– Ei kestä montakaan vuotta, kun meille tulee aluksia joissa on pieniä purjeita. Olen nähnyt näistä toimivia malleja, joita tullaan varmasti käyttämään, sanoo Viking Linen toimitusjohtaja Nils-Erik Eklund.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
More from the “science finding out what everybody knew already” section: magpies pass the mirror mark tests, which are taken to indicate that they recognize themselves (YouTube video). Previously, only mammals have passed the test.
In Public Library of Science: Biology.
Another new paper available on the web, “Social media and levels of freedom“, written by myself, Reijo Kupiainen and Juha Suoranta for the DREAM conference in Denmark.
My article “Žižek’s Phenomenology of the Subject” has appeared in the International Journal of Zizek Studies. The journal is open access.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
After rising for months, oil prices are now on the decline. SPIEGEL spoke with the head of the International Energy Agency about the future of oil prices, the growing importance of nuclear power and the quantity of oil left in the world.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Tanaka, do you know what your organization predicted the price of oil [...]
The band Marillion has been using p2p tactics for some time. The new album Happiness is the Road was mainly financed by the fans by pre-ordering the album in a special version: if one made the pre-order before March 2008 one’s name will be included in the album credits. Quite cool.
Now they have a [...]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
puhutaan Kirjojen yössä hetki myös Linkolan ajamanasta, kello 19 (ohjelmanumero on näköjään 667, “the neighbour of the beast”):
Tampereen Akateemisen ohjelma
torstaina 7.8.2008
KOHTAAMISPAIKALLA
16.30 Päivi Alasalmi: Valkoinen nainen
17.00 Alivaltiosihteeri: Virallisuus sihisi hississä
17.30 Milla Paloniemi: Kiroileva siili 2
18.00 Kati Tervo: Kesäpäiväkirja
18.30 Juho Juntunen: 666
19.00 Tere Vaden: Linkolan ajamana
19.30 [...]
2.8.: saattaapi olla jotakin raflaavampaakin:
It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more “provocative” than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface.
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Ahh, scifistin sydäntä lämmittää tämä tieto Marsista:
Nasa’s Phoenix lander spacecraft has for the first time identified water in a sample of soil [...]
