Anything related to the various media, like radio & TV, and other entertainment.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that 3D maps of Sarpsborg (my town) and Fredrikstad are now also available online. The technology developed by myVR Software AS has enabled Sesam to go a step further than Google Maps/Google Earth, and create 3D images of various towns in Norway. Check them out, it’s quite impressive! Sarpsborg […]
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Here’s a good example of sloppy journalism: An article in Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf about an incident where 91(!) people got hit by lightning during a national championship rallycross in Norway. According to the article the incident happened in Oslo… Wrong, wrong, wrong… Actually the rallycross event was being organized in Flisa, more than 2
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This evening I decided to get away from my 24/7 job for a couple of hours and catch a flick at the nearby Multiplex. I ended up at Fredrikstad Kino and would be watching X files: I want to believe. The ticket I had purchased online earlier today, so all I had to do was
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Thanks to Cali and her Geekbrief I came across a site called Periodic Videos, a site operated by the University of Nottingham. This site combines the periodic table we all know from chemistry class with… fun! In a Mythbusters-way they have made a video about each of the (currently) 118 elements in the periodic table
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After hearing about it from Cali in her GeekBrief, I just had to get one myself: a NeoCube! As stated by the company: the future of puzzles. It is supposed to stimulate both hemispheres of the brain, according to this page. There are some sample videos available on Youtube. The NeoCube is composed of 216
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Yes, the time is almost there. Stargate: Continuum, the 2nd direct-to-DVD movie in the Stargate series is scheduled for release on July 29th, 2008. Through the grapevine I’ve heard some tidbits about this movie. First of all the plot (yes, blatantly copy/paste from the Wikipedia): While SG-1 attends a Tok’ra extraction ceremony for Ba’al, the
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