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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."

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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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OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – Rube Goldberg Machine version – fischli/weiss-esque music video

Emission du 5 mars 2010 | nouvo.ch – nouvo est de retour sur la tv suisse romande, very nice. weekly tv show on gadgets, advertising and technology. in french.

ride, rise, roar :: – "Ride, Rise, Roar, is a David Byrne concert film that weaves intimate interviews with really great concert footage."

Tokyo/Glow – japanese short film

Pittsburgh International Airport after hours – girl having fun in an empty airport, while waiting for her flight.

Cabrini-Green – 660 W. Division Time Lapse Demolition – "Time lapse animation of the demolition of 660 W. Division, one of the last remaining buildings within the Cabrini-Green housing projects in Chicago."

I have something great to reveal! – swedish broadcast company creates "viral" to convince people to pay their fees. so why do i link to this, i hate these companies? well, i love murlocs.

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Helveticaca – "Infant one-pieces and tees available in white."

If you blog unauthorized "Daily Show" or "Colbert" clips, Viacom will sue your ass – "What a big steaming pile of epic fail." oh come on. and how about all the many times stewart and colbert quote blogs, should they sue them back?

I'm just sayin' – very cute

I miss you… Tęsknię – "These are the photographs made by me or the "I miss you…" project taking photos in places in Poland where Jews used to live.

Street View in Bergen – “When Google’s Street view came to the streets of Bergen, Norway, some locals gave it a traditional viking welcome.”

the Movie title stills collection – "I've seen a lot of movies over the years, and to prove I've sat through at least the first ten minutes of them I started making screenshots of the titles. Then my computer crashed and I almost lost them all. To save them for future generations I created this little website." presistence makes project.

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Papierkrieg – imagination knows no limits in this german animation project.

A Babelgum Original: Banksy Vs. Robbo – video documenting the "war" between team robbo and banksy, this conflict does raise some interesting question about the dircetion banksy has been taking. but! zes queenz should get a hotel room…

Keynote: Bruce Sterling (us) on Atemporality – "If progress is to go beyond the banal indulgences that give rise to a never-ending array of car shell designs then we need to analyse our present time with regard to its aesthetics and its media. The second conference session is being introduced with Bruce Sterling's Keynote on Atemporality." snide as usual, but just as brilliant.

Roy Ayers- Can't You See Me? – one of the greatest feel-good tracks evar. has saved my life a few times already. and counting.

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This Just In: Not All World of Warcraft Players Are Deadbeats – "You there, sitting on the couch in your parent's basement, next to the Doritos, playing World of Warcraft for hours on end. Yes, YOU! What have you done to better mankind lately? More than 200,000 of your kind just donated $1.11 million to charity." i did buy that pet, yet i am still a deadbeat.

How and Why BitTorrent Works, a Visualization – "Millions of people use BitTorrent to share files every day, but only a small percentage actually understand how BitTorrent works and appreciate why it is such an efficient way to share large files. A simplified but insightful visualization helps to shed some light on the inner workings of the BitTorrent client."

Bovine Bombing – "Ron English and his crew found a new canvas for street art in south Texas, cows!"

naughty shop challenge – "Go into a shop and rearrange objects to make it say something naughty. Take a photo." lolololol

Full IN THE LOOP Screenplay Now Online – With a Special Note from Armando Iannucci – IN THE LOOP is a truely fantasic film, the whole screenplay is available to download here.

Google Buzz Trick – “Try this at home… And we wanna see it.”

Glasnost: Test if your ISP is manipulating BitTorrent traffic – "Glasnost creates a BitTorrent-like transfer between your machine and our server, and determines whether or not your ISP is limiting such traffic. This is a first step towards making traffic manipulation by ISPs more transparent to their customers."

Wi-Fi Turns Arizona Bus Ride Into a Rolling Study Hall – "Wi-Fi access has transformed what was often a boisterous bus ride into a rolling study hall, and behavioral problems have virtually disappeared. “It’s made a big difference,” said J. J. Johnson, the bus’s driver. “Boys aren’t hitting each other, girls are busy, and there’s not so much jumping around.”"

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Christopher Poole – Moot / 4chan – TED lecture – Feb 11th, 2010 – "He obviously didn't pronounce "Meme" right. Damn you Americans and your distortion of the English language." a talk about cats and shit.

Embrace Life – always wear your seat belt – "An original approach to road safety advertising from the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership" [via b3ta]

T-SHIRT WAR!! (stop-motion music video) – it took 222 tshirts to make this stopmotion animation.

Computer Bug – no animals were hurt during the making of this video

TICKLEFIGHT of Boulderfist wiping on Freya +3 – "Itsari GM of TICKLEFIGHT rages as his guild wipes on Freya +3" a raidleader losing it during a world of warcraft raid.

U900 -Diamond Head – cute as fuck japanese crotcheted creature stopmotion animation.

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Google vs. Apple – GigaOM – don't be evil vs. think different

Operation Titstorm | internet censorship – "They are protesting against forthcoming internet filtering legislation and the perceived censorship in pornography of small-breasted women (who are thought to be under age) and female ejaculation." erm… not sure what to make of this.

flattr – "We aim to revolutionize how people pay and get paid for content on the internet." the cool paypal?

Glitch – "What is Glitch? Glitch is a massively-multiplayer game, playable in the browser and built in the spirit of the web. It is currently in development and will launch late in 2010." choose me for beta-tester, bitches!

Chatroulette! – potentially nsfw, as in people masturbating, and potentially abusive.

The iPhone is the new Internet Explorer 6, says mobile developer – "Peter-Paul Koch, a "mobile platform strategist, consultant and trainer" who says (with plenty of swearing to boot, if you're in filter territory) that the iPhone is the Internet Explorer 6 de nos jours."

Record Tripping – A Bell Brothers Game – turntablist flash browser game.

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La Puerta – A stop motion animation by Limow and Sam3 – kinda love the sound, even if its hard to listen to.

Exclusive unseen video footage of the Miracle on the Hudson, flight 1549 New York City – "Exclusive unseen time lapse video footage of the Miracle on the Hudson, US Airways flight 1549 as it is struggling to stay afloat and avoid the barrage of an ice attack."

exit through the gift shop – a banksy film, duration: 85 minutes, premiering at sundance soon.

Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany – "Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war."

Karen Finley's *very* NSFW "Tales of Taboo" – "NSFW. Listen with headphones. Trust me." potty mouth finley.

One Frame of Fame – Got a webcam? Help us finish off our music video! – “We need a little help from you and your webcam to finish off the music video for our new single ‘More is Less’.”

death metal rooster meets furiously pecking parrot – after death metal here’s bird metal

sleeveface – How to Sleeveface. just that.

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Thank you parking notes! – collection of notes people leave on other people's cars.

Wu Tang Vs The Beatles – "Wu Tang acapellas over beats made with samples of Beatles songs. Produced by Tom Caruana http://www.teasearecords.net"; some work surprisingly well.

Lost? Catch up in 10 minutes – "In case you haven’t followed last few seasons’ plot, or you didn’t understand it, or it didn’t in fact exist, the Reduced Shakespeare Company has boiled down the previous 103 hours of the television series into less than 10 minutes and will be performing the show to a live audience in Covent Garden onJanuary 28." wouldnt mind seeing that, because, wait, wasn’t there an icebear?

Joseph Ducreux / Archaic Rap – "On the interweb, his eccentric self-portrait has inspired a series of exploitable macros, featuring “archaic reinterpretation” of popular rap lyrics superimposed over the artwork." joseph ducreux, 18th century french painter, turned into a 4chan internet meme.

fucking snow – mildly nsfw, well, maybe in china.

breakfast floss set – "Wake up late? No time for breakfast or oral hygiene? Boy, do we have a fix-it for you…" bacon flavored floss…

Former boyfriend used Craigslist to arrange woman's rape – "A Wyoming man is accused of posing online as his former girlfriend and soliciting someone to act out a violent sexual fantasy."

Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues – “James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.”

Perp caught through World of Warcraft Boing Boing – “Indiana cops caught a fugitive by getting Blizzard to turn over the IP address from which he was playing World of Warcraft.”

What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google – "This shows Google’s remarkable power as a source of data on a range of human behaviors, emotions, and opinions. It gives us insights into what people might care the most about concerning a given topic."

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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]

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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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strictly kev’s yearly kraftwerk mix

Kraftwerk Kover Kollection Volume 6 by DJ Food – SoundCloud – “I do these hour long mixes every year or so featuring cover versions, sample-heavy tracks or songs that obviously owe a debt to the Dusseldorf quartet. Each mix is laced with spoken word, interviews or info about Kraftwerk too. I had the idea several years ago and the more I dug, the more I found, the amount of material out there is mind boggling. Not so strange for such an influential band who rarely release new material I suppose, fans have to fill the gap somehow. For anyone wanting to play catch-up, the first 5 volumes are also available at:”

Strictly Kev – Kev’s Kraftwerk Kover Kollection 1-6 – “Thankfully, that’s where Strictly Kev (aka DJ Food) comes in. A true fan of all things Kraftwerk, Strictly Kev has built a large collection of cover versions over the years which walk a fine line between sublime homage and downright absurdity.”

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The Definitive List of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Cover Songs on the Internet – "From clarinets to Christmas lights, these cover songs collected from across the web pay the ultimate tribute to the ultimate song — the one that everyone (and yet no one) knows the words to." gotta love the 2 guys lipsynching it.

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody – roflcopter

Video: man in Japan weds anime game character – "On Sunday, a man named Sal9000 married the love of his life. Her name is Nene Anegasaki, and she lives inside of a Nintendo DS video game called Love Plus."

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Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free. – funny email exchange with a client/friend expecting a favor. [via b3ta]

Lawyers target thousands of 'illegal' file-sharers – "Around 15,000 suspected pirates may soon get legal letters accusing them of illegally sharing movies and games."

Mr. Bounce – "Neon colors, ball physics, crazy music and highly enjoyable game play – what else do you need? Mr. Bounce adds new ingredients to the classic formula “Avoid missing ball for high score”" exists also for the iphone/ipod.

Autocomplete Me – "Remember that time you were innocently searching for “how to avoid swine flu” but Google assumed you were searching for “how to avenge your brother’s death”? Yeah, that totally wasn’t what you were searching for, but it ended up being super helpful after your best friend “accidentally” stabbed Michael." some fantastic google bombs for lols.

World Cup TV coverage banned by Kim Jong-il (unless North Korea win) – "Kim Jong-il, the Supreme Leader of North Korea, has banned all live coverage of World Cup football matches from his state-run television stations and only highlights of North Korea’s victories will be broadcast." what a twat.

Inside the Michelle Obama image fight: why Google won't tweak results – "We apologise if you've had an upsetting experience using Google. We hope you understand our position regarding offensive results." wait, is this really the best they can come up with?

Swedes start buying music; are anti-P2P laws working? – "Digital music sales in piracy-loving Sweden have soared this year. The music industry says that it's all about tough new laws and court prosecutions, but some major labels are seeing worldwide increases." oh ffs, the swedes again. we had the same thing happening with drugs, porn, prostitutes, now with p2p filesahring. first they are too liberal then get too restrictive.

Ideas vs… – "A picture is worth a thousand words…" it is.

Adios, Red Bull? Anti-energy drinks seek to soothe frazzled Americans – "Promising a "vacation in a bottle" or an "acupuncture session in every can," makers of anti-energy drinks, as they're known, say that after bailouts, foreclosures and Ponzi schemes, Americans nowadays would rather chill out than tweak out. To help us do so, they're spiking their new beverages with ingredients such as chamomile, melatonin, and valerian root — all known for their supposed calming effects."

What Would 'Seinfeld' Be Like If It Came Back Today? – "What if 'Seinfeld' actually came back on the air with new episodes? (Jerry Seinfeld has made it pretty clear that this will not happen.) But what if it did?"

World of Warcraft Quests Remain Compelling, 5 Years On – "After five years, it’s hard to imagine a world without World of Warcraft. Released Nov. 23, 2004, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game has set the standard for the genre."

Redhead 12-year-old assaulted over Facebook message citing South Park episode? – "The boy was kicked and hit in two separate incidents (…) by as many as 14 of his classmates." The attack followed a Facebook message promoting that date as Kick a Ginger Day." oh boy, not the G.I.N.G.E.R.

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Little Kid does worlds best Batman Spoof – "This little kid gets a Batman costume for Halloween and has way to much fun, See why in the video!" his mum probably skipped a day of giving him his ritalin. [via b3ta]

FLAIRS – TRUCKERS DELIGHT – "Truckers Delight animated video clip directed by newcomer wunderkid Jérémie Périn who takes the song's title (a tribute to those little pleasures that the lonely truck- driver indulges himself in) and takes it to the next level." sexist, offensive, but very well done animation.

Hand thierry henry ireland french 2010 football world champion ship – i hate you, thierry henry! leave barca, get out of my life.

act now – "frame by frame 2D animation to the subject of change climate change" this video was made by my friend karen from hamburg for the raise your voice youtube contest.

Youth Soccer Goalie Scores on her own Team!!! – cute.

Unusual Stop Motion: Videogame – stop motion video that reinvents the medium and could almost be performed analogue.

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Life on Mars star's turn in Marks & Spencer ad attacked over 'sexism' – "Life on Mars actor Philip Glenister's spot in Marks & Spencer's Christmas TV campaign has been accused of being sexist toward women." orily?

Queen: We sank the Armada, we can sink some P2P pirates! – "The Queen opened the UK parliamentary session yesterday and announced that an Internet disconnection bill would be coming soon. But will it actually be legal?" orily?

Listen to ‘World’s First Twitter Album’ – "Anyone with half a brain can put a song onto Twitter by pasting in the URL for a song. For some, that isn’t enough — they figured out how to paste entire songs into the 140-character Twitter window." yarily.

warp20 (elemental) – sorry, warp, you fail to deliver my goods, i am forced to search the interweb to finally hear the music i ordered months and months ago. this osymyso mix is fantastic stuff!!!

Pets love 'em…. – “Annoying cut out 'n' stick eyes for pets.”

Clients From Hell – "A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers." we all know some anecdotes like these…

Pirate Bay Retires World’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker – "Operators of The Pirate Bay shuttered the site’s BitTorrent tracker on Tuesday, six years after it was founded. Trackers — the servers that bootstrap each BitTorrent download — are no longer necessary with enhancements like DHT and PEX that allow peers to locate one another without accessing a central server, site operators wrote in the Bay’s blog."

NERD THRONE. – "NERD THRONE. This 7-foot tall chair is made entirely of Japanese Famicom (Nintendo) cartridges."

heffer pitcher – "An utterly irresistible and modern gift, both on the giving and receiving ends." didnt they mean to say udderly.

Banned Xboxs flood online marketplaces – "Over the past week Microsoft has banned nearly one million users from the online gaming service after finding that they had modified their consoles to play pirated games. Since the ban is connected to the console rather than a gamer's online account, many modified Xboxs have appeared online being sold by banned users." do not buy an xbox! ok ok, i mean on ebay.

Video Game Requires Kissing – "The DS has a mic and a touchscreen, so… one time, she asked me to say "I love you" a hundred times into the mic. I was on the airplane when she asked me that, so I was like, no way."

Me and Belle de Jour – ‘Could it be Brooke?’ – "A couple of months went past, and after Belle de Jour won the award for Best Written Blog from the Guardian and the whole BdJ phenomenon kicked off, I had my eureka moment – I was sitting on the tube one morning and suddenly thought: ‘Could it be Brooke?’"

I’m Belle de Jour – "Finally the anonymous sex blogger from Diary of a London Call Girl comes clean to The Sunday Times. She's Dr Brooke Magnanti"

Why Are Eggs Harder to Peel? – "The reason why might surprise you -older eggs are easier to peel, and the eggs we eat are fresher than ever! As an egg ages, it loses both moisture and carbon dioxide, which causes the air bubble between the shell and the membrane to get bigger." this is why i love neatorama, i often wondered about this.

The History of the Internet in a Nutshell – “Here’s a brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, projects, sites, and other information that should give you at least a partial picture of what this thing we call the Internet really is, and where it came from.”

Wife posed as girl in online trap – "A suspicious wife posed as a teenager online to catch her husband propositioning girls in a chatroom, Cardiff Crown Court has heard." sucks to be him. and her!

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Indian Beatles – "Some kinda weird bollywood beatles clones." a bit over-enthusiastic, maybe. [via b3ta]

'The Golden Age of Video' by Ricardo Autobahn – "'The Golden Age Of Video' is a promotional device for the forthcoming untitled Ricardo Autobahn album."

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A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families – "Hence, a survey. I asked fellow parents to donate their children for a few minutes, and name a selection of Lego pieces culled from the Lego parts store." i wonder if it the same differences exist in germanspeaking legoplaying families. [via b3ta]

Big Ben (big_ben_clock) on Twitter – "BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG – about 1 hour ago from API" ;P

Why do we have an IMG element? – "On February 25, 1993, Marc Andreessen wrote: I’d like to propose a new, optional HTML tag: IMG Required argument is SRC="url"." that’s how. the answer to why is, because we like pretty pictures of kittens.

Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really) – "The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine to add additional safety features. Now, a bird dropping a piece of bread on a section of the accelerator has, according to the Register, shut down the whole operation." one bird and a piece of bread can do that? we are soooo doomed. black hole incoming.

low gravity fail – cute astronaut animation.

The Twitter Times – "The Twitter Times is a real-time personalized newspaper generated from your Twitter account" sort of interesting.

Wu-Note Project – wu-tang clan covers redone as if they were blue note sleeves.

Scientists perform sex change operation on papaya – "Researchers help frustrated farmers by simplifying the complex sex life of this succulent fruit." wait a minute, fruit have sex organs? no way not to remember that next time i eat my daily apple.

Comedy Central orders the Onion TV pilot – "Comedy Central is teaming with satirical newspaper the Onion for a half-hour scripted comedy." sounds like a plan good for a few laughs.

Kerixep – very simple, very nice flash puzzle game, level 26 was toughest for me…

EMI Sues BlueBeat for Selling Beatles Tunes Online – "The entire catalog of stereo Beatles albums will soon be legitimately available in digital, albeit physical, form. Apple Corp. and EMI announced the pre-order availability of 30,000 16-GB Apple-shaped USB drives containing 14 albums in lossless 24-bit FLAC (better than CD quality) and 320 Kbps MP3 formats, 13 short documentary films about the albums, album art, “rare photos” and expanded liner notes, all accessible directly or through a Flash player that automatically loads on Macs and PCs. It’s quite a statement — especially the 24-bit depth of the lossless files, which allows more gradations between volume levels than standard 16-bit (CD-quality) audio files. The only catch — they cost $280. EMI and Apple Corp. plan to release the drives on Dec. 8." when beatles joins the digital “revolution”. i quite like the dongle idea.

anyone gotta bone for Paris? – they both go, yapp yapp yapp yapp yapp yapp…

World of Warcraft ordered to shut down in China again – "A Chinese government agency, the General Administration of Press and Publication, has once again revoked the permit required to operate the game." gold farmers should be happy about this.

Dutch hacker holds jailbroken iPhones "hostage" for €5 (Updated) – "One Dutch hacker managed to find and hack into jailbroken iPhones, though it seems the hacker was more interested in a few euros than malicious ends. However, the incident is another reminder that users of jailbroken iPhones need to be more vigilant about security." cheeky cunt.

Halloween 2009: Making Mario – "They returned home and one mustache later, the Mario brothers were cavorting on the front lawn." i resisted to post any halloween stuff, till luigi and mario were just too adorable.

swiss focus

Einladung zur Piratenversammlung vom 05. Dezember 2009 in Bern | Piratenpartei Schweiz – "Am 5. Dezember findet in Bern die erste ordentliche Piratenversammlung (PV) der Piratenpartei Schweiz statt. "

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my wife did it

Theater Basel – Jekyll und Hyde – my beautiful partner did the backdrop animations for this theater project in basel.

here’s the schedule:
JEKYLL UND HYDE – stückinformation

and an unreadable review in baseldiitsch just for the lulz:

Claude Bühler – Premiere am Theater Basel – unreadable. swissgerman. outch.

recipe of the week [in german, sorry - l2usegoogletranslate]

Gâteau au raisiné Saft Kuchen aus der Romandie – c’est magnifique!

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Вивальди "времена года",Лето-3часть – ze russian accordeon boy genius. gotta love the headbump.

Cartman Covers Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" – "Cartman singing "Poker Face" over a montage of Stan fighting Japanese whalers." the whale sorry whole episode is great, of course, but this you must watch.

Flintstones in Stop Motion. – "We did this stop motion sequence for Cartoon Network's "Flintstones: On the Rocks" a few of years ago. There have been a number of requests that we post this….Click on the image to watch." winnnrarrrrr!

Jon Stewart on McCain's Anti-Net-Neutrality Bill – "Try as I might, I never quite understood the net neutrality debate. All I knew was nerds cared very deeply about it, so I assumed it had something to do with Cheeto taxes or Real Doll tariffs. But on last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart broke it down into simple terms even a touched halfwit like me can understand." public service. and the website he mentions actually does exist! pro.

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World of Warcraft and Philsophy – "Continuing with the ongoing Popular Culture and Philosophy series, World of Warcraft and Philosophy, (Wrath of the Philosopher King) will be hitting bookshelves on November 1st. This collection of essays and short fiction addresses the ethics, economics, and metaphysics of Azeroth and its inhabitants." i ordered this (along with my next game card … o.O.)

Google Wave as an RPG environment – "Ars Technica reports on the nascent Google Wave RPG scene, in which wavesters are amusing themselves by using Google's collaboration tool s a surprisingly effective (for some games) means of keeping track of the action in game"

Motorola Droid – want! finally! smokes the iphone on so many levels. and even the design is growing on me.

Innovation in Open Networks – Creative Commons, the Next Layer of Openness – "A few months ago, McKinsey & Co. asked me to write an article for their online magazine What Matters. The edited article, "Creative Commons: Enabling the next level of innovation" was just posted to their site. Following is the unedited original version." joi does not say a word, but was he unhappy with the edits? maybe?

URBAN CURSOR – "Urban Cursor is a GPS enabled object designed to facilitate social interaction and play in public space."

No Need To UNplug – "It’s not that people are reckless or unconcerned about the environment, but sometimes simple and easy things like this becomes too much of an effort."

Explain DRM to Your Dad – "Then you have your loved ones caught in the middle of a growing debate. How do you explain to your dad why he can't play that music file? " does it work with mums?

Internet addresses set for change – "The internet regulator has approved plans to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, in a move that is set to transform the online world."

Neue Arbeiten von SpY – “I updated my website with new interventions in Madrid, NYC, Rotterdam, Bilbao… this summer I was in NYC and I worked a bit on the streets … I Hope you like it!” we do we do.

Lord Mandelson to ban illegal filesharers – "Lord Mandelson will today set out plans to ban computer users who illegally download music and videos from the internet." and next he’ll announce his marriage to … uhm which pop star? … boy george? like sarkosy and bruni, erm. farfetched? i think not!

Felice Varini's town-sized illusion – "The buildings in the town of Vercorin in the Swiss Alps contribute to an impressive piece by Felice Varini, called Cercle et suite d'éclats. The pattern was projected on the town from the vantage point, then traced and painted."

Scareware launched from tech blog – "Visitors to technology blog Gizmodo are being warned that they could have picked up more than tips about the latest must-have gadget." endgadget is probably having a field day.

Chamber Sues the Yes Men – "The Chamber of Commerce is suing the Yes Men over the parody press conference the group pulled off last week." oh, come on.

Facebook users protest over news feed – "1,175,000 Facebookers have joined the group "Change Facebook back to normal!!", and this is not the only discussion board. "Please give us our old news feed back!" boasts 530,000 member by now. And they still grow. Fast." i joined.

Cybercrooks Trick Gawker Into Serving Malware-Laced Ad – "Remember when the global economic crisis was supposed to drive legions of desperate, unemployed computer programmers into cybercrime? It turns out the real threat comes from unemployed advertising agents."

Tobold's MMORPG Blog: Facebook games: Scam or useful tool? – mmo player analyzes facebook.

Average Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World – infographic.

Crack & Shine: London's graffiti scene – ""Graffiti is .. a controversial subject dividing opinion and rousing powerful debate, yet almost nothing is known about the true motivations and inspirations of the artists themselves. This book offers an exclusive insight into this thriving, contemporary sub-culture,” writes Isobel Evans in the introduction to the new book, Crack and Shine." book.

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The YES dance – "How to YES." zes queenz…

New Video of the NYSAT – Public Ad Campaign’s New York Street Advertising – the video.

Incredible Time-Lapse Graffiti by Blu and David Ellis – "A masterpiece of a collaboration between Bologna-based street artist and stop-motion painter Blu, and painter, film-maker and music performer David Ellis, COMBO is mesmerising, hands-on time lapse street art the like of which you might not have seen before." i almost fainted so good.

Fight on SF Muni Bus in Chinatown – SFist – "Just another day on Muni… fuc**ng Muni," relents the cameraman shooting this video of a fight between two women on a Chinatown Muni bus.” well, he’s the cunt.

Road Safety: Bleeding Billboard – road sign campaign in new zealand uses bleeding billboards for safer driving. i am not so sure this ain’t a distraction.

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Please be patient – This Page is Under Construction! – a collection of "under construction" gifs. [bia b3ta]

Stop Making That Duckface! – "you know that face you make when you're about to take that perfect shot of yourself for myspace? you know, the one where you push your mouth out in that weird combination of a pout and a kissy face make it look like you've got big pouty lips and model-quality cheekbones? it's called "duckface" a worthy mission. or is it? [via b3ta]

They Shoot Porn Stars Don't They . Words & photos by Susannah Breslin – i just might read this.

Drawings on paper towel von Marc Johns – very inspiring.

Polanski 'finishing film in jail' – "Director Roman Polanski is finishing his latest film from jail, according to screenwriter Robert Harris." as you would. and now he is in hospital, i just read.

Bern Design Award 2009 for BD – "We are happy to announce that this years “Berner Design Preis 2009″ from “Bernische Stiftung für angewandte Kunst und Gestaltung” is ours." gratz! i love these guys, they share the price with an upcoming talented graphic design collective.

The Internet is about to die. Literally die! – "One research group continues to claim that the "sky is falling" on the Internet thanks to high data growth rates and that network neutrality means the whole Internet could just "go away." Ars sifts through the hyperbole looking for a kernel of truth." lies.

Peer-to-Peer Passé, Report Finds – "Peer-to-peer file sharing has been the bogeyman of the internet, but a new report suggests it’s destined become a fear of the past — replaced by cheap streaming video." and boy, is that better for bandwidth…

Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right – "Finland's Ministry of Transport and Communications has made 1-megabit broadband Web access a legal right … every person in Finland (a little over 5 million people, according to a 2009 estimate) will have the right of access to a 1Mb broadband connection starting in July"

Skywave Systems | abocmix – a pretty brilliant boards of canada mix.

World's most beautiful object…officially – “The Gyrofocus, designed by the award-winning contemporary fireplace maker Focus, has been named as the World's Most Beautiful Object for the 2008-2009 Pulchra design competition.” want!

'Veggie' spider shuns meat diet – "It is the first-known predominantly vegetarian spider; all of the other known 40,000 spider species are thought to be mainly carnivorous." vegetarian but as ugly as ever.

Five great new browser games to discover – "Anyway, here's a selection of newcomers, all worth a look – while the boss isn't watching, of course…"

Anti-Pirates Scare Kids with Propagandistic Comic Book – "The Motion Picture Association has sent one of its big shot lobbyists to New Zealand to advocate tougher anti-piracy legislation, and to promote a propagandistic comic book set be handed out to thousands of local kids."

Barbie Is Turning 50! – “ChatterBox Arts International presents the San Francisco 7th Annual Altered Barbie Exhibit taking place at Shotwell 50 Studios. Happy 50th Birthday Barbie!” introducing, barbie art.

Girl's death posted on Facebook – "DETAILS of a car crash in which a teenage girl died have been posted on the Facebook social networking site before the her family was informed."

Why France Telecom employees are killing themselves – “In their suicide notes, some of the 24 victims since February 2008 blame the workplace climate.”

Nasty Old People – "get the movie! The movie is released with a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License."

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Post-It Note Atari – "Stop motion animation of Atari games using Post-It Notes"

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BoingBoing s Redesign Uncovers the Dark Side of Web Fonts – "Culture news site Boing Boing recently tried a daring experiment — redesign its immensely popular website using some largely untested tools of the open web. Unfortunately for Boing Boing, its ambitious plan resulted in a small disaster."

Nicolas "Copyright" Sarkozy mass-pirates DVDs – "The same French president who has for the second time brought in three strikes to France has for the second time been caught infringing copyright on a large scale. The presidential audiovisual services have produced 400 unauthorized copies of the 52-minute documentary 'A visage decouvert: Nicolas Sarkozy.' This is quite impressive as the producer of the documentary has only shipped 50 copies."

Beck Tries to Kill Parody Website : Dispatches from the Culture Wars – "I don't know if you've ever seen the Did Glenn Beck Rape and Murder a Young Girl in 1990 website, but it's fairly amusing. It's a political satire of the style of argument Glenn Beck likes to engage in, which involves requiring that someone prove a negative"

Annual campaign kickoff — CC remix T-shirt by Shepard Fairey! – "Today marks the launch of Creative Commons’ 5th Annual Fundraising Campaign. This year, more than ever before, it is vital that we all support choice and sharing online."

Best Riot Picture Ever !! – "A farmer sprayed milk on policemen during a protest against falling milk prices outside the E.U.’s headquarters in Brussels" from comments: "Udderly ridiculous"

Yoga above the clouds on Flickr – "Yep, no editing here. Just some wicked jump from RC and Mike, really good timing, and a great background to go with it. "

Public Enemy asking fans to raise $250,000 to help record new album – "Public Enemy are asking fans to help fund the recording of their next album. The rap collective have signed a deal with fan funding engine SellaBand, and are aiming to raise $250,000 in increments of $25 in order to record and release the as-yet-untitled album."

the top 8 of 2008 ceo compensation – "GOOD's executive compensation infographic shows the compensation levels of the business world's top execs, with the number of minimum wage earners each super-suit's take-home pay would support."

The Pirate Bay Relocates to a Nuclear Bunker – "The Pirate Bay is going on a road trip through Europe, one they hope to end today in a former NATO bunker. After a move from Sweden to the Ukraine, The Pirate Bay has now arrived at CyberBunker, an ISP that can provide them with a facility that can resist a nuclear attack as well as electromagnetic pulse bombs."

Anarchist arrested after tweeting out the fuzz to protesters – "If you're the subversive type, you might want to reconsider tweeting the revolution. One Twitter user has been arrested and had his home raided after he allegedly used the service to help others commit crimes, though he may have just been directing them to be cautious during their protests."

Alcohol Abstainers at Higher Risk of Depression – "A study of 38,000 Norwegians suggests a surprising benefit of alcohol for people who drink: an apparently lower risk of depression than people who abstain completely"

Charts to Help You Succeed in Online Dating – "If you're investing your time and money on an online dating service and want to increase your chances of getting a reply from someone you're interested in, don't tell them they're "hot." Instead, tell them you dig zombie movies."

New rules to end 'blogger payola' – "US regulators will for the first time crack down on bloggers who fail to disclose fees or freebies they get from companies for reviewing products." time to find a new job, kottke et al.

England match to be internet only – "England's World Cup qualifier in Ukraine on Saturday will be shown exclusively live to subscribers on the internet who will pay at least £4.99." this scares me

Punkanimals 2 – Worth1000 Contests – blatantly stolen form our http://web-laun.ch/microz/monkeypunx/

Herakut & Style and the Family Tunes on Vimeo – "08-10-009 Schönhauser Allee 8 Livepainting + more…. " Herakut live painting in berlin this week.

“Nothing But”: Outdoor-Gruppenausstellung in Berlin / UPDATE – "llegale Adbusting-Gruppenausstellung in Berlin – und zwar in Form von Citylight-Postern zwischen Neukölln und Mitte." illegal adbusting exhibit in berlin, some very impressive ideas.

(Still_Available) – romanpolanski.ch is, or at least was until very recently, still available. [via rebel:art]

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28 Days Later, in one minute, in one take. – one of them "in one take" videos with a b3ta twist. for more of these see bellow.

Babelgum: Bomb It – The Movie – "Featuring street artists and top graffiti writers from five continents, Bomb It – The Movie updates the story of graffiti with a truly international perspective." watched the whole thing. well done. where’s banksy?

new time vid :: diplomacy – let iran "win", says ze frank.

Skateboarders play human Tetris – "What better way to show off your skateboard line-up than have skaters pelt down a San Francisco slope carrying giant, neon Tetris pieces, all slotting perfectly into place?"

Robin Cooper & family v The Telemarketer – “Telemarketers are constantly calling me at home, so a few months ago I decided to get my own back. When a guy called from some satellite TV sort of company thingy (it’s always so vague) I had a bit of fun. Hope you like…” in fact he wrote a short screenplay featuring 4 family members. excellent!

the c bump – "stephen colbert ( silent "t" ) mashed up into a song about, what else, sugar!!!"

7 Most Amazing One-Take Video Clips – "What is it about one-take video clips that capture our imaginations? Perhaps it's because we've become so cynical about video editings that the pure, raw form of a single, uninterrupted shot truly stands out."

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Jennifer, will you marry me? A marriage proposal on telephone poles turns sour – "A mystery woman called Jennifer has become the talk of the town in Bigola, NSW, Australia, after a series of signs appeared on telephone poles along Barrenjoey Rd, the busiest road in the area… " is this pure evil? [via b3ta]

IT Crowd and Peep Show get new series orders – "The new series is set to air next year." imba!

Getting Over It – "What does rape do to you? Afterward? It changed me; there is before and after. Before, a child, playing with Barbies, looking sideways at boys, wondering. After, confusion. Depression. A litany of fuck-ups and fuck-its, whatevers, mistakes, trusting no one, least of all myself. Before, sex was mysterious; after, miasma. I was tarred as a Lolita. I was called jail bait." food for thought regarding this whole polanski mess.

Twitter's Gangster Spam Trap – "Twitter’s innocuous-looking mobster game has turned the micro-messaging service into an unstoppable spam service. And just like the real Mafia, once you join, you can never get out."

MeeHive: About – "MeeHive is your personal newspaper that brings you the latest about what's happening in your world."

New Apps Promise to Find the News in All the News – "The good news is that there are a lot of news sources from which to choose. The bad news: There are a lot of news sources to monitor."

FUCK YOU Cookie – Performance – "Each website installs cookies on the computers of their website users. They cavort to hundreds on every computer, too often without knowing it by the owners. It`s so easy to generate a cookie just to place it unnoticed afterwards. Therefore we have a website, solely for this purpose, programmed. The value of our cookies, as well as the name is set to "FUCK YOU"."

FUCK YOU COOKIE – "FUCK YOU COOKIES FOR FREE You have just get the official "FUCK YOU" cookie! It is the most beautiful cookie ever, and now it is yours! Send this URL simply to all your friends, so that they can get a free "FUCK YOU" cookie, too!"

Links in Print: The Story of a Beautiful Failure – "In January 2009 we were invited to take part in a paid pitch for the print redesign for the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. All in all five agencies took part in the pitch. We were the only UX oriented agency. The story of a beautiful failure." i agree, more stories like these would be great.

The Emoticon t-shirt that projects your mood – "The ThumbsUp Emoticon T-shirt features four different emoticons and can be changed according to your mood. To change your expression, you simply press the front of the light-up panel on the T-shirt."

Express yourself with a designer barcode – "QR codes – the two-dimensional barcodes that link printed graphics to websites via your web-enabled phone – are becoming artworks in their own right. The codes can contain thousands of characters within their grid. If the amount of data to be conveyed is small, that leaves space free to add images."

Say Oktoberfest-related Phrases in German – "Heading to Oktoberfest? Make sure to brush up on your German and Bavarian slang before you go. Study up, and you'll always know where to find the Heisl, or what to do when invited to play a round of Fingahackln." oh the strange fascination with octoberfest… they even had pretzel and sauerkraut howto recipes on wired this week, eewww…

Polanski notes leaked on to net – "The Associated Press (AP) news agency has accidentally published internal notes about the arrest of film director Roman Polanski instead of a story." and yet again, it's so embarassing to be swiss these days. i mean if he did rape that girl, yes, he is a pig and deserves to get arrested. but why now? and why in switzerland, after so many years that he has been vacationing in gstaad? why in the context of switzerland under pressure by the US regarding other issues (UBS bank)? and why arrest him when he is here to attend the zurich film festival and not when shopping in gstaad?

Sexploitation for the Ears – "Listen to it here. Playlist is after the jump."

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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.

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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."

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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.

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Raygun – 4Play Promo [01.August.2009] [1/2] – "Could this be the most pretentious band interview ever? Certainly up there.", says b3ta, and we agree.

Robots from Mars!!! (Act 1) – "this is a the sequel to Did Somebody Put Sugar in My Tea, and the test pilot for the upcoming trilogy, Robots from Mars!!!" some nice toy robot stop-motion in this video by thepartyparty, known for his gw bush mashups.

Pure Pwnage special announcement – "Jeremy and Kyle from Pure Pwnage have a special announcement." teh tv show.

Mattress Dominoes World Record Attempt – "Watch us attempt to set the World Record for Mattress Dominoes" its a bloody commercial, k? but quite fun.

Evian Roller Babies – and another commercial, but fun.

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How is America going to end? The apocalypse you chose. – "The most popular scenario—"Loose Nukes," chosen by 10.5 percent of Slate readers—combines modern and old-fashioned anxieties." i chose “robot uprising”. or is that wishful thinking?

Report: Jensen Beach man claims cat downloaded child porn – "Martin County Sheriff’s detectives didn’t buy a 48-year-old Jensen Beach man claim that his cat was downloading child pornography on his computer." what a naughty kitty! or: is “my cat did it” the new “jesus made me do it”?

I'll die before the endgame, says Terry Pratchett in call for law to allow assisted suicides in UK – "We are being stupid. We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still." i do believe anyone should be allowed to make up their own mind, i could not do it tho.

Rejected By Apple, iPhone Developers Go Underground – "some developers aren’t taking the rejection lying down: They’re turning instead to an unauthorized app store called Cydia, where forbidden wares continue to exist — and even earn developers some money." logical.

Peeing in the shower: the rules – "Remember, you may be weeing in the shower, but there's no need to be rude." brits and body fluids, *sigh!!! if you be in your own shower that is rude to who?

2 Wheels, 2000 Bees – "a swarm of bees gathering under a bike seat at Coco's Variety in Silverlake." bees humping a bicycle seat.

Malicious ATM Catches Hackers – "A malicious ATM kiosk was positioned in the conference center of the Riviera Hotel Casino capturing data from an unknown number of hackers attending the DefCon hacker conference before someone noticed something suspicious about the kiosk." pwned?

Is a Psychopath Attacking Twitter, Facebook? – "Thursday’s denial of service attacks on Twitter and Facebook, and the ones that flooded non-critical U.S. government sites several weeks ago share a very interesting common denominator, according to a senior security researcher at Cisco.
They don’t make any sense." its a psycho in ze interwebs! run!

Sexting 'absolutely mortified me' – "A worrying number of teenagers are swapping or being bullied into "sexting" or sending intimate photos on their mobiles, police and a children's charity have warned." and why can only teens sext??? ffs

How Different Groups Spend Their Day – "The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008." and it looks … like an appendix. sorta.

Why Slow Sex is Better – "You're fit—and strong. And when it comes to bedding your girl, you nail it fast and hard, just the way she likes it. Problem is, it's not the way she LOVES it." my girl likes it fast and hard. or does she?

Student Invents Bicycle Which Folds Into 26-Inch Wheel Circumference – "A student has designed a bike which can be folded completely into the space of the wheel's 26in circumference." now we are talking.

Digg Bans Laughing Squid Without Warning or Specific Reason, It Has Been Blocked Since May – "For some unknown reason laughingsquid.com has been banned from Digg. I guess that would explain why I haven’t seen any traffic from Digg in a long time." hmmm.

aaremarzili.info (aaremarzili) on Twitter – "The water temperature of the most famous river in the world: the aare" tweets THE river temperature.

Hurt Sea Turtle Gets Plastic Flippers – "A loggerhead sea turtle seemingly injured by a shark was recently fitted with "trial" prosthetics as part of efforts to give the rare animal fully functioning flippers." to then drown in the plastic garbage patch in the ocean.

Chewing in Venice – "Chewing in Venice is a big art installation of Frankfurt based artist Simone Decker. The sticky sculptures have been stretched, chewed and blown up into a wide range of oversized wads and bubbles that landed around the Italian city." another commercial comes to mind, the one where a goat rams a dude until he spits out his chewing gum … am i wacthing too much tv? [via rebel:art]

Apple tries to silence owner of exploding iPod with gagging order – "Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a gagging order after the child’s iPod music player exploded and the family sought a refund from the company." gag on this, apple.

Using big words needlessly makes you seem stupider – "Everyone knows how college students will try to make themselves sound smarter by reaching for the thesaurus and using big, ponderous words they barely understand. But now a new study shows that readers can see through this." that’s just conundronic, and i now are officially stupidist.

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the rolling stones are back – rolling stones video with made up lipsynch audio, funny!!! [via b3ta]

Little Rock Gods – "For the most part, humans are slow learners. The only animals that take longer to learn how to walk are fish. But there's one thing that all of these other over-achieving little critters can't do…and that's ROCK! Sure you're a cute kitten, but can you play a Johnny Cash cover? These videos of little kids playing rock music will make you proud to be a person." do check the last one, purple haze! except the fat dude messes it up with the acoustic guitar solo.

Brüno's So-Called 'Terrorist' Speaks Out – "In this TIME exclusive interview, Ayman Abu Aita says he was exploited in the Bruno movie and tells his side of the story" when humor heads into a cultural crash.

Drei Klavierstücke op. 11 – "Recently I took a few months of my free time and decided to recreate Arnold Schoenberg's 1909 op. 11 Drei Klavierstücke (aka Three Piano Pieces) by editing together videos of cats playing pianos downloaded from Youtube." i would prefer it if it was not an atonal music piece. can’t be done? [via waxy]

Wojciech Kosma Blow Job 8 – girl giving a blow job to a mic. there are 8 in total. [via vvork]

Duetto buffo di due gatti – boys sing like cats and cats pretend to be boys. [via neatorama]

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Cory Doctorow: Chris Anderson's Free adds much to The Long Tail, but falls short – "The economics of 'free' goods and services cannot be explained in terms of the marketplace, digital or otherwise – humans are more complicated than that" yeh yeh cory.

The three biggest reasons music magazines like Vibe and Blender are dying. – "1. There are fewer superstars, and the same musicians show up on every magazine cover.
2. Music mags have less to offer music lovers, and music lovers need them less than ever anyway.
3. Music magazines were an early version of social networking. But now there's this thing called "social networking" … " and i found this on the de-bug blog.

If the Twitter community was 100 people… – "Some interesting stats about the much-trumpeted Twitter community – visualized!"

How to make kombucha – "Why do I drink it? Because it's fun to make and the flavor is almost addictive. The benefits outweigh the risks, at least for me. Here's how I make it." must try this at home

I Heart Street Art: San Francisco's Character-Driven Graffiti – "Graffiti is something that's done on the spot, with the traditional tools. Street art is generally premeditated. It's done in the studio and brought to the street" why did i quote that??? too obvious a statement.

Eco-Crafting With Toilet Paper Rolls That Make You Smile – "Artist Junior Fritz Jacquet makes toilet paper rolls art [...] He too puts my toilet paper roll binoculars to shame. To do it he crumbles and folds toilet paper rolls until they look back at him in, happiness, disgust, anger, sadness and so on." i think i found a new hobby.

The app economy – "iPhone apps could soon be bigger than YouTube. But who is making all the money here? Apple, the developers, or no one at all?"

Milan Announces the World’s Largest Solar Rooftop Array – "Recently Italy’s Milano Fiera trade fair facility announced that it will soon be getting a major eco update in the form of the world’s largest solar rooftop solar array!"

Panda Bread – "The original recipe is from an Asian website called Taro Taro, luckily for those of us who can’t read the site, wlteef.blogspot.com was kind enough to post a translation." must try this at hime part 2 [via neatorama]

The new offenders of standup comedy – "This is not an unruly seminar on racism, but comedy, 2009-style. It's a world where all the bigotries and the misogyny you thought had been banished forever from mainstream entertainment have made a startling comeback." racism is cool again. bloody sad. but we knew that.

4Chan attacked, not censored – "Despite cries of censorship, internet messageboard 4Chan was blocked by AT&T and other ISPs because internet users were caught in the crossfire in attack against it" blah

AT&T Blocks 4chan – Encyclopedia Dramatica – "What is a /b/tard without his /b/? A shell of his former self! On July 26th, /b/tards connecting to the internets via AT&T began reporting blocked access to img.4chan.org (/b/ and /r9k/) in many areas of the country. Tinfoil hats were put on and a grave conspiracy was discovered."

AT&T blocks 4chan – "Reports are spreading that AT&T is now blocking 4chan.org’s «/b/»-section. "

Cutthroat Capitalism: The Game – "You are a pirate commander staked with $50,000 from local tribal leaders and other investors. Your job is to guide your pirate crew through raids in and around the Gulf of Aden, attack and capture a ship, and successfully negotiate a ransom." when i saw this article in wired i did think the graphics would lend themselves to become a video game. and here it is.

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Hovering Balloon – "During a recent stay at our cottage in norther Wisconsin, I awoke to find this balloon hovering above a futon in the corner of the room. It was eerie. I didn’t know what was going on for a second or two. There was no air movement, even though all the windows to the cottage were open. Perfect neutral buoyancy!" as one commentor notes, this video is very lynchian somehow.

U2 – I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight – "Music video for U2's new single "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight". Written & Directed by David OReilly" the music sucks, but the animation is ace.

iFeud – "Wyatt Cenac explores the cutthroat business rivalry between "Pull My Finger" and "iFart."" i loled.

kenny van hummel – video "you can do it, kenny" awww kenny.

Extreme Sheep LED Art – "We took to the hills of Wales armed to the teeth with sheep, LEDs and a camera, to create a huge amazing LED display."

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Drunk yoga – "The easy way to do all the hard yoga postures." [via b3ta]

Handerpants: Tighty Whities For Your Hands – "I’ll admit, this may be the most absurd product ever conceived of by man—but once you put Handerpants on you will be a believer." oh gosh, lets hope not…

Why the internet makes us better people – "The internet makes us all better people, according to Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard law professor and investigator for the OpenNet initiative. The people who created the internet didn't do it for money, he told the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford, but because they were fascinated by it. This enthusiasm, and not a desire to make huge amounts of money, is behind many of the most successful websites." glad to see someone still believes.

Poster Pocket Plants – "Two guys trying to activate public space – attempting to engage with urban environments." they place plants in poster jackets [via wooster]

Jon Stewart Is America's Most Trusted Newsman – "Well, in a result that he will probably accept as downright apocalyptic for America, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart has been selected, in an online poll conducted by Time Magazine, as America's Most Trusted Newscaster, post-Cronkite." well, i agree, but think about it, the admitted fake news guy as the most trusted newsman???

Little Big Planet Hits 1 Million Levels – "According to Media Molecule, it averages at a level being created every 21 seconds since the games launch. The time to play through all the levels on average, would take almost 5 years, and that's if you were playing 24 hours a day. The 1 million levels have been played over 244 million times."

Sam Raimi and Warcraft – "Could the Evil Dead creator finally bring credibility to the concept of the videogame movie?"

Chinese Artist Locks Himself in a Box in Venice – "Xing's action is as much political demonstration as it is performance art: He is protesting China's one-child policy, and to pass the time in his box, which measures roughly six-and-a-half feet long by three feet high and three feet wide — making it akin to the size of a coffin — he's counting the characters in the 150 books that constitute China's nine-year compulsory education program."

Dumpster Diving – "I was in NYC last week and went to see [a friend's] project,” Steve wrote me. “He is making pools out of dumpsters. But, it’s much bigger than that. He is having pool parties in Brooklyn on Fridays. You should see if he will let you write about it or come out to the parties." an idea etoy could pick up easy with their equipment. [via rebel:art]

Twitter-Testing New Material – "That's funny! And if the next one isn't, who cares? That's what's so liberating about the new nano-clowning. (Nailed it!)" on comedians testing new material via twitter.

Worker commits suicide after 4G iPhone prototype goes missing – "A 25-year-old man reportedly committed suicide after an iPhone prototype he was responsible for went missing, leading to alleged "unbearable interrogation techniques" in the ensuing investigation, according to a Chinese publication."

Z-Boy, "Baby Paul" Cullen, youngest member of the original Zephyr team, dies of a heroin overdose night before last. – "He was like a mascot for the original Zephyr team, he was a shredder, the original mini-shredder (before Bella Horvath, before Eric Dressen, before "Mini-Shred"). Photogenic, energetic, and a pure menace to society (I say that in the most admiring way)." R.I.P.

Same-name couple to wed after Facebook meeting – "This October, Kelly Hildebrandt will vow to share her life with a man who already shares her name."

Thousand Portraits – "Our project is a true portrait of Britain created by photographing 1,000 people.
We stopped everyone who crossed our path on the streets of London, excluding nobody, asking the same question more than fifteen hundred times."

1000 portraits Barcelona – a set on Flickr – "1000portraitsBCN (English) two photographers • one camera • one weekend • a thousand people"

Frankfurt: Blutbeschmierte Jugendliche führten Totentanz für Michael Jackson auf – "Am vergangenen Samstagabend sind etwa 300 Jugendliche durch die Frankfurter Innenstadt marschiert und führten "Totentänze" für den vor Kurzem verstorbenen Michael Jackson auf. " german teenagers MJ hommage, dressed up as zombies they danced in the streets of frankfurt.

Project Code Rush – "Code Rush, produced in 2000 and broadcast on PBS, is an inside look at living and working in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot-com era. " free download.

bumperstickers for shoes – fun idea

The Cloud Project – "In a bid to blast the clouds out of the sky for the Beijing Olympics last year, China's Weather Modification Office seeded clouds with chemicals. This Summer at the Design Interactions (RCA) graduation show, Zoe Papadopoulou and Cat Kramer proposed a much bolder and poetical take on the cloud seeding technology."

Michael Jackson at 40 – how the magazine ebony imagined he would look at age 40 back in 1985.

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hid.im – "A Hidim turns a torrent into a regular PNG image – You save the png yourself. You can post it anywhere. People can decode it, but it can't be searched for… it won't turn up in searches for those torrents, unless you provide text that matches" genius. now we need the torrent clients to be able to decode it, bingo.

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SAVING PRIVATE REMI (REMI GAILLARD) – "French prankster Remi Gaillard is at it again. This time he stages a single-handed Normandy Beach landing & barely gets noticed. Recently posted but with HIGH viewing figures so apols if GC." absolutly brilliant. [via b3ta]

Insane gamer. – geeky dancer rocking the dance dance revolution machine. [via b3ta]

Douglas Rushkoff | July 15, 2009 | ColbertNation.com – douglas rushkoff tries to talk about his latest book life inc. a giggling stephen colbert is trying to make it as hard as possible.

Stephen Colbert Remembers Remembering Michael Jackson – "After all, who can't remember where they were when Stephen Colbert remembered when we remembered Michael Jackson? To memorialize the memorializing of the memorializing, here's the clip. Never forget." stephen colbert makes EVERYTHING about himself, and thats so goddamn refreshingly honest. media critquists around the world should have a field day.

Rap Around The World – 30 Languages, One Awesome Video – "Here is a sampling of 30 different raps, from 30 different countries (in alphabetical order). While I’m not the biggest fan of the genre, this video really showcases how different Rap/Hip-Hop can sound depending on what part of the world you come from."

Dance You Into The Sunlight – ill doctrine delivers quite an insightful comment on MJs life and death, try not to puzzle too much about his hitler mustache.

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covert cabin – “Welcome to covertcabin.com the home of eco-friendly, off-grid holiday rental situated in the beautiful Perigord Vert Natural Park in the Dordogne region of SW France. ” want!

Twitter Mousepad – “• High-quality cloth material, providing a precise and consistent glide • Non-slip rubber base • Measures 7 x 8.2 inches” i like the “slide to unlock”-footmat they sell as well

Incredible Shadow Art Created From Junk – "British-born and -based artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster skilfully skirt the boundaries between beauty and the shadowier aspects of humanity, playing with our perceptions as well as our notions of taste. Many of their most notable pieces are made from piles of rubbish, with light projected against them to create a shadow image entirely different to that seen when looking directly at the deliberately disguised pile." oh, the metaphor.

resident evil tshirt – "MmmmMMmMm…. Braaaiinnnsss…. Everyone has a Darkside on the inside just waiting to come out, so what better way to show your Darkside than by your very own pull your t-shirt over your head and become a zombie t-shirt." want! for many “panda moments” at our house.

Tate Liverpool exhibition to celebrate political Picasso – "Picasso's cold war career as a highly political painter, peace campaigner and tireless fundraiser for leftwing causes will be revealed in an exhibition at Tate Liverpool next spring" goddamn communist! american museums should ban him from their collections and sell their picassos back to us europeans. (see what i did there?)

Boy starved for not saying Amen – "TWO women members of a fanatical religious cult are accused of starving a toddler to death after the boy refused to say "Amen" after meals." file under: mad things justified by religion.

PayPal shuts us down – "PayPal has frozen my assets. We have no source of income beyond the car money we just spent in Kampala on Monday. I may very well have to return to Kampala and get the car payment money back to live off of. We are stranded financially and physically without a vehicle because of PayPal." fuck paypal!

App-stinence: 'Purity Ring' application for iPhone on sale – "A UK software developer has released a "purity ring" application for Apple's iPhone." this guy should get laid more often.

Inside Twitter HQ – "Twitter is the hottest internet startup on the planet. Over the last few months, the messaging service it provides has morphed from a social networking tool into an instrument of revolution. So what's life like for the 52 employees at its San Francisco headquarters?" one of the most regretable dreams in my life that never came true, i never worked for an internet-startup.

Dow runs scared from water – "A new, beautifully-designed line of bottled water – this time not from the melting Alps, nor from faraway, clean-water-deprived Fiji, but rather from the contaminated ground near the site of the 1984 Bhopal catastrophe – scared Dow Chemical's London management team into hiding today."

Woman arrested for battery after poking boyfriend in groin with her sex toy – "A woman has been arrested after accosting her live-in boyfriend with a pink sex toy." file under: dildos as weapon.

Want to keep your wallet? Carry a baby picture – "Hundreds of wallets were planted on the streets of Edinburgh by psychologists last year. Perhaps surprisingly, nearly half of the 240 wallets were posted back. But there was a twist. Richard Wiseman, a psychologist, and his team inserted one of four photographs behind a clear plastic window inside, showing either a smiling baby, a cute puppy, a happy family or a contented elderly couple. Some wallets had no image and some had charity papers inside." at least they dont recommend, to make the baby for the photo…

Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context – "Make something intended not for your own use, but for use by dummies, and you’ll usually wind up creating something dumb. The future of computing probably is in the direction of thin clients connecting to network services for storage and software, but my hunch is that Chrome OS is too thin."

Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief – "Dropping the F-bomb or other expletives may not only be an expression of agony, but also a means to alleviate it" i am in much more pain than my swearing might suggest.

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Open a Banana Like A Monkey – "I'm posting this video in the hopes that it will help other people discover the joys of peeling a banana. I had never known about this method until recently." ffs, all these years wasted opening the banana the wrong = non-monkey way … [via b3ta]

Michael Jackson tribute song – "Kunt and the Gang's hastily cobbled together bandwagon jumping video tribute to the King of Pop." very strange. suffice to read the via [via b3ta]

He Bite Me – in my vagina, the mashup … again, be warned: [via b3ta]

Eternal moonwalk – A tribute to Michael Jackson. – people generated eterneal moonwalk. from belgium.

10 Amateur Masters of Beatboxing – "Beatboxing is a musical art form that many try and very few truly master." many videos here, but be sure to at least check “Amateurs on a NYC Train doing Phil Collins”, goosebumps…

Michael Jackson Face Transformation – "Michael Jackson's Face Transformation with all his Plastic surgery."

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Find Creative Commons images with Image Search – "Today, we're launching a feature on Image Search to help you find images that you can use for free, while respecting the wishes of artists and creators. This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share, use and even modify." another noble google initiative.

Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris, 2009… – "Over 2,400 graffiti tags were photographed from April 24 to April 28, 2009, from each of Paris’s 20 districts. All photographs were archived, tagged and sorted by letter. The ten most commonly used letters by Paris graffiti writers were identified for further study (A,E,I,K,N,O,R,S,T and U)."

Gary: Landlord of the Flies – "phone at 3am and the frequent police visits had something to do with it. Pure speculation though. To my knowledge, he doesn’t plan on giving any of them their security deposits back." he sounds like the landlord from hell.

Introducing the Google Chrome OS – "However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be." has google not noticed? it is the summer! what’s with all the big announcements?

Banksy's coming for dinner – "Imagine Celebrity Come Dine With Me without the acerbic voiceover and you have Banksy’s Coming for Dinner. The premise of the film is Joan Collins and her husband inviting five D-listers (including Tamara Beckwith, Stephen K Amos and Ann Mitchell) to a dinner where the guest of honour is Banksy." faek!!!

Scientists claim sperm 'first' – "Scientists in Newcastle claim to have created human sperm in the laboratory in what they say is a world first." sure, but why would they want to … ??? beats me.

The Pirate Bay’s Founders Sail On – "For more than five years the largest BitTorrent tracker on the Internet has been been operated informally by a small group of friends. This will soon change as Global Gaming Factory takes over the ship to explore seas unknown. TorrentFreak caught up with Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde to review the past week’s events and to look ahead to the future." i kinda hate them.

Ich Bin Ein Burnin – "We believe for a space to be truly autonomous it must first be liberated. Liberated in our sense doesn’t just mean taking something out of the hands of capitalists (the mere re- appropriation of a building) but rather taking space and finding ways to use it as a weapon against the State and Capital."

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miserable green git – "here's your guide how to to be green, selfish and win" [via b3ta]

HardTimes :: Art Hour – “call 1 800 our art errr …” saying this fast gives ze frank hard times

What is a browser? – "What is a browser? was the question we (Google) asked over 50 passersby of different ages and backgrounds in the Times Square in New York. Watch the many responses people came up with." wel, if google asks the question, it might be quite obvious why many say a browser is a search engine.

Super Keyboard Cat Bros. – he admits it was not the first to do this, but, "I do think I spent a great deal more time on mine, recreating the game play from scratch instead of using video capture from the game and the cat is a bit more "8-bit"."

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One shot: the littlest big billboard in Union Square – "the best little/big ad campaign we never knew existed in the heart of NYC's Union Square park." cute idea.

Eclectic Method Remixes the Future of Open Video – "Eclectic Method’s kinetic live shows splice music, film, TV and videogames into a body-rocking audiovisual concoction that gets clubbers hopping and synapses popping."

The Cheap Plastic Camera That Could: Lomo Turns 25 – "In Bangkok they’ll be wearing bows and fake tattoos. Food and drinks are promised in Tokyo and in Seoul there will be cake. Revelers in Hong Kong will drink shots of vodka while listening to Russian music and in New York the ’80s will return for an evening of karaoke."

Twittern mit Richie Hawtin – "Der Hawtin wieder. Hat voll den Technologie-Koller. Hat jetzt Twitter in sein Traktor Pro integriert. Damit alle, die nicht im Club mit dabei sein können und unbedingt wissen müssen, welcher geile Track das denn eben war, also der vor dem Klonk und nach dem Zisch." dj richie hawtin has started to publish his dj set playlists using traktor dj software and twitter.

Bobbie Johnson meets Douglas Rushkoff, who helped to shape the internet in the early 90s – "In the early 90s he helped to shape the internet. Now Douglas Rushkoff is back – with a plan to wrest control from our big corporations."

Nazi Petting Zoo / Der Streichelnazi – "But it's time to embrace history.
It's time to remember the feel-good days of 1938.
It's time to let our real feelings out!
It's time to hug the Nazi, Austria!
Finally!"

The Dawning of Internet Censorship in Germany – "Germany is on the verge of censoring its Internet: The government – a grand coalition between the German social democrats and conservative party – seems united in its decision: On Thursday the parliament is to vote on the erection of an internet censorship architecture."

Why Facebook Turned Down Millions To Give Away Vanity URLs For Free – "Facebook's new officeWe heard that instead of giving Vanity URLs away for free, like it did last weekend, Facebook originally planned to auction them off to the highest bidder."

the world is an apple – he did forget madagaskar. [via neatorama]

Mullets – a Worldwide Phenomenon – "Business in the front, party in the rear – the mullet is a hairstyle that is seen the world over." in switzerland mullets are called VoKuHiLa = vorne kurz hinten lang.

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BDIII Book Announcement – “All good things are three! We are happy to post the 3rd BD book will hit the bookshelfs in October 2009, 10 years after the first one also published by Gestalten.”

«Resignation bedeutet den Tod auf Raten» – "«Tages-Anzeiger»-Reporter Jean-Martin Büttner hofft auf Aktionen seiner KollegInnen gegen die Massenentlassung, stellt ein gewisses Misstrauen des Verlags gegenüber der Redaktion fest und ist dennoch weiterhin mit Begeisterung Journalist."

Herzlich Willkommen | Piratenpartei Schweiz – "Gründungstreffen – Am Sonntag, 12. Juli 2009 wird die Piratenpartei Schweiz gegründet!" i might go, i might… or i might just join by sending an sms

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Warp20 (Box Set) – Details and Preorder – "To commemorate our 20th anniversary, we will release a deluxe special-edition of music and art, titled Warp20 (Box Set)." this, my dear friends, is what is called a must have.

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DEADLINE post-it stop motion – "Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline."

Hardcore Tetris Orgy – Uncensored! – "You'll never look at Tetris the same way again!"

The Simpsons Minus The Simpsons – with all the characters of the simpsons family edited out frame by frame. [via waxy]

End Times – "Jason Jones visits the the New York Times' offices to find out why the last of a dying breed prefers aged news to real news." as usual jason jones delivered one of the highlights on last weeks daily show.

The Best Christopher Walken Impressions on YouTube – "The actor, who was born in Queens but sounds like as if were raised on Planet Flooboort (where, of course, all citizens speak in a stuttered, vowel-heavy drawl) has earned him plenty of admirers, especially since his ubiquitous hosting gigs on SNL, the most famous of which made "More Cowbell" a treasured national utterance."

Star Trek Meets Monty Python – kinda funny but not too sure.

Shooting Twats – "Fuck politics, let's dance!"

Nobody – "A Korean guy dancing to the song Nobody by The Wonder Girls. Stay with it- it gets better. "

Jonathan Harris: the Web's secret stories – "Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the emotional world of the Web. With deep compassion for the human condition, his projects troll the Internet to find out what we're all feeling and looking for."

HardTimes :: Hole [VIDEO] – "show me your hole." i'll show you mine.

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three frames – animated gifs using just 3 frames from movies to stunning effect. [via b3ta]

Mind-Melting Demo Disasters – "We're an indie label digging through years of demo backlogs day by day. These are some of the choicest gems we've received." [via b3ta]

Banksy pulls off his most audacious stunt yet… a secret exhibition in Bristol museum – "Banksy has pulled off his most daring stunt yet by staging his biggest-ever British exhibition in complete secrecy. The covert graffiti artist snuck into Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery and replaced many of the artefacts on display there with 100 pieces of his own work, including a burnt-out ice-cream van."

Experts warn of porn Mac attacks – "Security experts have discovered two novel forms of Mac OS X malware. OSX/Tored-A – an updated version of the Mac OS Tored worm – and a Trojan called OSX/Jahlav-C were both found on popular pornographic websites." luckily i never ever visit porn sites. no really.

Thank you Mr. Schwarzenegger. Or why the Internet is a medium, not a vacuum cleaner – "Sometimes I get the feeling that normally intelligent people are disconnected from their brain if you mention to them the word „internet“. Like the internet is a red cloth you wave in front of a bull. Intelligence? Gone. Logic? Vanished. Aggression? Here we go." mercedes bunz as lucid as ever. and in english mind you.

A Whole New World? On the 53rd Venice Biennale – "Perhaps art can be one way out of a world ruled by leveling impulses and dull sameness. Can each artwork be a principle of hope and an intriguing plan for escape? Behind the immediate surface we are many – together and individually, through the multiplicity of imaginative worlds we hold within." spolier alert, nah, just joking.

'DJs buy music on stolen cards' – "It's alleged the gang put their own music on Apple iTunes and Amazon and spent about £459,000 buying it back – claiming nearly £200,000 in royalties." brilliant idea, sorry they got caught.

Rushkoff on "The Great Facebook Land Grab of Aught-Nine" – "At one minute past midnight Eastern Time this Saturday, Facebook users will be permitted to claim a unique user name, which may well spark a virtual vanity landgrab the likes of which we've never seen. Author and former BB guestblogger Douglas Rushkoff says this is the moment when Facebook becomes obsolete" but! i haz http://www.facebook.com/jan.zuppinger, nah nah nah nah. but, i also haz gay name, huh.

Online communities, etc. – "I will be tuning out of the social networking sites because at the end of the day it's now doing more harm than good in the bigger picture and the experiment seems to have yielded a result. Idiots rule." been there.

Largest Bankruptcies – visualizing huge bankruptcies via neat infographic.

The Cure for iPhone Envy: The story behind the doubleTwist ad – "For our “The Cure for iPhone Envy” ad campaign we leased the window on the BART exit outside the SF Apple Store. Our contract with BART’s ad agency specified that the ad would go up on Monday morning, the day of the WWDC keynote. However, the ad agency jumped the gun and our ad went up on Friday the weekend before. Shortly after the ad was put up, it was ripped down by a BART employee." [via bb]

The G2 weekly recipe: Rhubarb and apple turnovers – "Perfect for tea time, or as a pudding with ice-cream … "

Top 10 Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument – "1. “I don’t see what’s so bad about DRM!”" that’s the one that finally launched me into nerd rage.

World record for most people dressed as Smurfs in Swansea – "The world record for the largest number of people dressed as Smurfs has been smashed in Swansea." well, that sure puts swansea on the map, innit.

ASCII-O-Matic : SUBPOP RECS – "Sub Pop Cybersex Digital Sampler (2009) Toon HandSAMPLER.exe.zip <– (cool! not a virus)" i dare you.

On Twitter, Most People Are Sheep: 80 Percent Of Accounts Have Fewer Than 10 Followers – "Let’s face it, most people are sheep. It is much easier to follow than to lead, and on Twitter it is no different." oh good, i am not alone.

Sweden's Pirate Party wins EU seat – "The Pirate Party isn't related to the Pirate Bay torrent site, but it wants to legalise internet file-sharing and protect people's privacy on the net"

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etoy ohne CEO: Wildnis in- und extern – "Die Kunstaktiengesellschaft hat ab sofort keinen CEO mehr, stattdessen wird ein Triumvirat die Geschäfte führen: Dazu gehören Ex-CEO Zai sprich Agent Zai, Agent Monorom und Agent Haefliger. Die andere Neuigkeit: etoy geschäftet weiter." etoy no longer has a CEO but now has 3 agents leading business officers.

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YooouuuTuuube – puts youtube videos on LSD.

Kiss shreds – "The P.I.S.S is by far the most together group in the show biz" and togtehr really is the word. [via b3ta]

The Eurovision Song Contest's silliest entries – "From a man in a superman outfit to Macedonian cock rock, this year's Eurovision contenders are more ridiculous than ever. Paul MacInnes picks his favourites" i lol’ed at some of these videos.

Very funny Chinese wow video – drinking and fighting real world adventures with a world of warcraft interface.

Lo que hace falta es Jama! (EL ORIGINAL!) – "Cuba Tiene Hambre" has also spawned many a reggaeton fan remix. People are loading the audio clip onto phones as a ringtone, too. In the video, a "regular guy" identified as Pánfilo on the streets of Cuba is basically saying "What Cuba needs right now is FOOD. Cuba is HUNGRY." [via bb]

Hugo Chávez: Eat the Rich – "In this video clip which is making the viral rounds in the Spanish-speaking online world, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez says "The rich are not human, they are animals in human form.""

Obama is a popstar. And he is very good at it. – "Word up. — But all this makes me think, how different the political role is. Being funny is part of being an american president. Maybe european politicans should copy that. If they can. Is the role of a politician in europe so different? Or is it the job – and intelligent and funny people rather go somewhere else? Hm. " i have nothing to add to that, mrs. bunz.

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Bogost Releases Guru Meditation to iPhone, Atari 2600 – "The iPhone offers a unique opportunity for a true relaxation game, since it makes such constant demands on our attention—telephone, email, text messages, Twitter, etc. Guru Meditation for iPhone literally makes it impossible to pursue other activities while playing. As such, it offers a convenient secondary commentary on the often overwhelming values of "connection" that today's portable communication devices embrace." the game you beat by doing absolutely nothing.

Quasi O : Poupe & Soso: des poupées et de la Soso – we think this knitted digital wristwatch is awesome. but the knitter activist has some other great ideas on her blog.

markkit.net – the web highlighter – "markkit is a web2.0 text highlighter. Drag'n'Drop the markkit yellow pen into your browser toolbar. Whenever you want to highlight text in a web page, click on the markkit bookmarklet." [via swissmiss]

Cocaine and LSD found in air of Spanish cities – "Spanish scientists have discovered traces of cocaine and LSD in the air in the cities of Madrid and Barcelona." no wonder they be trippin.

Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic – "For the first time on PlayStation Network, we have partnered with Sprint to bring you the PSN exclusive game, Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic, for FREE in the U.S. store. That’s right. The game is free to download this week." US only? testing in a few minutes …

Beautiful Steve Jobs Portrait Made of Classic Apple Typefaces – "Artist Dylan Roscover did this amazing job recreating a famous Steve Jobs picture using Apple's classic typefaces, used since its beginning in the 70s. The most significant thing, however, is the message in it:"

Ban Fast Food Near Schools – "A recent study correlates the proximity of fast food to schools with the obesity of students."

Google unveils 'smarter search' – "Web giant Google has unveiled new products that it says will push search in a new direction. Google is using so-called semantic web technology to leverage the underlying data on websites to enhance results."

http://you-talking-to-me.com – or: http://who-the-fuck-do-you-think-you-are-talking-to.com/ or: robert-de-niro-in-taxi-driver-in-front-of-the-mirror.com. by jodi me thinks

France Passes “Three Strikes” Anti-Piracy Law – "The controversial French HADOPI anti-piracy law was passed by the National Assembly today, one step closer to being signed into action. The new law introduces draconian measures to combat piracy including a “three strikes” regime for persistent offenders."

Loo & Placido 'Electronic Popstar Killers' (New MixTape) – (Zip File = Mp3 + Tracklist) "Loo & Placido presents 'Electronic popstar Killers', their brand new party mix featuring 2 hours of exclusive mash-ups, remixes, Re-edits and covers [S]mashing today's hottest Electro, Rave, Fidget and Ghetto Bangers with some of the greatest Rock, Hip-Hop, Disco and Punk hits ever ! " these guys eat Girl Talk before breakfast! must-have mashup mix.

Web murderer given life sentence – "A man from Germany has been jailed for life for stabbing a Nottingham student 86 times after stalking his girlfriend."

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ – "Spreading the Awkwardness"

Apple Rejects iPhone BitTorrent App – "Citing copyright infringement concerns, Apple won’t include a BitTorrent client in the App Store." but of course they would …

Lick to Experience – "This website/blog is ruled by 7 individuals who besides being addicted to pornography are also creative beings who enjoy taking photographs, drawing, doing computer stuff, music or things alike."

Subversive Fair — Subversiv Messe – "As the first trade fair for counter culture and resistance technology the Subversive Fair presents recent projects/actions/works …and poses questions: which inventions make resistance easier? Which ideas undermine the system? Where are revolutionary forces lurking? What can we do to successfully dissolve hegemonies?" wish i'd known about this earlier.

Vegan wants ILVTOFU on license plate. 2BAD, state says. – "Fearing the vanity plate could be misinterpreted in an offensive manner, Colorado officials put the request on a list of banned letter combinations. The ACLU has entered the fray." i love TOFU as well. yeh, both meanings.

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Wirtschaftskrise: Schweiz will Einwanderung aus Deutschland bremsen – "Wegen Rekordeinwanderung und steigender Arbeitslosigkeit denkt die Schweizer Regierung über einen Einwanderungstopp nach – für Deutsche und andere EU-Bürger."

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the ermconomy

LET IT DIE: Rushkoff on the economy – "With any luck, the economy will never recover. In a perfect world, the stock market would decline another 70 or 80 percent along with the shuttering of about that fraction of our nation’s banks. Yes, unemployment would rise as hundreds of thousands of formerly well-paid brokers and bankers lost their jobs; but at least they would no longer be extracting wealth at our expense." you tell em, douglas.

Layoff: financial crisis through a match-three casual game lens – "a match-3 casual game that attempts to drive home the realities of the credit crunch and its effect on the average worker by making each play-piece an individual with a back-story visible just before you swap them over to "lay them off."" this sends the right message: it’s all a game.

Don't keep calm and carry on. – in reaction to this:

Keep Calm and Carry On – "Nowadays, of course, it would be farmed out to an expensive communications agency. Back in the spring of 1939, it was an anonymous civil servant who was entrusted with finding the slogan for a propaganda poster intended to comfort and inspire the populace should, heaven forbid, the massed armies of Nazi Germany ever cross the Channel."

online video killed the …

On stage with Tim Berners-Lee – "182 minutes of video that will tell you a lot about how the Web was invented, and where it is going. All the people who attended and that I had a chance to talk to left completely amazed by how intact the passion still is in all these guys’ hearts." the whole video is now available.

electric stimulus to face -test4 ( Daito Manabe 's friends ) – "upper left: Muryo Honma upper right:Setsuya Kurotaki, lower left: Motoi Ishibashi lower right: Seiichi Saito" [via bb]

Heavy Metal Monk – "Meet a monk on a metal mission." Rawk on, Fratello Metallo.

Let's Go Crazy! – "A mom in Pennsylvania posted a 29 second video of her 18 month old baby dancing on YouTube. In the background, the inspiring music was Prince's song, Let's Go Crazy. Can you guess what happened next? Prince's record label, Universal Music Publishing Group, sent YouTube a cease-and-desist letter, YouTube took the video down and warned mother Stephanie Lenz that further copyright infringements would force the website to cancel her account. " Crazy!

Rapping Flight Attendant – "There were three terrorists on this plane, but they changed their minds after the third song." ohhh come on, that's not a funny comment.

schmooze & abuse

Remixing RiP: Two blogs debate the hit copyright documentary – "RiP has its problems and its detractors. While critics are overwhelmingly heaping praise on the doc (and Gaylor) some, like the National Post (shock!), see a shallow flop. Among the best critiques of the film I have come across is Laurence Miall’s, posted on his blog."

Special Olympics takes on use of 'R-word' – "March 31 is being billed a "national day of awareness," a call to Americans to recognize and rethink their use of the word "retard," or as the organization would prefer, the "R-word."" now that’s r… erm … rather stange.

Urban Art Guide – adidas created an urban art guide for the iphone that will be launched in berlin. not too sure how to feel about it, but hey … i am old school.

Web Semantics: 140-character grammatology – "I heard British novelist M John Harrison yesterday describing how the construction of identity is changing because "culture," the factors that acculturate people, have been smeared all over the planet by the Internet. And he sees this is as a challenge for novelists because literature is a description of how people are; it's about structures of meaning and feeling. And the structure of literary language needs to respond to, or even *lead,* new structures of meaning and feeling." the word “smeared” says it all.

Gmail's New 'Undo Send' Feature Saves You From Outbox Regret – "A new feature for Gmail aims to rid your life of that classic "Oh Shit" e-mail moment. "Undo Send" puts a five to 10-second hold on all outgoing messages. If you addressed an e-mail to the wrong person, let slip with an embarrassing typo or simply said something you really, really shouldn't have, Undo Send can be a lifesaver." the much needed panic button.

Slip-no-more Bath Bananas – "To ensure a sure-footed shower, peel these bananas and apply them to the floor of your bathtub or shower stall. Turns out, bananas ARE good for your health." [via neatorama]

Floating Above Commuters – "German performance artist Johan Lorbeer appeared to be floating in mid-air in a Madrid train station, to the delight of commuters." O.o. we have a floater.

9 Creative, bizarre and unexpected ways of using logic puzzles – "Sudoku Pizza: This unexpected puzzle creation takes Sudoku a giant step forward: it is also very tasty, especially if you like your pizza with exactly 9 toppings arranged differently on each slice." would be even better, if there were some bits left out to solve still.

Water Footprint Chart – "Making the right choices to reduce your water footprint" i was glad to see that tea is better than coffee. i am a tea person all the way now.

Like Punk rock, like sheds, then this is for you. – "Cardiff based punk band Punks Not Dad have written a little ditty about their shed and what they get up to in it, the majority of the lyrics would ring true to many a sheddie .." punks not dads rofl.

'Twittering' threat to US trials – "The verdicts in two US trials are being appealed against because jurors made comments about them on social networking sites."

Finn creates USB 'finger drive' – "A Finnish computer programmer who lost one of his fingers in a motorcycle accident has made himself a prosthetic replacement with a USB drive attached." finns!

BUCKYBALLS : The Amazing Magnetic Toy You Can't Put Down – "Use them to hold even the heaviest items securely to the fridge. Kneed them in your hand for stress relief. Throw them at any metal surface for a game of high tech bulls-eye." [via swissmiss]

Make Small Talk – "It's the junk food of conversation: quick, sugary, sickening in excess—and unavoidable. Thomas Farley, editor of etiquette guide Modern Manners, has these tips."

20 years of the first paper about the World Wide Web – "What is perhaps even more intriguing was that I felt to what extent how their vision of the future was still grounded and shaped by their early vision and by their aims. Their objective, as twenty years ago, is still to “help people finding content, documents and services”, the early utopia of Memex/Arpanet/Internet/Xanadu/the Web."

Is There Really a Green Gadget? – "You recycle, bike to work, and growl at coworkers who don't compost their lunch scraps. But how can you ride your high horse with that mercury-filled cell phone ringing in your pocket? It's not like you have an option, right? Wrong. Green gadgets do exist."

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