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Kunde&Co(py)

Klaus Silberbauer — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:41:56 +0000

Exhibit 1: Kunde&Co‘s campaign for the referendum on changing the Danish constitution. Paid for by the Danish government an thus pure royalistic propaganda. And a ripoff at the same time. This is wrong on so many levels:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Exhibit 2: Harry Enfield‘s “Women Know Your Limits”:

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…looking forward to the lawsuit from the BBC.

Excellent: The keyboard is dead. The Macbook Wheel is here.

Klaus Silberbauer — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:18:23 +0000

Excellent video from The Onion introducing Apples new HCI invention

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Countdown to the end of the world?

Klaus Silberbauer — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:05:06 +0000

Tomorrow at this time we will know if the Large Hadron Collider in CERN will create a black hole as some scientists think it may do.

According to the guys in lab coats, it’s not very likely that this will happen (PDF). But these are the same kind of guys that invented niceties like asbestos, the h-bomb, CFC gasses and the thorium toothpaste.

So, If tomorrow you feel being very rapidly compressed into something just a little larger than a singularity, together with the most of the mass of our solar system, it’s a tell-tale sign that some CERN boffin didn’t do his algebra quite right. In that case: Remain calm and enjoy the feeling of being so attractive that even light and the fabric of space-time itself time can’t resist you. Revel in the feeling that McCain, Palin, and global warming can’t harm you any further.

Have a nice day.

[UPDATE]

Here’s a live webcam feed from CERN

Our defence minister just had a foot massage on national television

Klaus Silberbauer — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:43:15 +0000

There seem to be no limit to what politicians will do to get a bit of airtime.

Right now Danish TV2 is broadcasting a reality show in which our Defence Minister visits the Danish Hollywood King of Beauty Ole Henriksen. We just saw the minister getting his feet washed and massaged, and now he is in session at a hypnotist. WTF? Denmark is currently at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, while our Defence Minister is having a foot massage on television. Am I the only one who finds this just a little bit disturbing?

What on earth was his press advisers thinking when they okayed this? Even Sarkozy wouldn’t be so stupid as to get himself filmed in a spa!

But then again, Minister Søren Gade is the guy who in 2005 chose to pack a 9mm Neuhausen for at formal visit to Afghanistan. Very… Castro.

Is spam allowed by the qu’ran?

Klaus Silberbauer — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:41:32 +0000

Spam comments are seldom worth mentioning, but this is kind of fun. It looks like it’s a “muslim” spam attack against Danish blogs. It lists about twenty Danish people known from the media cartoon debate and then reads:

[...]
FUCK U DANES! DIE IN HELL!!!
Danmark er lort-
Denmark is shit.
stop danmark -
SUPPORT al – q AEDA!
thank 2.6.
FOREVER AGAINST DENMARK AND DANES-
FUCK YOU DANISH NAZI PIGS!
LET’S STOP DENMARK!
Stop danish nazi society

Oh well.

Explicit content?

Klaus Silberbauer — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:43:04 +0000

I think the whole rating/censorship ordeal has come too far when Billy Joel’s Just The Way You Are is rated Explicit by Apple Music Store.

Parental Advisory! Too damn cute a song for your kids! Buy them a 9mm Glock instead so that they may defend themselves in school… What a twisted country.

Someone please point me to the juicy bits, ’cause I just can’t spot them:

Don’t go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don’t imagine you’re too familiar
And I don’t see you anymore
I wouldn’t leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times
I’ll take you just the way you are

Don’t go trying some new fashion
Don’t change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care

I don’t want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you.

I said I love you and that’s forever
And this I promise from the heart
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are.

More car design: Same aerodynamics

Klaus Silberbauer — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:04:02 +0000

My Land Rover-crazy uncle sent me this one. It’s clear to see where the ~~designer~~ engineer behind the Defender 110 found his inspiration.

Land Rover Defender 110. In some countries used by the police as weapon against hooligans. Only the chick go faster-stripes raise its aerodynamic properties to just above those of a…

Typical Danish cobblestone, mid-nineteenth century. Typically used by Copenhagen hooligans as a weapon against the police.

Same subtlety. Same discrete elégance.

Klaus Silberbauer — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:03:33 +0000

Let’s continue our design comparison quest.

Hummer H1. American inferiority complex. Kills trees – and people too, if you mess up.

Husqvarna Chainsaw. Swedish sturdiness. Kills trees – and people too, if you mess up.

Cars That Looks Like Weapons #2

Lars Silberbauer — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:38:19 +0000

Klaus reported the first remarkable sign on a so far unknown connection between car design and weapons. Now I’m ready to disclose yet another piece of evidence on the vehicle that will silence all critics of this claim.

This is ‘Karma’, a premium hybrid sports sedan from the Danish designer Fisker compared with a single bladed throwing knife in stainless steel.

Car design at its worst. And best.

Klaus Silberbauer — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:57:22 +0000

Outselling American brands for years, Toyota is ready to deliver the final punch to Ford and General Motors on their own turf. The concept is called A-BAT and it is, by any standard, ugly as hell. But kudos to car designer Ian Cartabiano for understanding that the ultimate American car have to look like a hand gun. So simple – why didn’t anyone think of that before?

Cartabiano says that the A-BAT is inspired by miltary trucks – yeah right. It looks more like a big, chromed 9mm to me. If Toyota decides to put this beast into production, I think it’s gonna sell Alan Mulally’s pants off.

Toyota A-BAT concept. Made in Japan for the American market.

The .357 semi-automatic Desert Eagle. Made in Israel for the American market.

(The A-BAT Found on Top Gear website).