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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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21 February 2007
Finnish SDP has solved the unemployment problem
As the Finnish general election is coming closer the biggest Finnish party Social Democratic Party (SDP) has announced that they will make things better for workers, elders, families, mid-class, poor, rich, disabled and the unemployed by using good old “stick and a carrot method”. The previously mentioned ones will get the “carrot”. Students and singles [...]
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8 December 2006
Ex-CEO of Nokia will continue for 2nd season in the Shell
The ex-CEO of Nokia, Jorma Ollila, will continue in shell for a second season. The first season of “In Shell” was a huge success, where Ollila was living in a closet only communicating to outside world via ssh. He will continue “at least for a second season” as Ollila, bit thinner than before, announced on [...]
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18 November 2006
Norway trying to ban cluster bombs
Norway is proclaiming a drive to ban cluster bombs. Cluster bombs, as is explained in then BBC’s news article, often do not explode on impact but the “grapes” are left in the ground to serve as land mines and tend to explode when intervened by people or animals. isn’t this the point of cluster bombs? [...]
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18 September 2006
Sweden expects heavy casualties on the forecoming civil war
The Swedish general election passed without any major conflicts between the left-wing Social Democrats and center-right coalition although our sources expected such to happen. As no UN observers have been placed to the Nordic capital many fear that the socialdemocrats will start a terror campaign. Never the less, many Swedes have dared to go shopping [...]
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23 August 2006
Should we burn some crosses now?
This is an absolutely appalling news story: British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny – refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed. The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic. [...]
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22 June 2006
How to become a knocknaheeny girl
This video has it in three easy steps. She should’ve used more makeup though, perhaps that’s the difference between a “chav” and a “knocknaheeness” edit – video removed and replaced with a link
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21 June 2006
Extort.com
Extortbeta is a web 2.0 service allowing you to blackmail a friend. They operate from “sunny Kgryjstan” and have a call center that “might record calls for training porpoises”. The idea is simple: tape a footage of your friend doing something, preferably, illegal. Upload it to Extort who will then send it to the “victim” [...]
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16 June 2006
Pictures from North-Korea
Pictures from North-Korea