topics for June 2007

2007-06-30 Does anyone at Vodafone understand their data pricing? [leavingthedayjob.blogspot.com]

2007-06-30 Trädfällning [susning.nu]
Hur svårt kan de va?

2007-06-30 Alla Sony Ericssons anställda kan bli bloggare [internetworld.idg.se]

2007-06-30 First artificial life 'within months' [telegraph.co.uk]

2007-06-30 from: malmö, sweden to: A226 to:prague - Google Maps [maps.google.com]
Google har gjort det igen. Smidigt att välja färdväg till tyskland etc.

2007-06-30 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Seat 29E [snopes.com]
Status: True

2007-06-29 The amazing Duff's Device by Tom Duff! [doc.cat-v.org]

2007-06-29 14 Things (+)That It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn [blogs.jobdig.com]
1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2007-06-29 Föräldrarna valde "den rätta" åt Monish [dn.se]
I Indien är de arrangerade äktenskapen en miljardaffär.

2007-06-29 Putin's Arctic invasion: Russia lays claim to the North Pole - and all its gas, oil, and diamonds [dailymail.co.uk]

2007-06-29 An iPod Has Global Value. Ask the (Many) Countries That Make It. [nytimes.com]
What about the 451 parts that go into the iPod? Where are they made and by whom?

2007-06-28 Off Speed pitch? [coolpicturesworld.blogspot.com]

2007-06-28 GIMPshop [gimpshop.com]

2007-06-28 airline complaint.jpg [ninjapants.org]

2007-06-28 Next Big Language = JavaScript [kylecordes.com]
men det är kanske inget nytt

2007-06-27 US Weekly bans Paris stories this week [clarionledger.com]

2007-06-27 LEGO Aircraft Carrier [techeblog.com]

2007-06-27 when ph.d.s get frustrated [passiveaggressivenotes.com]

2007-06-27 The iPhone Matches Most of Its Hype [nytimes.com]
It does things no phone has ever done before; it lacks features found even on the most basic phones.

2007-06-27 Han ger den muslimska vreden ett ansikte [svd.se]
"förbluffande många bilder på arga unga muslimska män är fotografier av samma person. Han demonstrerar mot Jyllands-Posten. Han protesterar mot Satansverserna. Mot Benedictus. Mot Bush."

2007-06-27 iPhone facts from the first reviews [engadgetmobile.com]
The mobile version of OS X or whatever it is the iPhone runs takes up 700MB of the device's capacity.

2007-06-26 Satsbryggning Öl [shbf.se]
Steg för steg

2007-06-26 Carlsberg Ölskola - Gör ditt eget öl [carlsberg.allweb.se]

2007-06-26 Verboten: Germany Bans Tom Cruise [abcnews.go.com]

2007-06-25 The Complex and Terrifying Reality of Star Wars Fandom [jivemagazine.com]
Star Wars fans hate Star Wars.

2007-06-25 MizPee Home [mizpee.com]
MizPee finds the closest, cleanest toilet and gives you entertaining reading material once you get there.

2007-06-25 Avatar Machine [marcowens.co.uk]
a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface.

2007-06-25 Nintendo outstrips Sony in market value [cnn.com]

2007-06-25 Full map of Europe in year 1000 [euratlas.com]

2007-06-25 What Spices To Use [3men.com]
Spices are the basis for flavoring your barbecue.

2007-06-24 'Chemical Ali' Sentenced To Death [cbs5.com]

2007-06-24 Steve Jobs confronts Bill Gates about copying the Mac, and Bill's classic response [folklore.org]

2007-06-24 Image to HTML Converter [neil.fraser.name]

2007-06-22 F-22 superjets could act as flying Wi-Fi hotspots | The Register [theregister.com]
802-11-f22 ? Dopler?

2007-06-22 Binary marble adding machine [woodgears.ca]

2007-06-22 How a six-month-old startup got bought by Google [blogs.business2.com]

2007-06-21 Dunning-Kruger effect [en.wikipedia.org]

2007-06-21 A middle management sandwich [jaaksi.blogspot.com]
Nokia is very fortunate because we have some really bright and innovative executives as well as many world class developers. So, even with our average middle management, we 19re ok!

2007-06-21 Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in [blog.pmarca.com]
in any fight between a platform and an application, the platform will always win

2007-06-21 Second Life - outsourcing's next frontier? [silicon.com]
it turned out that the best man for the job was an enormous rabbit

2007-06-21 Not To Do lists [factoryjoe.com]

2007-06-20 Asshole driven development [scottberkun.com]

2007-06-20 Miracle diet pill with teeny-tiny side effect [angryaussie.wordpress.com]

2007-06-20 Bilavgaser motverkar växthuseffekten [nyteknik.se]

2007-06-20 The MacGyver Delusion [bluepulseblog.blogspot.com]
I just know that if I throw out the 1980's TV remote control it'll be the one missing piece from the makeshift light aircraft needed for...

2007-06-20 ~ Poutz.com ~ [poutz.com]
ja tack.

2007-06-19 I use Windows Media Player v11. I've downloaded the files but they won't license or play ? - Powered By Kayako eSupport [audiobooksupport.helpserve.com]
JAG HATAR DRM JAG HATAR DRM JAG HATAR DRM

2007-06-19 Metric_system.png (PNG Image, 1427x628 pixels) - Scaled (96%) [upload.wikimedia.org]
Map of where people DON'T use the metric system.

2007-06-19 Musikstil blev arbetshandikapp [sydsvenskan.se]
Hårdrocken tar så stor plats i Rogers Tullgren liv att den klassats som arbetshandikapp. Nu betalar arbetsförmedlingen en del av hans lön...

2007-06-19 The Top Ten Weird and Bizarre Japanese Soft Drinks [inventorspot.com]

2007-06-18 Interesting side by side photos - real people & their online avatars [nytimes.com]

2007-06-15 magnetosphere [software.barbariangroup.com]
The last iTunes visualizer you will ever want for.

2007-06-15 Switchcore lever vidare [sydsvenskan.se]
"Switchcore är som en bajskorv som inte går att spola ned i toaletten. En switchkorv."

2007-06-15 How can free will coexists with divine preordination? [timothysburden.com]

2007-06-14 Putting Energy Hogs in the Home on a Strict Low-Power Diet [nytimes.com]
"...40 percent of all electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off."

2007-06-14 bbc_world_america_ads_2693.jpg (JPEG Image, 700x1379 pixels) [usemycomputer.com]

2007-06-13 The Implicit Web: Last.fm, Amazon, Google, Attention Trust [readwriteweb.com]

2007-06-12 FN-staten och de sju rövarna [dn.se]
"När korruptionen är sexsiffrig (i euro) är den lokal. När den blir sjusiffrig är FN självt inblandat"

2007-06-12 How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker: A Study in Software Security [cigital.com]

2007-06-12 seven-deadly-sins-combo-chart.gif (GIF Image, 899x582 pixels) [accordionguy.blogware.com]

2007-06-12 A Chindogu Clock for Procrastinators [davidseah.com]

2007-06-12 Utlovad hastighet behöver inte hållas [sydsvenskan.se]
Bredbandsoperatörer kan ta betalt för en uppkopplingshastighet som de i praktiken aldrig någonsin kan erbjuda

2007-06-12 Media Reform Information Center [corporations.org]

2007-06-11 Laptops Are Crippling Us [zoliblog.com]

2007-06-11 IBM lägger bud på Telelogic [di.se]

2007-06-08 The Price of Speed [weblogs.java.net]
let's look at the overhead a JIT adds over an interpreted only VM

2007-06-08 Tjuvar brände 45 miljoner på lotter [dn.se]
Vad gör de egentligen på banken efter tre? Två anställda på en kinesisk bank stal 45 miljoner kronor ur valvet - och brände nästan hela bytet på lotter.

2007-06-08 A Brawl In The Safari Video [break.com]
"A small buffalo gets taken away by some lions. A group of crocodiles battle the lions for the buffalo. Then the buffalos parents come"

2007-06-08 A game of inches [joelonsoftware.com]

2007-06-08 Interactive paper sounds exciting [newscientisttech.com]

2007-06-07 Föraktets anatomi [sydsvenskan.se]

2007-06-07 The Profit Calculator [nymag.com]
The wild risks, unexpected niches, and day-in-day-out grind behind making a dollar in New York...for everyone from a drug dealer to Goldman Sachs.

2007-06-06 Chip start-up could ignite Blade PCs [theregister.com]
The Register is selling out too much now. Lousy advertisment disguised as articles, with a tiny disclaimer at the end..

2007-06-06 The Obelisk [hitslot.com]
coolt, något för uteplatsen kanske?

2007-06-05 dilbert2061099070605.gif (GIF Image, 600x208 pixels) [dilbert.com]
en dilbert till.

2007-06-05 dilbert2007060174573.jpg (JPEG-bild, 750x544 pixlar) [dilbert.com]
Just loved the quote: "The project is like a hundred drunken clowns with bees in their underpants.". Try to visualize that :-)

2007-06-05 Importförbud av sprit brott mot EG-lag [di.se]
EU:s domstol godkänner den svenska nätspriten. Det är ett dråpslag mot Systembolagets monopol och tvärtemot vad alla förväntade sig.

2007-06-04 SEMC Software Careers : Johan Redestig, Development Engineer [sonyericsson.com]
"I work with a gang of very intelligent people working on complex systems, probably some of the brightest people in the industry."

2007-06-04 "Förlåt, Sverige" [expressen.se]
Fylle-ångest modell större.

2007-06-04 Apple says iPhone to go on sale June 29 | Reuters.ca [ca.today.reuters.com]
"The iPhone will cost $500 or $600"

2007-06-04 Mobile Phone Vendors Face Product Price Hit [cellular-news.com]
EMEA Mobile Phone Shipments 1Q07, market share

2007-06-03 Gammal husvagn bortskänkes [blocket.se]
Som ny!

2007-06-03 Hus bortskänkes [blocket.se]

2007-06-02 Amazing mystery of the new AACS key leak [boingboing.net]

2007-06-01 pedofil.se [swartz.typepad.com]

2007-06-01 Strålningen är en bortglömd vårdfråga [barometern.se]
Det finns i dag ungefär 1,5 miljoner personer i Sverige som långsamt håller på att torteras ihjäl av telekomindustrins okontrollerade spridning av artificiell elektromagnetisk strålning.

2007-06-01 The Best Code is No Code At All [codinghorror.com]