Hier, ich bin die Nr.1! Marcus, erklär mir das!

Darius James, my notorious brother in arms, revamps his his Creative Writing Workshop in Berlin. He also wrote a funny new piece called: The Return of Dr. Snakeskin's Home-Video Views: The Hulk (Not!) Check it out!

Loads of people googled me to find out about "danger ducks" or "duck dangers".

"The American soldier Jessica Lynch, who was rescued by US special forces after being taken prisoner in Iraq, has signed a $1m book deal with publisher Alfred A Knopf.

I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story will be co-written by former New York Times reporter Rick Bragg and detail her journey from rural West Virginia to becoming a national heroine. "

Full story at bbc news

Whew, a national heroine!

You know what? Heroes don't exist. It's a propaganda-lie from the 19th century which still works in the US. As long as you got a hero, nobody is gonna look at the facts, right?

But great power doesn't mean responsibility at all. It simply means being able to fuck with everyone else.

You're just some propaganda bitch, Miss Lynch! You agreed to play a mayor role in that fake rescue-mission Jerry Bruckheimer's cameraguy shot at a hospital in Bhagdad where doctors from Iraq tried to save you after your own people almost shot you.

You probably didn't get it, Miss Lynch. But you're just some small fry from "Rural West Virginia" who has never been anywhere else and you're probably scared to death to go to a foreign country again. Stay at home, eat greasy hamburgers until you die and talk about your High School-years forever. Just leave us alone with "your story". They gave you a shitload of money for "your story" which isn't yours at all because someone in Hollywood made it up. History going down the drain. Miss Lynch, you are part of the problem. Go back to your shitty little village and count your bloody money.

Do you know why they gave you all that money? DO YOU FUCKING UNDERSTAND IT, BITCH? Does it remind you of the smell of napalm at least? Do you remember pain? Do you remember why you went to war? Can you hear the children of Iraq scream at night, Miss Heroine? Does it make you proud to kill for a bunch of rich oil-magnats running out of time?

->On rescuing Private Lynch and forgetting Rachel Corrie by Naomi Klein in "The Guardian ->The Truth About the Saving of Private Jessica Lynch by John Kampfner at Al-Jazeerah.info

"Three North Asian countries are closer to signing a deal to codevelop an open-source operating system to replace Microsoft Windows, according to a Japanese news report. The agreement is likely to be announced this week by Japanese Trade Minister Takeo Hiranuma at an economic ministers' meeting in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, the report in Japan news daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun said, quoting unnamed sources.

The deal is expected to bring together China, Japan and Korea in efforts to develop the software. Representatives from both private and government agencies will meet later this year to discuss the collaboration's terms, according to the report."

taken from cnet

"Fat Klingons exist, but they are not warriors."

(Klythe, Assistant Moderator at klingon.org)

Zwiebeln bei, hier haste, zwo Euro!

"McDonald's is embarking on a frenzy of marketing, in an attempt to woo back jaded consumers around the world. On Tuesday, the fast-food giant launches the first global advertising campaign in its 50-year history, a youth-oriented series of ads under the slogan "i'm lovin' it".

In an burst of uncharacteristic whimsy, the chain announced that Ronald McDonald, its clown mascot, had been promoted to the post of "chief happiness officer" to help spearhead the campaign.

"He'll be a great addition to our board meetings," said chairman and chief executive Jim Cantalupo, while keeping a straight face."

(...)

The campaign has been devised by Heye & Partner, a German subsidiary of the Omnicom advertising multinational.

In an attempt to shake off the chain's somewhat unexciting image, it will be - in the firm's words - "relevant, hip, energetic and powerful".

from "Ronald takes McDonald's to the world" at bbc news

The girl from the "switch to Apple"-ad has her own fanclub now. Apple withdrew the commercial. but you can still watch it online. All about Ellen

After "The Treasure Planet" became a financial disaster, Disney thinks of giving up 2D. "Eisner has expressed interest in reanimating Disney's classic 2-D features in 3-D. A computerized Pinocchio, anyone? (In fact, much of the 3-D character animation for Walt Disney World's upcoming Mickey's PhilharMagic was so bad—in particular Ariel from The Little Mermaid—it had to be reanimated by 2-D animators, then transferred into the computer.)" taken from an interesting story at mouseplanet.com. Found at boingboing.net

Here is a message from Mr. Illuminati himself:

"After all, why should I remain the ONLY nutcase in California who ain't running," RAW says. My party, the Guns and Dope Party, invites extremists of both right and left to unite behind our shared goals of:

1. Get those pointy-headed Washington bureaucrats off our backs and off our fronts too!

2. Guns for everybody who wants them; no guns for those who don't want them

3. Drugs for everybody who wants them; no drugs for those who don't want them

4. Freedom of choice, free love,free speech, free Internet and free beer

5. California secession -- Keep the anti-gun and anti-dope fanatics on the Eastern side of the Rockies

6. Lotsa wild parties every night by gun-toting dopers

7. Animal protection -- Support your right to keep and arm bears More position papers will follow; we know at least 69 good positions."

Vote for Wilson

"The Myth: Iraqis, prior to occupation, lived in little beige tents set up on the sides of little dirt roads all over Baghdad. The men and boys would ride to school on their camels, donkeys and goats. These schools were larger versions of the home units and for every 100 students, there was one turban-wearing teacher who taught the boys rudimentary math (to count the flock) and reading. Girls and women sat at home, in black burkas, making bread and taking care of 10-12 children." Cory Doctorow at boingboing.net

This blog by a woman from Baghdad is already getting a lot of traffic, but it's well worth waiting to get a better perspective of the ongoing war Found while hanging out at William Gibson's.

Trash as trash can: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (filmed in Skeletorama) and Battlefield Stadium. Those whacky asians! If you don't watch trailers, here's the poster for "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra"

Humans vs. Cyborgs? Machines raging against machines? Haven't we heard that one before? Shouldn't Matrix rather look like this ? Isn't Arnie a little old for this? Well, here is a fine little movie from Korea no serious nerd and no fan of apocalyptic action wants to miss. Get the trailer here (11,7 MB, MPEG-4)

Here's an excellent site with original scripts for movies, TV and Radio. Quite a lot of interesting stuff for all the writers out there.

Wanna know what time is it? Have you ever seen the Human Clock? That's one funny project!

Christiana, the squatted area on the outskirts of Kopenhagen is one of the last truly free states. Now Denmark's gouvernment wants to end the experiment. Christiana organizes a parade for diversity on August the 30th to protest against the takeover. read more...

After having fled to Czechoslovakia in 1933, Helmut Herzfeld alias John Heartfield led an extra-ordinary one-man-crusade against a certain mystical austrian. Now there's a musical about the grand old dadaist and some of his art ended up on the web.

found at Lumbago's

Everything you never wanted to know about the secret service which officially didn't exist for quite a while. found at Zweitwohnung.

"Buildings of Disaster are miniature replicas of famous structures where some tragic or terrible events happened to take place." You can get a plastic version of the alma place tunnel where Lady Diana died or a small playset of the O.J. car chase.

Congratulations, honey! "Latin Lovers" reached #1 in the Dutch's dance charts!!! The full length album featuring MONIKA KRUSE at VOODOOAMT aka PATRICK LINDSEY will be called "Passengers". It's scheduled for October 2003 and it's gonna be a killer.

Fan facts: Monika isn't just the most beautiful woman in techno, she's also one mean killer at playing "Risk".

The old computer has a collection of (low quality Real Player-format) TV advertisements from the 1970's and 1980's.

Mad-Science.Net is proud to announce the opening of a new place in Berlin-Kreuzberg which will serve all your needs. Volunteer movers welcome! There is one big, big party coming up in late September or early October. Leave a comment to be invited, fellow fans and bloggers.

Einma' umziehen ist wie einmal abgebrannt, har, har....

The current prices for dinar notes from Iraq are hard to tell. The funny thing is that the US had to print extra-bills with the face of Saddam Hussein in the US.

"The expectation is that the new Iraqi authority will design and print a new currency, which will be widely circulated and as reputable as the "Swiss dinar" still in use in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq." from "Devaluation of dinar plagues postwar Iraq" in the Washington Times

"New banknotes, budget for Iraq" in the Herald Sun. Washington has for weeks been flooding Iraq with more than $1.3 million worth of small-denomination U.S. currency in an attempt to stabilize the economy, pay workers and wean people from the nearly worthless "Saddams" until a new currency can be introduced.

This german movie by Sascha Alexander Renninger is supposed to be a faithful adaption of the H.P. Lovecraft shortstory "The Unnamable", written 1923. It was shot on 16mm and it will be out on dvd.

Don't forget to have a Coffee with Cthulhu

Fuzzy animals vs. the grand old one! They should have used the real plush-Cthulhu And, yes, there is a Cthulhu!

Get rid of the mystical negro in corporate pop-culture. Try the mystical austrian instead. Isn't it funny that Schwarzenegger sounds like "black negro"?

You want the best? You got the best! The hottest cover-band in the world: Mini-Kiss. And if that aint enough, you might wanna go and see the king. -found at boingboing.

The website of the actor who wants to rule California, has turned into a hub for his political campaign. And lets not forget his new line of action figures.