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

Best coffee mug ever.

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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. [...]

explanation(s) to follow at some point…

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#

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)

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.