Statebook: because knowledge is power

The Open Rights Group (ORG) has launched ‘Statebook’, a website that lists all the information the British authorities hold on each individual citizen in the United Kingdom. It’s really, really scary to see how much and how detailed information is being collected. ORG writes in their blog: “Today we launched a campaign site, portraying the […]

Fictitious Capital

Was Marx right? Richard Metzger asks in this thought-inspiring post at the Boing Boing blog. Here’s an excerpt: “Watching the news with the G20 protesters in London carrying banners reading “Capitalism Failed Us” and “Marx was Right!” I felt quite good about the day’s events. In 1983 and 1984, I was living in London and […]

aXXo – superstar of the new millennium

As the world is constantly changing, so are it’s celebrities. We’ve been used to people worshipping reality-tv stars and tracking every single move they make. Now, in this web 2.0 world, however, a new sort of superstar is rising, namely the anonymous, faceless web supergeeks – such as ‘aXXo’, one of the worlds most renowned […]

Dropped my coffee

What a scare, today’s first April fool. Dropped my coffee before realizing the scam. Damn you Swedes! 🙂 Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay

Remixes of British anti-terror posters

Time for another funny post based on dead-serious background: The brilliant Boing Boing blog has thrown a remix challenge, where it’s readers were asked to “mock the ridiculous new ‘anti-terrorism’ posters the London police have put up that tell you to spy on your neighbors.” Here are the best 25 of what people came up […]

Reverend Billy for mayor of New York!

Reverend Billy, of the advocacy group Church Of Life After Shopping (previously Church of Stop Shopping), has announced running for the position of mayer of New York City for the Green Party of the United States! While his chances are slimmer than zero, I can think of no New Yorker I would rather see sit […]

Find more time

Isn’t it scary how more and more appearent it becomes that in the information society the most valuable commodity is time? How many of us will agree that our greatest frustration is not being able to find the time to do the things we really want? I myself have a long list of things that […]

Arbejde som sikring eller udvikling?

I dagens Information har jeg netop læst en interessant artikel af Lise Nielsen, der handler om omgangstonen indenfor vores dagpengesystem, hvor Lise Nielsen argumenterer for, at man i de seneste tiltag inden for dagpengesystemet kan aflæse en udvikling hen imod et menneskesyn, der tager udgangspunkt i, at folk helst vil undgå at arbejde, og at […]