The Musings of an Olm
April 21st, 2007 |
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) arrived just a few days ago with promises of better hardware compatibility, included proprietary software and drivers, and more user friendliness. Was it worth the wait? And more importantly - Is it finally time to “Make the Switch”? Read my review of Ubuntu 7.04 to find out!
March 5th, 2007 |
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One would think that all this fancy modern technology we have today would not only bring crappy webcam videos on YouTube to the people, but also say, make rigging elections and cheating in politics more difficult? Most major software companies today put millions on making computing safer and fiddling with computer systems more difficult - but that doesn’t really mean squat when some key systems in the US for example are still not protected enough. Systems that should be protected because their safety can be decisive importance for the future of one of the most powerful countries today and indeed the whole world.
Ok, so we all now that Bush jr. got into office by rigging the elections back in 2000. It was so obvious that many people all over the world were outraged at how a country forcing democracy on the rest of the world wouldn’t even be able to conduct fair elections itself. But somehow the cheater remained at his post. In 2004 it was time again. By this time everyone knew that the elections weren’t going to be fair and indeed the cheating was done more discreet this time. So again, people didn’t care… at least not enough. But what many people don’t know even today is how close it really was! By slightly over dramatizing one could say that the US presidential election in 2004 was decided by little more than 500 votes.
March 1st, 2007 |
Instead of writing a long boring post about atheism and why I am and “atheist”, or disbeliever, I will instead supply Jonathan Miller’s Brief History of Disbelief part I and II (all hail Google!). So you just kick back, relax and watch these two hour long documentaries about one of the most controversial topics in social history: The belief - or rather lack of belief - in religion.
Very interesting stuff, I promise. I can personally identify strongly with this man and sign just about all that is said in these documentaries. If you’re not an atheist yourself then perhaps this might be a glimpse of what’s behind that atheist curtain.
Part I:
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Part II:
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So say we all!
December 19th, 2006 |
I’m not an American - I’m a proud Finnish European. But since we Europeans have a very bad habit of repeating all the really terible mistakes our American “friends” do, I feel I should also join the race for internet neutrality. So everyone, please check out this short propaganda film about why the Internet shouldn’t be owned by gready capitalist a-holes 
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All hail the Net!
December 15th, 2006 |
The issue of Creationism is one that is getting more and more irritating. These creationists and intelligent designers (IDers) are popping up like wildflower all over the place and I feel something preventive must be done now. Before the minds of our young (and weak old!) are littered with this ID trash.
I won’t go on debating this issue right now but I’m looking forward to writing something more extensive about Intelligent Design vs. Science sometime in the future.
But before I do, check out these podcasts from Guardian Unlimited’s Science Weekly. The debate is covered very well from both sides and one of the main issues is: should Intelligent Design be taught as science?
» Science Weekly for December 11th: Creationism Special
» Creationism extra podcast
» And join the debate on the website