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#watch and

Adblock AFK – swedish activists removing adverts in the subway

Sticky Rice’s Sushi in Space – “Six months of planning and testing went into this project as a lot of variables were at play: -60F in space, FAA regulations, overheating or freezing batteries, GPS issues, stabilization, and how to make the damn sushi stay together in high winds.” six months, really?

TRANSPORT – Reggie Watts / Noah Kalina, fantastic images over a mellow Reggie Watts track.

Texting While Walking by Casey Neistat – “i made this movie for the New York Times http://nyti.ms/zCjMEA as part of their OpDoc series”

CASSETTE: A Documentary Film about the Cassette Tape. by Zack Taylor and Seth Smoot – “We’ll look at all parts of popular culture influenced by the cassette, including hip-hop and B-Boy culture, indie rock, home recording, and beyond.”

ooh aah – the when harry met sally fake orgasm scene with bonus bits

Yosemite HD
“The two of us became friends through Vimeo and explored a shared interest in timelapsing Yosemite National Park over an extended period of time.”

#learn

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart Moshing at a 1982 Dead Kennedys Show – “Here’s a photo taken by Irish Willis Peele of a young Jon Stewart (center) moshing at a Dead Kennedys and Front Line punk show at the Casablanca club in Richmond, Virginia. When the photo was snapped in July 1982, he was a student at William & Mary and went by his given name, Jon Leibowitz.” post-punks rule.

The Swap-O-Matic – “The Swap-o-matic is a vending machine which playfully tries to remind us that reusing and recycling can be just as fun as buying something new. The machine allows users to donate and receive items, instantly and for free!” i want to make one for bern.

Chinese artist Zhang Huan created the torsos of Jesus and Buddha – “Chinese artist Zhang Huan created the torsos of two of the most prominent religious figures in the world using the ashes from temple incense in Shanghai.”

MPAA Wins the Oscar Screener Battle, but Loses the War – “For the last 10 years, I’ve tracked the online distribution of Oscar-nominated films, going back to 2003. Using a number of sources (see below for methodology), I’ve compiled a massive spreadsheet, now updated to include 310 films. This year, for the first time, I’m calling it: The MPAA is winning the battle to stop screener leaks. A record 37 films were nominated this year, and the studios sent out screeners for all but four of them. But, so far, only eight of those 33 screeners have leaked online, a record low that continues the downward trend from last year.”

Mega-man: The fast, fabulous, fraudulent life of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom – “Dotcom has gone out of his way since the early 1990s to put himself at the center of media attention. He’s certainly got it now. But who, really, is this guy?”

Bloomberg’s amazing — and rejected — Mitt Romney cover – “Bloomberg Businessweek chose not to run with this remarkable illustration of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.” it’s all fun and games in politics until someone gets a bloody nose

WordPress Plugin Unblocks Censored Sites, Including The Pirate Bay – “A new WordPress plugin makes it dead easy to uncensor blocked websites. In just a few clicks people can setup their own proxy site with the popular blogging software. An essential tool for people whose speech is restricted by oppressive regimes, and handy for downloaders in The Netherlands, Italy, Finland and other countries where ISPs are blocking The Pirate Bay. ”

Author Alain de Botton Plans to Build Temples for Godless Londoners – “For de Botton, temples don’t need religions to be built. “You can build a temple to anything that’s positive and good,” he said. “That could mean: a temple to love, friendship, calm or perspective. Why should religious people have the most beautiful buildings in the land?”"

Cyclists: What do you do when someone yells at you from their car? – creative tipps on how to avoid road rage

Girl Band ‘Pussy Riot’ Arrested for Anti-Putin Song in Kremlin – “Moscow’s self-proclaimed “Feminist punk group” Pussy Riot terrorized the Red Square by blasting their protest song “Putin Pissed Himself” (alternatively, “Putin Is Chickenshit”) in front of Saint Basil’s Cathedral, before being hauled away by the Russian version of the Secret Service.”

Marina Abramovic Throws Latest Bizarre Party at Sundance – “All guests wore white labcoats (ring a bell?) and noise canceling headphones; they were forbidden to speak for an hour. (The silence was supposed to echo Marina’s own during her MoMA retrospective performance.)”

DJ Food | A couple of reviews – “Sometimes with a release, gig or event, there are reviews that stand out, where the person has delved a little deeper than the first impression or copied the press release. Here are two” the new album is fantastic.

Infographics: The European Parliament vote on ACTA – “ACTA is the Anto Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Disguised as a Trade Agreement, ACTA goes much, much further than that …”

Radiohead Switzerland 2012 – July 9 2012 st. triphon in a quarry, tickets go on sale on january 31.

COOKIES CREAM – wow, what a great vegetarian restaurant in berlin, we will eat there thursday.

One Page Graphic Novel – “Welcome to a new story telling medium… the One Page Graphic Novel. Is this a gimmick? Yes, probably.” Henry Flint invented it… hope it catches on

#lang:de

Bern: Mani Matter bröckelt von der Wand ab – “Die BDP will das Bild von Mani Matter neben dem Rathaus erhalten. Dies sei nicht möglich, sagt der Gemeinderat.” Die BDP zeigt sich pro streetart, in diesem fall…

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The CD with all the TKOL remixes can now be pre-ordered. And Radiohead has released a player to stream them:

some of the earlier widgets won’t work anymore:

vinyl 1: (release date: july 4. 2011) radiohead: little by little (caribou rmx) + lotus flower (jacques greene rmx)

hmm, what’s up now? didn’t they announce a second vinyl remix 12″ for the 14th?
here we go:

vinyl 2: (release date: july 18. 2011) radiohead: morning mr magpie (nathan fake rmx), bloom (harmonic 313 rmx), bloom (mark pritchard rmx)

vinyl 3: (release date august 1. 2011) radiohead: feral (lone rmx), morning mr. magpie (pearson sound scavenger rmx), separator (four tet rmx)

vinyl 4 (release date august 15. 2011): Radiohead: Give Up The Ghost (Thriller Houseghost Remix), Codex (Illum Sphere Remix), Little By Little (Shed Remix)

vinyl 5 (release date august 29. 2011): Radiohead: Give Up The Ghost (Brokenchord Remix), TKOL (Altrice Remix), Bloom (Blawan Remix)

vinyl 6 (release date september 12. 2011): Radiohead: Good Evening Mrs Magpie (Modeselektor Rmx), Bloom (Objekt Rmx)

vinyl 7 (release date september 26. 2011): Radiohead: Bloom (Jamie xx Rework), Separator (Anstam RMX), Lotus Flower (SBTRKT RMX)

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#watch

Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 Vinyl – father's day video by the beasties to promote their album release on vinyl.

What Songs Are They Are Listening To in Denver & Stockholm? – "A new theme is emerging where videos are being made asking random people on the street wearing headphones what song they are listening to." keep em coming.

Radiohead – Paranoid Android: YouTube Artists Mix – the video was made using youtube videos by 35 musicians.

Life After Growth – degrowth is the d-word

Thru Jerusalem – a musical journey through jerusalem

SEXTAPE – 'The View' Remix – some radical editing here

DJ Cat – "Dilla learns some scratching techniques."

Videogame of Thrones – Game of Thrones Theme (8 bit style remix) – "High quality MP3 here: http://www.4shared.com/audio/e_7NaHIg/Digitapp_-_Videogame_of_Throne.html"

GO PRO ON HULA HOOP – "My sister and I thought it'd be cool to attach a small wide angle camera to her hula hoop. Laura Saik is the mohawk hula hooper" whatever next? naked hula hooping? hmm, there's an idea

Maine Coons Synchro – cats choreography, wait at least until one ginger yawns…

#read

Webstagram – Instagram Web Viewer – instagram's missing web interface

screenstagram – "Screenstagram displays photos from Instagram."

BBC iPlayer global launch to begin in western Europe – "Diehard BBC fans living in western Europe will have to pay somewhere under $10 (£6) a month – the fee is still to be decided – in return for a mix of contemporary and archive content on the Apple tablet, all of which will be in English."

gravity lander pro iphone game released – "Help three Cosmonauts on their mission to master gravity and debris cluttering the landing bases on Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter’s moon Europa and Neptune."

Vancouver Riots 2011: Kissing Couple Identified – “I knew it was him because he doesn’t have a lot of clothes with him and he always puts on the same thing”

Strange Hooded Guardians Appear All Over Europe – "The Guardians of Time are to warn humanity while the Guardians of Light are to protect, something one feels to the core when looking at his sculptures."

The Flaming Lips Play Dark Side of the Moon at Hollywood Forever Cemetery – "The day began at sunrise, when the band joined up with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros for a secret acoustic performance of "Do You Realize," using the cemetery's bell tower as an instrument. "

Grilled courgette and fennel with saffron crumbs recipe – "The fried saffron crumbs started off life as soup croutons before I realised how good they’d look over grilled veg"

Animals Being Dicks – silly gifs of animals being jerks

muji: charity items for japan relief – "muji has just released a new collection of items, part of whose proceeds is destined for the victims of the japan earthquake and tsunami. designed to depict power and energy, the patterned pieces feature traditional chinese kanji characters, fashioned into a recycled paper fan and square and towel cotton handkerchiefs."

Pi Explained – math geek anim gif

Interview: Erik Knutzen – urban homesteader interview. "Avi: How did you get started with bees and honey? Erik: I owe all of my beekeeping knowledge to the amazing Kirk Anderson of the Backwards Beekeepers. Kirk is one of very few all natural no-treatment beekeepers in the world. Conventional beekeepers treat their bees with all kinds of toxic chemicals, use artificially inseminated queens and all kinds of other interventionist strategies. Kirk's approach is really the way we should approach all complex systems such as nature or the economy. We should admit that we don't know much about the way they work and keep our interventions to a minimum. Kirk has taught us how to capture swarms of feral honey bees that have managed to survive all the problems that have beset conventional beekeepers in recent years. In short we let the bees "keep" themselves figuring that they know better than we do how to get along."

Tube Map Of British Comedy – very clever, tube styled map to british comedy

The Wheels Of Steel: Turntables in your browser (a web-based DJ prototype) – "I've wanted to build some sort of browser-based turntable interface for years, but it wasn't really practical until CSS3 came along (making circles and rotation possible) and flash 10, which added support for dynamic audio manipulation." TEH awesome

The Future – "Ponder the advice. MJ is trying to help you, but she can't do it alone." miranda july has included an online oracle on the website promoting her new movie The Future

Anish Kapoor rejects China show in support of Ai Weiwei – "British Council had asked the artist to consider a show in Tiananmen Square"

Journalistic Verification, Amina Arraf, and Haystack – "The stories of Amina Arraf and Haystack contain odd parallels: Both took advantage of fervor around Middle Eastern uprisings, both had a grassroots formation of followers…and both thrived on the promotion of professional journalists, whose praise helped garner them support. Both were also absolutely sensational stories that may have caused journalists, otherwise scrutinizing, to discard their usual standards."

Why I'm skeptical of the "Earless Bunny of Fukushima" – "This bunny is earless. But why? According to the buzz on the Internet, it's because he was born near the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meldown—the victim of radiation exposure in the womb. Theoretically, that could be true. "

Presso – "The Presso is a minimalist espresso maker that requires no electricity or CO2 canisters" want!

Apple Store employee moves to create union – "An Apple Store employee in San Francisco named Cory Moll has moved to create a union for himself and other Apple Store workers"

Tracy Morgan: If My Son Was Gay, I'd Stab Him To Death – "Comedian Tracy Morgan went on a vicious homophobic tirade during a stand-up performance June 3, 2011 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN." oh come on, really? sad. he later apologized, but still…

White man from Georgia is "Gay Girl from Damascus" – "it turns out Amina is a 40-year-old white man from Stone Mountain, Georgia named Tom MacMaster."

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online video killed the …

Making maple syrup in a hotter world – "It's a hard line to walk. The family featured in this video has recently experienced some of the worst years for making maple syrup in four generations. But, because weather isn't climate, next year could be better for them, even as the climate, overall, continues to warm."

Bill Murray anti-tech rant: robots, digital watches, talking cars, 1982 – "Who in the hell is thinkin' up this stuff? High tech stuff."

Benjamín Agüero hijo de Sergio Kun Agüero – "Warning: Even if you don't have ovaries, this will probably make them explode. " the next maradoooooooo, maradooo

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Happy 2011! – I quite like this photo…

The Sol Cinema – World's smallest solar movie Theatre – "“The Sol Cinema is the world’s smallest cinemas that uses only the power of the sun to entertain while being green. The Sol Cinema has been lavished with pride and style. We use an LED projector showing short movies in cinematic surroundings. We use lithium batteries to store the energy from the Sun to power the cinema all day and night. Our photovoltaic panels harness the sunlight, even as the films are being shown, so we never run out of power.” "

Celery salad with feta and soft-boiled egg recipe – "When you've overdone it the night, or week, before, comfort food is always a good idea. And it's an even better one when it's good for you, too" niammmmmmmm

Radiohead Charity Pay-What-You-Want DVD On BitTorrent – "In January 2010, in response to the emerging tragedy from the earthquake in Haiti, Radiohead performed before a limited audience at a charity concert in the United States. Since that performance, footage of the event has been painstakingly compiled by fans and now a twin DVD has been released, endorsed by the band. All proceeds are going to charity and the fastest way of acquiring it? BitTorrent of course."

FireCraft for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store – "FireCraft is all about building your own firework rockets and giving amazing Firework-Shows." better than blowing up real crap?

Are Humans Evolving to Be Dumber? – "Over the past 20,000 years, the average volume of the human male brain has decreased from 1,500 cubic centimeters to 1,350 cc, losing a chunk the size of a tennis ball."

Debating a Christian – The Flowchart – thankfully most disussions will be very short when using this flowchart

iPhone cookies on sale in Japan [$33 each, totally delicious] – "20 cookies a day, $33 each, 5 day work week, that’s $3300 a week. Time to take some baking classes."

Is Recycling Worth It? – "As if the recession hasn’t dug its claws into enough budgets and bottom lines, here’s another victim to add to its fiscal hit list: recycling programs."

iotacons – "Iotacons are extremely low resolution portraits. They are so different from my regular style that I thought I'd better give them a separate home." this has been done of course, remember craig robinson's minipops? but these are cute

New Scientist TV: – "What is probably the world's smallest periodic table has been printed on a single hair belonging to Martyn Poliakoff at Nottingham University, UK."

lang:de

New Journalism: „Kann ich mit Ihnen schlafen?“ – "Für sein Buch über die sexuelle Revolution recherchierte Gay Talese neun Jahre lang in Sexkommunen, Pornokinos und Massagesalons – als teilnehmender Beobachter" ah, the good ole 70s, and as it happens, i am about to read this book.

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xmas

Mark Simpson – Fairytale of New York – “A bit of Christmas cheer and festive spirit ends in near disaster.” yes yes, xmas is one of the times of the year, during which i wish i could still drink alcohol, helas …

bytelove – lifestyle – i want everything on this page for xmas, especially the ice invaders ice tray and the periodic table shower curtain, kkthxbye.

handjob – or ok ok, maybe a handjob [via b3ta]

online video killed the …

Truth in Advertising – “a great story about how a marketing campaign is made.” [via b3ta]

Killing In The Climb – “Everyone is fighting over which is better – Joe from X Factor with The Climb, or Rage Against The Machine with Killing In The Name.”

Homeless Guy ‘Mustard’ Sings Radiohead’s Creep – “If there’s any homeless person who deserves a moment in the spotlight, a huge royalty check, or even just a warm place to sleep, it’s Mustard” fucking sign this guy already.

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Interview: At Climate Talks, Thom Yorke Calls for Pay-What-You-Owe Economy – “It’s not enough,” Yorke said of the UK’s proposed emissions cuts. “But the political pressure they’re feeling, that’s very obvious. Hopefully something will come from that in the next 24 hours.” yeh you, thom.

The Simpsons turns 20 today – "Twenty years ago today, the first full-length episode of The Simpsons — known as The "Christmas Special" — aired on television." and i remember it like it was yesterday.

Why are the Alps getting taller? – "The Alps grow because they swim in the Earths mantle. Mountains like the Matterhorn or the Zugspitze lose one meter of stone every 1000-2000 years" and to think we used to have this slogan “weg mit den alpen, freie sicht aufs mittelmeer!”, not a chance then.

FREE For All – "Viewed from the side, the structure looks like a forty-four-foot-long stringed instrument, but from the front, it clearly spells one evocative word: FREE." for some bloody reason i now have the horrible geaorge michael song stuck in my head, “freedom, freedom… You’ve gotta give for what you take…” oh brother.

Un-Facebook Yourself – "Sometimes, social networking is just a bit too social. If you're feeling vulnerable on Facebook, the web's biggest social hangout, you can easily take control over who can see your information."

Swiss Mountain House Rocks! – "this unusual house plan is the collaboration between the Netherlands architects at SeARCH and Christian Muller Architects. This underground home, located in the Swiss village of Vals, is set amidst a cluster of mountain houses and if you don’t look carefully you might miss it!" want! someone make me rich fast so i can build one.

Announcing bit.ly Pro – "Today we’re pleased to announce a new service: bit.ly Pro. The Pro service provides custom short URLs powered by bit.ly. Publishers and bloggers will be able to use their own short domain names to point to pages on their sites" thats a bit.ly pro. see what i did there?

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i feel terrible. yesterday i bought the radiohead greatest hits cd after stumbling over an advert for it. i usually trust things blindly when it comes to radiohead, i just buy any new record i spot. it did strike me as odd somehow, when i saw this greatest hits release, because i seemed to remember, that the band is not too fond of the concept. they look at each album as a unit, the songs not making sense when ripped out of context of the album. but then i looked at the tracklist and decided, spur of the moment, to buy it, all their best songs assembled on one disc, great for the car, i thought.

at home i started to listen to it and googled the tracklist online, wanting to check what albums some tracks are on. but what did i see? EMI has released this greatest hits album without the band’s consent.

EMI are set to feel Radiohead’s wrath once more following the news that they are to release a greatest hits album to coincide with the band’s summer world tour.

The news follows the release of EMI Radiohead box set last December to coincide with the release of ‘In Rainbows’.

Ed O’Brien told Canadian music-TV presenter Strombo: “They’re planning to do a greatest hits for April, May to coincide with our tour. That’s an interesting one. We won’t be doing any promotion for that, obviously.”

However, while the band are obviously not too happy with the release they are resigned to the fact that they can’t do anything about it.

Phil Selway added: “It’s well within their rights to do it. So we’ll have to see.”

darn. i feel like an idiot for buying the record now.

on a different note. here’s a excellent radiohead mashup some guy did: “I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something that they’re not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.” the result is stunning:

Big Ideas (Don’t get any)

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easter

:flash: the untold story … – and that’s about all i have to say re: easter holiday. oh wait, maybe this:

:flash: Google’s Top 17 Easter Eggs, Gags, and Hoaxes – “Google makes your life easier with great search, but did you also know it’s loaded with pranks, goofs, and put-ons? We show you the best of the bunch.”

twitter

:flash: colorwar 2008 – “And now it has gone haywire. I regret having caused a day of spam…but…”

:flash: S.F. Activists Use Twitter, Pirate Radio to Manage Anti-War Protesters – “San Francisco anti-war protesters marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq are using the micro-blogging service Twitter to coordinate their movements throughout the day.”

:flash: Twitter / bedtime – little stories people post on twitter just before going to bed. [via ze frank]

online video has killed the …

Michael Jackson – Trifon Aleksandrov – this video has me chuckling all morning already. “A guy doing his own interpretation of Michael Jackson’s song “Bad” during the Bulgarian “Music Idol” TV show. He didn’t make it to the final.”

:flash: The Profit – The movie Scientology doesnt want you to see. – “Years ago, in 2001, several film directors worked on a documentary called “The Profit”, indirectly telling the story about how the Scientology came to be what it is today. Before it could be released, the CoS managed to get it banned, even after it claimed that it was totally unrelated to Scientology. But now it has been leaked. See for yourself.”

:flash: The Creation of a Character – truely great stop motion animation. i especially love waht it says on the sign the character holds up towards the end. [via b3ta]

:flash: Miranda July: How to Make a Button – “This instructional video was made for us by Miranda July, a lady from California who writes short funny stories that are sometimes sad and occasionally sort of weirdly hot.”

:flash: Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Last Message – “Sir Arthur C. Clarke, a giant in the science fiction genre and early proponent of the geosynchronous satellite orbit, has died. Recently, Sir Arthur videotaped his reflections on his 90th birthday, in which he talked about the future of space travel and more.”

:flash: “Hot Hot Sex” Video Removed from YouTube – “After weeks of criticism from YouTube commenters, the creator of the popular fan-made “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex” video finally pulled it offline.”

:flash: Test Your Awareness: Do The Test – “Test your awareness. Transport for London has released an Advert for commuters to test their awareness by taking the test.” [via habi]

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:flash: World of Warcraft Shines Light on Terror Tactics – “Virtual terrorists blowing themselves up and spreading disease inside World of Warcraft could provide counterterrorists with a window into real-world plots.”

:flash: Spiritually uplifting courthouse installation of Flying Spaghetti Monster – “People of all religious denominations will be overjoyed to learn that a statue of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was installed on the Cumberland County Courthouse Lawn in Crossville, Tennessee today.”

:flash: Think Periodically – “Out of my interest for Chemistry and my heritage I chose to get his tattoo done almost a year ago.”

:flash: mildly sleazy uses of facebook – “clearly, we should have sex.”

:flash: Australian Man Gunned Down in Driveway by Killer Robot – “An 81-year-old Australian man has shot himself dead with an elaborate suicide robot built using plans he downloaded from the Internet.”

:flash: The Many Views of Abbey Road – “It’s such an iconic image that whenever you see a group walking single file on a zebra crossing, you automatically think of Abbey Road. It’s been imitated, honored, lampooned, and recreated by countless artists.”

:flash: Billboard Liberation Front’s talk at Vooruit, Ghent – “i was in Ghent for the festival The Game is Up! at the Vooruit. Artists who study the relationship between art and consumerism were invited to perform, and present their work to explore this year’s theme: Art for Sale.”

:flash: The Pirate Bay to BBC: We Don’t Want To Be Information Slaves – “The BBC has published a podcast which takes a look at piracy through the ages, also covering the modern concept of ‘intellectual property’. Of course, no story of piracy would be complete without discussing The Pirate Bay”

:flash: Pirates – BBC podcast – “Pirates are not just peg-legs, parrots and pistols. In this three part series, Nick Rankin finds out how they have adapted to changing times.”

:flash: Japan appoints cartoon cat named Doraemon as ambassador to promote animation – “Japan has created an unusual government post to promote animation, and named a perfect figure to the position: a popular cartoon robot cat named Doraemon.”

:flash: Interview: Perplex City Creators Craft ‘We Tell Stories’ – “Penguin has challenged some of its top authors to create new forms of story – designed specially for the internet…”

:flash: We Tell Stories – story told as a sort of online game.

:flash: Battlestar Galactica Streams Into Season 4 – “The wait for season four is almost over, though, and BSG junkies can get their fix online 10 hours before the show airs on TV. The final season premiere will stream live on SciFi.com from noon to 1 p.m. April 4 — get your lunch orders in now.”

:flash: Tibet Protest Photos 080315 – a collection of photos and videos covering the protests in tibet.

:flash: In Rainbows Music Video Contest Judged by Radiohead in conjunction with aniBoom – “It’s the perfect match between revolutionary music and the mind blowing possibilities of animation. The *In Rainbows Music Video Contest* judged by Radiohead is here.”

:flash: Radiohead Launches In Rainbows Video Contest – “Radiohead has invited fans to create animated videos for any of the songs on the band’s groundbreaking In Rainbows album, and you don’t even need to be an animation expert to enter.”

:flash: espacio+coches.jpg – amount of space required to transport the same amount of people.

:flash: Street Art At It’s Best #2 – indeed!

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funky maps

:flash: Gracenote: Music Maps – “the popularity map shows snapshots of current top artists and album charts by geographical location.” [via bb]

:flash: World Map with Countries Distorted to Represent Relative Population – “What the world would look like if population determined the size of the countries. Guess who’s the biggest, and no, its not Antarctica.”

:flash: The Most Beautiful Planetary Maps Ever – “These are, quite simply, the coolest planetary maps I’ve ever seen.”

:flash: Number Of Inhabitants Per Doctor – i am actually surprised to see switzerland not having the highest ratio. [via neatorama]

music. should it be free or not?

:flash: Radiohead sign ‘conventional’ record deal – “Radiohead have signed a deal with British indie label XL Recordings for the physical release of ‘In Rainbows’.”

:flash: Radiohead Verschwörungstheorie Wahnsinn: OK In Computer Rainbows – “Es gibt die Verschwörungstheorie „TENspiracy“, die genau das behauptet und sagt: „In Rainbows“ formt zusammen mit „OK Computer“ das Über-Album „01 and 10“.” erm. [via rho]

:flash: Trent Reznor and Saul Williams Discuss Their New Collaboration, Mourn OiNK – “I think it’s just an awkward time right now to be a musician. The reality is that people think it’s okay to steal music. There’s a whole generation of people, that’s all they’ve known.”

:flash: oink.cd – the number 1 site in the world for waffle recipes – “These are the waffles that taste really good according to google.” clever.

graffiti

:flash: Jesus Christ! – sweet jesus, what a nice graffiti. [via wooster]

:flash: Fresh Stuff From Banksy in Bethnal Green – tired roller guy taking a well deserved break after painting a lovely flower onto the wall.

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:flash: World’s best bottoms – “Two winners are awarded the hotly-contested title of the “world’s most beautiful bottom”: 19-year-old Kristina Dimitrova from Bulgaria and Andrei Andrei aged 24 from Romania.” now, if ever, it may be allowed to say “nice ass”.

:flash: Chocolate Keyboard – “so, it’s just chocolate keyboard ” awesome, until you start thinking about using one. [via neatorama]

:flash: Pac-Txt: Pac-Man meets Zork – “I had just got back from a party where the concept of a Pac-Man + Zork hybrid came up as a joke. So, being 2am with a little alcohol in my system, I thought it’d be funny to code it up (as far as I could before collapsing).” [via waxy]

:flash: David Lynch and psychosis – “Lynch’s dark and mysterious films can be seen to draw upon-and to inform-concepts in modern clinical approaches to psychology, especially the psychology of psychosis.” the film disturbed me so much, i couldn’t watch it to the end. this may expain it.

:flash: WoWInterface Downloads : Hello Kitty Island Adventure – “Well here you have it, the hello kitty UI” zomfg, that’s too silly.

:flash: 21 – a film by laura plotkin – “in the aftermath of 9/11 many violent and racist attacks occurred through out the USA. 21 quickly and succinctly chronicles Niomi, a Brooklyn resident who recalls being brutally accosted ten days after the twin towers collapsed.”

:flash: Obama pledges Net neutrality laws if elected president – “If elected president, Barack Obama plans to prioritize, well, barring broadband providers like AT&T and Comcast from prioritizing Internet content.”

:flash: World’s Worst Suicide Hotline – “please press 1 if you are definitely going to kill yourself.”

swiss focus

:flash: The LIFT price – laurent explains the price of LIFT. i best not say a word, or receive huge aggro again.

:flash: Berner Medientag » 17. Medientag – “Hilfe, die Zürcher kommen! Wie weiter nach dem Tamedia-Deal?”

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take off panties and shirts as protest and such

:flash: Women’s panties threaten Burmese Junta – “The Burmese military is facing an unexpected threat from female opponents to its regime – a deluge of panties dispatched to the country’s embassies in a “culturally insulting gesture of protest” against its recent crackdown on protestors.”

:flash: No Shirts at Improv Everywhere – “For our latest mission, 111 men of all shapes and sizes shopped shirtless in the Abercrombie and Fitch store on 5th Avenue here in New York.”

:flash: Police: Pantless Man Claims Leprechaun Opened Door – “A man was caught Tuesday morning inside a car with his pants down. Leblanc told them he had done drugs and believed that a leprechaun had let him into the car.”

how to of the week

:flash: How To Wash Your Hands – “Which brings us back to the main point of this post: How to Wash Your Hands.”

online video killed the …

:flash: Absolutely Hilarious Bathroom Mirror Prank Video – “This prank is absolutely hilarious. Replace the mirror in a bathroom with a window pane, place a set of identical twins in identical rooms opposite each other and proceed to prank everyone who walks in.”

:flash: Bad day at work – “Bad day at work and you thought this was a kick back job.”

:flash: reboiled: a social network for two – that brilliant ze frank’s song now animated.

radiohead cd

:flash: why P2P can be a hard habit to break – “Radiohead’s innovative digital distribution arrangement for their new album, In Rainbows, lets people pay whatever they want for the music, including nothing at all. Despite that, BitTorrent swapping of the album has been on the level of other major releases.”

:flash: Please Buy “In Rainbows” On CD. Please. – “Radiohead’s much-debated decision to let fans choose what they pay for its new album online is a promotional tactic to boost sales of compact discs, the band’s management said yesterday.”

schmapple

:flash: Apple to open up iPhone software – “Apple boss Steve Jobs has said that outside developers will now be allowed to make add-on software for the iPhone.” is this just like he promised to make apple greener?

:flash: Mac OS X Leopard – 300+ New Features – the new OS comes with some impressive new gimmicks.

:flash: iPhone’s hazardous chemicals – “Scientific tests, arranged by Greenpeace, reveal that Apple’s iPhone contains hazardous chemicals. The tests uncovered two types of hazardous substances, some of which have already been eliminated by other mobile phone makers.”

schmooze and abuse

:flash: A Bona Fide Stephen Colbert Presidential Candidacy Might Be a Bona Fide Violation of Federal Law – “does he know that if he succeeds in using his show to help him score a slot on South Carolina ballots as a bona fide 2008 contender, he’ll also violate federal campaign law?” Colbert for President!

:flash: Cubicle Freakout – Vent your office stress – frenetic cubicle game, i was told to: “take the rest of the day off. the internet told you so”. ok then… that’s ofc what i like to hear.

:flash: A Times Square Pedestrian arrested for standing around – “observed defendant along with a number of other individuals standing around” on a public sidewalk in June 2004. Mr. Jones was “not moving, and that as a result of defendants’ behavior, numerous pedestrians in the area had to walk around defendant”. soon: minimal speed limits while walking in crowded areas.

:flash: Viacom opens up Daily Show archive – “Viacom has put online the entire eight year archive of its top rating comedy series, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a move which will be closely watched by all the major networks, advertisers, telcos and the burgeoning new media video industry.” the battle is on.

:flash: Phone Fingers – “Our Phone Fingers are made for iPhone’s touch screen to prevent smudges and fingerprints. With the Phone Fingers you won’t have to clean your touch screen all the time and it’s an eye catcher too.” while i agree smudge on touch screens is gross, i hope this is not serious.

:flash: Guns for Girls and Glamorous Weaponry! – a hello kitty AK-47. is this sad or mad?

:flash: Top bloggers reveal how to build traffic off-blog without spending a dime – “If you had 2-hours a day to devote to no-cost, off-blog (even off-line) marketing for your blog, what would you do?” I posed this very question to a collection of some of the world’s top bloggers and social network marketers… and here’s what they revealed:” the most stunning conclusion, they all said something completely different.

:flash: STRIDA – elegant, if odd looking folding bike. [via swissmiss]

:flash: Global hunt for child-sex suspect – “Interpol had appealed for public help after experts unscrambled digitally-swirled internet photos of the suspect.”

:flash: Aaron Hobson – great, dark, cinematic photography series [via rebel:art]

:flash: BBC online to go free over wi-fi – “The BBC’s online services will be made available free of charge at thousands of wi-fi hotspots around the UK.”

:flash: Rebel Nuns Evicted From Polish Convent – “Police evicted 65 rebellious ex-nuns Wednesday from a convent they illegally occupied for two years after defying a Vatican order to replace their mother superior, a charismatic leader who had religious visions. Several nuns, many of whom appeared to be in their 20s, screamed at police, calling them “servants of Satan,” as they were escorted out and into waiting buses.”

swiss/german focus

:flash: Miss Syl & H1- – upcoming exhibit at buro discount: rockets and outer space. opens 27.10.

:flash: The LIFT08 program explained – “Tonight we announced the 2008 program at an event with the local members of the LIFT community, and here is a short rundown of what will happen for those who couldn’t be here.”

:flash: D*Face vs. Chapman Brothers – “Mainstream-Künstler klauen Idee eines Underground-Künstlers.”

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and that’s tomotherfuckingday. weee…

i have been a huge radiohead fan since OK Computer. and yeah, sure, who isn’t?

their last album, hail to the thief, was a bit of a dissappointment not so much for the music, but for the copy control they implemented onto the CD. it was a huge let down coming from a band who always seemed to stand so strongly for independance and integrity and had always valued its fans. all of a sudden we the fans were treated like potential pirates.

well, it was fantastic news to read this morning that radiohead is selling their new album, in rainbows, through a donations-based system, that lets the buyer decide what price the want to pay, no really, it’s up to you. the download can be pre-ordered, that is, and of course i instantly did this, now to patiently wait till october 10. when the downloads will get available. and we’ll see what type of mp3s we get, drm, quality, etc…