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5 October 2007
It could happen to anyone
A Venezuelan guy woke up in the middle of an autopsy. Apparently some one had mixed up the forms, so instead of getting “Heal and take care” form he got the “Examine and take to caretaker” one.
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25 September 2007
Where’s mandela?
“I heard somebody saying ‘Where’s Mandela’. Well, mandela’s dead. Because — Saddam Hussein killed all the mandelas.” R-rrright
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6 September 2007
The ship that’s front fell off
Australian Senator discussing of an oil disaster. Even the great Monty Python couldn’t have written this dialog. It would be hilarious if it wouldn’t be so scary. Host: So what do you do to protect the environment? Senator: The Ship was towed out of the environment H: Into another environment? S: No, no. Been towed [...]
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17 August 2007
Biased broadcasting
Source: Yahoo and AFP, August 14th Can someone say what’s wrong with this picture? The text says “An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following and early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. (AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)” I wouldn’t like to correct the Associated French [...]
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13 August 2007
“Fuck the average reader”
David Simon interviewed by Nick Hornby himself. The most important message of the interview follows: “My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as [...]
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4 July 2007
Afghanistan needs Kalashikovs
As the situation in Afghanistan is escalating again putting Finnish UN mandated peace cores on tougher and tougher situations that almost endanger their lives, the Finnish government has decided to take action. Afghanistan, being a country where guns and ammo has historically stayed and delivered to locations where they’ve been dedicated, and it’s government troops [...]
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3 July 2007
How to: Biased information
How to generate biased information? Ingredients: Take a speech with few limping analogies and quote them partially so the message suits your needs. Examples from speech by Trent Lott on how to deal with immigration: Newsweek, July 2 2007 “I’ve got two goats on my place in Mississippi. There ain’t no fence big enough, high [...]
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23 April 2007
Grassroots triumph
Wow. In Norway, the congress of Arbeiderpartiet (Labour, or Social Democrats) voted against all their own ministers to force them to introduce a law illegalizing purchases of sex. I can’t really say whether the law is a good one or not (I’m simply not read up on the topic at all and have no idea [...]
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6 March 2007
Peak Oil?
As I pointed to late last year, the Burgan field (which is the second largest in the world) has peaked. Now it seems that the biggest field of all, the “king of kings”, the huge Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia, may have peaked as well. Check out this post from the Oil Drum (very detailed, [...]
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2 March 2007
Great walls of fire
“Corner Blog – Banned in China” The modern Great Wall of China is the firewall which filters the web traffic and only allows “approved” and “authentic” content for Chinese surfers. If you’ve wondered which pages it will block there’s now a solution for that – empirical tests using greatfirewallofchina.org. I tested if corner.rahina.info is available [...]