Once again the net is ripe with proof that quantity does not win over quality, as just a few of
year’s April Fool’s jokes make the grade.
The flying penguins was a cute idea, though.
But reality surpassed pranks this week, as the two most improbable headlines were pulled out of real news tickers. […]
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Posted in naked link, news on Mar 27th, 2008
One of the causes for the epic megafail of Sampo/Danske Bank reunion has been neatly dissected in Kuolleiden Koodareiden Seura.
It would seem that my earlier optimism is unwarranted.
It was easy to dismiss the rampant pyramid schemes of the newly democratized Albania as actions of unscrupulous criminals working on a nation that had no idea what capitalism meant.
Recent events in Finland have proven this hypothesis completely wrong.
Thousand of finns have fallen for the hollow promises of wincapita (or winclub […]
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 […]
Posted in naked link, news on Feb 26th, 2008
Unsurprisingly the internet censorship discussion continues, sensuuri.info collects a lot of the relevant documentation, including the pitiful hit rate of the original list of censored pages: 9 out of 1047. Lehti adds nothing to the actual news, it is surreal enough to fit amongst their other content without any embellishments.
I’ve been a card-carrying member of the carnivore party pretty much all my life.
The news of the biggest beef recall in the states is pretty much the second time I’ve been questioning whether the place on top of the food chain is well-deserved.
The first occasion was reading Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food […]
To a cthulhu-savvy person, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo’s statement is very frightening indeed:
…the stars were favourably aligned for Nokia in Q4…
What next?
Should we nickname the next communicator “Hastur”?