December 2007
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stereogum: team9 vs. Stereogum Presents...... →
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David Fincher and Quint talk about everything from... →
Mr. Fincher talked for nearly 40 minutes about everything from ALIEN 3 to the movement of his upcoming projects. I hope you guys enjoy the read on this final day of the year 2007.
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PCGH - PCGH blickt zurück: 25 Jahre Wassereffekte... →
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Stranger than fiction: parallel universes beguile... →
Is the universe — correction: “our” universe — no more than a speck of cosmic dust amid an infinite number of parallel worlds? A staple of mind-bending science fiction, the possibility of multiple universes has long intrigued hard-nosed physicists, mathematicians and cosmologists too. We may not be able — at least not yet — to prove they exist, many serious...
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Standort: Wie viel Staat braucht das Land? - DER... →
Privatisierung und Liberalisierung - diese Schlagworte standen einmal für mehr Wettbewerb bei Bahn und Post, bei Energieversorgern und Kommunalbetrieben. Doch nicht immer sind die Leistungen billiger und besser geworden. Bei vielen Politikern hat deshalb ein Umdenken begonnen.
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Ho-ho-horrible: Music sales plunge 20 percent this... →
To some music lovers, the fact that Josh Groban’s Noel was the highest-selling album of 2007 is all the proof they need that major-label music is dying. To shareholders and label execs, though, the numbers are more important, and the numbers are grim: music sales are down 21 percent this Christmas season.
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Mashuptown.com: Mashuptown Best of 2007 →
Blue Betty (Elvis vs. Ram Jam)-The Who Boys Break Through Love (The Doors vs. Led Zeppelin)-DJ Zebra Clock a Minute (Coldplay vs. The Pussycat Dolls)-Pheugoo Daft Prayer (Bon Jovi vs. Daft Punk)-DJ Payroll Every Car You Chase (The Snow Police) (The Police vs. Snow Patrol)-Party Ben Folk Prayer (Peter Bjorn & John vs. Bloc Party)-Dunproofin’ Galvanize the Empire (The Chemical Bros. vs....
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TP: Operation Heiße Luft →
Der angeblich “riesige Kinderporno-Skandal” unter dem Code-Namen “Operation Himmel” hat sich als Operation Heiße Luft erwiesen. Das Reizwort “Kinderpornografie” verführt deutsche Medien häufig zu einer kruden Mixtur aus Halbwahrheiten, urbanen Märchen und glatten Falschmeldungen Bei hoch emotionalisierten Themen wie “Kinderpornografie bei [bitte selbst...
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dasistdasen.de » Telefonieren mit dem iPod Touch →
Eine SIM-Karte passt zwar weiterhin nicht in das kastrierte iPhone, aber bei touchmods.net wurde in Eigenregie Hard- und Software entwickelt, so dass der iTouch über WiFi und VoIP Gespräche aufbauen kann.
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5min - Superconductivity - Creating a New State of Matter - Video
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Hansel and Gretel: The Tim Burton Movie You’ve... →
Before BeetleJuice, Batman, Pee Wee Herman’s Big Adventure, and Sweeney Todd, Tim Burton directed a modern gothic violent retelling of Hansel and Gretel. Never heard of it before? It exists. Although little evidence of its existence can be found. Chances are if you haven’t seen it, you never will. This 45 minute (or 20 minute, depending on what source you believe) short live-action film...
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Space rock on way, but don't panic yet - National... →
SCIENTISTS have identified an asteroid that has a faint chance of ploughing into the Earth, leaving a two-kilometre-wide crater and wiping out life for 6000 square kilometres. The asteroid measures 130 metres across and is travelling at 70,000 km/h. It would cause huge devastation if it hit the planet. Called 2007 VK184, the space rock is 90 million kilometres from Earth and could hit in...
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From Geek to Gods: Why Have "Social Rock Stars"... →
Forget Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison - there’s a new breed of rock star in town. They might be not able to play the guitar, but they still know how to work a crowd. They are “social rockstars” - the power users on social news sites.
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The RIAA Will Die in 2008 →
All this adds up to one thing for me: the death of the RIAA is near. Time and time again the industry has shown they have no clue as to how to properly adapt to the digital landscape, and musical acts like Radiohead, Trent Reznor and Madonna have all realized great success selling their music without the aid of a major label.
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Concord Monitor - Warning: Don't read this in... →
Here’s a prediction that’ll make you squirm: In the future, people will fall in love with robots. Robots will not be cold, predictable machines, but actual lovers - precocious, sexy and remarkably humanlike in appearance. Humans will even marry robots in certain obliging jurisdictions. Now send the kids into the other room while we mention the obvious, bizarre implication: Someday,...
Dec 30th
Chaosradio Podcast Network: CRE060 Retrofuturismus →
Tim Pritlove spricht mit Gregor Sedlag und Christian Heller über die Zukunft - genauer das Phänomen des Retrofuturismus und das Problem der Science Fiction Literatur, mit der technischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung nicht mehr mithalten zu können. Steampunk ist ein romantischer Blick in die Technikvergangenheit, doch entfaltet tatsächlich das Alte häufig erst dann seinen Reiz, wenn es durch...
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TP: Operation Heiße Luft →
Der angeblich “riesige Kinderporno-Skandal” unter dem Code-Namen “Operation Himmel” hat sich als Operation Heiße Luft erwiesen. Das Reizwort “Kinderpornografie” verführt deutsche Medien häufig zu einer kruden Mixtur aus Halbwahrheiten, urbanen Märchen und glatten Falschmeldungen
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The Guro Art of Trevor Brown (NSFW) |... →
Viewing Trevor Brown’s work requires an open mind. You can enjoy more of his Erotic, fetish, disturbing, graphic, provoking, nearly offensive, sometimes perverted but extremely fascinating art of Trevor Brown after the jump.
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Stage6 · Was Einstein noch nicht wusste Das Rätsel... →
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Giuliani Surrogate: Rudy Will 'Chase Muslims Back... →
Here’s what Deady said about Giuliani: “He’s got I believe the knowledge and the judgment to attack one of the most difficult problems in current history and that is the rise of the Muslims, and make no mistake about it, this hasn’t happened for a thousand years. These people are very, very dedicated and they’re also very smart, in their own way. We need to keep the...
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TP: Vom Schüren der Ausländer- und von der... →
Die Aussichten für Landtagswahl in Hessen sind für Roland Koch und seine CDU nicht gut. Auch zusammen mit der FDP würde nach der letzten Umfrage für das Politbarometer und nach einer vom Spiegel in Auftrag gegebenen Umfrage die CDU keine Regierungsmehrheit erhalten. Weil nur noch vier Wochen Zeit bleiben, zieht Koch wieder einmal die Karte, die ihm schon einmal zum Erfolg verholfen hat, und macht...
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AlterNet: Creeping Fascism: From Nazi Germany to... →
Americans today are seeing the same sheepish submissiveness that characterized Germany after the burning of the Reichstag.
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Mad Fold-in! →
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netzpolitik.org: » Fight for your rights! »... →
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heise online - Kritischer Blogger in Saudi-Arabien... →
Wie das “Committee to Protect Journalists” (CPJ) berichtet, wurde der Blogger Fouad Ahmed al-Farhan am 10. Dezember in den Räumlichkeiten seiner IT-Firma in Jeddah, Saudi-Arabien, festgenommen. Auch Al-Farhans Laptop sein konfisziert worden, heißt es. Anklage wurde jedoch offenbar noch nicht erhoben. Al-Farhan, der sich in seinem Blog gegegen einen extremistischen Islam und für...
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Long live The King - Jeriko One →
Fotoserie von Tamar Levine über Personen, die sich Tag für Tag wie Berühmtheiten verkleiden und am Hollywood Boulevard stehen. Deprimierend, und doch irgendwie schön.
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2007 Year End Highlights in Design →
Before we move into 2008, we thought we should take a minute to reflect on some of the highlights of this past year. This list is not meant to be a complete wrap-up of any sorts, just some stuff that stood out and we felt was worth a mention. Feel free to email us with something you think should absolutely be on this list and we’ll consider including it. Happy New Year!
Dec 30th
Steal This Film, Part II: the Internet makes us... →
Part II is even better than part one — it covers the technological and enforcement end of the copyright wars, and on the way that using the internet makes you a copier, and how copying puts you in legal jeopardy. Starting with Mark Getty’s (Chairman of Getty Images) infamous statement that “Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century,” the filmmakers note that oil...
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