im going through a phase where i need to know about all the tiny little islands of the world. who runs them. who ran them. and so on… i found this page on worldatlas.com. hurray.

helsingin sanomat (who also supplied the pic in the last post) here explain the meaning of “vappu”

vappu day was today. yesterday. gone midnight. thousands of drunken finns. everywhere. shame the rain came. kids with families walking around and heading too and from the park. high school students celebrating by getting drunk. university students getting drunk while wearing truely bizarre overalls (some of which can be seen in the pic..) everyone who […]

in this months wired magazine there is an article about the future of space. its a commentary by bruce sterling. it focuses on the “new cold war” i.e. a space race between india and china. since india demonstrated its bomb in 1998, the chinese have been increasingly uneasy. china reacted to the detonation with angry […]

not much going on today. im messing around with mozblog. and apart from all that im not doing anything. my internet is acting strangely. having to sign up everytime i switch the computer on. hmm.