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Ok, the US election of 2013 just passed by. We got some perspective. I got a link collection of articles worth reading on the subject.

• Expect nothing
• Blame no one
• Do something

A Skeptic’s Guide to Nonviolent Resistance

Glenn Greenwald has a sharp pen, this time discussing the psychology of current warmongering.

This weeks political links include pieces from Mark Ames on who's the new ruler of Greece and some comments on the banality of evil as exemplified by John Pike.

This week, we have The Street Light going throug some official statistics and we have Matt Stoller reporting on The Anti-politics of Occupy Wall Street.

Truth Out: Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

The Atlantic: People Don't Realize How Fragile Democracy Really Is

Good point given in The Guardian: The killing of Osama bin Laden may only have turned us into our enemies

Well written piece by Dave Weiner on Scripting News

Dr. Kaku on surviving school, keeping the curiosity, building an atom smasher in the garage in High School...

Todays link: Naked Capitalism: Everything you need to know about Torture

NASA have an idé on which plats to grow fresh air on Mars. So why can't we grow fresh air in the office?

There's been a lot of talk about Wikileaks and Julian Assagne lately. It's a subject that youth talks a lot about, so I figured it would be a good idea to share my favourites writings on the subject so far.

I was amazed this spring when I saw some of these photos at a photo fair in Stockholm. Check them out, they are among the oldest color photos there are.

TED talk on Longevity (found on Presentation Zen)

This is a post on Economics. You have been warned.

Just a few years ago there were lot's of talk about the Supercycle that the economy was supposedly in. The theory went that we would never have bad times for a long time, because this time it's different. This time we we're not in a usual business cycle. We we're in a Supercycle.

Then came 2008, especially the autumn.

I will now present my argument that the talk of the Supercycle was fundamentally correct. People just didn't understand the end game of a Supercycle.

Some more Folbot Yukon experiences, this time from Bråviken, about one and a half hour south of Stockholm.

We're about to enter grim times, but I have hope. Perhaps not of a quick recovery, but rather that finally people are starting to ask the right questions and finally we may get back at questioning how a good life and a good society really is built.

Stockholm, known as the Venice of the North, a great capital to kayak in. How many times have I commuted over Årstaviken (WGS84: N 59º 18.360' E 018º 03.140' ) wondering what it would be to kayak around Årsta Holmar (WGS84: N 59º 18.448' E 018º 02.751' ). Rumor it has that there is a beaver hut somewhere on the island.

After finally buying a folding kayak, this is the story of the maiden tour with some comments on the initial impressions of the new kayak.

Robots that needs volountarily help by humans in order to reach their destination.

A simple message, presented in a very effective way.

Boston Globe with stunning photographs as always, this time it is photos of earth hour all round the globe as lights are turned off.

After a wonderfull Mondaybar Spring Cruise, I just got to post some wonderful memories. Speaking of the cruise: Sophie Sugar played a wonderfull set (book her again soon pls), Signum blew the roof off balancing hard and melodic trance. In a bold move, Mondaybar booked Armin van Buren who did a great set (just watch the crowds) but then Johony Boy put an end to the Crusie with an even better set.

I have owned a Strida folding bicycle for over one and a half years, so I think it's time I share my experiences with this unique bicycle design. First of all. I really love this bicycle. It's one of the bes buys I ever have done, despite this, I would say the design still needs some improvments.

Note: This review is based on my experiences with the Strida version 3.2 with plastic wheels.

From the Boston Globe

I had made the goal to learn to roll with kayak before end of march this year. I just did it repeatedly today.

That word I've been looking for all the time. From Infectious Greed.

This is not an economy blog, this place is more about improving the world. However, there is a quote from Thomas Palley I have run across a few times that makes my feel uneasy, because if he is right, many others are wrong (especially in the media) and we will have lots if improvement to do in decades to come.

It's Christmas now. To help you think about the really important things in life, I have two things I want to share with you.

November 2008 is truly a significant period in history. I always believed November is the time for changing. November 4:th supports that observation.

I've said it before, we are living through events happening only once in a lifetime.

My brother sent me this link on 3D mammography.

Tuseday 23 september 2008 is overshoot day.

The financial systems worldwide is in turmoil. The U.S. is saving what it must save at considerable taxpayer cost. Much more can be done, but the politics of moral hazard is blocking action. I will argue there is a much greater moral hazard issue to take into consideration.

I was sent a link recently about missing information of the well known Swedish basket photographer Fricis Forstmanis. I guess it's time to do something about it.

I was ignorant the day the wall fell. I did not realize at all the significance for the world of the events those days. I was living in a world about to shift major direction and I was oblivious of all that. Not this time around.

This years autumn recruitment of new scouts have so far been a disappointment with respect to the number of new scouts.

First post after summer leave: the Styrobot

This is awesome. "people have been driving snow mobiles on water for a long time, so why not go all the way to Finland?"

Writing a blog is nothing special at all, at least nothing more than joining a free conversation. This can be a little bit confusing if you are used that conversations are somehow controlled or managed by some 'important' institution. No more. The latest foolish idéa about getting the old days back is that bloggers shoudl be kept under som sort of EU control. Lets looka at a few reasons this is going to look very foolish 24 months from now.

In need for some signal and filter analysis software I turned to Octave.

The Curse of Oil on BBC Four

MySQL CEO Mårten Micklos on april 1:st

Lately there have been reports of Microsoft brand name declining.

Yet another report is out, this one stating 62% of IT projects "failed".

I just got to link to this awesome awareness test

Upgrading a server is always risky. This time I got saved by VMWare.

What happens when SMS gatewayes comes with a HTTP/S API? It just begs to be creatively used, doesn't it?

A few words on why word- and pdf- documents on the web will quickly be obsolete.

The Usual - Born in a Storm

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has a great post out on Economic oversteering .

1,2, tradition.

Short intro on NMT450 closing and new economy countries skipping a generation or two

Short summary of 2007 and forecast for 2008

Here I will attempt to answer the question if it is worth to switch bank account from a normal low interest rate account to a niche bank with a higher interest rate.

The way we arrive at the answer will also serve as a good example on the consequences of Swedish taxes.

It seems to take ages for the swedish international prosecutors to come up with something to accuse The Pirate Bay responsibles for.

Kid's on the street has started to address me stating I have a cool bicycle. Quite a new experience to me.

It's a big time rumor and perhaps false. But should it be true...

Resource planning in order to minimize slack will have to introduce buffer time. Or if I may say so, reinvent slack.

IBM has annonced a partnership with MySQL. How could once the little MySQL projects so effectively have grown to be a serious alternative IBM DB2 software?

Open Source vs. clever thiefs.

A recent discussion with a friend of mine on the subject of how we relate to the amount of information available today has prompted me to write a few lines on information responsibillity, freedeom, choice and past-and-present.

By accident, I found the solution to a problem I've been researching for a while: to find a way to create a jpg thumbnail from a pdf document.

Summarizing 2006, celebrating New Year in Dresden and looking forward into 2007.

A friend of mine who worked in Tokyo for a few weeks told me everybody knows it is going to happen. They expect the death toll and devestation to be massive. Yet they all live as if it never is going to happen. And so do we when it comes to our environmental issues.