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Ballpoint drawings

Take a look at Butt Johnson’s ball point drawings here. The detail is impressive. I particularly like Mario.

(via Giornale Nuovo by mr.h)

Mac mini – update coming?

Well, well. The Apple Store is offering refurbished Mac minis, and in Germany Gravis is out of stock of both mini models. Those two events together often signal a model update is coming shortly. One can live in hope – it would be about time…

Record companies gone crazy

This 29 second family video clip of an 18 month old boy which has a barely recognizable rendering of a Prince song playing in the background resulted in Universal filing a court complaint against YouTube to get the video taken down.

I think the music industry has completely forgotten who funds their . . . → Read More: Record companies gone crazy

Self-destructing e-mail

BigString has implemented a useful service. If you regret hitting “send” after you’ve sent an e-mail, you can recall it, so long as it was sent with their e-mail service. That is something I have wished I could do a number of times over the years. At work, I can – so long as . . . → Read More: Self-destructing e-mail

Back online now

We finished the renovation today, apart filling a couple of gaps around door-frames. I must say that I now think that an offer we saw before we started, to lay parquet for 17 Euro a square meter is very good value – and my knees and fingers (which got bashed hard by the hammer . . . → Read More: Back online now

Posting will be slow …

… or non-existent here now until we have finished decorating and laying parquet flooring in the office, which is where our computers are! Back in 1-2 weeks, depending on how we get on (have removed everything from the room now except the Macs and tables that they are on

Is the CIA counterfeiting US dollars?

An interesting article in today’s Handelsblatt caught my eye today. It appears that the CIA might have been funding illegal operations by bringing forged $100 bills into circulation. To date, bills worth $50 million have been confiscated.

A little searching on the internet turned up a short article in the English Wikipedia reporting . . . → Read More: Is the CIA counterfeiting US dollars?

32% of Europeans see USA as biggest rogue nation

Europeans consistently regard the US as the biggest threat to world stability, a new poll revealed in the Financial Times today: …Inhabitants of Spain are most concerned about the US, with 46 per cent of respondents naming America as the biggest threat.

European poll respondents – who also come from France, Germany, Italy and . . . → Read More: 32% of Europeans see USA as biggest rogue nation