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Flame on Earth vs. flame in microgravity environment (NASA photo)

[via:Rocketboom]

Tvkaistaa syytetään taas laittomaksi

Kuten yleensä, vanhoillis-medioilla on jotain sitä vastaan, että ihmiset nauttivat heidän tuotteista ei-kelvottomassa formaatissa. Tvkaista on muuten palvelu joka pitäisi sisältyä TV-maksuun (.).

[via:Ossi M]

The Obameter: Tracking Obama’s Campaign Promises

And there’s a news feed, of course.

[via:NATN]

In Self Defense

More awesome, increasingly disturbing stuff on the designer’s own site.

Suomalainen totaalikieltäytyjä maanpakoon Belgiaan

[via:Mummila]

Espoolaisnuoret tekivät näytelmän kiusaamisesta ja kouluampumisista

Muualla: Himo kiusata (Psykkis-teaatterin ohjelmistossa)

Trapped In A Mormon Gulag

“This story is about my personal experiences at a place called The Utah Boys Ranch [home page], which models itself as a “tough-love” prep-school, but while I was there, I witnessed some unbelievable atrocities. It is a Mormon-funded and staffed facility, and religious indoctrination is a fundamental aspect of the school. There was sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, suicide, staff corruption, and escape.”

See also: WWASP, Tranquility Bay (documentary on WWASP pigfuckery)

[via:Trent]

David Firth (“Salad Fingers”, “Burnt Face Man”…) working on animated feature

See also: Firth’s previous stuff on Fat-Pie.

Sana ja Ylistys-pastorin pilkkaamisesta ei syytettä “uskonrauhan rikkomisesta”

Aiheeseen liittyvää: Veriryhmä (pastori Saarikallen tuotanto remiksattuna, videot ja yllämainitun oikeustapauksen esitutkintamateriaali), Sana ja Ylistys-yhdistys (oma kotisivu)

[via:Mummila]

Ostetaan yhdessä Lex Nokia -vastamainos!

“Leväperäisesti valtuuksia jakeleva Urkintalaki (HE 48/2008) alias Lex Nokia on laajasta kansalaisten ja oikeusoppineiden vastustuksesta huolimatta edennyt eduskuntaan saakka. Eduskunnan palavessa joulutauolta helmikuun alussa on viimeinen tilaisuus saada tämä järjettömyys haudattua. Asia on nostettava tapetille niin, etteivät kansanedustajat enää pääse kiemurtelemaan sen ohi. Tehdään se ostamalla TV-mainos.”

Hitler ja lasten päivähoito (Nina Mikkonen vs. Jarkko Tontti – Ylen Aamu-tv 17.1.2009)

Aiheesta muualla: hs.fi, hs.fi, hs.fi, Tontti

Demonstration against wiretapping law in Helsinki on Feb 5, 2009

Briefly in English: Meeting near the Central Railway Station at 14:30, demonstration to begin outside the Parliament at 15:00.

“Lex Nokia” is a loophole plagued law proposal which, if passed, would allow network owners to spy on header information (from/to fields) in electronic communications in order to stop very loosely defined “misuse”. Eavesdropping on “parts” of unencrypted electronic communication protocols is as much of a bad joke as pretending to be reading only the address part of a non-enveloped postcard.

The bill derives its informal name from Nokia, one of its corporate backers.

I’ve previously used this site as a vehicle for my views on the cancer of middle aged clueless-on-Internet-issues voters and politicians that’s destroying existing preconditions for civil liberties in my country.

Also: Google translation of the original post, the event on Facebook.

Bow, the grammatically correct chimpanzee

“Bow’s development shatters what everyone has believed so far about the cognitive abilities of chimpanzees.”

See also: Primate-Jobs Positions Available

[via:Dragu]

Christian UK bus driver refuses to drive a bus with atheist “There’s probably no God” ad banner

See also: The home page of the ad campaign

Hitler’s subtitles ruined by a cheap font collection CD

Late last year, some custom subtitled versions of a scene in Der Untergang spawned on Youtube. The font CD one and “Banned on Wikipedia” are the only funny ones I found.

Der Untergang (en: Downfall) is of course a master-piece of epic sadness. Those who can’t handle 2+ hours of bunker drama, should at least watch the original English subtitled version of the scene spoofed above.

[via:saasta.fi]