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February 28, 2005
If there were a prize for Sweden's Most Generous Blogger, Giornale Nuovo would get it every time.Posted at 01:39 AM
First came Podcasting. Now here comes Appcasting. What's next? How about videocasting the Daily Show? Comedy Central? Anyone? I promise to watch the ads.Posted at 12:02 AM
February 27, 2005
Probably the best argument in favor of censorship in Sweden I will ever encounter. Surely there has to be a law against this?!Update: The Finns are hurting me as well.
Posted at 05:18 PM
Momus goes shopping in Tokyo. His 40min mp3 walking tour vividly evoked the city for me. Fluent and articulate commentary.Posted at 01:28 PM
Starting March 1, KCRW Santa Monica will start podcasting all its home-produced programs. They have some great culture programming.Posted at 01:13 PM
February 19, 2005
Dad ran around northwest Belfast today, taking amazing pictures of the murals there. It's shocking to see this mutual hatred so colorfully expressed — the provocations flaunted with so much artistic relish.Posted at 11:58 PM
The Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs has a great article-cum-primer [PDF] on Juche, North Korea's official autarchic state ideology. Worth reading, as Juche underpins everything in North Korea.Posted at 12:51 PM
February 17, 2005
Someone's been putting up nesting boxes for birds around Stockholm, many of them camouflaged as signs. I myself have walked by many, evidently without noticing.Posted at 01:00 AM
February 16, 2005
Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin: History's greatest power couple?Posted at 12:22 AM
February 14, 2005
Is the rise of reality television a reaction to overly socialized societies? The future is not 1984, it's Borges's The Lottery in Babylon. (NB socialized as in acculturated, not socialist)Posted at 11:19 PM
February 11, 2005
Did you know that Swedish IT companies are turning network security headaches into business opportunities? Nothing remarkable about that, other than that I wrote the article.Posted at 12:30 PM
February 10, 2005
KCNA: "Swedish Ambassador to the DPRK Paul Beijer hosted a reception at the embassy [in Pyongyang] Monday on the occasion of the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il." Was that really necessary?Posted at 07:24 AM
February 09, 2005
Neutreeko looks like a very simple game, but it's another massive timewaster.Posted at 10:35 PM
360-degree views from the surface of the moon, stitched together from photos taken by the Apollo astronauts. (Via Slashdot)Posted at 11:40 AM
February 08, 2005
Paul Rendell built a Turing Machine inside the game of Life, redefining the concept mad genius in the process. (Site back up)Posted at 10:00 PM
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