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Caesar invading my park...

For those who didn't know this, the studios where Hotel Caesar is shot ain't too far away from where I live.

Hotel Caesar is the longest running, and probably the crappiest norwegian soap produced to date. Complete with second rate acting that leaves a permenant scar on your soul. No person with actual taste can refute this.

Anyway, today the weather was fine and I thought about going to the park and relax after I was done at work. It sounded good, like a plan.

And when I get off at the bus-stop just what do I see? Hotel Caesar invading my park.

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AOL aftermath

The leak of the AOL search-logs have been all over the web. Not only is the logs all over the webs, but all sorts of amusing analyses too.

What is probably most interesting is that it reveals just how AOL users interface with a search engine. You'd think that people use search engines to search for stuff. Not so. As you can see from the linked article, some people chat up with the search engine, while another one threatens it. Some asks God why he isn't answering them. In a search engine.

These logs are gold and I applaud AOL for leaking them, even though it probably wasn't intentional.

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Todays video trifecta final

Todays final video presents you with what can probably be best described as "whacky japanese stuff". Or just how to have fun with naked people, awesome fun.

Clickety.　Again: Thanks to Eelco!

A great display of stupidity: Sniffing wasabi

Wasabi, for those who don't know it, is that extremely spicy green goo you get with sushi, and just eating it makes your nose-canal tickle.

Some moron decided that sniffing this stuff seemed like a good idea, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology we can all witness this great display of stupidity.

Video here.

Thanks to Eelco for handing me this one!

Fun with cats and tape

Here's a nice little video featuring what I'd like to call the cat-version of Monthy Python's "Ministry of silly walks". Pretty amusing.

Right here.

"May I help you?"

This is pretty much a common courtesy phrase when you are working in the service industry, like in phone directory business. Some people evidently need help, and I mean real help, not just a phone number.

"Obsessive" is probably not a good enough word to describe what this person did: He made 37.760 phonecalls, up to 900 a day, to a couple of japanese phone directory services to hear the voices of women.

Wow.

And yeah, he got arrested.

Party like its 1996 - Part 2

So... I found this awesome website. Looks crappier than most and is definitely competing with MySpace for a "ugliest website ever award".

Not that this is too unusual, but this site is from 2006, and not 1996 despite it looks, genuine Michael Jackson midi music and the obligatory marquee-text.

The best part? It's alledgedly a freakin' webdesign company! Obviously they must be pretty skilled, after all they make these wild claims:

"We offer extremely good rates and have a track record of building websites and putting adsense on them and making clients as much as $40-50 a MONTH!! We have the screenshots to prove it."

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A little bit of health, a little bit of fun

Yesterday I was out at a friend's place. He lives in a cabin down by the seaside on Nesodden, right outside Oslo. In fact, he lives right here, in the middle of that spot. If you zoom out, you should be able to get a better view of things. Nice place.

Here's a photo of the view from the cabin.

To get there, you have to walk down the side of the mountain. It's a pretty long walk. Once there, you can forget about things like nearby stores or nearby anything. You're pretty much outside the rest of the world.

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Second quote of the day

Right. I already had a quote of the day, but this one caught me of guard, and I simply need to post it.

Behold Ka-bar of Undernet #linux:

"I believe in these difficult and mean-spirited times in which we live there needs to be a message of hope. Just a single image that speaks to us of love, harmony, peace and joy. An image that suggests the universal brotherhood of man. I have found that image, and I ask that all of you take a moment to be inspired by it..."

Then he linked this image:

Yup. There is hope.

Quote of the day

"Filesharing is killing the music industry. The music industry is killing music. Feel free to share." (Source unknown)

That's all. I just happened to like that quote.