Robby the robot returns! Retro goes big budget! Big budget to make things look cheap!

Hey, that's my birthday!

Dr. Wicked is putting the "Prod" in Productivity! "Write or Die is a web application that encourages writing by punishing the tendency to avoid writing. Start typing in the box. As long as you keep typing, you're fine, but once you stop typing, you have a grace period of a certain number of seconds and then there are consequences."

Steampunk Fonts: Volume I Steampunk Fonts: Volume II Steampunk Fonts: Volume III

Lots of wonderful stuff. Nice blog!

Big collection over here - Jede Menge Dokumentarfilme in Deutsch und Englisch

Dreistündiger Dokumentarfilm von Stefan Aust und Helmar Büchel (ARD, 2007)

Can this be real? Is it just someone's sick imagination?

"Marry Our Daughter is an introduction service assisting those following the Biblical tradition of arranging marriages for their daughters.

Those who wish to list their Daughters with our site should click on SIGN UP OUR DAUGHTER on our main page for a form to fill out.

Those who wish to propose to a specific Daughter should click on the PROPOSE button on the Daughter’s INFO CARD. "

They have ads like this one:

"Kristin J. Age: 16, Location: South

Bride Price: $49,995

Kristin has a wild streak. She likes parties and has spent more time with boys than we’d have liked her to. We had a family talk and decided that it was time she settled down with a man who could meet her needs and help her fulfill her dreams of being an actor or singer. She’s a bit fiery but worth it."

Anna R . is much cheaper:

"Age: 17 ½, Location: Northeast

Bride Price: $3,995

Anna R. has been living with foster families since she was 5 and is a bit rough around the edges but is basically a good girl. When she turns 18 she will age out of the foster system and will have to move out and is looking for a kind and caring man to look after her needs while she looks after his."

And now for something totally cute! Hunde, wollt Ihr ewig rappen?

Dry your eyes, Palin fans!

236.com: Val Kilmer is considering a run for governor of his adopted home state of New Mexico. According to the New York Post, in a cell phone interview from Bulgaria (which raises a whole host of other questions), Kilmer said, "There's sort of a rumor around that I'm maybe thinking about running to be governor of New Mexico? Well, it's sort of true."

Interesting essay at Locusmag.

National Geographic: The presence of the extra-universal matter suggests that our universe is part of something bigger—a multiverse—and that whatever is out there is very different from the universe we know, according to study leader Alexander Kashlinsky, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

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Of course he is on Flickr as well: Barack Obama's photostream

NEW: Change.gov

Slashdot: According to the site 'Change.gov provides resources to better understand the transition process and the decisions being made as part of it. It also offers an opportunity to be heard about the challenges our country faces and your ideas for tackling them. The Obama Administration will reflect an essential lesson from the success of the Obama campaign: that people united around a common purpose can achieve great things.' The site is extensive and contains Obama's agenda for economy and education among many others. They first define the problem and then lay out the plan. Everything is in simple English without a trace of Washington-speak. The site also has details about the transition. According to many sources, Obama's transition efforts started months ago. The copyright for the content is held by 'Obama-Biden Transition Project, a 501c(4) organization'."

Email of the Day

Plus: Sarah Palin's Rejected Concession Speech Leaked to Press

Art of --Meggs--

'Own Worst Enemy Returns' Red Screenprint over pink stencil Hand screened, stencilled & signed by Meggs 760 x 560mm Edition of 25

Screenprints are now available online through NiceProduce.com

Broadcast 2000 "Get up and Go" from Jordan Clarke on Vimeo.

Song by Broadcast 2000. This is soooo beautiful!

© Callie Shell / Aurora for Time

For those who can't get enough of that funky new president (and that would be every single woman I know): check out this incredible photo gallery at digitaljournalist.com.

Great story about the legendary Charles Atlas Ad: The Ad That Made an Icon Out of Mac

Here's another version:

good.is....

Neues Buch im Campus Verlag: Von Terroristen, Sympathisanten und dem starken Staat Die öffentliche Debatte über die RAF in den 70er Jahren

In den 70er Jahren war die RAF zentrales Thema in den bundesdeutschen Medien. Die Presse prägte das Bild des Terroristen. In Angriffen gegen linke Intellektuelle wie Heinrich Böll wurde zudem ein Umfeld von Sympathisanten benannt. Nicht zuletzt schürten die Medien die Vorstellung, dass jeder ein Opfer der RAF werden könne. Anhand dieser und weiterer Themen zeigt Hanno Balz, dass der Terrorismus bei aller realen Gefahr auch ein von den Medien »gemachtes« Phänomen war und ist.

Autor: Hanno Balz, Dr. phil., ist Kulturwissenschaftler und Historiker an der Universität Bremen.

Heute offiziell um 19.30 Uhr bei b- books, Lübbenstr. 14 in Berlin. Mir persönlich hat der Herr Doktor was von 21 Uhr gesagt, aber vielleicht gibt es vorher noch Tee und Gebäck.

Am 18.11.2008 um 19.30 Uhr auch im Bremer Info- Laden, St.Pauli- Str. 10- 12.

Canada.com: "The Aug. 15 "status" notation on Mark Twitchell's Facebook site is chilling.

"Mark has way too much in common with Dexter Morgan," it reads.

It was a reference to Dexter, the TV show about a forensic expert who moonlights as a vigilante serial killer.

Last week, the aspiring Edmonton filmmaker was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Johnny Brian Altinger, 38.

Police allege that on Oct. 10, Twitchell lured Altinger, who thought he was on his way to hook up with a woman he had met online, to a garage on Edmonton's south side where the Star Wars and Dexter fanatic makes no-budget movies."

Belfasttelegraph: The parallels have been drawn between Barack Obama and President Matt Santos – the Hispanic who broke through the colour barrier on The West Wing. Now Rahm Emanuel, the man who was the real-life inspiration for Santos's wing man Josh Lyman, has been named as Obama's chief of staff. Is life imitating art or art imitating life?

Spiegel: "Bis vor kurzem galt der österreichische Fernsehjournalist Klaus Emmerich als ausgewiesener US-Experte. (...) Bei einer Fernsehdiskussion zum Ausgang der US-Wahl schockierte der inzwischen pensionierte Journalist mit Bemerkungen wie dieser: "Ich möchte mich nicht von einem Schwarzen in der westlichen Welt dirigieren lassen. Wenn sie sagen, des ist eine rassistische Bemerkung: richtig, ist gar keine Frage."

Süddeutsche: "In die landesübliche Tradition einer Philippika gegen Österreich und die Österreicher reiht sich mit Schwung der Schriftsteller Robert Menasse ein: "Hören Sie zu! Wir haben eben in Österreich 'eine bürgerliche Mehrheit'. Das bedeutet natürlich nicht, dass die Mehrheit der Österreicher Bürger sind. Das bedeutet auch nicht, dass die Mehrheit der Österreicher weiß, was Bürger sind. Das bedeutet nicht einmal, dass es in Österreich Bürger gibt. Das bedeutet schon gar nicht, dass die Mehrheit der Österreicher die bürgerlichen Ideale kennt und respektiert. Das bedeutet am allerwenigsten, dass die Mehrheit interessiert wäre am bürgerlichen Rechtszustand. Das bedeutet lediglich, dass in Österreich 'Sozialist' ein Schimpfwort ist - außer er ist auch 'national', aber das heißt hier 'patriotisch'."

Die Deutschen aber auch nicht schlecht dabei. Im Spiegel ist zu lesen: "Niedersachsens Ministerpräsident Christian Wulff hat in der Talkshow "Studio Friedman" einen gefährlichen Vergleich gewagt: Der CDU-Politiker verglich die Debatte über Managergehälter in Deutschland mit einer "Pogromstimmung". "

Best Quote: My phone is going ringy! (Sarah Palin)

You gotta watch it right away to understand how clever it is! What a great way of telling the story and adding all that stuff they did last minute. Very impressive!

All videos are over here or look for torrents of South.Park.S12E12.

Official Homepage - Trailer

My favourite art magazine "Bidoun" has a phantastic story: "A vanload of city kids takes the wrong turn in the wrong jungle. Witchcraft ensues. Of course, they pass a river polluted by industrial waste. Of course, there is a tribe of cannibalistic zombies who live on its banks, who take a culinary interest in one of our city slickers. And of course, there is a serial killer in a burqa who greets the rest of them with a whirling, spike-studded flail. And there's a midget. This, in brief, is Zibahkhana, Pakistan's first high-definition video film, and the brain—hungry lovechild (or love-hungry brainchild?) of Omar Ali Khan, a forty-five-year-old first-time director and schlock-horror cineaste whose kingdom was built on ice cream." Read on...

I loved those as a kid.

More at What My Dad saw

Via Drawn

More View-Master Reels over here!

“Getting Over Sarah Palin - What will we laugh about now?”