July 1st, 2008 |
by Thomas Nybergh |
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in Swedish, internet, politik, på svenska
Enligt Hbl skall Konstsamfundet satsa på sina tidningar och få dem att gå på vinst även om situationen för närvarande inte utlovar solsken och jordgubbar med vispgrädde och konjak serverade i syrénbersån. Utan att kommentera dagstidningsbusiness som jag inte vet något om gnäller jag gärna om utbudet av svenskspråkiga Helsingforsnyheter på webben. Därav lyfter jag [...]
June 25th, 2008 |
by Thomas Nybergh |
published in
internet, notes, politics, technology
Good grief, what are these MEP asshats thinking?
I’m against ownership concentration as much as the next guy, but I wonder what pluralism in media policy has to do with blogs putting “journalists and other media professionals under pressure”. I don’t see how regulation of before unseen ways in which potentially independent, anonymous citizens can express [...]
June 4th, 2008 |
by Thomas Nybergh |
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in English, internet, link tips, notes, politics, technology
Rick Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party discusses a wiretapping bill called “better adapted military intelligence gathering” that soon may hit hard on the privacy of anyone relying on any electronic communication routed through Sweden. A few quotes from the post:
“At about 20 points in the national information infrastructure network, all traffic [...]
May 31st, 2008 |
by Thomas Nybergh |
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I hope manbabies.com proves to be too unhealthy for the human mind to become a longstanding mainstream webtard meme. Image borrowed from post #43.
[via:kung fu grippe]
May 30th, 2008 |
by Thomas Nybergh |
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in English, internet, technology
Google has a fugly new favicon.ico. I liked the old one because of its relative colorfulness, and I find it somewhat puzzling that they chose to use a gray gradient in the new version.
(Image borrowed from Google Blogoscoped)
May 27th, 2008 |
by Thomas Nybergh |
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in English, internet, notes, politics
The Pirate Bay blog has a recent post where the author claims to have received insider knowledge on why a recent verdict from a Swedish district court (tingsrätt) wasn’t appealed against by the defendant, a file sharer.
I quote a part of a translation of the text made by the third commenter on the original post’s [...]
May 25th, 2008 |
by Thomas Nybergh |
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in English, internet, notes, politics
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 Pirate [...]
May 20th, 2008 |
by Thomas Nybergh |
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in English, internet, link tips, notes
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 [...]
May 20th, 2008 |
by Thomas Nybergh |
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in English, internet, link tips
From the Non-allergenic lolcats dept.: Put last year’s mainstream Internet meme on your fridge… tomorrow! Non-US orders accepted.
May 17th, 2008 |
by Thomas Nybergh |
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in English, internet, link tips, movies
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 entry [...]
