Archive for May, 2004

McD: That’ll teach him

Monday, May 31st, 2004

Mr. Spurlock ate Bigmacs for a month, just to see what would happen to his body. He is a filmmaker so an obvious choice would be to shoot the whole thing and hope for a Mooresque success. Naturally, an interview with McDonald’s would fit right in the plot of the documentary, so he wrote them an e-mail, asking, in a friendly tone (as in bait) if they would care to participate.

They wouldn’t. Instead they issued a press release stating that Spurlock is “highly inconsistent with his public statements and his characterization of McDonald’s in his film”.

Spurlock’s credibility is now zero (assuming that the US average IQ is below the passenger capacity in a Fiat Punto)

McDonald’s press release and their earlier statement

MSNBC: The Real Price of a Big Mac

IMDB: Super Size me

Super Size Me official site

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WYSIWYG eller Tú fært tað, tú sært

Friday, May 28th, 2004

Du får hvad du ser. I dette tilfælde er det simple, konkrete og lidt underlige computer-ord fra Færøerne. Læs ikke, udtal – det giver fin mening. Nogle gange.

timeshared tíðarbýttur

top-down úr erva og niður

transit gjøgnumferð

active window virkin gluggi

access time atgongdartíð

alphabetcal stavraðaður

artificial intelligence tilgjørt vit

bar code stangarkota

binary tvítals

bottom-up úr neðra og upp

CD-ROM teldufløga sh dátufløga

clipboard setiborð (på dansk: monteringsbord)

debugger kembari

direct access beinleiðis atgongd

Enskur-føroyskur-danskur teldorðalisti (Engelsk-færøsk-dansk computerordliste)
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…in dias? (ingen siger det ikke skal gøre ondt)

Friday, May 28th, 2004

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TODO: Headline

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

Okay, this is it. We’ve been meaning to post the link to this essay for a while. But there were other things to do that were less important. Yes. Less.

The item that resides right above it on our to-do list is actually reading it. The essay, that is. Quality assurance. We are not going to tell you which one of the two items we have completed, only that we know for a fact that we’ve given you an additional item on your very own to-do list. (Lists can be obtained by the exit)

“Life is a sad bunch of items on a to-do list and then you complete them”, the famous singer once said, and we think he was so right. Or wrong. We haven’t gotten around to deciding yet, since it ranks higher on our to-do list than posting this – which happens to be somewhere near the bottom.

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Nyhederne i spilleapparatet

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

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So do you have it yet?

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004
Im from Peru, I can give you a nice alphaca sweater or ceramic or a Mar de copas CD ANYTHING YOU WANT THAT I CAN GIVE YOU!! Just ask!

What is this?
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Boganmeldelse: Den Ultimative Internet Guide

Thursday, May 20th, 2004

Endelig. En dansk e-bog, der ikke er over 100 år gammel. Forfatter Claus Abraham debuterer med bogen “Den Ultimative Internet Guide”, der, som navnet diskret antyder, er den ultimative guide til internettet.

Klik herunder for at læse anmeldelsen – og grunden til, at denne anmelder vælger at uddele rekord-mange stjerner.
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We don’t surf quite enough

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004

Finally. A proof that this editorial staff don’t surf enough. How could we miss this one? Well, one lazy staff member found it by coincidence during heavy video surfing on his Pocket PC trying to enhance the missing suspense of four remaining pages in a novel.

Nevermind. Before doing anything else (including but not limited to reading further) we would like you to

view this short movie (3 min qt/wm/whatever)

Done? Did you notice the DC-10? It’s not there.

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Stylet Subaru fundet efter et halvt år

Tuesday, May 18th, 2004

Joachim fandt den.
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Claims of illegal download means free, wireless internet for everyone?

Tuesday, May 18th, 2004

Salon writer Micah Joel believes he should open up his wireless network, disable encryption, broadcast his name, and make sure DHCP is enabled, because then “there’s really no way to know who’s using it.”

So why am I doing this? In a word, privacy. By making my Internet connection available to any and all who happen upon it, I have no way to be certain what kinds of songs, movies and pictures will be downloaded by other people using my IP address. And more important, my ISP has no way to be certain if it’s me.

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Altså: vi sælger gaver til os selv når vi skriver speciale.

Monday, May 17th, 2004

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Godspeed revisited

Friday, May 14th, 2004

I get one email from Google every day on the average (test initiated as of yesterday, 12pm cet). This one shows the friendly tone in Google’s mailings as well as a new well-intentioned greeting that just might not replace godspeed.

Godspeed

far surpassed by speed of bunt cake pan but only slightly faster than devilspeed.

see devilspeed

Urban Dictionary: Godspeed

And, as interesting as this could prove to be, godspeed is the fastest speed, but, according to Urban Dictionary, not by far.

Gmail Team

[gmail-noreply@google.com] to me

More options 9:48am (2½ hours ago)

(he) has accepted your invitation to Gmail and has chosen the brand new address (him)@gmail.com. (hi)s new address has been automatically added to your contact list so you can stay in touch with Gmail. Keep spreading the love of Gmail!

Speedy Delivery,

The Gmail Team

We were not able to find out where Speedy Delivery ranks on the secret speed scale, but – to me, at least, it sounds a little bit slower than devilspeed.l
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I kan bare starte brylluppet, vi er klar

Thursday, May 13th, 2004
Christian siger::

nå er du ved at være klar med forberedelserne til bryllupet i morgen?

Morten siger:

ja, jeg har tænkt mig at møde op til optoget i færøsk folkedragt

Christian siger:

lige præcis.. jeg skal have g-streng med det bornholmske flag og så militærstøvler.. du ved.. ligesom man plejer til den slags

Når ham der Prevns samtaler kan, kan jeg også citere mine hverdags-agtige MSN-samtaler.
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It’s the end of this webpage as we know it

Thursday, May 13th, 2004

I just got a mail from Google that just may change my life. Again. Looking at my Adsense revenue report is a first-class cue that I’m not the only one who completely forgot the ultra-evil for-profit upper-section of this page. With a little luck there might be enough wealth for me to cover my Coke costs. Every other week. Once. At office charge, a little less than a Euro, which is fairly inexpensive, but the buzzing, shining vending machine is just repulsively unattractive.

So that’s bad. The Adsense revenue, that is. But then I got this mail from Google. They say I can increase my revenue with exciting new ads that will display … images. As we all might be aware of, image ads are even more evil than text ads, they’re disturbing, annoying and intrusive, and then we haven’t even touched the areas of decreased readability, comprehension and learning difficulties (just in case). I instantly logged in to my Adsense account to check if image ads were automatically enabled, but they were not. So I turned them on.

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Pocket PC eBooks watch

Sunday, May 9th, 2004

Pocket PC eBooks Watch – eBook and beyond is exactly what it says. And a whole lot of links, too.
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