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youtube FAIL

The boys and girls at youtube/google have a funny kind of humour. Anyone else seen something like this lately:

Canon L-Glass FTW

Best coffee mug ever.

40 Mbps broadband

Probably triggered by Sonera laying down optical fiber and offering 10 Mbps for 10eur/month initially (a 24 month contract, rising to 20eur/month for the second year) the local cable-TV company Welho was forced to rethink their products and pricing. I’ve upgraded to the M-option which is 40 Mbps for around 36eur/month. At some point Finland was pretty [...]

iceBREAK

event site: www.icebreak.fi Canon 20D with EF-200/2.8L lens.

UI FAIL

If you’re into that game where you use long sticks to hit a small white ball into a hole in the ground, and would like to hear how Tom Watson, 60, is beating  Tiger, head over to the very flashy masters.com. Now, is the radio supposed to be on when it says “ON” (i.e. “click [...]

a good servant but a bad master?

Seen on the bus today: Yep, that’s a GPS-screen top left. No need for the driver to know left from right, where the bus is, the route, or think much anything any more. Back in the Good Old Days if you took a taxi the driver was actually supposed to know where you were going. [...]

Torus-line intersection animations

explanation(s) to follow at some point…

Death Valley

I will write more about day 2 of the roadtrip when I have time. For now, only pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/DeathValley#

San Francisco

I’m in San Francisco for the 54th annual meeting of the Biophysical Society. also on Picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/SanFrancisco# This is already my fifth BPS meeting, the previous ones were: 2005, Long Beach, CA 2006, Salt Lake City, UT (includes Bryce Canyon pictures) 2007, Baltimore, MD 2009, Boston, MA (see also more pictures here)

Winter

It is not very often you see this kind of snow-plower-winter-tram! 7k walk from Kumpula to downtown. Google earth inserts a golf-playing green man at every kilometer.