obama drugs

Obama E! – "Feels good, and then the next day…"

LSD Blotter (Obama) – we want to get high, so high…

online video killed the …

Surprise Kitty – "Surprise Kitty (thanks again, Mia!) has just become a gazillion times better thanks to the folks at b3ta:"

Röyksopp 'This Must Be It' – "Join Runar for some odd goings-on in the new video for 'This Must Be It'" one of the coolest music videos i have seen in ages.

At My Wedding Twitterring and Facebooking at the Altar – man updates his relationship status on facebook during his wedding.

Surprised Kitty – "surprised kitten is surprised" the awww-moment of the week. [via boingboing]

schmooze and abuse

World Cup games to be filmed in 3D – "The 2010 World Cup in South Africa will be filmed in 3D for the first time, it has been announced." so, we got the technology for it now? because this was announced for the worldcup 2002 in south corea/japan, remember?

Groove Armada set for PS3 gig – "Groove Armada are launching their new album Black Light with the first ever gig inside Home, the virtual world for PS3."

Government-backed gay bar in "Communist China" not so popular with The Gays – "What if they opened a gay bar and no one came? Wait, no no — don't go there." featured here just for that brilliant line by xeni jardin. well and of course because tagging things gay and china is fun fun fun.

We’re bloggers – we get stuff for free – and we should get over it. "A lot of bloggers are unhappy with a new rule requiring them to disclose when they get something for free" and btw. why did i never get stuff for free?

Surf the Web Anonymously – "Sadly, remaining anonymous online isn't easy. Everything from search engines to social networking sites are dropping cookies, or little data files, in your web browser to track your behavior: which links you click, which ads you click, where you are and more."

Soccer Resists Instant Replay Despite Criticism – "The instant replay is already a reality for soccer fans watching games at home, making poor calls on the field all the more obvious. FIFA still has time to add the instant replay to its rules before the World Cup next summer, when scrutiny of referee decisions promises to be even stronger." fuck off, blatter. you are old and stupid.

Artist's amazing self-camouflage – "Above is the mindbending work of camouflage artist Liu Bolin." what? who? where?

Corduroy Skirts are a Sin – "I decided that because this woman thought it was okay to make me feel uncomfortable in my home, I would retaliate and make her feel just as uncomfortable, if not more." cheeky. and this one has levels of meaning.

The poster that convinced Switzerland to ban minarets – "There are currently four minarets in all of Switzerland, each pointed threateningly at (from?) one quarter of the nation."

FutureEverything Awards 2010 – "FutureEverything is pleased to announce the establishment of The FutureEverything Awards." deadline: 15. january 2010.

How to make a VHS video toaster – "The project was simple: convert a VHS video machine to make toast, and eject it through the cassette slot." haha, and hmmm. we are currently shopping for a toaster…

New Website Publicizes iPhone App Rejections – "A new website aims to publicize the details surrounding the much-maligned iPhone application review process – Apple's secretive procedures that have been under heavy scrutiny this year, especially since the FCC's involvement regarding Apple's rejection of the Google Voice application."

Controversial plans for minaret ban and outlawing arms exports face voters' verdict – "To the great surprise of pollsters and the regret of the government, the Swiss on Sunday said yes to a ban on the construction of minarets." for the record, i feel ashamed to be swiss today. sorry world!!!

World Cup grass isn't green enough – "Native kikuyu pitches are not bright enough for television, but the replacements will be little long-term use to South Africans"

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

zidanes’s “mea culpa” – “le vrai coupable c’est celui qui provoque”. rien rein de rien ahhh je ne regrette rien… i actually had to cry when i read some of the comments on youtube:

AlephMistery (1 hour ago)
If I were Zidane, I would not head-butt Materazzi.
I would beat Materazzi until he is dead.

MarcoPolo3000 (18 minutes ago)
fuck yea, don’t talk that shit bout my ma!
…yud get butted too!

Zidane’s act of revolt also an act of betrayal – “Zidane would be more sympathetic if he admitted he cracked in a moment of rage and weakness as time was running out in front of an audience of one billion. He was elevated to living-legend status as he set aside retirement to rescue the French team and lead the aging and underestimated Les Bleus back to the championship game they had won in 1998.

Zidane couldn’t just be a hard-working family man with a gift for a game. He was a soccer god in a world that worships the sport. In France, he was the idealized icon of the multiethnic revolution, the captain of a team of many skin hues.

Zidane reacted not just to Materazzi’s needling, but to the insane pressure of being a World Cup hero.”

and finally another zidane headbutt game

= what various animators have made of the infamous headbutt.

materazzi breakdance

read my lips [in german]: berner gazette sums up the various interpretations of what materazzi might have said to zidane, according to lipreaders. and points to:

Dschungel und Zivilisation by Thomas Hüetlin [in german], an article that attests zizou’s headbutt a strange kind of grandeur (eine selsame grösse). good point, even if the title has a slightly racist ring to it, associating zizou being a decendent from africa with the jungle somehow.

funny scenes this morning, italians bugging newsvendors all around town for the gazzetta dello sport. lol

AND I GOTTA COPY. hah

hesitated there, should i really say “die welt zu gast bei verlierern”, losers, or maybe rather “die welt zu gast bei würsten”, sausages, or something much much worse. much more evil.
yes yes yes, i admit it. this morning i am flooded with the purest form of malice, “häme”, despite being kept awake quite late by the honking cars in the neverending italian corso. and yes yes yes the italians do not REALLY deserve to go to finals either. but then, in this most rotten of worldcups, who does?

certainly not the germans, they deserved to lose. in fact, a few games ago.
so here’s a big “take this, suckers” from my part. take this for:

- compensating your lack of football skills with agrressivity and mental strength. football is supposed to be a game, remember?
- whistling each time an opposing player touched the ball.
- blatantly abusing of the home advantage in every conceivable way hardly deserving of the slogan “die welt zu gast bei freuden”.
- behaving as if this title was somehow reserved for you and taking every conceivable measure to impose it [even voodoo!].
- creating the most unfair schedule ever, putting the home team in advantage in every posssible way, best stadiums, longest breaks between games, etc.
- franz beckenbauer. enough said.
- oliver kahn. enough said.
- jürgen klinsi. enough said.
- having your worst ever bundeskanzlerin frau ferkel merkel in the stadium! and shown on tv every 3 seconds! i still puke.
- getting all german-style enthusiastic and your media going overboard in every possible direction. as usual.

oh, i could go on.

italians, great job. realistic. clean.
despite the sweatstain jersey design, at least its creative. despite only really starting to play last game or so, we love the minimalismo. this was worldclass football. great defense. great attacking. now win this sucker of a tournament.

y que hacemos ahora?

there were no commentators, when we started watching spain – france. amazing how you could feel the players pre-match tension there. first without commentators and then there were 4 or 5 guys and 1 woman commenting all at once, passing the mic back and forth, like a hiphop crew in a battle. amazing job, and even if spain unfairly lost, they took it well, “la vida sin egual”. in the end, again, they only had the ambient sound feed on, after one last very symbolic question coming from the woman in the off: “y que hacemos ahora?”.

the national hyms they played that night were a bit odd, i’ll admit, a japanese kraftwerk cover version for spain and a swiss reggae song for france? hmm? and odd coincidence, maywa denki is playing in zurich this weekend and in fribourg this monday. more info. i should go, but can’t promise i will.

playlist: music borrowed [with all due respect]:
1. pieceocast intro: a loop from amon tobin: hokkaido [chaos theory, the splinter cell soundtrack]; fred, the voice in my computer, samples
2. espagna – france
3. satoru wono feat. maywa denki: dentaku (tsukuba mix) [from Musique Non Stop A Tribute to Kraftwerk]
4. the scrucialists feat. lutan fyah: use force

playlist: samples borrowed:
strindberg & helium

listen:

the pieceocast can be accessed here:

this link will pick up all my mixes and the occasional mp3’s i link to from my blog.

earlier pieceocasts:

to find the earlier pieceocasts please check this list with links and stuff.

a word about copyleft:

all music and audio is borrowed with the utmost respect for its creators. however, i do consider this to be fair use. this material is created purely for fun, to share with my online friends. there is no commercial transaction involved. as a long-time dj i own 5′000+ albums in vinyl and quite a few cd’s. all the music i use for these mixes, i either own a copy of or it was released under a CC-license to begin with.
i release all my work, the dj work as well as all my other coding and creating, under a creative commons license, hence i treat this material as if it was under CC license. i attribute it and i do not use it for commercial gain. don’t try to sue me, i am broke anyway.

la paciência do ronaldo

ronaldo 2 – the world’s journalists 0. cool.

i of course had to use the fab swiss summer tune of the year in this podcast. still love it. but then i found this other tune, one for all the squirrel lovers out there.

so come on, sing along with us: “we are the squirrel men and we live on the second floor. we love squirrels. and nothing more.”

yup. that rad. we love nothing more.

except rrrrrrrrrronaldo. and his paciência.

playlist: music borrowed [with all due respect]:
1. pieceocast intro: a loop from amon tobin: hokkaido [chaos theory, the splinter cell soundtrack]; fred, the voice in my computer, samples
2. daft punk: technologic (hi-tec mix)
3. da sign & the opposite: sunshine
4. richard reagh: squirrel man (le sport remix)

playlist: samples borrowed:
fifa worldcup; ze frank

listen:

the pieceocast can be accessed here:

this link will pick up all my mixes and the occasional mp3’s i link to from my blog.

earlier pieceocasts:

to find the earlier pieceocasts please check this list with links and stuff.

a word about copyleft:

all music and audio is borrowed with the utmost respect for its creators. however, i do consider this to be fair use. this material is created purely for fun, to share with my online friends. there is no commercial transaction involved. as a long-time dj i own 5′000+ albums in vinyl and quite a few cd’s. all the music i use for these mixes, i either own a copy of or it was released under a CC-license to begin with.
i release all my work, the dj work as well as all my other coding and creating, under a creative commons license, hence i treat this material as if it was under CC license. i attribute it and i do not use it for commercial gain. don’t try to sue me, i am broke anyway.

doch beim fussball hört meine kulturelle offenheit plötzlich auf. im fussball, und zwar speziell während einer WM, kommen ganz andere gefühle in mir hoch; leidenschaftliche gefühle wie hass, die mich manchmal fast erschrecken, die zu unterdrücken ich aber nicht im stande bin. eigenartigerweise ist es dabei primär ein land, auf welches sich meine ganze abneignung richtet.

okay, ich habe jetzt lange genug um den heissen brei herumgeredet. ich gebe es zu, (auch) ich hasse die deutschen …uhm… fussballspieler, sorry jens blogwiese, aber es lässt sich einfach nicht wegdiskutieren. an dieser WM ist für mich, jetzt mal rein fussballerisch gesehen, die welt zu gast bei feinden.

deutsche fussballspieler, den deutschen fussball an sich, den ganzen zirkus darum herum, all dies hasse ich, verstehe es selber nicht so ganz, mit einer leidenschaft, die mich selber manchmal erschreckt. sogar das wort hass passt, und an sich möchte ich natürlich, dass der hass nicht zu meinem emotionalen repertoire gehört. mein ganzer medienkonsum ändert sich schlagartig. sogar raab, den ich mir zwar eh nur noch selten ankucke, wird plötzlich unaushaltbar. erst wenn die deutschen dann im achtelfinal ausscheiden werden, kann ich wieder auf die deutschen kanäle zappen. nachdem sie verloren haben, sind sie herrlich, die deutschen medien. da kauf ich mir sogar die bild zeitung am nächsten tag, um mir die parade der begossenen pudel reinzuziehen.

klar, die deutschen spielen unattraktiven fussball – hauruck, hart, kampfbetont, mechanisch. und klar, sie gewinnen immer alles. naja, eigentlich schon lange nicht mehr. klar, sie haben immer ein riesenglück – ich mein, wer sonst kann dank viertelfinal gegen die USA und halbfinal gegen südkorea in einen WM-final vorstossen? okay, die franzosen 1998. wer sonst in der 92. ein tor gegen polen reinmurksen? okay, die schweden. wer sonst immer die leichtesten vorrundengruppen ziehen? okay, die italiener. wer sonst dank einer schwalbe weltmeister werden? ha! endlich ein grund. aber naja, all diese argumente rechtfertigt natürlich noch keinen hass. hmm.

als gedankliches experiment stelle ich mir gerade vor die deutschen spielten wie die brasilianer fussball. könnte ich sie dann lieben? ich bezweifle es.

anfangs habe ich geschrieben ich distanziere mich vom fremdenhass jeglicher schattierung. das war falsch ausgedrückt, denn ich verstehe es viel prozesshafter. fremdenhass besteht als potential auch in mir und ihn nicht auszuleben gelingt nur durch anstrengung und aktive reflektion. das fremdenfeindliche potential muss immer wieder erkannt und prozesshaft verarbeitet werden. menschen, die dieses potential in sich verneinen, sind sehr gefährlich; fast so gefährlich wie die neonazis und skinheads, die voll darauf abfahren. wer dieses potential in sich verneint lebt mit einer zeitbombe, weil es sich jederzeit und in den unpassendsten momenten manifestieren kann. als erkanntes potential ist fremdenhass auch gar kein problem, die gedanken sind frei und verletzen niemanden. bei fremdenfeindlichen taten hört allerdings alles auf, solche sind unakzeptabel.

leider müssen wir seit einigen jahren in der schweiz erleben, wie fremdenfeindlichkeit wieder salonfähig geworden ist. für mich hat dieses phänomen mit einer unabgeschlossenen verarbeitung des potentiales zu tun. zu schnell und zu oberflächlich wurden fremdenfeinliche regungen verboten. dadurch wurden sie jedoch bloss tabusiert, der verarbeitungsprozess, mit dem ziel sie tatsächlich abzulegen, wurde übersprungen. und jetzt wirkt es absurderweise für viele schweizer befreiend wieder zu diesen unterdrückten gefühlen stehen zu dürfen.

die frage ist berechtigt, habe auch ich meinen fremdenhass nicht sauber verarbeitet, wenn im fussball plötzlich solche hassgefühle in mir hochkommen? vielleicht. aber vielleicht ist fussball auch der passende ort, um solche gefühle auf spielerische weise in einem klar abgesteckten rahmen auszuleben. und vielleicht sind die deutschen ein gutgewähltes opfer, denn sie sind ja auch nicht gerade zimperlich im austeilen, und scheinen vor selbstvertrauen nur so zu strotzen.

die WM als toleranzschulung? in dem sinne müsste man sich fast wünschen, dass die deutschen den pokal gewinnen … doch nein. es darf nicht sein. so wie es nichts schöneres gibt als wenn die deutschen verlieren, voller häme wird dies jeweils gefeiert, so gibt es auch nicht schrecklicheres als wenn sie gewinnen. also kann ich nur hoffen, dass die freunde, ja die freunde die momentan zu gast bei den feinden sind, die deutschen möglichst bald schlagen werden. dann kann man endlich damit anfangen diese verflixte WM zu geniessen.

[disclaimer: es ist mir bewusst, dass im gestrigen kleinen bund ein einigermassen ähnlicher beitrag erschienen ist, online konnte ich ihn aber noch nicht finden. dieser text war bereits in arbeit]

uhm say what?

most appropriate place to have a team-hotel:

australia in zweiflingen, wald- und schlosshotel [zweifeln means doubting in english]
tunesien in schweinfurt, mercure hotel [schwein means pig, hence this is muslims staying in pigfurt]
[via spiegel]

coolest federation website:

socawarriorstt.com

the funny names team:

goalkeeper:

antonin kinsky, czek republic
[if he'd looks even a little like klaus kinsky all attackers would run scared]

defense:

marc andre ZORO, cote d’ivoire
[yay for zorroesque defending]
ulises DE LA CRUZ, equator
[not that funny, just plain fabulous]
naif AL-QADI, saudi arabia
[don't know about you, but i'd hate to have a naive defender]
philip lahm
[lahm means lame in german]

midfield:

andrea PIRLO, italia
[just one letter away from pirla]
maman CHERIF TOURE, togo
[maman, i shot the sherif]
mohammed AMEEN, saudi arabia
[amen to that, mohammed]
KAKA, brasil
[stop with the scatological humor already]

strikers:

LOVE, angola
[hey, now thats a snappy name for a striker]
razak PIMPONG, ghana
[maybe this man did miss his sport]

bench:

LOCO, angola
[not sure if i'd want a vato loco in my defense]
otto ADDO, ghana
[otto ODDO would be perfection]
peter CROUCH, england
[his name sounds like a comic sound *ouch* here comes *crouch*]
seiichiro MAKI, japan
[mmhhhh sushi]
PETIT, portugal
[hey, short little players have a right to play as well]
silvio SPANN, t&t
[nimmt sie immer vollspann]

coach:

bruce arena, usa
[a great name for anybody working in stadiums]

still THE most disturbing football related thing, ever

olli k. and michael b. vibrators. why would any women ever want to buy and – god forbid – use such a thing? olliver kahn and michael ballack did slap an injunction on these.

[via blog.zeit.de]

and then i have a question:

what’s with the puma shirts, they look soaking wet within minutes of playing. wrong fabric? or do they come with an integrated shower system?

die welt zu gast bei pieceoCast

1:0 england – t&t peter CROUCH
2:0 espana – ucraine VILLA
3:0 equator – costa rica ivan KAVIEDES
4:0 mexico – iran omar BRAVO [ok, i admit it, it was the 1:0 in that game]

[did you see how crouch held the t&t defender sancho down by grabbing his dreadlocks]

playlist: music borrowed [with all due respect]:
1. pieceocast intro: a loop from amon tobin: hokkaido [chaos theory, the splinter cell soundtrack]; fred, the voice in my computer, samples
2. trey smith: slickboy [4four]
3. bob sinclair: love generation [via starfrosch, yup]
4. jeff storm: the web [4four]
5. thierry roland et jean-michel larqué: l’engueulade
6. franz beckenbauer: gute freunde kann niemand trennen

playlist: samples borrowed:
fifa worldcup

listen:

the pieceocast can be accessed here:

this link will pick up all my mixes and the occasional mp3’s i link to from my blog.

earlier pieceocasts:

to find the earlier pieceocasts please check this list with links and stuff.

a word about copyleft:

all music and audio is borrowed with the utmost respect for its creators. however, i do consider this to be fair use. this material is created purely for fun, to share with my online friends. there is no commercial transaction involved. as a long-time dj i own 5′000+ albums in vinyl and quite a few cd’s. all the music i use for these mixes, i either own a copy of or it was released under a CC-license to begin with.
i release all my work, the dj work as well as all my other coding and creating, under a creative commons license, hence i treat this material as if it was under CC license. i attribute it and i do not use it for commercial gain. don’t try to sue me, i am broke anyway.

“The TV, the music, the fashion – it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand” – Rio Ferdinand [via popbitch newsletter]

anti-WM-blog – [in german] covers the problematic politics surrounding an event of this scale. and here’s the anti-football rap video.

Rice Pudding with Cinnamon – for us the worldcup is about food, not footie. we usually cook a speciality from the country we support on the day. today’s menu: cote d’ivoire.

the worldcup played by ants – yeah, sadly you read that right.

World Cup Death Watch – “Between now and June 19th, guess how many people will perish worldwide in World Cup-related violence between June 9th and July 9th. Whoever comes closest wins a WFMU Messenger bag filled with CDs, T-shirts and other sundry WFMU crapola.” i can’t decide if i should laugh or cry about this contest. some of the links they have are cool, tho.

Hideous company sends Boing Boing a pre-emptive nastygram – tv-rights-holder company sends out pre-emptive warning letters.

footiefox – the firefox footie extension.

beckham lifts in 2006 – you can all go home now, england has won it.

playboy’s wm team – and last but very much least, do not click this link! yeah, yeah, even german playboy’s latest edition is dedicated to the worldcup. duh.

the rest

Katamari AIDS – AIDS awareness animation film done by msf.org [via sis]

Pirate Demonstration – a photoset on Flickr – photos of the pirate demonstration in sweden. copyfight goes street.

YouTube – Burn Station – Free Audio Culture! – ” Documentation video about Burn Station, a free/open music distribution project by Platoniq.net”

London Pirate Listening Station. – “The London pirate listening station streams london FM pirate transmissions to the global community via the internet.”

Pandora – Find New Music, Listen to Custom Internet Radio Stations – Can you help me discover more music that I’ll like? type in an artists you like and it will give you suggested music.

Entourage Season 2 Now Available on DVD! – tv serie entourage has a new website with some cool music apps, a sequencer and a beatbox.

ART AND REVOLUTION Artistic Activism During Long 20th Century – “In this study, author Gerald Raunig presents prolific material for the analysis of the diverse relations of exchange between art and activism based on a poststructuralist revolution theory” [ via rebelart]

Wired News: The Kinsey of Clicking – “What are the effects of information addiction on your life together?” [...] “2. What really sucks is when you’re both infomaniacs and there’s only one computer. 3. Watching someone else surf is the single most frustrating thing.”

How to Spin a Pencil Around Your Thumb – WikiHow – this happens to be the most viewed howto on wikihow, home of “The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit”.

Serial killers and notorious murders in the Serial Killer Calendar – the 2007 calendar of choice? erm [via 4rthur]

17632.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) -an inside look at flash.

162862529_6ae46f7109_o.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024×793 pixels) – katamari damacy in my wife’s bag.

Tom Moody – this is a so-called performace gif, via rhizome.

Pjotro – The man with the musical suit – make the man dance creates music.

swiss interest

IMPLOZ – events – the excellent swiss techno open air party/festival in the jura swiss mountains announces its programm.

Concours d’étiquettes pour la fête nationale avec Christoph Blocher – contest asks to create a wine label mocking CF blocher. gout de bouchon is my fave so far.

digitalbrainstorm – event – Maywa Denki will have an appearance in switzerland soon, Sonntag 2. Juli, 21 Uhr, Kunstraum Walcheturm – Zürich
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ringtones only audible to people under 25? – this ringtone uses a frequency that can usually only be heard by people bellow 25. helpful in some situations. school comes to mind. but asked the other way around, if i hear it, and i do, does that mean i am bellow 25? [via stillalive]

sry, no time to blog, busy playing pixaboy mundial.
[just in time, finally a fun worldcup gamsey ... and my footie idea won't be done in time. oh well]

meet michaela, roberta, alexa and becky. i believe the names refer to michael ballack, roberto carlos, alex frei and of course david beckham, in female, wearing lingery and yup, you guessed it, those ugly contraptions are supposed to be computer mice, released by swiss company pat-says-now.com as a limited Body World Cup edition just in time before the upcoming worldcup. i don’t know about you, but i would not even want to touch those ugly things.

but when i saw them in 20min week i had a huge laugh. amazing.