Life 2.0!

For those who asked...

Why keeping your bookmarks online makes sense, how to use the inbox, how to spy on other people etc.

Read the guide at slackermanager...

Only at Galactic Pizza!

More freaks like Super Dooper.

"-Use it to catch up with news from hundreds of sources (including the BBC, CNN, Reuters, New York Times, London Times, CNET, ESPN, ...) -Put color coded sticky notes, todo lists and reminders on it -Keep your frequently accessed bookmarks on it Name it (e.g. as www.protopage.com/yourname) -Share parts of your page with friends, or keep it private -Set it as your browser 'start page' for easy access."

This looks really cool as a replacement for the same old start page in your browser.

Via de-bug

"Der Top-Klimaforscher der US-Raumfahrtbehörde Nasa hat der Regierung Bush vorgeworfen, ihn zum Schweigen bringen zu wollen. Er hatte wiederholt öffentlich auf die Folgen des Klimawandels hingewiesen." Story in der netzeitung

Sehen Sie sich mal dieses Foto an!

Story at commondreams.org. Also visit the homepage of Project Censored.

Tags: Bush, censorship

"The most successful pin-up of the 1950s, Bettie Page’s legendary photographs made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and turned her into one of the first sex icons." Trailer for the upcoming movie!

Adrien Brody plays a detective investigating the mysterious death of 1950's TV-Superman George Reeves. Ben Affleck will play the role of Reeves. Diane Lane plays Toni Mannix, the wife of a studio exec, who may be having a romantic relationship with Reeves.

The original title was "Truth, Justice, and the American Way", but then Warner sued. So, the movie has no title right now.

straightdope.com: Was "Superman" star George Reeves a suicide--or murder victim?

Tag: Superman

"Although lower level military are taking the rap for Abu Ghraib abuse, critics contend Rumsfeld authorized the rape of Iraqi children."

Greg Szymanski reports for arcticbeacon.com.

Tags: Bush, CIA, Iraq

"Name any big-title movie that's come out in the last four years," Soderbergh said in a recent interview. "It has been available in all formats on the day of release. It's called piracy. Simultaneous release is already here. We're just trying to gain control over it." (Steven Soderberg)

Quoted from a story on alternet.org.

A short film from China found among Sundance Shorts

Screenhead has this insane commercial from 1984 staring David Bowie and others.

The Pentagon came up with the "Information Operations Roadmap"in 2003 already. Now it was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act.

Read the story over at BBC.

Quotes: "It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system.

'Strategy should be based on the premise that the Department [of Defense] will 'fight the net' as it would an enemy weapons system,' it reads.

The slogan 'fight the net' appears several times throughout the roadmap. (...) And, in a grand finale, the document recommends that the United States should seek the ability to 'provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum'.

US forces should be able to 'disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum'."

Never mind the "freedom of the press"...

"A database of open source information about the Al Qaeda terrorist network, developed as a research project of the FMS Advanced Systems Group." TrackingTheThreat.com. Check out Osama bin Laden Found at del.icio.us

The trailer for the first movie based on german cannibal Armin Meiwes is out. The film, starring Keri Russell and Thomas Kretschmann as the cannibal looking for victims on the internet, finally got greenlighted on friday. Armin Meiwes, who turned down various offers from Hollywood for his story, sued the producer Atlantic Streamline Premiere in Germany will be on march the 9th, the day the retrial starts. Stampfwerk, a small company from Hamburg, got the official rights to the story for free. Meiwes wants to cooperate with them to produce a documentary about his case later on. Meiwes also sued German rock band Rammstein because of their song "Mein Teil" (My Piece).

Tags: cannibal, Rohtenburg, Du bist Deutschland, Germany

"The UN report confirms Indonesian genocide and Australia's complicity" - Story in The Age Quote from The Age: The report of the United Nations inquiry into Indonesia's brutal 24-year occupation of East Timor will come as no surprise to activists who opposed the policies of successive Australian governments, beginning in 1975, nor to the people of East Timor.

However, the report, which documents torture, rape, slavery and starvation leading to the unnatural demise of as many as 180,000 civilians (from a pre-invasion population of 628,000), should shame those ministers, journalists, diplomats and academics who played down or ignored consistent human rights abuses in the former Portuguese colony — incredibly described as "aberrant acts" by former foreign minister Gareth Evans.

"U.S. role in Timor invasion" in The Advertiser

"ON APRIL 5, 2003, unit founder Captain Eric May detected major glitches in the media pictures coming back from Baghdad, which US forces had just reached. (...) The pull-down of the statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9 was another manufactured event to indicate that the Baghdad had been occupied by US forces. But how did they take the city?

The answer is that US forces were attacked by much-larger Iraq forces at the Baghdad Airport on Saturday morning, April 5, and after bleeding badly from that vicious fight were engaged in a fierce battle in the rubbled, slow-go driving -- under constant Iraqi fire -- through the city of Baghdad, a drive lasting until three days later, when the distraction of Private Jessica abruptly ended so that the media could show a set-up scene of the 'Fall of Baghdad' (i.e., a set-up pull-down of Saddam's Statue).

While causalty figures have been suppressed by the media (along with the existence of the Battle of Baghdad!), international military estimates are that hundreds died. Summer/fall reports from Ft. Stewart, Georgia, about the overflow of 3rd Infanty Division wounded soldiers sleeping in tent cities when they needed medical treatment were never explained, either: There were too many wounded GIs from the Battle of Baghdad to fit in the Ft. Stewart Hospital!"

Full story at nationalvanguard.org

Tags: Baghdad, Bush

Check out the alphabet for Kryptonian and download the fonts!

Tags: Superman, Fonts

Der Profilierungswahn geht jetzt erst richtig los. Die Klowände werden hektisch und vermessen ihre Terrains. Also, Links in die Popmoderne bis es raucht. Und sorgen Sie reichlich für die Verlinkung des SUPERBLOGS und schreiben Sie bestenfalls auch gleich was rein!

Technorati Ablage: "Du bist Deutschland", Deutschland, Blogs, Village People

...aber ausnahmsweise hat der Hoeneß Recht.

Technorati-Zucht: Football, Deutschland, Germany, Nationalmannschaft

"Ich sang die ganze Zeit von Dir", die neue Single der Tomtes, rotiert jetzt zum xten mal und wird dies sicher noch öfters tun. Männer, Euer bester Song! Heute bei denen auf der Hompage auch kostenlos zu kriegen, wenn man den Buchstaben-Code kennt, aber Ihr alten Rätselknacker schafft das sicher schon oder solltet sonst den heiteren Newsletter vom Grand Hotel selbst abonnieren. War eh auf 100o limitiert, das Ding-Dingens mit den Buchstaben...

Irgendwo habe ich noch das erste Tomte-Demo mit vermutlich total unreleastem Zeug und Gekrakel vom charismatischen Bandleader drauf, der gestern bei "Polylux" die Berliner Fischbrötchen loben durfte. Kriste beim Ebay sicher noch wat für!

I just read this long article buzzing around. It's a pretty good description of what's wrong with Hollywood. The movie "Superman Returns" will cost $320-390 million and it took them 19 years to make it. "Superman V: The Whole Sordid Saga" is a very funny story with an impressive line-up of people involved.

Some quotes: WB turned the project over to their pet producer Jon Peters—an illiterate, violence-prone wild man (I wish I was making this up, but I’m not—this is all true, every word of it) who got his start as Barbra Streisand’s hairdresser/lover and produced the Tim Burton Batman films. Peters, who hates the classic Superman in every way imaginable, set out to reinvent Superman in the "sex, killing, rock & roll, and whatever movie was a hit last weekend" style that all of his movies are based in. So he hired Jonathan Lemkin to write the script. (...) Lemkin’s script—which even he proudly boasted was campy and silly—was scrapped because WB thought it was too similar to Batman Forever. So Peters hired porn veteran Gregory Poirier—who scripted Peters’ Rosewood, and has since written the bomb See Spot Run and served as writer-director on the much-derided Tomcats—to start over. Poirier’s script had an angst-ridden Superman visiting a shrink in order to deal with his feelings of being an outsider and a freak by virtue of his alien heritage, ditching his red and blues for a black suit, using Kryptonian martial arts, and being killed by a Doomsday who bled kryptonite, Brainiac, the Silver Banshee, and the Parasite.

Peters also hated the FX in the 1978 Superman film with Chris Reeve, so he wanted to get rid of Superman’s ability to fly. So Smith tried to get around this by portraying Superman as a red blur while in flight, creating a sonic boom every time he took off (he took this from The Dark Knight Returns). Peters then told Smith to have Brainiac fight polar bears at the Fortress of Solitude, demanding that the film be wall-to-wall action. Smith thought it was a stupid idea, so Peters said, "Then have Brainiac fight Superman’s bodyguards!" Smith responded, "Why the hell would Superman need bodyguards?" Peters wouldn’t let up, so Smith caved in and had Brainiac fight the polar bears.
Then Peters demanded that Brainiac give Luthor a hostile space dog as a gift, arguing that the movie needed a cuddly Chewbacca character that could be turned into a toy. Then, after watching Chasing Amy, Peters liked the gay black character in the film so much that he ordered Smith to make Brainiac’s robot servant L-Ron gay, asserting that the film needed a gay R2-D2 with attitude. Then Peters demanded that Superman fight a huge spider at the end of the film, which Smith refused to do—he used a "Thanagarian Snare Beast" instead.

Read: "Superman V: The Whole Sordid Saga"

Tag: superman

"NSA Deputy Director, Gen. Michael Hayden lead the PR blitz by taking questions from reporters at The National Press Club on Monday. The General confirmed to NSA expert James Bamford and Jonathan Landay with Knight Ridder that a feature of the NSA program was the lowering of the legal standard from 'probable cause' to 'reasonably believe' (a.k.a. 'reasonable suspicion') -- which would avoid the FISA Law requirements."

Video and more at bradblog.com

Tag: Bush, NSA,

"Du bist Joseph Goebbels", "Du bist Hermann Göring" und "Du bist Adolf Hitler" sind aus der Auslage verschwunden. Mehr bei fettisch.de

Technorati Ablage: "Du bist Deutschland"

This is unbelievable: Devo have turned into children and they're on Disney Records now! Welcome, Spuds!

Via boingboing

They got nice toys too!

Tag: Devo

He's supposed to present THE PROPOSITION by John Hillcoat with Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Danny Huston, David Wenham ( Music: Nick Cave)

The Proposition OST by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis is released by Mute in the UK on 6h March. The album will be released in Europe on 10th March and in North America on 21st February. The film will be released in the US in April." Tags: Berlin, Berlinale

Wie geil! Kann das mal bitte wer parodieren gehen?

Via metafilter