William Shatner liest Edgar Allan Poes „The Raven“
(Youtube Direktpoe, via MeFi)
Quoth the raven, „Nevermore“. Auch Poe: Vincent Price liest The Raven, Christopher Walken ebenso.
The iPad is a Comedy Gold Mine
(Collegehumor DirektiPad, via Digg)
Ich habe die Schnauze ja jetzt schon voll von blöden Witzen über Apples iPad und dem nächsten, der den iPad nano-Joke bringt, werfe ich mein Macbook und noch dazu Stephen Frys Text über das Ding an den Kopf. Aber Collegehumor mit Meta-iPad-Witzen in Form eines Apple Commercials? Unbezahlbar. „You just… mock.“
links for 2010-01-29
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what if the light waves emitted by the exploding star and other cosmological phenomena could be translated into sound? That’s the idea behind a “Rhythms of the Universe,” a musical project to “sonify” the universe by Grateful Dead percussionist and Grammy award-winning artist Mickey Hart that caught the attention of Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist George Smoot of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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The songs of whales and dolphins can be beautiful to the ear. Now acoustics engineer Mark Fischer has created a way to make them visually pleasing too.
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Eddie spends her pocket money obsessively hoarding fireworks and carefully planning for cracker night. When it finally it arrives, Eddie and her family head to the local football oval. In the frosty air Eddie lights the fuse of her first cracker and experiences a pivotal moment, one of the seemingly small experiences of childhood, that affects us for the rest of our lives.
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Sgt. Pepper's one-and-only Lonely Hearts Club Band.The movie. Starring Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees. Aerosmith. Alice Cooper. Steve Martin, who steals the whole thing. And cameos from about 50 other quite notable artists of the day.
Attack of the Star Wars-Intro from Outer Space (feat. Enterprise)
(Youtube Direktstarwars, via HYST)
Der letzte Satz in diesem Video ist natürlich rein erfunden und hat mit der Realität nichts zu tun.
Aliens vs Predator – Predator Gameplay Trailer
(Youtube Direktpredator, via Dead Lantern)
Das Game zu Aliens vs Predator hatte ich bislang gar nicht auf dem Schirm, wobei mein Interesse für Games grade auch eher im Keller ist. Aber das sieht schon ziemlich gut aus. Hier noch ein paar weitere Trailer: Survivor Mode, Aliens Gameplay, Story Trailer.
Amazon-Partnerlink: Aliens vs Predator
How to make The Internet (from The IT Crowd)
Vor fast genau einem Jahr bloggte ich über jemanden bei Flickr, der sich das Internet aus der IT Crowd selbst gebastelt hatte. Jetzt gibt es auf Instructables ein Tutorial, wie man sich das Teil selber bauen kann, inklusive flashy BlingBling-LED.
The Internet was first shown in public in The IT Crowd, Series 3, Episode 4.
Consisting of a mysterious black box with a flashing red indicator LED, the power of the world is contained within.
Fun facts about the internet!
1. The internet is surprisingly small!
2. The internet is wireless!
3. The internet is very light! (of course the internet doesn’t weigh anything!)
4 The internet lives at the top of Big Ben! (where it gets the best reception)
5. Before being borrowed, it MUST be demagnetised! Preferably by a Grand Master of The Internet such as Stephen Hawking.
How to make The Internet (from The IT Crowd) (via BoingBoing)
Sabers Graffiti-USA-Flagge
(Youtube Direktflag, via cpluv)
Die Gesundheitsdiskussion in den USA erscheint einem Europäer ja doch eher absurd und sie geht mir auch generell eher am Allerwertesten vorbei, aber das hier mag ich aus einem einfachen Grund: Die Graffiti-Amerika-Flagge von Saber sieht totschick aus und die Story dahinter ist, zumindest für die USA, bitterernst.
links for 2010-01-28
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Google, copyright, and our future.
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MIT neuroscientists are making computers smart enough to see the connections between the brain's neurons
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Now, finally, groups at Harvard and the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, have designed and built a computer that hews closely to these specs. It is a quantum computer, as Feynman forecast. And it is the first quantum computer to simulate and calculate the behavior of a molecular, quantum system.
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PHOBOS is a name you are going to hear a lot in the coming years. It may be little more than an asteroid – just two-billionths of the mass of our planet, with no atmosphere and hardly any gravity – yet the largest of Mars's two moons is poised to become our next outpost in space, our second home.
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Vintage Beer Cans
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Auf den ersten Blick sind die Seiten www.weforum.org (Original) und www.we-forum.org (Fake) nicht zu unterscheiden. Selbst beim Quellcode unterscheiden sich die Seiten erst sehr weit unten. Einzig der Server von we-forum.org verrät, dass da ein Kollektiv dahinter steckt, das auch schon mit den Yes Men zusammengearbeitet hat.
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In the future, when it has two cameras for fully featured video conferencing, GPS and who knows what else built in (1080 HD TV reception and recording and nano projection, for example) and when the iBook store has recorded its 100 millionth download and the thousands of accessories and peripherals that have invented uses for iPad that we simply can't now imagine – when that has happened it will all have seemed so natural and inevitable that today's nay-sayers and sceptics will have forgotten that they ever doubted its potential.
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Using new mathematical tools, a group of researchers created a fascinating chart that shows how neuroscience went from a hodgepodge of unconnected scientific disciplines, to a unified science that's one of the most important today. In just under 10 years.
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Micro-blogging site Twitter is developing technology that will prevent government censorship after Iran and China moved to censor its users.
Vice Guide to Liberia
(Youtube Direktliberia, via MeFi)
Der Vice Guide to Liberia geistert schon seit ein paar Wochen durch meinen Feedreader, ich wollte aber warten, bis die Videos komplett online sind. Das ist jetzt soweit. Bei VBS gibt’s jetzt alle acht Clips und ich muss warnen: Das ist ziemlich heavy Stuff, was da gezeigt wird. Einen Vorgeschmack gibt’s in obigem Trailer, für Zartbesaitete ist das sicherlich nichts.
In The Vice Guide To Liberia, VBS travels to the capital city Monrovia to meet three men who participated in the 14 years of civil war that ravaged the West African country.
Former warlords General Rambo, General Bin Laden and General Butt Naked give us guided tours of some of the most dangerous, impoverished areas including jails, brothels, and heroin dens. Despite the UNs intervention in the country, the majority of Liberias young people live in desperate poverty. Surrounded by filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution, the ex child soldiers who were forced into war struggle to fend for themselves by any means necessary. As the former President Charles Taylor fights accusations of mass war crimes in The Hague, the people strive for positive change against all odds. Americas one and only foray into African colonialism is keeping a very uneasy peace indeed.
Serge Gainsbourg Mashup-Album (plus Wu-Tang vs The Beatles)
BootlegsFR hat ein schönes Gainsbourg-themed Mashup-Album am Start (via Audioporn Central), das mir perönlich nur leider viel zu Hip Hop-lastig ausgefallen ist. Aber es hat eben auch Acappellas von Offspring, den Kings of Leon und Michael Jackson, was das ganze doch recht erträglich macht.
Hier die Tracklist (stellenweise mit Links zu den Einzeltracks):
01 Pretty Fly for a Poinçonneur
Produced by Yold
instru : Serge Gainsbourg – Le Poinçonneur des Lilas
acapella : Offsping – Pretty Fly of a White Guy02 New York, Nigeria
Produced by Grandpamini
instru : Babatunde Olatunji – Akiwowo
acapella : Ja Rule, Jadakiss & Fat Joe – New York03 Initials D.D.
Produced by Yold
instru : Serge Gainsbourg – Initals B.B.
acapella : Dr Dre feat. Snoop Dogg & Nate Dogg – The Next Episode04 Comic Beat
Produced by ComaR
instru : Serge Gainsbourg – Comic Strip
acapella : Michael Jackson – Beat It05 Skee-lo and Clyde
Produced by DJ Y alias JY
instru : Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot : Bonnie & Clyde
+ Soul II Soul – Jazzie’s Groove
+ Sugarhill Gang – Rappers Delight
acapella : Skee-lo – I Wish06 J’aime Biggie
Produced by dj BC
instru : Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin : Je t’aime Moi non Plus
acapella : Notorious B.I.G – Party and Bullshit07 Melody par Coeur
Produced by Grandpamini
instru : Serge Gainsbourg – En Melody
acapella : Rocé – Appris par Coeur08 The Dangerous Life Of Serge Gainsbourg
Produced by dj BC
instru : Serge Gainsbourg – Danger
acapella : Juicy J & Project Pat – Break it Down
+ Ini Kamoze – Hotstepper
+ Wine-O – I Pop09 Pon de Caouette
Produced by PhatBastard
Serge Gainsbourg – L’ami Caouette
Major Lazer – Pon de Floor10 Le Cadavre d’Eminem
Produced by Yold
instru : Serge Gainsbourg – Cadavre Exquis
acapella : Eminem feat. 50 Cent – You Don’t Know11 Zig Zig with Beautiful Girls
Produced by ComaR
instru : Serge Gainsbourg – Zig Zig avec Toi
acapella : Sean Kingston – Beautiful Girls12 Marilou on Fire
Produced by Mighty Mike
instru : Serge Gainsbourg – Marilou Reggae
acapella : King of Leon – Sex on Fire13 Standing in the Way of Rasta
Produced by Gaston
instru : Serge Gainsbourg – Lola Rastaquouere
acapella : The Gossip – Standing in the Way of Control14 Caught on the Beat
Produced By PhatBastard
instru : Serge Gainsbourg – Love on the Beat
acapella : Kelis – Caught out There
Und ein weiteres Mashup-Album, das ich wegen Hip Hop letzte Woche in den Links versteckt hatte, ist das hier: Wu Tang Clan vs The Beatles – Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers.
Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers is a remix album using Wu Tang acapellas on Tom Caruana beats that sample Beatles songs.
Hier noch ein Interview mit dem Macher dieses Dings bei Artsbeat der NYT: Roll Up: The Beatles Meet the Wu-Tang Clan in ‘Magical Mystery Chambers’ (via Diskursdisko)
Psycho a Go-Go
(Youtube Direktpsycho, via MeFi)
Ich hatte dieses Video vor knapp nem Jahr und davor schonmal, aber The Sonics „Psycho a Go-Go“ kann man nicht oft genug zeigen.
Amazing Workplaces: JMP Toys
(Youtube Direkttoys, via Laughing Squid)
Schönes Bit von Amazing Workplaces über die „Büros“ von JMP Toys. Inklusive Konfi in einem UFO. Nuff said.
It’s a bottle full of ketchup made from Bananas!
That’s what it is!
Banana ketchup or banana sauce is a popular Filipino condiment made from mashed banana, sugar, vinegar, and spices. It is often colored red to resemble tomato ketchup. Banana Ketchup was made when there was a shortage of tomato ketchup during the World War II, due to high production of bananas. (Wikipedia)
(via Cyn-C)
