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The hobby of sleevefacing seems to be a bit more involved than I originally thought.

In addition to the flickr-group, sleeveface.com covers the same ground, but with more explanations.

The finnish take has launched its gallery as a facebook group.

The drought on a subset of imported US magazines seems to be over, the march issue of Wired materialized in record time across the Atlantic.

Took a second look into ebay’s offerings, and found a much more reasonably priced outfit - paid altogether 21 dollars for the three missed issues, and they were delivered in five days. Definitely a cause for a maximized positive feedback for the seller.

The games will be held in late may, 23-24.5. to be exact, in a location to be disclosed later.

Rules and instructions are available.

Missed the tournament last year (though being half the world away is an acceptable excuse), had great fun back in 2006, even if the results were not exactly top-shelf.

The attached image is of Pat Lawlor’s Safecracker, the curiously short-cabineted boardgame/pinball combination that has evolved into one of my favorites lately.

The demonstration against the already rolling domestic internet censorship-effort will begin in a couple of hours downtown.

I won’t attend. First of all, the flu is still raging (though fever is subsiding). And even more importantly I think that demonstrations organized at a time when most people ought to be at work are doomed to fail, since the people who have less than deadly serious opinions about the subject will choose the path of least resistance and stay at the office.

And I certainly hope that the news crews manage to find intelligent folks to interview, otherwise this exercise may take significant damage from ill-advised statements from attendees shrilled by excitement, but not understanding the big picture.

Yeah, there probably ought to be a picture of Che Guevara hunched over a laptop attached to this, but I can’t be bothered to look for one.

Added a new category - “censorship”, since it seems to be a common topic amongst the articles.

This week’s macroday challenge is ticket.

My take is the attached image, a ticket to last summer’s Sauna Open Air in Tampere, the thursday evening headlined by Megadeth. Who played the best gig of the year, easily surpassing Metallica.

Well, despite indications to the contrary, Teräsbetoni managed to beat Kari Tapio yesterday in the finnish eurovision qualifiers and will represent the country in the finals in Serbia in May.

The band (steel-reinforced concrete) is obviously not entirely serious about their barbarian image, but the shock value of this group may not be enough for the jaded juries who got caught with their pants down the ankles by Lordi back in 2006. But that’s hard to estimate before hearing what the other countries put forward - quasi-Manowar might be just the trick to combat the prevalent scantily-clad babes from the eastern regions.

The song itself is, sadly, not up to par with their finest hour Taivas lyö tulta, but is a passable three minutes nonetheless. Apart from the Tshingis Khan-evoking opening bars and cringe-inducing lyrics. Hopefully the subtitles will not be available through some technical difficulties.

And he, if the conan-lite theme does not bring in the prize, we can always up the ante in 2009 with Turisas or Ensiferum.

As lawsuits go, the charges brought by Alexis Kouros against Phil Schwartzmann seems to be counted amongst the futile.

I’m so rooting for the defendant here. And so should you.

An “Unspecified upper respiratory infection” is worth three days sick leave. And some sumptuous medicine.

Today was the fourth day with fever, this era of running with a lowered clock speed is not amusing. I actually had to concentrate on the plot of 24 instead of multitasking with a magazine. But seriously, anybody who picks Cyrus Tolliver for his vice president pretty much deserves what’s coming down the road.

Might pick up the pace, blogging-wise, tomorrow. On the other hand, might not. In the meantime, feast your eyes on this amazing paper animation.

38.4C to be exact.