tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72622309493787799352024-02-19T03:51:53.892+01:00dronelandpoptrash & politiquedronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.comBlogger1052125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-88258781185932480412011-12-30T15:42:00.005+01:002011-12-30T16:08:21.704+01:00Dødelig sarkasme (og meningsløse kommentarer)Da jeg nylig diskuterte media med venner, kom det frem at vi alle brukte stadig mindre tid på å lese aviser. Ikke bare på papir, men også online. Det er spesielt informativt å bla gjennom en papiravis eller to for å forstå hvorfor det tradisjonelle massemedia har en stadig mindre drakraft på oss, fordi det tydeligere viser forfallet enn om man surfer rundt på nettet på måfå. For å ta sistnevnte dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-23331594206896661382011-12-28T17:32:00.002+01:002011-12-28T17:36:47.100+01:00Skjenketak og mediekritikkI tråd med utviklingen i retning av en mer liberal skjenkepolitikk, som mange i dag helst synes å ha glemt hvor mye man måtte slåss for, så er backlashen nå startet. Muligens ikke så overraskende gitt den rådende trenden i retning av at folk som tidligere fant frelse i Marx nå synes å finne frelse i Gud. Eller i hvert fall i en eller annen form for borgerlig identitet, som ofte er like ullen som dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-26852215472154838702011-09-23T00:06:00.002+02:002011-09-23T00:08:38.337+02:00Capitalism vs religion«Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin.» Good quote mentioned in this blog post about why the politics pursued by our politicians are so utterly wrong.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));try {var dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-67479151710055626762011-09-23T00:04:00.001+02:002011-09-23T00:05:51.354+02:00OL-korrupsjonLurer litt på hvordan arrangørene har tenkt å løse problemet med Usain Bolt dersom Azerbaijan plutselig har lyst til å vinne gull på 100 og 200 meter også i OL 2012?var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));try {var dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-8050737839656230282011-08-17T22:44:00.003+02:002011-08-17T22:46:56.163+02:00Gullstandard i VenezuelaDenne nyhetssaken om at Hugo Chavez vil nasjonalisere gullproduksjonen i Venezuela, satte i gang tankeprosesser helt på iden av det som antakeligvis var tiltenkt. Men kanskje, bare kanskje Hugo ikke har vært hos Fidel (eller ikke bare hos Fidel på Cuba), men også på hemmelig besøk hos Ron Paul i Texas og nå skal innføre gullstandard i Venezuela? Vi kan jo krysse fingrene om ikke annet. Det gir i dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-38476910476959252302011-08-09T13:37:00.002+02:002011-08-09T13:42:11.938+02:00The London RiotsProblably the best summing up of the London riots I've read so far. This has nothing to do with ideology or any of the involved being advocates of social change. Rather it's old-fashioned theft and thuggery, reflecting the material desires of the participants. And after all, the Premier League starts this weekend, so there probably are quite a few people who'd like to have a 52 inch plasma tv anddronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-70639807628780921612011-07-18T23:26:00.003+02:002011-07-18T23:28:10.597+02:00American BureaucracyReading this piece about whether the US government would actually be able to stop paying its bills (re the raising of the debt threshold), made me think of American Bureaucracy as a mix of Stanley Kubrick's «Dr. Strangelove» and Terry Gilliam's «Brazil». Which leads to the question: Why aren't there more films made about paper pushers? And lest we forget, Dr. Strangelove's real name was Doktor dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-79058393421303707532011-07-16T19:41:00.000+02:002011-07-16T19:43:02.965+02:00Anti-fashion in the airDear me! Disse jakkene burde vært stoppet FØR produksjon og erklært som fashion-faux-pas! Dersom noe kan kalles visuell forsøpling så må det være jakkene til denne familien! Sjekk også den heslige rosa oversized rullekofferten til moren. Ikke bare blir det trangt i setene men oppi bagasjehyllen også. Her er folk som IKKE tar hensyn til sine medreisende. Men så er vel det da også nesten selve dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-84654625379050359992011-07-12T17:47:00.002+02:002011-07-12T17:49:53.709+02:00The State We're InIn conjunction with yesterday's news about the emerging crisis in Italy – and thus the Eurozone – one of the readers neatly sums up the financial crisis in one of the comments of this Guardian piece:1. Governments spend too much.2. People lend money to them that they can't pay back.3. Taxpayers foot the bill.4. See (1)var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-34311787497517118842011-07-07T01:02:00.000+02:002011-07-07T01:04:19.810+02:00The Little Handbook for Aspiring Phone HackersWhat I am wondering in all the hoopla around the phone hacking story is why anyone would be surprised at all? And also how absurd it is to contain this to News Corporation, as if not every tabloid (and probably some mid-market and broadsheet papers too) were involved in similar practises.Beyond that, there is of course the question of who is behind the leaks? I mean, come on, no one leaks this dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-74029313726786909302011-07-03T13:13:00.001+02:002011-07-03T13:15:36.100+02:00Baseball i åndenes maktSelv for oss ikke-baseball-fan, så er dette en fantastisk story om LA Dodgers og galskapen i hjertet av den amerikanske drømmen:«Among the people found to have been on the Dodgers' payroll is a Russian-born psychic whose sole job was to watch games on his television in the Boston suburbs and send out positive vibes so that they would win more often.»Dette minner meg om Naturlovspartiet som var dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-52671802297733062502011-07-02T21:28:00.001+02:002011-07-02T21:30:41.585+02:00Rape and the MaidenSer for meg at det vil bli skapt utallige kulturprodukter basert på DSKs eskapader – basert på medieståheien rundt ham og stuepiken samt hans hanky-panky med diverse andre mer eller mindre prominente fruentimmere.Bare å glede seg til masse sirkus fremover. For man vil jo tro at DSK nå vil legge inn litt ekstra på å forsvare æren sin og gjenvinne tillit. For min del bare gleder jeg meg dersom han dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-30480121540277409182011-04-28T16:45:00.003+02:002011-04-28T16:51:42.185+02:00Smart phonen som sporet megVeldig interessant & god artikkel fra WSJ om smart phone bruk, privatsfærens død og et forskningsprosjekt ved MIT. Vet ikke om vi skal frykte fremtiden, men det vil bli stadig tøffere å leve et uavhengig liv i fred. Man må nesten gå helt off internett og mobile medier om man skal klare det. Noe som igjen vil ha andre konsekvenser i form av redusert deltakelse i den økonomiske utviklingen. Men dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-80021128439978746452011-03-11T19:27:00.003+01:002011-03-11T19:31:29.171+01:00Love and Death in CaracasHow can you not love a report of violence that contains captions such as this one?«One day, aged 19, Silva mugged a bus passenger for her jewellery. He fled on foot and caught another bus, conscious of a police patrol ahead. Seated behind him was a pretty girl. "I wanted to say something cute to her but the only thing I could think of was: 'Will you hide my revolver?'" he recalls. The girl smileddronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-69037155565840742382011-03-04T15:07:00.003+01:002011-03-04T15:14:00.186+01:00Muammar Gaddafi speaks Swedish!Who says irony is dead? Even with Libya on the verge of civil war, there is another way of keeping the pressure on Muammar Gaddafi: use of humour. Such as this Swedish speech, where the video poster has translated one of Gaddafi's speeches (culled from al-Jazeera) into Swedish:«Massera min kjol!»Afraid this will only appeal to anyone familiar with the Scandinavian languages, but easily one of thedronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-83367807266165925832011-03-04T12:42:00.004+01:002011-03-04T12:45:38.625+01:00Goats Do Roam!Loved the sheep'n'goat metaphor at the end of this little piece on the state of the world economy from FT Alphaville, one of the few blogs about financial matters that I read on a regular basis. Probably it mainly is because of the subtle humour that is intercepted here and which is sadly lacking in most writing on financial matters.Anyway, here's the excerpt I was talking about:«We await the enddronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-12679950506902290152011-03-03T00:08:00.004+01:002011-03-05T17:35:54.116+01:00Q: Are We Men? A: No We Are Lemmings!I could as easily have named this post something-to-do-with-oil, as it's the ever-rising oil-prices that is the subject here. But ah, always nice to indulge oneself and dive into popcultural ephemera and evoke the spirit (or should that be ghost?) of Akron, Ohio-new wavers Devo.But I digress... as I said, it's all about the oil. Isn't it always thus?It's reading stuff like this from the WSJ that dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-564587524192608842011-01-11T19:02:00.002+01:002011-01-11T19:05:35.182+01:00They build fences, don't they?This news piece about how the Greek government secretly has been working on a plan to build a wall on Greece's shared border with Turkey, to keep immigrants out of the EU, made me think of this little thought-provoking book about the history of barbed wire.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-50624933171392873782011-01-10T17:40:00.004+01:002011-01-10T17:45:08.720+01:00iPhone ShooterAward winning director Park Chan-wook («Old Boy», «Thirst») is debuting his iPhone 4 shot feature «Paranmanjang» in Korean cinemas later this month. Is this the first time a feature film shot on an iPhone is shown in regular cinemas? An interesting development following on from a lot of stills done on iPhones by pro-photographers and also the work of these journalists embedded with US troops in dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-34705154349311849072011-01-06T19:09:00.003+01:002011-01-06T19:13:26.954+01:00Future SoundsWhen reading about David Cameron's plans for Britain to invest in tourism, pharmaceuticals, and so-called green industries, my initial reaction is: Isn't that what all developed countries are investing in or say they want to be investing in? Makes one wonder, is it possible for all countries to develop the exact same industries and somehow get away with it? I mean, sounds a bit like we'd end up dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-53997736514117452242011-01-06T18:37:00.005+01:002011-01-06T18:45:57.803+01:00Gay-Friendly Office Party MusicRead this lukewarm review of the third Scissor Sisters some while back in the printed version of Die Welt, and have wanted to post this but didn't look it up online until now. The headline brilliantly sums up the Sisters' tepid pop: «Musik fürs schwule Betriebsfest». Or in English: «Music for the gay office party». As I was writing this however, it struck me that given the Sisters' adoring mainlydronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-73912749047567369372011-01-06T14:40:00.001+01:002011-01-06T14:42:08.298+01:00Sexx Laws (German Style)The type of newspaper headline you would only get in Germany: «Niedergang der Sexualwissenschaft: Verhaltensmanagement statt Triebschicksal». If you insist on reading the whole piece, here you go bubbas.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascriptdronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-65131571857419222782011-01-06T00:12:00.004+01:002011-01-06T00:18:03.394+01:00inequality & income & the bleeding obviousCheck the graphs in this op-ed piece from the Washington Post. Especially the one about productivity and median income, and isn't it easy to spot that the writer is missing one very obvious point in why productivity goes up without income increasing accordingly: It's the technology, stupid!And technology is just one of many, many factors that very obviously explain why income is not going to risedronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-6352928702684688132011-01-05T23:38:00.005+01:002011-01-05T23:49:47.391+01:00Western Stars: The Facebook stock bonanza and the sudden implosion of the North American WayWhy oh why am I left with this strange desire to see an oversigning of Facebook stock akin to the theatre play Springtime for Hitler in Mel Brooks' classic The Producers? The cynicism of Goldman Sachs certainly leaves nothing to be desired compared to the producers who give title to the film. And then imagine this oversigning of stock to be followed by an implosion in the interest for social dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262230949378779935.post-33801700584366582172011-01-05T23:23:00.005+01:002011-01-05T23:28:14.560+01:00Disneyland After DarkOnly surprise is that this hasn't happened sooner, but finally Disney Inc is set to destroy China from the inside in the shape of a theme park in Shanghai. In other words no point in worrying about any future challenges from the far east. The Chinese will be disneyfied and westernized long before they constitute any threat to the so-called Western way of life. Crazy like us!var gaJsHost = (("dronelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01416152663209413154noreply@blogger.com0