February 2008
51 posts
"He's reading the methodology section!" "Run for... →
Review of the year →
H/T: Scatterplot.
Next: Cartoons without drawings →
Daniel Drezner tells us how to follow political... →
US vs. France, Round 319 →
Next, we’ll be calling them hamburger-eating surrender monkeys.
Polypotamia?!? →
Paul Krugman is wicked →
Mr Über-Cool →
I mean, your opponent’s advisors want to leave because they think you’re too cool. Now, how cool is that?
Mr Cool Creative →
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.
Important news! →
Apple does not - repeat: not - release a new product.
Fake designer shoes…?!? The spam which is flooding my work e-mail is getting ever more intriguing.
Received this week’s Weekendavisen. And last week’s. Strange.
Snow! Almost unusual in this winter.
Nyhedsavisen lacks news stories →
Embarrassing, but whenever I read about Homer, my first association is this guy and not this guy.
Denmark in the New York Times →
About Tele2 and internet access to Pirate Bay.
Ole Bruus knows basic statistics... →
…and demolishes a story about Danish teenagers’ sexual behaviour which had been making the rounds in Danish media.
Hungry nurses →
Not really a new phenomenon. My Old Mother used to complain that she often didn’t have the time to eat lunch.
Ooh - another 50MB of updates. I wonder what my ISP thinks I’m doing.
The Oscar Wilde sketch →
Brad deLong bookmarked this. Economists are intriguing people.
Mac OSX 10.5.2 installed. Rebooting the PowerBook took about 30 minutes.
The state of US elite universities: Northwestern - frozen toilets. Berkeley - lifts out of order and awaiting maintenance.
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.
Tagged "Copenhagen" on Flickr →
…and I don’t even think they would be unhappy about it!
The Migraine Blog →
Slugfest →
Lennart Holmlund vs. Svenskt Näringsliv. A true classic.
New York. Now part of the Euro-zone →
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Nobody actually knew that Norway had a regulation outlawing politicians’ breaking electoral promises. Norway is a strange country.
Moccasin for president! →
They're giving up the lattes? →
The US economy is in a worse state than we thought.
Zeppelin with a "z" not a "d" →
Copy-editing, anyone?
Britneynomics →
Now even the economists are on the Britney trail. Where will Western civilisation end?
Now You're Talkin' →
32 GB - great. 4500 SEK - uh, can I come back to you on that…
"...whose real name is Osama..." →
Daily Telegraph adds a truly surprising twist to the already surprising Britney Spears saga.
Intelligent budget cuts? The way politicians use the Danish language never cease to surprise me
Warning: George W. Bush can seriously damage your... →
Traffic jam, Umeå style →
Reindeers on the road!
Career opportunities in the Ukraine →
Collector of electrical machines and devices as a vocation.
ski.google.com →
Words of the day: upgedated wurden ist (German for has been updated)
Sarko! Typo! →
I checked the Guardian and, yes, the Freudian typo is there. Let’s see for how long.
More MicroHoo! →
Just a hunch, but I have the feeling that the JoyOfTech team is less than enthusiastic about M$’s take-over bid.
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.
Brøndby is, like, sooo dead →
Note to copy-editor: “på”, ikke “i” (“at”, not “in”)
MicroHoo! →
I should add that the opposition in Malmö calls the mayor “psychologically unstable”. Who needs Britney Spears when you have Swedish local politics?
Political debate, Malmö style →
Mayor calls opposition councillor “little girl” during debate. Alpha males… (not that Alpha females are any more likeable, though)
"Danish Armed Forces Pursues Supplier of... →
Craziest newspaper headline of the day.
Sympathy for the ... Roland Koch →