if you click only one link here, make sure its this one (and cu back here soon!)

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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Fiat Cinque Tank - 500 tank ftw. i want one! gotta love the smirk on the drivers faces.

Jason Jones: Behind the Veil - The Complete Saga - "Jason Jones's reports from Iran taught us so much about Persia and its people. For example, I'd been under the impression that Iran was a Scandinavian nation where the citizens traveled everywhere on pogo-sticks and subsisted solely on bumblebee pie. Turns out at least half of that is untrue." in case you missed this, watch it now.

Video: 8-bit arcade classics are back, in Lego form - "Lego Arcade, by YouTube user MlCHAELHlCKOX, whose Lego/game obsession goes back several years to his original Lego Marios"

Origins of the Moonwalk - "As some people already know, a dance move called the moonwalk (a.k.a. backslide) had been existed before it became the "moonwalk". The video features the ancient moonwalkers and other greats who possibly influenced MJ's style of dancing." wer hats erfunden?

Operation Midnight Climax - Episode 1- What's In The Bottle? - "The year is 1953 and the CIA has just been formed. We meet Jake Kowalski (Quinton Flynn) and his Army buddy Reed Spencer (Todd Cahoon) in an undisclosed location where Jake, now a CIA spook, tells Reed about the government's MKULTRA campaign and the covert plans to administor LSD to unsuspecting brothel patrons while they are "filmed for research purposes", behind two-way mirrors." cia lsd wtf

Winston Churchill backed by band from the future - "Churchill gives a dazzling rendition of his 1941 proclamation, aided by wayward time travelers."

Gay Geeks Stage WOW Pride Parade - "Judging from this video of a well-attended gay pride parade set in "World of Warcraft" land, when avatars get down, they don't always get down opposite" i dont think i know one gay wow player… sadly.

Dancing Inmate's Michael Jackson tribute - "A tribute performed by 1,500 CPDRC Inmates on June 27, 2009 in memory of Michael Jackson."

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Celebrities Upside Down Pictures - "Photoshop celebrities and politicians upside down while their face stays intact"

You've been Tangoed: Ginger tom upstages David Dimbleby on BBC Question Time - "As David Dimbleby and the panel yakked on about political issues, proceedings were suddenly enlivened by the unexpected arrival of a cat. And no one was more surprised than the ginger tom's owner Jackie Ellery, who was watching at home when her missing pet appeared."

TweetCraft - "TweetCraft is an in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft." PC only as far as i can tell.

Giving up my iPod for a Walkman - "When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week." and 30 years from now, a teenager will review the ipod with just as many questions.

Get tooled up for guerilla gardening - "Next time you see a well-heeled couple stopping to dig through their bags, look again – things might not be what they seem. You could be witnessing a pair of guerilla gardeners engaged in their covert battle to plant flowers and vegetables in neglected urban spaces. It can be illegal, so campaign members are often forced to hide their work."

Michael Jackson First Artist to Sell Over 1 Million Downloads in a Single Week - "As Michael Jackson’s body is being prepared for transport to a public viewing at the Neverland Ranch, his music rules the charts once again."

Pirate Bay to sell to private company, go legit - "OK, that's weird. - OK, that's kind of ominous and interesting."

Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde Discusses the Site’s Future - "On the day that The Pirate Bay announced that they will be sold to a commercial company for $7.8 million, Tomas Wennström secured an audio interview with TPB spokesman Peter Sunde." everything has been said about this. i just shut up and sulk.

My dirty weekend in Glastonbury's Hippy Land - "We sent the most anti-festival (and anti-music, anti-mud, anti-dancing) writer we could find to Glastonbury. Did the Green Fields work their magic?" please dont miss the hilarious photo set.

Taking the Michael Jackson thing a bit too far… [PIC] - "This is actually disturbing if real."

laboratory tests of vegan restaurants in la - "Is your vegan food really vegan? We pull out all the stops to test 17 LA area vegan restaurants for non-vegan ingredients, and to find out why seven of them failed miserably." i worked in a “vegetarian” restaurant once where they used gelatine.

Stweet - "Stweet is a mix of street and twitt, offering a real new way to discover geolocalised twitts from Twitter on a Google Street View panorama."

James Barnett - Paintings of Video Games - "A series of landscapes painted from video games. These aren't from screenshots I found online; I navigated around inside of each of the games until I found a composition I liked, and then made a painting of it."

Orioto - Mikaël Aguirre - same as above, but better.

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red currants are in season. our tree is going nuts and has produced tons of berries. its a lot of work, but hey, so worth it. besides syrup and jam this is our favorite recipe.

red currant tart w. meringuage

the crust

200 g flour
pinch of salt
100 g cold butter
2 - 3 spoons of sugar
lemon peel
1 egg

pour flour and salt into a bowl. add the butter in small flakes. knead this until the paste gets smooth. add the sugar and the lemon peel. beat the egg and add it into the dough. mix it quickly. put the dough into the fridge for 30 m.

spread the dough on a baking tray. with a fork punch wholes into it. at 220 degree celsius bake it for 20 min. or till golden brown. let cool for a moment.

meringuage

2 egg whites
pinch of salt
100 g. sugar

(we usually do it with 1 egg, just half all ingredients, which is perfectly fine)

beat the egg white with the salt until it holds itself up in the form. add half of the sugar and continue mixing till the mixture gets a shiny texture. then add the rest of the sugar quickly.

500 g red currants

mix half the meringuage with the berries. spread onto the crust. bake this for a few minutes. then design the top of the berries with the meringuage. bake for another few minutes or until light brown. done.

MJ R.I.P.

24hourbilliejean - “The image above is 24 Hour Billie Jean, an animated gif of Michael Jackson doing the dancey bit on the flashy pavement in the video for Billie Jean. Except really really really stretched out so it lasts for 24 hours.” someone watched it for 24 hours.

moonwalk burial - his burial has to happen like this.

How Michael Jackson's death shut down Twitter, overwhelmed Google… and 'killed off' Jeff Goldblum - "The internet came alive like never before as people around the world logged on to follow the stunning news of Michael Jackson's death."

5 Year-Old Twins Sing Michael Jackson - "Bad" karaoke video recorded at Disney MGM Studios in July of 1987."

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Horrible and Yet Wonderful Local Commercial - "I want you to understand the bigness of our store"

Police officer caught on camera dancing, hilarious!! - "even cops need to let their funk out!"

Five People - another brilliant ze frank video — i say that just about every week, don't i?

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The rise of Hate 2.0 - "The number of hate and terrorist websites has increased by a third in the past year, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center."

Culture Jamming On The London Tube - i like the one, that says "Caution: Don't Despair"

Habitat sorry for Iran Tweeting - "Furniture store Habitat has apologised for causing offence after accusations it exploited unrest in Iran to drive online Twitter users to its products."

Court Orders Rapidshare To Proactively Filter Content - "The Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, has ruled that file-hosting service Rapidshare must proactively filter certain content. Music industry outfit GEMA asked the court to ban Rapidshare from making 5,000 tracks from its catalogue available on the Internet. The court estimated the value of the tracks at $34 million."

EU Wants Tighter Privacy on Social Networks - "Are social networks such as Facebook (Facebook) and MySpace (MySpace) doing enough to protect their users’ privacy? In the European Union, they might need to do more." EU are the new sowjets.

Mac Dock Icon Spelling! - "This literally popped up on my desktop and I thought it was too good not to share. I’ll try and come up with a few more, but here are a few get started." i spell FAP with icons on my iPod, not a joke.

Funemployed - tempted to get one or two of these buttons, but then again… nah.

Personal - "Please reply with a picture of your face. Or your breasts. Or both. Preferably both. And maybe a name. And maybe your phone number. Please have most of your teeth or at least dentures."

Bodies in Urban Spaces by Willi Dorner - "Austrian artist Willi Dorner squeezes human bodies into nooks and crannies for his Bodies in Urban Spaces project. Groups of dancers, climbers and performers wearing brightly coloured clothes run through busy malls and high streets and cram themselves into doorways, alcoves and any gap they can find in public buildings."

Wikipedia : Rob Matthews - "What would Wikipedia look like if it were printed out as a traditional encyclopedia?" love it. visualizes the quantity of information wikipedia gathers. [via neatorama]

This is why we protest. - "even if a ballot is silenced, the voice behind it cannot be."

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Round-the-world solar plane debut - "Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard has unveiled a prototype of the solar-powered plane he hopes eventually to fly around the world."

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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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’tis the season! or well, it’s almost over. elder trees are blooming and this means it’s time to make my favorite drink. ever! nothing!!! compares.

here’s how to make it:

5 liters of water
0.1 liter vinegar (we use apple vinegar)
700 g. white sugar
1 lemon in slices
15 elderflower stems

remove the stems from the elder flowers.
mix all the ingredients in a big bowl (it’s a good idea to dissolve the sugar in the water first).
place the bowl in a sunny spot and let leave it for 24 - 48 hours.
filter the lemonade into clean bottles (don’t know what these bottles are called, see photo).
place the bottles in the sun for 6 - 8 days.

the result is a delicious, slightly fizzy lemonade. niammmm.

the lemonade can also be made with lime-blossoms. (i have never tried that yet, but it says it can be done in the recipe and it does sound delicious)

holunderblüten limonade

5 l wasser
1 dl essig (apfelessig)
700 g zucker
1 zitrone in scheiben
15 holunderblüten

die blüten lösen.
mit wasser, essig, zucker und zitronenscheiben in eine grosse schüssel geben.
es empfiehlt sich den zucker zuerst im wasser aufzulösen.
die schüssel 24 - 48 stunden in der sonne stehen lassen.
die limonade filtern und in flaschen mit patentverschluss geben.
die flaschen 6 - 8 tage in der sonne stehen lassen.

die limonade kann auch mit lindenblüten gemacht werden (selbst noch nie probiert, steht aber im rezept drin und tönt gut).

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The Astounding World of the Future - "A funny mid-20th century newsreel featuring amazingly accurate predictions of the year 2000." [via b3ta]

The Beatles: Rock Band - game trailer, will get released 09. 09. 09

Media banned from Tiananmen Square - "The BBC's James Reynolds tried to enter Tiananmen Square, but was turned away. Men wielding umbrellas attempted to obstruct filming in the area." anyone else feel like hitting the stupidly giggling chinese cop?

Stephen Colbert gets sued - "Host Jon Stewart and correspondent Stephen Colbert talk about material that cannot be used. Colbert tells the story of how he got sued over a piece."

Baby Talk, Bla Bla Bla!!!! - "A baby is talking in her language, Funny!" she sounds arabian.

INTERVIEW PROJECT - david lynch interviews ordinary people he meets on the road, filmed by his son.

Dan & naD - a palindromic sketch - "This sketch is a palindrome - i.e., it's the same backwards as it is forwards. It's arguably not the funniest sketch on Youtube, but it's almost certainly one of the only ones that was written using a spreadsheet."

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I-Spot Iconic Game Characters - "From Pac-Man to Left 4 Dead, delve into the nostalgia tweaking, heart-warming, time-wasting world of the greatest iconic games characters of all time, including Donkey Kong, Zelda, Mario, Horace and loads more." [via b3ta]

7 Factors That Led to Crisis - "As I was working on Bailout Nation, I struggled to find a way to communicate the myriad forces that combined to cause the collapse. The book details the many elements involved, but I wanted a visual way to depict what I took 20 chapters to explain."

Drama Button - "The Drama Button - for all of life's unnecessary drama" nice enough, it’s just a different melody than the one we know and love from dramatic chipmunk.

The Crack Garden, San Francisco, CA - "Inspired by the tenacious plants that pioneer the tiny cracks of urban landscapes, a backyard is transformed through hostile takeover of an existing concrete slab by imposing a series of "cracks". The rows of this garden contain a lushly planted mix of herbs, vegetables, flowers, and rogue weeds retained for their aesthetic value." no worries, this garden is not growing crack.

Jogger Hits Tree While Tweeting, Hurtles Toward Global Infamy - "I am somewhat disappointed that my 15 minutes of fame stem from running into a tree whilst tweeting" lolololol such a metaphor.

China Blocks Twitter, Many Social Media Sites, Ahead of June 4 Tienanmen Anniversary - "I first heard about it through @rmack, more here on Mashable, many other media reports coming out now."

Artists Abused in Pirate Bay Trial Strike Back - "Hiphop group Advance Patrol was used by the music industry in the Pirate Bay trial, portrayed as artists suffering losses from illegal downloading. However, the group itself was never consulted, and they are now striking back at the music industry by releasing their new album for free - on The Pirate Bay, of course."

The Biggest Pavilion in the Venice Biennale - "At the 53rd Venice Biennial (opening to the public on 7th June), a completely new pavilion will be presented - the Internet Pavilion. With the theme for this year's biennial, “Making Worlds”, it is only logical that the Internet is represented, for the first time, by a pavilion of its own." it’ll be very interesting to see, how the biennale presents the internet.

How Tetris conquered the world, block by block - "That addictive puzzler Tetris – created 25 years ago by Russian Alexey Pajitnov – has a legitimate claim to being the videogame that conquered the world"

Every time you masturbate…God kills a kitten - "first appeared in print in BarFly magazine as the image below, prior to the year 2000."

Apple Rejects EFF Updates App, Claims Parody Content Is Objectionable - "But this morning Apple rejected the app. Why? Because it claims EFF's content runs afoul of the iTune's App Store's policy against "objectionable" content." just the guys you want to mess with, apple.

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this weeks bestest

Meme Scenery - "So I had this silly idea to isolate the backgrounds from famous Internet memes, removing all the subjects from every photo or video. I'm pretty happy with the results." genius.

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The Bloody Apprentice - "A quick word of warning first – it’s a little bit smutty, so if you watch it at work, one of you will get fired." apprentice video mashup by cassetteboy.

One Line on the Sopranos - the legendary actor who had one line on the sopranos.

Two Girls and a Piano - nothing to do with Two Girls and a Cup.

'WE ARE ONE' FC Barcelona - epic.

Barcelona Hymn on balalaika - "I'm playing FCBarcelona hymn "Tot el camp" on balalaika. "

Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm - ""Bonk" author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about sexual climax, ranging from the bizarre to the hilarious."

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Pick the Perp - "Booking mug shots and related information is gathered from arrest records from open sheriff's web sites in the United States of America. Those appearing here have not been convicted of the arrest charge and are presumed innocent. Do not rely on this site to determine any person's actual criminal record." thankfully, it is very hard to pick the criminal.

Humor: Schadenfreude And The MMO Conundrum - "I found myself slightly offended-but then he offered me three million dollars." great story how a venture capitalist contacts german game developers schadenfreude to develop a MMO.

Popular and Unique Soft Drinks From Around the World - "Placenta 400000 - From Nihon Shokuten's line of placenta products, comes this drink made of swine placenta. All in the name of beauty." oh come on, swine placenta? great list tho, oddly enough Rivella is missing, the swiss soft drink made of milk serum, i kid you not.

AudioBoo - the iPhone audio blogging app.

Conference Board of Canada admits that its publicly funded, plagiarized, biased copyright "research" is junk - "The Conference Board of Canada, a Canadian think-tank that was caught regurgitating a US lobby-group's press materials in a tax-funded report on the Digital Economy, has withdrawn its copyright-related reports" this has nothing whatsoever to do with my favorite electronic music band borads of canada.

Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology - "In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates."

Why Does My Body Do That? - "Whether uncomfortable, embarrassing or just plain weird, there are some pretty funky things that our bodies do."

Cover Story: Finger Painting - "Jorge Colombo drew this week’s cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square."

Twitter to 'launch own TV series' - "The show will use the social networking site as the basis for interactive competitions, involving celebrities and Twitter users." hmmm

Woman Calls 911 To Give Cop Her Number, 911 Calls - "Operator: Okay and ma’am what do you need the officer to do? Do you have another noise complaint? Woman: …honey I’m just going to be honest with you okay, I just thought he was cute. I’m 45 years old and I’d like to meet him again." prime podcast material.

The Man Who Sues - "Despite being incarcerated at a federal prison in Kentucky, Jonathan Lee Riches has made it into the Guiness Book of World Records. He was named as the person who has filed the most lawsuit ever. So what did he do next? He filed a lawsuit against the folks at Guinness!" let’s hope he won’t sue me for posting this.

Germany bans cola after drug test - "The authorities in six German states have ordered retailers to stop selling Red Bull Cola energy drinks after traces of cocaine were found in it." how on earth did that happen?

i'm on your keyboard, watching you fap - lolcat.

Hither Eucalyptus! - "Earlier today I received a phone call from an Apple representative. He was very complimentary about Eucalyptus. We talked about the confusion surrounding its App Store rejections, which I am happy to say is now fully resolved."

Deny This, Last.fm - "Last.fm didn’t hand user data over to the RIAA. According to our source, it was their parent company, CBS, that did it."

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http://www.political-beauty.de/ - "Deutschland steht vor entscheidenden Umwälzungen. Am Freitag, den 8. Mai 2009, haben wir einen Thesen-Anschlag auf den Deutschen Bundestag verübt. Wir haben 10 Thesen ans Hauptportal (West) des Deutschen Bundestages angeschlagen und anschliessend die Warteschlange vor dem Deutschen Bundestag zu Heldinnen und Helden vereidigt." [via rebel:art]

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Blog Digitale Nachhaltigkeit | Begleitblog zur Parlamentarischen Gruppe - "Begleitblog zur Parlamentarischen Gruppe"

In Quiet Switzerland, Politically Outspoken Rapper Takes On the Far Right - "Blocher’s Switzerland is people in the mountains making cheese,” he said. “But you also have a Switzerland where people struggle to make ends meet. His party doesn’t represent the Switzerland where I grew up, which is made up of people who came to build the country, literally to build its buildings and streets. The Swiss People’s Party campaigns by using Osama bin Laden in posters about the threat of immigration. For me this is just unfair."

Swiss create electric super car for Le Mans - "Lining up in the grid for the 2011 24hours of Le Mans race could be "the most powerful and cutting edge electric race car ever built"."

Red Hat Sues Switzerland Over Microsoft Monopoly - "£8 million a year to Microsoft, with no public bidding. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, say open source activists"

http://mitviktormitredenduerfen.ch/ - die seite zur letzten giacobbo/müller sendung, cybersquatting oder ein schlauer witzeschreiber der srg?

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has apple gone mad?

Apple rejects e-book reader app over Kama Sutra - "Apple cites access to the Kama Sutra as the reason for rejection, despite the fact that the text must be manually added by the user." apple should probably stop selling computers as well, because i might download pr0n with them. but seriously … chill the fook out apple.

Minipops app rejected again - "The Minipops app has been rejected AGAIN. This time it has become a little clearer that it's the images that they have a problem with. I am flabbergasted. And I'm fucking angry." no really, apple, come on …

Top 10 Banned iPhone Apps - "Developing an iPhone App? Here’s what not to do:" and the south park app is even missing on that list. but here’s hope:

Want to fool Apple’s App Store? - "Despite Apple’s reputation for being a notorious gatekeeper with its iPhone App Store, there’s a way to sneak in content such as porn, profanity or potentially malicious code, with no hacking required: Easter eggs."

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Spoof Queen Broadcast #1 - "I made the original test version of this over christmas and this was made in about late april. How annoyed was I to see the same technique used on the MeeBox pilot? lol" dog lovers, dont watch this. dog haters, do.

Illusion - "the coolest optical illusion you will ever see!" it is way way cool. but the coolest?

The REAL Andy Kaufman - "And that's the way it goes!"

Sorry I'm Late - artsy stop motion short. [via sis]

Leaked: first video of Ico/Shadow of the Colossus creators' Trico - "Take that as you will as I post the video above, which — until Sony officially announce it themselves — I can't be 100 percent sure is legitimate, but suffice it to say jives with everything I know about the game so far. " want.

Outsource - "If your times are hard, then it's time for hard times with ze frank. "

Premier dj battle de l'histoire - the first DJ battle ever…

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LOLFATCATS - "Fatcat bankers and MPs stealing our hard-earned cash isn't actually that funny. But perhaps we can haz LOLZ at their expense(s)?" [via b3ta]

KANYEFY Bookmarklet - "WE ALL KNOW THAT YEEZY RANTS ARE THE GREATEST, RIGHT????? NOW MAKE EVERY WEB PAGE A KAYNE RANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!" a much needed bookmarklet. [via b3ta]

Screen Addiction - "We are a society in the grips of a widespread screen addiction. Many of us spend upwards of eight hours a day staring at a screen. We carry video capable iPods, Internet savvy BlackBerrys and graphically stunning portable game machines. We steal glances at these little screens throughout the day and then tuck them back into our pockets and return our gaze to the big screens sitting on our desks. In order to relax, we plop ourselves in front of a widescreen TV. We spend more time making eye contact with our screens than with our neighbors."

Aesthetic Pollution and the Soul of Design - "Just as farmers are the keepers of land, we designers are the keepers of mindscape. We must nurture it and care for it and make sure that there will always be wilderness, diversity and freedom there."

Accused Palin Hacker Says Stolen E-Mails Were Public Record - "A lawyer for the Tennessee college student charged with hacking into the Alaska governor’s Yahoo e-mail account last year says his client couldn’t have violated Palin’s privacy because a judge had already declared her e-mails a matter of public record."

Braid - "Explore the human condition and manipulate time in the lush, painterly world of Braid, a puzzle-platformer that takes you from a house in the city on a journey through a series of worlds to solve puzzles and rescue the princess." the game finally ported to Mac.

AUTO. SUEÑO Y MATERIA - Artificial traffic jam in the mountains - "In 2005, Maider López bought advertising space in the press, he had leaflets distributed and posters glued on walls. His objective was to invite car drivers to come and create an artificial traffic jam on the slopes of the Aralar mountains in the North of Spain. On the 18th of September 2005, 160 cars (with approximately 425 people) joined the jam from 11am. until 3pm." great idea.

Subversiv Messe: Seid brav, bleibt subversiv! - "Subversive Romantik: Die Subversiv Messe in der schwarzen Halle am Linzer Hafen" nice report [german only] for the rest of us who could not make it.

Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse Team Up With David Lynch - "You can order the book, sans music, from the official Dark Night Of The Soul Web site. In the meantime, you can hear the entire album here on NPR Music as an Exclusive First Listen."

Danger Mouse to release blank CD - "Music producer Danger Mouse is to release a blank CD, after record label EMI reportedly cancelled his new album."

Scarlett - "We don’t remember silent films being so great!"

tetris.jpg - tetris in architecture.

Man tries to rob store using a banana - "And the deputy said, 'Ah hah! He ate the evidence,'" Mabe said. "But we had the banana peel and they took a picture of it." alternative ending: he robs the store, runs away, slips on the banana peel, dead.

OTAKU PLAY - "Otaku Magazine is an independent platform that promote the visual art, from national and international artists, an opportunity for them to manifest in various areas (graphic, comic strips, illustration, painting, design, fashion, video, toys and accessories), under the influences of the Japanese entertainment (manga, anime, music, movie, new media, new technologies, etc.) and other artistic currents." from romania!

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Lopetz von Buro Destruct im Interview - "Aus unserer Sicht sind T-Shirts wandelnde Plakate auf der Strasse. Ein kurzer optischer Blitz, den man sehr schnell wahrnimmt. Rein dekorative T-Shirts sind schön zuhause zum Kuscheln."

…..::::::iii müller wandert & vereint iii:::::….:::iii - "gemeinsam heiter weiter "

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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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Free iPhone App - ze frank has invented a free iphone app…

Epic Mouse Trap Fail - "Cheap ass mouse traps… " or smart mice?

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Awkward Boners - "Awkward Boners - Because it happens to the best of us" it does, it does.

RiP: A Remix Manifesto - non-americans can watch the documentary here, with slightly annoying tasks given at the end of each chapter.

Ashton Cares - “I think we may have experienced the last generation of actors who can be disconnected from their audience.” yesh yesh, but from there to receiving a personal voice mail message from kushter is still a long shot. well, lets try: diss diss diss kushter! let’s see if he calls.

The Future Shock - "My name is Kolin Pope. I am the savior of the future. Like most with the title of savior, I never went out looking for it. No, adventure found me." a pretty amazing prank as told by the one who was getting pranked.

Bunkers
"»Bunkers (Switzerland)«, 1999-2004 by Leo Fabrizio." [via vvork]

How Gadgets Lose Their Magic - "As technological magic becomes routine, I wonder whether a visit to a preindustrial society might teach me more than it teaches them. The only thing more fascinating than our technology is the idea of getting along without it. Maybe the way to recapture the magic is to turn all that stuff off." so true.

Chuck Norris protects Split bakery - "Store bosses have seen off burglars by placing a life-sized photo of Hollywood action star Chuck Norris in the window." yes yes, and when the boogieman goes to bed he checks his closet to see if chuck norris is hiding.

Online IQ Test Is Really A Stupid Mobile Phone Download Scam - "Depending on your carrier and cell phone manufacturer, the mobile content may include ringtones, games, wallpapers, or fun text messages. This content will cost as much as $19.99 per month and will be sent to your cell." ah good, because of course i was tempted to compare my IQ with my facebook friends.

LIIP ad and poster - "Ad and poster design for LIIP, Agile Web Development, Fribourg, Bern, Zurich."

419 Scammer Gets Honest - "I'm guessing an angry recipient hacked her Yahoo! Mail account and sent out the second message to discredit her."

Apple v. EFF: The iPhone Jailbreaking Showdown - "Apple vigorously opposed authorizing jailbreaking, saying copyright protections is what gave birth to the iPhone, the 1 billion app sales, 50,000 app developers and 35,000 apps. The EFF vigorously urged the Copyright Office to authorize jailbreaking, which in this case is hacking the phone’s OS, and hence allowing consumers to run any app on the phone they want, including those not authorized by Apple."

Myst comes to the iPhone: which shows how far we've come - "Even so, that's a dramatic shift. In 16 years we've gone from a game that required an external, expensive piece of hardware, and external storage, which pushed the limits of systems, to something that can be done in the palm of your hand. There's Moore's Law for you"

How To Beat Myst on the iPhone in 5 Minutes - "If you're the type of person that just needs to see the end game, regardless if you've actually completed it. We have a quick how-to that allow you beat the game in just 5 minutes." mkay. i admit i don’t get why anyone would buy a game to then beat it in 5 minutes. but hey.

Life Inc - "I'm going to be posting most or perhaps all of my upcoming book, Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back, over the next two weeks. I'll put the beginning of each excerpt here, along with a link to where you can read or download the rest. So, let's start at the beginning." a great read. can’t wait for the next chapters to get posted.

Trent Reznor rips Apple, rates smartphone OSes - "Android is cool, but nobody has an Android phone. Blackberry is OK but the hardware is inconsistent and WinMo straight-up sucks balls. If Apple doesn't get it together, we will most certainly make it available to the jailbreak community. I didn't invest in this app to see it languish on the sidelines from an idiotic policy while this tour is in full swing. " and the question remains, which celeb dissing apple will finally make apple rethink their arrogant policies?

Lego Torture Scenes Protest Media Censorship - "Flickr user Legofesto (who prefers to remain anonymous) was fed up with news outlets refusing to publish images depicting torture due to their graphic nature. So he recreated the images and first-hand accounts using Legos to protest what he saw as irresponsible censorship."

Wikipedia Founder Slams Wikipedia Art - "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales characterizes the project as “an alleged bit of performance art,” and the project creators, Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, as “trolls” “dedicated to vandalizing Wikipedia as a publicity stunt.” " oh come on, jimmy.

Artists turns her old Skoda Fabia into an 'invisible car' - "The University of Central Lancashire artist made the incredible optical illusion by spray painting a battered Skoda Fabia to match the car park and entrance to her art studio." [via neatorama]

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WoW Insider interviews Tom Chilton on Patch 3.1 and beyond - "As far as tri-spec goes, I hope not! From a design perspective, just because I still want to maintain as much integrity as I can regarding how having a spec and choosing what you're going to do is important." now that's just stupid. and arrogant. this is a MMO, let people decide.

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Beschwerde gegen Software-Deal des Bundes - “Der Bund vergab einen Software-Auftrag von 42 Millionen ohne öffentliche Ausschreibung an Microsoft. Nun reichen etliche Firmen wegen dieses Vorgehens Beschwerde ein.” open source software companies complained that the swiss government has handed out a 42 million contract to microsoft with out there being an open competition.

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Bigfoot Caught on Tape! Amazing Footage! - finally we have proof! Bigfoot exists!

Pantichrist Herb Medicine Commercial - "Here is a film that should promote our little Rock N Roll panty company but it's pretty wacked out and weird, so I don't know if this helps us sell anything." we somehow doubt it, but the video is fantastic.

osymyso blog: Week 18-Follow the Legs - "This week I have the honour to present to you a track from the forthcoming album Bunkerbusterwaldernuts and not only that, it's accompanied by a video that's been animated by the incredibly talented Rafianimates." Bunkerbusterwhat…? nice name, i guess. cool track anyway.

How to get up, eat breakfast and get ready for work in 5 mins! - "How to get up, dressed, brush teeth, prepare & eat breakfast, bind your tie in just 5 minutes!" japanese tv goodie.

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Mt. Holly Mayor's Office: Pan Handling Competition is Running Hot in Minneapolis - panhandler sporting a sign that reads: “Checks no longer accepted from the following people:" panhandler with a sense of humor.

Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself) 2 - flash game. the aim is to kill yourself in 5 minutes or less.

Guerilla der Kulturbewahrung - "Die französische Gruppe "Les Untergunther" restauriert bei illegalen, aufwendigen Nacht- und Nebelaktionen verwahrlostes Kulturgut" german only

Decorated swine flu surgical masks in Mexico - "Some Mexicans have reacted to the swine flu crisis with humour and creativity. A man wears a mask with a moustache drawn on it as he talks on his mobile phone in Mexico City" and more.

Public Ad Campaign - "New and old advertising takeovers"

Papergirl New - "Papergirl Nr. 4 steht vor der Tür!

 Dank allen Teilnehmern geht das Projekt jetzt schon ins vierte Jahr und wir möchten hiermit wieder alle herzlich einladen mitzumachen!
 Papergirl ist ein Kunstprojekt, bei dem im Stile amerikanischer Zeitungsjungs Kunstrollen vom Fahrrad aus an zufällige Passanten in den Straßen Berlins verteilt werden" german magazine gets distributed old school by paper boys and girls on bikes.

Why Google Wants You to Google Yourself - "The act of Googling oneself has become the digital age's premiere guilty pleasure — an activity enjoyed by all and admitted by few. The phenomenon has even been the subject of scholarly research. Last year, a team of Swiss and Australian social scientists published a study concluding that the practice of self-Googling (or "ego-surfing," as it's sometimes called) can partly be traced to a rise in narcissism in society, but that it is also an attempt by people to identify and shape their personal online "brand."" i succesfully re-branded myself, except it’s not showing up on google search yet??? why???

Swine Flu Fun Facts - "Naturally, then, I have spent the weekend geeking the hell out over this whole looming-threat-to-civilization thing. In between obsessive reading and some interviews conducted for National Geographic News, I've come up with a few tidbits of information I thought y'all might find as fascinating as I did." scientists have all the fun.

The BBC Rehashes MPAA Propaganda - "As a government owned corporation the BBC has a duty to educate, and be evenhanded in its dealings with subjects. Yet in a recent segment on their long-running ‘Film’ program, currently hosted by Jonathon Ross, the BBC ran a biased segment straight from the MPAA."

The Truth Will Set You Free - "Almost a year later, Levy’s article has still not seen the light of day, and it now appears that it may never be published. However, EnlightenNext’s responses to Levy’s questions represent an historic event of sorts, as they constitute its first official denial of the events described on this blog." i used to be involved with andrew cohen, and to this day have very high regards for him. but this new development of denying accusations by former students scares the hell out of me.

Dynamite Danger - "An explosives expert is mandatory on this demolition site. If an expert can't be found, a beginner crocheter will have to do." knitted dynamite. literally.

Torrent File Search Using Google Custom Search - "The intention of this site is to demonstrate the double standard that was exemplified in the recent Pirate Bay Trial. Sites such as Google offer much the same functionality as The Pirate Bay and other Bit Torrent sites but are not targeted by media conglomerates such as the IFPI as they have the political and legal clout to defend themselves unlike these small independent sites."

EU set to vote to remove neutrality from the net, give ISPs and govts the power to arbitrarily block site - "On May 5, thus in only two weeks, the politicians in Brussels will vote on a package of laws regulating the Internet in EU countries. This is the so-called telecoms package. If the lobbyists' and bureaucrats' version is adopted, ISPs will be able to arbitrarily block sites to their customers, and governments will be able to impose three-strikes measures without involving the judiciary."

swiss focus

SIX FREAKS UNDER - Grosse Halle Bern - "SIX FREAKS UNDER ist ein musikalisches, temporeiches und rasantes Stück, eine jenseitig düstere Geschichte, mit viel Witz und schwarzem Humor. Die Schauspieler, Musiker und Sänger des visuell und akustisch dichten, mechanischen Theaters, sind lebensgrosse Roboter, Puppen und Objekte. Sie sind mit Animatronik bestückt und werden zum Teil per Computer (MIDI) und zum Teil von Hand animiert. Die grossen Comicfiguren aus Alublech erzählen die Rückblenden der Geschichte." a performance with robots.

Naked Swiss hikers must cover up - "The tiny Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden has voted to prohibit the phenomenon of naked hiking. Anyone found wandering the Alps wearing nothing but a sturdy pair of hiking boots will now be fined." awwww, unfair.

'Ill' worker fired over Facebook - "A Swiss woman has lost her job after her employers spotted she was using the Facebook website when she had claimed to be too ill to use a computer." awww, even more unfair.

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Leider stören Sie.

Wir sind ein weltweit Distributor, spezialisiert auf elektronische Produkte, wie Laptops, Mobiltelefone, Xbox 360, Sony PSP, MP3 & MP4-Player,

etc. usf.

“leider stören sie”? was is los?

wenn man weiter nach unten scrollt sieht man, dass dies die übersetzung für “Sorry to disturb you .” sein soll…

ich brauche deine hilfe

hallo,
der idiot hat doch tatsächlich den Film
wo ich dir den schw.. lutsche ins internet gestellt :(
du kennst dich doch besser aus
schau mal hier nach
http://somespamurl.xxx
2. von oben 2. von links
und schreib denen ein mail, der film soll da raus!

kuss
jena

speziell “2. von oben 2. von links” fand ich sehr lustig. so beschreiben meine kunden jeweils probleme mit ihrer website.

haben wir gelernt mit spam zu leben? nie nie nie auf links klicken, aber inhaltlich können sie durchaus humor haben.

ze lightsaber meme

Dayglo Lightsaber Battle! - "3,000 blacklight-reactive, meter-long cardboard tubes will be distributed in Teen Plaza, where there will be massive blacklight cannons aimed at the crowd!"

captain fatbeard - “wait, pirates and lightsabers?” you ask. watch and learn.

humm… - light saber! now deffo the meme of the week.

online video killed the …

minivan highway - 3 odd guys making odd music.

Play him off, keyboard cat - gah, they had to spoil it with a cat video. but still funny.

Naked Wizard Tased By Reality - "three overweight cops take down one neo-hippie and his very small penis." his knob really is sensationally small. and there would be more to say about this video. there would.

WoW Intervention! - "Your friends are concerned about how much you play World of Warcraft." with a twist. or two. or sixty-nine.

The Stockholm Syndrome - "Wyatt Cenac travels to Sweden to wake them up from their socialist nightmare." the abba dude might be in the next part. priceless.

daichi - "amazing japanese beatbox guy"

Sneezing ultra slow motion - "A strange PSA from South Australia of people sneezing in ultra slow motion,set to opera music." gee thx australia, some of us sneeze for other reasons than th flu, hayfever comes to mind, and we will feel even more gross now. as will everyone around us.

baby preacher - "It doesn't matter what you say, but the way in which you say it." [via bb]

Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009 - "47 Year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britains Got Talent, singing I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables." i am also 47 years old… and you know you are way out of touch, when your mum tells you about this.

schmooze and abuse

bio-bak.nl - now featured in 1000 megapixels! - a pretty whacky webdesign, that.

Famous Last Tweets - "Allowing celebrities to reach out to their fan base in such a direct manner must keep their management teams in high alert, which makes us wonder what would’ve happened if troubled stars from years past had known the power of Twitter. We did a little soul/Twitter searching and came up with a collection of "Famous Last Tweets" that sadly never were."

To Tweet or Not to Tweet - "You say the brevity of Twitter enhances creativity. So I wonder if you can keep your answers to 140 characters, like Twitter users must." and the twitterites did a great job. it’s all in the subtext, baby.

Blogger Wrote Sensationalistic Post Title … And Was Burned at The Stake! - "Alex titled his post "Daughter Helps Dad Fight Cancer … By Breastfeeding Him!" - a sensationalistic and misleading title that led Neatorama readers to believe that the woman in question had actually let her father suckle on her breast (like Pero in the Roman Charity, as pointed out by fellow reader TwoDragons) - rather than giving him breastmilk that she had pumped earlier in the day." that’ll teach ya. or not.

Ooh-la-la indeed: Maggie Wang's Fruit Brute, Space Channel 5 Sack-dolls - "My two favorite (as above), an Ulala Sackgirl, inspired by Tetsuya Mizuguchi's neo-future swinging-60's rhythm game Space Channel 5, and (far more left field) the Fruit Brute Sackboy, indeed inspired by the long-forgotten General Mills cereal mascot." that’s sackboys, KNITTED! i motherfucking want one.

Scarygirl by Nathan Jurevicius - a very very beautiful browser game.

The Unusuals - this tv serie looks very cool … [via bb]

LEGAL/LAWYER OUTSOURCING WINS VICTORY IN ALI G LIBEL CASE - "Seems a woman who once knew the comedian claimed that Cohen [on HBO’s Da Ali G Show] libeled her by name during a spoof interview with historian Gore Vidal by claiming to have had sex with her [...] To the contrary, it is obvious that the Ali G character is absurd, and all his statements are gibberish and intended as comedy. [...] No reasonable person could think otherwise.” caps not mine.

Google Maps Typography - "Over the course of several months beginning October 2008 to April 2009 I've spent some of my spare time between commercial projects searching Google Maps hoping to discover land formations or buildings resembling letter forms." [via schwitzmitz]

Electric Bird - "Not only should you stop, you should fuck off as well."

Susan Boyle could be biggest YouTube hit of all time - "Susan Boyle's Britain's Got Talent video is on track to become the most popular video in the history of YouTube, amassing nearly 100 million views in its first nine days and earning the producers of the program a serendipitous, potential windfall that should already be in the millions."

Google rolls out search changes - “Google has launched two experimental products it hopes will change the way users search for pictures and news. A feature known as Similar Images uses a picture rather than text to find other matching images. Timeline presents information already available in Google News but organised and displayed chronologically."

waterboarding - "LEGO recreation of the torture technique known as waterboarding, which has been used by the USA in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and Bagram airbase, as well as in other "black sites" in the name of the War On Terror."

80+1 - A Journey Around the World - "„80+1 - Eine Weltreise“ lautet der Titel dieser bis 5. September 2009 anberaumten Expedition, die bei 20 Themen und an 20 Orten Station macht. Keine physische, sondern eine virtuelle Reise via Satellitenverbindung und Glasfaserkabel, die den zentralen Fragen unserer Zukunft nachspürt. Pressemappe_PK_80plus1_090421.pdf"

WOW Pod: For the Professional Raider - "Modeled after a Horde hut, the WoW pod is designed to be an "immersive architectural solution" for advanced World of Warcraft players with in-game responsibilities that keep gamers chained to their computers, unable to step away from the MMORPG for even a couple minutes. In addition to housing a computer and its necessary peripherals for playing the addictive title, the WoW pod offers canteens filled with spring water, a toilet built into the seat (which has surround sound speakers), a hot plate, and food packs." unbelievable as it may seem, this project is real … omg

Chris Morris - Blue Jam Monologues (video) - "I recently discovered a whole series of Chris Morris monologues from his 'ambient radio comedy' series Blue Jam on YouTube."

Why Google Is The New Pirate Bay - "Google now can and does do what the Pirate Bay has always done," Edelman says. "And if they're prosecuted, they would have much more interesting arguments in their defense"

Dork Yearbook - young dorks posing with their computers.

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Followup to my post on Dubai bashing - "It's just that I've learned over the years that strategy, context and an understanding of the situation on the recipient side of the message you are trying to send is essential in causing change. Thoughtful and persistent pressure by organizations like Human Rights Watch, combined with contextual local activism is, in my view, the foundation for positive long-term change [...]"

Dubai bashing and ‘what-aboutery’: Joi Ito - many comments on boinboing

Dubai bashing and 'what-aboutery' - "In summary, I think that if you're looking for fast money or a "rags to riches" dream, I would recommend against going to Dubai. On the other hand, if you're looking for a safe place to park while you explore opportunities or culture in the Middle East, I think Dubai is fine, for now. The food is good, there are great people, the culture is diverse, most of the infrastructure works and the laws are, relatively speaking, friendly to foreigners compared to the rest of the region. That's why I moved there and so far I'm not regretting my decision." the original post.

farts

Man Builds Chair That Tweets His Farts, Single-Handedly Justifies Twitter's Existence - "You know those guys (and gals?) who are just, like, super proud of their farts? Thanks to this cool guy and Twitter, these assholes can indulge their disgusting habit without wrecking our noses."

Fart fight gets nasty - "Police said a fight over flatulence in Waco, Texas, left one man stabbed and another facing an assault charge." my nightmare come true, killed for farting. but you sure this did not happen in wacko, texas?

online video killed the …

Der doppelte Ashton - "Gibt ja auch das Video dazu. Und viel Bonus Medienphilosophie." the ashton pwns CNN video. and laconic german comment.

schmooze and abuse

Dork Yearbook - young dorks posing with their puters.

The Pirate Bay Four Found Gulity, Will Appeal - "Famous in part for spreading albums leaked prior to release, The Pirate Bay defendants ironically learned of their loss via a court leak hours prior to the official announcement. "Really, it's a bit LOL. It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before the official release," Sunde tweeted." goddamn swedes, always first too liberal then too harsh. happened before with drugs, porn and now internet piracy.

G20 officer quizzed over death - "Ian Tomlinson, 47, was struck and pushed over by a police officer during G20 protests on 1 April in the City. Now a fresh post-mortem examination has found he died of abdominal bleeding, not a heart attack, as first thought." goddamn pigs, beating people with sticks.

BBC airs, releases program under Creative Commons license - "In its continuing efforts to experiment with new ways of handling its content, the BBC has started producing a monthly technology program that it will make available for download under a Creative Commons license." goddamn beeb, always trying to be the best tv station.

013 - Yellow Submarine - The Fort Greene Childrens Choir (Age 7 and Under Section) - "Yellow Submarine is perhaps the most important Beatle song. It is important because it explains a central question I’m dealing with in this project. Why are the Beatles so huge, why do they never go away? [...] Because kids love them!" and kids singing yellow submarine, now that … just brings tears to my eyes. and i mean real tears, not metaphorical, sarcastic tears.

Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait - "I've never had any interest in football (that's soccer for you, American friendz.) Never ever. I come from a country that never won any championship (and if they ever did, i still don't care), i find men in shorts a rather pathetic affair and i just don't get sport on tv anyway. There's been only one exception to the rule until last week and it was Eric Cantona." is eric cantona officially the follow-up to your demis roussos obsession then, regine?

Woman publishes book full of text messages sent to her dead husband's cell phone - 65-year old Toshiko Fukuda of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, lost her husband to asbestos on April 17th last year. [...] Shocked, the widowed Fukuda started sending text messages to her dead husband every time she thought of something she wanted to say to him."

Our book is coming out! Our book is coming out! - "At long last, the book Jason and I have been working on for a couple of years is due out on June 23. That book would be Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture. Some of it was previously published in some version in Stay Free! and some of it is original to the book."

Pornocalypse Now - "If Orwell had been born in 1984 rather than 1903, he would be a member of a subset of young men whose lives have been framed by two critical shifts in the mental landscape: the collapse of the global superpowers (USSR/US) and the rise of the pornography industry."

Inside the precision hack - "At 4AM this morning I received an email inviting me to an IRC chatroom where someone would explain to me exactly how the Time.com 100 Poll was precision hacked. Naturally, I was a bit suspicious. Anyone could claim to be responsible for the hack [...] After talking to ‘Zombocom’ (not his real nick) for a few minutes, it was clear that Zombocom was a key player in the hack. He explained how it all works."

Precision Hacking - "Not only has the poll been swamped to promote Moot (the pseudonym of the creator of 4chan, an image board and the birthpace for many internet memes) as the most influential of people, the poll crashers have manipulated the order of all the other nominees so that the first letter of each line spells out ‘marble cake"

Signspotting: Stickman to the Rescue! - "At least the stickfigures are easy to understand, often suffering miserably so that we might stay safe."

LOL - "The world's inventory of lols, according to Google."

Contrail - Biking Community Tool - “As you ride, contrail leaves a faint chalk line behind your bike. The goal is to encourage a new cycle of biking participation by allowing the biking community to leave a unique mark on the road and to reclaim this crucial shared space.” it’s all good, except the name. too close to cuntrail.

online video killed the …

Iron Man vs Bruce Lee - "Iron Man fights Bruce Lee in stop motion…" [via b3ta]

2020 Olympic Game PingPong Champion - "6 year old girl is practicing table tennis" this scares the crap out of me.

Adam Curtis on Charlie Brooker's Newswipe - the rise of oh-dearism in television newscasting [via waxy]

Interview Fail - "Cranston police have arrested an alleged cyberstalker. Ann Bruno, a local costume shop owner, is accused of using a computer to harass a competitor. NBC 10s Jim Taricani attempted to question her about it in what turned out to be an unusual interview." oh dear … woops.

Video of police assault on Ian Tomlinson, who died at G20 protest = “The Guardian obtained this footage of Ian Tomlinson at a G20 protest in London shortly before he died. It shows Tomlinson, who was not part of the demonstration, being assaulted from behind and pushed to the ground by baton-wielding police.” it might still be hard to prove that his death was caused by the police assault. but the fact that the police denied, that such an assault happened says alot.

schmooze and abuse

Anti-terror billboard - "This odious billboard appears in my town, encouraging me to rat on my neighbours because I don't understand what they throw away. Use the text fields below to make improvements to it." [via b3ta]

The Diggbar Is Evil Here s How to Stop it - "When Digg rolled out its new Diggbar feature — a toolbar that displays the content of a site inside a browser frameset — not everyone was pleased. Many of the web’s old hands cried foul, claiming the toolbar merely framed other websites. The practice of presenting another site’s content within a frame served from your website has long been hated by web purists, and with good reason: It’s evil." it really is evil! but since no one ever diggs me i can save myself the trouble of blocking it on my site… or can i?

kanYe West : Blog : - "SOUTH PARK MURDERED ME LAST NIGHT AND IT'S PRETTY FUNNY. IT HURTS MY FEELINGS BUT WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM SOUTH PARK! I ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON MY EGO THOUGH. HAVING THE CRAZY EGO IS PLAYED OUT AT THIS POINT IN MY LIFE AND CAREER." caplocked kayne west reaction to south park episode. if you really want to work on your ego, UNcap. [via waxy]

ultra subtle retro mac 512k game wallpapers - "I have a new diversion: making large size wallpapers out of tiny black and white mac games. I started with an old favorite of mine: Beyond Dark Castle.This should be some candy for any of us sick of waiting for [return to dark castle]." downloaded them all and love love love em.

'Shadow of the Colossus' to become a movie - ""Shadow of the Colossus" is heading to the big screen. The colossally popular video game is being developed as a feature by producer Kevin Misher, who has set the project up at Sony;" this is gonna hurt.

France Rejects 3 Strikes Anti-Piracy Law - "Last week, the French Parliament passed a new law requiring Internet service providers to cut off Internet access for persistent copyright offenders. Since the parliament voted in favor of the law, everyone - including the most fanatical critics - believed that it would easily pass through Senate and the National Assembly today - but it didn’t."

Turn your iPod Touch into an iPhone (almost) - "However, during these times of economic uncertainty, a little bit of fiddling you can give your iTouch essentially the same features as the iPhone. Sure, you won’t have an inbuilt camera, but you can’t send MMS messages or record video anyway, so what are you really missing out on?"

Orc Overhead Latex Mask - honey, would you still love me if i wore one of those? [via bb]

Louchelust - “the opposite of porn” is the claim of this website.

U2 blames Apple for switch to BlackBerry - "Apple's tendencies for tight control of its products ultimately drove U2 to abandon the company for sponsorship in favor of Research in Motion's BlackBerries, the music group's frontman Bono is now known to have said." bravo, bono, well done.

Grandmaster Flash Builds Hip-Hop's Bridge to Future - "I think about hip-hop from a global perspective. I've been blessed to have been able to travel every free country in the world and I've learned so many different cultural perspectives that differ from what we are used to in America."

Footballer given yellow card 'for breaking wind' during penalty shot - "The drive to bring good manners back to football has reached new heights after a referee issued a yellow card to a player for "breaking wind" as a penalty was being taken." it would kind of depend on the direction of the wind that day, would it not? i mean the other wind. [via bb]

Killer Cola - "Stop Coca-Cola from committing crimes against humanity."

GuteSeiten - curated kiosk & magazine club - "We are just crazy about magazines and fanzines - and we want to share our passion with you. The pabulum of the mainstream media industry is driving us crazy. Where is the spirit, the passion or at least some innovation? That’s the reason why we founded our own kiosk - a curated kiosk and magazine club for inspiring, creative and fascinating magazines and fanzines from all over the world."

Public Service Announcement For Carnivore Readers - "I’ve had enough. I’ve been patient, I’ve let you all get away with your ridiculous excuses for your careless and hedonistic behaviour, I’ve lived with a “freedom of choice” lie for almost 20 years, but enough is enough: Stop eat f**king meat, you massive idiots" !!!!! yesss!!!! wurzeltod telling it as it is!!!! gut gebrüllt löwe.

1001 rules for my unborn son - "Let's get some things straight before I get old and uncool." the blog's title says it all. the latest feed added to my rss-reader.

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issue #20 - POLAROID | april 2009

[new layout - frenZINE 2.0 …]

related links:
- my polaroid set on flickr
- polaroid pool on flickr

the april’s fool joke i actually fell for … i know, unbelievable

April Fool Funeral at Improv Everywhere - "If you haven’t figured it out by now, The Best Funeral Ever mission was staged for April Fool’s Day." meh they had me … oh, the shame…

Best Funeral Ever - "For our latest mission, 30 Improv Everywhere agents found a random funeral in the obituary section of the newspaper and turned it into the best funeral ever." i have to admit, this performance crosses a line for me, that i find unacceptable.

online video killed the …

Everybody dance: Goldeneye Gets Down glitch edition - "Proof positive you can never predict where the next meme will spring from: collected via "There Will Be No Animated Gifs In This Blog", an apparent glitch in Nintendo 64 classic Goldeneye that causes in game characters to just plain freak out when you so little as tilt the cart has spawned a new video craze on Japanese viral video site Nico Nico Douga." don’t miss the adorable dancer in what seems to be a donkey outfit.

film of police attack on G20 climate camp - "around 19:45 police push into the south side of the climate camp on bishopsgate. this short film shows the campers calling out "this is not a riot" and holding their arms in the air, while riot police surge forward wielding batons and shields in an unprovoked attack."

awwww, munching animangs video - nom nom nom nom nom nom … etc. [via bb]

exercises for tendonitis and carpal tunnel - "a couple of exercises to prevent injuries such as tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome" exercises are best presented with a german accent.

Mr Scruff - Nice Up The Function feat. Roots Manuva - "The video for the brand new single from Mr Scruff featuring the 2D Roots Manuva- 'Nice Up The Function' released on Ninja Tune on the 6th April 2009 and taken from the recent album - Ninja Tuna. " enjoy ze 2D rappah.

The Girl Effect - Home - just music, words and typo; great story, great dramaturgy. [via swissmiss ... i think]

schmooze and abuse

Tauntaun Sleeping Bag - "This high-quality sleeping bag looks just like a Tauntaun, complete with saddle, internal intestines and glowing lightsaber zipper pull."

Radiohead Fanatic Fortnight Sweepstakes - “IFC.COM RADIOHEAD FANATIC FORTNIGHT SWEEPSTAKES Enter by April 10th, 2009 for a chance to win one of these prizes: Grand Prize: One winner will receive one copy each of all three 2CD+DVD Special Collectors Edition packages of Pablo Honey, The Bends, and OK Computer, plus 12 Radiohead EPs on 180-gram vinyl." us citizens only ffs.

Jailbreak an iPhone 3G - "We would never advocate hacking your iPhone so you could download unofficial applications like Clippy (for cutting and pasting) and NES emulators. It violates Apple's terms of service. But theoretically, this is how one might do it:" another don’t-do-it-but-here’s-how on the the interweb, thankfully this one is rather harmless.

You Can't Say That - map of countries where insults can get you jailed, sacked or more.

Visible Sack: see inside Jason Freeny's anatomically correct Sackboy - "Freeny has been commissioned by the just-debuted UK edition of Wired magazine to take us inside the curious anatomy of LittleBigPlanet's iconic Sackboy. The results are half magical, half vaguely disturbing, and just a teeny, tiny, wee bit luridly anatomically correct (which Wired was, of course, far too proper to let slip into their pages)."

Food Face Dinner Plates – Eating Your Veggies Has Never Been More Fun - the plates that say, do play with your food!

Creative Chaos Keeps South Park Timely, Tack-Sharp - "If you corner South Park co-creator Matt Stone at some Los Angeles intersection, don't bother asking him what he and comedic partner Trey Parker have in store for the rest of the show's new season. They don't have a clue, and they like it that way."

Digg's Algorithm Cracked! - "SocialBlade has been collecting data from Digg for over a year now, and as a result, we have deciphered the digg algorithm! If you follow these easy steps your submission is guaranteed to hit!"

Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay - "After years of hostility, lawsuits, police raids and heated invective between the two groups, the Pirate Bay has today announced they have settled their differences with US media conglomerate Warner Bros. The largest BitTorrent tracker has sold out to Hollywood and the two have agreed a deal." april’s fool!

Place the condom over the head of the church - the solution how to stop the pope from spreading lies.

Pirates Board Apple's iPhone App Store - "The iPhone's App Store is becoming an increasingly juicy target for pirates, who have illegally cracked 20 percent of paid applications for free distribution."

RRRR : Cheer Up the ChatBot - "Cheer Up the ChatBot" sadly he did not like my sense of humor … /cry [via waxy]

Wired.co.uk - the stories, ideas and people that are changing the world - stupid me, and i just got my subscription to the american wired… pff.

Me cago en la suegra de tu cuñada - "Heard on the bus, “I shit on the mother-in-law of your sister-in-law”, a fine new interpretation of the popular Spanish profanity, “Me cago en tu madre”, “I shit on your mother”." funny, but think about it, does it really work?

Black Sabbath hit the internet - "Ozzy Osbourne is going online - the entire back catalogue of his former band Black Sabbath will be available for digital download from next week."

Video games 'can improve vision' - "Playing action video games can boost an aspect of adult vision previously thought to be fixed, a US study shows."

99 Seinfeld References - "Since I find myself practicing Seinfeldology almost daily, I decided to take a sampling of these and throw them into a giant heap. Here’s piece #2 for Gallery 1988’s Idiot Box (with object key below).. Serenity NOW!"

googledildo.jpg - yeh yeh the joys of google streetview.

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