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Saturday, March 31, 2001
Posted 3/31/2001 by Beorn
Posted 3/31/2001 by Beorn
Friday, March 30, 2001
Posted 3/30/2001 by Beorn
Posted 3/30/2001 by Beorn
Gnuhead as GIF for satirical reasons. Thursday, March 29, 2001
The mother of an israeli boy whose friends were blown up yesterday. Unlike the 10 month old baby also killed this week, (what kind of fanatical parents intentionally moves to the most dangerous place in Israel?), this happened close to Tel Aviv, and I think the quote summarizes the dilemma on the israeli side. Not everyone in Israel cares about land and religion, (I know one of them), but everyone listens to the cries of mothers who have lost their children. Btw, Drudge did a Stile yesterday by posting the picture of that dead baby, angering a lot of readers in the process. He defends it by claiming other media present a sanitized version of the conflict when they censore images like this, but, like the pictures from the Qana massacre, this is not the kind of stuff I think you should print in newspapers - or put on the front page of your website without warning. (Consider yourself warned.) Posted 3/29/2001 by Beorn
"The only difference between 'Christian rock' and secular rock is the words. The beat, rhythm, and the melody are not different; they are the same."I'm always fascinated by how these people manage to combine perceptive music analysis with complete and total lunacy. It's a bit like the West seen through the eyes of a north-korean textbook, really. If you replace a few terms, ignore 50% of the facts, and invert the good-evil axis, the picture of a culture is often painted better by its enemies than by the people living inside it. Posted 3/29/2001 by Beorn
Wednesday, March 28, 2001
Posted 3/28/2001 by Beorn
No! I leave that to those newspaper columnists, politicians, and village idiots on Usenet who can read through all this crap without falling asleep. Instead, I'll focus on an issue closer to my heart, one that I feel the Commision on Values, in typical disregard of the Vital Issues of the Day, has brutally stepped on like a used cigarette, thrown away like yesterdays paper, flushed down like .. well, you get the idea. Here it goes: http://www.verdikommisjonen.no doesn't work with Opera! It keeps reloading itself, over and over again, and when I tell it to stop I can't see more than the first page. To read anything at all I have to press the stop button right before the download is complete, which isn't as easy as it sounds. Somebody haven't bothered to test their website with the Third Browser here. This is wrong and hypocritical on so many levels. It's anti-norwegian to discriminate against Opera, the culmination of 200 years of norwegian independence and free-thinking, the only thing that ever made me proud of coming from a country that haven't made international-quality pop music since A-Ha. It's arrogant, incompetent and egoistic. It's even oppressive, of us Opera-users as a struggling minority, (and God knows we face enough discrimination every day as it is.) Where are your fancy-schmanzy ethical values now, eh, Langangen and Eidsvåg?! Bet you dropped them on the way out of your expensive limousines! It goes without saying that mainstream media will ignore this issue, which just proves how far we've yet to come in Opera-Explorer interrelationship issues. A sad day indeed. (What do you mean, "just turn off javascript"?) Tuesday, March 27, 2001
Posted 3/27/2001 by Beorn
The Man Who Fell to Earth is kind of like how 2001 would have been, if it had been about an alien on earth doing nothing in particular, if the only special effect was Bowie himself, all the other actors were nephews of the director, and somebody had cut out all the scenes with actual plot development to get the movie down to 140 minutes. What's left is a long series of confusing scenes and a plot that moves slower and slower until the movie spontaneously and mercifully decides to self-combust. The only way to save this movie would have been to expand the artsy sex scenes into actual porn, by which standards a cut-down version of the plot would have been excellent. Speaking of bad movies, as I said, I prefer not to write about them, which is why I'm not commenting the 73rd Annual Beverly Hills Backslapping Awards. Monday, March 26, 2001
Posted 3/26/2001 by Beorn
Posted 3/26/2001 by Beorn
The techies at The Register has a bit more credibility in this matter than some journalist who got his MS Word diploma last month, so this is worth reading. Posted 3/26/2001 by Beorn
It is sad to see this outdated law (�135a) being dragged down from the dusty attic it's been hiding in most of its existence. It is even sadder to find Human-Etisk Forbund in the cheerleading crowd, along with the usual enemies of democracy. I don't like peaceful or violent nazis more than I like peaceful or violent commies, but I mean, unless somebody's standing behind you or monitoring your net usage, just follow the links to Boot Boys Oslo and Vigrid damnit, and read what they have to say. Read it, then decide whether this is information the government should have prevented you from accessing. This is not about murder or violence, which is illegal no matter who commits it, it's about your right to visit those websites. Sunday, March 25, 2001
Posted 3/25/2001 by Beorn
Flashback News Agency, a swedish monthly bloggish newsletter, is propably the most important alternative to mainstream scandinavian media right now. It's the kind of independent, subversive, obnoxious publication that will make any closet-hiding censor reveal their true colours. "What?! You can't write about that." Well, Jan Axelsson can, and he does, and he mails it to 104 000 scandinavians every month. Why don't Norway have anything like this? Or perhaps we do, and nobody told me yet. |
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Anyway, frustrated by not having anywhere to post my links, (I've forgotten most of them by now),
I didn't find anything interesting to write about at 
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