The Antioxidant Myth

Interesting article called The Antioxidant Myth. The name pretty much speaks for itself.

The Amen Break

"This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music -- a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison's 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip."
Thanks Pato for the clip tip.

Eavesdrop

I really like the idea of the CD Eavesdrop: A Wealth Of Found Sound:

"Eavesdrop: A Wealth Of Found Sound is a collection of anonymous recordings found at thrift stores, yard sales, and in trash bins over the past four years. These unaltered tracks come from audio or micro-cassettes, 8-Tracks and home-recorded records. Many of the clips are segments from audio diaries, tape-letters, the sound of road trips, fights, crying, family moments, telephone conversations/messages, or the amusements of children or the mentally handicapped."

RadioBlogClub

This is a pretty powerful tool. RadioBlogClub let's you input the name of a song or artist and play the song directly. Straight up. After the song ends an apropriate playlist continues. If you're on the blogger scene the songs are embeddable, too, as seen below.

The Art of Retouching

Following the video I blogged earlier showing how much the photo of a model gets retouched in the process, here's Glenn Feron - The Art of Retouching. Don't believe the hype.

Coke Commercial

Nagi Noda reprises her award-winning Yuki video concept for Coke. Features original music by White Stripes' Jack White.

The Gods Are Amused

The gods are amused
when the busy river
condemns the idle clouds.

Rabindranath Tagore

Improvised AAA batteries

Did you know that 9V batteries contains 6 AAA batteries? Dunno 'bout you, but I find these things nice to know...

Russian Squirrel Pack Kills Dog

This article about a russian squirrel pack killing a dog just has this wonderful apocalyptic feel to it.

Retorik Magasinet

Jeg vil gerne slå et slag for det fremragende blad RetorikMagasinet. Du kan læse Weekendavisens rosende omtale af bladet her.

Why The Sky Is Dark At Night

Here's an article on why the sky is dark at night.

"If you think the answer to this question is obvious, think again. The best minds of physics have studied this question for over a century, and the current answer may surprise you."

Chefredaktørenes klub

Chefredaktørenes klub er, efter min mening, det eneste TV siden Jersild og Spin, der er andet og mere end baggrundslyd til surfing. Glimrende TV. Du kan se udsendelserne på dr.dk/tv.

The Year 2006 In Pictures

Check out this brilliant collection of 24 of The Best Photos of the Year 2006 from Time Magazine.

Tomle Community

"Hey David.

Når jeg en gang imellem finder noget godt på nettet, så skynder jeg mig at sende det til dig, så du kan formidle det gennem din hjemmeside.

Og nu har jeg fundet noget, der er rigtigt godt.

www.mitfahrzentrale.de

Det er sådan en side hvor man laver en profil, og så kan man gå ind og søge på folk, der kører i bil til forskellige steder i Europa, og som gerne vil have lidt selskab, eller gerne vil have nogen til at dele benzinprisen med.

Det er jo ikke nogen revolutionerende nyhed – Men den side her har altså rigtig mange bilister! Så man kan stort set komme hvor hen det skal være, helt gratis!!!! Det er jo en fest uden lige...!

- Martin"

(Bemærk: Siden er på tysk)

What Happens To Your Body If...

Healthbolt has this short but interesting list of What Happens To Your Body If You Stop Smoking Right Now? Also interesting is the list of What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now? Hell - I'll even throw in this list of 14 Reasons It’s Particularly Harmful For Women To Smoke.

Choose With Great Care

Happiness

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."

Chuang-Tzu (350 B.C.)

Honda Choir

Most excellent Honda commercial.

Scary Mary Poppins Trailer

Remixing movies is right up my alley. Hats off to Moviemker for this example called Scary Mary Poppins' Trailer.

9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Following up on the Lauren Hill racist myth post below, here's a throughout cover story from Popular Mechanics called Debunking the 9/11 Myths.

X-Series

Although my previous experiences with 3 Mobile left me with contempt towards the company, the coming x-series seems really interesting. Maybe they will actually provide the promised services this time. It does seem a little too good to be true, though - I'm looking forward to see the pricing scheme. X-series is launching 1. december in UK, 1. quarter of 2007 in DK.

Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff

Du skal se det her interview fra DR2's Deadline, om du er bekendt med forfatteren Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff eller ej. Og hvis ikke, så bliv det.

Musicovery

I like online jukebox/radio sites like Last.fm and friends. Musicovery is of the same idea, but I like their interface better. You place a dot anywhere you like on two axes, one going from dark to positive, the other from energetic from calm. You can choose hits, non-hits and dicovery mode, genre, as well as period of time. You can also see whats music is coming, and skip ahead to songs that catch your eye.

Casino Royale

The new Bond movie Casino Royale is excellent. It has been some years since I liked a Bond movie, but this one reinvents the series. 9 out of 10 in my book. 8.1 at IMDB. 95% at RottenTomatoes.

Lauren Hill Racist

I can't believe people believe this ****. Lauren Hill never said anything racist in any interview, MTV or otherwise. Seriously - if she did, it would be everywhere on the net. Here's a short article on the history of the rumor.

Please. Treat unsubstantiated facts as fiction.

"Claim: During an MTV interview singer Lauryn Hill said, "I would rather die/have my children starve than have a white person buy one of my albums."

Status: False.

Origins: In 1996 a caller to the Howard Stern show claimed Lauryn Hill of The Fugees made anti-white statements during an MTV interview, to the effect that she rather see her child starve than have a white kid buy her album."

Cinemateket/Filmhusets Still-Foto Samling

Ved du godt, at Cinemateket - bedre kendt som Filmhuset - har en virkelig imponerende still-foto samling? Hvis jeg husker rigtigt, fik jeg engang at vide, at det er en af de største i verden. Jeg har været derinde nogle gange, med en liste, jeg havde skrevet hjemmefra. Man får nemlig ikke lov til at komme i selve arkivet. Man spørger om lov til at se stills fra en bestemt film. Arkivaren henter dem, og et par hvide handsker, man skal have på, når man behandler dem. Sejt. Jeg har endnu ikke ramt en film, de ikke har haft i hvert fald nogle stills fra. Priserne er rimelige, synes jeg (jeg kan ikke huske dem præcist), og du kan få print helt op i plakat-størrelse, fordi det er rigtige fotos.

Carnivale

You *need* to check out the two-season series Carnivale. The setting is a travelling carnival in 1934 America. Think freak show, magic and prostitutes.



HBO ended the show after the second season, which is a real sign of character.

Carnivale first season at the time of writing costs 24£ at Amazon.co.uk. Pretty cheap. Get it.

Youtube & Co

Seriously - you need to spend some hours roaming the wonderful archive that is Youtube. An amazing amount of movie, tv and home video clips, music videos and everything else, more or less.
Other similar sites include MetaCafe, iFilm, Google Video and DailyMotion.

Movie Stuff

If you like movies, here's a couple of ressources.
IMDB - Internet Movie DataBase is one of the most impressive databases online. I have never drawn a blank - not even with regards to obscure, 'foreign' movies.
Rotten Tomatoes is a collection of movie reviews from a lot of (mostly American) sources. The generel opinion at the site is sometimes surprising. Be prepared for some stereotypical hammering. Metacritic is a similar site.
Filmz is a danish site, which works. It brings you news on movies and the industry.
I also recommend Apple's trailer-site, if your in the mood for trailers and teasers. The amount is pretty impressive, and it's updated.
For further movie information, check the movie label below. Also check the video label to see the clips on this site.

Last.fm

You need inspiration as to bands you didn't know you liked. You go to Last.fm, enter the name of a favorite band and the music starts to play.

Drop Spots

Drop Spots is nice, little idea. You find a place outside to hide a little thing, then map it at Drop Spots, maybe with a note attached. Then somebody replaces it with something of theirs. There is only one drop spot marked in Denmark, but you could just start one in your area, if you want.

Gamelio

You can bet money on your Counter Strike or Quake skills at Gamelio. Interesting.

Garden State

As far as comedy/drama/romance goes, you can do nothing but worse than Garden State. I lost most hope for the genre a while ago, but Zach Braff's directing debut hits home. 10 out of 10 in my book. You can watch the teaser below. I recommend that you do, it's a rare piece of teaser/trailer art. If you're into those things.

Beauty

What you need to know about the beauty you see.

Voipbuster

Voipbuster is a competitor to Skype and the like. If you put 10 € into your account, you can call landlines in 32 countries and mobile phones in USA, Hong Kong and Puerto Rico for free for 120 days, with a limitation of 5 hours a week. A theorethical 85 hours in 120 days. That's a nice deal. Of course you can also make other calls, for a fee that usually is cheaper than Skype, with the 10 € you paid. Also after the 120 day period. Be aware, though, that calls are rounded up to next minute.

...and Learn to Love the Internet

Douglas Adams, brilliant author of the hilarious novel The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe, wrote the article How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet in 1999. Besides being funny and insightful, it provides good answers to the very irritating statement "you can't trust everything you find on the net".

Brick

I give nine out of ten to the movie Brick (8.0 at IMDB), because it's kick-ass style-wise. It's a noir detective story, and the setting is high school USA. I think you will be pleasantly surprised if you like it (sic). It won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision. Here's a bit about the plot, and below is the trailer. If you're into those things.

Trolle//Siebenhaar

You need to hear my man Pato Siebenhaar and girl wonder Ane Trolle - Trolle//Siebenhaar. Good shit.

Weeds

I highly recommend the show Weeds. It follows a suburbian single mother selling weed, and the mood of the show is just excellent.

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing

Probably my favorite guitar track of all time right there.

Act Normal

Quote from the 1994 anti-normal rant Act Normal:

"Who is it that gets together in mobs and hunts down, tortures and
kills people who are different from them? Who is it that teaches modesty,
courtesy, and generosity but lives in depravity, rudeness, and greed? Who
is it that can gather together the time, energy and money to murder
millions and destroy cities, for the sake of a flag, deity or economic
system? Not weirdos, not kooks or cranks or nuts. It's the "Normal"
people who do those things."

Helmet Social Psychology

This study from Bath University suggests wearing a helmet might make a collision more likely. Interesting.

Djosos Krost

The Danish dub duo Djosos Krost is the music I will play the next time a foreigner asks me what bands we have in Denmark. Buy the full album if your into dub. You won't regret it.

Onelook Wildcard Search

I would like to bring to your attention that the excellent collection of good quality online dictionaries Onelook has a valuable feature. It allows for searches with wildcards. For 1 letter ?, for at string of letters * e.g. "fore?t" or "fo*st" but finds the word "forest", as well as other matches.

Climbing

You need to see this guy climbing. Mad ninja respect.

Pain

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding."

Kahlil Gibran

Godt

"det er godt, at vi fik det bedre,
men det var bedre, hvis vi fik det godt."

Villy Sørensen

7 Reasons the 21st Century Is Making Us Miserable

I think this article, 7 Reasons the 21st Century Is Making Us Miserable by David Wong, is splendid. No less. It hit me in the soft ribs, and I think it concerns plenty other people in this here world as well.

The Century of the Self

I cannot recommend highly enough the documentary 4-part BBC series The Century of the Self. It tells the fascinating and scary story of the use of public relations as a means to public management. The quality of the video is low, but I think the content makes up for it.

Life

"Life is what happens to you
while you busy making other plans."

John Lennon

Fear

"He who fears that he shall suffer,
already suffers what he fear."

Michel de Montaigne

Den, der ikke lever nu

"Den, der ikke lever nu
lever aldrig - hvad gør du?"

Piet Hein

The Word Just

I would like to suggest agreeing on the word 'just'
relating to simpleness and not easyness
unless otherwise stated.

No Mind

"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."

Ozzy Osbourne

Google Maps

Google Maps slår Krak med flere længder mht. kortkvalitet, synes jeg. Ved muligheden for at navigere ved at trække i selve kortet, og ved muligheden for at skifte mellem kort, satellit-foto og hybrid. Begge i forbavsende høj kvalitet. Og Gadenavnene er præcise.

Bemærk dog, at man ikke kan *søge* på gadenavne. Man bliver nødt til at starte ved noget man kender, og bevæge sig derhen, hvor man vil. Men det lærer man hurtigt. Og det er ret sjovt.

Desuden er det muligt at sende eller gemme et link til det billede, du er kommet frem til på skærmen på Google Maps, ved at højreklikke på "Link to this page" over kortet til højre, og vælge "Copy Link Location". Du paster adressen ind der, hvor den kan bruges. Den kan bruges mange steder.

Update: Det er meget smart at kunne tage et screen dump af skærmen, når man kigger på et bestemt kort ved at trykke på tasten "Prt Scr - Sys Rq". Derefter paster du i dit foretrukne grafik-program, og voila. Nu kan du f.eks. skrive på kortet. Eller andre kreative ting.

Excess

"The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gmail

You really (really) need to stop using your Hotmail as your primary account, mayn. Gmail is just the better choice on all fronts when it comes to web-based mail accounts. All the smart animals has abandoned *that* sinking ship - and Hotmail is just *so* 90's...

You need an invite to join. Just check your adressbook for @gmail-adresses, and request one from one of your friends. Or feel free to request one from me.

Pleasures

"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."

Henry David Thoreau

Banksy

I like the work of english street artist Banksy. He's doing his thing in the streets, as well as on the inner walls of museums. Of his own choice.

Mistakes

"Always make new mistakes."

Esther Dyson

Popurls

Popurls is a really nice site which collects headlines from most of the best news sites out there. The layout is good and the page is allround excellent.

Flickr Leech

If you like photos you probably know Flickr. If you like photos you probably should know Flickr Leech - an application that gives you screen after screen filled to the brim with photos from Flickr, choosen by way of things like date and 'interestingness'. Nice.

On the Matematics of the Lottery

I am one of the people who like to compare the chances of winning the lottery to the chances of getting hit by all sorts of things. This article by Mark Dominus makes some pretty good points on the subject that have made me rethink my point of view on the subject.

Oddcast Text to Speech

Oddcast Text to Speech is a quite impressive application. It is limited to 3 go's, but the limitation is based on a cookie. Thus, to remove the limitation (with Firefox) go to the Tools menu -> Options -> Privacy -> Exceptions, put in vhost.oddcast.com and press Block.

Paper Eleven

I have finally found the manga style I have been looking for in Paper Eleven, a clone.manga project. The artwork is perfect for framing and the complete series is free to download! The plot is as follows:

"14-year-old Maya survives a terrible train accident only to find herself in a strange world where people, places, and souls are made of paper. Now, hunted and alone, she has 11 days to find the bodies, reconstruct the accident, and return home."

Thanks a lot to SimonOfDenmark for the tip.

Er Danmark blevet et skamløst samfund?

Agenda på P1 har igen lavet en god udsendelse, denne gang med titlen Er Danmark blevet et skamløst samfund? Fra programmets site:

"Er Danmark blevet et skamløst samfund? Det mener visse sociologer - som for eksempel amerikanske Christopher Lasch. De peger på at skam - selvom de fleste af os forbinder det med noget ubehageligt - også har positive sider. Skam er en måde at forholde sig til Verden på. Skam regulerer samspillet mellem mennesker - ved at sætte grænser for hvad man kan sige om sine medmennesker uden at krænke dem. Derfor kan et samfund uden skam let ende i krænkelser og konflikt."

Bemærk: Programmet kan streames som sædvanligt, men det er kun de sidste fire udsendelser, der ligger i arkivet, og ikke som før hele udsendelsesrækken fra 2001 og frem. Desværre!

The Lie About the Lie Detector

Oh, the number of times you have been told by people on your television that it is possible to cheat a lie detector and thought "Yeah, well - how?!". No more. I give to you The Lie About the Lie Detector - a 220-page all-you-need-to-know PDF on the subject, created by AntiPolygraph.org.

There is nothing like the feeling of "I'm not supposed to know this".

Brave New World

Back in 1932 Aldous Huxley wrote the novel Brave New World. It's available for free on the net because of it's age, as is lots of other great books. Read it. It's amazingly prophetic. And really good too.

Reality as Subversion

Douglas Rushkoff har skrevet artiklen Reality as Subversion. Jeg har læst den. Jeg kunne godt lide den.

Efterretningsvirksomhed

Hvis du er interesseret i efterretningsvirksomhed, bliver du nødt til at læse Lars R. Møller: Operation Hurricane - Efterretningsvirksomhed før og nu. Jeg er virkelig imponeret over det arbejde, der ligger i den bog, og den grad af information, jeg føler jeg har modtaget efter at have læst den. Den behandler emnet teoretisk, og kommer samtidig med en masse historiske cases. Læs den!

Forhørsteknik

I anledning af sæsonpremieren på den fremragende serie 24 timer - 4. sæson i DK, 5. sæson i US - får du lige CIA's gamle forhørsmanual fra 1963 KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation, og den kortere opfølger fra 1983 Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual (selve den scannede version af sidstnævnte her). Lisa Haugaard har skrevet en god artikel bl.a. om disse to tekster, ved navn Textbook Repression: US Training Manuals Declassified.

Akrobatics

This guy is crazy skilled.

Rusmidler

If you seek information on drugs, you should visit Erowid - a really impressive collection of informaion. Know this archive. And know Lycaeum - another impressive large of information on the subject of psykoaktive substances.

Frontline

I have linked a couple of PBS Frontline documentaries on this blog. If you haven't noticed when going there, or just haven't gone, tjeck it. 53 documentaries for you to stream. There's quite a few quality picks in between.
Remember that the site has a lot of traffic. My experience is that traffic increases in inverse proportion to the time of day.

The Wayback Machine

Der er en udbredt misforståelse, der består i, at informationer på nettet forsvinder, når de slettes fra den server, der hoster dem. Informationerne bliver nemlig lagret andre steder på nettet. F.eks. på The Wayback Machine.

The Wayback Machine er et arkiv, der indeholder delvise backups af en lang række sites. Man kan ikke surfe sitet som normalt, da en fuldstændig backup af de enkelte sites ville gøre projektet uoverskueligt. Jeg synes dog stadig, at det er fascinerende. Du kan f.eks. se, hvordan dr.dk har set ud, ved omkring 200 forskellige points in time siden 1996. Imponerende.

Desuden SKAL du kende Google's cache-funktion.

Nogle gange, når du støder ind i et resultat, der virker relevant ud fra tekst-biden i Google's liste over søgeresultater, og trykker på linket til selve siden, er siden forsvundet siden Google besøgte den, og du får beskeden Page Not Found, eller bare blevet redigeret, så den oplysning, Google baserede sin henvisning på, er forsvundet. Irriterende. Men umiddelbart til sidst i hver resultatpost på listen findes et link, med navnet Cached. Et tryk på dette giver adgang til en delvis kopi at siden, som den så ud, da Google sidst indekserede den. - Du vil undre dig over, hvordan du levede uden.

Film

Hvis du er glad for film, får du lige et par filmressourcer.
IMDB - Internet Movie Data Base er en af de mest imponerende databaser på nettet overhovedet. Jeg har aldrig oplevet ikke at finde det, jeg søgte efter her - selv hvad angår små, obskure, danske skuespillere og produktioner.
Rotten Tomatoes er et site, der samler udtalelser fra amerikanske filmkritikere. Det er nogle gange lidt overraskende, hvordan dem samlede mening viser sig at være her. Vær forberedt på udtalelser, der ofte lever op til klicheen om den mavesure kritiker.
Filmz er et dansksproget site, der fungerer. Her får du nyheder om kommende film, og om filmverdenen generelt.
Desuden kan jeg anbefale Apple's trailer-site, hvis du har lyst til at se trailere og teasere. Mængden er ret imponerende, og opdateres løbende.

Onelook

Onelook Dictionary Search is an astonishingly useful ressource. It let's you look up an english word or term in a lot of high-quality, online dictionaries. It also offers a powerful wildcard search.

Ecstasy

De fleste af de ting, du har læst om MDMA (Ecstasy), er baseret på uvidenskabelig og direkte forkert forskning. Denne artikel gennemgår de forskningsresultater, du er blevet fremlagt, i Ekstra Bladets forgange kampagne og lignende. Tænk Parkinson's, 'huller i hjernen', dopamin- og serotoninmangler og billeder af 'din hjerne, og din hjerne efter Ecstasy'.
Rick Doblin, Ph. D, fra MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies), har siden 1986 arbejdet for at genskabe muligheden for MDMA-research, og bringer her et par store myte-busters. Formen er ret videnskabelig, så vær forberedt på at læse langsomt. Til gengæld kan du bagefter fortælle folk, at de tager fejl. Det er herrefedt.

Update:

Sundhedsstyrelsen lavede i 2002 en undersøgelse af indholdet af ecstasypiller. Imponerende initiativ, synes jeg. Citat fra rapportens indledning:

"I sommeren 2000 fokuserede pressen på ecstasy på baggrund af flere dødsfald blandt unge der havde taget ecstasy samt rygter om tilsætning af heroin til ecstasytabletter.
For at styrke den nationale overvågning af ecstasy besluttede Sundhedsstyrelsen og Rigspolitiet at igangsætte et projekt bl.a. med det formål at få viden om hvad ecstasytabletter egentlig indeholder, og hvilke ændringer der sker over tid hvad angår indholdsstoffer og stofkoncentration."