May 2008
125 posts
As of today, I'm officially interesting :-) →
And I have jaiku invites to spare if you want one.
Earth to Brits: Get. A. Life. →
Is there a more brilliant way to end a blog? →
(No, I’m not retiring, in case you hoped)
I don't even want to THINK about it →
What?!? They don't know about the iPhone? →
Over/under
cakeordeath:
Overrated:Softball chantsIroningCalling your boss “dude” (oops)Alphabetized CD collections Boat maintenanceMore than one e-mail accountWhole Foods“A Confederacy of Dunces”Sports gear for women that’s simply shrunk and dyed pink or adorned with flowersJargon: “Convergence,” “synergy,” “user-generated content” IKEA furniture construction HD Futons Gifts given on time Washington,...
Yes, Macs come with a dresscode →
The Great Purge of 2008 →
Well, the owner is Russian after all.
Netherlands A 1 - 1 Denmark B →
Still, just as in 2006 when my German friends made a Swede out of me, I’ll have to offer my support for the blue-yellows.
Nunc Dimittis →
delong: “Lord, now may thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen the salvation.” Something that I thought I would never see has come to pass: Republican thug Karl Rove has denounced former Bush… The last gasps of the slime machine?
And another 420 MB for the iMac. The bandwith police will not like me.
Oops... →
The Slovak Czech FA gives two employees the boot after Monday’s match against Lithuania Latvia.
All we Swedes Danes can say is that Mexico ligger i Spanien!
Frankfurter Allgemeine + Scarlett Johansson =... →
Strange, but true.
DeLong: Capital and Its Complements →
delong: J. Bradford DeLong (2008), “Capital and Its Complements: International Capital Mobility and Economic Growth in the Twenty-First Century” The old “write a paper to figure out what you think about an… As long as you’re confused on a higher level, I’d say it is okay.
topherchris:
In light of the Phoenix Mars Lander’s excellent twittering, I’ve been thinking, perhaps a little too much, about what the Large Hadron Collider would be twittering if it could. Stay tuned.
I’d ask them it. It could happen. But maybe tumblring would be more obvious in this case?
The Average German
rocketboom:
In a detailed study, it was found that the average German… · Has sex 117 times a year · Wakes up at 6.23am · Travels 24.5 miles a day · Works 30.3 hours a week (41.4 hours in 1960) · Drives a six-year-old silver metallic Volkswagen Golf which is washed nine times a year · Walks towards the right when entering a shop · Considers price to be more important than quality when shopping ·...
The Brits are taking the ESC much, much too... →
Disappearing Germans →
For what it is worth: The song-writers and producers behind Germany’s failed Eurovision Song Contest-entry were a three-person Danish-Norwegian team.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-25) →
Yasmin Levy
Mikael Wiehe & Ebba Forsberg
Saint Etienne
Pat Metheny
Billy Joel
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Swedenland →
Except for the fact that morning coffee is at 10am and afternoon coffee at 3pm, this could be Sweden.
Er, no … the trains do not run on time here.
Otto Normalverbraucher →
Ghost village →
And as this is China/Taiwan, the local people believe that the ghosts of killed construction workers still linger in the abandoned houses.
Via BoingBoing.
Let me just note one advantage of living in Sweden: The TV channels don’t do wall-to-wall coverage of the second marriage of the Queen of Denmark’s second son.
“Was ist bloß mit Charlotte Nilsson (nunmehr Perrelli) los? Ein Gesicht, das an...”
– Frankfurter Allgemeine on the Swedish entry. Actually, when you compare with this clip, something seems to have gone terribly wrong. Scary.
“Der Beitrag aus Lettland ist so furchtbar, dass er nichts im Finale verloren...”
– Frankfurter Allgemeine reviews the Latvian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. (Latvian, not Lithuanian)
Unexpected Hazards of Manhattan →
delong: Me: May I please get an iphone-to-usb cable? I crushed mine in the door getting out of a limo, and need a replacement… Apple Store Employee: Certainly… You know, occasionally economics professors really, really annoy me…
“…well, everything that could possibly go wrong does, except that he...”
– Roger Ebert reviews Final Destination 2 (he hated it) and recounts a sub-plot. Your Movie Sucks, p. 103.
You know, sometimes the media scare me. On the other hand the comments to this are hilarious.
Tag Galaxy →
topherchris:
A damn cool way to view Flickr photos.Fun. But probably not the end of traditional tag-browsing.
“Doch selbst Grand-Prix-Gewinner singen irgendwann eher bei Autohauseröffnungen...”
– Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about the mysteries of the Eurovision Song Contest. It is big in Sweden, you know.