February 2008
51 posts
"He's reading the methodology section!" "Run for... →
Feb 29th
Review of the year →
H/T: Scatterplot.
Feb 29th
Next: Cartoons without drawings →
Feb 27th
Daniel Drezner tells us how to follow political... →
Feb 26th
US vs. France, Round 319 →
Next, we’ll be calling them hamburger-eating surrender monkeys.
Feb 25th
Polypotamia?!? →
Feb 25th
Paul Krugman is wicked →
Feb 22nd
Mr Über-Cool →
I mean, your opponent’s advisors want to leave because they think you’re too cool. Now, how cool is that?
Feb 21st
Mr Cool Creative →
Feb 21st
Not "the war of the ants" but cockroaches on the... →
The staff of DR will no doubt be happy to learn that some TV stations have more visible problems with their studios. But please don’t ask me to pronounce the Turkmenistani president’s name.
Feb 21st
Important news! →
Apple does not - repeat: not - release a new product.
Feb 21st
Fake designer shoes…?!? The spam which is flooding my work e-mail is getting ever more intriguing.
Feb 19th
Received this week’s Weekendavisen. And last week’s. Strange.
Feb 18th
Snow! Almost unusual in this winter.
Feb 18th
Nyhedsavisen lacks news stories →
Feb 16th
Embarrassing, but whenever I read about Homer, my first association is this guy and not this guy.
Feb 16th
Denmark in the New York Times →
About Tele2 and internet access to Pirate Bay.
Feb 13th
Ole Bruus knows basic statistics... →
…and demolishes a story about Danish teenagers’ sexual behaviour which had been making the rounds in Danish media.
Feb 12th
Hungry nurses →
Not really a new phenomenon. My Old Mother used to complain that she often didn’t have the time to eat lunch.
Feb 12th
Ooh - another 50MB of updates. I wonder what my ISP thinks I’m doing.
Feb 11th
The Oscar Wilde sketch →
Brad deLong bookmarked this. Economists are intriguing people.
Feb 11th
Mac OSX 10.5.2 installed. Rebooting the PowerBook took about 30 minutes.
Feb 11th
The state of US elite universities: Northwestern - frozen toilets. Berkeley - lifts out of order and awaiting maintenance.
Feb 10th
Swedish television holds the semi-finals for the national qualifiers to the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiruna on 9 March. I now have to reschedule a course.
Feb 10th
Tagged "Copenhagen" on Flickr →
…and I don’t even think they would be unhappy about it!
Feb 9th
The Migraine Blog →
Feb 8th
Slugfest →
Lennart Holmlund vs. Svenskt Näringsliv. A true classic.
Feb 8th
New York. Now part of the Euro-zone →
Feb 8th
...! →
Nobody actually knew that Norway had a regulation outlawing politicians’ breaking electoral promises. Norway is a strange country.
Feb 8th
Moccasin for president! →
Feb 7th
They're giving up the lattes? →
The US economy is in a worse state than we thought.
Feb 7th
Zeppelin with a "z" not a "d" →
Copy-editing, anyone?
Feb 6th
Britneynomics →
Now even the economists are on the Britney trail. Where will Western civilisation end?
Feb 6th
Now You're Talkin' →
32 GB - great. 4500 SEK - uh, can I come back to you on that…
Feb 5th
"...whose real name is Osama..." →
Daily Telegraph adds a truly surprising twist to the already surprising Britney Spears saga.
Feb 5th
Intelligent budget cuts? The way politicians use the Danish language never cease to surprise me
Feb 5th
Warning: George W. Bush can seriously damage your... →
Feb 5th
Traffic jam, Umeå style →
Reindeers on the road!
Feb 5th
Career opportunities in the Ukraine →
Collector of electrical machines and devices as a vocation.
Feb 4th
ski.google.com →
Feb 4th
Words of the day: upgedated wurden ist (German for has been updated)
Feb 4th
Sarko! Typo! →
 I checked the Guardian and, yes, the Freudian typo is there. Let’s see for how long.
Feb 3rd
More MicroHoo! →
Just a hunch, but I have the feeling that the JoyOfTech team is less than enthusiastic about M$’s take-over bid.
Feb 3rd
As I’m under contractual obligations to support Fulham F.C. I’ll note that said team won today’s match against Aston Villa 2-1.
Feb 3rd
Brøndby is, like, sooo dead →
Note to copy-editor: “på”, ikke “i” (“at”, not “in”)
Feb 3rd
MicroHoo! →
Feb 2nd
I should add that the opposition in Malmö calls the mayor “psychologically unstable”. Who needs Britney Spears when you have Swedish local politics?
Feb 1st
Political debate, Malmö style →
Mayor calls opposition councillor “little girl” during debate. Alpha males… (not that Alpha females are any more likeable, though)
Feb 1st
"Danish Armed Forces Pursues Supplier of... →
Craziest newspaper headline of the day.
Feb 1st
Sympathy for the ... Roland Koch →
Feb 1st