PolkaRobot

"Die Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) hat es trotz ihrer Bemühungen nicht geschafft zu verhindern, dass das Verfahren gegen Joel Tenenbaum die Öffentlichkeit erreichen wird. Exakter ausgedrückt wird seine Verhandlung via eines Webstreams von jedem PC dieser Welt abrufbar sein. Eine Situation, die der Recording Industry Association sehr missfallen dürfte. Zudem wird Tenenbaum auch noch von Professor Charles Nesson von der Harvard University of Law vertreten."

"MySpace Music added a few hundred thousand songs to its streaming music service today by signing up four more independent-label aggregators (Nettwerk Music Group, INgrooves, IRIS Distribution, and RoyaltyShare) plus indie label Wind-up Records. This comes at a time when Facebook is still facing hurdles to launching its own music service."

"Artist YaYa Chou made a chandelier by stringing gummi bears together because, goddamnit, lamps should be functional AND delicious."

"What would it be like to wake up tomorrow and have the ability to take everything that exists and recreate it as needed absolutely free from royalty or limitation? If people and companies could copy anything in existence, rolling it into whatever product they can design, and then attempt to sell it to others … what would that world look like?"

"Since Hamas gained control of Gaza in June 2007, Israel has blockaded the flow of goods into and out of the territory. But when trade is closed aboveground, the economy simply moves underground, in more ways than one."

"The holograms you find on credit cards and banknotes are etched on two-dimensional plastic films. When light bounces off them, it recreates the appearance of a 3D image. In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel prizewinner Gerard 't Hooft suggested that the same principle might apply to the universe as a whole. Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface."

"A moon rock brought back by astronauts from the last Apollo mission in 1972 has finally proven its worth by revealing that the moon used to have a hot, convecting molten core that generated a magnetic field."

"Ein Daft Punk-Remix mit einem Stop-Motion-Video voller Toys und einem Obama-Twist. Hell, yeah!"

"Methane, an organic molecule that on Earth is usually produced by life, has been found emanating from three specific regions on the surface of Mars."

"Das Leben von Robert Basic nach den Verkauf seines Blogs basicthinking."

"Der Durex-Spot mit den koppulierenden Kondomballontierchen geht ja seit ein paar Tagen durch die Blogs und als ob der Spot alleine nicht witzig genug wäre, haben sie jetzt Outtakes davon online gestellt. Hillarious Stuff!"

"Skulls von Jim Crane aus Schnüren"