April 2008
94 posts
“Clinton blasts Bush for not stopping a project Bill OK’d”
– McClatchy highlights the limits of economic populism.
“is it over yet? it already seems longer than Berlin Alexanderplatz”
– Blogger Kathy G on the Democratic primary campaign
While we’re at it: Danish for Dummies.
Hej, hej!
“And I don’t know that I could bear living in a land of 150 million Danes.”
– Justin Fox aka The Curious Capitalist.
Researchers Discover Massive Asshole In... →
cubicle17: I don’t care what you say, the Onion is still funny every now and again. (via kottke) There! I knew it! … oh, it’s a satire?
There was a Heidi among us?
Facebook scares me: It has a “find friends” function which among other things identifies those who went to my old high school (Gladsaxe Gymnasium, in case you wonder) at the same time as I did. We’re talking 1980-1983 here, so there are not too many listed - but even of those select few, I can only identify two: Marianne H and Lena S.
But what about Marianne L? I have this eerie...
Howl →
Last autumn we had a brown bear walking around close to here. Now somebody claims to have seen a wolf.
The End of Securitized Mortgage Lending →
delong:
Jim Hamilton sends us to: http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/04/Hooper_UCSD_apr_08.pdf
Housing bubble, anyone?
Alfred Hitchcock: Where are you? →
This calls for a serious remake of “The Birds”!
ALWAYS Review Your New Logo Design from MULTIPLE... →
coffeesounds: It cost £14,000 to create, but clearly no-one at the smart London design outfit that came up with the new logo for HM Treasury thought to turn it on its side. Hilarity ensues and embarrassment… Wonderful. This reminds me of when the Danish Inland Revenue Service wanted a new logo and designers came up with … the weapon of the German state of Baden-Würtemberg. These days, the...
“NN has our full confidence” usually means that NN is on the way out. But it is still unusual to give somebody your full confidence on Friday and the boot on Saturday.
Free. As in "Rock" →
No idea what they sound like but given the price tag, it’s worth a try.
'Be Happy, Not Gay' →
atheistramblings:
A US federal court has granted permission for a Christian teenager to wear a t-shirt to school with the slogan “Be Happy, Not Gay”. The student wants to ware the shirt to class on the “Day of Truth” a Christian group’s anti-homosexuality response to the “Day of Silence” which is intended to raise awareness about discrimination against gays. The school had originally banned...
“It’s like Webkinz for adults,” Fake Steve said of Facebook....”
– Fake Steve Jobs lights up Web 2.0 Expo
Mistaken for a Finn - awarded damages →
These things have an "off"-button? →
I’m sorry but this simply made me break down in hysterical laughter. I haven’t recovered yet.
And for God’s sake: Do NOT read the comments.
%&€"#!!! →
It is probably an advantage to know some Swedish here, but the phenomenon is international.
Hat tip: Västerbottens-Kuriren.
Trentemøller + Bryan Ferry = True →
That is one interesting pair. I’m looking forward to this.
“This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a...”
– Diana Walker: The Bigger Picture Gallery (December 2007) - The Digital Journalist (via asystemapart) And thus iLife was born.
John Gruber gets it absolutely right →
What matters is profit; market share and revenue only matter insofar as they lead to making money.There. How difficult can it be to understand?
Why Twitter Sucks and Some People Shouldn't Use it... →
coffeesounds: Penny Arcade gives a good example of why Twitter sucks when you use it to report everything you do.. I have nothing to add.
Ezra Klein: How to enjoy your primary election... →
Imagine they gave election coverage and nobody came.
Bananas?!? →
I’m sure lots of jokes can be made about this.
wizzninetynine:
Sie haben 4 von 10 Punkten. Sie verhalten sich nur in einigen Punkten wie der typische Deutsche. Aber keine Sorge: Ihren Pass dürfen Sie behalten - falls sie einen haben. Quelle: http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,548984,00.html Na das ist doch ein Grund zur Freude! ;)
Sie haben 5 von 10 Punkten.
Sie verhalten sich nur in einigen Punkten wie der typische Deutsche. Aber...
Trying to squeeze Danish politics of the 1960s into 600 words is hard. Trying to suqeeze the 1970s into 600 words is very hard.
Ooops... →
Says c|net:
In a blog posting last week, Alex Brown, leader of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) group in charge of maintaining the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, revealed that Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not meet the latest specifications of the ISO OOXML draft standard.
Is It Just Me?
catbird: …or are a lot of people spending a whole lot of time and effort making web apps to do exactly what RSS feeds already do? Good question. The answer may very well be: Yes.
AppleTV 2.0.2 →
My impression is that the ATV interface is less sluggish than under 2.0.1. Also, the thing doesn’t need rebooting when it has been idle for some time.
WTF? →
Alternative realities exist. And I live in New York, just as I always wanted.
But somehow Per Ulv-øyeblikket doesn’t sound quite as intimidating as the Wile E. Coyote Moment.
Per Ulv = Wile E. Coyote in Norwegian →
And the title of two great compositions by jazz guitarist Terje Rypdal, I might add.
(Per Ulv, The Return of Per Ulv)
He’s called Grimm E. Ulv in Danish in case you wonder. The coyote, not Rypdal.
stereotypical tumblr user checklist
atheistramblings: (My answers inserted)
use a mac: Guilty as charged. x2.
are twenty something: times 2. Currently going through mid-life crisis and I think I’m the oldest person on tumblr … watch my “following me” count drop now. Same here. Except that my “following me” count really can’t drop.
take polaroids: No
live in nyc: No. Sigh.
wish you lived in nyc: But...
In terms of fashion, the 70s, not the 80s were the... →
Via Unfogged.
Zût alors! →
But does anyone in Western Europe care about the Eurovision Song Contest anyway?
Matthew Yglesias: The Hayes stands alone: This... →
(via delong)
The economist is slowing down →
I’d add the slow movement from Piano Concerto #3 to the list.
Sir, I will not take your name →
atheistramblings: I’ve never understood why women give up their name when they marry. It seems such a sexist thing to agree to. I do agree that the naming of the kids can be a more complicated issue in a two surname family; nobody really likes hyphenated names … do they? Actually, my dad tried to persuade my Old Mother to take back her maiden name when it became possible. But I agree that...
Un-quit →
More strange terminology. But at least it’s the Balkans so what would we expect.
Rogue archivist? →
That is one strange description.
Wikipedia's lamest edit wars →
It’s official! Sort of.
Back in the good old days, people would settle this sort of thing with a gunfight; now they do it by toying with an encyclopedia.
Another Journalistic Buyout... →
delong:
There was once a Dilbert cartoon about buyouts: “management says we have to pay the competent people to leave.” At coffee I discover that David Cay Johnston had taken a buyout from the nyt and is…
"We screwed up today, and we cannot possibly... →
And that, my friends, is what a no-nonsense press-release should look like.
If only George W. Bush could be as honest.
First we take Manhattan, then we take ...... →
I thought that Berlin was the Danes’ favourite target but there you go.
BoingBoing: Man stuck in elevator for 41 (?!?)... →
I’ve been stuck in a lift as a child. These things still give me the creeps. Even if we managed to get help much, much faster.
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