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Ville Ranta sutkauttaa ateisteista

Uuden Journalistin takasivulla on Vile Rannan piirtämä sarjakuva. Siinä keskiaikaiseen sotisopaan pukeutunut tyyppi ajaa Jumalaa ei todennäköisesti ole -mainoksella koristeltua bussia ja pitää monologin (lihavoinnit alkuperäisestä):

– Ai miks me vastustetaan uskontoa? He he. Okei…
– Siis ensinnäkin: ne ei anna ihmisten ajatella vapaasti!
– Ja… ne yrittää pakottaa ajattelemaan Jumalaa ja Jeesusta, vaikkei niitä oikeesti ole olemassa! Se on vitun tyhmää!
– Me vaaditaan että esim. kouluissa pitäs puhua vain tieteellisistä asioista…
– …ja hautajaisissa.
– Me halutaan auttaa ihmisiä tajuamaan totuus.
– Ja kai me nyt levitetään sitä, kun me kerran tiedetään.

Del.icio.us-linkit 24.03.2009 – 25.03.2009

Del.icio.us-linkit 22.03.2009 – 23.03.2009

  • Helpot Hurt-soinnut
  • GlobalPost kokeilee hoitaa ulkomaan uutisointia netissä uudella bisnesmallilla – That ad-supported reporting is only one part of the GlobalPost business plan. If it is to succeed, it will depend in part on how many people sign up for a separate paid section of the site, which was to have been available in test mode beginning last week but is now expected to go online in the coming days. Called Passport, it offers access to GlobalPost correspondents, including exclusive reports on business topics of less interest to general audiences, conference calls and meetings with reporters, and breaking news e-mail messages from those journalists. Passport subscribers, who pay as much as $199 a year, can suggest article ideas. –– a third revenue stream has been growing, as the company has signed up a growing number of news outlets, including The Daily News and The Boise Weekly of Idaho, to carry its reports and have use of its correspondents.
  • Post-Mortem – ‘ER’ Is Remembered Fondly (NY Times) – "I said to George it was going to be the No. 1 show in television by the fifth episode. He said no way. We wound up betting on it. It was No. 1 after the fourth episode and George still owes me that $5. Maybe if he reads this he’ll pay me."
  • BBC leikkaa 2 mrd, saa 30 milj lisää nettipalveluihin – kommenttina Suomen debattiin julkisesta palvelusta: "The trust explained that work would have to be done on the BBC's online services to justify the extra cash. They criticised the search facility on bbc.co.uk and said that not enough was being done to direct users to external websites. In particular, they asked management to think carefully about whether the BBC's website content was always distinctive. "
  • Google Maps Latitude, Longitude Popup

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Del.icio.us-linkit 19.03.2009 – 22.03.2009

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Del.icio.us-linkit 17.03.2009 – 19.03.2009

  • DHTML Lemmings – ei tarvitse siis Flash-plugaria toimiakseen
  • US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites – The New York Review of Books – Contents
    Introduction
    1. Main Elements of the CIA Detention Program
    1.1 Arrest and Transfer
    1.2 Continuous Solitary Confinement and Incommunicado Detention
    1.3 Other Methods of Ill-treatment
    1.3.1 Suffocation by water
    1.3.2 Prolonged Stress Standing
    1.3.3 Beatings by use of a collar
    1.3.4 Beating and kicking
    1.3.5 Confinement in a box
    1.3.6 Prolonged nudity
    1.3.7 Sleep deprivation and use of loud music
    1.3.8 Exposure to cold temperature/cold water
    1.3.9 Prolonged use of handcuffs and shackles
    1.3.10 Threats
    1.3.11 Forced shaving
    1.3.12 Deprivation/restricted provision of solid food
    1.4 Further elements of the detention regime….
  • Steven Johnson: Old Growth Media And The Future Of News – There should have been a ten-year evolutionary process: the ecosystem steadily diversifying and establishing its complex relationships, the new business models evolving, the papers slowly transferring from print to digital, along with the advertisers. Instead, the financial meltdown – and some related over-leveraging by the newspaper companies themselves – has taken what should have been a decade-long process and crammed it down into a year or two. That is bad news for two reasons. First because it is going to inflict a lot of stress on people inside the industry who do great things, and who provide an important social good with their work. But it’s also bad news because it’s going to distract us from the long-term view; we’re going to spend so much time trying to figure out how to keep the old model on life support that we won’t be able to help invent a new model that actually might work better for everyone.
  • Deep Secrets of ‘The Daily Show’ – työskentelytavoista jne
  • Songs You Used To Love – voi leikkiä arvausleikkiä

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Del.icio.us-linkit 14.03.2009 – 16.03.2009

  • The importance of stupidity in scientific research – At some point, the conversation turned to why she had left graduate school. To my utter astonishment, she said it was because it made her feel stupid. After a couple of years of feeling stupid every day, she was ready to do something else.

    I had thought of her as one of the brightest people I knew and her subsequent career supports that view. What she said bothered me. I kept thinking about it; sometime the next day, it hit me. Science makes me feel stupid too. It's just that I've gotten used to it. So used to it, in fact, that I actively seek out new opportunities to feel stupid. I wouldn't know what to do without that feeling. I even think it's supposed to be this way. Let me explain.

  • Art Spiegelman wants a blood test – “Breakdowns” offers a trek through Spiegelman’s early work and development as a comic artist, revealing what he grappled with before "Maus". At the lecture, Spiegelman presented slides from the book–rough, silly, strange and sometimes simple images that exemplified his mantra: “comics should be whatever you want them to be.”
  • 20 Vintage Photoshop Brush Sets – via suviko
  • Ameriikassa The Snuggie -lohdutuslakana käy hyvin kaupaksi (NYT Mag / Consumed) – The idea seems to be that if the product is goofy, it ought to be pitched in the most ridiculous manner imaginable. Don’t turn into camp; create camp. The upshot is something like the Pet Rock of the Depression 2.0 era […] while watching one particularly merciless parody, I was startled when YouTube served up a pop-over ad link for the actual Snuggie — a weird case of a brand sponsoring its own satirist.
  • Great and Telling Tales by Timothy Dickinson (video) – animoituja lyhyitä historiakatsauksia History Channelilta

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Del.icio.us-linkit 9.03.2009 – 12.03.2009

  • Ricky Gervais & Elmo, "How did you lose this interview?" (YT) – "Do you know what necrophilia is?"
  • Liverpoolissa voi opiskella Beatles-maisteriksi (NY Times) – Mark Lewisohn, author of several exhaustive books about the Beatles recordings and performances (“The Beatles Recording Sessions” and “The Complete Beatles Chronicles” will have to be at the top of the curriculum’s reading list) considers the prehistory so important that the first volume of the three-volume biography he is writing will take the story only through 1963.
  • What About The Nukes? – Most of the nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal date from the late 1970s and the 1980s, with anticipated lifetimes of 20 to 25 years; the most recent ones, the submarine-launched W88s, were added in 1988. Most of the warheads, in other words, are now past or nearing their estimated expiration dates. If nothing is done to maintain these hugely complex systems, they will in time fail, leaving the United States with no nuclear arsenal at all.
  • YLE Extrat – Yle Extrat on netti-tv-ohjelma, jossa nauretaan ohjelmanteon tiimellyksessä sattuneille mokille. YLE Areenan kautta voit lähettää mokavinkkejä.
  • Pictures of the Year -kisan voittajat

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Del.icio.us-linkit 8.03.2009 – 9.03.2009

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