Thomas Nybergh

Minäkin käytän joskus Suomen virallista päihdettä, alkoholia. Suosin etenkin kirkkaita ja miedonmakuisia väkeviä alkoholijuomia. Laadukkaaksi ja vielä minun hintatasooni mahtuvaksi esimerkiksi on osoittautunut venäläinen Stolitšnaja-vodka. Pirtein punavalkoisin etiketein koristettu 0.7 litrainen Stolipullo maksaa Alkossa 20 euroa. Vodkalla on riittoisasti veden kanssa nautittuna helppo annostaa kevyitä, iloisia ja sosiaalisesti hyväksyttyjä päihtymistiloja. Oikealla annostuksella ja vesitekniikalla ainakin minä vältän kivuliaita kehon etanolin ja sen […]

When I recently rented a VPS running a fresh install of Debian, I thought it was about time to stick with the now default Unicode locale, UTF-8. Doing this switch in a sensible fashion would include converting often used text files, such as chat logs from the older, more compatible but limited ISO 8859-15 charset. […]

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 […]

Carlin, who died at the age of 71, was an American author, comedian and actor known for his dislike of taboos and defence of Free Speech. A recording of his Seven Dirty Words monologue, which after being aired by a radio broadcaster caused a 1978 American Supreme Court ruling establishing that the F.C.C. can regulate […]

For some time, I’ve wanted another blog with a significantly lower threshold for posting short shutouts of those random links that keep me distracted. The source of this text, the notes section on my personal site, should for a number of reasons be kept relatively tidy and reserved for longer posts with my own, original […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

In other news, somewhat related to my previous post: Russia may in the future require registration of “every Wi-Fi device and hotspot”. What a goddamn Kafka-Orwellian nightmare that country must be. [via: Slashdot]