Centerkvinnorna tycker… Friday 31 October 2008, 11:57 / 戊子年良月三日11:57（鼠年霜降） Veckans plattnacke, taliban, pucko och idiot är Annika Qarlsson: Det handlar inte om kvinnans rätt till sin kropp, utan vad Annika Qarlsson vill att hon ska få använda den till. Permalink. (0) kommentarer. Andra poster om: politik, liberalism, prostitution, centerkvinnorna, begreppsförvirring. Svenska bloggar om: politik, liberalism, [...]

Så ja. Nu sköt Sverigedemokraterna sig i foten, igen. Rätten till sin egen kropp? BJAFS, tycker Mattias Karlsson i fantastiska fyran i ledningen för sd. Det där med kvinnans rättigheter är minsann inte så intressant i Sverigedemokraterna. “Det där tjafset som de bråkat och stökat om under så lång tid, det ska bort.” Så verkar [...]

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Anonymous writes “By now a lot has been reported on the new features and improvements in Ubuntu 8.10; it also looks like the OS is outperforming Vista in early benchmarking (Geekbench, boot times, etc.) At what point does this start to make a difference in the market place?” (And though there are lot of ways [...]

  Have you ever tried making sushi (or rather, maki)? It's simultaneously the easiest and hardest thing ever. All you have to do is roll rice, and a filling in some seaweed; but getting it to stick just right is where the art comes in. Art, meet science:   [$20, Taylor Gifts] [Via Book of [...]

I’ll admit it, I’m not a heavy user of paid search services, but today’s Google AdWords Quality Score changes have me picturing SNL’s Weekend Update team going "Oh really, Google?" More precise Quality Score calculationClickthrough rate (CTR) is the most significant component of Quality Score because it directly indicates which ads are most relevant to [...]

Nynäshamns kommun planerar att bygga en stor vindkraftspark utanför Landsort. Där vill man också bygga vågkraftverk enligt Uppsalamodellen. Orginalpost: Nynäshamn vill ha vågkraft

I've switched from shuffling around the condo in my flip-flops to shuffling around in extra-thick socks. I can't go outside without a jacket, a hat, and a pair of warmies. I've taken to walking around in my Slanket. All of this coldness makes me unhappy. But I can only imagine the additional suffering that the [...]

Typically, if you see an ad first, you are more likely to click that ad over the ad you see later. Meaning, in Google, the search ads are listed along the right hand column. If you are in position one… Orginalpost: Google AdWords To Take Ad Position Into Account For Quality Score

Taylor Pratt discovered a very quiet change made to Google AdWords policy for handling alcohol ads. Now, Google is allowing search ads for beer, wine and champagne to show up on Google.com. Google’s policy says they allow these ads, “since we consider beer, wine, and champagne to be… Orginalpost: Google Now Allowing Ads For Beer, [...]

The Google AdWords Blog announced that two new changes to the quality score is coming in the next few days. The first change is to make the quality score calculation score an ad’s CTR based on the ad’s position. The second change is to help enable certain ads to be promoted to the top… Orginalpost: [...]

Ever wonder how long it would take a dedicated soul to bust into your email, home network, or other password-protected places? Enter your character counts into Hackosis’ Brute Force Calculator, which crunches how long it would take a typical PC to get through. Don’t want to share your password stats? Get the count offline with [...]

Alltså, nu är Nuder den ödmjuka, inkännande charmören överallt. Jag och alla andra tänker väl »hmm, är det sådan han är, det hade jag aldrig fattat«. Innan jag kommer ihåg att det var han ju faktiskt inte när han hade chansen. Under mina år på Regeringskansliet levde han troget upp till sitt rykte som småpåve [...]

Från och med i dag, fredag, kommer 11-åringar att kunna se den nya Bond-filmen "Quantum of Solace". Kammarrätten sänker Statens biografbyrås åldersgräns från 15 till 11 år efter överklagande från filmbolaget Sony Pictures. Orginalpost: Bondfilmen får sänkt åldersgräns efter domstolsbeslut

Two of my friends, coincidentally named Alexis and Alex, emailed me yesterday with information about their latest and greatest AWS-powered products. Alexis works for CohesiveFT. Their new product, VPN-Cubed, creates encrypted, private VPN (Virtual  Private Network) connections between endpoints in a single cloud, between multiple clouds, and between the cloud and a physical data center. [...]

From today Google can now perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on any scanned documents that it finds stored in Adobe’s PDF format. OCR technology helps convert a picture (of a thousand words) into a thousand words and the words can now be searched and indexed. “A small but important step forward in our mission of [...]

Access to Google’s two blog services, Blogger and Blogspot, has been temporarily restored in Turkey. A court in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir had blocked them as the result of a complaint by the TV station Digiturk. They are now reactivating them ‘provisionally’ to enable Digitürk, that filed the original complaint about allegedly pirated video [...]

Trots att Sony Ericsson förnekar det finns det uppgifter som tyder på att arbetet med att ta fram mobiler med Googles operativsystem är i full gång. Orginalpost: Uppgifter om Google-mobil från Sony Ericsson

Häromdagen kom filmen Wassup 2008. Den blev en megahit. Resumé skrev om det såklart. Med vinkeln “Reklamkuppen Budweiser inte kan stoppa“. Nu framgår det inte riktigt i artikeln om Budweiser verkligen vill stoppa filmen, eller om det är något Resumés reporter tror att de vill. Vi känner igen resonemanget från världshistoriens kanske första riktiga megaviral, [...]

New at Terry Heaton’s PoMo blog: Despite what you hear, RSS has not “peaked” An insightful new report from Forrester (What’s Holding RSS Back?) suggests that RSS (Really Simple Syndication) as a tool for marketers is vastly underutilized and that growth of the technology is hindered by ignorance of the public. While RSS use has [...]