It’s official: pidgeons are faster than ADSL!! A group of users in Israel tested their Wi-Fly network, i.e. pidgeon-powered wireless internet, and found it to be faster than the ADSL infrastructure. Go pidgeons!
Pidgeon-Empowered wireless internet
One of potentially many entries in this brand new category. Today, I shall rant about the movie business in Norway, particularly the premiere of the long-awaited Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Why is it that the US gets the movie on April 29th, i.e. in just a few days from now, while we have to wait until July 29th? What is the sadistic logic behind this? Some movies have worldwide premieres, like Star Wars, Matrix, Lord of the Rings… I’m sure there are others, but the point is, why is it that some movies are considered “worthy” by the forces that be, while others get stuck on the way over the Atlantic?
Does this kind of situation not encourage people to obtain illegal copies of movies? History has shown that screeners leak out, movies get filmed with home cameras and are distributed on the net, etc etc. One can argue that the US market is larger and more capable of handling movie premieres all the time and that Norway just cant handle it, but why is it Iceland gets to see the Guide one week after it premieres in the US?! Here’s the interesting thing:
Population of Iceland: just under 300,000
Population of Norway: about 4.5 million
Population and market size can’t possibly matter!
I am really looking forward to this movie, I am not happy about this whole situation and I’m trying not to panic.
A great collection of quotes/slogans/I don’t know what to call them!
Particularly relevant for my current resarch activities at The Norwegian School of Management:
Other good ones:
And finally, for anyone who has spent countless hours debugging code:
Thanks to Julia for the link!
A bunch of MIT students got together and wrote a program that generates computer science papers, complete with graphs, figures and references. Having generated a paper, they submitted it to a conference taking place in July in Florida and got accepted!
Their website features the generator, so that you can make your own random CS papers, and their correspondence with the organizers of the conference.
Great fun!
SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator
They even made BBC News.
Thanks to Ottar for sending me this!
This is an excellent short film by Nacho Vigalondo.
7:35 in the morning
The song lyrics to the song may be found here.
Also, I figured out the guitar chords:
Verse and chorus: E B D A
Bridge: B A B D