abortion, global warming, and our "socialist/communist/fascist/Nazi/Muslim " president, Barack Obama." it is soooo scary what is happening in the US.

schmooze and abuse

MP CHANGE – lets you upload a photo of yourself that will get animated. it’s a bit creepy. [via b3ta]

kanyelicio.us – kayneliced mah website then. [via b3ta]

Net Hoax Convinces Germany of Fake U.S. Suicide Bombing Attempt – "All of Germany was bamboozled Thursday by a bizarre scheme that tricked the country’s main wire service into reporting an attempted suicide bombing in a California town — an attack supposedly perpetrated by a non-existent rap group called the “Berlin Boys.” The work of German filmmakers peddling a satirical movie called Short Cut to Hollywood, the elaborate hoax involved at least two faked websites, a faked Wikipedia entry and California phone numbers for “public safety” officials that were actually being answered by hoaxsters in Germany using Skype." zes germans, sigh.

Big New York Event – Sept. 21 – "Come join the Yes Men and a large coalition of activists in some massive plans to save the world on Monday, September 21 in New York City. It could make a really big difference, and it'll be tons of fun. We can't guarantee making history – but we're sure going to try." sounds exiting. wish i was in NYC. beam me over, scotty.

Robots – The Old Robots Web Site – "DID YOU KNOW : THIS WEB SITE IS USED TO IDENTIFY, RECORD AND RETAIN INFORMATION ON ROBOTS"

Denmark pulls 'promiscuous' video – "A video promoting tourism in Denmark has been removed from YouTube after complaints it promoted promiscuity."

Some Notes On iTunes LP – "Feature-wise, an iTunes LP is a DRM-free album in high-quality 256kbps AAC format, along with digital extras (visualizer(s), photos, videos and interviews) wrapped in a custom WebKit-powered site."

The Putting Lot – "Welcome to The Putting Lot: Bringing miniature golf to Bushwick, Brooklyn for the summer of 2009! The Putting Lot explores the possibilities of vacant lots in the city with an emphasis on community spaces."

swiss/german corner

Watchlist: Princess Hijab – “Ich bin eine visuelle Terroristin”, sagt Princess Hijab, “der Dschihad ist meine Kunst.”

BD Skittles Portrait Photo 2009 – by Rolf Siegenthaler added to BD info pages.

delicious.com/pieceoplastic or subscribe to this RSS feed – with all the typos.

discovered in sevilla and uploaded to flickr by regine of we-make-money-not-art.com

edit: gut gespielt. und keine angst vor peinlichen drohungen. wer je mit einem kind im trotzalter zu tun hatte weiss, trotz ist ein miserabler motivator. die svp wird sich in der opposition verheizen und spalten, bald wird sie wieder angekrochen kommen.

[photo 2: by my mum]

dic-zh is the name of the crew who made this video in the hip hop vs. svp genre. i didn’t know these guys, but love their work. “you can sue us, it’s ok (we’re broke anyway)”, it says at the end, and maybe, just maybe they even hope to get sued. here’s another video they did.

[via bernergazette - da revival]

yesterday apple put the “a greener apple” banner on their front page, linking to an open letter by steve jobs explaining the companies strategy to become greener.

Today is the first time we have openly discussed our plans to become a greener Apple. It will not be the last. We will be providing updates of our efforts and accomplishments at least annually, most likely around this time of the year. And we plan to bring other environmental issues to the table as well, such as the energy efficiency of the products in our industry. We are also beginning to explore the overall carbon “footprint” of our products, and may have some interesting data and issues to share later this year.

I hope you are as delighted as I was when I first learned how far along Apple actually is in removing toxic chemicals from its products and recycling its older products. We apologize for leaving you in the dark for this long. Apple is already a leader in innovation and engineering, and we are applying these same talents to become an environmental leader. Based on our tangible actions and results over time, hopefully our customers, employees, shareholders and professional colleagues will all feel proud of our ongoing efforts to become a greener Apple.

Steve Jobs

my apple fanboy meter just went up a few nudges [no real need to say that it was at an all time low in recent times]

btw. greenmyapple won a webby in activism category; very nice and much deserved for a very cool online campaign.

[via wmmna - digg - shey.net]

this is as shocking as it is funny… omg. is this a fake?

[via Top 10 April Fool Pranks 2007 and i'll admit it, i almost believed the tin foil hat, for a second there ... or did i want to believe it?]

december 2006 – bundesrat target practice

la class politique 2006 throws in the towel. this is our last entry, year 2006 complete and bye bye.
finally we are able to admit, that these silly shopperies seem to pretty much amuse only ourselves. if that …
the only “feedback” we ever received was a c&d letter back in 2004.
so i guess, yes, we are stubborn to keep trying that long …
but now it really is time to move on to new projects.

as always, we are grateful for ideas, suggestions and constructive criticism.

photoshoppery: franziska nyffeler
idea: franzsika nyffeler & jan zuppinger

me likee.

So tönt das Original.

Ich dachte die Sache könnte ein bisschen peppiger sein…

Der Remix.

[via tobistar]

november 2006 – bundeshexen calmy-rey und leuthard

federal councillors calmy-rey and leuthard are brewing a truely indigestable soup.

as always, we are grateful for ideas, suggestions and constructive criticism.

photoshoppery: franziska nyffeler
idea: franzsika nyffeler & jan zuppinger

october 2006 – bundesratte blocher and nationalaffe maurer

federal councillor christoph blocher is making fine progress in sawing switzerland out of the landscape.

national councillor ueli maurer seems to ask: “christoph, am i doing this right?”.

as always, we are grateful for ideas, suggestions and constructive criticism.

photoshoppery: franziska nyffeler
idea: franzsika nyffeler & jan zuppinger

september 2006 – mr. maurer

with the vote coming up it is high time for ueli maurer to visit his baber. we recommend dällebach kari. i am sure federal councillor calmy-rey would love to accompany him.

as always, we are grateful for ideas, suggestions and constructive criticism.

photoshoppery: franziska nyffeler
idea: franzsika nyffeler & jan zuppinger

august 2006 – anonymous puking doggy

we are not the only ones having to puke with all this neo-patriotism.

as always, we are grateful for ideas, suggestions and constructive criticism.

photoshoppery: franziska nyffeler
idea: franzsika nyffeler & jan zuppinger

[a follow-up to this]

july 2006 – marco streller

wait, that was hardly fair. who allowed the ukrainians to place that huge sign in front of their goal? the swiss federal council is pondering political repercussions.

as always, we are grateful for ideas, suggestions and constructive criticism.

photoshoppery: franziska nyffeler
idea: franzsika nyffeler & jan zuppinger

pr0n 2.0

Media – PornoTube.com – after YouTube comes, of course, PornoTube for pr0n user uploads. sadly it is mostly used by pr0n sites to upload their teaser videos. however the video karate porn is rather funny, only lightly nsfw and mildly pr0n.

porn.a.licious – social bookmarks for pr0n?

netpolitix

Google wants your credit card number – some interesting thoughts and considerations re: checkout, the new paypal competitor from google.

Net Neutrality: This is serious – tim berners-lee on net neutrality. includes a video.

search for "scientology" – hmmm, a surprising amount of scientology stories have been making the digg front page these past weeks; discovered by waxy.

BloggerCon Boosts the Blog Boom – wired sums up BloggerCon.

Listr 2.0 – Coolz0r – Marketing Thoughts – “Welcome to the Listr. This post will be updated every time I come across another new name that has an ‘r’ at the end.”

us politix

YouTube – think! – iRaq. anti-war video. [via videos.0wn.it]

Orrin Hatch’s Flag Burning Remix – the attempt to "outlaw the burning of the American flag failed to gather the necessary votes in the U.S. Senate" great rant, and do check out the bill hicks stand up routine.

weird, funny and/or evil

419 Eater – this guy convinced a 419 scammer to woodcarve a commodore keyboard for him, what an excellent prank.

YouTube – Pickles – leave her alone already, maury, she really does hate pickles.

Stephen Colbert’s World of Colbertcraft – aha ha ha

lang:de

DIGITAL BRAINSTORMING – digital brainstorming starts a blog featuring: Villoe Huszai, Patrik Tschudin, Verena Kuni and Dominik Landwehr. the website had a redesign as well, yet it still does everything wrong. i mean, ramesets? oh lord.

Die Welt zu Gast und unter Generalverdacht – "Das Fußballstadion als Überwachungsarchitektur" munich’s allianz arena is a surveillance heaven, that is not really beyond suspicion, when it comes to constitutional rights.

the great stuff that was left in the end that did not fit any of the above categories

Paul Miller on «Rhythm Science» – ArtCast podcast of the paul miller aka dj spooky talk on his book rhythm science @ Art, Basel.

50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence – "The discipline of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was born in the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Half of a century has passed, and AI has come a long way since its inception.&quot conference in monte verita near ascona, switzerland. [via digital brainstorm]

do it your mole – “DGPH INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE ON DO IT YOUR MOLE PROJECT. CUT, REMOVE, FOLD, ENSAMBLE AND SEND US YOUR MOLE PHOTO!” mole remix contest.

Cell Phones Excite the Brain – i can really feel that, sorry, but its true.

MicroTrack 24/96 – the must-have gadget for the discerning podcaster.

YouTube – Studio 1986 – jean-michael jarre showing of his studio, so 80’s. [via kus]

WP Theme viewer – wordpress theme viewer had a redesign. now thats nifty. [via sis]

[del.icio.us/pieceoplastic | links]

this might not make the news. because they forgot to put weights at the bottom of the banners.

today, bern, federal building, new federal council doris leuthard is about to start her public acceptance speech out on the bundesplatz. two women have climbed the scaffolding in front of the federal building to unfold two banners. the wind makes reading them very hard, one of them i can’t read, the other says: “something something nicht genug”. ok. i was able to read it, actually, it said “zwei frauen nicht genug” = two women are not enough. two minutes later, the women are arrested, the banners have dissappeared. some weights would have made this a much more successful, because readable protest.

two days after greenpeace this also looked kinda copycatty.

PLUS: wtf is that “fussball regiert” sign??? football governs? go away.

classify under: durch den wind verwehte proteste

june 2006 – the federal council

how very cunning; just in time for the worldcup the federal council came up with a rather clever scheme to finance the EM08.

as always, we are grateful for ideas, suggestions and constructive criticism.

photoshoppery: franziska nyffeler
idea: franzsika nyffeler & jan zuppinger