disturbing search request: Santorum is a mixture of lube and fecal matter. (from the old hat dept.)

anil dash: "Flash Mobs are striking in that they are an affinity event for people who have no affinity group. A Meetup for people who like Meetups. How much more meta can it get? None. None more meta".

for further definitions refer to anil dash's daily links ("meetup for white people who don't have any hobbies") and the devil's dictionary ("an impromptu gathering, organized by means of wireless communication, of the unemployed").

movies by shannon plumb.

greg's digital portfolio: "Each of the links above lead to sample image galleries that showcase work I have done for design studios, advertising agencies and digital pre-press houses. Inside each gallery are thumbnail links that zoom into different areas of the image. Rolling the mouse over theses images will display the original scan before it was retouched" (via elephäntville).

speech accent archive is a site that "examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph" (via eier erbsen schleim und zeug).

tibun, bist du es?

the new kraftwerk album is this week's cover story of viennese city mag falter.

related: "Wer ist Flür?"

yesterday, after i joined my colleagues for an excellent fish dinner at copa kagrana(!), i went to café bratislava (in vienna, that is). at the flamingo club a nice crowd was schmoozing to infectious grooves.

last week you could waltz there (you can again next week at fluc – thanks sven for the hint).

i will be around on sunday again when ciccio bello spin the wheels of steel.

is there any "science" research that could be more desperately ludicrous than sexology? or is this just a sophisticated art form of very adult entertainment?