Anders Pollas

The Dan­ish elec­tion isn’t really around the cor­ner, but you might as well be pre­pared. We don’t want these guys to have to fight too hard for their seats, now do we. Pollas.dk brings to you: Sten­cil elec­tion posters. Grab’em while they’re hot. Well, for now, there’s only one, but there are more to come — sug­ges­tions are wel­come.

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(this also marks the open­ing of the “Stuff” sec­tion of this site)

Ater see­ing Cory’s wrap­ping for his Power­book, I’ve been search­ing the net for it but so far with­out any luck. But now he blogged the Road­Wired link him­self. Nice one. Amazon.com seems to be the best shot at a retailer ship­ping to Europe…

Meg­nut on the low use of the word Foxy — I totally agree. Last used when McJob­bing in Lon­don, Foxy where did you go…

After brief dis­cus­sion, it has been deter­mined that the adjec­tive “foxy” is not used enough. It will be added into the adjec­tive rota­tion and hence­forth, work dis­cus­sions will take advan­tage of its saucy, crafty, and ani­mal­is­tic meanings.

This is so true — and quite funny. How the hell does Microsoft man­age to hang on to stu­pid user inter­faces for ages? And a good point is in the com­ments for the posts: When teach­ing senior cit­i­zens about com­put­ers (which is a truly great tool for this spe­cific group of peo­ple), actu­ally you should insist on using Macs. Only thing is, loads of web pages, appli­ca­tions etc. only work prop­erly on Win­dows and old peo­ple haven’t really got the time to go all polit­i­cal in choos­ing an OS, have they…

When­ever that Netscape qual­ity feed­back agent is pop­ping up from Mizilla Fire­bird it crashes the Fire­bird, closes all win­dows and it then takes for­ever to reopen. But how do I pro­vide the feed­back explain­ing that…hmmm…

This arti­cle, Evo­lu­tion­ism Pro­pa­ganda (which isn’t exactly new, but only came to my atten­tion today), sums up how Apple is a tool of Satan and that Open Source is just another word for com­mu­nism — just to name a few. And while not actu­ally being fun­nay at all, there’s some pretty inter­est­ing amus­ing in there; the great enemy is, of course, the evolution…oh oh…
And from the front page:

For the safety of your soul, do not be tempted by the lure of impulse rock chip repair from strangers in park­ing lots. It may say free, but it could cost you your soul! If you need your wind­shield fixed, go to a qual­i­fied Chris­t­ian repair shop.

Amazon.com announces RSS feeds on cat­e­gories and searches. A great idea, of course, allow­ing cus­tomers to sub­scribe to their areas of inter­est, mak­ing it pos­si­ble for Ama­zon to ‘adver­tise’ new prod­ucts and the cus­tomers to buy them as soon as they see it. Now I’m just wait­ing for Amazon.co.uk to do the same… Hmm, maybe you could sub­scribe to people’s wish lists…

Inter­con­nected is try­ing to fig­ure out, what the web’s favourite colour is — MMS a pic­ture of yours or watch the result.

Marc Can­ter (reboot6 crooner) wraps up some of all the Friend­ster fun going on, partly as a result of these guys sell­ing their Frined­ster net­work on eBay. Some inter­est­ing thoughts in the dif­fer­ent dis­cu­sions linked.

Read­ing print­outs? Have a beard? Care­ful, you might end up talk­ing to the FBI

Trippi’s part­ner speaks up: “Any read­ing mate­r­ial? Papers?” I don’t think so. Then Trippi decides to level with me: “I’ll tell you what, Marc. Some­one in the shop that day saw you read­ing some­thing, and thought it looked sus­pi­cious enough to call us about. So that’s why we’re here, just check­ing it out. Like I said, there’s no prob­lem. We’d just like to get to the bot­tom of this. Now if we can’t, then you may have a prob­lem. And you don’t want that.”

You don’t want that? Have I just been threat­ened by the FBI? Con­fu­sion and a light dust­ing of panic con­spire to keep me speech­less. Was I read­ing some­thing that morn­ing? Some­thing that would con­sti­tute a problem?

Come on, if you really were a ter­ror­ist, would you read your attack plans while wait­ing in line?” X marks where we’re gonna do the bomb­ing”… I’m hav­ing a strange feel­ing, that the FBI might search the web for that exact phrase hop­ing to strike gold, so maybe now I’m in trouble.…Uh uh.…

And on a more pos­i­tive note: George Bush is excel­lent sam­pling mate­r­ial; Dead or Alive, Take Aim and my per­sonal favourite Let’s roll.

Oh, nearly for­got: The miss­ing proof is here, Satel­lite pho­tos.

John Gilmore: I was ejected from a plane for wear­ing “Sus­pected Ter­ror­ist” but­ton [via Boing­Bo­ing].

Sud­denly a flight stew­ard, Cabin Ser­vice
Direc­tor Khaleel Miyan, loomed in front of me and demanded that I
remove a small 1″ but­ton pinned to my left lapel. I declined, say­ing
that it was a polit­i­cal state­ment and that he had no right to cen­sor
pas­sen­gers’ polit­i­cal speech. The but­ton, which was cre­ated by
polit­i­cal activist Emi Koyama, says “Sus­pected Terrorist”.

(…)

The stew­ard returned with Capt. Peter Hughes. The cap­tain requested,
and then demanded, that I remove the but­ton (they called it a “badge”). He said that I would endan­ger the air­craft and com­mit a fed­eral crime if I did not take it off. I told him that it was a polit­i­cal state­ment and declined to remove it.

They turned the plane around and brought it back to the gate, delay­ing 300 pas­sen­gers on a full flight.

(…)

I asked whether I would be per­mit­ted to fly if I wore other but­tons,
per­haps one say­ing “Hooray for Tony Blair”. She said she thought that
would be OK. I said, how about “Ter­ror­ism is Evil”. She said that I
prob­a­bly wouldn’t get on. I started to dis­cuss other pos­si­ble but­tons, like “Oppose Ter­ror­ism”, try­ing to fig­ure out what kinds of polit­i­cal speech I would be per­mit­ted to express in a BA plane, but she said that we could stand there mak­ing hypo­thet­i­cals all night and she wasn’t inter­ested. Ulti­mately, I was refused pas­sage because I would not cen­sor myself at her command.

Why am I not sur­prised… It’s hard to add any­thing, guess it speaks for itself. But I’m hav­ing great trou­ble accept­ing this whole “we’re so damn scared of some­thing we can’t really fig­ure out what is, so if we just behave like crazy cow­boys and for­get about basic human rights, going for zero tol­er­ance towards those eggheads try­ing to add just a lit­tle bit of thought to it all, we’ll be ok”-thing. Damn, peo­ple act­ing aggres­sively based on fear don’t do it for me.

Reminded me of a story with a guy try­ing to order cus­tom made Nike-shoes with the word “Sweat­shop” writ­ten on them. Guess if he succeeded.

Beau­ti­ful pic­tures at For­got­ten Places [via Pat Pitiée].

Update: Anger­mann sug­gests a dan­ish equiv­a­lent — I’m game…

Det ser ud til, at Azero har løst et prob­lem vi alle kender; at fÃ¥ timerne pÃ¥ døgnet til at slÃ¥ til… “Døgnsupport pÃ¥ 1 time” — Gad vide, hvad de bruger resten af tiden til i supporten…

From Sig­nal vs. Noise:

If you were an energy com­pany called POWERGEN & you had a sub­sidiary that oper­ated in Italy, what would you call the company’s web­site? prob­a­bly not www.powergen­i­talia.com, but… they did: www.powergenitalia.com

The words con­tin­gency and brand­ing spring to mind…

Update: Appa­rantly, Pow­er­gen isn’t to blame.