Another great old radio play: The Green Hills of Earth http://bit.ly/fo9IyH
“If Gadafy is sincere about reform, as I think he is, Libya could end up as the Norway of North Africa” http://tinyurl.com/6ev9kwk
Fun, frustrating exercise: Watch out the window on a bus route you take often, and ask yourself what it is you’re not noticing.
Listening - in the dark - to old radio series. Check out episode 3 of X Minus One, The Parade: http://bit.ly/e0WJMF
RT @iacob: Berserk-tragedien oppsummert uten typisk norsk å være god-briller: http://bit.ly/dLFTwx
.. and if you wanted to embed a funny cat video in a post, you had to physically show up at the door of every reader with the cat in hand
,, back then, if you wanted to allow reader comments on your posts, you had to write the code yourself. (Yes, really.)
I started my first blog 10 years ago this month: http://bit.ly/fHtH6y
RT @pourmecoffee: “Ladies & gentlemen this is the Capt; if you look out window you’ll see the f-ing Space Shuttle going to f-ing space.” …
In a lot of the areas that really count, choosing makes it so.
As used in everyday speech by non-experts, the words “healthy” and “unhealthy” are virtually meaningless
Posted a review of E Numbers by Stefan Gates, a survey of mostly useful food additives: http://bit.ly/eFJqCY
Har lagt ut et svar til @hvahunsa’s artikkel i Humanist om friskoler og religionsfrihet: http://bit.ly/eAiH7J
RT @m_clem: Kurt Vonnegut graphs the three most popular stories in Western civilization http://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ
Gikk i dag bak en gjøk som la ut om hvordan det å gå med burka også har mange fordeler. Mann, selvsagt.
@rabiatius Hysj, ikke fortell forlagene at høye priser reduserer omsetning. La statskulturlivet sulte seg selv ihjel.
Apparently you really should have ducked and covered if the Russians had attacked: http://bit.ly/g9kAqf
Jo jeg er ganske sikker på at det er et eller annet arrangement på gang. De bygger iallefall noe voldsomt i Oslo sentrum. Må finne ut mer.
RT @WillProchaska: This article on Trade not Aid by @IanBirrell is one of the most refreshing articles on Africa I’ve seen http://ow.ly/ …
Book roundup: Terry Pratchett, Rose Wilder Lane, Michael Chabon, Michael Moorcock, Fredric Brown, and Robert Heinlein http://bit.ly/e6YdZK
Så Findus selger nå ferdigmat uten tilsetningsstoffer som gjør at den smaker bedre og varer lenger? Best å styre unna.
RT @arrroberts: This amused me for thirty seconds or so: http://www.malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com/
Looks like they’re preparing for some sort of winter sports event here in Oslo. Anyone know what’s going on?
RT @codinghorror: the court of King Apple is an opulent and beautiful thing. I never said it wasn’t. But know your place.
.. more Arch Oboler radio horror: The Dark. http://bit.ly/fvQxcK Cheesy, but in the good, Lovecraftian way
It .. is .. later .. than .. you .. think. Listening to Arch Oboler’s old radio horror series Lights Out: http://bit.ly/eJYZqo
Is there a word for the feeling when you learn that a song you thought was recent was recorded 30 years ago, or vice versa?
@sjetilv Selv venter jeg på AFOD, de språk liberales motsats til Astronomer mot orddeling
RT @HLMenckenBot: A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
Outcasts: What happens when crime procedural writers watch Galactica. But the IMDB reviews are fun: http://bit.ly/gZ0P0c
RT @Lileks: Watching a movie in which Claude Rains plays a highly-civilized but morally ambiguous character. Yes, that movie.
RT @lesswrong: Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields http://bit.ly/eWCnrm
RT @jasnoen: Niall Ferguson is too arrogant for my taste, but his ripping into the Obama administration on Egypt IS entertaining. http:/ …
.. in same way, I notice social media users almost exclusively use their primary language, not English. No interest in talking to outsiders.
Morozov points out internet internationalism is exaggerated: China doesn’t worry about FB and Tw, uses its own easily censored versions
Evgeny Morozov talks about internet utopists who apply tech understanding to local situations they don’t understand: http://bit.ly/fZJZv7
Watching BBC docu The Chinese Are Coming. First ep visits Chinese companies in Africa.
RT @Glette: En uke er skandalen at noen prissamarbeider. Den neste er skandalen at noen vil avskaffe prissamarbeider.
RT @timoreilly: Interesting to see magazine authors producing an app for reading the kind of content they want to write: the Atavist htt …
Reviewed T. E. Vadney’s The World Since 1945, which starts out focused, and ends in chaos, as such histories often do http://bit.ly/eOtIIx
RT @UnlikelyWorlds: Why secondhand bookstores smell good: http://bit.ly/dVdsks
Watched series one of the UK Skins - absolutely brilliant (pilot and Russia ep excepted)
Having this nagging feeling that something important is happening that I don’t know about gets exhausting, but what’s the alternative?
“Absent those myths, we are cut adrift in a sea of pointless entertainments” - JMS, Approaching Babylon http://bit.ly/hX1XKO
RT @arrroberts: Eric the Well-Read #WimpyVikingNames
RT @lesswrong: Make your training useful http://bit.ly/fai44R
Why I watch old movies: The KKK has captured Ginger Rogers, but Ronald Reagan comes to the rescue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6dkKcq-fvU
I guess what I’m saying is that you need a diverse media portfolio, with fundamentally different sources of information.
Twitter has its own dangerous biases, but they’re on a different level than those of the news media. Meta-biases.
My favorite way of encouraging serendipity is to buy old, used books. Pick up a few, and you’re almost guaranteed a surprise.
RT @steveaylett: ‘Every ten seconds somewhere in the world, someone is realising I’m right.’ - LINT
RT @scottros: This Neal Stephenson piece in Slate (on rockets and “path dependency” in tech) is pretty great. http://is.gd/OZ7AhM
Never mind The Daily - if you really want to see how the iPad can be utilized for publishing, check out The Atavist
@lysglimt How about just subscribing to fewer feeds? ;)
@julierandersen Well at least they usually have excellent taste in which series they decide to copy and ruin.
The key to internet contentment is to unsubscribe and unfollow about as often as you subscribe and follow.
@oivindi .. men det er jo forståelig at musikere er frustrert over hele situasjonen. Tilgir litt sutring.
@oivindi Og han overser muligheten for å bruke Spotify til å oppdage musikk, men kjøper et annet sted etterpå. Jeg gjør iallefall det.
@oivindi .. de som tjener på iTunes og Spotify er de som er for små og sære for Platekompaniet osv.
@oivindi Og det er en motsetning der mellom “små artister er bra” og “store musikksamlinger er dårlig”
RT @mina_n: Iphonen min er blitt 24/7 live-tv etter at jeg lastet ned Al Jazeera live-appen. CNN og BBC kan gå og legge seg.