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Technorati Ablage: "Du bist Deutschland", Village People, Gay, Music, Football, Deutschland, Germany, Nationalmannschaft

A whole lotta links by wfmu.org

Five unusual new cases read by Hannah Gordon and Andrew Sachs - produced in association with BBC.

Ministryofpropaganda.co.uk

Soulcage Department says "Happy new Year". Take a look at their office with the Bremen-skyline in the back and watch their special short-film in 640x512 (takes a moment...) or in 360x288.

"The British embassy in Germany launched a new Web site for the 2006 World Cup on Friday that includes handy German phrases, such as 'He was sick as a parrot' or 'He puked his guts up,' for British fans."

Via cnet

You can still listen to this superb documentary by David Quantick on its BBC Radio page via Realplayer: but, something like 18 months ago, I found that someone had successfully ripped it to mp3. Each chunk is about 60 MB, but I’m telling you, you should really listen to it. Even if you think you don’t particularly like psychedelia. I found it quite riveting. Part One, and Part Two, which of course you can also stream here through the magic of PlayTagger.

Stolen from Warren Ellis

RECORDINGS FROM THE 19th CENTURY

Extracts from records made in 1897, 1898 & 1899 to download in MP3 and RealAudio

"BooksIllustrationsScienceHistoryVisual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart." A wonderful weblog!

Listen to "Do not go gentle into that good night"

"The Caedmon Collection

On February 22, 1952, Dylan Thomas made his first recording for Caedmon Records, "A Child's Christmas in Wales and Five Poems." It was the first of many albums Thomas was to record for Caedmon and the recording not only launched Caedmon as a company, but initiated the spoken-word industry as well. At long last, in celebration of 50 years of spoken-word publishing, Caedmon has released "Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection," available as audio cassettes and a beautifully designed 11 CD set." (...) Salon Premium subscribers can download the contents of all 11 CDs in MP3 format over the coming weeks.

This site from Toronto has plenty of free files of old radio-shows like "The Saint", "Sam Spade" or "Paul Temple".

And a weblog called "The Boy Who Heard Music"

Perlentaucher, German for "pearl diver," has long been one of the best-kept secrets of the German Internet. Each day, its editors cull the pages of the feuilleton sections of the country's top newspapers and present the best of the lot. What the heck is a feuilleton page, you might be asking? Imagine a philosopher like Jacques Derrida hijacking the Washington Post "Style" pages and you'd get a pretty clear idea -- you get everything from musings and rants on the Iraq war to meditations on this season's Prada. At times insightful and entertaining, at others simply pretentious and impenetrable, the feuilleton pages play an important part of the national dialog here. Since its inception, Perlentaucher has done a great job of filtering the best of the German feuilleton into small, well-written truffles. This week, Perlentaucher launched Sign and Sight, the latest entrant in the growing English-language media in Germany and the first continental European companion to Arts & Letters Daily, a Web site American intellectuals have long known and loved. The site includes Perlentaucher's respected daily press review along with translations of a handful of editorials from major German media.

-found over at spiegel international

"There are historical reasons for the lively culture of debate in the German feuilletons. After World War II, the allies issued newspaper licences to Germans with more or less clean records. "Teach the Germans democracy," they said, "but for God's sake, don't let them express themselves: the breeding ground is still fertile." To this day, political editors have been only too happy to oblige. They have kept a close eye on their commentary pages, allowing only authorised in-house editors to have a say. This has turned the political pages into a sterile preceptory where the same people voice off time and again, leaving the chaos of the world and the miseries and joys of discourse to the feuilletons." -from Sign and Sight - The Manifesto by Thierry Chervel :

"The finest radio drama of the 1930’s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. This site has many of the surviving shows, and will eventually have all of them.

The show first broadcast on CBS and CBC in July 1938. It ran without a sponsor until December of that year, when it was picked up by Campbell’s Soup and renamed The Campbell Playhouse. All of the surviving Mercury Theatre shows are available from this page in RealAudio format (some are also in MP3 format).. There are several Campbell Playhouse episodes available here as well, in both RealAudio and MP3 formats; the rest are being added gradually."

Yes, here is a really good selection of web-radios streaming on the net

More pictures by the internet's latest unknown hero!

I rediscovered Habbohotel today, still the best chat-enviroment available!

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"Jerry Seinfeld and Superman have joined forces with American Express to create an action-packed, sidesplitting "webisode" that chronicles the daily exploits and unique friendship between comedian and Kryptonian. The four-minute webisode, entitled "A Uniform Used to Mean Something," co-written by Seinfeld and directed by acclaimed film director Barry Levinson ("Diner," "Rain Man"), is a humorous glimpse into a day-in-the-life of pop culture's latest odd couple."