streetart urban beautification strategizing

What the Fuck is my Street Art Strategy?

"Don't for a moment think that you're giving street art a bad name"
(I've already fuckin done that)
NEXT

say no to .ppt

July 2011 marked the founding of the Anti-PowerPoint Party in Switzerland, who claim that each year, CHF2.1 billion is lost in Switzerland alone through bored employees having to watch dull uninspiring powerpoint presentations. read the rest of their manifesto here.

"ode to a four letter word"

guess what it is.

toot? lamp? fool? luck...now you're getting close

more cuteness from iceland

this time, it's Icelandic Bands That Are Not Sigur Ros. I'm really liking this campaign!

steve buscemeyes

tumblr has cornered the market in hosting photoblogs of random sh#t. this one's just the latest...what's the plural of "steve buscemi"? yep, "chicks with steve buscemeyes" apparently. unsettling to say the least....

iceland wants to be your friend

and what do friends do when they come from different cultures and countries? they teach each other words! ok, usually of the rude variety - i can swear in hungarian, german and fijian - but also some usefulness creeps in along the way. and remember, each icelandic word "has been hand-made for you by actual humans".

Every Single Word in Icelandic - as explained to you by your friend, Iceland.

letters of note

there is a sad echo you may have heard, whispering how (handwritten) letters are dying out. never fear, the internet is here! over on 'letters of note, you will find 'correspondence worthy of a wider audience', such as a letter Iggy Pop wrote to a fan, or a memo on the casting of Star Trek:TNG.

signs

oh those motivational manifestos that pop up every now and again. they sound great. they usually come with a great graphic. are you actually going to take much notice of them? well, if it's important, you'll find a way

big screen things

that boot it's....oh wait, i know that hat, it's from...just a moment...uh...
nope.

think you can do better?

famous objects from classic movies

the museum of fat love

now, is this cute or mean??
"An incomplete collection of evidence proving the existence of those not-so-rare creatures: fat people in love."
it's the Museum of Fat Love

the ugly dance

this is what happens when websites and music make babies.
the ugly dance.

paupers need not apply

a magazine for those who really have everything....except their own private island .

one day...sigh

rise above plastics

Here in Switzerland, plastics recycling is maybe a few steps ahead of other countries: there are big blue PET recycling bins all over the place, so you can return your empty Sprite or Rivella bottle, and HD-PE can also be disposed of in a friendly manner. Supermarkets charge you for shopping bags - and they are made out of paper. However, this isn't the case in a lot of places. Head on over to the Rise Above Plastics site for some informative videos, nice explanations and inspiration as to how you can continue to make our world a little better, day by day.

when insults had class

this wryly amusing collection of insults will unfailingly put a smirk, if not a smile, on your face. Mae West had a point when she said,
“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
Owned.

information is beautiful

a little website which visually displays information in colourful, unexpected ways...such as the David McCandless "Colors in Cultures" colour-wheel ;

"Caffeine Vs Calories" ;

and an intriguing "Because Every Country is the Best at Something" - did you know Canadians are the #1 Fruit Juice Drinkers?!

Lëtzebuergesch,हिन्दी, and العربية

openCulture have a great directory of free, online language lessons in a surprising variety of languages. So whether Luxemburgisch, Hindi or Arabic - or indeed Spanish, German or Japanese - interest you...go download!

it's the final countdown...

well, no, not really, but it is a countdown. A blog of 1000 Awesome Things . It starts off a little weak but just gets better and better as it counts down towards zero.
#982, #981 and #977 already made my day. Awesome!

graphs of musical frustration

geekologie have a nice page with colourful graphs and charts illustrating online music and piracy figures. my favourite finding is that (at least in the UK), your average teenager's iPod has $800 of pirated music on it. rock on.

chatroulette

whilst i'm waaay too chicken to go on chatroulette it seems there's a sneakin' suspicion that Ben Folds isn't...amazing!

tweetin' rabbi!

it's nearly pesach, and although you're a couple thousand years too late, never fear - follow
The Exodus...on Twitter!