for those who are interested in web gossip and “internet scandal”: watch the weblogs for jennicam... (yawn!)
holy moly, i consider this rather a bizarre insight into the psychological abyss of young urban american's self-understanding: hello teenage america!
btw: since natacha merrit seems to be a big gossip thing out there, too, i heartly welcome all the unfortunate users being pointed here by google: you won't find the merit of merrit pictures you probably expected to in this area.
dear target group: if you know german i recommend reading starhacker. dear starhacker: if you read this i beg for more hacked stars.
"shooting a star!" – duran duran
you cannot have soup with it for it is far too shallow and you cannot eat meat with it for its prongs are too small: the spork.
via langreiter: making the macintosh – from counter culture to the apple mouse.
i had to play naked city's torture garden after i listened to "wunderkind" by extreme artist flatz. quite contrary to his really adorable "physical sculpture" performances (sewed in towels in a public toilet as hand dryer, naked as dart board giving one a handful cash when a dart hits his belly or as living pendulum being swung to unsconsciousness between two steal panels accompanied by waltz music) this track is rather vapid (how vapid is vapid?) and embarassing – even though former kraftwerk member karl bartos had his fingers in the sound pie. anyway, it's the lyrics, i guess...
via pool's guestbook: furnitureporn.
groovy, annoying or scandalous? guitar2guitar alias sandra sherman & walid al-khalily are playing a jam session tonight somewhere in the outback of vienna... that's even worth a new entry on the most frequently updated weblog of austria!
rebol – the official guide, $39,99 includes cd and exclusive, signed, limited-edition designer's tip sheet by carl sassenrath...
does the internet need a government? everywhere, even in europa where the fear of a hegemonic us-controlled net is quite huge, the "internet corporation for assigned names and numbers" (icann) is named the "internet's government". fact is that the organisation is holding some "democratic" elections of 9 of the 18 director's board members now due to public pressure icann was facing lately (more at slashdot.org).
ridiciously, the people entitled to vote (older than 16 years and having a valid e-mail address) are not told who they can vote for, yet... seems like a new attitude towards and quality of democracy have risen since absurd online polls and arbitrary "democratic" manifests flood the net society.
generally, there is a lack of information and communication about icann and those elections in europa as well as in the states. it is said that only a few thousand of us-american citizens registered for voting at the time. an initiative by german news magazine der spiegel in cooperation with broadcast station zdf tries to spread the word, lift conscience and get people to vote at least in germany.
"we are sorry. the database is currently overloaded. please try again when the system is less busy. " – error message trying to reach the icann election application form
i ask myself what kind of theater this "internet government" crap is... can this election ever be called a democratic act? is icann necessary at all? would it help the internet community keeping their niches and ideals or will i, you, we, the users, be among the bleating sheep once again being controlled by some unpredictable reincarnations of esther dyson? what's going on in other european and non-us countries?
q: is this not a global issue? a: this is internet dada.
as mentioned before i read my first harry potter book not knowing how famous that guy already is... warner bros. producing a movie (and i bet british harry-boy will be very, veeeeery american) and in new zealand's elementary schools the book even was banned for a while.
in 20 years harry potter probably will be what the famous five are today.