Archive for August, 2005

Der er masse af højre­ori­en­terede blogs derude — og masser af tid at bruge på andre ting end at læse dem. Mang­foldighed og meningstilk­ende­givelser er fine ting, og man pri­or­iterer jo sin læs­ning som man vil.

Men jeg faldt over dette svar fra Elis­a­beth Arnold på en fore­spørgsel fra Niels B. Larsen (klik på Elis­a­beth Arnold — frames er stadig højeste mode hos Alanius.dk).

Optak­ten er klas­sisk: Borger af anden poli­tisk obser­vans end adspurgte stiller spørgsmål, der klart går på selve ker­nen i deres forskel­lige opfat­telse af emnet (læs: der kan umuligt for­ventes at komme noget særligt ud af det andet end at få luft) — og spørg­eren for­ven­ter naturligvis at blive taget enormt alvorligt. I dette til­fælde bliver fru Arnold bedt om at redegøre for de påståede kul­turberigelser “perk­erne” skulle stå for. Spørg­eren er ikke til­freds med det første (noget korte) svar, hvorefter dette sker:

Kære E. Arnold.
Jeg udbad mig eksem­pler på kul­turberigelsen? Men der ER måske ingen?
Mvh
Niels B. Larsen

Kære Niels B. Larsen
Altan, Sofa, Divan, Slåbrok, Shawarma, Spid­skom­men og Koriander.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,.……
Matematik, astronomi, kaffe og heste
Hvis du gerne vil have flere eksem­pler, så læs Benny Andersen.
Med ven­lig hilsen og glædelig jul
Elisabeth Arnold 

Tem­melig tørt… Herefter for­modes det naturligvis at Arnold enten er dum, en tåbe­lig hallal-hippie — eller at hun blot ikke vil indrømme at spørger har ret. Men gode stil­point herfra!

Og så bare et par iagt­tagelser (ville egentlig bare give stil­point, really!): Blandt blog­gere af nævnte obser­vans er der en mys­tisk ten­dens til at tale om lands­for­ræd­deri, have ‘sorte bøger’ med fjen­der, være i kamp med kom­munen — og generelt have travlt med at føle sig for­fulgt, liste fjen­der og disses dumheder.

Grove gen­er­alis­eringer vil jeg tro begge fløje er lige slemme til, dog hæfter jeg mig ved disse men­neskers måde at læse sta­tis­tik på; som kon­fir­man­der læser biblen (over­fladisk og med deres helt eget for­mål) — mange ind­van­drere laver meget krim­i­nalitet = alle invan­drere tiggende røver­bomber. Huh? At fork­lare hullerne i den form for logik vil næppe hjælpe nogen (end­sige være syn­derligt beri­gende for de fleste læsere), men jeg lurer bare på, om ikke niveauet lige kunne hæves en anelse. Se hinan­den i øjnene og indse at der er forskel på måderne vi ønsker at fordele ressourcer på. Men at syndebukke-snak og fjen­de­billeder er en uværdig og pin­lig måde at argu­mentere for sine egne holdninger.

Jeg vil foreslå at vi andre køber en stor lad­ning af disse: nat­lam­per (så dem i en tysk butik påtrykt “Keine Angst”) og deler dem ud til de bange. Et kram og en nat­lampe — måske det kan hjælpe?

Mere plads til stree­tart: Nogen har taget udfor­drin­gen op mod plakat­mafi­aen.

FUCK PLAKATMAFIAEN
 
BYMUREN TILBAGE TIL FOLKET!
  
Alt for længe har en selvbestal­tet horde af wallpimps monop­o­lis­eret vores alle­sam­mens bymur til gavn for storkap­i­tal, plade­sel­sk­aber og kon­cer­tar­rangører og til skade for al anden folke­lig ytring.
 
Det skal være slut NU.
 
Fuck Plakat­mafi­aen (fpm) har der­for fore­taget den første af en række aktioner mod Plakat­mafi­aens enevælde. 

[via Afsnitp’s plog]

Tags: stree­tart, afs­nitp

Metroblog­ging Berlin: Lap­top­zom­bies:

But what’s really fright­en­ing me is the view of peo­ple sit­ting in a row behind their lap­tops star­ing on the screens. Looks like the dig­i­tal ver­sion of Shaun of the dead to me. 

It’s pure luck that I’m not in the pic­ture in the blog post… One of the girls in the bar made a tongue-in-cheek com­plaint to the room the other day, that there wasn’t much con­ver­sa­tion involved with her job when every­one was just work­ing their lap­tops. One of the lap­tops guys just looked up, smiled and told her she prob­a­bly was work­ing in the wrong place then…

Afs­nit P’s plog har nu — efter “indtil flere opfor­dringer” — fået rss. Yay!

Tags: afs­nitp, blog­ging, rss

Went to Cen­tral Kino yes­ter­day to catch Weltverbesserungs­mass­nah­men (World improve­ment mea­sures), a documentary-style movie fol­low­ing nine pri­vate ini­tia­tives try­ing to make the world a bet­ter place — includ­ing Ampel e.V (train­ing car own­ers to respond bet­ter to traf­fic lights), Pri­va­tini­tia­tive für Äesthetic (sort­ing parked cars by colour) and Aktive Kranken­ver­sicherung (peo­ple train­ing to per­form surgery in order to save on health insurance).

I found it a tad too long as the points made were, how­ever funny, pretty sim­ple, but the idea is great. The site accom­pa­ny­ing the movie has more ideas for improv­ing the world, most of them not as funny as the ones fea­tured in the movie, though.

Tags: movie, ger­many

GRIMETIME: Won­der­ful exam­ple of what can be made with easy-to-use pub­lish­ing tools — a blog, Flickr-pictures and a grime-podcast. Gimme gimme.

Tags: audio, music, pod­cast­ing, grime

Ok. I’ve had it. I’m using decent browsers and var­i­ous leave-me-alone plu­g­ins, but nev­er­the­less I some­times get popup, stu­pid noisy flash com­mer­cials etc. Using tabbed brows­ing and an aggre­ga­tor set to just open links (in the back­ground) in what­ever window’s at the top of the stack means that I just had to close 15+ win­dows with use­ful infor­ma­tion (now marked as read in my aggre­ga­tor) as I couldn’t nav­i­gate. Thank you Dell.

I could decide just not to visit sites uti­liz­ing these tech­niques — or I could com­plain my ass off to the com­pa­nies buy­ing into that form of adver­tis­ing. Which is what I plan to do (although I might go for option #1 as well).

They are break­ing my web expe­ri­ence, con­se­quently mak­ing me wanna spend less time brows­ing the pages where they could grab my atten­tion — if they did in a respect­ful man­ner, that is.

Would I buy stuff from a street ven­dor that started off by mak­ing me trip over his leg? Would I buy a shirt from a guy that started shout­ing directly in my face as I entered the store? No way in hell.

So I’m think­ing of putting up a form, easy to fill out with the details of the type of adver­tis­ing (ban­ners mostly), time and place. And a drop-down for select­ing where to send the com­plaint. A stan­dard email, some­thing like: 

“Dear Dell, I’m sure you mean well, but your adver­tis­ing is mess­ing with my user expe­ri­ence and make me want to make an effort not buy­ing any­thing from you. 

On [date] at [web­site] I was treated with your [type] adver­tis­ing [product/service] which [how it was annoying].

You treat me dis­re­spect­fully? As a con­sumer, I can only voice my opin­ion / pun­ish you by not buy­ing. Which is what I’ll do if you don’t stop this stu­pid form of shout­ing. This mes­sage is cross­posted to my own weblog as a way of mak­ing my peers real­ize that they shoudn’t buy any­thing from you.
Best regards [name]”

I hon­estly think it’s lack of respect buy­ing into a space in way that messes up what I was plan­ning of doing. Dell for instance just made me waste 3 min­utes as I now have to go through a list of links, find the rel­e­vant stuff, open it in new win­dows. Because they wanted to sell me some­thing I wasn’t even pre­pared to buy. 

You want to ben­e­fit of being on the web? You bet­ter learn the eti­quette.

Tags: con­sumerism

I have no idea what this does on a sheet of toi­let roll paper. But I guess it’s nice. Thank yous are per def­i­n­i­tion nice, no?

Maybe it’s a mea­sure to make sure peo­ple (espe­cially men who are known to look a bit guilty when leav­ing the lit­tle boys room — or so I hear) are at ease when leav­ing the toi­let; a way of say­ing “you’ve done a good job”.

Some words of cau­tion for peo­ple think­ing of doing sim­i­lar posts:

- When at a pub­lic place and hav­ing just made a good cam­phone shot, try not to look too happy when leav­ing the facil­i­ties. You have a good rea­son to be smil­ing — other peo­ple don’t know that. And you might not want to send out a sig­nal like that — in a sit­u­a­tion like that.

- When trans­fer­ring your pic­ture to your lap­top, make sure Blue­tooth is on — oth­er­wise you might end up send­ing the pic­ture to some­one else if you aren’t care­ful. I came this close to send­ing this pic­ture to some­one named Grit — from a cell­phone that has my blog url as its Blue­tooth name.

And yes, there are sooo many ways I could have staged this photo to make it look even more strange — but I went for the clean, family-friendly ver­sion. You can thank me later.

Tags: toi­lets, berlin, thanks

Jes­per Juul on an aspect of recent changes in proces­sor devel­op­ment I hadn’t thought of: Win­dows Vista and OSX Intel: Threats to Gam­ing His­tory.

11 years from the release of Windows’95 to not sup­port­ing Win­dows 3.1 is a very short time in cul­ture, but 5 years from the release of OSX to not sup­port­ing OS9 is the blink of an eye. 

Tags: osx, gam­ing, vista, puppy

stohl.de: Power­book?. Someone’s hav­ing fun alter­ing the Power­book design.

[via]

Tags: mac, design