the water is only 3 meters deep under that bridge … sick

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ok, ok, i might be the only one who likes cuil. yeh, for the privacy thing

How to Add Cuil to your Firefox Search - "You don’t even have to fill out anything in the form, just click the button and Cuil will be added! If you check the box, you can set it as your default search engine."

Ex-Google engineers debut ‘Cuil’ way to search - "Finally, Cuil is hoping to attract traffic by promising not to retain information about its users' search histories or surfing patterns - something that Google does, much to the consternation of privacy watchdogs." cool, or cuil that is…

smellympics in beijincorship

Web curbs for Olympic journalists - "Journalists covering the Beijing Olympic Games will not have completely uncensored access to the internet, Chinese and Olympic officials say."

Slow internet major problem at Olympics - "INTERNET connection is proving to be a major problem at the Beijing Games, despite Olympic organisers promising uncensored access."

online video killed the …

Get Your War On: The Watch List - animated get your war on: "that's right…whether you're a terrorist, non-terrorist, or simply a neglected unlisted terrorist, you still get a new GYWO episode every week."

Large Hadron Rap - "the flow is halfway decent, and it accurately covers a lot of knowledge related to particle physics and the LHC. Its by AlpineKat, alter-ego of a science writer currently working at the LHC."

DRAMATIC CAT - "this kitty cat loves watching TV gives a funny dramatic look once it realizes it's being recorded"

Banned Condom Commercial - hilarious condom commercial [via sex-blo.gs]

Meet Monkey - "BBC Sport is using the traditional Monkey King character in the marketing campaign for their Olympics coverage. Produced by Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn."

W. Teaser Trailer - "The teaser trailer for W. which based on the life and presidency of George W. Bush. It is directed by Oliver Stone and stars Josh Brolin as George W. Bush."

schmooze ande abuse

delicious.com - what’s new? - “Delicious has a bold new design that is more powerful and easier to use, along with a revamped search that’s faster and more robust.”

Caregiver robots to take care of Japan's elderly? - "In Japan, they're developing robots to care for the elderly, in anticipation of the aging of the population, which will be 40% elderly by 2055." in my head i am debating if sex-robots would be more pathetic or not…

50 Top Blogs analysed - Further Findings - "we used Technorati Top Blogs and analyzed 50 most popular blogs which appear there. We have identified important design problems and considered solutions for each of the problems separately."

13 - an age to remember (or not) - Not! Lyndon Wade's portraits of pimply teenagers.

どこでもラストガイ - the last guy - generator turns any webpage into a gamemap. why not try my blog ^^?

Lazy Beggars - "We ask for Food, Wine, Joints and Cocaine (the original version) or for Beer, Wine, Whisky and the Hangover (the light version) - at least we're honest! :-)" and you can give them money using paypal. [via rebel:art]

iPirates risk jail time in customs frisk - "MUSIC fans might soon have their iPods searched by Customs officers at airport checks and face jail if a large amount of pirated music is found on them." mamma mia.

Ondertussen - a sign from god! true story.

'FailWhale' Gives Frustrated Twitterers Something to Smile About - "Twitter's "FailWhale," the cutesy symbol that surfaces when the microblogging site goes down, is turning into a pop culture icon for the Web 2.0 crowd." that is so fail.

What the World Needs Now: Another Dell MP3 Player - "Back when the MP3 market was young, Dell tried to be a player with the Dell DJ. But it crashed and burned while Apple sewed things up to the point where even Microsoft's Zune is a distant also-ran. So, naturally, Dell wants back in now, five years later."

Baguette Keyboard Wrist Cushion - "Mmmm…baguette. If working at a computer is your bread and butter, then you owe it to yourself to upgrade to this deliciously plush baguette." [via swissmiss]

Anti-Bush Graffiti: 25 Countries, Six Continents - "As President George W. Bush nears the end of a mostly disastrous eight-year term, he too should be given credit for public appearances overseas." i should go through my flickr stream to check for anti-bush graffiti in bern. cause there is, trust me, there is …

The "Hug" That Killed A Blog - "For the supreme Goddess of the Universe, Ammachi seems somewhat overly concerned with her less-than-glowing online press, because it appears that Blogger has pulled the plug on the Cult of the Hugging Saint blog."

HOW TIE - "No problem…relax, take a deep breath, remember your days in the boy scouts, and study the oh-so-easy knot-tying instructions printed right on Fred’s handy How Tie." cool, but it’s still a tie, man. and i aint into auto-asphyxiation fashion. [via neatorama]

A Single Serving Site Pioneer Keeps Keeping it Real - "Rozendaal is a forefather of the current single serving sites explosion, and it shows in his work's standout beauty and interactivity." yeh nice, but think of the outrageous url-bill this runs up…

75_SolidSteel_-_Podcast.mp3 - another fantastic strictly kev solid steel mix, this one is from 2002, re-published as part of their way-back-in-time series.

20 Album Covers Recreated in LEGO - gotta love windowlicker. and some others aint half bad either.

Keira Knightley Refuses Breasts Enhancement For "The Dutchess" - "Keira Knightley has refused to allow any enhancement of her cleavage on publicity photos for her upcoming movie, "The Duchess," Britain's Daily Mail reports." me likee, small tities rule!!!

Twitter Cookies - “famous” tweets turned into fortune cookie.

The siren that broke my heart - "I'm not gonna pretend that you having two fish tails wasn't a bit weird at first, but I came to love you for it. I envisaged us laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder under the covers. I wanted to explore those fishy bits" quite an erotic hommage to the starbuck siren. loool

Back to the Grind in WoW — and Loving Every Tedious Minute - "And what do we do with this second life? We behave like obedient workers in a Soviet collective outside Stalingrad. Comrade, your job is to collect potatoes. For seven years. We pay $20 a month for this privilege. What the hell is wrong with us?"

Seen On The Streets Of Ann Arbor, MI - string cup phone.

RU Kidding Me? - "I am now asking any and all who know RU Sirius by name and (for better or worse) reputation, to send a note to Facebook explaining to them that I should be listed on their site under the name that will be recognizable to weird people" RU F[aceb]ooking Nuts?

recipe of the week [in german]

Johannisbeerkuchen vom Blech - looks delicious. [via habi]

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hitler humor

Hitler Sings “The Jeffersons” Theme - “Adolf Hitler gives an inspired, soulful performance.” this had me chuckle all week.

hitlers - israeli artist creates a daily hitler cartoon and explains: “Just as Marilyn Monroe is an icon of beauty, the Dalai Lama is an icon of peace, and Mother Theresa is an icon of goodness and pity, Hitler is also an icon, whether we want to admit it or not. He is an icon of evil. But this icon has a taboo attached to it. We are prohibited from investigating it, prohibited from developing, prohibited from touching, prohibited from laughing.” [via rebel:art]

f..k! - sometimes one graphic says it all.

Nir Avigad: Der tägliche Hitler - weitere hitler humor/kunst links hat rebel:art gesammelt.

online video killed the …

Randy Pausch, “Last Lecture” Professor, RIP - Randy Pausch, “When Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch learned that he only had months to live, he turned his last lecture in September 2007 into a lesson on life. The lecture, titled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dream, became an Internet sensation. It was viewed over 3.4 million times on YouTube.”

tarantino’s mind - brasilian shortfilm decoding tarantino: “A film buff tells a friend that he’s finally broken “the code” - the mystery behind the character & story threads that bleed from one Quentin Tarantino movie or screenplay into the next.”

Font Conference - fonts hold a conference to debate whether or not to accept zapf dingbats into their ranks.

Only in Saudi Arabia - bored teenagers will do mad things all around the world.

stupid stupid stupid - flip flip flying salutes sugar hill gang, and it aint that stupid, mate.

Sexy Optical Illusion Video - “Stare at the X in the center of the model’s stomach.”

Crowd-Sourced Hairstyling - “This is how I got San Francisco to cut my hair. Crowd-sourced grooming in action.”

Ze Frank on The Sound of Young America on Vimeo - “Ze Frank talks with host Jesse Thorn about creativity, what works on the internet and why”

schmooze and abuse

Review: Nokia E71 Is a Legit iPhone Killer — We’re Serious This Time - “The E71 looks more like a Blackberry Killer, but don’t be fooled: This great white hope from Finland is a smart device that gives the iPhone a run for its money in a lot of different areas (yes, really).” nokia ftw.

be books online - “A short book about choosing if and when to have sex.” lolololol [via b3ta]

michael_hughes’ slideshow on Flickr - dude holding postcards and other tourist objects in front of tourist landmarks. [via b3ta]

Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboard - “It appears, that the service is stabbing at spammers based on a ratio of followers to followees. This works, but it creates issues like the above and it’s nowhere near refined enough.”

Celebrity Meter - “Are You Internet Famous? Use the Wired Celebrity Meter to find out how big a deal you really are.” i am a 67 ;>

One Fewer - Decide what I should do with my Range Rover Sport - “Since I moved back to San Francisco, I don’t need a car, so I want to take this SUV off the road for good. If I sold it, it’d just keep polluting with someone else behind the wheel. So I’m leaving what to do with it to everyone to help me decide.” some suggestions are hilarious.

Untangle The Quietus Mash-Up And Win An iPod Touch - osymyso made a mashup using samples from 50 songs in 8 minutes. if you manage to untangle it, means find all 50 original songs, you can win an iPod Touch. i failed misearbly to do so.

Cassette tape skeleton - “This skeleton of melted audio cassette tapes was created by artist Brian Dettmer. Titled “Skull #11″, we wouldv’e also accepted “Phantom of a Hot Summer’s Dashboard”"

The Future of Food Waste: Composting Factories - “With food prices choking our wallets, you may be surprised how wasteful Americans are with food. Whether it’s fresh food gone bad or throwing good food out, 27 percent of all edible food produced in the US never even makes it to our plates.”

Mix Turtle - The Music Search Engine - amazingly fast music search [via de-bug]

Cassettes still a multi-million dollar industry… in prison - “Which brings us to the second advantage of tape over compact disc: a tape can’t be broken apart and used as a shiv. Prisoners are allowed to have them.”

Photographing thugs ‘is assault’, police tell householder snapping proof of anti-social behaviou - “A householder who took photographs of hooded teenagers as evidence of their anti-social behaviour says he was told he was breaking the law after they called the police.”

Twitter: The Evolution of Cat Blogging - “But others are asking: what’s the point? Those people just don’t get it. Clearly, Twitter is an amazing new way to blog about your cat.”

Segway Commandoes: ROOLLLLING THUNDER! - “Segway Commandoes. That’s right. The rolling thunder that is China’s eeee-light counter-terrorist unit is locked, loaded and good to go. Without further delay, I give you the mobile SWAT guys of Jinan!”

Online POKER marketing could spell the NAKED end of VIAGRA journalism as we LOHAN know it - “according to the latest Private Eye, journalists writing articles for the Telegraph website are being actively encouraged to include oft-searched-for phrases in their copy.”

FlashMinesweeper - minesweeper multiplayer game

The 20-year-old at heart of web’s most anarchic and influential site - praise 4chan: “The invisible hand behind many memes, apparently including the googled swastika, is a website called 4chan.”

Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil - “Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro’s tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday.”

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game of the week

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

pizza pizza and some other foods

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

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

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

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

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

online video killed the …

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

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

failed building demolition - to cheerz from the crowd.

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

schmooze and abuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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