Now and then I get these words when talking to others about Apple Computers. I’m not going into the intricate details of why I choose Apple as the manufacturer of my personal computer, except for the fact that, apart from the other things I like about Apple, Apple as a corporation, is a fairly [...]

A bit of a rant:
“Give people what they want” - “It’s what they want” - “We are afraid that this is not what our customers want” - “Our target group analysis says that the segment we’re aiming at want this”.
“Give the people bread and acting (and they will obey you)”
- Julius Caesar
“Turn stone into bread [...]

The $100 Laptop Project is a non-profit association dedicated to research to develop a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionise how the world’s children could be educated, co-founded by tech guru Nicholas Negroponte. Bill Gates has scorned the project. This for the apparent reasons that

It’s based on Linux
Google backs up the project (Microsoft hates Google)
He [...]

Forget fancy AJAX technologies and superpowered blogs. This is the ‘real’ ‘web 2.0′…

Loose Change 911. A very disturbing documentary about 11th of September 2001. You can watch it or get a copy in its entirety at Google Video. Conspiracy theory? Perhaps. But if just a quarter of it is true, the US’ government has some things to explain…

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
-Evelyn Beatrice Hall

 
I’ve been a bit reluctant in relation to bringing a post about the turbulent aftermath of the Danish newspaper Jylland-Posten’s publication of the twelve Mohammed drawings. Several parties, all with different agendas has taken on the [...]

Making art is all about paying attention to life, something our escapist culture works so diligently to negate.
-Michael Rabiger

 
With that in mind, and if we see movies as part of the escapism, it must be the highest goal of a moviemaker to provide an insight to the world, that the audience themselves might had been [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if you were so stinking rich, that you could buy a whole week full of empty & silenced commercials in all major media in an entire country? One week with total commercial silence? I know, commercials are everywhere, and providing total silence would be futile, but still…