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"What's jukebox? Is it a kind of juice box? And what's juice? Is it a kind of Coca-Cola? And what's Coca-Cola? Is it a kind of MTV? And what's MTV? Is it a kind of sex?" "Geez, what do they teach you in school?!" "Violence." Spontaneous free association that happened while I was taking a shower.

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If you try googling "gravey and jobriath" and click the first YouTube link, you'll be greeted with the message "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Evangelical Lutheran Church in America." The problem is, they don't own the copyright to that clip. It's a clip from The Simpsons that parodies Davey and Goliath, a children's show to which the church actually does own the

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(Inspired by a dream I had last night.) "And it was just standing there, someone had just put it there right inside the door." "A bucket? Really?" "Yeah, a metal bucket." Nick gave the other two an incredulous look, but didn't seem to have any more questions, so Terry continued. "I took a look, and it had these things in it, like... some kinda insect." "Wait, long worm things, lots of little legs

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2008-07-13 20:50:38 Went out yesterday to buy candy and bumped into a co-worker. Went out today to get thai food and saw a hare. Outside: It's an adventure. 2008-07-28 16:43:59 Washed a bloodstain off the window. Let's hope CSI doesn't stop by. 2008-11-16 20:09:23 Futurama idea #42, "The Wouldawannatron": Postdicts what a deceased person or persons would have wanted. "It's what they would have

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Unknown subject, 201X Feb 4. [Recording starts mid-sentence.] [...] to the [inaudible]. Bam! [crowd laughs] You know what I love though, you know what I used to love? That toy, when I was little, I had a toy where you would, you put these little shapes in the right hole? You know, the square piece goes in the square hole, the round piece goes in the round hole. And the black piece goes in the

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BANK TELLER: Sir, there is an awful lot of money in your checking account. RDJ: How much? TELLER: Seven figures, sir. RDJ: Oh, well that's probably stupid. I should fix that, I'm sorry. TELLER: Oh no sir, I must apologize on behalf of the bank for failing to notify you, sir. RDJ:

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I'm trying to figure out what motivates me, and I recently ran into an article on how we respond to challenges and how that relates to game genres, and found that I clearly want games to be a fantasy world where I'm the hero by default. I don't want any real challenges, I just want to cruise through the game and be treated to all the awesome stuff that involves. According to the article, that

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Imogen Heap's latest album: Ellipse

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I came up with the idea of making a trick that looks like an instructional video, probably because I've watched so many by now.

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Time for me to toot my own horn a bit. I came up with this transformation myself.

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I never noticed how good these lyrics are.

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I don't usually hope for anything, much in the same way I avoid promising anything. I'm afraid of disappointment and of disappointing others. So I don't take any chances, and I pretty much avoid anything that might set anyone up for disappointment. However, when I decided to go on my first vacation, I think I harboured a small seed of hope.My life is devoid of meaning, simply due to how I

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Just thought I'd post this somewhere. Now I can come back to this post and bask in the glory of my trophies. It has a UK flag because that's the only way I could get it in English.

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We were at the Vatican today. One is called "Crucifixion", the other "Martin Luther King Jr." I saw one first and thought it was cool, then I saw the other and thought it was art. I found the artefacts more fascinating than the art. Everyone's seen the frescos and paintings etc, but I haven't seen any photos of this stuff. I wasn't even sure what half of it was. And come on

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A place called Goose, close to our hotel. It has pretty great pizzas. I had a diavolo. This is the cheap Chinese restaurant next to the Termini. I have no idea what it's called. McDonald's near Scala di Spagna. The entrance was almost invisible; they probably weren't allowed to use their usual garish yellow and red.

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This photo illustrates two things: How happy I am to be in Rome, and how much I can see of it. I can barely keep my eyes open, sometimes I have to sit down and close them for a while just so I won't go blind. The evenings are bearable though, I guess I'll just sleep all day and not go to any tourist attractions. PS: We saw the pope (kinda, he was really far away). It was bound to happen,

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Something happened this Monday. It began as a normal day, just lounging about playing inFamous. Suddenly we were whisked away by an aeroplane. This was my first flight. I was pretty nervous when it was time for take off, but I focused on the engines and chewing my gum, and anxiousness luckily turned into fascination. Our intrepid adventurers. Lest I forget, I found a fantastic

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Just realized that I haven't pimped my other blog on this blog. Check out my seralized story Charlie Shortchanged, which takes place in White Wolf's World of Darkness, specifically Changeling. I was reading the Changeling rulebook and got inspiration for a role-playing adventure, but since I don't have anyone to play with, I decided to play it solo and write it down. Here's what I have so far.

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Now what?

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Last week, my brother, his gf and I were at the cherry blossom festival (hanami) at Kungsträdgården. Thought I'd post some photos of Swedish cherry blossoms, but it looks like someone beat me to it. The celebration started off with a taiko drum performance. It felt rather anachronistic seeing this centuries old artform being performed in the middle of a city. Look at them go!

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We visited the Drottningholm castle yesterday. The weather was great, the tour guide informative, and the castle itself was pretty neat. The only thing that bothered me was that the painted faux marble in the entrance hall looked obviously fake to me and looked kind of cheap. No photos of that though, because we weren't allowed to take pictures inside. After taking the tour, we headed back and

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Warning, the following content may bore you to tears.

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Bureaucracy is a highly optimized and superiously efficient system. In theory, the speed with which a form is processed approaches infinity as the number of errors in it approaches zero. In practice however, a form can never travel faster than the speed of light, and can in turn only reach that speed when flawlessly filled out in triplicate, in the right colour and with all the I's and T's dotted

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This guy "Red" deserves a record deal and a long and prosperous career.Here's the one good remix I found:

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My little brother's a huge rock star over in the US, and now he's getting the Michael Jackson treatment (the good kind).

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I have roots in Cape Verde. Why don't I get a cool theme song? (Click Obama to hear "Kenya".)

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Soundgarden - Fell on black daysZero 7 - In The Waiting Line

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Taget från en textfil som verkar ha skrivits på ovanstående datum."Nu kanske jag äntligen kan köpa en Dr Pepper," tänkte jag. Föreläsningen i Datakommunikation hade just slutat - en extra lång föreläsning på fyra timmar som hade varit lite tröttande. Jag gick från M-huset där föreläsningen tagit plats till L-huset, där jag hade tänkt gå en trappa upp, till markplanet, och köpa en burk i automaten

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Glad i hågen över Järnringens kraftinsats loggar jag in i deras webbshop för att kolla om status på min order kanske ändrats till "Levererad". I historiken står att jag inte gjort några beställningar. Hoppas det betyder att boken är skickad då. =)Sedan tittar jag en bit upp och ser till min absoluta förskräckelse att personuppgifterna visar en urgammal adress. Pulsen ökar, jag är arg över att jag

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Erik Vildes inlägg i negerbolldebatten.

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Speaking of Coriolis, it has the best trailer I've ever seen for a pen and paper table-top role-playing game. Way to promote an original concept, guys!

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När jag funderar på att lära känna nya människor så avskräcks jag av tanken på förbindelse. Om jag pratar med den där konsulten på jobbet som spelar rollspel så kanske vi kommer hyfsat bra överens, och jag kanske blir bjuden på någon liten sammankomst och hoppar in i en rollspelskampanj, och sen är jag fast. "Då ses vi hos Pelle imorron," kommer han att säga varje onsdag. Han kommer att vilja äta

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Hört på tunnelbanan idag, lite förenklat:A: Japp, onsdag imorgon då!B: Ja - ha! - mitt i veckan!A: Jomen det går fort.Ja, tänkte jag, det går fort, och funderade på hur vissa verkar behandla livets stadiga lunk som något nödvändigt ont. Det är nästan som om de bara försöker ta sig förbi livet, som om det bara är ett hinder på vägen. Vart de nu är på väg.Jag undrar hur de kan klara sig undan

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Presenting Julia Nunes, winner of the 2007 Bushman World Ukulele Video Contest.

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Remember the norwegian guy who made a beatbox video by editing together different sounds he made in front of his webcam? It was very goofy, he even had a sneeze in there somewhere. Anyway, check out this other video he made.

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I'm starting to wonder if socializing isn't about acquiring some special conversational skill, but just talking to the right people in the right circumstances. I've had some success having intelligent conversations with certain individuals when it's just the two of us, in a relaxed environment.Talking to people at parties is doomed to fail, for three reasons: 1) Noise, 2) ostentation and 3)

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I just added a Twitter section to my sidebar. Twitter is a sort of mini-blog where the length of each post is restricted to a maximum of 140 characters. The idea is to write tiny tidbits about your life without giving it much thought, which usually translates into more frequent posting. You can also hook up your mobile phone to Twitter and receive an SMS the minute a friend writes a new post,

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I was at a Halloween party this year. In fact, it was on the 9th of this month, hence "belated." Actually, given the lateness of this post, the title might as well read "Belated post about a belated Halloween party," but that's quite a mouthful.I have a colleague at work who doesn't separate plan and execution. It usually makes for fast results, but sloppy coding. I didn't realize that this

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The department where I work had some sort of team building session once, where one of the exercises involved pairing off and describing the other person. My partner said that I choose my words carefully. I think he literally said "thinks before he speaks." My boss later said that when I speak, people listen. I was surprised, because I hadn't observed the positive side of that character trait.

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I'm afraid this is only funny to the swedish speaking crowd. This article was only up for a few minutes -- I can only assume they took it down because of the typo -- so I just had to republish it.Update: They put the article back up, with corrected spelling; my shared items used to look funnier.

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Have you sensed that you share my interests and sense of humour? Do you find yourself coming back to my blog, time after time, to glean more information from my tired brain? Do I update my blog too seldomly? If you answered any of those questions affirmatively, you are speaking to your computer and should probably quiet down. More importantly, you may be interested in my new feature: Shared

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Any similarity to Demba Nabé aka Boundzound is purely unintentional; the drawing is just inspired by his song Louder. For the full experience, have a look at his video. =)

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After lugging around 1000-page books on the subway for a few months, I've come to realize that it's not a practical solution in the long run. It's a hassle even when the weather's fine, so I'll probably give up when winter starts. The problem is that a book this big doesn't fit even inside my relatively large pockets, which means I either need to go about my daily life one-handed while fumbling

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Tuesday, July 31I am currently reading Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. I'm on page 163 of 1144, which seems a ridiculous length for a novel, but it's so good I'm already one tenth in. I've decided to simply add my experiences to this post as I go along.In a book of this size, you're bound to stumble across a curious turn of words here and there, but some of them seem intentional, such as "[.

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I read Slashdot for comments like the one below. In case you haven't followed the digital revolution, "iTMS" is Apple's iTunes Music Store.Amazon MP3 made my Mac snappier! by Zhe Mappel (607548)People are always asking me, "Professor MacSnappy, why do you buy your music from iTMS?"No one reason, I reply stroking the Van Dyke beard that looks so rakish with a black turtleneck (it has fully grown

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In case you've missed it, Orisinal: Morning Sunshine has the cutest and most original Flash games ever. The creator, Ferry Halim, must be a genius.

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Apparently, the US is riddled with Halo 3 tie-in ads, which managed to drive multiple gamer web comic makers insane on the same day. Here's Penny Arcade's take on the situation, and here's Ctrl-Alt-Del.Now, I usually think Penny Arcade is the funnier comic, but in this instance, when the subject matter is absolutely identical, I think CAD did a better job. However, I found the punchline weak. Why

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I got an e-mail yesterday that is probably very cryptic to people not in the know, but very informative and a source of relief to those who are looking forward to duelling Slash and Tom Morello:Dear Customer,GH III for Ps2 is compatible with the sg controller.Thank you,RedOctane Customer ServiceWheeee!

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You can safely claim that death will never happen to you, because death is not an event in your life.Death is the ultimate non-event. Death doesn't happen to you; it unhappens everything that's ever happened to you.

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If you're a Lost or Alias fan, you may have heard of J. J. Abrams's upcoming feature film. Just like Lost, it's very mysterious; they haven't even revealed the title yet, only the release date. I can't help but be a little bit curious. The teaser opens with a going-away party, filmed with a handheld camera. It becomes apparent that a young man is leaving his home in New York to travel to Japan.

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Those new Guild Wars ads are really eye-catching. Nearly a minute of googling told me that the girl is called Jora. A few minutes later, I found the fan site kit, and after fiddling about with some of the included pictures, I had exactly what I wanted: Pure Jora goodness on my desktop. I know you kids expect the Internets to give you everything real fast-like, so here, let me save you those

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I don't care who you are, you need to see this. Be sure to start at the first photo of LEGO Guitar Hero goodness.

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Richard K. Morgan writes gritty, no holds barred sci-fi that feels as real as a kick in the nuts, and Black Man is no exception. This novel does exactly what good sci-fi should do; start with reality, take an aspect of that to its extreme, and watch it play out to its logical conclusion, all the while telling an engaging story with believable characters and unraveling a mystery that keeps you on

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I only bought the game yesterday, but I have now played through Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s on both Medium and Hard. It's not as if I played it non-stop either; it took maybe four or five hours in total. There are only 30 songs in career mode, and no bonus songs. That kind of pissed me off, because I wanted to hear some 80s style rock from contemporary bands, maybe some Harmonix employees.In

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I got Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s today. Can't wait to get home and play it! :)UPDATE: Way too few songs. Remember how I said that the first two games were too short? It's like they wanted to prove me wrong and show me what a short game really is.

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Here are a few thoughts I've had in the past, collected and summarized for your reading pleasure.Existance"If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, did it make a sound?" My interpration: The tree is a symbol of life. Someone hearing it come crashing down is proof that it was alive; it's affecting its surroundings. In other words, if you live your life without changing the

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Tony Ballantyne's Capacity has one of the best sci-fi prologues I have ever read. I bought the book solely because the first few pages read like an introductory pamphlet for people whose personality has recently been copied into processing space, a virtual reality where people from the atomic world are so accurately simulated that they garner human rights of their own as Personality Constructs.

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I've climbed the mangy fur of a stone giant with my bare hands, hanging on for dear life as it shook and bucked with such force that my vision blurred. I've stood atop a mountain-sized creature and suddenly realized that I was far up in the clouds, circled by birds and only one step away from falling back to an earth obscured by distance, ultimately meeting my maker. I've performed death-defying

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A tesla coil playing music, huh? Counting David Bowie's appearence as Nikola Tesla in The Prestige, this is the second time Tesla rocks. =)

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I completed Guitar Hero II on Hard today. =)

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Like Richard K. Morgan, Peter F. Hamilton writes sci-fi and has an abbreviated middle name. And much like Morgan's first book Altered Carbon, Hamilton's first book Mindstar Rising bears a title composed of two words and tells the story of an extraordinary individual who solves a mystery. Also, both authors are British, as well as brilliant. Unfortunately (for you), it's been too long since I read

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I finally completed Guitar Hero 1 on the Hard difficulty setting yesterday.That is all.

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I found this on my recently salvaged hard drive. The ASCII art is from August 2001, but it predicts the events of April 2007. GOD IS DEAD! You didn't hurt me, AND NO ONE CARES! nothing can hurt me, ___ , \=\ ___ , you didn't hurt me, / \\ \\ / \\ nothing

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"Guitar Hero II might appear to be a game, but it's actually composed of cleverly packaged pockets of productivity-sucking awesomeness created by Satan." - Total PlayStationSeveral of my workmates were inclined to question my sanity when I recently purchased the PS2 game Guitar Hero despite not owning a PS2. Since this was before playing Guitar Hero, I still had some semblance of rational thought

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A game belongs to the alternate reality genre if its in-game world crosses over into the real world. That in and of itself is a rather interesting concept, although whenever I read about Majestic back when it came out, I kept thinking that it seemed like too much work. You have to interact with things in the real world to play the game, which often involves calling phone numbers or searching the

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So, I was listening to the soundtrack of The Pick of Destiny again the other day. When I first saw the intro to the film, the song Kickapoo, I was blown away by its comic musical stylings, the two rock legend cameos and the flawless segue into the theme of the opening sequence. I already enjoyed the brilliant musicianship, but this time I discovered something else.In the song, young Jack Black

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There is no "I" in team, so the saying goes. Has anyone else noticed the problem with that? Namely, that there's no "us" in team, and no "you" or "he", "she", "it" or even "them". According to that logic, who does that leave in a team?I guess there is "mate", if anagrams are allowed. That also leaves "eat", "meat", and "tame". Still, not much of a team.

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I'm a casual gamer. I tend to get frustrated by certain types of games, and lately I've been trying to identify which aspects of games I like or dislike. Here's what I've come up with so far.Easy to learn, hard to masterIf I need to go through 10 minutes of tutorials before I can understand the basic gameplay, chances are I'll turn off the game and move on. Like any entertainment, games should

jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13520737717787874594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16845633.post-2846665849785692462007-01-31T13:12:00.000+01:002009-02-23T09:43:39.239+01:00

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"Time has not made of me a broken man, as you would seem to suspect. It has merely drained me of the energy required to hide my shortcomings. Verily, I was defective in the womb.""How does that explain that you just killed a man?""That was not the explanation, but the premise of my dissertation. You do not realise the effort it took for me to masquerade as one of you. Every word I spoke was

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Today, I bought a new gamepad with analog triggers, to cure my lead foot. You could say it's a belated Xmas gift for myself. I've been playing Need for Speed™ Carbon for a while now, and using a digital button for throttle just wasn't cutting it anymore. It was nearly impossible to hit the sweet spot and get a perfect start, or even to accelerate out of a curve. The wheels would just spin like

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Today my brother, Y and I were walking across central Stockholm, seeking out an Asian grocery store, when we found that the entire square in front of the opera house was cordoned off. Police were patrolling the area, and people were standing around taking pictures. Apparently something big was happening, but I had no idea what. Conveniently enough, I was on the phone with my mother at the time,

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I've been pondering why I tend to turn down party invitations, and I think I've come to a conclusion: Rollerblades are no fun because they hurt my feet. My older brother enjoys rollerblading. I don't. He asked me why once, and I told him I think it's pretty fun to go fast and stuff, but the rollerblades really hurt my feet. After a while, the amount of pain surpasses the amount of fun, and what

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In the internet world, time is measured in microcyberpixelseconds, which means time moves very fast. It has to, otherwise your megabits won't get to your computer in time and then your JPEGs would load backwards. What all this means is that whatever I say in this blog is old news, and you can safely ignore it. Like this: Opera now has a built-in BitTorrent client!Look out, only the cool kids (and

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Today was the national day of Sweden. Nothing much happens in our town on this day, partly because it was only recently made a holiday. People aren't sure how to celebrate it, or if it's even worth celebrating, although apparently some people in Gothenburg and Stockholm really welcome this holiday, judging by what I saw on TV just a while ago. Still, the reporters never seemed to find anyone who

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No need to take a stroll in the forest to see small animals anymore; the squirrel is visiting us now.

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In case you missed it:Quite simply the best winners ever.Edit: I found the video, and I'm still wiping away tears of joy after watching it.

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I made a diagram that shows how much consoles actually costed; all prices are adjusted for retail inflation. Maybe I'm just weird, but I think it's actually pretty interesting. You can see how Nintendo just keeps dropping in price; according to my calculations, consoles will be free by 2012. Until then, a special deal: Trade in your old Atari 2600 for 3 Wiis!Edit: It turns out that the graph I

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This is a nice wholesome video I remember fondly from my misspent youth. If you've seen it before, prepare for some nostalgia. If you haven't, prepare to be shocked. Either way, it's brilliant.

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No, it's not raining, it's just a bunch of photos of pets that I wanted to upload. So here we go!

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Here are a few video clips I've collected, where some of my favourite stars make surprise appearences in some of my favourite TV shows. The first one is Marilyn Manson in Clone High. The second and third shows are the Colbert Report and Leno, but I'm not spoiling the guest star surprises. Either you'll recognize them, or you won't care. On a side note, I'm experimenting with Photobucket's

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I sat in the very back of the bus today, in the middle seat, or as I like to call it, "the bouncy office". The very bouncy office. Sitting right above the back wheels, you receive nearly all the force of the uneven Swedish roads directly into your spine, delivered via the not so subtle undulations of the shock absorbers. It kind of sucks, and it can make you a bit nauseous if you're reading a

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Here are a few funny/awesome links.Minesweeper and NP-completeness If you like Minesweeper, logic gates or math, check it out. This article proves that they are all intricately connected. It's pretty awesome if you're slightly nerdy.Titanic 2! It's the sequel to the blockbuster Titanic! Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) is back! Very exciting, even to me (who haven't seen the first movie). Plus, I would

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During the month of March, we had some really crazy weather. Snow came pouring down like there was no tomorrow. Or a day after tomorrow, if you'll excuse the cultural reference.One day, my younger brother and I were outside during a futile attempt to move the snow around so that it wouldn't completely cover our house from roof to foundation. In the face of such a blatantly Sisyphean task, we felt

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Whoops, I see now that I haven't updated this blog for over a month. Bad!Let's kick this off with another toy commercial. I discovered one that is "in tune" with the younger population. I'm picturing a board meeting with a self-proclaimed expert informing white old men about a new and exciting music genre called "hip hop". The toy does seem cool though, and the chick is hot. I'm sold.

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Yesterday was the International Women's day, which usually means there are a number of interesting events (plus some boring stuff) at the library. Ah yes, I was at the library again; the hub of cultural activities in this town. I watched an all-female band called Kraa perform, but I didn't dare take any photos because I was sitting dead-centre in the front row. It would have been disruptive just

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I'm usually not interested in sports at all. Football is boring, be it European soccer or American football. Indoor bandy is too frantic. Outdoor bandy is too cold. Handball is stupid.However, the Olympic Games this year were kind of interesting, even to me, although the skiing was boring as usual. The curling, however. That was riveting. I like watching people excel at a certain skill, using

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Yes, it's another toy commercial! I can't get enough, and really -- who doesn't love toy commercials?Each Cube World has a motion sensor and buttons that let you play with the stick person living in the cube. The really cool feature is that you can connect cubes and let the stick people interact with each other. Apparently, they can cross the Cube World boundaries by their own volition. Could

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I'm fascinated by toy commercials; they're happy and funny, and of course the only interesting commercials out there. Now I think I need one of these Pixel Chix toys, and apparently a friend with his/her own Pixel Chix to play with.Look! A crystal LCD embedded in a toy house! It's genius.

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I've discovered some excellent Japanese magicians thanks to the internet. One example is the Yamagami brothers (山上兄弟) who currently hold the Guinness world record for youngest magicians. The age thing is kind of gimmicky, but they're just so cute and great at what they do that you can't help but adore them. (In contrast, there's an extremely gimmicky magician who insists on pretending to be

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I have one of these. It's awesome. :)This is just the demo message ("new nsd power ball"), which is the easiest one to get and thus the one we used for demonstration purposes. If you rev up the powerball to higher speeds, it shows the RPM you achieved as it winds down. In short... Best. Toy. Ever.P.S. Managed to get a nice shot of the RPM display. Enjoy!

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