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Four dead in Gaza car explosion

Four dead in Gaza car explosion 07/10/2004 12:43 PM
Four Palestinians are killed by a blast that destroyed a car near Gaza City, but the cause is unclear.

Explosion at Israeli Bus Station, One
Dead

Explosion at Israeli Bus Station, One
Dead 07/11/2004 03:59 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 11 2004 7:45AM GMT

150 said dead in N. Korea train
explosion

150 said dead in N. Korea train
explosion 04/23/2004 09:40 AM

Pakistan Mosque Explosion Leaves 8 Dead
(AP)

Pakistan Mosque Explosion Leaves 8 Dead
(AP) 05/31/2004 11:43 AM
AP - A bomb exploded Monday at a Shiite Muslim mosque in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing at least eight people and wounding 35, hospital officials said.

Pakistan Mosque Explosion Leaves 15 Dead

Pakistan Mosque Explosion Leaves 15 Dead 05/31/2004 02:18 PM
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- A bomb ripped through a Shiite Muslim mosque during evening prayers Monday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 35 in what a top official said could be revenge for the assassination of a senior Sunni cleric.

Explosion Rocks Iraq Shiite City; 17
Dead (AP)

Explosion Rocks Iraq Shiite City; 17
Dead (AP) 06/26/2004 02:38 PM
AP - An explosion rocked the center of the predominantly Shiite Muslim city of Hilla late Saturday, killing 17 people and injuring about 40, U.S. and Polish military authorities. A U.S. statement said the blast may have been a car bomb.

The Weird Als of Finland

The Weird Als of Finland 06/30/2004 06:07 PM

Finland has a dance called the humppa, but it's spoken of with the same disdain that disco gets in the US these days. It's for the geezers. I have been told it is something like the German polka only without the lederhosen, which is good since I'm half German and, after a few Straßenfests where people jump around in lederhosen with buckets of beer in their hands barely able to stand up, much less dance, the costumes just don't really add much to the overall aesthetic. I had a biology professor, a Bavarian who was really into opera singing, show up for a lecture in lederhosen and dance a polka for us while we sat there speechless. Everyone thought he was nuts, but I just thought he was hopelessly homesick and I couldn't imagine him doing that dance without the full costume in his usually disheveled professor uniform. I have been spared, so far, the spectacle of drunk Finns hopping around much like drunk Germans to goofy music. So far.

While we were off at the lake for Juhannus, my ear picked up something that sounded a lot like Viva Las Vegas but....not. I was informed that it was a group called El�kel�iset [the pensioners] who are the humppa song gods in Finland and, well, everywhere else people like to humppa. I fried a few neurons just thinking about an Elvis tune done in humpaa/polka time. I can't describe their music except to say that they are the Weird Al Yankovics of Finland. Sample the Pelj�tty Humppa [2.2mb] and try to guess the song they are covering and be very, very afraid. It's like Ethyl Merman singing a disco version of No Business like Show Business [yes, she really did...], as it's so bad that it transcends the badness and is irresistibly brilliant. I must have more of their music. The guys actually have a regular band, Kumikameli, but I can't really tell the difference between the samples on that web site and the humppa music so it may be just a nuance only a Finn can hear. :) The lyrics are very clever and, unsurprisingly, the music is popular with the polka loving Germans. There even seems to be an OpenBSD-Humppa connection which does help explain a few things about OpenBSD. Weird Al has done a polka album so perhaps it is time he teamed up with El�kel�iset and did a humppa album. Disturbing thought. *zot* There went another neuron.

Dan Gillmor in Finland

Dan Gillmor in Finland 03/14/2005 06:21 PM
For anyone who's been following the late journalism-debate, the Man Himself, i.e. Dan Gillmor is coming to Finland. Please join him in an open session at Korjaamo, Helsinki, Tuesday, 12 April at 18:00. I'll certainly try to be there.

Ja sama suomeksi: Dan Gillmor, toimittaja-bloggaaja, joka on puhunut pitkään kansalaisjournalismin puolesta, on tulossa puhumaan avoimeen keskustelutilaisuuteen Helsingissä, Korjaamolla, tiistaina 12. huhtikuuta kello 18.00. Tervetuloa!

(Via Jyri.)

Through Finland in Packets

Through Finland in Packets 06/17/2005 04:27 PM

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Ever since the Washington Post started doing their 'Finland Journal' blog I've been thinking about saying something, but wanted to wait until they had finished the series and until I had enough time to think about what I wanted to say without sounding like one of the many wackjobs, both Finnish and American, whose comments ranged from explaining how to pronounce SOW-na to ranting about the Swedish Fascist oppression in Finland to bickering about nothing. Mostly I just found the commentary deeply depressing as monoculture was praised as the reason for all the good things in Finland and the reason for all the bad things in the US a bit more often than I found comfortable. I come from one of the most fucked up nations on the planet, but I'm awfully glad for the variety of people there since it is the greatest asset the US has in terms of creativity and innovation. Being a threat to this vaunted Finnish monoculture is not a fun place to be at times. Some expats just complain, some never do and the rest of us try to get on with life as best as we can and occasionally, cautiously, commiserate over beer and try to focus on the positive things as much as possible. One of the reasons I like my 'cookery' is that it's fun to explore the differences in cuisine, I'm reasonably good at it, it's something positive, and nobody hates the person who brings tasty treats for afternoon coffee. :)

There has been a lot of criticism among the foreigners, and even a Phinn, here about the series since visiting somewhere as a journalist on an official junket likely sponsored by the state vs. living here are two very different experiences and given the inevitable superficiality of the WP coverage, a lot of us were disappointed. One of the reasons that Finland is supposedly the "country that Americans know least about" is that aside from the usual Santa, sauna and sisu stories, very little else gets written in English about this country. I've taken to collecting books on travel to Finland, some more than 100 years old, and I could match the topics nearly 1:1 with the old travelogues to the Finland Journal coverage. In fact, I think I liked the bitchy and less fawning Mrs. Tweedie's Through Finland in Carts from 1898 much better as, in spite of her unsavoury British imperialism, she was a far more snarky and entertaining writer. But, again, same shit, different century. Surely, even the Finns must bore of this though the clich�s are what keep the tourists coming. It's like the hackneyed 'pahk ya cah in Havahd Yahd' and Paul Revere legends of Boston. The Boston strangler, townies and Southie don't get a lot of press since they aren't exactly attractive to locals much less to tourists.

For the expats, there's precisely dick to prepare them for what awaits them making a life here. Trying to explain how Finland differs for residents as opposed to tourists to the newly arrived is a chore since you either sound bitter or are constantly doubting your own experience of everything in a miasma of cultural relativism and personal baggage. A lot of us come to live here because we have a spouse/SO, a spouse/SO who very likely does not have an objective view or an understanding of the difference between being Finnish and being not Finnish in Finland. I was in quite a sulk for a few weeks after I met an Aus-Fin couple who had moved here and, after two months, the Australian was escaping in defeat after being told repeatedly in interviews that her education credentials were worthless in Finland, the downside of an educational system regarded, and which regards itself, so highly. Her boyfriend seemed completely surprised by this and felt badly for not being a better judge of his own country. With the dearth of realistic information for those wanting to move here, many have no other choice than to trust their Finnish loved one which may or may not prove to be the best option. This seems to happen more often than not as expats don't often stay for more than a few years before giving up and heading back home, with or without the spouse/SO. I don't know if immigration actually keeps track of those who leave and why, but it would be interesting to see the average length of stay for expats as I expect it is generally very short. How many of the foreigners work for Nokia would also be an interesting statistic.

The question this raises is why do people leave? Finland is, in many ways, a lovely country, but why do expats frequently only stay for a short while? It's an important question, one few seem curious about or willing to discuss. The most frequent rebuttals to any criticism or merely mentioning that life here can be a challenge is that it's "the same everywhere" or that we can always just pack up and go home. Ironically, I would expect this sort of chiding from red state Americans. I think that this might be at the heart of much of our nebulous reasons for struggle here; that Finland is a young country, even by American standards, and with a long history of fighting off invading outsiders, Finland has developed a very, very strong streak of nationalism. What's wrong with nationalism? Well, after 9/11, I saw neighbours wanting to beat the shit out of the grocers down the street who had been there for over 20 years because suddenly they were those dark towel heads, "them", who flew into the WTC instead of the two brothers who had been selling them their groceries for decades. Nationalism separates as much as it binds and mostly it just makes people blind and monumentally stupid.

One of the first memorable experiences was while walking HB down Bulevardi about a week after arriving here and running into a smiling little old lady who wanted to pet him and started chatting me up. As soon as I started to say something the smile fell off her face which was replaced by a scowl full of scorn whereupon she screeched something, waved me off and stalked away in a huff. I was like, what the fuck just happened? This would be repeated quite a few times and, in spite of being able to rationalise the behaviour, first impressions tend to be difficult to change. I remain rather shy about being busted as a foreigner and still have a very difficult time daring to say anything to strangers. In the dog park, I'll stand around understanding everything the other dog owners are saying but don't join the conversation which has, on occasion, marked me as a foreigner just as much as saying something would have. :)

Generally, it's the small things, the day to day things, the very difficult to define things, that make life as an outsider here a daily struggle. Learning the language is the single largest hurdle in bridging the gap and becoming less of an alien, but after two years I'm still cautious, still shy, still neurotic about speaking it to the point of avoiding situations where I might have to say something to someone because I'm scared of being busted as an outsider. We all have little defensive tactics like this, depending on our individual hang-ups and struggles. One of my friends visited home a while back and she remarked in an email that she was in awe of how suddenly aware she was of how the little daily things in Finland make life so much more work than back in the realm of the friendly familiarity of home.

Some things, however, aren't so vague, but these are the things we don't talk about or quietly discuss amongst ourselves because they're either too depressing to dwell upon or tend to be met with vituperative attacks. There are things endemic to being an expat, a foreigner in a strange land, that often make you wonder if it's you, if you're not trying hard enough or if it's the culture that is responsible for the discontent and many things often do have simple explanations, if not simple solutions. I have lived elsewhere and, given the culture and the language barrier, Finland is a very challenging place to find a happy niche whether or not any Finns want to hear or acknowledge that. It's not a destination for the easily discouraged or the impatient.

Recently, I had the pleasure of talking to a couple with two adorable basset hounds who had just returned to Finland after 7 years abroad who remarked at how "international" Helsinki seemed nowadays. There are many words I'd use to describe Helsinki, most of them nice even, but international wouldn't be one of them. Being part of the EU while rejecting or reluctantly accepting some of the things that come with being part of the EU, like foreigners, doesn't make a place international any more than dining out at a Nepalese restaurant makes you a world traveller. This doesn't mean Finland should aspire to the problems of the Netherlands, but acknowledging the problems that exist here for foreigners might be something to consider since people do generally tend to stay in places that they feel welcome in and Finland, either intentionally or not, often gives outsiders the impression that we are either not welcome or just merely tolerated. If Finland doesn't want foreigners, it should really just pull out of the EU and close the borders.

So, I suppose the point of my rambling is that there are at least a few of us around who like it here and are trying with sincerity to learn the language, fit in and get along like everyone else but there are so many conflicting messages between what we read in the paper or hear from our spouses and what we actually experience at times that it makes it difficult to reconcile the disparity and still keep on trying. It's a struggle. It's like bloody musical chairs watching all the expats leave one by one.

Wireless Finland

Wireless Finland 03/06/2004 01:55 AM

The Helsingin Sanomat ran an article in the paper earlier this week about the growing number of wireless access points in Helsinki and around Finland. The article included a nice map noting the locations which I scanned in and offer here in a small ~60k jpg and a large ~240k jpg. It seems that most of the current hot spots are catering to the business traveller judging from the number of hotels and business centers listed. There are a few cafes and a movie theatre or two listed though and my hope is that it finds sufficient interest to keep spreading. I've had wireless at home for years now and find it luxurious to sit on the couch with my laptop even now. I'd really like to see WiFi in public libraries in addition to more coffee shops since students would benefit a lot from being able to use their own computer while doing research or homework.

There are two companies offering WiFi; Sonera and DNA. DNA seems to be geared more towards the local geeks and ala carte folks while Sonera is mainly in the hotel and business traveller market. Sonera Homerun doesn't appear to have a pricing structure on the net. The DNA WLAN service has three different price plans which range from €5 per month with a per minute fee to €90 for those with a serious porn habit and large downloads.

Until mobile phones get much more sophisticated displays, surfing the net or reading email with them more than occasionally isn't as attractive as having a small laptop and WiFi in convenient spots around town. WiFi really means WIreless FInland. :)

Finland no comprende computers

Finland no comprende computers 06/06/2005 12:11 AM
Schizo-J anne asks why Finland is lagging behind in WLAN deployments. There are roughly three free WiFi hotspots in Helsinki, a major difference to our neighbour Tallinn, which has open WiFi almost everywhere in the city center. Well, the Finnish cities of Oulu, Turku, and Lahti have already started lacing themselves with WLAN networks, and the Lappeenranta University of Technology WLAN network is to my understanding also spreading into the city, so the situation is not really that bad.

But Janne is right to ask this. Finland is not really very innovative in this area at the moment, partly because it's not seen as very important. A lot of Finland's technological and financial innovation is currently poured towards the 3G (aka WCDMA, aka UMTS) development and deployment. While technologically it offers a similar solution to WLAN, and Finns are doing pretty well in mobile phone usage (though nowhere near the top), there is one key difference that people tend to ignore when talking about these things.

Freedom to innovate.

In order for you to develop a fancy new 3G app, you need to talk to and appease operators, cell phone manufacturers, and all sorts of different companies that are in the so-called "value chain". Everybody wants their small piece of it, and you end up thinking about things like "brand dilution" and "quality of service" and "code signing". All this creates quite a lot of energy, and it does not guarantee that you will create a good app - it just means that you are really good at presenting your case, and it does make sense to a lot of people. Even if you wanted to just build a simple SMS-based service, you would need quite a lot of investment of at least time, if not capital, to interface with the network: you need the PC with a bunch of cell phones attached. Or buy a platform from an operator.

Open WLAN, however, means that you can start to innovate at very, very low costs. Web space is cheap, PHP can be done by anyone, and startup costs are minimal. All you need is the idea, and the tools and the knowledge are mostly there already. Granted, you can also run a browser-based application on a 3G phone, no problem, but this always is at cost to the user: the browser-based UI is not optimal for a small device. And developing an optimized GUI for a mobile device is difficult and sometimes nerve-wrecking.

You can split the space in two ways: you can concentrate on innovating vertically : building entire solutions from the low bits to the end application. Or you can innovate horizontally - build platforms which allow other people to innovate and build upon.

3G or WLAN.

It's just like "Nokia or Linux".

I'm not saying Nokia wasn't a success, obviously it was (and is). But I do believe that in the future, it's more probable to see a new Linux-like success story than a Nokia-like success story coming from Finland. Which is why supporting platforms for free innovation would be so important.

W3C Offices Expand to Finland

W3C Offices Expand to Finland 09/06/2002 04:44 AM
6 September 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Finnish Office in Tampere, Finland, hosted by the Digital Media Institute of the Tampere University of Technology. Tarja Systä is Office Manager, and Ossi Nykänen is coordinator. The opening ceremony takes place 11 October in Tampere. Read about W3C Offices. (News archive)

From Finland, the land of the original

From Finland, the land of the original 12/26/2003 07:54 PM
Rare Exports, Inc. They deliver the extremely rare original Finnish product to nearly 150 countries every Christmas, exclusively. It's a big download (the small version is 35.5 MB) but that's nothing compared to the patience these hunters must have to catch their prey. [NSFW, via MonkeyFilter.]

Part 3G Networks In Finland

Part 3G Networks In Finland 04/19/2004 07:03 AM
3G Apr 19 2004 11:08AM GMT

Finland OKs 3G Network Sharing

Finland OKs 3G Network Sharing 04/16/2004 06:11 AM
Unstrung.com Apr 16 2004 10:21AM GMT

Commercial bl0gs entering Finland

Commercial bl0gs entering Finland 04/08/2005 06:39 PM
My my, what an interesting week this has been: First, Blogilista goes commercial, and now Pirkka-magazine has launched a number of commercial blogs. The Finnish blogosphere reacts with violent distrust and confusion.

I see no problem. These are clearly blogs, simply because th e only meaningful definition for the world blog is based on form, not content. They're not lying about their affiliation. They publish polished content. In fact, I find it wonderful that a media publisher dares to go and try and embrace the new media. They even publish Atom feeds for all blogs! Way!

However, entering the blogosphere may be more difficult than just dumping Movabletype on your magazine web site: people will look at these blogs. They will discuss. They will find crap on them (if there's any). They will write about it. And it's difficult to ignore them, if you want to keep your credibility. Other bloggers will call your bullshit - and very likely, someone in that bunch is at least equal in writing skills and more knowledgeable on the subject than you. And they know it.

Now the question is how much integrity Pirkka wants to have: do they just want to publish news articles in a blog format - or do they really want to go full out and really try to embrace the dialogue that comes with the format?

You see, whatever else blogs may be, they work best as a personal media. You need to let people write with their own voice, not just copying material from others - even if you have all the rights to do so. It's the power and bane of the format; a personal touch creates reader loyalty, but it also means that you have to get involved in your writing - "laittaa itsensä likoon", as the Finns say. And that is not easy.

Welcome to the crowd! I'm happy you're here, anyway. People will grumble, but there's always room for one more in the jacuzzi.

(A quick hint to Pirkka writers: Read http://www.corporateblogging .info/, and Scoble's Corporat e Blogging Manifesto. Understand. Internalize. And stop posting articles from one person under the name of another... That simply takes away credibility from the author.)

(And a quick other hint to people who complain about these being on blogilista.fi: get a clue. Really. Would you stop using a phone book simply because it contains company phone numbers, or stop using Google because it's *gasp* a profit-making company? That's exactly what Blogilista.fi is - an index of blogs, nothing more. It ain't your personal blogospheric community where people live happily and go to the woods to get undressed and hug each other in a blogoslavic überbliss. If you don't like the direction they're taking, learn to use RSS and site feeds, and make your own personal bloglist.

Blogging in Finland is finally growing up. The hype around blogging will cease in a year or two, and hopefully we then can better understand what the media is and what one can do with it. And then we can get back to the really important thing: writing. Writing about your dog, or your political views, or celebrity divorces, or company products, or food, or your sex life, or whatever pleases you. Some bloggers will gain prestige; some bloggers will become influential; some bloggers will make many people laugh; some bloggers will make many people weep. Some will be completely ignored. Most will just for

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Nokia phone explodes in Finland

Nokia phone explodes in Finland 11/06/2003 11:14 AM
Counterfeit battery to blame

Larry Lessig to speak in Finland

Larry Lessig to speak in Finland 05/21/2004 06:54 AM
(Via Jyri). Toimitus suosittelee, ja kiroilee kun ei itse pääse paikalle.

KUTSU

Avoin luento ja keskustelutilaisuus
Professor Lawrence Lessig Helsingissä
"The Future of Copyright, Culture and Creativity"
Maanantaina 24.5. klo 17.30
Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51 b

Tervetuloa avoimeen keskustelutilaisuuteen Professori Lawrence Lessigin kanssa Helsingissä maantantaina 24.5. klo 17.30 Korjaamolla, Töölönkatu 51b. Professori Lessig on yksi maailman tunnetuimpia ajattelijoita, kirjoittajia ja luennoitsijoita digitaalisen kulttuurin, median ja tekijänoikeuksien kehityksestä. Nyt suomalaisella yleisöllä on ainutlaatuinen mahdollisuus kuulla ja haastaa kansainvälistä vaikuttajaa. Teemana on "The Future of Copyright, Culture and Creativity."

Tilaisuuden järjestää Aula. Aula on avoin verkosto, joka tukee ajatusten vaihtoa poikki rajojen.

Tätä kutsua voi lähettää sähköisesti eteenpäin kaikille kiinnostuneille.

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INVITATION

You are invited to an open discussion with Professor Lawrence Lessig on Monday 24.5. at 17.30 at Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51 b in Helsinki. Professor Lessig will speak on "The Future of Copyright, Culture and Creativity" followed by a discussion with the audience. The event will be held in English and is free and open to the public.

The event is organized by Aula. Aula is an open network that promotes the exchange of ideas across boundaries.

Please forward this invitation to anyone you feel would be interested in attending.

About the speaker

Lawrence Lessig (http://www.lessig.org/) is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Lessig was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.

More recently, Professor Lessig represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Lessig was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online."

Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, law and high technology, Internet regulation, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace. His book, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace, was published by Basic Books, and The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, is available from Random House. His most recent book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, is now available online at http://www.free-culture.cc and from Penguin Press.

Professor Lessig chairs the Creative Commons project (http://creativecommons.org/faq). Professor Lessig is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a board member of the Center for the Public Domain, and a Commission Member of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Lessig earned a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.

Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children

Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children 04/09/2004 08:02 PM
If one trait sets Finland apart from many other countries, it is the quality and social standing of its teachers.

Finland telecoms: Nokia unveils handheld
internet tablet

Finland telecoms: Nokia unveils handheld
internet tablet 06/24/2005 03:06 PM
Ebusinessforum.com - Fri Jun 24, 12:15 pm GMT

Dead, Dead, Dead. Someday Soon We'll All
Be Dead.

Dead, Dead, Dead. Someday Soon We'll All
Be Dead. 12/02/2003 10:13 PM
I had a 120gig SATA Hard drive in my G5. It died. Dead blocks all over. My last full backup...

Dead pixels instead of dead trees

Dead pixels instead of dead trees 12/22/2004 01:49 AM

I love books, I love browsing stacks, I love libraries, I love Powell's in Portland, I like collecting books, I always have a stack nearby to read, I love looking through picture books, and I love books even though I didn't really become much of a reader until the end of my college years (I never read for fun until then). Plunging into the Internet fed my book addiction further, as I had to read dozens of computer classics to get up to speed and stay ahead of the curve. Every computer desk I've had until recently was flanked by bookshelves loaded with titles.

Earlier this year, I remember hearing Cory Doctorow give a talk about how ebooks were going to rule the world and folks would abandon the printed page for the laptop screen. I thought it was a good talk, but I felt the thesis was a bit ahead of its time. There's really no comparison between curling up with a book and a blanket in front of a fireplace, versus trying to read thousands of words on a screen.

Last weekend I was doing some house cleaning and I kept finding stacks of books. A stack next to the reading chairs. A stack on the coffee table. A stack beside my bed. All these stacks contained books I bought in 2004, but never read. Some, I got halfway through, but even more I got maybe ten pages in. A few I never even cracked open.

When I think back to the last three books I enjoyed, they were all heard on my iPod, while on a road trip. I can't recall the last book I finished in my hands.

I'm going to take a holiday trip soon to a fairly remote location where there's not much to do besides read. I'm going to sit and read the only book I've wanted to read this year, and I have a feeling it might just be one of the last dead tree books I read for a long time.

As much as I didn't agree with Cory back during his E-tech talk, I'm finally realizing it's coming true in my own life. I read thousands of words everyday on my monitors and I rarely take time to read anything on the printed page, and there's no sign of reversal on that trend. The scariest thing for the bookfan inside me is that I don't think it's bad thing, either.

Long live the ebook. Long live the audiobook. So long, dead trees.

""Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's f
-- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So
thank you for your thoughts, but he's f
-- ing dead.''"

""Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's f
-- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So
thank you for your thoughts, but he's f
-- ing dead.''" 05/05/2004 09:39 AM

STEADY THIS (explosion

STEADY THIS (explosion 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
$14 Steady-cam The camera operator may walk (or even jog), move through tight hallways and doorways, and even climb up and down stairs without shaking the camera. Unfortunately, professional steadycams cost around $1500. Even the cheap 3rd party ones cost $600+. Whether you are an aspiring filmmaker, a videographer, the family documentarian, or just want more utility out of your video camera, you'll appreciate a steadycam. Includes Video of steadycam working. (What is a steadycam?)

Podcasting explosion

Podcasting explosion 04/05/2005 05:22 PM
TechSpot Apr 5 2005 9:44PM GMT

Berners-Lee on the TLD Explosion

Berners-Lee on the TLD Explosion 05/20/2004 05:26 PM

A very large explosion

A very large explosion 04/13/2005 09:22 AM
NASA scientists say that a large gamma ray explosion within our own galaxy may have triggered a mass extinction hundreds of millions of years ago.

Wi-fi explosion....but where's the
security?

Wi-fi explosion....but where's the
security? 06/23/2004 12:26 PM

Art Explosion Scrapbook

Art Explosion Scrapbook 07/15/2004 08:55 AM
vnunet.com Jul 15 2004 1:34PM GMT

Explosion like an 'earthquake'

Explosion like an 'earthquake' 05/12/2004 02:32 AM
The scene following a major explosion in Glasgow is compared to an earthquake by firefighters.

Pensioner hurt in gas explosion

Pensioner hurt in gas explosion 06/05/2004 05:51 AM
An 88-year-old woman is being treated for serious burns following a gas explosion at a house in South Lanarkshire.

Three killed in Kirkuk explosion

Three killed in Kirkuk explosion 05/11/2004 03:37 AM
A bomb explodes in a crowded marketplace in the northern Iraqi town, killing at least three people.

Indian Cellphone Explosion

Indian Cellphone Explosion 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
JOEL JOHNSON -- Om Malik is in India doing some work and has blogged about the burgeoning Indian cellphone market. Apparently, it's set to explode, with over 12 million new subscribers in just the last three months, and companies like Samsung, LG, and BenQ pushing new phones into the markets...

The creativity explosion on Mars

The creativity explosion on Mars 01/27/2004 05:15 PM

There's a nice piece in the NYTimes about the increased levels of public participation in recent Mars landings. A big part of the reason is that given a large, interested population with broadband connections, NASA officials have done their best to share every bit of data, image, and video they can online, and as a result thousands of websites have cropped up including those by laymen colorizing images and even weblogs written from the rover's point of view.

Thanks to NASA sharing every bit of information they can online, the experience of watching the Mars landing and exploration for students and observers today is a far cry from the days of the moon landing. Instead of a one-way communication delivered by grainy video on television, we have an interactive, two-way process where the viewer can help scientists on the other side of the globe and take in information along with millions of others, sharing their own interpretations online.

Seven killed by China explosion

Seven killed by China explosion 05/31/2004 11:29 PM
A blast at a house in Fujian province leaves at least seven dead, and 16 injured.

Explosion in central Baghdad

Explosion in central Baghdad 07/17/2004 01:36 AM
A loud explosion has shaken the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

Two Killed in Tikrit Car Explosion (AP)

Two Killed in Tikrit Car Explosion (AP) 01/18/2004 05:58 AM
AP - An explosive device being transported in a car exploded near a U.S. Army patrol in Tikrit, killing two men in the vehicle — one of them a relative of Saddam Hussein, the military said Sunday.

Building collapses in explosion

Building collapses in explosion 08/07/2004 05:18 AM
Police and other emergency services search rubble at the scene of an explosion in Londonderry.

2 Die in Ill. Plastics Plant Explosion
(AP)

2 Die in Ill. Plastics Plant Explosion
(AP) 04/24/2004 04:52 AM
AP - An explosion rocked a plastics plant in central Illinois, killing at least two people and injuring eight others, authorities said.
Grok Description matches for Explosion in Finland: 7 Dead
GrokA matches for Explosion in Finland: 7 Dead

You Control: Fonts helps you quickly
find fonts

You Control: Fonts helps you quickly
find fonts 04/27/2004 01:06 PM
You Software today announced You Control: Fonts, a software utility that lets you create a "What You See Is What You Get" (or WYSIWYG) font menu for Mac OS X...

Agfa Monotype adds 100 more fonts to
Fonts.com

Agfa Monotype adds 100 more fonts to
Fonts.com 06/23/2004 09:16 AM
Agfa Monotype on Wednesday announced the addition of more than 100 more typefaces to its Fonts.com service from five newly added type foundries: Fine Fonts, PixieType, RJH Productions, Typebox and Ultimate Symbol. Individual fonts are available in PostScript and TrueType formats for Mac and Windows ranging from US$22 for individual fonts to $88 for volumes.

Agfa Monotype's Fonts.com adds more than
250 fonts

Agfa Monotype's Fonts.com adds more than
250 fonts 09/07/2004 08:40 AM
Agfa Monotype Corp. on Tuesday announced the addition of more than 250 new fonts to its Fonts.com service. Collections from Tolstrup Pryds, Typeco, Jonathan Macagba, Elemeno, Selis, Wiescher Design and Altered Ego are available for online viewing and purchase. New offerings range from handwriting styles to stenciled designs, Japanese crests and handwritten script styles. Most of the fonts are offered in either PostScript and TrueType formats, compatible with Mac and Windows operating systems. Price start at US$22 each.

Fonts.com adds 200 new fonts, font
packages

Fonts.com adds 200 new fonts, font
packages 05/27/2004 01:53 PM
Agfa Monotype on Thursday said that more than 200 new fonts and font packages have just become available through its Fonts.com e-store. The new collections include selections from MacCampus, Outside the Line Design, Pizza Dude and Typodermic, and can be viewed from the site's Foundries Web page. Prices start at US$22 with volumes running up to $38. Most fonts are available in both PostScript and TrueType formats.

BitTorrent is dead. Long live
BitTorrent?

BitTorrent is dead. Long live
BitTorrent? 01/05/2005 01:38 PM
ZDNet Jan 5 2005 5:09PM GMT

Agfa adds more than 600 fonts to
Fonts.com

Agfa adds more than 600 fonts to
Fonts.com 12/17/2003 01:04 PM
Agfa Monotype Corp. announced Wednesday that it has added more than 600 fonts and font packages on Fonts.com, its online resource for fonts. New collections from Cape Arcona, International TypeFounders (ITF) and Martin Wait are available for online preview.

Agfa adds over 600 fonts to Fonts.com

Agfa adds over 600 fonts to Fonts.com 12/17/2003 09:37 AM
Agfa Monotype has introduced more than 600 fonts and font packages to Fonts.com, with new collections from Cape Arcona, International TypeFounders and Martin Wait...

Grunge

Grunge 10/29/2003 01:14 AM
Ever see those “grunge” photos and wonder how it’s done, perhaps assume some massive talent was behind them? Well, sure, there’s some massive talent behind them, but the graphic designers didn’t draw all those lines themselves, they used special brushes...

Captain Grunge Flies Again!

Captain Grunge Flies Again! 04/14/2005 03:50 PM
Captain Grunge Flies Again!
The first trailer for Gus Van Sant’s “Last Days” has just been posted (with sub-titles). “Last Days” is inspired by the tortured final days in the life of Kurt Cobain. Of the film, Van Sant says, “There are a lot of hypotheses about what happened, but I don't know of any full eyewitness account, just tiny momentary ones. Everyone has a different opinion, but there's not one true, authoritative account. He was just kind of missing." Much like the Cobain biography “Heavier than Heaven,” the film takes the stance that Kurt, who has grown increasingly uncomfortable with his fame, is resigned to his death, not accelerated into it by a chain of events concluding with his suicide. Leonardo look-alike Michael Pitt (“Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) plays the lead role, with Asia Argento playing the Courtney Love-like character. And here’s a good article about the film.

Design Project - Get Grunge

Design Project - Get Grunge 10/11/2002 07:55 AM
WebmasterBase Oct 11 2002 0:49AM ET

Design Project - Get Grunge

Design Project - Get Grunge 10/11/2002 07:56 AM
WebmasterBase Oct 11 2002 0:49AM ET

Optimistik Animation announces Grunge
Vol. 1:

Optimistik Animation announces Grunge
Vol. 1: 06/01/2004 02:07 PM
Optimistik Animation is pleased to announce the release of their second LiveFont package Grunge Vol.1 for Apple LiveType and Motion. Some say that grunge is dead but Optimistik Animation thinks that you will see that with this package grunge is far from it. Ten total fonts included in this package and they are sure to work for any Gen-MTV project that your working on. Great for DV, film, print and web. Don't wait to snatch this package up. Package price is $75.00 and is shipped on one DVD. Available now.

Student Chic Is Remaking Itself, Trading
Grunge for Cable Knit

Student Chic Is Remaking Itself, Trading
Grunge for Cable Knit 08/15/2004 11:16 PM
While young people do not generally want their fall fashions to be labeled "preppy," clothes are taking on some of those characteristics.

Fonts.com adds 100-plus new fonts

Fonts.com adds 100-plus new fonts 06/23/2004 11:05 AM
Agfa Monotype has added over 100 Mac compatible typefaces to Fonts.com from the Fine Fonts, PixieType, RJH Productions, Typebox and Ultimate Symbol foundries...

Getting the List of VB Script Error
Numbers -- With a Script

Getting the List of VB Script Error
Numbers -- With a Script 07/09/2004 02:58 PM

script alert('MotherChodd') /script

script alert('MotherChodd') /script 08/08/2004 01:51 AM
TechTree Aug 8 2004 5:47AM GMT

Organize Your Bookmarks

Organize Your Bookmarks 08/12/2004 04:00 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 12 2004 8:11AM GMT

Organize your PC desktop

Organize your PC desktop 04/02/2005 11:06 AM
What Konfabulator does is run a bunch of much smaller applications (called widgets) that each perform small, individual tasks. For example, Konfabulator comes with a digital clock widget, an iTunes remote widget, a to-do list widget, and weather widget among others.

Organize Your Time

Organize Your Time 04/24/2004 07:30 AM
WebDevInfo Apr 24 2004 11:28AM GMT

Organize PDF files in iTunes

Organize PDF files in iTunes 12/19/2004 02:59 PM
Drag any PDF file into your iTunes Library window, or into a playlist; you'll see that it gets added to the library or playlist. All the fields in iTunes are empty, except for the song name (which is the filename without the ...

Discordians organize MeetUp

Discordians organize MeetUp 02/18/2004 10:53 AM
evilevilmatt sez, "This site is devoted to getting discordians, worshipers of chaos to organize a 'meetup day.' Oh the irony!" Link (Thanks, evilevilmatt!)

Mac Tip: Organize Songs in iTunes 3

Mac Tip: Organize Songs in iTunes 3 09/04/2004 08:19 AM
G4 Tech TV Sep 4 2004 11:23AM GMT

Businesses Help Organize Photos

Businesses Help Organize Photos 07/25/2004 10:34 PM
As digital cameras continue their sales boom, Web sites have found an increasingly attractive business helping consumers share photos.

Organize From A to Z at the Back of a
Book

Organize From A to Z at the Back of a
Book 04/28/2004 07:02 PM
Q. I am interested in creating an index for a book proposal as well as a book. Is there a program designed specifically for writers and researchers doing this sort of work?.

Step One: Organize Your Icons

Step One: Organize Your Icons 07/10/2004 10:05 PM
G4 Tech TV Jul 11 2004 2:10AM GMT

Vivsimo - Organize your Search!

Vivsimo - Organize your Search! 01/06/2004 06:48 AM
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Taxonomy tools organize searching

Taxonomy tools organize searching 06/21/2004 09:22 AM
Enterprise search vendor Verity this week will introduce taxonomy and classification management software designed to make it easier to find business information.

How to organize your Favorites in
Internet Explorer

How to organize your Favorites in
Internet Explorer 01/26/2004 07:10 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Jan 26 2004 11:11AM GMT

Agencies to Organize Digital Records

Agencies to Organize Digital Records 04/13/2004 12:33 AM
Agencies to Organize Digital Records
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0329/web-nara-03-31-04.asp
The Electronic Records Archives (ERA) program of the National Archives and Records Administration is telling federal agencies that by 2007 they must have their digital records organized for inclusion in an operational archive. The finished system will include features such as online access to an archivist, perhaps using live-chat technology. As part of the project implementation activities, managers will be shown how to communicate effectively with information technology personnel in charge of the systems that officials use to create digital records. "We need to start coming together and speaking the same language," says Adrienne Reagins, a communications specialist with the program. An ultimate goal of the project will be to make it possible for researchers to access nearly all of the services that they could obtain if they were to do their research in a physical library.

Organize iTunes AppleScripts with naming
tricks

Organize iTunes AppleScripts with naming
tricks 11/02/2003 01:02 PM
I accidentally found out a way to organize iTunes AppleScripts. Simply adding a dash (or a minus sign) at the beginning of the script's name will place the script above other scripts -- even though the dashes won't show in iT...

Explosion in Finland: 7 Dead