Jag råkade se DN’s artikel-topplista när jag höll på med lite nyhetsintag.
Den bevisar utan tvekan att majoriteten av människor (iaf av dem som läser tidningar på internätet) är idioter inte intresserade av politik, kultur eller vårt samhälle.
Se bilderna och döm själv.
PS: Det finns hopp för bloggare.
PPS: Länkar till andra roliga människosaker.
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This is a lovely movie from 1946 from Encyclopedia Britannica about how to place your community on a Democracy vs Despotism scale. The link to the archive.org is here, however I could not get it to play in Quicktime (its an mp4 movie… fucking Apple is starting to bug me). Instead I had to use the all known and hated RealOnePlayer, which worked just fine.
Use this link to play the movie outside the browser:
rtsp://ia300131.us.archive.org:554/0/items/Despotis1946/Despotis1946_256kb.mp4
I was recently drinking tea at a nice french bistro near my living space, and I noticed something interesting.
First, a bit of facts: Many glasses are shaped in the same way, and many have a ridge somewhere above the middle of the glass.
If you ever wondered why this is, wonder no more, for the answer has been revealed. And it ain’t pretty.
update: to find the answer, study the image, and if you are still confused, then select this text for the answer! It’s a DICK! But seriously, you should have seen it…
Free soft drinks, hot drinks, cup noodles, sandwiches, candy and all the manga you can read. You also get a computer, a TV, a PS2 and your own little cabin.
Don’t forget the slippers either!
This reclining chair aint too bad either.
All for just 300 yen per hour.
Shit.
Update: Please note that sleeping in a manga cafe costs between 1500 and 2000￥. It is quite comfy too. A good solution if you are stuck without a hotel. And since you get food and drink too, you are better off then in most smaller hotels. Just bring earplugs if you are sensitive.
Here I go writing about politics again. I’ve been thinking about how the tsunami disaster has affected other humanitarian projects. To this end there is an article in a Swedish daily paper. They say that with all the attention focused on the tsunami countries, other countries are getting less aid. Countries that are in continuous need of aid, such as many countries in africa engulfed in civil war are getting less aid then they normally do because everyone is focused on the tsunamis.
However this is not the only problem. The tsunami countries have created a flood of charity the likes of which the world has never seen, and while this is not a bad thing, it is not a good thing if seen from a broader perspective.
Why is it that the world can only go crazy with donations when the victims are western tourists or when the media shows lots of pictures of death and destruction. Why must the number of dead be 150 000 people overnight, rather then 10 000 every month?
The answers to these questions are numerous and I can’t really answer them since I am not a very charitable guy myself nor am I very good with these things.
Why does this particular disaster elicit such a broad response? For me, it is simply because it has been given a lot of attention. So, maybe if the media were to focus more on countries and people who need help, more people would help? However I also think that the attention should also be on the HELP aspect. Often when you see articles about problems in africa or palestine, they say things like “so and so many people died”, “refugees blabla”… Yet usually no attention is given to the fact that they actually need help, and that WE can provide it.
We humans are pretty easily manipulated, so to media I say: talk more about the needy, talk more about giving, and maybe people will give more.
As a disclaimer… I don’t donate much to charity, — I donate monthly to Save The Children because I had to tell the street recruiter girl that she was pretty — but I still think about these issues. I guess that in light of my earlier post about donations I just felt that I wanted to post this particular thought, since I’ve been thinking it quite a bit.
The other day I decided to make some donations to help tsunami victims and countries.
I usually donate small amounts to open source software like bittorrent or buy small shareware… but this time I went all out and donated quite a bit.
After doing it I realised that I would be unable to afford my kendo armor anymore. I guess I’ll manage somehow, and in all seriousness, it feels like a pretty small problem compared to what happens out there.
You should too! (or for english speakers)
A few days ago, SpaceShipOne made its flight into space, and this starts off a new era of space flight for civilians.
This is a historic event and I really look forward to taking my first trip to space in a few years. 
Gotta love this: Mojave Airport: America’s First Inland Spaceport
Today I was at an informal gathering of a few bloggers in Stockholm, on the roof café at Kulturhuset. The man behind the initiative was Joi Ito. Joi turned out to be a nice guy, down to earth and filled with interesting ideas (this was no surprise to anyone who has been following his blog, of course). The other people who attended (Maya, Per, Max, Ludovic, Erik, Jon, Kim, David and Roine) were also really cool and we discussed a lot of interesting issues on both large and small scales.
Well, Max is only 6 months old so he mostly kept quiet throughout the entire thing.
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The flight back was uneventful, except for that incident in the security checkpoint line.
You see, the authorities in Newark airport don’t seem to know that they run an large International airport with many flights going in and out at the same time, or maybe it just started being such a place yesterday. In any event, they kinda neglected to make the security checkpoint wider then 2 lanes, thus creating an very long line. In which I played Metroid: Zero Mission.
After many people’s names were called, and eventually, the final call was issued for our flight, we decided to take matters into our own hands. We boing around 20 Stockholm bound late-comers (1 hour and 20 minutes before the flight is too late it seems..bah) decided to force our way through a “dont walk here area”, where we were immediately stopped by a guard who should have been doing movies (as looked and sounded alot like Samuel L. Jackson). He assured us that “the airlines are aware of this situation and the plane is not leaving anybody behind” (said with a very Samuel L. Jacksonish voice, accent and style), which was the only thing that kept me from placing an imaginary curse on him. He also claimed that there were 80 people (a mild understatement more like 180) also in the line waiting for their plane. Of course, none of them had a plane leaving in 5 minutes.
Anyway, we were forced back into the line, and while many people let us simply walk past them (thanks!), it was not enough. Mr. Jacksons assurances were quickly shattered a few minutes later when some guys came up to us and took us (Stockholm-bound late-comers) to the front of the line, they also told us to please hurry, and to not go to any tax-free shops as the plane was gonna leave in 5-10 minutes. By their tone and the way they said it meant: with or without you.
So anyway, we boarded the plane and it started to lock down for departure a few minutes laters. Whether it would have left without us is a question I would not know anything about, but I know one thing: We got better seats then last time. Although we were almost the last people on board. Too bad they didn’t put is in business class.
The interesting part about the seats, was that they have this system, where, even if you have a ticket, you still have to call the airport/airline(?) in advance to “reserve your seat”. If you don’t do that, then you can only get your seat at the gate, and not at the check-in desk (how about a network cable maybe? or wi-fi?). I found this to be a very stupid system. I don’t mind checking in online or over the phone, but I certainly don’t want to be forced to do it without anyone telling me about. (the last part being the key point here).
Well, I had a nice flight all in all. I love takeoff and landing. This time however, I missed the landing because I was playing Metroid: Zero Mission (in direct violation of the no electronics rule, bwahaha, I am sure my GBA:SP emitted at least a few microsomething of interference…)
This article prompted me to write my own little take on plastic.
In Japan, Sanyo came up with biodegrading CD’s made out of corn, called MildDisc. The CD’s degrade after about 50-100 years (link). So I asked a friend whether he’d buy a CD like that, and he immediately told me that a CD that degrades after 50 years is a really bad idea because a CD should last forever and people would feel less secure about their data. In other news, normal CDR’s should be rerecorded ever 5 or so years if you wanna preserve your data for sure. Otherwise you run a risk of losing it all, since even REAL CD’s made out of plastic, degrade. Except, it’s not the actually CD that degrades, it’s the data. So while you lose your data, the CD stays, to pollute the environment for a few thousand years.
I am hoping that his shortsighted views are not the views of most consumers…
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