Konsumentverket in Sweden lets you blow the whistle on spammers. Du som har en e-postadress har säkert fÃ¥tt e-postreklam som du inte har beställt. SÃ¥dan reklam, som du fÃ¥tt frÃ¥n och med den 1 april, kan du anmäla till Konsumentverket/KO genom att använda vÃ¥rt formulär. In English: “You who have an email address have surely …
Author Archives: Olle Jonsson
Bruce Lee and Yip Man
Is this Yip Man, training Bruce Lee? (Is that the correct spelling?) Or are they just some dudes trying to unglue their forearms. Edit: Yes, that is the right spelling. Read about Yip Man’s life. Note to casual readers: this is what the thing that Tomas in Malmö calls WT, Wing Tsun, looks like. Corny? …
Coffee and booze: a party
Recap of my Friday night, out to coffee and then to a wild party. Wilder than me, it turns out.
Defibrillators now in the Copenhagen metro
There are now defibrillators, for public use, in the metros in Copenhagen. The public is important in saving lives, or something to that effect. Will the machines be used for pranks? Will they work? Will the public understand the machines? Will they “play heroes”? Make up your own mind about this, because when your own …
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Sverok: Mallor
Sverok: Mallor is the acronym for Malmö Lajv och Rollspel, a society for roleplaying gaming and LARPing. Wow. The data seems old (from the last month of 2002), but then they had a room in a basement to play in. Wonder what became of it.
Dogs in the Vineyard: Soon
OK, I am psyched to play the thing now. I have a crew collected, I think. They are hardcore work people all of them, but **the organized type**. Dogs in the Vineyard is a roleplaying game set in “pre-statehood Utah”, and is centered on the Faith. A Western with only preachers, and the Faithful. On …
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Auto Shutoff Comments lets you close the comments submission after X days. It is now activated here at the site, mostly for spam reasons.
Gary’s Olive Drab Page
After following some links from Jonas’ blog Vildsint, I wound up at the military reference site Gary’s Olive Drab Page, which has military vehicles, guns and military art.
Wikipedia’s system alerts: Disputed neutrality
Children of the Nazi era @ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is an encyclopedia article which has a little warning note attached to it: *”The neutrality of this article is disputed.”* Good concept, marking the content up, like that. But, the flipside is that the unmarked things are supposed to be “neutral”. Not likely, not a …
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Skeptic’s Annotated Bible
www.skepticsannotatedbible.com boasts the coolest domain name ever. “Skeptic’s Annotated Bible / Quran (Koran) / Book of Mormon” gives it up on religious texts. Dig it.