Lawrence Lessig on Colbert Report

Check out this little snippet. It’s quite funny and interesting (if you can refrain from being annoyed by Stephen Colbert’s contant if-I-interrupt-and-yell-the-highest-I-am-funny humour). Also, read the EFF (Electronica Frontier Foundation) piece.

Bail out the Yes Men!

The Yes Men needs our help: Dear Friend, ‘Tis the season for government handouts. But since we aren’t a giant corporation, we thought we’d ask you instead – because you’ve been generous in the past. So here’s our plea: we need money to finish our film. It’s going to premiere in one month at the […]

The best free software

The great Lifehacker technology-blog just announced their top-50 list of the best free software right now, as voted by their readers. See the list here – with links for download and all. Check it out and make an effort to replace your proprietary software (Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Creative Suite etc.) with these free […]

Today: Buy Nothing Day

Today is the official Buy Nothing Day, as announced by Reverende Billy and Church of Stop Shopping, a New York Based advocacy group lead by comic preacher Reverend Billy, aka. actor Bill Talen, that trough books, flicks and spectacular appearances – most famous of which are those taking place in the citys’ Starbucks branches – […]

Tactical media strike extraordinaire

I know I’m a little late on blogging on this, but I want to do my part on spreading the word of the amazing New York Times spoof that took place a couple of weeks ago in the US. What a spectacle and what an incredible scale for political activism – one can only admire […]

The OLPC now available!

I’ve been circling around the OLPC like a hungry lion around a caged gazelle for months now, waiting for it to be publicly available – and now it finally happened for the Americans. We Europeans will have to wait until December 16, unfortunately. Background info: OLPC stands for One Laptop Per Child and is the […]

Letter to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Although living in Denmark, I am still on the mailinglist of the legendary Nuyorican Poets Café in New York, that I used to appreciate so much back when I lived there last year. The café is situated on 3rd Street between avenues B and C, right in the midst of the East Village, and is […]

Support the spectacle

Just donated 5 bucks to these guys (the following communication is from the Nonsense NYC newsletter): “Dear Friends, If you live in or near New York City, or plan on being here in early October, please sign up to be part of a very special event that we’re planning with some amazing activist groups. We […]