Martin Rebas - About me - About this site - Media attention/title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.rebas.se/css/standard.css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.rebas.se/js/standard.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">shw=1;</script> </head> <body> <div class="stardiv"></div> <div class="menudiv"> <div class="menudivtop"> <dl id="menu"> <dt onclick="javascript:show('smenu1');"><img src="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/menuplus.gif" alt="" />About me</dt> <dd id="smenu1"> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.rebas.se/aboutme/generalfacts.php">General facts</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.rebas.se/aboutme/favoritebooks.shtml">My favorite books</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.rebas.se/aboutme/favoritemovies.shtml">My favorite movies</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.rebas.se/aboutme/favoritecomics.shtml">My favorite comics</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.rebas.se/aboutme/favoriteillustrators.shtml">My favorite illustrators</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.rebas.se/aboutme/otherthings.shtml">Other things I like</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.rebas.se/aboutme/photos.shtml">Photos</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('', 'diary.png','Journal entries and travelogues. In Swedish, except for the Roskile festival travelogue from 1998. For some reason, this page contains more photos than the Photo page.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/aboutme/diary.shtml">Dagbok</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.rebas.se/aboutme/musicdiary.php">Music diary</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('', 'planktondesign.png','My company. Contact me if you need help with web design, programming or illustration.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/aboutme/planktondesign.shtml">Plankton Design</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.rebas.se/aboutme/aboutthissite.shtml">About this site</a></li> </ul> </dd> <dt onclick="javascript:show('smenu2');"><img src="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/menuplus.gif" alt="" />Creative</dt> <dd id="smenu2"> <ul> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('portfolio_icon.jpg','illustrationportfolio.png', 'My new illustration/web design portfolio!', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://portfolio.rebas.se/">Illustration portfolio</a></li> <li><a href="http://robotjesus.rebas.se/">Robot Jesus store</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('childdraw_icon.jpg', 'childhooddrawings.png','In Swedish. Barnteckningar med kommentarer.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/creative/barnteckningar.shtml">Barnteckningar</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('comics_icon.jpg', 'mycomics.png','Considering how obsessed I am with drawing, storytelling, and the comics medium, I\'ve created surprisingly few comics. Nevertheless, you can find a couple of comics I\'ve made here.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/creative/mycomics.shtml">My comics</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('pengo_icon.jpg', 'mywebgames.png','I\'ve written lots of small computer games, some of which you can play on the web.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/creative/mywebgames.shtml">My web games</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('amiga_icon.jpg', 'myamigagames.png','Old computer games I\'ve written for Amiga computers.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/creative/myamigagames.shtml">My Amiga games</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('illuminatus_icon.jpg', 'illuminatus.png','Ray tracing is a method for creating highly realistic images by calculating how light rays bounce. In 1999, I wrote a ray tracer in Java, which I called Illuminatus.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/creative/illuminatus.shtml">My ray tracer</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('recipes_icon.jpg','recept.png', 'In Swedish. Blandade kvalitetsrecept.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/creative/recept.shtml">Recept</a></li> </ul> </dd> <dt onclick="javascript:show('smenu3');"><img src="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/menuplus.gif" alt="" />Humor</dt> <dd id="smenu3"> <ul> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('','worlddomination.png', 'I\'ve made an attempt at taking over the world. I didn\'t succeed very well.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/humor/worlddomination.php">World domination</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('','quoteusage.png', 'Do you use quotation marks for emphasis? Maybe you can \'win\' my \'award\'!', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/humor/quoteaward.shtml">Quote usage 'award'</a></li>  <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('','trivselmjolk.png', 'In Swedish. Ett brev jag skickade till Falköpings Mejeri.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/humor/trivselmjolk.shtml">Trivselmjölk</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('','ingenreklam.png', 'In Swedish. Skyltar att skriva ut och använda om man vill slippa direktreklam.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/humor/ingenreklam.shtml">Ingen reklam, tack!</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('','sketches.png', 'Various sketches and plays. In Swedish, except for the nativity play.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/humor/sketches.shtml">Sketcher</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('', 'newage.png', 'In Swedish. Blandade New Age-texter som förtjänar mer spridning.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/humor/newage.shtml">New Age-reklam</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('','oldstuff.png', 'Some old pages from 1995. (DBase-cam, HTML virus, the -2 club, Snow-Alien and the Irrational Numbers pages).', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/humor/oldstuff.shtml">Misc old stuff</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('', 'stolenhumor.png', 'Quotes, jokes, and general fun things that other people have written.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/humor/stolenhumor.shtml">Stolen humor</a></li> </ul> </dd> <dt onclick="javascript:show('smenu4');"><img src="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/menuplus.gif" alt="" />Writings</dt> <dd id="smenu4"> <ul>  <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('celestine_icon.jpg', 'niondeinsikten.png','In Swedish. James Redfields bok Den nionde insikten är en av de mest sålda böckerna i världen under nittiotalet. Min analys går igenom boken kapitel för kapitel för att se hur mycket av innehållet som är trovärdigt.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/writings/niondeinsikten.shtml">Om "Den nionde insikten"</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.rebas.se/writings/kristenfraga.shtml">En fråga om kristendomen</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.rebas.se/writings/livetsmening.shtml">Om livets mening</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('', 'ifeelsafenow.png', 'News articles about how schools, airports and other places are being made safer for everyone.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/writings/ifeelsafenow.shtml">I Feel Safe Now</a></li> <li><a onmousemove="javascript:showtip('', 'atheism.png', 'A collection of texts related to atheism.', event);" onmouseout="javascript:hidetip();" href="http://www.rebas.se/writings/atheism.shtml">Atheism</a></li>  </ul> </dd> <dt onclick="javascript:show('smenu5');"><img src="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/menuplus.gif" alt="" />Links</dt> <dd id="smenu5"> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.rebas.se/links/index.php">My start page</a></li> </ul> </dd> <dt onclick="javascript:show('smenu6');"><img src="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/menuplus.gif" alt="" />Contact me</dt> <dd id="smenu6"> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.rebas.se/contactme/emailform.php">E-mail form</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.rebas.se/contactme/gstbok.php">Guestboo</a><a href="http://www.rebas.se/contactme/gstbok.php">k</a></li> </ul> </dd> </dl> </div> <form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search" target="_top"> <img src="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/search_title.gif" alt="Search Rebas.se" title="Search Rebas.se" /><br /> <input type="text" name="q" size="14" maxlength="255" value=""></input> <input type="hidden" name="domains" value="www.rebas.se"></input> <input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="www.rebas.se"></input> <br /> <a style="margin-left: 17px; border: 0 none;" href="http://www.rebas.se/feed.xml"><img src="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/rss20.gif" border="0"></a> </form> </p> <p> <br /> <a style="margin-left: 17px; border: 0 none;" href="http://robotjesus.rebas.se/"><img src="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/robotjesussidebarlogo.gif" border="0"></a> </p> <br /> </div> <div class="floatbox" id="tooltip"> <table summary="" width="390" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td height="18" background="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/bubbla_top.png"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td background="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/bubbla_mid.png"> <table summary="" width="390" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="50"> </td> <td><span id="toolpic"><img src="" alt="" /></span></td> <td width="15"> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <span id="headerpic"><img src="" alt="" /></span><br /> <div class="paddedtext"> <span id="tooltext">-</span><br /> </div> <br /> </td> <td width="25"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25" background="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/bubbla_bot.png"> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="topbox"> <img src="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/standardtop.png" alt="" /> </div> <div class="topboxtitle"> <a href="http://www.rebas.se/"><img src="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/standardtopmartin.png" alt="Martin Rebas" border="0" /></a> </div> <div class="path"> <a href="http://www.rebas.se/">HOME</a> <img src="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/menuarrow.gif" alt="-> " /> About me <img src="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/menuarrow.gif" alt="-> " /> <a href="http://www.rebas.se/aboutme/aboutthissite.shtml">About this site</a> <img src="http://www.rebas.se/gfx/menuarrow.gif" alt="-> " /> Media attention </div> <div class="content"> <img src="http://www.rebas.se/titles/mediaattention.png" alt="Media attention" /><br /> <div class="paddedtext"> <ul> <li><p>In August 1995, Z Magazine wrote that my site was one of the 50 most creative personal sites in Sweden.</p></li> <li><p>In June 1996, Websight Magazine wrote about my pi pages.</p></li> <li><p> In November 1997, I won the Swedish national home page competition Hemsides-SM, and got to say confused things about my site on TV. To celebrate, I wrote a <a href="muta/index.html">new, flashy index page</a>.</p></li> <p> <div align="center"><img alt="Passagen" src="pics/passagen.gif"> <img alt="Hemsides-SM" src="pics/hemsidessm.gif"><br /><br /></div> </p> <li><p>In February 1998, I was interviewed about Pi Approximation Day on Israeli radio. This still rates as one of the most unlikely things I've ever done.</p></li> <li><p>In April 1999, I temporarily used part of Alphaville's song <i>Sounds like a melody</i> in my game AI Pengo without Alphaville's permission. Soon, Alphaville's webmaster and manager contacted me, and I expected them to ask me to remove the song. Surprisingly, they wrote that I could continue to use it, asked if they could have the game on their official site, and even asked me if I could make an Alphaville game for the PC(!).</p></li> <li><p>In July 1999, Stina Johansson wrote a <a href="http://www.rebas.se/showimage.php?img=aboutme/pics/sommarsurf.jpg">ridiculously nice review</a> of my site in <A HREF="http://sydsvenskan.se/">Sydsvenskan</A>. </p></li> <li><p>In November 1999, my page was mentioned in the Swedish TV show Sajber.</p></li> <li><p>In January 2002, my <A HREF="../humor/worlddomination.php">world domination page</A> was mentioned in a <i><A HREF="http://www.shift.com/">Shift</A></i> article about, um, world domination.</p></li> <li><p>In July 2003, an article in <A HREF="http://observer.guardian.co.uk">The Observer</A> about "23 things you always wanted to know about numbers" contained a reference to my Pi Approximation Day pages.</p></li> <li><p>In August 2005, <A HREF="http://www.gp.se">Göteborgs-Posten</A> wrote about my <A HREF="pics/femmyror-gp.jpg">elephant flag</A>. </p></li> </ul> <br /><br /> </div> </div> </body> </html>