The life and times of a fallen hacker
Posted in biodiversity, magazines on Apr 5th, 2008
Today’s monthly supplement of Hesari contained a pleasant surprise, an interview with the finnish biodiversity researcher Ilkka Hanski.
Nice insight into collecting 30000 beetles from Madagascar, and fascinating glimpses into the extinct fauna of that island (gorilla-sized prosimians, gigantic birds).
Incidentally, the link into the magazine doesn’t take surfers to requests for payment. […]
Been reading an interesting book, a page a day for the last fifteen weeks or so. Know-it-all Book tackles various fields of study with a cliff’s notes version of a topic for each day. I’m pretty sure that in a year (the book has 365 pages) I can namedrop philosophers and discuss rococo […]
The sadly-no-longer-available-in-Finland MIT Technology Review-magazine has put up their annual report on emerging technologies.
Some of the ideas are definitely high-concept, low-probablilty; such as reality mining, whereas some, like offline web applications are sensible off the bat.
The listing of previous years emergent technologies is worth a quick browse as well.
Lehti, pretty much the only real finnish humour-blog, attempts to go paper.
In a truly 21st century way, by ransoming the first issue.
Count me in.
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 […]
Visited the annual Finnish Metal Expo in Kaapelitehdas yesterday. This was my first visit to the occasion that has grown to quite a size in its four years. The saturday session was sold out, so settled to a single evening’s visit.
And even then, arrived late, and just missed Municipal Waste on […]
Wired has posted a nifty visualization what happens to a blog entry after it is published.
The tally of missing issues of said magazine in Finland is now two: neither the december nor january issues have yet been sighted in the shops. There is no official explanation, just speculation of a shipment […]
Posted in design, magazines, naked link on Feb 12th, 2008
Voima magazine has published their collection of busted ads. Like with the original, some miss the mark, but some manage to score several hits on a precision shot.
Posted in magazines on Jan 28th, 2008
Seems that Wired issue 12/2007 is stuck somewhere in transit, and not available in Helsinki (nor elsewhere in Finland, if a brief visit to Tampere proves anything).
Trying to procure the magazine from ebay failed, as the shipping/handling fees for a single issue are a whopping $24.
I may be addicted, but not […]
Continuing on the boring “let’s just list things”-category of posts…
This time focus firmly on new blogs. Just two of them, in fact - haven’t been that busy picking up any lately.
Sleevage, analyzing classic album covers for hidden and not so hidden treasures.
Magazineer, a blog about, erm… reading magazines, kicks off […]