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Archive for August, 2004



No soup for you?

Via FARK …
The man that inspired the Soup Nazi gag in Seinfeld is setting up stores nationwide in the US. That really makes my day.
Rules:
FOR THE MOST
EFFICIENT AND FASTEST SERVICE
THE LINE MUST BE KEPT MOVING.

Pick the Soup You Want !
Have Your Money Ready !
Move to the Extreme Left After Ordering !

Contact info:
We Don’t Respond To [...]

In the kitchen: Falafel

Not much happening on a Friday night. So I attempted to make Falafel. Turned out OK, but in retrospect I should have used this recipe instead. Add an egg to that and I think you’ll have the perfect mixture.
Hmm. Hope this is easier to digest than the dehydrated soy beef (made in India) that I [...]

Olympic Hypocrisy

And I thought I was finished complaining about the Olympic farce. But once one digs, there is bottomless pit of darkness to be found. First it was the killing of wild dogs in the scores of thousands, then a police state spread its wings. When things couldn’t get any more tarnished, the main sponsors banned [...]

The Gulf Sequel

Ohh, it seems we might be getting some excitement after all. Iran obviously doesn’t want to have their own Osirak incident. This could be a long and bloody autumn indeed.
Source: Iran threatens to attack US forces in Gulf

SimpleDivX

Never been much for encoding digital video myself. Mostly because it’s time consuming (CPU intensive) and difficult. At least if you want some sort of control and wont settle for anything less than XVID for the video stream. I’m not usually deterred by manuals but getting the hang of XVID, OGG, Matroska, VobSub and AC3 [...]

Cinema: Hellboy

Finally had a chance to Hellboy. One of the few sci-fi / action / fantasy movies that didn’t fall out with critics this year. Granted it premiered a bit late here in Sweden. What else is new.
All in all an awesome roller coaster of a ride. It has got everything. A smart story and good [...]

Dark Ages

Back to normal again. Had some time to kill so I sat down with the latest issues of Nature and National Geographic Magazine. A couple of things caught my interest and qualified as blog material.
Heavy Cost of Fat: The theme of this month’s NGM was obesity. Not so strange perhaps as the US is going [...]

US troops shuffle

About time …
The US is expected to announce on Monday that it is pulling 70,000 troops out of Europe and Asia in the largest restructuring of its global military presence since the second world war.
People briefed on the plan say two-thirds of the reductions will come in Europe, most of them military personnel stationed in [...]

Free time

Finished work today btw. Nine weeks have just flown by. Time kind of loses all meaning as you get older. Once, summer seemed to last forever. Now it is nothing more than a blink of an eye.
Now I have a very narrow window of opportunity to start up any projects that have been dormant for [...]

The spirit of the game

What once was a simple sports event has now been twisted and perverted into one fascist wet dream. Exorcising freedom of expression, travelling from nation to nation like a swarm of locust bringing a police state in its wake, all for the sake of the overcapitalized spirit of the game.
It is not difficult to imagine [...]





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