Thomas Nybergh

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger instant messaging network (formerly MSN Messenger) is currently blocking messages with urls that contain *.youtube.com. Tietokone, a Finnish IT publication reports that this applies to messages with links to *.mediafire.com, too. WTF, how did the people running Windows Live even come up with such a lousy idea? I’m guessing the explanation, [...]

As announced yesterday, a new Nine Inch Nails single titled “Discipline” is available as a free, decent quality VBR mp3 download. The song itself is a nice and catchy thing. In addition to the obvious artist and track title tags, the file contains the following additional id3 metadata tags: Album: ? Comment: Go to www.nin.com [...]

A recent decision by a court in Salo (link target is in Finnish), which implies that it’s illegal to use open Wi-Fi-networks without permission, is yet another fine example of the asshattery and uninformed lack of reasoning that automatically appears when anything related to information technology is on the agenda in today’s society under its [...]

While browsing a list of personalized feed recommendations in Google Reader, I found an RSS feed which on a daily basis defines and links to Wiktionary‘s “English Word of the Day” feature. In my mind, this is a convenient way to learn about the existence words not often used in basic day-to-day English. As far [...]