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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Beware of the Facebook

Scare stories about the Facebook Terms of Use (TOS) has been told before, but this one bears repeating. From said terms of use: You are solely responsible for the User Content that you Post on or through the Facebook Service. … Continue reading

1234567890-day

Happy 1234567890-day everyone.  Today is the day that the UNIX clock, counting the number of seconds from the 1st of January 1970, reaches the magical number.  Not the kind of magical number that makes people worried the world will be … Continue reading

The pirates are tried

Monday, the 16th of February, sees the kick off of the trial against the owners of The Pirate Bay on charges of “assisting others in copyright infringement”. For the next two weeks, the state prosecutor, the record companies and the … Continue reading

Derivative indeed

The second generation of ebook reader from Amazon, the Kindle 2, is apparently causing a bit of a stir among publishers.  You’d think they’d be happy getting their books sold on more platforms, but instead they see it as a … Continue reading

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Timely art

Seen at the economic university in Bergen, Norway.  Exam woes or recession depression? Timely art

Revisiting the doctrine

I’d like to take a moment to thank Comedy Central for doing stellar stuff on the web, right in line with the NRKbeta Doctrine: The only way to control your content is to be the best provider of it. Both … Continue reading

John Hodgman’s TED talk

Touching and whimsical talk by comedian John Hodgman from TED last year. John’s rhythm reminds me of Arlo Guthrie at his best, dancing through minutes and minutes of a surreal story with sidetrack upon sidetrack without missing a beat and … Continue reading

On the table

This post made it to the front page of Reddit today.  It’s written as a justification for using tables for layout out HTML pages.  Ouch.  Even though I think the author is disastrously wrong, the following still rings true: One … Continue reading