Women in Denmark are working hard to be permitted to bathe topless in public swimming pools. Several “topless actions” have already been undertaken and now the issue has reached the walls of city hall.
One has to wonder why women have to hide their breasts in the first place. As I understand it, women enjoy looking at [well trained] men’s chests in much the same way men do when it comes to women’s breasts.
Way to go danes! Link
A fascinating, perhaps somewhat obvious take on where evolution might take us… Link
Sometimes it feels like no one can be bothered to explain things anymore. A common answer to questions on forums and in discussions over instant-messaging is to google it.
Sure enough, most answers can be found on google. And most of the time the search and subsequent intake of information will take less time then actually typing up an explanation.
So are we losing a form of communication or will this create a whole new level of discussion where, like Vulcans we will focus on the subject at hand, rather then the explanation of concepts that should already be familiar to participants? Perhaps a balance will be struck between the two sides?
I can’t wait to see the outcome.
If the Bible had been written by King Leonidas and the rest of the Spartans from 300, it would probably read pretty much the same as it does now.
It turns out, the Bible is already chock full of ass kicking. Here are the verses that make us want to take to the streets and put some unbelievers to the sword.
When I was in Japan, sometimes I was annoyed at the high level of politeness in some instances. One such instance is the trains.
On almost all trains the number of announcements is extremely high. After every stop they welcome all the new passengers and thank them for riding the this and that train, and before each stop they thank the departing passengers. From time to time they remind you to turn off your phone and to allow old people to sit on priority seats…
Now I’m sitting here on a Swedish express train and the first peep out of the speakers is the rather casual and curt announcement of the next station. I felt almost insulted upon hearing that. I guess I must have gotten more used to the Japanese way then I thought, the absence of talking makes the ride seem so much more drab and cheap… Weird.
Have I lost my ability to enjoy the silence? 
PS: It also smells like rotten fruit here. Note to Swedish train operators: Don’t place garbage bags next to every seat, place them at the exits!
I was planning to write a long article about how enforcing copyright was generally bad for the economy of the “developed world” because in the end, all it did was give an advantage to countries who didn’t give a fuck. Thus while we spend all our resources at making it harder to consume and copy entertainment, countries like China and India would instead be making a profit from selling entertainment to it’s own people and back to us.
Cory Doctorow beat me to it, while his article isn’t exactly what I was going to write, he gets my point across quite well.
I like this documentary about globalisation. I agree with many of the points in the video and disagree with others. Going to have to watch it again to be more specific. Here’s the link for now.
En undersökning har nyligen gjorts som visar att dagens ungdom har ingen aning om vad de förespråkar när de går runt med röda sovjett-flaggor och prisar farbror Lenin.
Detta är inget nytt för mig, eller de flesta andra Ryssar som har en intim koppling till ordet kommunism. För dem betyder ordet förtryck, fattigdom, rädsla.
Idag, den 9:e maj är en dag av sorg för de länder i östeuropa som hade oturen att bli “befriade” av sovjett och inte exempelvis Frankrike eller Storbritannien. En ny lång period av förtryck påbörjades.
Det sägs att över 100 miljoner människor blev kommunismens offer. Inte ens andra världskriget lyckades komma ikapp den siffran.
Enligt undersökningen känner 95 procent av de tillfrågade vad Auschwitz är, medan 90 procent känner inte till Gulag.
Jag minns när jag själv gick i svenskt gymnasium, fick en man som hade varit fånge på Auschwitz komma och berätta om sina erfarenheter och göra reklam för sin bok. Det var hemskt, det som hände honom; och det som hände judarna är hemskt. Det som var konstigt dock är att ingen person från forna sovjett eller någon annan kommunistisk diktatur dök upp för att berätta om de hemskheter som pågick bakom järnridån. Inte heller stod något om det i de svenska historieböckerna.
6 miljoner verkar vara viktigare än 100 miljoner. Jag mår illa när jag läser sånt. Skäms, sverige! Länk
Det finns dock lite positivt på gång i området också. Länk
English summary here.
It is only a matter of time before grandpa Lenin and uncle Stalin return from the grave to take back that which was taken from them in 1991.
It is funny how after the fall of communism in Russia, streets named after soviet “heroes” were renamed and statues of all those old soviet asses were either destroyed or relocated to museums or dumps. Yet now that Estonia decides to move an old soviet war statue to a more appropriate place (a war memorial), it has suddenly become a fascist country. Where were those “kremlin-loaylists” when Lenin’s statue was toppled in the heart of Moscow?
While the statue may symbolise soviet soldier’s sacrifice to some, to others it means years of painful occupation. Occupation by a country that in my opinion committed the worst kind of crime. That of valuing the lives of it’s people less then the air they breathe. Even today this goes on.
Then some good news.
Technorati Tags: estonia, memorial, politics, russia, world war ii
Johnjohn and I were sitting and eating some soft ice cream on Odengatan the other day.
This is a pretty busy street, so maybe my story will not be news to some people who often eat ice cream on busy streets. It was a surprise to me however.
At one point johnjohn noted that some small black dots were present on the ice cream. Not sure of what it was, he wiped it off with a napkin and kept eating. However soon both he and I discovered that the ice cream was again covered with black dots. Note that only the side that was turned away from my face was covered, meaning that the “dust” was not in ice cream.
The black dots were reminiscent of diesel dust that accumulates outside my window during the summer, albeit in a much less dense form.
So there you go, eating soft ice cream on the street is not recommended, as you might be consuming some serious diesel particles along with your dose of cream and sugar (and other ice cream ingredients).
Technorati Tags: environment, cars, diesel, dust
Powered by ScribeFire.
Lazy Zealots angelhill.net/code