game of the week

DEFENDER of the favicon - “The idea was to push the concept of generated favicons further and pack a thrilling retro shooter in 16×16 pixels using JavaScript, canvas and data: URIs.” the result? a wee lil kickass game! [via waxy]

pizza pizza and some other foods

Around the World In Pizza Time - “If we could bastardize the Italian tradition by adding things like pineapple and barbecue sauce, then what have other cultures done to further alter the face of pizza as we know it?” well, a finnish kid, fellow wow-player, told me he eats pizza with kebap, shrimp and pineapples … rofl.

Amazing Pizza Spinning Kid video - meet the junior pizza spinning champion. who does one day want to open a restaurant.

Marmelade de figues noires au gingembre et a la verveine citronnelle - i am making this today!

Blood Orange-Argan Oil Dressing - the de facto salad sauce dicovery of the year. ffs. lurrrrffff it!

Ben & Jerry’s makes ‘Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road’ - “Ben & Jerry’s has done it again: Hoping to honor rocker Elton John before his first-ever Vermont performance, Vermont’s crazy-cool confectioner has whipped up a flavor just for him”

online video killed the …

Sticks - ‘High Noon’ - “They’re back and still sticky - this time with a western flavour ” [via b3ta]

Daruma-otoshi skyscraper demolition - “New skyscraper demolition method by Kajima Corporation.” [via neatorama]

failed building demolition - to cheerz from the crowd.

Google My Maps (Part III of “The Googling”) - “The “Google Maps” guys are back and everything seems back to normal…or is it?”

schmooze and abuse

Lessons Learned. - “Finally, when we did post a response that drew heated comments, we didn’t have a way to coordinate with our moderators and join the conversation in a consistent way. We screwed up. And we’re sorry.” mkay, apology kinda accepted. but i did remember getting shunned by xeni for simply editing a post in my noob blogging days.

quillp - where books find friends - “Discover new books matching your taste - find people with the same taste in books as you - find new books you might like - find out what your friends are reading” this sounds interesting, wouldn’t mind a beta invite. anyone?

mowercycle.jpg - “This MowerCycle was created by some DIY-genius out of an old bicycle and a broken lawnmower” i so could use one of these. [via neatorama]

Circle Up Now - A Global Day of Action - “View the amazing photographic results of ‘A Global Day of Action!’”

SoundCloud - “SoundCloud is an online audio platform for music professionals.” its in beta. but i could throw you an invite.

They never learn - “They never learn… poor stixel men…”

Oregon Country Fair Photos - “I know that I’m gonna sound like the hippy that I’ve spent my adult life mockingly sniggering at, but the energy there was pretty fantastic. Now, where did I put my mushrooms…” they are next to the bong, doofus.

H&M becomes HIV - “To coincide with the German fashion week in Berlin, XOOOOX liberated two advertising billboards in Berlin Mitte.”

Be A Doll-An Action Figure of YOU - “Have you ever wanted to have a Mini-Me ? How about immortalizing yourself in a doll?”

Speak Out Against Copyright Extension! - “Please sign the petition below (even if you’re not from the EU). We’ll use your support to help us lobby in Brussels. We’ve already collected 12458 signatures - please add your own!”

Teens herald the death of e-mail - “teens [are] shunning e-mail in favor of other platforms such as texting, instant messaging and social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.” email has become incredibly unsexy …

Sex Pistols ‘praise Allah’ at EXIT Festival - “In a bizarre and misjudged gaff midway through their Sunday night set, the ageing rocker asked the crowd: ‘So who thinks America should still be in Iraq?’ The question was met by boos and jeers, prompting Rotten to wave his arms in mock Muslim prayer chanting, ‘Praise Allah, Praise Allah’ repeatedly. The main stage crowd were initially taken aback by the mystifying gesture, before boos began echoing around the crowd.” ha ha!

Shouting Vase holds your anger - “Primal scream therapy that doesn’t bother the neighbors” how very considerate.

Women arrested in sex competition - “Nine British women were facing prostitution charges after being arrested at the weekend for taking part in an oral sex competition in the Greek holiday island of Zakynthos” an oral sex competition? why does no one invite me to these things?

Radiohead “House of Cards” and Creative Commons - “Exciting for Creative Commons is that the data (although not the music) used to produce this music video are being made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License” radiohead are such fooking do-gooders, that i need a scandal soon or i will have to stop believing in the band.

‘World’s oldest blogger’ dies in Australia at 108 - “An Australian woman described as the world’s oldest Internet blogger has died at the age of 108 after posting a final message about singing “a happy song” in her nursing home.” no one too old to bl.., nah fuck that.

Banksy uncovered: The nice middle-class boy who ‘became the graffiti guerrilla’ - “The notion that Banksy is Gunningham, 34, who was educated at the 9,240-a-year Bristol Cathedral School, will shock the artist’s fans, fond of their hero’s ‘anti-establishment’ stance.” yeh sure. whatever.

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online video killed the …

Western Spaghetti by PES - very simple yet innovative stop-motion animation.

I’m Not Here to Make Friends! - “I’m here to win.” to get laid, maybe?

Techno Chicken - “Puts a spin on the “Chicken Dance”

More Cowbell - a more cowbell slideshow, of sorts. [via bengston]

schmooze and abuse

Radiohead: New Radiohead Video is Shot with Lasers, Not Cameras - “Radiohead has shot its new video for “House of Cards” without using cameras at all. Whaa? Yes, they shot it using lasers.”

Tangible sequencer interface with Skittle - “Using a webcam, some cardboard, and a bag of Skittles, [Kyle McDonald] created this tangible interface for a beat sequencer.”

Hacker Sentenced to 2 Years for MySpace Cyberstalking - “A Southern California man who already served federal time for hacking into Lexis-Nexis has begun a state prison term for allegedly using his skills to try and extort phone sex from an internet celebrity.”

Licensing of photographs at Flickr photo service - “We invite you to take part in a study of users of Flickr photo service.”

Beyond the G8 Summit: Hokkaido’s Creative Side - “Hokkaido, where the summit takes place, is the large Japanese island distinctive for its undisturbed nature … there is a thriving art scene that very much deserves to be shown today.”

The Pirate Bay Wants to Encrypt the Entire Internet - “The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new encryption technology that could potentially protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes.”

Trapped: mental illness in america’s prisons - documentary focusing on how prisons became the new mental hospitals in the usa. [via wmmna]

Nerdcore Rising: The Movie - “Nerdcore Rising follows MC Frontalot the “Godfather of Nerdcore” on his first national tour to reveal the roots of the genre”

octo-pied building - “a house with tentacular cancer - inflatable sculpture”. gav emy ideas, who knows…

Melted Signs In Leeds - with the heat we had, no wonder they melted.

Totem Destroyer - funnnn!!!! free!!!! flash online game.

Inbox Victory - “Have you ever been in the situation where you spend days trying answer all of your email only to accomplish your goal and have no one to share in your victory?”

Coincidence Photography - “This looks like sheer coincidence, they all look real, I bet you would agree to that.”

11 Cartoon and Video Game Energy Drinks - “These drinks are cartoon or video game tie-ins - many of which are very rare or even collectors items.”

The Patchwork Years - “Wouldn’t it be nice if we could stand up now and say, okay, these are the post-curation years? The world does not need another linkblog. What is required, frankly, is what we’re supposed to call “content” these days.” a rather good rant this.

In the black of this long night - “Attempt to organize Google Image Search results according to defacement tactics”

WLTF - “What is WLTF? Is a publication and an online project. Ok, it means Would Like To Fuck.” may be NSFW. i guess.

Suicide Block - “Homeless? Jobless? Broke? Hungry? Depressed? Kills several birds with one stone.. so to speak”

SimplyNoise.com - The best free white noise generator on the Internet. - “Uses of White Noise: * Aid Sleep * Enhance Privacy * Block Distractions * Mask Tinnitus * Configure Audio Equipment * Soothe Migraines”

Beaming sounds into your head - “MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) is a device that uses microwave pulses to beam sound directly into someone’s head.”

Human Mirror at Improv Everywhere - “For our latest mission, we filled a subway car with identical twins, creating a human mirror.”

swiss party service

we party! - “we’d like to invite everyone - especially the readers of this blog - to our opening party of the new Zurich Office of Liip at Friday, 22nd August 2008.”

etoy.CORPORATION / Tanklocation Binz Raeffelstrasse 30 - etoy summerparty, today, saturday july 12. wish i wasnt busy already.

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YouTube ordered to hand over user details - “A U.S. federal judge has ordered Google Inc. to hand over to media giant Viacom the records of every video users have watched on the video-sharing site YouTube, records that include users’ names and IP addresses.”

Sex Positions for Singles - “is a slide projected series of 80 images. It reflects my taste for incorporating vernacular uses of photography and is part of a collection of works called ‘Single Life’.” [via sexblo.gs]

Skype Laughter Chain - “At Skype we believe that face-to-face communication is the best kind, which is why we’ve created this Laughter Chain to promote our free video calling feature.”

Die Meringuage - Eine Masse mit verschiedenen Möglichkeiten - ein rezept wo funtzie.

WII SEX - “actually, the I-Player mode is surprisingly addictive”

Fernando Torres | Spain vs. Germany, June 29 - Best Goals of Euro 2008 - anyone else wondered what lehmann’s foot is doing so near torres but. he tried to hide it his rollover fall, but to me this is clearly a kick, a try to tackle.

That Violet Blue thing - “We didn’t attempt to silence Violet. We unpublished our own work. There’s a big difference between that and censorship.” not really, given the power BB has …

What the …? DMV offers license plate replacement - “Thanks to some text message-savvy grandchildren, North Carolina drivers whose license plates have the potentially offensive “WTF” letter combination can replace the tags for free.”

Kitty sitting on glass - squishhyyy

Is a UK Wired tired or inspired? - “British version of Wired magazine some time next year. [...] Will you be buying Wired when it hits the shelves? And what do you want to see from it?”

65 things that look like Pac-Man - “Whenever you take a slice of pizza or cut a segment from a cake, he’s there.”

The physical value of sound - “Yuri Suzuki is an artist, musician and now a fresh graduate from the Design Products department. His project is concerned with revamping and giving new forms and meanings to the almost obsolete turntable”

FontStruct - Build, Share, Download Fonts

WoW No Longer World’s Biggest MMO? - “World of Warcraft will lose its undisputed status as the most popular massively multiplayer online world. It’s struggling to defend that title as Habbo Hotel, the web-based, social MMO from Finland”

Tableware by Kathryn Hinton - “Pieces include lettering on the prongs of forks that correspond with words imprinted in bowls and the Exhausted range (below), where cutlery follows the shape of objects it appears to collapse onto.”

Bullitt Chase Scene - “i’m a huge fan of ‘the king of cool’ and of all movie car-chase scenes. I thought it would be great to mashup famous chases with their GPS tracks.” [via bb]

Touch My Body (Green Screen Version), 2008, Oliver Laric - a guy green-screened the latest mariah carey video “His real hope is not that the piece will become an artworld cause celebre but that the larger public of YouTube surfers will adopt the piece and post remixes of their own.”

McDonalds sued over Happy Meal toyz - “Post-punk pioneers Devo say they are suing McDonald’s in the US over a Happy Meal doll that sports the band’s signature red flower pot hat.”

William Gibson Completely Deleted from BoingBoing Archives - “Ok, it wasn’t William Gibson. It was Violet Blue who was unceremoniously purged.”

One Post Wonder - “A collection of amazing blogs that have one post.”

THE SOUND OF EBAY - “Create your own eBay song by entering any eBay username and your email address. Push the “GENERATE” button, You will then be notified by email as soon as the song is ready for downloading. Enjoy the silence!”

Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage - “Stubble is the way to win a woman’s heart, a study has shown. Researchers found that women are more attracted to men with stubbly chins than those with clean-shaven faces or full beards.”

UNKLE Goes Widescreen, Remixes X-Files - “UNKLE is releasing four tracks from End Titles online for free, from four different sites.”

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ok ok, i upgraded the software. and here it is in unhackable new wordpress code, ugly as hell, yet it will stay in the custom layout, aka the kubrick puke, for the time being. and i don’t think i can be arsed to work on this blog, that i am so utterly bored with anyway. read my occasional lame posts in rss … what can i say.

re: new wordpress: the new admin is better in some ways and really shit in others. like why do i need to bloody scroll to choose my categories??? meh.

george carlin r.i.p.

Seven Words - shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. he’s right, it’s got a very nice rythm.

George Carlin: A YouTube Obituary - “Here’s a short selection of George Carlin’s best YouTube YouTube flicks. If you’re a fan, I know you’ll enjoy them; if you’re one of the uninitiated, well, better late than never.”

footie

Luca Toni - “Cow’s arses, banjos, donkeys, clown shoes, muppet puppets … yep, this week’s Photoshop versions of Italy’s misfiring hitman left no stone unturned.” i am a fan, but i admit. he did look rather clumsy.

Chancellor Merkel goes fussball crazy - “Chancellor Angela Merkel has become so wrapped up in the team effort that she sends players regular text messages before and after games and has even been invited into their dressing room for pep talks.” oh noes, another powerful woman creaming her panties over footballers?

Allo raymond - making fun of raymond domenech is the good strategy. it is hard though cause he mostly pisses people off.

graffiti/street art

blu at hangar bicocca milano - me = incoming! blu’s website

Scott Wade’s Dirty Car Art Gallery - artist creates artwork on dusty cars.

Nerd-Graffiti - “What happens if some IT comes into our real life?”

REVERSE GRAFFITI: Clean Green Street Art hits San Francisco! - “The Reverse Graffiti Project imbues the guerrilla tactics of street-art with an eco-friendly element, detourning the definition of graffiti by actually cutting through and cleaning up grit to leave a lasting impression.”

online video killed the …

How to torment telemarketers with one word - “Dedicated to those wonderful people who phone me every day.” yes!

Where The Hell Is Matt? - matt, the globetrotting dancing dude, has a new video up.

Blonde does the escalator rail spin! - “it’s really hard to stop …”

The 10 Best Fan Made Hip Hop Videos With Sims Of All Time - “Fan made music videos featuring The Sims aren’t exactly new. Still, have you seen these things lately? They are the funniest thing.”

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain ownage - “Nirvana famous song ‘Smells like teen spirit’ by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain” and curt has officially turned in his grave.

Heavy Load - punk band featuring musicians with learning disabilities. i am down with the down syndrome drummer.

Rayman singing Sexbomb - Rayman and Globox singing Sexbomb. yeh …

schmooze and abuse

The Many (Geeky) Faces of Bill Gates - “Transition One: Coder to Negotiator, Transition Two: Founder to Fortune 500 CEO, Transition Three: Monopolist to Savvy Defendant, Transition Four: Captain of Industry to ‘Venture Philanthropist’”

Flooded London Gallery - “the Medcalf Gallery in London debuted “Flooded London”, a photographic depiction of the future of London as it is overtaken by the rising sea.” preview of things to come.

Yeondoo Jung - kids drawings recreated as photos.

A Marxist analysis of the Simpsons - “Rather than being a satirical examination of American working class life and alienation under capitalism, the show has been transformed from satire to spectacle.” damn man, communists sure know how to take the fun out of everything.

Michel Gondry Picks 25 Classic Music Videos - “Michel Gondry, the French-born director of acclaimed offbeat movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, has also directed numerous groundbreaking videos for the likes of Björk and the White Stripes. He offers his picks of the best videos of the last 25 years, in no particular order.”

Big Lebowski 8-Inch Figures - dude!

The Paper Version of the Web - “We don’t usually get to see this handmade stage of the web, but some folks have been thoughtful/narcissistic enough to upload photos of their UI sketches, and I find them fascinating.”

Nintendo ‘least green tech firm’ - “Games firm Nintendo has come bottom of a ranking of the world’s most eco-friendly electronics firms.”

Dance powered phone charger for Glastonbury Festival - “Orange today unveiled a prototype phone charger which harnesses the kinetic energy of your dance moves to allow you to make calls.”

RETRO Reality - retro game chars in real-life settings.

My Headphones Almost Killed My Cat - “I guess I never really noticed or thought about the fact that they were enclosed in this big thick plastic case.” i so know this, struggled many times with these unbreakable plastic packaging materials.

By Open Sourcing Symbian, Nokia Kicks Off the Mobile Age - “Symbian co-founder Nokia announced Monday night that it is buying the 52 percent of the software maker that it doesn’t already own and releasing its mobile operating system under an open source license.”

The 13 Most Common Female Courtship Gestures and Signals - “The female techniques that you are about to see give you a basic understanding and a few small and maybe unknown female tips.”

Hackers Crack London Tube’s Ticketing System - “Dutch security researchers rode the London Underground free for a day after easily using an ordinary laptop to clone the “smartcards” commuters use to pay fares, a hack that highlights a serious security flaw” haXXorz.

Announcing the “Internet for Everyone” campaign - “Today Google joined a national initiative of public interest, civic and industry groups to help launch the Internet for Everyone campaign, whose goal is to make ubiquitous and open broadband access f every American a priority in the next administration.” so noble. so not evil. so goo… i think i am gonna puke now.

Man named God arrested for selling cocaine - “Whether his name is a blessing or curse the man named God Lucky Howard was arrested by undercover detectives for selling cocaine in his neighborhood.” god, can you sell me some crack when you get released from prison. please?

PictoplasmaNYC - “Pictoplasma NYC - Conference on Contemporary Character Design and Art New York, September 5-6, 2008 Away from its usual home in Berlin, the Pictoplasma Conference is about to touch down in the heart of Manhattan.” if only ny wasn’t so bloody unaffordable.

www.belluard.ch - Since 1983 the festival Belluard Bollwerk International takes place every year in the beginning of the summer in Fribourg (CH). At this year’s festival which takes place from June 24th til July 5th 2008, 19 projects - will be presented.

Wonderland: Postcard from Azeroth - “In a moment of brilliance (I suspect fuelled by gin), my guildmates sent the guild a postcard each … from Azeroth.” what strikes me is that they had everyone’s rl adress.

Teens use technology to party in strangers’ pools | Register Hardware - “Tech savvy teens are using Google Earth’s splendidly clear aerial shots of the UK to launch a summertime craze – pool crashing.”

german crap

Markus Notter | Regierungsrat des Kantons Zürich - website of a swiss politician, that gives the illusion you actually meet him. [via swissmiss]

Nokia erwirbt Berliner Startup Plazes - “Nokia kauft das Berliner Startup Plazes.com. Der weltweit führende Handyanbieter baut damit seine Internetplattform Ovi weiter aus.”

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disturbing image of the week

NSFW: dragqueen.jpg - think before you click this, the image might get stuck in your head for … nah. its not that bad. or is it?

ff3

Firefox 3 Robot Themed Easter Egg - “Firefox 3, which was released on Tuesday, has a really cool Easter Egg. Just type “about:robots” in the address bar” [via waxy]

Mozilla Records 8DOT2 Million Downloads in First Day - “Mozilla’s Download Day ended at 11:18 PDT Wednesday, well on its way to setting its Guinness World Record goal with a staggering 8.2 Million downloads of the Firefox 3 browser — shattering all expectations the company had when organizing the event.”

What happens when Firefox renders a webpage? - “Inside Gecko is a visualization program created by Satoshi Ueyama, made with Processing which shows the reflow process of a browser while it translates the HTML code so as to present the page to the user.”

Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008 - “Download Day is here! Set a Guinness World Record Enjoy a Better Web”

comment: ff3 is awesome. but it still drives the cpu through the roof on my mac. so i’ll stick with camino. sadly. still. ffs. they said they fixed this.

online video killed the …

Slow-Motion Laughing Baby - “He just read last Sunday’s “Doonesbury.” babies are da devil ^^.

Totlol - Video for Toddlers, Infants, Preschoolers and Parents - “Totlol is a brand new community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years.” [via frenzy]

the Trons - self playing robot band - “the Trons practising “Sister Robot” in the lounge before their up and coming Ignition Fringe Festival shows!” botband rawks.

Breitbild.com - mach si stolz - cool animations for a mediocre swiss german hip hop track. not sure if it’s homophobic, towards the end you can spot a graffiti reading “fag”.

NSFW: A Beginners Guide To Sporn - “Since the Spore demo’s release, it’s become a bukkake wave sweeping the web: comedy pornographic images via Spore. Spornography - aka “Sporn”.”

my trip to liberty city - old. but still very funny. download it here.

PROOF
“Montage of girls giving the “Myspace salute” to verify their identity”

schmooze and abuse

Read at Work - literature presented as power point presentations so it can be read at work.

Why You Should Carry a Digital Camera At All Times - “Last Tuesday, Lori Mehmen looked out her front door in Orchard, Iowa and this is what she saw. She had a digital camera handy, and somehow managed to take this photo before crapping her pants and taking cover.”

hillmancurtis :: bridge - another rather nice hillman curtis short film.

The Microfame Game and The New Rules of Internet Celebrity - “There’s a new class of celebrity powered by the Internet. The stakes are smaller, but the rewards are within anyone’s reach. These are the rules.” [via swissmiss]

Age of Conan and other reviews - “And maybe that’s why it has sold so well - hardcore PC gamers finally have a game to really show off their machines.” yeh, and by not playing it manifest my hate of all things microsoft …

GIRL TALK - FEED THE ANIMALS - new mashup album, free to download, donations for the impending legal fees are already collected.

Puzzle Farter - exactly my kind of game: the goal is to fart about from level to level [via waxy]

Stewart Butterfield’s bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo - “In a long, rambling email to Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse, under whose aegis Flickr fell, Butterfield described the company as a tin-smithing concern, but found that there was no place for him as the company left its metallurgical roots.”

Charles and Ray Eames Stamps - “the Postal Service™ issued 42–cent commemorative stamps Charles and Ray Eames in a commemorative sheet featuring 16 different designs.” [via bb]

Swiss TV in German anthem blunder - “Swiss television has made an embarrassing error during live coverage of the European Championship football match between Germany and Austria” *chuckle*

SporeVote - “As part of marketing effort they have us competing for votes - the winner gets to donate 15K to the charity of their choosing.” how rather noble.

Accidental Breast Reduction Strikes Age of Conan - “uncom has stated that the changes to female characters’ breasts was an unintended side effect of the latest patch, and will be rectified shortly.” oh noes, smaller tits? one of the biggest selling points lost? fix that! now!

Blogger arrests hit record high - “More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report.”

The IKEA Fancy Dress Dinner Party - “Oh! Those IKEA room displays! Entire rooms full of furniture, lighting, rugs and notions. [...] It was an invitation that Jason Adair couldn’t pass up. He decided to have a Fancy Dress Party at IKEA.”

Naked Bike Ride 2008 - “i’m not naked you’re over dressed”

german

Neues iPhone kann fast alles, was ein normales Handy kann - “Allein die Tatsache, dass man jetzt im iPhone Namen suchen kann, indem man den Anfangsbuchstaben eingibt! Wow! Das kenne ich sonst nur von… jedem beliebigen anderen Handy” my point exactly.

ze’s corner

charity idea revised - “We could call it “Made of Money”. Basic concept: Money is collected and used as an art supply or building material for participatory installation(s), then at the end the money is donated to a charity.”

a fun charity idea - “we could build a small house out of spare change. we collect coins, then have an event where people can come and help build the house. Then when it’s over the money is donated to a charity that builds/operates homeless shelters.”

rational triggers for the emotoself - phrases people tell themselves to get motivated. and while i agree that my “mantra” (”i just wanna die”) is not exactly helping, this does sound a bit too new-agey-self-helpy to me. still cool to read through some of them.

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but tonite i am the hugest cristiano ronaldo fan. go on, portugal, send the germans home, so that we can finally start to enjoy this tournament… yeh.

(but of course it is alread clear that klose, who so fa had the worst tournament possible, will score two lucky goals late in the game to equalize and the germans will pass to the semi finals on penalties. as per bloody usual)

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hoax of the week

WHO CAN EXPLAIN ????? - “We tried but didn’t make it…maybe only with phone brands or models ???” can you really make popcorn with mobile phones? hmm …

So the “microwave popcorn with your phone” thing is a hoax. Done how? - “Suggestions so far: trick editing (I don’t think so - OK, it’s on YouTube, but there’s no suggestion of a cut at all) or a heating element under the table.”

online video killed the

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU - “The new short film by Blu an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.” spectacular stopmotion graffiti animation.

Brighton Port Authority - Toe Jam - “Norman Cook aka Fat Boy Slim in collaboration with David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal” almost nekkid. almost.

Der HDL-Song - “DiEseS LieD IsT FüR aLLe MeInE LieBEn FReuNdE UnD soLCHe, DiE eS WerDeN wOLLeN! Hab euch alle meeeegaaaaaaa lüüüübbbb!!!!!!” another cute wannabe internet star. sings in german.

‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’ - sounds amazing - ly stupid. and midly funny.

Pizza Party (Unix) - howto order pizza using command line.

schmooze and abuse

The Other Side by Istvan Banyai - “wordless picture book devoted to the study of opposing vantage-points.” [via swissmiss]

Pixaboy EURO2008 - the pixaboy game was added to facebook.

WTF!? Internet Addiction Nominated for Entry in the Manual of Mental Disorders - “First, we all had mild Asperger’s. Now, Internet addiction disorder? Give a geek a break.” or a wired loony bin?

Timur Bekmambetov Punks the World With Viral Video - “Those fearing that their cubicle neighbor might engage in similar hysterics can breathe easy — it was all a sly bit of viral marketing from Timur Bekmambetov for Wanted.” yeh, but please do explain what a viral video having nothing in common with the movie should do to promote the movie?

Mystery on Fifth Avenue - “some of that furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets — messages, games and treasures — that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems and contraptions conceived by a young architectural designer named Eric Clough”

Field Guide to Firefox 3 - “the new and improved features you’ll see in the browser.”

SUCK UK - Mix Tape USB Drive - “Create your own unique mix tape
1. ADD YOUR OWN SOUNDS TO THE USB STICK.
2. PLACE THE STICK INSIDE THE TAPE STYLE GIFT PACK.
3. WRITE YOUR OWN MESSAGE AND PLAYLIST.
4. GIVE IT TO SOMEONE YOU LOVE.”

Artists for Tibet Poster - “Tibet Solitarity Concerts at the Bundesplatz Bern. Sunday 6th of July, 2008, 11AM - 7PM.” good job, but what do elephants and tibet have in common?

The One Flag - “We invite you to create a flag – free from language and well-worn clichés – that embodies the idea of global citizenship. A symbol that triggers pride and cohesion, whether worn on a backpack, displayed on a door, or flown on a flagpole.” another noble adbusters idea.

The man who fell off a sofa while laughing - and ended up in court - “A man was handcuffed, arrested and dragged before a court after falling off the settee with laughter while watching Have I Got News For You.” rofl.

Boy, 13, ‘hanged himself after he was bullied on Bebo for being a fan of Emo music’ - “A teenager said to have been bullied on the social networking site Bebo has been found hanged in his bedroom.” sounds a bit emo.

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - “Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. ” it aint loading for me (camino), but the idea sounds great. [via waxy]

Zipidee - “Zipidee empowers PGC digi-good owners, from aspiring media moguls to large media companies, to generate revenue from their digital content” good thinking: stream = free, download = pay.

Get Started With the Yahoo HTTP Geocoder API - “Yahoo’s HTTP Geocoder API is easy to use, and its output is easy to incorporate maps into your applications.”

7 summer fragrance tips - i should somehow be able to slip this one to our downstairs neighbor, a 30 year old parfumwolke par excellence.

Vending machine provides release for anger - “This “Passive Aggressive Vending Machine” by artist Yarisa Kublitz is filled with fine China. When someone puts in a coin, and selects an object, the piece will fall to the bottom, shattering into a million tiny pieces.” dunno why it is called passive aggressive, this is pretty open aggressivity, but great idea still.

you bastard - meow

Cool Tool: Organizes desk-bound cords - “They’re cheap polyethylene sheets you either stick or screw to the edge of your desk and then snap the cables coming from your computer and peripherals into the recesses.” very! [via bb]

Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now - “Free downloadable version of the IDW comic collection “Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now,” which collects the six-issue comic of adaptations from Doctorow’s award-winning science fiction stories.”

Metallica Kills Early Reviews of Upcoming Album - “Oh, Metallica, why can’t you get it right? The band [...] has apparently unleashed another potentially damaging fiasco upon itself by forcing bloggers to take down reviews of their upcoming album.

Tom Sachs at Sperone Westwater - “The show is called Animals so there’s a fair amount of pieces which explore the presence of the animalistic in our everyday lives but there’s also some quirky machines and installations.”

The Guerrilla Gardening Homepage - last week i saw a report on tv. and here’s the website. weird homepage tho.

Jan Vormann - Dispatchwork - old walls fixed up with what looks like pieces of lego. [via neatorama]

german crap

Holunderblütensirup - “Man kann Holunderblütensirup mit Mineralwasser oder Sekt verdünnen, in heißem Tee trinken oder über Pudding geben.” i made some this week and already i suffer from hausfrauen-blues.

Hacker-Krimi mit Kultpotential: Die Millennium Trilogie von Stieg Larsson - “Denn nach dreimal 700 Seiten ist Schluss. Für immer. Der Autor Stieg Larsson ist nämlich bereits 2004 gestorben.” looks like a great book trilogy for the holidays.

ZU GAST BEI VERLIERERN - awwww. poor austrians. but they can still make it, while the swiss truely are the losers.

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many of my WoW-”friends” have left to play AoC, Age of Conan. [excursion: yes, i still call them "friends", even if i have known some of them for a long time now. it might have been on and off with some, but we kept chatting, meeting, helping each other, listening to each others frustrations etc. in a way i should say friends without the "", but i guess i am either too old school or too desillusioned to call them that. anyway]. i would be more than ready to give AoC a spin, test it. but they only develop for PC and still only have a Mac. and get this, i even considered buying a gaming PC, yup, i am very ashamed to admit it, me the old hater of all things microsoft almost caving in. that’s simply outrageous.

so what now? non-MMO games are simply too boring. WoW is on hold. ffs, what am i gonna do? the next three weeks are covered, i can watch tons of f***ball, maybe beat up some hooligans (just kiddin), meet interesting tourists from around europe. but after? hmmm

f***ball rulez da nation

The little things make all the difference - “2004 by Jonathan Monk.” sniffie, no english.

The football statues. - Zurich, Switzerland - “Most interesting is the fact that it was actually claimed by the two rent-a-cops (pictured in this panorama) that photography of these statues was illegal” amazing panorama shot of zurich trainstation. gotta love the cops!

Google Maps - euro08 google map. [via de-bug]

online video killed the …

AoC good times with a horse - “Having fun with a horse mount!” what a cunt, tbh.

Big Ideas (Don’t get any) - “I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something that they’re not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.” the resulting radiohead mashup is hella funky.

Roots Manuva - Buff Nuff - “Brand new video for ‘Buff Nuff’, the first single from forthcoming album ‘Slime & Reason’ released August 2008.” gief ice cream truck vendors like that .. lol.

Zürich Chamber Orchestra | Roller Coaster - “Avertiser: Zurich Chamber Orchestra ” [via ze frank]

Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane Video - “Some dude goes absolutely insane.” real or fake? [via bb]

Video Games and Sex - “Based on “Sex in Video Games” by Brenda Brathwaite and writings by James Portnow and Leigh Alexander.”

schmooze and abuze

Watchlist Spezial: Art Basel, Liste, Volta, Scope - rebel:art covers art basel.

Brits Fail To Cash In On Free £5 Notes - “The full extent of Britain’s financial inertia was laid bare today when passers-by in London and Manchester were offered a free £5 note, no strings attached.” only 28 took the free cash. shows just how immune to adverts we have become.

Are we creatures of habit in game worlds too? - “Human trajectories show a high degree of temporal and spatial regularity, each individual being characterised by a time-independent characteristic travel distance and a significant probability to return to a few highly frequented locations. [...] I wondered if people are like this in game worlds…” i know i am … i have certain routines for awhile but then throw them all out and find new ones.

pieceoplastic - Plurk.com - some people claim plurk is the next big thing after twitter. it is certainly making twitter more gamey, putting it in a timeline, but, hmmm, it’s still offensive in it’s banality. i guess it’s still only fun for people with huge friends-lists.

What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web - “Why is Google making more money everyday while newspapers are making less? I’m going to pick on The Washington Post again only because it’s my local paper and this is a local example.”

Wayward Alzheimer’s patients foiled by fake bus stop - “A German nursing home has come up with a novel idea to stop Alzheimer’s patients from wandering off: a phantom bus stop. The bus stop, in front of the Benrath Senior Centre in the western city of Düsseldorf, is an exact replica of a standard stop, with one small difference: buses never stop there.” take that, you naughty alzheimers!

Radiohead songs finally on iTunes - “Radiohead’s back catalogue has appeared on iTunes, making them one of the last high-profile bands to put their body of work on Apple’s leading download store.”

How games will change the world - “within a few years, many - if not all of us - will be able to say the same. Soon we’ll all be playing at work.”

Steal This Footage - “in the spirit of cooperation and sharing, and by agreement with our interviewees, we are making this footage available to others who want to make films on this subject”

UK cops arrest six alleged BitTorrent music uploaders - “Cleveland police have today confirmed that six people have been arrested for allegedly sharing music files via the defunct BitTorrent tracker OiNK.cd.” oink.

Suggestion Book - About the Book - “Hey, would you like to make a suggestion? With that simple question and an enormous white Suggestion Box, Illegal Art canvassed the five boroughs of New York City”

WTF?! - “You’ve stumbled into WTF?! - a WoW inspired side-scrolling Flash-based RPG.” marx and freud as questgivers, no really.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Big Ideas (Don’t get any)

hoax of the week

BIGGEST DRAWING IN THE WORLD - guy sends a gps equipped briefcase around the world to create the biggest self-portrait ever. we think … [via ze frank] but:

‘Biggest drawing in world’ revealed as hoax - “A Swedish artist who claimed to have drawn the biggest picture in the world using a GPS device stuffed inside a briefcase has been exposed as a hoaxer.” this leaves us feeling horrible, about being so gullable and believing it at firstand about still wanting to believe it, really, cause it is such a great idea.

online video killed the …

internet love song - “BRB, OMG, LOL
ROFLMAO.
We’ll pour our hearts out on the screen
One line at a time” too cute, and the kid has a voice that can only make it big.

Grand Theft Auto: DUI - “Kotaku’s Owen Good does a comparison; which is worse, the drunk driving gameplay in GTA IV, or getting drunk and driving in GTA IV. The results are ROFL funny.” brilliant idea.

Cell Phone In Microwave - “This kids cell phone bill got to high so he decided to cook it in the microwave.” [via al4ie]

I Will Derive! - “I parody of “I Will Survive” that I did with a couple of my friends for our Calculus and Physics classes.” and i got it stuck in my head since, thank you very much … ffs.

japanese corner

mildly NSFW: Air Sex - the sex version of air guitar. jap.

we are the world in japan - “we are the world ものまね impersonator” creepy stuff.

組曲『ニコニコ動画』 グランドフィナーレ　全自動マリオ - custom-made supermario level set to very tacky music, but still great fun.

schmooze and abuse

Geek Gang Signs - “Looking at a “Gang Signs” chart, I asked myself “Why should gangstas have all the fun?” The end result: the “Geek Signs” chart, pictured below. Enjoy!” good point, g33k.

Apple Bans Teens From Stores for Downloading iPhone Game - “Four Palo Alto teens found themselves chased down a street and detained by Apple store security for 2.5 hours after they downloaded a third-party game onto a store phone.” *sigh*, apple, you oughta love the kids idea.

In a Letter to His Kids, Wired’s Founding Editor Recalls the Dawn of the Digital Revolution - quite a personal tribute to 15 years wired magazine.

High-profile Tibetan Writer & Blogger Woeser Under Attack - “On the evening of May 27th (Beijing time), Woeser discovered that her Skype account and email address were both apparently accessed and her Skype ID hijacked.” this seems totally bizarre.

Add-Art - “Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images.”

euroby 08 | robotersoccer - 15. - 22. Juni, Zürich / Linz - “The European champion in robot football will be crowned in Linz June 19-22, 2008. [...] The teams will be getting an initial feeling for the competition during a preliminary round in Zurich”. worth a trip to zurich? hmmm, maybe.

Go Online without Getting Snooped: Tor - “When you go online, you leave tracks all over the place. You could be hanging out with friends on IM, checking out websites, or downloading music. If you live in a country where snoops are prying into what ordinary citizens do online (like, um, the US) you want a way to cover those tracks.” oh i really should do this … but.

Weezer’s Memetastic Video Director Spills the ‘Pork and Beans’ - “I wanted the video to be a celebration of that creativity. I wanted it to be redemption for those who’d been unintentionally embarrassed by the power — there is a sense of that for those who were shamed by it.”

Plants, for Your Health - “Unless you live in an organic bubble, chances are that most days you interact with plastics, paper goods, synthetic fibers, and other household items that contain trace amounts of toxins—toxins that, in large enough doses, could kill you, but in small doses might still be causing some damage.”

The Touch Screen Turntable - “a touch screen turntable that lets DJ’s loop, sample and scratch wave forms just as you would a record. The size of the touchtable is approximately the same as a standard turntable, making the physical interaction nearly the same.”