[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited]

online video killed the …

FutureStates :: Play – "beautiful imagination of nested play states in a "not too distant future." nested it is.

‘Galactica: Sabotage’ Creator Discusses Her Brilliant Beastie Boys Sci-Fi Mashup – "The above video compares the Galactica version with the real “Sabotage” video and puts things in perspective for those who haven’t memorized every shot in the original Beasties clip: If you dart your eyes back and forth fast enough, you can see the stunning precision with which her re-creation mimics the original." amazing precision

South Park Parodies the "Gingers Do Have Souls" Kid – "the famous "Gingers. do have souls" kid has now been immortalized by the very show he claims to hate in this preview clip from South Park's upcoming 14th season." awww, stop slagging the g.i.n.g.e.r.s. already, tee hee.

Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer – "The 11th Best Picture Nomination of 2009."

schmooze and abuse

New New Order Mix-New Monday. It's new. – "Earlier today I uploaded a remix I've done of Blue Monday by New Order which I've called "New Monday (How Does It Feel)". I'm not sure the world needed another remix of this 80's classic but I went and did one anyway." wooohee, osymyso is back! or did he never leave?

Apple's secret iPhone developer agreement goes public – "The first rule of the iPhone developer program is: You do not talk about the iPhone developer program." just did, so suck on that, sucker.

Chatroulette Map – ya, dickflashers, not so anonymous anymore…

Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What? – “It’s something most people will look at once” that sentence sums it all up. was interesting to read that the idea did not come from apple though.

Dalai Lama Has a Posse – "Wednesday March 10 is Tibetan Independence Day—and this year will also mark His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 75th birthday. In honor of both, Shepard Fairey collaborated with photographer Don Farber on this limited-edition, signed and numbered 18"x14" print"

DIY : The picturetweeting bathroom scale (aka the worst christmas present ever) – "how about bathroom scales that take a picture of you, from the worst and least flattering angle, and uploads it straight to the web through Twitter and twitpic? Yes, I know, it’s a horrible idea!" worst! idea! ever!

Valve Brings Hit Games, Steam Service to Mac – "It’s officially official: Valve will bring its Steam online distribution service and titles from its massive library of hit games to the Mac this April, the company confirmed Monday." nice.

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and here’s a dj mix i made some years back: free tibet mix

above photo is from the 1968 olympics in mexico. during the 200 meter gold medal ceremony the african american athletes tommie smith and john carlos performed their famous power to the people salute. 40 years ago.

well, times surely have changed since.

i was convinced there would be at least one athlete during the olympics in china, that would show his solidarity with tibet or protest against the scandalous human rights situation in china. but as it turns out not one of them did (unless it did happen but was kept under the radar). almost 1000 medals were handed out, but not one ceremony was used to stage a protest.

on the contrary. when asked about these issues most athletes prefered to demonstrate their political ignorance by saying really stupid things in interviews. like swiss cyclist and gold medal winner fabian cancellara, who embarassed himself – and us – by saying, that there were more important issues than human rights. oh? like what? what is more important than human rights, sherlock? maybe how to get away with doping without getting caught? or maybe is it more important to prove to the world, that all the drugs really have bombed your brains out?

i have to admit, i did not see this interview with cancellara myself. but my sister told me about it, and she is usually quite good at quoting things correctly. she also told me, that she was his elementary school teacher and as such feels embarassed, like anyone involved in his scholastic education should be.

thank god there is photoshop to save the day. here’s usain bolt sporting a tibetan flag during the 4 x100 m gold medal ceremony.

dear china,

trying to impress us, aye? nice try, but we still don’t like you.

yours truely, …

yes, ok, that opening party was mildly impressive. yet it felt like china was trying to buy favors. i felt bad for them. they’d spent millions on this gigantic multimedia show. but it also seemed like a blatant attempt to wash over the real issues that still exist. what about human rights? censorship? tibet? impending ecological disaster? watching these olympics will always be tainted by these unsolved problems.

i was reminded of my choleric grandad, who would buy us expensive gifts and serve caviar and saumon fumee when we visited. that impressed me till i was about 9… maybe.

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online video killed the …

:flash: Parrot Dancing – “This is a video of a medium sulphur crested Eleanora cockatoo named Snowball” yup, and this is one funky ass parrot. [via b3ta]

:flash: It’s Not a Compound – “Mormon mash-up. Polygamists never get a fair shake. Mainstream breakfast-hour news gets regurgitated. There’s room for everybody in this compound!” [via bb]

:flash: “‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett” – “Something has happened to PBS favorite “Charlie Rose.” The erudite conversations and sober intellectualism have been replaced by an absurd world where illogic, inane dialogues, and open hostility rule.”

:flash: Carry On Wayward Son – try to do what i did, for the first time have it play in a hidden browser tab and then go on to check out the “band”…

:flash: Graffiti Research Lab – the complete first season – “Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season documents the adventures of an architect and an engineer who quit their day jobs to develop high-tech tools for the art underground.” [via rebel-art]

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:flash: Country Codes of the World – “The Country Codes of the World map includes 245 country codes, which encompasses all United Nations countries as well as numerous islands and territories.”

:flash: WordPress 2.5.1 – “Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix.”

:flash: Skype for your mobile – “Skype for your mobile is a mini, beta version of Skype that you can download on to your mobile.” [via alf4ie]

:flash: How-to: Make a PS3 Laptop of your very own – “In this installment we’ll take apart the PS3, identify the parts within, and then reassemble them in a more compact way.”

:flash: Pixel Pour – “the pixels are materialized through some medium that is not electronic and the hybridity is more about a semantic cross-over from pixel worlds of electronic games to the real world.” [via neatorama]

:flash: Nihilum live raid streaming – “Nihilum is hosting a raid streaming event. Watch us raid the newest instance Sunwell Plateau, live, through 4 raiders point of views.” watch the top guild raid … could be interesting. could be lame as hell.

:flash: jon chester painting home – my good friend jon made a website to show his amazing recent paintings.

:flash: LSD vs Alcohol vs Tree – cute cartoon.

:flash: Lolcats hiring; spelling skillz optional – “I can haz dream Job? My rezumez! let me showz u thm” if i wasn’t retired i would be apply

:flash: Plastic made from pig urine – “Denmark-based Agroplast wants to transform pig urine into plastic dinnerware and household items. We all have to have dreams, I suppose.” [via bb]

:flash: 10,000 Pot Smokers Have Marijuana Smoke-Out While DEA Says No To Industrial Hemp – “10,000 people gathered on the University of Colorado’s Norlin Quadrangle Sunday, puffing joints till the air turned blue. University police stood by to maintain order, but no one was busted for smoking pot.”

:flash: Flock Browser: Eco-Edition – “Better yet, the Flock Eco-Edition browser comes pre-loaded with fresh content from the best sources from across the web.”

:flash: Third – Portishead – you can stream the whole depressing (^^), new album at last.fm.

:flash: The ‘Roid Week 2008 Pool – roid week at flickr.

:flash: WordPress 2.5 Admin Backend Category Shenanigans and How To Fix It – “The look is cleaner and admin panel is supposedly designed to be easier to use by new bloggers. Except that it isn’t (at least for experienced bloggers).”

penis and cock

:flash: Penis theft panic hits city.. – “Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.”

:flash: Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital – “Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.” penis theft, lol

:flash: The Web – with added cocks – “My revolutionary program adds cocks to any website!” here’s pieceoplastic.com [via b3ta]

swiss focus

:flash: Freedom in Tibet! www.myspace.com/swissartists4tibet – “Am 6. Juli 2008 werden sich mindestens 15’000 Menschen auf dem Bundesplatz in Bern Schweiz zu einem Monster-Solidaritätskonzert für die Tibetische Bevölkerung versammeln.” [thx ramax]

:flash: LlFJoFdM8T.gif – this incredibly lame, yet somehow very fascinating anim gif comes up top if you google “bsc yb”.

:flash: Befragung zum Thema EURO 2008 in Bern – “Herzlich willkommen bei unserer Befragung zum Thema EURO 2008 in Bern.” naja.

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thought-provoking rant of the week

:flash: Better Than Free – “From my study of the network economy I see roughly eight categories of intangible value that we buy when we pay for something that could be free. In a real sense, these are eight things that are better than free. Eight uncopyable values. I call them “generatives.” A generative value is a quality or attribute that must be generated, grown, cultivated, nurtured. A generative thing can not be copied, cloned, faked, replicated, counterfeited, or reproduced.” [via bengston]

online video killed the …

:flash: Devo-Mongoloid – love em. [thx klav]

:flash: Fanboy Supercuts, Obsessive Video Montages – Waxy.org – “This insane montage of every instance of “What?” from the LOST series started me thinking about this genre of video meme, where some obsessive-compulsive superfan collects every phrase/action/cliche from an episode (or entire series) of their favorite show/film/game into a single massive video montage.” i didnt watch all, but lovesd this one: Every “What?” from the LOST series.

:flash: Tom Cruise Scientology Deutsche original Übersetzung von Dr. Phillip Herforth – german performer delivers a babblefish translated tom cruise speech in german.

:flash: Urban Honey – “Jon Rolston is a young urban bee keeper.” he thought about chicken then went for bees. wise choice.

:flash: Robot Nexi by MIT – “This is Nexi, a small humanoid robot designed by MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robotics Group. Her arms, wrists, and hands are fully controllable, allowing her to grip and lift objects of up to 10 pounds, and her face features an array of movable (and quite expressive) features including eyes, eyebrows, eyelids, and mouth.” slightly creepy.

:flash: Canada on Strike – the whole south park episode with the boys encounter of the internet stars is now online.

:flash: The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time – timewaster alert!

:flash: Wendy O. Williams remembered. – Boing Boing – “10 years ago this week, former Plasmatics front-woman Wendy O. Williams died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Chainsaws, shaving cream, destroyed guitars, exploding cars, nipple spikes, anarchopornoveganism, rock ‘n’ roll.”

schmooze and abuze

:flash: Postcards From Yo Momma – “Does your mom still have an AOL account? Does she email you her random, yet charming, thoughts on life and love?” collection of the cute emails our mothers tend to send us.

:flash: Say No to Flickr Video – “All we are asking is for Flickr to be left as a Photography website and if they want Video create a sister site. ” not sure i agree, hmm…

:flash: Rules of Thumb – About Rules of Thumb – “With this website, you have at your fingertips all the best rules of thumb I’ve col­lected since book number one plus everything voted into the Main Collection by online contributors like you.”

:flash: Russian girls support Vladimir Putin with panties – “The ribboned red-and-white knickers will help tackle Russia’s shrinking population by encouraging girls to have more babies.” oh really?

:flash: A Capital City With The Devil in the Details? – “Presidential candidate John McCain keeps calling Washington the city of Satan. Turns out he’s not alone.” satan satan satan!!!!

:flash: Net gains and pains for journalism – “They also seem to have realised that anyone who wants to break into professional journalism needs to have some sort of online presence beyond a Facebook profile”

:flash: Bloggers, DIY Filmmakers Capture S.F. Olympic Protest – “midst bull-horned demonstrators, agitated protesters and throngs of motorcycle cops, bloggers posted messages, videos and photos with handheld cameras and phones, while indie-media correspondents streamed live interviews with dissidents and images of the unfolding scene.”

:flash: Watch as Olympic Torch Protests Hit San Francisco – “As thousands of activists mass in San Francisco to protest the Olympic torch relay through the city Wednesday, the events are playing out online.”

:flash: Lies I’ve told my 3 year old recently – “All fish are named either Lorna or Jack.” [via al4ie]

:flash: 6 Insane Cults (That Would Probably Be a Lot of Fun) – “Politics, sex and religion are the three things you’re not supposed to discuss in mixed company. Fortunately, if you’re in a cult, odds are you get to discuss those topics as much as you want. In the right cults you probably get to discuss them while having group sex. If you’re allowed to speak, that is.”

:flash: Official Google Blog: Developers, start your engines – “In the same way that Blogger made it easy to create a blog, Google App Engine is designed from the ground up to make it easy to create and run web applications.”

:flash: LSD History Comic – the mind-boggeling drugs history as a comic. [via other michael]

:flash: Battlestar Galactica Returns to Stellar Ratings – “Battlestar Galactica roared back into action Friday night, as the Season 4 premiere delivered more than 2.1 million total viewers”

:flash: Meat Beat Doses the World With New Manifesto, ‘Autoimmune’ – “Today, the synth collector and sonic experimentalist is hobbled by psoriatic arthritis and, he jokes by phone, he’s “walking around like Howard Hughes.” The autoimmune disease hits you hard in the joints and digits — the worst possible places for guy who makes a living pounding on synths and sequencers.”

:flash: MEN ARE BETTER THAN WOMEN – “Are Men Better Than Women? watch! youtube.com — Well one interesting man definitely thinks so. Dick Masterson has been on a crusade to try and educate the world on why Men Are Better Than Women…” oh please.

:flash: SoapBoxxer – What’s Your Opinion? – “This site is a fun and interesting mish-mash of people’s opinions, questions, and thoughts. It’s simple to use and highly addicting, be careful!”

:flash: Pro-Tibet protesters climb Golden Gate Bridge cables – “Three demonstrators scaled cables near the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge today and unfurled banners intended to draw attention to Chinese human rights violations in Tibet.”

:flash: Home copying – burnt into teenage psyche – “for 18-24-year-olds, home copying remains more popular than file sharing. Two-thirds of people it surveyed copy five CDs a month from friends. Overall, 95% of the 1,158 people surveyed had engaged in some form of copying, including taking the music contents of a friend’s hard drive – 58% – and the more old-fashioned method of recording from the radio.”

:flash: Inkjet tattoo paper – “These decal papers enable you to use your inkjet printer to print ‘tattoos’ that look just like the real thing – from your own customised designs.”

:flash: Flickr: frenzy’s photos tagged with antarctica – amazing photos of an amazing art show in milano’s hangar biccoca.

:flash: STIFLES Product Fotos – “the stifles are 2,15 inch (5.5 cm) tall with 180° turnable heads. they are available in blind boxes (4000 in total) or in 20 boxes containers for wholesale and collectors.”

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Bernard-Henri Lévy, veteran of the French left, in the Spanish centre-right paper El Mundo, called for a boycott of the games to “save sport, honour and many lives”. Of Chinese attacks on Tibetan dissidents, he wrote: “In front of this cynicism I think that there is still time to make use of tough language.” He added: “Will Beijing never cede? Will a boycott never work? We will never know unless we try.”

[via rebel-art]

meanwhile closer to home, sonntagszeitung yesterday reported how china is trying to extend their media censorship to switzerland. DJ and tibet activist pablo lobsang was being interviewed in front of the chinese consulate for local tv station TeleBärn, when someone charged out to interrupt the interview, and shortly after the police arrived to stop the filming.

Makenoize 4 Tibet

Reporters Without Borders calls on the National Olympic Committees, the IOC, athletes, sports lovers and human rights activists to publicly express their concern about the countless violations of every fundamental freedom in China.

After Beijing was awarded the games in 2001, Harry Wu, a Chinese dissident who spent 19 years in prisons in China, said he deeply regretted that China did not have “the honour and satisfaction of hosting the Olympic Games in a democratic country.”

sign this petition

This site is dedicated to the debate about whether the 27 EU countries should take note of numerous reports about China’s human rights record – and boycott the Beijing Olympic Games, which are scheduled to begin on August 8 2008. It is sponsored by those who want a genuine debate about a boycott.

1. The human rights crackdown arising from the organisation of the Olympics goes against the very spirit of Olympism

2. In spite of explicit promises made prior to the awarding of the Games by the Chinese regime to improve the human rights, the situation has deteriorated

3. Freedoms of expression and information have worsened – journalists are being prevented from reporting the reality of what is happening in China

4. Heightened crackdown on all religious freedoms in Tibet and in mainland China

5. Genocide is currently taking place in China with the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, in Tibet and in Darfur

6. Families are being forcibly removed from their homes for the construction of the Olympic village, with no offer of compensation

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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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for what it’s worth, here’s a DJ mix i did over 9 years ago for the occasion of the 40. anniversary of china’s invasion to tibet.

free tibet mix [45:00 | 51.5 MB | 160kbps]

tracklist:

boards of canada: olson
fila brasila: throwing down a shape
boards of canada: happy cycling
lo fi allstars: bonus beats
meat beat manifesto: prime audio soup (b.o.c. remix)
hardfloor: time for sum jammin shit
double d. & steinski: it’s up to you
cornershop: candyman (rob swift remix)
q-bert: dirtstyle deluxe shampoo edition
boards of canada: aquarius
consolidated: this is fascism (lionrock remix)
freddy fresh: portion
tosca: ambient emily
emperor’s new clothes: leaders and believers (u.n.k.l.e. remix)

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free tibet

:flash: Tibet: more deaths, injuries in Lhasa as crackdown grows – the latest news blog-style.

:flash: How you can help Tibet – “The following are some of the ways you can make your voice heard to support Tibet”

:flash: Faces of the Tibet Protesters – “The fifteen Tibetans who staged the independence protest in Lhasa’s main Barkhor Square on March 10 must have known that they faced torture, arrest, and imprisonment at the hands of the occupying Chinese forces.”

:flash: Senator Obama “Condemns” China’s Use of Force in Tibet – “Senator Barack Obama is the first U.S. presidential candidate to issue a statement on China’s crackdown in Tibet (issued March 14).”

spitzer’s ho

:flash: Prostitution in a wired world – “the inner workings of modern-day sex work: text messaging to clock in the client, electronic fund transfers, a Web site featuring color photos, prices and rankings.”

:flash: ashley dupre’s mysapce page – “I am all about my music, and my music is all about me… It flows from what I’ve been through, what I’ve seen and how I feel. I live in New York and am on top of the world.” is laying under Spitzer also on top of the world, assuming they did it in the missionary position.

:flash: Spitzer’s escort: ‘I love who I am’ – “Dupre is a 22-year-old would-be singer from New Jersey, the New York Times reported Wednesday. She has not been charged with any crime.”

online video killed the … what was before again? … star

:flash: Smoke on the Yangtze – a riot. [via osymyso]

:flash: Watch Higher Quality YouTube Videos – “Watch Higher-Quality YouTube Videos The URL Hack. Add &fmt=18 to the end of a normal YouTube URL. If there’s a high quality version available, that extra string will cause it to load. ”

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:flash: Ask Jabba! – “Jabba the Hutt has decided to take an interest in the Human planet called ‘Earth’.In what little spare time the holy Hutt has, he may or may not choose to answer filthy Earth Human scum questions.” alfie’s latest project.

:flash: Congratulations of finding the worlds longest domain name – “The worlds longest domain name. You won’t find a longer domain name currently on the internet.” hmm , maybe this is not true. (see next)

:flash: The World’s Longest Domain Name – “http://www.thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com/ claims to be the world’s longest domain name. But is it? It turns out that this is a matter of definition.”

:flash: Free range workers – “A response to the similarities between many office working conditions and battery farmed hens.” [via rebel-art]

:flash: RSF | Cybermanifs – 24 hours against censorship, cyberdemonstration organised by reporters without frontiers.

:flash: Google your way to a wacky office – “If your ideal workspace includes a slide, a games room, a ‘chill-out’ aquarium and plenty of free food then you had better get your CV into Google.” report from zurich’s google office.

:flash: Control. Escape. [via] – cute.

:flash: Blog Fight! WordPress and Movable Type Square Off – “It’s the bloggers equivalent of the Mac vs. Windows flamewar — WordPress vs. Movable Type.”

:flash: The new tattoo that is sweeping the country. After the first day, 15 people had gotten it. – i admit, i did consider getting this tatoo. for a second. the moustache tatoo.

:flash: Photoshop Disasters – a blog dedicated to photoshopage, that went wrong [via swissmiss]

:flash: Net Surrealism: Paintings by Jeremiah Palecek – paintings of internet memes [via bb]

:flash: 17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You – “Have a link. Seriously: if you want bloggers to link to you, you need to have something linkable. Your upcoming TV show, protest march, product or soccer tournament is literally unbloggable unless you put it on the Web somewhere first.”

:flash: there he goes again – “He could name no instance of my “laud[ing] the appropriation of intellectual property” because that’s not my schtick. Indeed, as I repeatedly insisted in Free Culture (see pages 10, 18, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 139, 255), what others call “piracy” I was emphatically not writing to defend. Indeed, I criticized it as “wrong.”"

:flash: A Facebook Application To Find Blood Donors Fast – “But there may be a better way – leverage the social networks to get the word out. If shortages of a certain type of blood occur in a certain zip code, having a database of willing donors in that zip code to contact may be the most efficient way to solve the problem quickly.”

:flash: How a desperate father fought demons – “TWO YEARS ago, he was a high-flying IT specialist for a leading bank. Then the young Scot was introduced to a life of adventure in the magical online land of Azeroth. Today Arklore – the “virtual name” by which he wishes to be known in this story – works for a fast-food restaurant.”

:flash: Would you play a GTA MMORPG? – “Now imagine a GTA with thousands of people all trying to live the same dream. It would be a nightmare – the streets filled with joyriding maniacs, smashing Dodge Chargers through shop windows, machine gunning everyone in sight. Total anarchy.”

:flash: BD Spacy 125 – a free font dedicated to a scooter? sure, why not.

:flash: Ups, I’m a zombie – the hazards of eating nutella: “Nutella-Glas beim Stolpern über Loch nicht losgelassen. Glas kaputt, Hand dann auch. ”

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tibetan activists are using youtube to make small video statements as part of the march 10. day of activism.
demonstrations will be held all around the world, but not in switzerland …

On March 10, 1959, Tibetans took to the streets of Lhasa to actively resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Tens of thousands of Tibetans risked their lives to protect their nation and their beloved leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. They gave of themselves so that future generations could live to continue the fight and regain the freedom of Tibet.

This March 10, we will honor their memory and their sacrifice.

IT’S TIME TO TAKE MARCH 10 BACK!

Help us make 2007 the biggest March 10 observation since 1959.

i have to admit google’s explanation made some sense to me. but still. this campaign gets all my support.
an initiative of tibetwillbefree blog, that quite ironically seems to be a blogger blog…

edit: aha, there’s a hack: “Chinese web users can see full, uncensored results for their Google search by replacing “&meta=” with “&meta=cr%3DcountryBR” in the URL. Once the string is replaced, the censorship will not affect the results.” see it in action, and read it on digg.