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		<title>Finlandsinsikter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Nybergh</dc:creator>
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		<description>Jag satt och behövde något att sysselsätta mig med häromnatten, så beslöt mig för att dela med mig några till meningslöshet generaliserade insikter jag gjort om mitt glest befolkande, lite isolerade hemland.
För att förstå Finland, börja med att stilla begrunda hur lantbruk i vårt klimat med hjälp av 1800-talsteknologi är desperat kamp mot svält och [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jag satt och behövde något att sysselsätta mig med häromnatten, så beslöt mig för att dela med mig några till meningslöshet generaliserade insikter jag gjort om mitt glest befolkande, lite isolerade hemland.</p>
<p>För att förstå Finland, börja med att stilla begrunda hur lantbruk i vårt klimat med hjälp av 1800-talsteknologi är desperat kamp mot svält och massdöd. Att man lämnat detta bakom sig får Finlands närhistoria som ett <a href="http://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Urho_Kekkonen&amp;oldid=10131578#Tiden_som_president">Kekkoslovakien</a> med hafsigt reglerad ekonomi, att se ut som storhetstid.</p>
<p>I denhär kontexten kanske vi inte skall vara så förvånade över att bo i en håla som utvecklat självillusion om kulturliv och europeisk tillhörighet så sent som under min 22-åriga livstid.</p>
<p>Vår håla, på kartan en baktung folkdansare som gör <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fi-map.jpg">hitlerhälsning</a>, har en befolkning som brukar gilla alkohol, karaoke, sportsändningar, hårdrock, tangomarknader, charterresor, internetspel, sms, dansband, Facebook, reality tv, samt kvälls- och facktidningar. Marknaden för de flesta andra typer av tidsfördriv är försvinnande liten och har i allmänhet en koncentrerad målgrupp i några mikroskopiska univeristetsstäder med närområden.</p>
<p>Mentaliteten som uppstår till följd av för ett västeuropeiskt land dåligt utbud på allting, begränsar avnjutandet av grannländernas kultur till sampling och import av alkohol och sexturism. Ljusa sidan av detta är att majoritetsbefolkningens språkkunskaper verkar tillräckliga för dessa ändamål. O andra sidan är grannländer som saknar spår av romersk imperialism kanske inte värda att befatta sig med, enligt europeisk standard.</p>
<p>Jessus, är mer uttråkad än jag trodde. Glad måndag.</p>
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		<title>Batch convert Irssi logs or other text files to UTF-8 using recode</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Nybergh</dc:creator>
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		<description>When I recently rented a VPS running a fresh install of Debian, I thought it was about time to stick with the now default Unicode locale, UTF-8. Doing this switch in a sensible fashion would include converting often used text files, such as chat logs from the older, more compatible but limited ISO 8859-15 charset.
(By [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I recently rented a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server">VPS</a> running a fresh install of <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a>, I thought it was about time to stick with the now default <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode">Unicode</a> locale, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8" target="_blank">UTF-8</a>. Doing this switch in a sensible fashion would include converting often used text files, such as chat logs from the older, more compatible but limited <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-15">ISO 8859-15</a> charset.</p>
<p>(By the way: <a href="http://www.linode.com/?r=1a6b2f3b1d8d45c56752699f0b2e3755964a7cc3" target="_blank">Linode</a>, my VPS host, seems to be <a href="http://hostingfu.com/article/linode-xen-vps-review">awesome</a>.)</p>
<p>My chat client <a href="http://www.irssi.org" target="_blank">Irssi</a> combined with <a href="http://www.openssh.com" target="_blank">OpenSSH</a>, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/" target="_blank">GNU Screen</a> and <a href="http://www.bitlbee.org" target="_blank">Bitlbee</a> provides me with hugely powerful social infrastructure in the form of continuous conversations that can be reached with any SSH client. Add logging and basic Unix tools to the mix and you have a silly fast and simple way of finding stuff you&#8217;ve discussed. In other words: my IRC/Live/Jabber logs are important works of reference and must be kept up to date with the system locale.</p>
<p>I failed to find any directly suitable or functional shell one-liners for this operation, until <a href="http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/tajnyman/" target="_blank">Thomas</a> handed me something that worked for me.</p>
<p>The conversion command later on this page converts all files in Irssi&#8217;s default log location, <code>~/irclogs</code>, and its subdirectories from ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8.  The conversion is performed on the files themselves<strong> </strong>using <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/recode/" target="_blank">recode</a> <strong>in their current location</strong>. Don&#8217;t run with scissors, please do yourself a favor by making a <a href="http://420.thrashbarg.net/jesus_saves_incremental_backups.jpg">backup</a> copy of your precious logs. The most obvious tool for that is perhaps:</p>
<p><code>"cp -r ~/irclogs ~/backup_irclogs"</code></p>
<p><strong>This is <a href="http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/tajnyman/">Thomas</a>&#8216; conversion command:</strong></p>
<p><code>"find ~/irclogs/* | while read i; do echo "Converting $i"; recode ISO-8859-15..UTF-8 "$i"; done"</code></p>
<p><a href="http://www.waino.org" target="_blank">Stig</a> later informed me about <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/" target="_blank">find</a> having exec capablities, but since I&#8217;m lazy and all that, you&#8217;ll have to optimze the above version yourself.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Nybergh</dc:creator>
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		<description>This entry was originally posted as a comment on Xuenay&amp;#8217;s blog. Also: doesn&amp;#8217;t LiveJournal support real hyperlinks in comments? Ultra-suckage.
I&amp;#8217;ve always found Twitter to be a very interesting concept, but I don&amp;#8217;t use the service myself. I find its minimalism compelling, but its terrible at representing conversations or replies. Jaiku on the other hand has [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>This entry was originally posted as <a href="http://xuenay.livejournal.com/311857.html?thread=1168689#t1168689">a comment on Xuenay&#8217;s blog</a>. Also: doesn&#8217;t LiveJournal support real hyperlinks in comments? Ultra-suckage.</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve always found Twitter to be a very interesting concept, but I don&#8217;t use the service myself. I find its minimalism compelling, but its terrible at representing conversations or replies. Jaiku on the other hand has a few very appealing mobile location centric features.</p>
<p>As with any blogging systems, it&#8217;s the content that makes the whole thing worth looking at. Some <a href="http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/statuses/766322414">really</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/statuses/866473022">entertaining</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/nostrich/statuses/908547080">writers</a> are currently <a href="http://twitter.com/shoesonwrong/statuses/889895840">using</a> Twitter to post hilarious one-liners &#8211; I follow these with RSS like I&#8217;d do with any blog, without being a registered user.</p>
<p>I use Facebook&#8217;s status feature in an almost Twitter-like fashion, mainly because almost everyone I know already is into Facebook. I&#8217;m very disappointed in FB&#8217;s walled garden-approach: status messages or replies to these, along with other potentially useful things, like posted links, don&#8217;t have obvious unique urls or archive views you can browse back to after some time, and are pretty much not reachable from the outside. It is, however possible to <a href="http://internetducttape.com/2007/08/08/broadcast-facebook-status-rss-filter/">get RSS feeds</a> both of your own and your friend&#8217;s status messages.</p>
<p>As my FB status messages really are something I consider a semi-daily writing exercise, I do want them archived. I save <a href="http://status.nybergh.net">my status messages</a> in a Wordpress install I set up together with <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/">Feedwordpress</a> and <a href="http://www.feedburner.com">Feedburner</a>, but this doesn&#8217;t of course save any comments someone may post on FB.</p>
<p>What I&#8217;m trying to get at is that microblogging, as a concept, needs to become more mature and standardized, or it will lag behind like instant messaging has done for a decade or so. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMicroBlogging">OpenMicroBlogging</a> and it&#8217;s reference implementation, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconica">Laconica</a> have the potential to revolutionize public discourse on the internet beyond what&#8217;s possible with today&#8217;s already interesting services. Proprietary platforms such as Twitter, Jaiku and Facebook have the advantages of large user bases and cell phone connectivity but they really need to use something like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMicroBlogging">OpenMicroBlogging</a> protocol for cross-service communication to become really useful.</p>
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		<title>Hufvudstadsbladet kan göra tre miljoner årlig förlust men saknar vettig webbupplaga</title>
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		<description>Enligt Hbl skall Konstsamfundet satsa på sina tidningar och få dem att gå på vinst även om situationen för närvarande inte utlovar solsken och jordgubbar med vispgrädde och konjak serverade i syrénbersån. Utan att kommentera dagstidningsbusiness som jag inte vet något om gnäller jag gärna om utbudet av svenskspråkiga Helsingforsnyheter på webben. Därav lyfter jag [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Enligt Hbl skall <a href="http://www.hbl.fi/text/inrikes/2008/6/30/d15036.php" target="_blank">Konstsamfundet satsa på sina tidningar</a> och få dem att gå på vinst även om situationen för närvarande inte utlovar solsken och jordgubbar med vispgrädde och konjak serverade i syrénbersån. Utan att kommentera dagstidningsbusiness som jag inte vet något om gnäller jag gärna om utbudet av svenskspråkiga Helsingforsnyheter på webben. Därav lyfter jag fram föjande del av ovan länkade artikeln:<a href="http://www.hbl.fi/text/inrikes/2008/6/30/d15036.php" target="_blank"> </a></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I dag gör Hbl en förlust på tre miljoner euro per år. Summan har länge varit rätt oförändrad, men så länge det fanns egna fastigheter och annan affärsverksamhet fick man ihop ett slutresultat som slutade på plus. I dag går det inte längre eftersom egendomen har överförts till KSF Media.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.nybergh.net/stuff/linked/2008/06/camelcase-utrikesministrarna-carl-bildt-och-alexander-stubb-hblfi-2008-05-29.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-146" title="CamelCase-ministrarna Carl-Bildt och Alexander Stubb, Hbl.fi 2008-05-29" src="http://www.nybergh.net/stuff/linked/2008/06/camelcase-utrikesministrarna-carl-bildt-och-alexander-stubb-hblfi-2008-05-29.png" alt="CamelCase-ministrarna Carl-Bildt och Alexander Stubb, Hbl.fi 2008-05-29" width="227" height="117" /></a>Med tanke på att denhär mängden pengar år efter år kan reserveras för nerspolning i toaletten som utgör främjandet av finlandssvensk tillvaro i Helsingforstrakten är det antagligen välmotiverat att undra varför <a href="http://www.hbl.fi" target="_blank">Hbls webbplats</a> är i befintligt skick.</p>
<p>Själva utseendet för Hbl.fi har jag inget emot, men webbversionerna av artiklar innehåller ibland underliga småfel som <a href="http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase">CamelCase</a>-sammanskrivningar (eller <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/BiCapitalization.html" target="_blank">BiCapitalization</a>, beroende på vem man frågar) av personnamn (<a href="http://www.nybergh.net/stuff/linked/2008/06/camelcase-utrikesministrarna-carl-bildt-och-alexander-stubb-hblfi-2008-05-29.png">se bild</a> eller sök efter DavidMiliband eller CondoleezzaRice i <a href="http://www.hbl.fi/text/utrikes/2008/5/29/d13965.php" target="_blank">denhär artikeln</a>). Dessutom ges det ut väldigt lite material som inte hör till pappersupplagan trots det är läsarens koncentration och inte spaltcentimetrar man slåss om på webben. Varför inte lyfta fram artiklar från fem och tio år sedan? Var är dagboksinläggen med namnsdagar, födelsedagar, insändarna och kolumnerna samt de enskillda RSS/Atom-strömmarna för dessa? Och hur är det med pressklipp och citat? <a href="http://epaper.hbl.fi" target="_blank">Epaper-facsimil</a> är en fånig idé, jag vill inte öppna en layout gjord för stora pappersark på min datorskärm; jag kanske kunde betala för en tidning, men då skall den minsann vara i läsbart webbsidesformat.</p>
<p>Ett annat riktigt problem är att hbl.fi inte tillåter kommentarer. <a href="http://parkvakten.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Helsingforsbloggen</a> som av någon anledning inhyses på Googles i 2003 kvarblivna Bloggertjänst publicerade inte heller kommentarinlägg senast jag försökte bidra, och kommentarantalet är alltid noll på alla inlägg. På veckobilagan <a href="http://www.volt.fi" target="_blank">Volts</a> sajt existerar kommentarer, men på äkta gammaltidningsvis utan att låta kommentarförfattaren länka till sin hemsida. Nofollow-taggning av länkar, vilket är jävligt fräckt mot kommentarförfattare, är redan en beklaglig standardpraxis på de flesta bloggar, men jag lägger ogärna alls ut mitt namn på webben utan att alls få länka vidare till en relevant hemsida.</p>
<p>Avstängd eller nonexistent kommenteringsfunktionalitet är en fullkomligt horribel miss för en modern nyhetskälla. Även om folkets breda lager i allmänhet <a href="http://keskustelusuomi24.blogspot.com" target="_blank">skriver idiotier</a> och största delen av allt <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law" target="_blank">oundvikligen är skräp</a> så har publicering på Internet, t.ex. i bloggsammanhang visat att distribution av läsarnas synpunkter <a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/top/special-lifehackers-guide-to-weblog-comments-126654.php" target="_blank">kan göra en text värdefullare</a>. Om modereringsproblem skulle uppstå är det väl enklast att anställa några gymnasielever och låta dem gå igenom otrevligmärkta kommentarer för skämtlön?</p>
<p>I <a href="http://www.hbl.fi/text/inrikes/2008/6/30/d15036.php" target="_blank">artikeln</a> jag citerade ovan nämns också att KSF-gruppens tidningar skall gå på vinst 2011. Jag hör till husis målgrupp och deras RSS-feed är också bland de första jag kollar varje dag, men att jag skulle bidra till Hufvudstadsbladets prenumerationsintäkter är inte sannolikt. Trots min önskan att läsa nyheter på svenska öppnar jag en papperstidning ungefär en gång per månad, så att jag skulle prenumerera på en upplaga av en tidning som skickas hem till mig i dött trä-format inom en snar framtid är en konstig idé. Även om vi för ett ögonblick förflyttar oss till en relativt trovärdigt potentiell verklighet där jag p.g.a. arbetsresor eller dylikt skulle sätta mig ner för att läsa en tidning ter det sig orealistiskt att jag skulle betala för ett medium vars andra läsare jag inte kan föra en konversation med, eller följa med vad andra sagt.</p>
<p>Trots sitt för mig egala geografiska perspektiv är <a href="http://www.vasabladet.fi" target="_blank">Vasabladet</a> tekniskt sett mindre värdelös som nyhetskälla enbart för att deras webbplats tillåter kommentarer. Bland finska webbpublikationer är <a href="http://www.uusisuomi.fi" target="_blank">nya Uusi Suomi</a> en positiv överraskning: webbplatsen är en hyfsad helhet rent tekniskt (<a href="http://drupal.org/node/182244" target="_blank">för övrigt Drupal-baserad</a>) och innehållet är mycket bättre än vad jag förväntar mig av vad som helst för instans som väljer att <a href="http://www.hbl.fi/text/kultur/2007/10/10/d6424.php" target="_blank">poängtera sin fosterländskhet</a>. Bra webbtidningar existerar och jag förstår inte varför just Hbl väljer bort egenskaper som krävs för att vara en av dem.</p>
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		<title>Idiot MEPs want EU to regulate blogging?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Nybergh</dc:creator>
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		<description>Good grief, what are these MEP asshats thinking?
I&amp;#8217;m against ownership concentration as much as the next guy, but I wonder what pluralism in media policy has to do with blogs putting &amp;#8220;journalists and other media professionals under pressure&amp;#8221;. I don&amp;#8217;t see how regulation of before unseen ways in which potentially independent, anonymous citizens can express [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nybergh.net/stuff/linked/2008/06/marianne-mikko.png"><img class="alignleft alignnone size-medium wp-image-141" style="float: left;" title="Marianne Mikko, brainfarter extraordinaire?" src="http://www.nybergh.net/stuff/linked/2008/06/marianne-mikko.png" alt="marianne-mikko" width="120" height="172" /></a>Good grief, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/story_page/058-31021-161-06-24-909-20080605STO30955-2008-09-06-2008/default_en.htm" target="_blank">what are these MEP asshats thinking</a>?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m against ownership concentration as much as the next guy, but I wonder what pluralism in media policy has to do with blogs putting &#8220;journalists and other media professionals under pressure&#8221;. I don&#8217;t see how regulation of before unseen ways in which potentially independent, anonymous citizens can express themselves could have any effect on privately owned media&#8217;s current ability or inability to act as a &#8220;watchdog for democracy&#8221;.</p>
<p>Do these clowns really believe that biased blogs are anywhere near of becoming as big of a threat to democracy as mainstream media already is in some countries? These MEPs were probably just participating in rituals of verbal incontinence at a press event to celebrate <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5564652" target="_blank">some report they&#8217;ve written</a>, but it&#8217;s always breathtaking to see how any topic related to the Internet is a good platform for letting clueless people sound like insane authoritarians.</p>
<p>Below are the most dubious parts of the <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/story_page/058-31021-161-06-24-909-20080605STO30955-2008-09-06-2008/default_en.htm" target="_blank">article</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Weblogs and other new on-line media pose new challenges, say MEPs. The growth of commercial media outlets for user-generated content, such as photos and videos, used without paying a fee, raises problems of ethics and privacy, and puts journalists and other media professionals under pressure, they say.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5564652" target="_blank">report</a> &#8220;on concentration and pluralism in the media in the European Union&#8221; &#8211; drafted by Estonian Socialist Marianne Mikko &#8211; also warns against the concentration of the media in the hands of a few companies because the media is vital to safeguarding democracy. &#8220;The media remains a powerful tool, which should not be treated solely in economic terms,&#8221; she said. The report calls for social and legal guarantees to journalists and editors. It will be put to the vote in the full plenary in the future.<br />
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Asked if she considered bloggers to be &#8220;a threat&#8221;, she said &#8220;we do not see bloggers as a threat. They are in position, however, to considerably pollute cyberspace. We already have too much spam, misinformation and malicious intent in cyberspace&#8221;. She added, &#8220;I think the public is still very trusting towards blogs, it is still seen as sincere. And it should remain sincere. For that we need a quality mark, a disclosure of who is really writing and why.&#8221;"</p></blockquote>
<p>[via:<a href="http://piraattiliitto.org/uutiset/2008/06/eu-haluaa-bloggaajat-kontrolliin-pakkorekisteroinnilla-ja-laatumerkinnalla" target="_blank">Piraattiliitto</a> (in Finnish)]</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Nybergh</dc:creator>
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		<description>Hewlett-Packard has released the source code of AdvFS under the GNU General Public License. AdvFS is an advanced file system (with features such as snapshots and storage pools) used by the company&amp;#8217;s high end Tru64 UNIX operating system.
This probably means that HP does a lot of business with Linux, and that there really is a [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hewlett-Packard has <a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/06/23/1728259.shtml" target="_blank">released</a> the <a href="http://advfs.sf.net/" target="_blank">source code</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdvFS" target="_blank">AdvFS</a> under the GNU General Public License. AdvFS is an advanced file system (with features such as snapshots and storage pools) used by the company&#8217;s high end <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru64_UNIX" target="_blank">Tru64 UNIX</a> operating system.</p>
<p>This probably means that HP does a lot of business with Linux, and that there really is a real demand for a GPL&#8217;d modern file system with features comparable to those of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS">ZFS</a>.</p>
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		<title>George Carlin Dead of Heart Failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Carlin, who died at the age of 71, was an American author, comedian and actor known for his dislike of taboos and defence of Free Speech.
A recording of his Seven Dirty Words monologue, which after being aired by a radio broadcaster caused a 1978 American Supreme Court ruling establishing that the F.C.C. can regulate what [...]</description>
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<p>Carlin, who <a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/23/128232" target="_blank">died at the age of 71</a>, was an American author, comedian and actor known for his dislike of taboos and defence of Free Speech.</p>
<p>A recording of his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words" target="_blank">Seven Dirty Words</a> monologue, which after being aired by a radio broadcaster caused a 1978 American Supreme Court ruling establishing that the <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pigfucker" target="_blank">F.C.C.</a> can <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.C.C._v._Pacifica_Foundation" target="_blank">regulate</a> what words one (still!) mustn&#8217;t use on regulated broadcast media in the US.</p>
<p>This is a good time for anyone who&#8217;s unfamiliar with the US broadcast <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Federal_Communications_Commission&amp;oldid=221095228#Consolidation_permissivity.2C_indecency_crackdowns" target="_blank">decency requirements</a> to take a look at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Television_Council" target="_blank">silliness</a> that shapes the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_United_States#Popular_culture" target="_blank">popular culture</a> we all consume.</p>
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<p><strong>See also:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTyzTJTNhNk&amp;fmt=18" target="_blank">Carlin performs The Seven Dirty Words Sketch<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o&amp;fmt=18" target="_blank">Carlin performs a rant on religion</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0QzkcOGlWk&amp;fmt=18">Carlin&#8217;s monologue on the &#8220;American Dream&#8221;</a></p>
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		<title>Introducing omglog.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Nybergh</dc:creator>
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		<description>For some time, I&amp;#8217;ve wanted another blog with a significantly lower threshold for posting short shutouts of those random links that keep me distracted. The source of this text, the notes section on my personal site, should  for a number of reasons be kept relatively tidy and reserved for longer posts with my own, [...]</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For some time, I&#8217;ve wanted another blog with a significantly lower threshold for posting short shutouts of those random links that keep me distracted. The source of this text, the notes section on my personal site, should  for a number of reasons be kept relatively tidy and reserved for longer posts with my own, original content. There&#8217;s at least the aspect of tagging and categorizing mutating into some completely different, before unseen beast on any site with more than 5 posts a day; designing sites with lots of different content is difficult. &#8220;Difficult&#8221; is a word I&#8217;d like to not be descriptive of a site that one day might become a CV of some kind.</p>
<p>I like writing longer texts, but length leads to a number of problems. Most importantly: the editing process of making a long text readable is a timesink in itself. To make things more difficult, I&#8217;m usually blogging in a language I don&#8217;t speak natively, which makes it hard to live up to the ideal of posting nothing but well structured divine words of wisdom, unless I choose to give writing indecent amounts of time I&#8217;d rather spend procrastinating in a different fashion. Also: no one reads long texts on the web, at least I know I hardly do so.</p>
<p>In other words, by writing only longer texts, fewer individual works get written and I&#8217;m giving any readers I might have less useful information. Choosing to focus on longer texts of a certain level of depth causes the the exclusion of stuff that really should be posted somewhere.</p>
<p><a href="http://omglog.com"><img title="Honestly, this isn't Twitter" src="http://www.nybergh.net/stuff/linked/2008/06/2008-06-18-omglogcom-with-prologue-theme-150x150.png" alt="omglog.com 2008-06-16" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p><strong>I think I&#8217;ve now solved this dilemma</strong>. No, I didn&#8217;t discover <a href="http://del.icio.us">Delicious</a>/<a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com" target="_blank">SU</a> or the for <a href="http://twitterholic.com" target="_blank">&#8216;merican Internet celebrity and presidential candidate types</a> so popular combination of <a href="http://twitter.com/" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://tinyurl.com/" target="_blank">Tinyurl</a> &#8211; the whole point here is to be self hosted, and besides I already use IRC and Facebook for real world contacts.</p>
<p>What I did do was to open a WP site at <strong><a href="http://omglog.com" target="_blank">omglog.com</a></strong>. Beginning with the <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/introducing-prologue/" target="_blank">Prologue</a> based design, it feels like a combination of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-blogging" target="_blank">microblog</a> and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblelog" target="_blank">tumblelog</a>. Keeping <strong><a href="http://omglog.com" target="_blank">omglog.com</a> </strong>within the bounds of being <strong>a simple diary of notable links</strong> is a high priority, as I believe that all the five to eight people who read my posts regularly don&#8217;t need another source of lengthy rants written in dysfunctional English.</p>
<p>Hoping to activate a few potential contributors, I chose to include the author&#8217;s name in the &#8220;permalink structure&#8221;, the way URLs look on the blog. To illustrate this: my entries can be reached at <strong><a href="http://omglog.com/thomas" target="_blank">omglog.com/thomas</a></strong>. All authors obviously have individual feeds with their own posts; my first use for this was to automatically import my posts as &#8220;notes&#8221; on Facebook and similar places.</p>
<p>I invite all readers of this to subsribe to the <strong><a href="http://feeds.omglog.com/omglog">main omglog feed</a></strong>. Anyone I know is also welcome to join <strong><a href="http://omglog.com">omglog.com</a></strong> as a contributor, consider contacting me if you need a place for storing interesting links in mainly English, Finnish and Scandinavian languages. The goal is to be very free-form, all contributors are asked to kindly define &#8220;interesting&#8221; by themselves, I&#8217;m already busy being interested on my own.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t want to post yourself, feel free to send me links (hello [at] omglog [dot] com).</p>
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		<title>Funny: The Ladybird Book of The Policeman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Nybergh</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nybergh.net/stuff/linked/2008/06/the_ladybird_book_of_the_policeman_police_at_work_easy_reading_files_image_14.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-131" style="vertical-align: bottom;" title="Let's go outside - here they are, our brave policemen, occupied with preventing the most disgusting crimes against nature." src="http://www.nybergh.net/stuff/linked/2008/06/the_ladybird_book_of_the_policeman_police_at_work_easy_reading_files_image_14-300x223.jpg" alt="\" width="300" height="223" /></a></p>
<p>The IRC gods delivered me this shall we say, <a href="http://420.thrashbarg.net/the_ladybird_book_of_the_policeman_police_at_work_easy_reading.html">updated version of one of those silly (60&#8217;s?) easy reading books</a> published by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ladybird_Books&amp;oldid=203947377#History" target="_blank">Ladybird</a>.</p>
<p>I was drinking some water when I began reading this and immediately almost drowned myself laughing.</p>
<p>[via:<a href="http://kriswithak.co.uk/ladybird" target="_blank">1</a>,<a href="http://seorant.ath.cx/police/ladybird.html" target="_blank">2</a> (dunno where this originates)]</p>
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		<title>Wiretapping in Sweden: all communications to be monitored?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rick Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party discusses a wiretapping bill called &amp;#8220;better adapted military intelligence gathering&amp;#8221; that soon may hit hard on the privacy of anyone relying on any electronic communication routed through Sweden.  A few quotes from the post:
&amp;#8220;At about 20 points in the national information infrastructure network, all traffic [...]</description>
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<p>Rick Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party <a href="http://english.rickfalkvinge.se/2008/06/04/more-on-the-ubiquitous-wiretapping-bill/" target="_blank">discusses</a> a wiretapping bill called &#8220;better adapted military intelligence gathering&#8221; that soon may hit hard on the privacy of anyone relying on any electronic communication routed through Sweden.  A few quotes from the post:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;At about 20 points in the national information infrastructure network, all traffic is spliced off and fed into the Försvarets Radioanstalt (FRA) agency. These points are placed as to catch all traffic entering and leaving the Swedish borders, but will catch much &#8211; if not most &#8211; domestic traffic too, for technical routing reasons. Electronic traffic, in particular, always takes the scenic route.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The insanity of the bill has been widely commented on by authorities:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;How did the bureaucrats respond [to the bill]? In unusually plain language, actually.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Police Board said that the bill “indicates a frightening lack of understanding for the requirements regarding the protection of citizens’ privacy that follow from our Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights”.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The National Registry Authority replied that this bill “is compatible with neither the Swedish Constitution nor the European Convention on Human Rights. Such an immense expansion of wiretapping of telephony and other forms of communication cannot be legislated under any circumstance.”&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Congratulations, Sweden, you&#8217;ve got <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_general_election%2C_2006">The AIDS of Right-Wing Government</a>.</p>
<p>[via:<a href="http://piraattiliitto.org/uutiset/2008/06/aanestys-edessa-kaikki-ruotsin-sahkoinen-viestinta-armeijan-valvontaan" target="_blank">Piraattiliitto (In Finnish)</a>]</p>
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