Thomas Nybergh

Due to recent very unclear, confusing and freedom hating legislation prepared by corrupt and incompetent people and an appeal court decision from a couple of days back, it’s now criminal to break the not very functional CSS copy protection used on most commercial DVD-Video discs. Watching DVDs using GNU/Linux systems is thus not something well [...]

The process of properly establishing the Finnish Pirate Party took a leap forward this weekend. A blog covering the party’s constitutive meeting in real time has however been suspended by Google/Blogspot. Xuenay, one of the party leaders writes the following on his personal blog: I just got back from the founding meeting of the Finnish [...]

Much nonsense has been written on the Internet regarding the school massacre in the small town of Jokela last November, but an aspect of great interest to me is how the media involved itself in the aftermath. As is common at scenes of human suffering all over the world, today’s news media for a moment [...]

From the Non-allergenic lolcats dept.: Put last year’s mainstream Internet meme on your fridge… tomorrow! Non-US orders accepted.

Something exciting may be going on. Jeff Bonwick, storage expert and leader of the ZFS team at Sun has posted pictures from a seemingly informal meeting with Linus Torvalds on his blog. Sr Program Manager at Sun, Jim Grisanzio also links to the pictures in a blog post of his own titled “ZFS Pics“. Does [...]

These money themed ads made by JWT for the Brazilian business newspaper Gazeta Mercantil are among the better marketing I’ve seen lately. I approve of their message. Images found at I Believe in Advertising. Click on the images to view them in full size (there are some thoughtful details just waiting to be spotted). [via:Gothamist, [...]

I found some properly entertaining use of paint on human built structures in the following short film. I recommend watching this odd and well done little movie titled MUTO using Vimeo’s full screen capabilities (embedded flash from vimeo.com below). More info about the piece is available on the publisher’s own site and on the video’s [...]

According to its page on Youtube, the following video featuring a shrimp running on a treadmill is a bit old. Luckily, the included WTF value is still quite intact, at least for someone like me who doesn’t have a career in crustacean athletics. (Flash video from youtube.com embedded below) There’s also a version with the [...]

The Lexmark E232 laser printer I need to use at the office works for me in Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron) if added in the “System -> Administration -> Printing” as a “Generic PCL 5c Printer” using the “CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.2 Simplified” CUPS driver. In this particular setup, the printer is shared from its USB port [...]

I generally find music videos with bands miming songs to be depressing nonsense. An exception to this rule is made by The Get Out Clause, an unsigned Manchester band with their video for a song titled “Paper” (link to higher quality Youtube video). By cleverly taking advantage of The United Kingdom’s groundbreaking pioneer work in [...]