The New York Times, the CIA and the White House. The full story in the latest edition of The New Yorker

...Weltmännertag und gleichzeitig Usabilitytag. Gefunden in der Riesenmaschine.

"Hope that you can stay" - MP3 ohne bezahlen

Vorab vom grandiosen Album des bekannten Filmstars Felix Gebhart.

"Space is one cold motherfucker!"

Check out this incredible film about The Negro American Space Society of Astronauts (NASSA). Highly recommended by Mr. Darius James.

"Wo populäre Kultur die Postmoderne beeinflußt, spricht der Zeitgenosse von Popmoderne: 'Die klassischen Medien verlieren an Bedeutung, weil sie den Erwartungen und dem Konsumverhalten der Generation Zero nicht mehr gerecht werden. Die individuell isolierte Freizeitgesellschaft akzeptiert Information nur noch als bunt verpacktes, lautstark beworbenes Unterhaltungs-Format' (Stefan Ernsting). So viel zur Definition." (Norbert Tefelski, Tagesspiegel [T!cket] 21. April 2005)

Yo!

This monkey wont go to heaven! Great footage!

Europe Underground. Cool pictures!

"WELCOME to Cold War City (population: 4). It covers 240 acres and has 60 miles of roads and its own railway station. It even includes a pub called the Rose and Crown. (...) It has a Wiltshire address, but it is 120ft underground.

The subterranean complex that was built in the 1950s to house the Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan’s cabinet and 4,000 civil servants in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack is being thrown open to commercial use. Just four maintenance men are left."

Story in the Times

Online Collection of superhero-audio-plays like this one: Fantastic Four: Meet the Mole Man - Narrated by Stan Lee and featuring a pre-SNL Bill Murray as the Human Torch.

Aus der neuen "Zitty" geklaut. Gut gelacht, gut gemacht! Fil hat auch gerade ein neues Album mit Didi und Stulle rausgehauen und er war nie besser. Ab 22. 11. kommen SHARKEY & FIL mit neuem Programm!

"Read illustrated accounts of the world's first robot, the Steam Man, created in 1865! Subsequent automatons such as the Electric Man and the Automatic Man are also profiled. The most comprehensive section, with more than 20 pages, concerns the mechanical man known as Boilerplate.

Boilerplate was unveiled in 1893 by Professor Archibald Campion. Built as a prototype soldier for use in resolving the conflicts of nations, Boilerplate served with Roosevelt's Rough Riders and fought alongside Pancho Villa"

This is the best website I've seen this week.

"Mit dem Roboter zur Witzfigur" - Story im Spiegel "The Strange Case of the Spoofer Captured by a Spoof" - Story in the New York Times

How To Survive a Robot Uprising : Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion

"New Propagandhi guitarist Glen has been acting very strange lately. I don’t know what it is. That last dweeb (Hairy Hannah) gave me the creeps and Glen is following a little too close in his footsteps. I’m not sure what to expect on this upcoming tour. One of Glens neighbors said they saw him scurrying down the ally in a housecoat and green leotards. Apparently, his eyes were darting back and forth quickly as he ate the edge crust off of a pizza. Don’t worry though, I’m going to have a talk with him and make sure he can hold it together for the tour."

On the new record “Potemkin City Limits”: "So far the response has been really great give or take a few dweebs. One particular fellow rated the new record 'less than a fart'. Which in my world is not good because I hate farts but in Jord’s world that is a really good rating because he LOVES farts! I don’t know what to think about that assessment."

Die Story bei Telepolis und hier der Clip, der eigentlich ganz lustig ist.

Erscheint erst im Februar, aber die Füchse von intro haben schon ein "Watermarked-Promo" und die Trackliste:

1. Ich sang die ganze Zeit von dir (4:21)
2. So soll es sein (3:31)
3. Was den Himmel erhellt (4:32)
4. New York (4:48)
5. Walter & Gail (4:58)
6. Warum ich hier stehe (4:20)
7. Norden der Welt (4:17)
8. Wir fragten deinen Dealer (4:38)
9. Sie lachen zurecht und wir lachen auch (4:15)
10. Geigen bei Wonderful World (4:13)

"The media implant fear and helplessness in the psyche of the people of Europe and the U.S. ... what enemies of the U.S. cannot do, its media are doing!(...) Bin Laden's rise to prominence mirrors the latest phase in the Information Age, the techniques of which he has adroitly mastered. In a 10-year period from 1994 to 2004 that coincides with the emergence of a virtual universe — moving from print to the Internet, from wired to wireless communication around the globe — bin Laden has crafted a series of carefully staged statements designed for new media. They include interviews with Western and Arab journalists, handwritten letters scanned onto discs, faxes, and audiotapes, and above all video recordings distributed via the first independent Arabic-language news outlet, the Qatari satellite television station Al-Jazeera. Those are the texts that were sent to me and proposed as the core of a volume dedicated to making informed critical discussion of Osama's outlook possible for a broader public, one not limited to secretive government agencies and counterterrorism experts." Story at chronicle.com by Bruce B. Lawrence, "professor of Islamic studies at Duke University. He has edited and written an introduction to Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden, to be published by Verso this month."

"Judging from their words, too many policymakers and intelligence officers mistake secrecy for intelligence. President Nixon, for example, once belittled the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in words that capture the common mistake: 'What use are they? They’ve got over 40,000 people over there reading newspapers.' The president’s remarks, reflecting a persistent misperception, echo even now within the Intelligence Community."

CIA.gov

"The Bush administration has missed dozens of deadlines set by Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks for developing ways to protect airplanes, ships and railways from terrorists. A plan to defend ships and ports from attack is six months overdue. Rules to protect air cargo from infiltration by terrorists are two months late. A study on the cost of giving anti-terrorism training to federal law enforcement officers who fly commercially was supposed to be done more than three years ago." AP/Yahoo

"Thirty-five years old lost in an Xbox / PlayStation and videos / So that's how it goes / The world begins and ends at the tip of their nose / It ain't Eminem / It's M and M and M / McDonalds, MTV and Microsoft."

publicenemy.com

Wired: Public Enemy Takes It to the Net

"Ins Hitler oder Meinhof (Text: Christian Y. Schmidt, Vortrag: Michael Ringel)" Wegen "Kim-Jong-Il-Ähnlichkeitswettbewerb" bei der Titanic und Korea-Woche der "Wahrheit".

So richtig Bock auf Regierung scheint ja niemand mehr zu haben! Die Rückzugsangebote tickern im Stundentakt! Was isn jetzt, wenn plötzlich der Russe kommt? Da ständen wir schön blöd da!

Finden Sie nicht auch, 50 Millionen Dollar sind eigentlich viel zu wenig?

"Still Devoted to the Preservation and Dissemination of Articles and Items Relating to Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century Popular Music." The Rag-Time Ephemeralist is a periodical written and published by Chris Ware, one of the greatest artists alive.

Laughing Squid has pictures of “Batman!!! The TV Show: The Play”.

"Steve Miner has been set to direct 'Day of the Dead,' the Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films remake of George Romero's 1985 zombie tale." Story in Variety

"Espresso bartenders are celebrating Halloween dressed as zombie Starbucks employees!" laughingsquid.com

"The Manufacturer's Blog posts a new pro-manufacturing poster every Wednesday. WHAT IS GOOD FOR INDUSTRY IS GOOD FOR YOUR FAMILY!"

Via boingboing

"The Muppets could come back to primetime television with their own reality show. ABC has ordered a script and five episode outlines for 'America's Next Muppet,' in which viewers may join in choosing the newest member of the puppet family that includes Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, a network spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The premise has the ring of such shows as 'American Idol' or 'America's Next Top Model,' in which the audience picks potential new stars. " AP/Orlando Sentinel