Dørvokteren har talt: Ingen kan presentere negativ statistikk om innvandrere noensinne igjen. dagbladet.no/2011/05/30/kul…
RT @wonkmonk_: Adam Curtis: How the ‘ecosystem’ myth has been used for sinister means http://is.gd/JUliSk (via @aidy_lewis)
RT @evgenymorozov: The first mention of concerns about “information cocoons” - a 1986 autobiography by the Canadian politician Keith Dav …
RT @straczynski: The camera in your phone took a photo of what you were just doing and posted it to twitter. We all saw it. Stop doing …
RT @hilango: Wow. @DaveedGR just tears apart Robert Pape’s book. Really good dissection of flawed academic work http://bit.ly/jcyJFq
Så ble det litt innvandringsdebatt igjen, i kommentarseksjonen til Øyvind Strømmen: oyvindstrommen.be/2011/05/25/ser…
RT @franklangva: Følstad nevnte http://skoleporten.bengler.no, som er så bra at jeg dessverre mistet de neste 10 min. Kudos til Bengler! …
Book roundup: Joe Abercrombie, Henrik Jensen, Jerome K. Jerome max256.bearstrong.net/2011/05/25/boo…
RT @binarybits: Via @jerrybrito, a fascinating primer on the Chinese political system. Are there other countries with similar systems? h …
RT @Lileks: Radio too loud in car to hear tornado sirens. Irony: Was listening to Beethoven 6th, 3rd movement.
Adam Curtis is the one person I know of whose interests (but not views) most overlap with my own.
Warming up for new Adam Curtis series with his 2009 It Felt Like a Kiss.
@ukorrigert Å skrive kronikk om visdom blir vel litt som å skryte på seg ydmykhet. @aft_meninger
@simonindelicate Joe Abercrombie - The Heroes
You know, it actually is possible to write messages much longer than 140 characters on Twitter, by ..
.. using multiple browser tabs, and sending them in the wrong order. But it would probably be very annoying if everyone ..
.. started doing this, so please don’t.
Eberhard’s book on safety addiction is the sort non-paternalists ought to slam down on the table and say “This. This is what we believe.”
Book roundup: David Eberhard, Sharon Begley - max256.bearstrong.net/2011/05/21/boo…
RT @Just_Alison: The best thing about dogs is how they have to be nice to you or they’ll starve to death.
.. and 2) bit about Walter Lippman overlooks his pro-elitist manipulation views in Public Opinion. gutenberg.org/ebooks/6456
Re that Slate comic on objectivity - slate.com/id/2291942/ent… - 1) “duck and cover” was actually not such bad advise (at a distanse)
RT @enavdeandre: Noe av det beste jeg har lest på norsk om innvandringens utfordringer noensinne http://is.gd/lYBiqH
@GeorgeGooding Lite poeng med PFU når de ikke tar late, uærlige journalister. Da blir det mest for syns skyld - uforpliktende “etikkutvalg”.
RT @Minerva_Nett: Erik Idsøe på Minerva: I Norge vokser nye generasjoner innvandrere opp til å tro at staten skal forsørge dem.http://is …
RT @Just_Alison: If you haven’t seen Ong Bak 2, then you probably have never seen a guy punch an elephant.
@oivindi Jeg vet heller ikke om boligmarkedet er en boble. Men bare at det ligner litt sier noe om risikoen (og eventuell gevinst)
@oivindi .. da får du gevinst når det går bra, som alltid når du påtar deg risiko. Helt greit, bare man vet om det.
@oivindi Ikke tvil om at mange føler det tryggere å eie. Men underliggende realitet er millioninvestering i boblelignende marked.
@aslakr Skattefordelen er et godt argument for å eie. Men det er mange dårlige. “Betale leie til seg selv” osv. @oivindi
@oivindi Faller man plutselig ned lønnsstigen kan man kjapt finne noe billigere, uten å sitte i gjeldsfelle.
@oivindi .. og hvem kaster ut en solid leietager? De er gull verdt for boligeieren, som tar risikoen ved problemer.
@oivindi Leiegevinsten er å utsette seg for lavere risiko. Færre avhengigheter til ukontrollerbare faktorer.
@oivindi “Kort varsel” = måneder. Risikoen med eie er økonomisk. Stort lån + fare for å ikke tjene på investeringen vs alternativene.
.. home ownership is somehow identified with security, when it’s actually a big investment with risk. Renting is the risk-averse option.
I suppose a home can be a good investment, but most reasons people actually buy one for are probably bogus.
RT @freakonomics: Why I’d Rather Shoot Myself in the Head than Ever Own a Home Again: freedom from stress, anxiety, and insecurity? http …
RT @mleewelch: I lost count of the # of “Alas, with their new freedoms, ex-commies are showing alarmingly bad artistic taste” stories af …
The Indelicates, the world’s only interesting band, is out with 3rd album David Koresh Superstar, as pay-what-you-like: corporaterecords.co.uk/artists/The+In…
@MadMullah Nei huff, hold akademikerne unna tegneseriene @UiB
Upside of having earplugs for repair: This Deadmau5 album sounds a lot better on the cheap spares.
A Twitter trick: Use http://instant.so/ to build proper inline links (t.co) for the Twitter web interface. End the bit.ly madness.
Book roundup: Per Bauhn & Dilsa Demirbag-Sten, Mikhail Bakunin, William H. Davidow max256.bearstrong.net/2011/05/15/boo…
@itlandm Hm, how about Labor Day? Maybe they could coecist. Labor and Dr Who Day.
Yes, I’m quite ready now to replace one of our old deities/myths/holidays with Dr Who. Easter? Would anyone miss Easter?
@GeorgeGooding Da synes jeg du har holdt ut med Venstre overraskende lenge. ;) Ikke ny retning, dette.
The tragedy of having earplugs for repair is I have no way to shut out the mad lady in the back of the bus who shares her life story with us
@MiltonMarx @brumlebass Språk er ikke logisk. Ord betyr det de brukes til. “Islamfobi” er aldri brukt som psykiatrisk diagnose.
@MiltonMarx @brumlebass “Islamfobi” har alltid vært brukt i overført betydning “irrasjonell islamfrykt”, ikke psykiatrisk diagnose.
@oivindi Mye fordommer og uvitenhet. Men det er del av en større ubalanse og tillitskrise. Meningsløst å håndtere det løsrevet.
@brumlebass “Muslimsk kultur” er ofte unøyaktig, men håndter unøyaktighet med mer presisjon, ikke avsporing og stempling.
@brumlebass La oss gjenopplive ordet den dagen det ikke lenger misbrukes til å avslutte viktige/vanskelige debatter. @rabiatius
@brumlebass Konkret: Feminister som vet at innvandrerkvinner har det vanskelig, men frykter å si noe fordomsfult om kultur de ikke kjenner.
@rabiatius Men i dagens bruk er “islamfobi” verdiløst, en avsporing, og bør avskaffes. @brumlebass
@rabiatius Ingen diagnose, bare en kortversjon av irasjonell frykt/fordomsfull. @brumlebass
@brumlebass Jeg snakker om å ta risikoen for å bli (eller bli kalt) fordomsfull. Nødvendig i denne debatten. Alternativet er trygt pjatt.
@oivindi Dvs å ta avstand fra islamfobi er påfallende urisikabelt. En måte å fremstå engasjert i viktig debatt uten å berøre noe vanskelig.
@brumlebass Vi trenger de som tør utsette seg for risikoen for å bli fordomsfulle, mer enn de som viker unna alt vanskelig
@brumlebass Mye av misbruket er å snakke om dette heller enn f.eks. likestilling blant muslimer. Alle tar den urisikable debatten.
@brumlebass Det eksisterer, men misbrukes til å markere avstand til ukomfortable diskusjoner. Trygt og tomt.
@brumlebass Def. på islamfobi er uklar, (“kritikk jeg ikke liker”). Men ja, nesten alle er mot det. Nettop derfor et trygt retrettpunkt.
“Islamfobi er kjipt” er primært et trygt retrettpunkt for folk som er utmattet av slemme fakta og dilemmafylte gråsoner
RT @arrroberts: I think this adequately explains everything: http://pics.livejournal.com/st_rev/pic/0006a98h [via @NMamatas LJ]
En ting er sikkert om islamfobi: Det er den flerkulturutfordringen det er aller minst risikabelt å skrive kronikk om. aftenposten.no/meninger/kroni…
Mount Everest was a bit more awe-inducing in 1953, like a forerunner to the Moon landing: http://youtu.be/pffDZe36wpc
Definisjon på vågal Morgenbladet-skribent: En som tar en voldsomt lang omvei for å forsiktig antyde at FrP hadde rett morgenbladet.no/article/201105…
Gentlemen do not use ringtones.
RT @GeneHealy: True dat: “Too few people, damn their foolishness, have read the Flashman Papers." bit.ly/mCw6B3
Opening session at Oslo Freedom Forum 2011, on the anatomy of a dictatorship: livestream.com/oslofreedomfor… (starts at 05m45s) #OFF2011
The two men on the bus talking loudly about how nice and quiet it is when you come to work early are absolutely right. Yes. Yes it is.
@enavdeandre Jepp
@johnhenneli Puny earthly science can’t help me here. I’ll leave it alone, and hope for mercy.
@johnhenneli And if I do that, and then one day it’s there again, sitting silently, accusing me with its vacant eyes. Then what?!
@enavdeandre Den er av Tore Linné Eriksen - det artige er at jeg leste om Nord-Korea-turen hans i Idealistene like etterpå.
The evil cat that lurks in the neighbourhood is staring at me through the window. Will it interpret looking away as weakness?
aftenposten.no/meninger/kroni… = “hei alle, sjekk ut denne artige indiske forfatteren jeg har snublet over, (btw FrP suger)”
RT @tbj: “Dug up remains from the garbage heap of history and dressed up to look like a tradition.” #naggum #lutefisk #hlm
Pragmaticism deserves better than to be a refuge for failed fanatics.
RT @Just_Alison: Have you ever noticed how lobsters look like fucking monsters?
Ooh look, there’s an anime-on-demand site that actually streams to my region: http://www.crunchyroll.com/ The 2000s are finally here.
It’s a bad sign when a book doesn’t have at least one one-star review at Amazon.
Book roundup: Amal Aden, Steve Aylett, Guy Sorman http://wp.me/pKefU-13n
Just last month I was thinking “what I really want right now is a new Adam Curtis documentary series.” And - here it is! http://goo.gl/eAicB
RT @evgenymorozov: Who knew? Adam Curtis has a new documentary about cyber-utopianism http://goo.gl/eAicB
Mm .. journalistslakt RT @Minerva_Nett Snoen mener NRK-journalist er inkompetent, journalisten svarer http://is.gd/uC89U5
Game of Thrones is a fine test on whether a critic has made it this far in their career without ever reading a single page of fantasy
I just realized what all those pre-1953 westerns have been missing: An intro song by Frankie Laine http://youtu.be/jLMnQk6HktU
@ukorrigert Seriøst, men også ofte overfladisk. Heldigvis finnes flere valgmuligheter enn pest og influensa.
Of all the possible universes, I feel fortunate to live in one that has Mythbusters.
@ukorrigert Aftenposten ikke mye å skryte av de heller da. Så ufattelig kjedelig avis.
RT @notjessewalker: For just a month, let’s take the energy spent enforcing p.c. language and redirect it toward ending all references t …
Whenever I see the moon in daytime, I think: That’s no moon. That’s a space station!
Above all, I want to be true to my 10- and 16-year old former selves.
RT @codinghorror: “We were fools, fools to develop such a thing! Sound was never meant to be this clear, this pure, this… accurate.” h …
@droneland_ Når jeg hører ordet “kulturdrikk”, ..
Vaughan Smith talks about doing independent journalism in war zones: ustream.tv/recorded/14448…
Bengt Nilsson talks about the difficulty of covering events in South Sudan, independently of NGO agendas: ustream.tv/recorded/14447…
RT @anneviken: Hvorfor det er greit å drepe Osama, men ikke Muhamar? God kommentar av Asle Toje http://bit.ly/mnmGl0
RT @malpertuis: For you Dr. Who nerds http://asset.soup.io/asset/1817/6082_de47.jpeg And me, cuz it’s awesome.
RT @mleewelch: Why “post-ideological” pragmatists who campaign as foreign policy “realists” always end up launching “idealist” wars: htt …
Oh no, I followed a link to http://tvtropes.org again. Must .. resist .. opening .. more .. tabs.
“Venstresiden hadde en gang ideologi. Med Murens fall ble det erstattet av moralisme.” http://bit.ly/iQQ5nE
RT @mleewelch: It is possible to unplug from irrelevant headlines and in-group preoccupations for years at a time, let alone days. I hea …
