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Hela behållningen!

2009-03-16T22:14:00.002+01:00

Inlife sämst i test! 10 ggr dyrare för EXAKT samma minne

2009-02-25T14:42:00.003+01:00

vs
Jag ska uppgradera en Apple Powerbook G4 1.67 ghz. Exakt samma 1 Gb RAM-minnesmodul från Kingston kostar 175:- inkl moms på Dustin, och 1496:- inkl moms på Inlife. Jag råkar också veta vad återförsäljarnas inköpspris är på just det här minnet, nämligen 150:- inkl moms.

Slutsats: HANDLA INTE PÅ INLIFE!

How To Break Into a Maximum Security Nokia Party

2009-02-20T11:45:00.001+01:00

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OPERATION "BUS TOUR" - AFTER ACTION REPORT
With extensive security (A) at the gate, getting into the Nokia MWC 2009 party seemed near impossible. But using a tour bus (B) as an improvised camouflage, and with Agent Tommy (C) distracting the guards, Agents Anders and Tom (D) could successfully sneak inside the camp. Mission accomplished!

Appendix #1 attached.
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Lågkonjunktur?

2008-12-15T17:08:00.001+01:00

Mute xmas!

2008-12-09T15:00:00.001+01:00

Street art mariatorget

2008-12-02T17:46:00.001+01:00

Lars Lerin, waldemarsudde

2008-11-02T12:47:00.001+01:00

Hej

2008-11-01T21:33:00.001+01:00

VOTE! Now you can

2008-10-31T08:12:00.003+01:00

The Economist lets the rest of us, not only US, vote for change:
http://www.economist.com/vote2008/

Press: Ghostwire scoops Nokia Games Award

2008-10-30T21:28:00.006+01:00

And I quoute...

UPDATE: The Guardian gets in-deep and gets it right:

Scary Ghost Game Wins Nokia Innovation Award
"Ghost Wire, by the accurately named Swedish studio, A Different Game, was the eventual winner of the top prize. It's a ghost hunting sim inspired by TV shows like Most Haunted, but based around a Pokemon-style collection dynamic. Players must locate and capture 40 different ghosts, some easy to find, others much more rare. The thing is, there's no onscreen game world – instead it's an augmented reality-style experience in which your phone display becomes a ghost-tracking device, which you must tune in to the spectral frequency and start grabbing spooks.

Ghost Wire fully integrates with your mobile clock, so some ghosts will only appear at certain times, or on specific days of the week. Cleverly, others will only materialise if you are completely silent – the game utilises your handset's microphone, so you'll need to shut yourself in a very quiet room. In a nod to Sixth Sense, every ghost has a problem that you need to solve via a dialogue-driven interface (Tom Söderlund of Different Game name-checked Monkey Island as an inspiration here) – some have become separated from loved ones, others require you to unite them with certain objects. I'm not sure how this element is going to work, but, again, it sounds very much like the Pokemon titles.

When a spectre becomes available for capture, Ghost Wire has another technological convergence trick up its sleeve. You need to switch on your phone's camera display, and the ghost will appear, transparent and hauntingly abstract on the screen, as though hovering in real-life, right in front of you – a really quite spooky effect. Söderlund told me the idea with the game was to make players believe the ghosts were really there."

Source and complete article: The Guardian

Boo! Ghostly game wins top prize in Nokia Mobile Games Innovation Challenge
"Rome, Italy and Espoo, Finland - Nokia revealed that Ghostwire, by A Different Game from Sweden, is the winner of the Mobile Games Innovation Challenge. Ghostwire is a casual collection and adventure game, where players use the unique features of the mobile device to communicate with the world of ghosts. Ghostwire also features an augmented reality-powered mini-game, where players can use the camera on their mobile device to find ghosts."
Nokia.com press release

Ghostwire scoops Nokia Games Award
“It has been a difficult decision, but we were all impressed by Ghostwire. ... This is a refreshing game that is truly 'made-for-mobile', using augmented reality in a different way. Your mobile phone helps you to discover and actually see a hidden world of mysteries and ghosts, to communicate with them, to collect them and to, as the makers state, give them peace. All judges agreed that this is a game they'd like to see progress. ”
Source and complete article: casualgaming.biz

And it's just before Halloween - coincidence or are dark forces at work...
"The winner, Tom Söderlund, CEO of A Different Game said, "We believe Ghostwire has the potential to become an exhilarating and innovative game, and we're happy the jury agrees with us. The entire team is overwhelmed and excited to win this important award."
Source and complete article: Mobilegamefaqs.com

Ghostwire wins Nokia Mobile Games Innovation Challange
Source and complete article: fiercemobilecontent.com

Heh, could there be a more appropriate game title than Ghostwire winning a prize just before Halloween?
Source and complete article: Mediabistro.com

Congrats to the winners and we look forward to playing these games!
Go-mobiles.com

Game Over - Nokia Announces Mobile Games Innovation Challenge Winners
news.softpedia.com

NOKIA N-GAGE INNOVATION AWARD WINNER!

2008-10-29T22:56:00.006+01:00

WE WON!

The joint ad/venture of Mute industries, A Different Game and Nextville scored the 1st price in Nokias N-Gage Innovation Award at the the 5th annual International Mobile Gaming Awards in Rome tonight! Our game concept 'Ghostwire' was awarded €40 000 in the Excellence in Gameplay category! Update: The IMGA finale is in the spring 2009. We will be ready!

Whazzzup 2008!

2008-10-27T17:42:00.001+01:00

Gallerirunda på huddiksvallsgatan.

2008-10-26T15:42:00.001+01:00

W3C Valid XHTMLMP start page

2008-10-11T13:28:00.005+02:00

This is not super ease to do, so if you need a completely valid XHTMLMP start page to kick you off, here is an example. NOTE this took adding one mime type to the web server;

extention: .xhtmlmp (this can be anyting, as long as it is the extention you use)
mime: application/xhtml+xml

(adding mime types can also be done via a .htaccess file in the same folder as the xhtmlmp document, if you dont have access to the servers mime types)

this is the actual code, save it in a text editor as index.xhtmlmp

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.1//EN" "http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Hello</title>
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="private"/>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello <a href="http://example.org/">world</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>

Mute industries design nursery table

2008-10-08T22:20:00.004+02:00

Mute industries has put together a collapsible nursery table. It's soldered copper pipes, a crafted reinforced wooden rib table, plumbing parts and various brass details. It is not attached to the wall, but is completely movable, yet very stable.

The nursery table in its usable state.

Collapsed against the wall and secured.

Continue reading for close up images.

The locking mechanism, which took some work, picture 1.

The locking mechanism, picture 2.

The locking mechanism, picture 3.

The safety stop.

The lock handle, actually a ball valve, in its unlocked position.

Specially ordered brass acorn nuts, distances and bolts.

Art Deco inspired table top, custom shaped and routed details.

Copper pipe holders used as hinges, bolted through the wood, and metal bars for reinforcement, on the back. You can see the painted over bolts that holds the metal bars.

Brass decorative cigar box corners, ordered from Holland of all places.

An extra brass handle on the top of the bottom side.

Not all parts are soldered, to be able to dismantle the construction. Here a T-shaped brass compression fitting.

The back leg rests on rubber feet to minimize vibrations and corrosion.

And of course a name plate in brass to top things off.

VOTE!

2008-09-23T08:57:00.002+02:00

The image is a screenshot, follow the link

Go vote for Deception by Marlboro

LHC Webcams, finally online

2008-09-13T13:29:00.001+02:00

Also, be sure to check out the public CERN LHC webcam:

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Wireds Top 10 Physics Videos

2008-09-13T13:17:00.002+02:00

In the aftermath of the LHC first beam, check out Wireds Top 10 Physics Videos (and No, it's not Timbaland kind of physics...)

Svartvinbärs

2008-09-05T13:30:00.001+02:00

2008-09-01T21:52:00.003+02:00

Mute industries, Different Game and Force Investments have submitted the 'Ghostwire' concept to the Nokia N-Gage competition. 1st price is €40k, to develop the mobile game further. Below is the concept video.

Global gsm-täckning

2008-09-01T13:22:00.002+02:00

DN har ritat in den globala GSM-täckningen på en världskarta, jag har gjort om den till en jpg, som laddar lite fortare än deras pdf.

LHC rap, follow up. MP3 and lyrics.

2008-08-29T00:44:00.002+02:00

Link to mp3

The Large Hadron Rap

Twenty-seven kilometers of tunnel under ground
Designed with mind to send protons around
A circle that crosses through Switzerland and France
Sixty nations contribute to scientific advance
Two beams of protons swing round, through the ring they ride
‘Til in the hearts of the detectors, they’re made to collide
And all that energy packed in such a tiny bit of room
Becomes mass, particles created from the vacuum
And then…

LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.
The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.

We see asteroids and planets, stars galore
We know a black hole resides at each galaxy’s core
But even all that matter cannot explain
What holds all these stars together – something else remains
This dark matter interacts only through gravity
And how do you catch a particle there’s no way to see
Take it back to the conservation of energy
And the particles appear, clear as can be

You see particles flying, in jets they spray
But you notice there ain’t nothin’, goin’ the other way
You say, “My law has just been violated – it don’t make sense!
There’s gotta be another particle to make this balance.”
And it might be dark matter, and for first
Time we catch a glimpse of what must fill most of the known ‘Verse.
Because…

LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.

Antimatter is sort of like matter’s evil twin
Because except for charge and handedness of spin
They’re the same for a particle and its anti-self
But you can’t store an antiparticle on any shelf
Cuz when it meets its normal twin, they both annihilate
Matter turns to energy and then it dissipates

When matter is created from energy
Which is exactly what they’ll do in the LHC
You get matter and antimatter in equal parts
And they try to take that back to when the universe starts
The Big Bang – back when the matter all exploded
But the amount of antimatter was somehow eroded
Because when we look around we see that matter abounds
But antimatter’s nowhere to be found.
That’s why…

LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.
The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.

The Higgs Boson – that’s the one that everybody talks about.
And it’s the one sure thing that this machine will sort out
If the Higgs exists, they ought to see it right away
And if it doesn’t, then the scientists will finally say
“There is no Higgs! We need new physics to account for why
Things have mass. Something in our Standard Model went awry.”

But the Higgs – I still haven’t said just what it does
They suppose that particles have mass because
There is this Higgs field that extends through all space
And some particles slow down while other particles race
Straight through like the photon – it has no mass
But something heavy like the top quark, it’s draggin’ its ***
And the Higgs is a boson that carries a force
And makes particles take orders from the field that is its source.
They’ll detect it….

LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.

Now some of you may think that gravity is strong
Cuz when you fall off your bicycle it don’t take long
Until you hit the earth, and you say, “Dang, that hurt!”
But if you think that force is powerful, you’re wrong.
You see, gravity – it’s weaker than Weak
And the reason why is something many scientists seek
They think about dimensions – we just live in three
But maybe there are some others that are too small to see
It’s into these dimensions that gravity extends
Which makes it seem weaker, here on our end.
And these dimensions are “rolled up” – curled so tight
That they don’t affect you in your day to day life
But if you were as tiny as a graviton
You could enter these dimensions and go wandering on
And they'd find you...

When LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.
The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.

LHC rap! Why didnt i find this one!

2008-08-28T21:57:00.002+02:00

HA HA HA!
This is ingenious! Why, oh WHY didn't I find this one?! Kudos to Naseer. I took a course in quantum physics the other year, and during that entire 10 weeks, they didn't manage to squeeze in the amount of info crammed into this HILARIOUS rap...

Olycklig slump, eller spännande kulturkrock?

2008-08-07T11:01:00.002+02:00

08-08-08 invigs OS i Kina. Men det händer minst 2 saker i Gamla Stan också. Socialdemokratiska Studentförbundets Burmautskott och Svenska burmakommittén demonstrerar för att hedra och minnas de som dog i protesterna, "8888", för 20 år sedan, 1988.

Samtidigt intar ett gigantiskt vattenkrig Gamla Stan från bårde norr och söder, och dessutom försvaras Gamla Stan av sina egna. Nord mot Syd har enligt uppgift över 7000 anmälda som med ballonger, hinkar, gevär och pistoler ska göra upp kampen en gång för alla.

ShapeLock! Create what you need. Easy.

2008-07-21T21:07:00.003+02:00

Ugly website, beautiful product! ShapeLock is a super strong plastic similar to Nylon or Polypropylene in toughness. However, unlike the two former plastics it does not need high temperatures or high pressures to form into useful shapes. ShapeLock is easily hand-formed into shape at just 70°C (150°F).

Today I ordered 500g (~~yes, the ship internationally~~), and have no idea what to make of it. Time will tell.

Update: They do NOT shop internationally, money was refunded to my paypal account.

Here is an article where they used it to create a machine that clones itself to a machine that clones it self to a machine that... well, you get the picture. At the same site you can also read more about shapeloc/friendly plastic, and where to get it.

Note: Get your free sample here (you pay for the shipping)