Against entropy.
After typing this into a closed forum window in a section for Reboot visitors, I noted that “Many of my people’ll never read this. Better blog it.” So here I go! After experiencing the near-mythical Pecha Kucha session (aka Guy’s 20×20 talks), I was stoked about almost every subject that had been touched. Somehow they …
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I’m a word guy. Today I name my first Word of the day: [Caltrop](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrop). There. In Swedish: fotangel (foot-anglers?). Luisa told me the Danish word: partisansøm (partisan nail). Danes get cooler words. Oh, my home country gets a shoutout in the Wikipedia article above: > Caltrops have been used by criminals in some countries to …
Learning a language, not completely mastering it, as others have said here, that was the goal. The goal at the 43things website. In the process of getting to know more about Ruby, I have bumped into people with the same ambition, started a club, and generally got more goals (learn FreeBSD to be able to …
[controlarms.org](http://controlarms.org/) has a funny campaign: upload a picture of you saying “no to the arms trade”. Then the website places your face searchable by country. Currently there are 12000 faces from Denmark. Here are my friends Jeppe and Michala at Vega. I uploaded an image myself, but it seems it’s not ok’ed yet. I’ll keep …
This guy will serve [Tobias Wrigstad](http://blog.wrigstad.com): Tobias is defending his paper today, and he was finished an hour ago – I have no knowledge on how it went; whether Gunnar in the picture’s going to be a Kind Therapist, or a Hearty Reveler. My money’s on the latter. Update: **Doctor** Wrigstad’s luncheoning with his grading …
A trilogy of brick-shaped paperback books: that is what the Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle is. Having conquered it feels good. It’s been a part of my list at 43 things (which as of now only consists of 12 items, when the “Finish the Baroque Cycle” is checked off) for a long time. Now I look …
Mr. Jonsson & Mrs. Carbonelli Originally uploaded by Luisa Carbonelli. “Yup, we are happy”, is Luisa’s caption to the picture. So true. Thanks, all of you lovely people, for celebrating our love.
Bad hat Originally uploaded by Macmcmac. **Dogs in the Vineyard**, the Early-West Mormon gunslinger role-playing game has not yet larp-ified, to my meagre knowledge. The picture here, snipped from Flickr, is an excerpt from something completely different. For which the player’s outfit might be outright wrong. But: for a Mormon Judgment game, this would be …
Us Euros have been envious of the US/Canada GoogleMaps situation for quite a while. The option “satellite image” has been all we had for a while, and the other choices “map” and “hybrid overlay” have been missing for our part of the globe. [Peter Rukavina](http://ruk.ca/)’s tales of integrating GoogleMaps with existing data have been riveting, …
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A Danish school with a very cross-disciplinary approach to education, [Østerskov Efterskole](http://www.osterskov.dk/), will open its doors this fall. [Malik Hyltoft](http://alexandria.dk/data?person=66), winner of this year’s Honorary Otto Award is part of the staff. The school needs materials, and have assembled a wish-list. If you have anything you wish to donate to the school, send an email …