http://www.rebas.se/ Comics, illustration, humor, philosophy "In their opening briefs in the Viacom vs. YouTube lawsuit, Viacom and plaintiffs claim that YouTube doesn't do enough to keep their copyrighted material off the site. [...] For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom. Viacom's efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself." http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/03/broadcast-yourself.html "When he continued to wear the cowl despite repeated warnings, he was escorted from the premises by security guards. He has now received a grovelling apology saying that the government agency 'embraces diversity and respects a customer's religion'. He plans to sue Jobcentre Plus in Southend for discrimination, despite admitting he took up the 'faith' last year only as an excuse to wear hooded tops." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1258365/Jedi-believer-wins-apology-Jobcentre-kicked-wearing-hood.html "Coated carbon nanotubes could replace combustion engines and turbines. These power devices could be made 10 times smaller than today’s cell-phone batteries but still hold the same amount of power. Furthermore, unlike today’s batteries, the carbon nanotube variety would not contain any toxic metals. Strano said he was confident his team's discovery could be translated into commercial batteries within a few years." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35466087/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/ "There's a lot of data on teaching methods that students enjoy and learn from. I had some of these methods...inflicted...on me during my school days, and I had no intention of abusing my own students in the same way. And when I tried the sorts of really creative stuff I would have loved as a student...it fell completely flat. What ended up working? Something pretty close to the teaching methods I'd hated as a kid. Oh. Well. Now I know why people use them so much. And here I'd gone through life thinking my teachers were just inexplicably bad at what they did, never figuring out that I was just the odd outlier who couldn't be reached by this sort of stuff." http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/ "One can try to cut such conversations short, like a German acquaintance of mine did recently. He told a taxi driver in Iran he should stop talking nonsense because he as a dark-skinned person wouldn't have survived long in Nazi Germany. The taxi driver looked at him surprised and said: 'But I'm Aryan!'" http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,683966,00.html Only humans point declaratively, and we are much better at following the pointing of others to our visual periphery than to our visual center, and while looking down rather than up. “What was it outside central vision and in the lower visual field that was so urgent for our ancestors to see that it caused neurological changes to enable us to turn automatically in the direction of a gaze and a pointing finger?” Isbell asks. Her answer: snakes. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/04/cover-to-cover/7977 "Ratzinger issued a confidential letter to every bishop. In it, he reminded them of the extreme gravity of a certain crime. But that crime was the reporting of the rape and torture. The accusations, intoned Ratzinger, were only treatable within the church's own exclusive jurisdiction. Any sharing of the evidence with legal authorities or the press was utterly forbidden. Charges were to be investigated 'in the most secretive way ... restrained by a perpetual silence ... under the penalty of excommunication.' Nobody has yet been excommunicated for the rape and torture of children, but exposing the offense could get you into serious trouble. And this is the church that warns us against moral relativism!" http://www.slate.com/id/2247861/ http://nedroid.com/2009/05/party-cat-full-series/ I added the image Smakverket to the portfolio. I'm currently looking for web design/programming work. Check out the Web Design section of my portfolio to see examples of my designs! http://www.rebas.se/ I've updated my music diary page -- clicking a song now searches for the song on Youtube. http://www.rebas.se/ Boken Bellas Beslut, som jag illustrerat, röstades nyligen fram av 42000 barn och ungdomar som den bästa boken från 2008 i 14 till 19-årskategorin! http://www.rebas.se/ Jag har ändrat mitt recept för oknådat bröd och lagt till foton. http://www.rebas.se/