Jan Egil Kristiansen - blog

Of several modern movie versions of Jesus's life, only Pier Paulo Pasolini's has received Vatican approval

2004-01-02

Review: The Best-ever Book of Pirates

2004-01-02

A children's book, written to grown-up standards. Very detailed, covering ship-based robbery from ancient Greek to modern Kalashnikov toting Zodiac raiders. It doesn't glorify pirates, giving a cynical description of their background and motives, and the blurred line between piracy and 'legal' naval warfare and business. Lots of illustrations - my favorites are the authentic 'Jolly Roger' flags, demonstrating that the old pirate captains were not very good graphic designers. I disagree with the book's analysis of the battle of Hastings. Disagreeing with a children's book on such detail, is a rare pleasure indeed. A very ambitious title - but the book does deliver.

Frida set igen?

2003-12-01

Der er kommet meldinger fra omr�det Snekkersten / Egeb�ksvang Skov / Esperg�rde om, at Frida skulle v�re set s�ndag, den 16. november ca. kl. 15. Hun skulle b�de v�re set nede ved Strandvejen mellem Snekkersten og Esperg�rde Havn, og inde i landet mod Snekkersten Station. Hun er muligvis ogs� set i Egeb�ksvang Skov l�rdag, den 15. november.

Refocus from channels to items

2003-11-21

Ask not how many blogs are in Winston-Salem, but how many blog ITEMs are about the place. (Localfeeds can't do that.) Items are the atoms of information, to be endlessly copied and recombined, if they are interesting enough. Look at your own blog; how many of your items have any connection with ICBM 35,-81 ?

Intercontinental Ballistic networking?

2003-11-11

- what is this? I spent most of my Cold War years close to thermonuclear targets; those days, ICBM used to mean InterContinental Ballistic Missile. This tag is a service for anyone wanting to nuke the page?

Standing up against US-ASCII tyranny

2003-11-19

Nice that someone stands up against Q, W, X and the gang. (�e vild vest vill never be �e same.) But Turkey "standing up" against Kurdish Q, W and X ? In Norway, btw, the legal name characters seems determined by the code page of the IBM mainframe used for the database.

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