just watched the 37signals live webcast on justin.tv. These guys are so cool and so smart. Television is so dead and webcasts rock so hard.

Printed Media 2.0

My good friends at Flavorpill is now powering free, "traffic" newspaper Metro in New York City.

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is testing a new ergonomic table tennis bat with black Tackiness Drive in the forehand and red Sriver D-13 in the backhand. Butterfly rocks.

Dominic Hailstone "The Eel" (Short Film) [WindowsMedia]

Synopsis
New wave of horror in the form of an eel, thrashing about in his undersized tank - as its form rapidly outgrows its environment, its angry mutation reaches monstrous proportions.

This film is part of BBC's 'Summer of British film shorts: horror' selection. Watch other Summer of British film: horror shorts on Film Network.

Short fact
The Eel was made on a budget of £300 in a total of six months. No computer graphics were utilised during the production.

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Sometimes getting a cool new - white! - bicycle is the best thing in the world :-) http://ping.fm/P6kIk

My new bike

Bought a new bike from the local bicycle design wunderkind Rasmus Gjesing today. It is white and elegant and it just came back from New York City, where it was on exhibit at the Moss design store on Greene Street. I am happy as a little boy :-)

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Swype is an amazing gesture-based data entry system that will take over from QWERTY and T9. http://ping.fm/RZDQs

Do you Swype?

Blogging from Oslo Airport Gardemoen

Blogging from Oslo Airport is a nightmare like most airports. However, you would expect this airport to be more online savvy than most. Telenor, the Norwegian telegiant, is providing free wireless Internet access in Budapest Airport, which I immediately recognized and gave kudos.

The express train works like a dream, though, and the ticketless credit card solution, is very smooth. 20 minutes from the central station (or Sentralstation, as they say up here) and you are in the Gardemoen Airport, one of the three Scandinavian hubs (the other being Copenhagen and Stockholm).

I wonder when the old, old, old men in the airport management teams will find out the fast and free Internet access will make a better company. The customers will be more will informed, not so bothered with the apparently unavoidable delays, being able to buy MORE AIRLINE TICKETS. I could go on forever.

This is what happened today:

Kjøp internettilgang med kredittkort

DONE

We advise you to write down the following login and password:
Your login: WISP99098@ccc.com
Your password: b2ad0553

DONE

Adressen kunne ikke findes
Firefox kan ikke finde serveren wlan.osl.no.

OOPS

Three or more times and I finally went online so i could be able to write this hiccup. Duh!

Old management teams suck.

Big time.

New rule: all management teams must have at least ONE PERSON UNDER 30 YEARS OLD.

Checked in early and I hold an aisle seat on row 2 with an economy tickets in my inbox.

Good night.

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Another sad day for humanity with the suicide bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. We need new attitudes, new leaders, new politics!!

I rock. You rock. We rock.

Your Friends

Mauricio Kagel R.I.P.

Argentine-born composer Mauricio Kagel, whose experimental body of work also ranged into theater, has died in Germany, his publisher said Thursday. He was 76.

The C.F. Peters musical publishing house said Kagel died overnight in Cologne following a long illness, but did not give details on the cause of death.

Kagel was born in Buenos Aires on Dec. 24, 1931, into a Jewish family of German-Russian origin.

A self-taught composer who learned to play instruments including the piano, organ and cello, he studied literature and philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and at age 18 became an adviser to an avant-garde group, Agrupacion Nueva Musica.

In 1955, he rose to become a director at the Argentine capital's Teatro Colon.

Two years later, he went on a student grant to Germany, where he settled — working in chamber and electronic music. His musical theater piece "Sur Scene" — first performed in 1960 — established a genre of "instrumental theater" that became a prominent part of his work.

Kagel was known for a humorous approach to art, with works such as "Fantasie fuer Orgel and Obligati," which included a toilet flush as an instrument.

Information on survivors and funeral arrangements was not immediately available.

[2004 interview here, ed.]

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is considering using illegal glue ("Stiga Extreme Booster") for an important table tennis match on Wednesday. On the ping pong bat, that is.

Another great news story from Denmark today: in a cool research project circus elephants are now grassing in the wild nature of Zealand :-)

Soulwax “Part of the Weekend Never Dies” (DVD Trailer)

href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=32542318">Radio Soulwax - Part of the Weekend never Dies - Are You Filming

Justice "A Cross the Universe" (DVD Trailer)

JUSTICE
by rockenseine

Science of Sexy

MixTape 2

Congratulations to Sebastian Vettel from the Scuderia Toro Rosso team, the youngest winner of a Formula One Grand Prix in history. Amazing.

iGoogle Theme by Mads Norgaard Copenhagen

is looking forward to the Massive Attack concert @ The Royal Danish Opera tomorrow. A very special band for me. A very special place for me.

Elbow win the Mercury Music Prize 2008 - Interview

Elbow Performing at the Nationwide Mercury Prize 2008

Elbow wins the 2008 Mercury Prize

3fold: A distinctive reception table or The CEO desk

The world's first solar speedboat: 30-knot, 80kw Czeers Mk1

Sometimes I love Denmark so much: Tonight's news had stories about teenage boys as nursery nurses and troubled immigrant kids playing golf!

Cor Mooij 1973

A picture taken by photographer Cor Mooij of David Purley's anguished face after it was clear his attempts to rescue F1 driver Roger Williamson had failed won that year's World Press Photo.

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Massive Attack "Unfinished Symphonies" (1991 promo video)

Dawn Kasper

Bad at Sports [I love that name!] interviews Dawn Kasper. Exhibition opens in Copenhagen today.

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The Raveonettes

Kurt Cobain suicide note

has just discovered the piano music of American-Mexican (and communist!) composer Conlon Nancarrow and my life will never be the same again.

Steve McQueen's "Hunger" (2008 Trailer)

Apple iPhone 3G ad - directed by David Fincher

Yuriko Koike

Conlon Nancarrow "Study for Player Piano no. 5 "

Independent Lens | THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI | PBS

Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of internment camps, Hiroshima and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past.

THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI is an intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing powers of friendship and art.

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Agent Provocateur's steamy new campaign

Bacchanalia and bras? It must be the company's new lingerie campaign, inspired by orgies, sacrifice and classic paintings.

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The Ads 2008

Foto: Alexander Natas.

After DVD comes...USB?

The fight for Startpage World Domination is on

Heinz error page

is turning standard 468x60 pixel ad banners into an art form with "Absolutely Fabulous" fonts and good storytelling in extremely short texts

Ad banner campaign for The Royal Danish Theatre (Part 2)

Ad banner campaign for The Royal Danish Theatre (Part 1)

NEWMUSICUNITED.COM

My social network for contemporary music lovers will launch soon.

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Micropipeline As Unblockable Infrastructure

Crashed and Byrned: The Greatest Racing Driver You Never Saw

'Forget Senna and Schuey. Tommy Byrne was the best of them all.' - Eddie Jordan

A surreal tale of a poverty-stricken Dundalk kid's rise to become the only racing driver the great Ayrton Senna ever feared - and how it all went wrong from there. For a brief moment Tommy Byrne was arguably the world's greatest driver, the motor racing equivalent of George Best and Muhammad Ali rolled into one. A racer, a thief, a raconteur.

This is the story of his improbable escape, his rapid rise and his spectacular and bizarre fall from grace. Peppered with dark humour and a cast of ridiculous characters, it is the antithesis of a fairytale - and it's all true. Hold on tight, the tale of Tommy Byrne is quite a ride - from fending for himself as the runt of a big Catholic litter in the '60s, running the gauntlet of the sectarian violence in the '70s, troubling Ayrton Senna and making it to F1 in the '80s, resorting to drugs in the aftermath and driving for a deluded billionaire madman and then gun-toting Mexicans in the '90s. It's raw, passionate, and - with Byrne's ability to tell it like it is - not for the faint-hearted.

Tommy Byrne was the 1980 Double British Formula Ford 1600 champion, the 1981 British Formula Ford 2000 champion and also the European Formula Ford 2000 champion. In 1982 - having also become British F3 champion - he entered F1, but by the following year had disappeared without trace.

Mark Hughes is recognised as one of Formula One’s top journalists and his reports and columns for Autosport magazine have won him wide acclaim. He numbers ITV and Martin Brundle among his clients. He has written a number of books on F1, one of which won the 2005 Illustrated Sports Book of the Year.

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RocknRolla (2008) Trailer

Film Director Guy Ritchie takes My City My Life on a tour of his London (Part 2)

Film Director Guy Ritchie takes My City My Life on a tour of his London (Part 1)

Terence Stamp

Jean Shrimpton

Nick Zinner

The Flaming Lips are at work on new music that "sounds something like if John Lennon got together with Miles Davis and discovered computers"

Alexandra Boulat

John Player Special

Oasis star approves City buy-out

Oasis rocker Noel Gallagher said the sale of his beloved Manchester City FC has finally repaid his 40-year loyalty to the club.

The singer approves of the deal, which will see the club taken over by an Abu Dhabi-based company. It is currently in the hands of former Thailand prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Gallagher, whose group is currently touring Canada, found out about the sale after receiving urgent texts from friends in the UK.

He told BBC Radio Five: "They were telling me to put on the news, we've been bought by some Arab prince.

"I was laughing at first, thinking 'I can't quite believe it', and just before we went on stage I found out we've signed Robinho.

"I can only assume they've offered him a fortune because there is no other reason he'd come to City from Real Madrid - we're not even in the Champions League."

Brazilian forward Robinho had been expected to join Chelsea after making public his wish to leave Real Madrid but was snapped up by City.

Gallagher, who was raised in Burnage, Manchester, added: "I'm also pleased we've managed to swindle Man United out of a few bob as they've had to pay over the odds for Berbatov.

"It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty."

Dimitar Berbatov, 27, left Tottenham Hotspur to join United despite Manchester City making a higher bid.

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Raymond Pettibon

Sonic Youth's "Goo" cover art by Raymond Pettibon

Obsession: Dita Von Teese's New Film Trailer

The hardest working Burlesque star, Dita Von Teese, is restless. Earlier this summer, she collaborated with the French spirit brand Cointreau, she's working on a new book about glamorous makeup, and on September 15th, Von Teese will launch a collection for Wonderbra.To accompany this fitting fashion union, she released a teaser for her new film, titled, The Science of Sexy that we cannot take our eyes off of. See it here.

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I was asked to predict the Mozart of the future. It will take 100 years for people to understand the beauty of Karlheinz Stockhausen's works

Puch car in Vienna

Strolling around the streets of Vienna on my (three day!) birthday in June I found this cute Puch car and went crazy with my Sony Ericsson Cybershot.

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