The life and times of a fallen hacker
Posted in music on Apr 20th, 2008
Sure, we’re long since acquainted with Moottörin Jyrinä, but the idea of singing the likes of Ace of Spades in the dialect of Rauma ups the ante.
Too bad Moottörpää doesn’t have any music on their homepage.
[ Via Virallisten Linkkien Kokoelma. ]
Got Matt Barton’s definitive history on computer role-playing games the other day, and have been quite impressed by it on a couple of momentary glances. Apart from the screenshots that are darker and murkier than expected in a properly published book.
A proper review will follow, once I’ve progressed through the different ages […]
Posted in macroday on Apr 20th, 2008
This week’s Macro Day challenge is edge.
Took a while to come up with a new subject, but in the end the newest implement of destruction in the kitchen won out - knife’s edge.
Posted in music on Apr 20th, 2008
Mission: Metallica promises to allow users to “experience” the ninth studio album from the band already in may.
I’ll give it a shot. The worst they can do is to strain the spam-filters of gmail a bit further.
Sadly, it would appear that Metallica will not be seen nearer than Riga […]
Posted in web on Apr 20th, 2008
Andrew Keen’s Cult of the Amateur so percolated to the top of the to-read stack based on Skrubu’s review.
Know thine enemy, and all that jazz.
Might it be spring already, despite the ground persistently being greyish brown instead of verdant green?
No frost on the ground in the mornings. Check.
First utepils. Nope, not yet, though today seemed mighty attractive.
The idea of buying new sneakers comes and goes. Check.
Ice cream eaten outdoors. Nope.
First miniskirt. Nope, but that’s […]
In the long series of implausible “what if”-sentences:
what if Pulp Fiction had been written by William Shakespeare.
Kevin Pease gives us a teaser, from the very beginning of the film:
ACT I SCENE 2. A road, morning. Enter a carriage, with JULES and VINCENT, murderers.
J: And know’st thou what the French name cottage pie?
V: Say […]
Posted in fishkeeping on Apr 19th, 2008
Quite out of the blue arrives a collection of quality aquarium-related presentations next weekend.
Fisu 2008 features mostly international speakers - including Heiko Bleher, who has travelled far and wide in his quest for yet more exotic fish. The two finnish speakers (Markku Varjo and Pertti Rassi) are in good company, and […]
Posted in photo friday on Apr 19th, 2008
This week’s photo friday challenge is cold.
Instead of hunting for ice cream pictures, I take the easy way out - with a wintry landscape. Obviously this is not of this season, we didn’t officially have a termic winter in Helsinki at all.
The picture is of a frozen stream in Pitäjänmäki […]
Posted in blogging on Apr 19th, 2008
The analysis of the top 50 blogs has now reached its penultimate part. Let’s see whether the entries 31-40 bring any new additions to the regularly read blogs.
Gapingvoid
Surreal, yet very topical business cartoons. Read this semi-regularly like two hundred years ago, might have to pick it up again. At least […]
Posted in books, naked link on Apr 17th, 2008
Music2.0 - yet another free book. No idea whether it’s any good, but I’ll give it a shot this weekend, never mind the oh so trendy name.
Posted in thursday challenge on Apr 17th, 2008
This week’s thursday challenge is quick.
And what better way to celebrate the adjective than the fastest land mammal: the cheetah. Picture is taken in Washington Zoo, where the animals were only jogging at best - even their large enclosure wouldn’t have given them the ability to even start accelerating.
Posted in movies, television on Apr 17th, 2008
I can’t but agree with Andy Baio, and be amazed at the lengths some people go to, just to display every single instance of swearing in a movie, a complete collection of Horatio Caine’s oneliners, or collect all the known Wilhem screams.
Posted in games, naked link on Apr 17th, 2008
Brontosaurs with Jetpacks. The best ideas do indeed come in a state of comprehensive inebriation.
Posted in gadgets on Apr 17th, 2008
Not correct, but appropriate.
A terabyte of storage capacity for a DVR, costs exactly an euro a gig.
Posted in fantasy basketball, fantasy football, fantasy hockey on Apr 17th, 2008
Hakkapeliitat won the bronze game in Yahoo! public 159358 virtual NBA league.
The margin was seemingly large at 5-3, but the differences in a lot of the individual categories (including points) were in single points.
The key player of the final game was Bulls’ Luol Deng - with very much appreciated output also […]
Posted in music, naked link on Apr 16th, 2008
20 bands that peaked with their debut albums. A lot of rap and hip-hop, and Guns n’ Roses curiously omitted - after all, their finest hour was definitely Appetite for Destruction.
Posted in photo thursday on Apr 16th, 2008
This week’s photo thursday challenge is esthetics of degradation.
My take is a gargoyle, perched on a rooftop in Paris. This is a very close crop, and there’s multiple of these critters in the full-sized image (available via a click on the photograph). The weather has not been kind on the stony […]
Posted in books, comics, food, games, television, travel on Apr 16th, 2008
Kansainvälisen Seikkailijan Opas, the Madventures-guys’ travel book: Short on destination details, long on quality writing.
Tropicana Red Berries: No mango, interesting taste, deep purple colour.
Halo 3: Too many chapters with Flood, will go back for the vehicle scenes.
Blink, off the third season of Doctor Who: Probably the best televised science fiction in […]
Posted in movies on Apr 15th, 2008
Watched Jason Reitman’s Juno. Yes, it’s a movie about teen pregnancy, and it’s a pretty good movie indeed.
The script is packed with delicious dialogue, and I’m pretty certain I missed some juicy bits. The finnish subtitling is not bad at all, and at times manages to pull head-to-head with original takes […]