South Park & The Concept of “Too Soon”?
In the just-aired episode of South Park, Hell on Earth 2006, recently deceased crocodile hunter Steve Irwin made an appearance. In the episode, he has gone to hell and attends Satan’s Halloween costume-party, the stingray that killed him still hanging from his chest. The full episode can be watched online.
Now I’m a die-hard fan of [...]
I’m A Google Boy
When my Firefox starts, at home or at work, it loads my Google Personalized Homepage with my Google ToDo List, my Google Calendar, my Google Notebook and a preview of my Google Gmail. My bookmarks are syncronized using Google Browser Sync. Now I’m wondering what I did before Google. I wonder how long it’ll be [...]
Maximize Windows!
So, being an interface designer, interface developments in the operating systems interest me; differences between the operating systems especially. One such difference is the _maximize window_ behaviour.
Danish PM Admits Faults In Iraq Strategies
Sitting here with the morning coffee, waiting for the rhythm of the day to settle in, I’m reading in the newspaper. It says that Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the danish Prime Minister who unilaterally chose for Denmark to participate in the Iraq war, admits the invasion strategy had it’s faults and shortcomings.
It’s roughly 3? years since [...]
Why Do People Pick Annoying Ringtones?
I have discovered that people who use cellphones a lot tend to pick the most annoying ringtones of all. Be it plain rings that echo like tinnitus, or snippets of songs your neighbour listens to Thursday nights when you want to sleep. What is wrong with the picture? Shouldn’t users trained in the arts of [...]
Nintendo DS Lite Review
This weekend I bought a black Nintendo DS Lite and a copy of New _Super Mario Bros._ This is a direct result of having tried one of the three others that co-workers invested in.
Noscope Micro-News Update #1 [Update 2]
This weekend saw the outing of Noscope. This was due to the DNS having to update after my switching domain registrar to something danish. Emailing me will most likely still cause trouble for a while. Until this is fixed, please mail me at my gmail account (asmussen). Thanks to the swift support of Armada Hosting, [...]
Flash Component: log() Debugger
If you develop Flash applications, you’ll know the need to debug the code. The internal debugger is, well, internal, and sometimes it’s necessary to be able to debug outside of Flash.
Enter log(). As an external/embedded alternative to Flash’s built-in trace() function, log() does exactly the same, but in a debug-window you drag onto the stage [...]
600.000 Iraqis Dead Due To Invasion
According to a recent study, more than 600,000 people in Iraq have been killed since the U.S. invaded in 2003 to lead Iraqis to peace and democracy.
That’s 20 times higher than the figure the White House has bandied about.
Many of the dead, say the team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists who conducted the study, would [...]