[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited]
#watch and
Kilian Martin: Altered Route – and skateboarding has peaked …
Bad Trip: Navigate My Mind – “Bad Trip is an immersive interactive system that enables people to navigate my mind using a game controller.
Since November 2011, every moments of my life has been logged by a video camera that mounts on my eyeglasses, producing an expanding database of digitalized visual memories.”
Broken iMac Prank – “watch what happens when you drop brand new iMacs on the ground, down stairs and off parking garages.”
How to Make Money Selling Drugs – sweet
Dream Music, Part 1 – impressive time lapse stop motion video
THE DUDE (Director’s Cut) – “Meet the dude behind The Dude!”
Patti Smith – Why the hell are we afraid of them – We are not afraid
11 Month Old Twins Dancing to Daddy’s Guitar – loved the comment: “This is a viral ad campaign for peas.”
A-Trak’s Short Cuts: Ghosts N’ Stuff Routine – “Watch Trizzy tackle Deadmau5’s “Ghosts N’ Stuff” all while introducing a few new characters..”
#learn
Twitter / #eastwooding – this meme was to be expected
Earthquakes – interactive earthquake map
South African miners charged with murder of colleagues shot by police – “Murder charges brought against 270 miners under obscure law previously used by apartheid government”
‘Free Pussy Riot’ scrawled ‘in blood’ above murdered Russian women – “Kremlin supporters says murders in Kazan are result of dangerous radicalism but Pussy Riot activists call it crude attempt to damage opposition”
‘Paul’s Boutique’ remade by Cheeba, Moneyshot & Food – “3 years in the making, 3 DJs working with over 150 tracks to recreate one of the seminal sampling albums of all time, at last Cheeba, Moneyshot and I can reveal ‘Caught In The Middle Of A 3-Way Mix’. Our tribute to the classic Beastie Boys album ‘Paul’s Boutique’ remixed and re-imagined from all the original samples plus a cappellas, period interviews and the Beasties’ own audio commentary from the reissued release.”
Take that you ugly ship. – “Your ship looked like s#!t, so we painted it”
Download a second FACT session from The Orb and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry – “we also presume that you wouldn’t say no to a second session from the unlikely collaborators.”
FLIZ – “Based on the very first bike – the “Laufrad“ – we created a velocipede concept of healthy, ecological mobility in overcrowded urban space.”
Tastes of Cindy: Drag artists re-enact Cindy Sherman portraits from SFMOMA show – “we asked four of San Francisco’s premier drag performance artists to re-enact four of Sherman’s iconic portraits.”
Here’s Everywhere You Should Enable Two-Factor Authentication Right Now – “Unfortunately, you can’t use two-factor authentication everywhere on the web just yet. But a lot of sites have recently implemented it, including many of our favorite services.”
«mAARE» iPhone app – “The «mAARE» iPhone app measures the water temperature of Bern city’s river Aare fast and accurate.” Pünktlich aufs saison ende.
One on Twoism | Volume 5 – “Beautiful Boards of Canada-ish compilation”
How To Experience Burning Man 2012 Remotely – “If you can’t make it to Burning Man 2012, here are a few ways you can experience the event remotely.”
Malarious – “Pay a dollar, five dollars, or whatever you want, and watch these comedy stars do awesome things to help squash this awful disease.”
Twitter Fights Back to Protect ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protester – “Twitter is standing firm against a court order to turn over user data related to an Occupy Wall Street protester.”
Folding Window Box – good thinking
Food shortages could force world into vegetarianism, warn scientists – Water scarcity’s effect on food production means radical steps will be needed to feed population expected to reach 9bn by 2050
#lang:de
Eiche in Lichtenhagen gefällt – “Wir haben in der Nacht vom 28. auf den 29. August, gegen gegen halb 2, in etwa einem Meter Höhe, die Eiche neben dem Sonnenblumenhaus abgesägt. Denn dieses Symbol für Deutschtümelei und Militarismus ist für die Menschen, die 1992 dem Mob in Rostock-Lichtenhagen ausgesetzt waren, ein Schlag ins Gesicht.”
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