xmas

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

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

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

online video killed the …

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

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

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

schmooze and abuse

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?

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

my niece (9) gave me this fantastic self-made present, it’s a punker in a glass, if you shake it there are glitter “snowflakes”. love it love it love it.

xmess

Communist Christmas – Happy Communist Christmas, cuz there's a red star up on the tree. [via wurzeltod]

a very mario christmas – super mario xmas decoration

Betrunkene Weihnachtsmänner randalieren … – "Betrunkene Weihnachtsmänner sind "randalierend" durch das neuseeländische Auckland gezogen. Laut einem Sprecher der Gruppe wollten sie gegen "die Kommerzialisierung des Festes" protestieren. Die Gruppe taucht immer wieder weltweit auf." drunk santas riot in auckland.

The joy – Banksy’s comment on the xmas sale frenzy

online video killed the …

Henrietta and Merna Can't Sing – Go Tell It On The Mountain – "Listen as these two unfaithfully reproduce "Go Tell It On The Mountain" using a karaoke tape, and tell it on a mountain that they just cannot sing." these two are a pure expression of joy and enthusiasm.

Surfer on the News – surfer re-inventing language on fox news. hilarious.

Cartman and South Park conduct a website review meeting (Parody) – "Funny video showing what it might be like to work with Cartman."

schmooze and abuse

we wanna be your mp3 – “as we've said we have a noizy and dirty present for you – we are off to light up Xmas trees and get really drunk – and we give you this to blow up your speakers – and destroy your neighbor's windows and nerves” oh lord, how very mature… but the mix is ok.

iPhone fart app pulls in nearly $10,000 a day – "Apple’s App Store is currently experiencing a plague of fart applications. Last week, I detailed one day in which at least 14 new fart apps were accepted into the store. And now, just in a quick search, it looks like there are about 50 apps all dedicated to making fart noises on your iPhone or iPod touch. Classy, I know, but why are there so many?" file under: trends that should make you worry.

Wilmaa – swiss service that allows you to watch tv in a browser, quite good quality too, but why the need to register? [via hannes]

Eldery Japanese are Turning to Crime – "Loneliness and tough economic times are hurting everyone, including the elderly Japanese, who are now turning to petty crime in increasing numbers"

6 Musicians Who Predicted Their Own Death in Song – "Everybody dies. That's no secret. Even you, you're going to die some day. Accept it. Once you accept it, write a bizarrely specific song that details how exactly you're going to die, live up to your prediction and voila!"

GPS Elephant Drawing – "Jeremy Wood of GPS Drawing has a large canvas: the world. He uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to record and render his movement into a drawing on a map. I’m particularly fond of this 11.2 km (about 7 mi.) long GPS elephant in the streets of Brighton and Hove, UK"

Vote for the Sexiest Geeks of 2008 – "Every geek's a little bit sexy, somehow. Maybe it's the glasses, the hot talk about black holes or the Asperger's-like obsession with sci-fi, science or gadgets. But which nerds really moved the sexy needle in 2008?"

ArsRss – "ArsRSS re-reads between 100 and 120 art and new media related RSS feeds every four hours, caches the feeds and completely re-writes its database of words found in the feeds. This makes for fast response times both for searching across feeds and for accessing individual feeds."

Thank You, Porn! 12 Ways the Sex Trade Has Changed the Web – "The sex industry is behind many innovations that today's Netizens can't live without, as well as some nasty bits we wish had never existed." in good and bad ways.

MySpace Bans Project Playlist; Facebook Defies Same RIAA Request – "Over the weekend, in response to pressure from the RIAA and major labels, MySpace shut down Project Playlist’s widgets and banned the service from the site."

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

as usal in situations like this one i try to imagine the meeting where some web-dudes tries to pitch this podcasting idea to the queen.

queen: “a podwhat? i thought we got rid of the caste system a few centuries ago …”

my favorite xmas card this year, sent out by restaurant marzilibrücke, designed by http://www.balsigrafik.ch/.

the white one looks a bit too KKK for me, but this is cool stuff. “Hooded sweatshirt for grafers, ugly people, snow-boarders, fetichists… or simply super heros”.

loo&placido mix cd:

they say they send the cd’s out within 2 days of payment. and i can confirm. i received mine within a couple of days. ace bootleg/mashup mix with loads of l&p’s own excellent work on there..

sex:

but sex is not wrong. evar.

monkeypunk tshirt:

i knowww. i should be banned from … errrm… the planet for ego-plugging. but i love these goddamn shirts… great design by frau affen punk. dontchu agree?

d.rushkoff: get back in the box

i hate the title. but i guess i am just stuck in, brainwashed with, the think-outside-the-box doctrine. also, business books suck. quite generally. but judging from the “thought viruses”, or is that thought virae?, in fact excerpts from the book, rushkoff has been posting on his blog i think this will be a great read.