Plot Summary for Halveis til Haugesund (1997):
Beat up punk rock legend Otto, of “Otto’s Speedway Action Organ”, finally gets another gig in Haugesund on Norway’s west coast. He gets his father’s car, a 1969 model Opel Diplomat, out of hock, and proceeds to drive from Oslo to Haugesund. But he never gets to Haugesund. In Telemark, in Norway’s heartland, he meets up with Pakistani “roots researcher” Farida. Who, complete with a broad Telemark accent, a Telemark surname, a cellular phone, and a laptop computer, makes a business out of finding Norwegian relatives in Telemark, for Americans desperately searching for roots. His car gets stolen by locals lusting for its Chevy V8 engine, and he ends up with an old Chevy Impala, traveling the labyrinths of roads that make up Telemark.

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this sounds like a movie that i would like.

Amazon delves into on-demand publishing:
Sure, Amazon.com can sell books. But can it make them?

ummm, yup, i’m very familiar with booksurge and they do good work.

The Middleman:
A Special Investigation
Asher Karni was “a genius” in South Africa’s military electronics trade. Now he’s in jail in Brooklyn, accused of orchestrating a nuclear black market deal.

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the stories are always good, but now mother jones…. does moveabletype. let’s all remember to visit mount olive and pay our respects to the inspiration.

Salt Lake Tribune – Salt Lake Tribune Home Page
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Male students, faculty and staff strapped on pumps, sling-backs, uppers, wedges, pumps and thong sandals to “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.”
In observance of national Sexual Assault Awareness Month, USU’s Sexual Assault and Anti-Violence Information office hosted the comical spectacle on the Logan campus Wednesday to raise awareness and money for campus sexual-assault education-prevention efforts, according to coordinator Rachel Hickman.

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while… i… would… probably not do it(i don’t even like heels on my boots) i’m 5′9″ and happy with it. I think this is the sort of empathizing system that helps in some respect.

Book review: It Can’t Happen Here | Needlenose:
The temptation in reviewing a book like Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here is to look for similarities between his fictional fascist takeover of the U.S. in the 1930s by demagogue Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip and his “The American State Corporate State and Patriotic Party,” aka the “Corpos,” and the current reactionary efforts to ‘turn back the clock’ on freedom, liberty and progress in the U.S.; that is certainly why I first picked it up.

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this sounds like a good read… i’ll nab it from the library.

Nice hackers:
Hacker Highschool – to create nice hackers (according to Dagbladet.no)…

i wonder…. given that knowledge can be used for almost any purpose, good or evil, how they indoctrinate goodness?

Cooking HOWTO roundup:

• How to cut vegetables
• How to choose a cut of meat
• How to chill wine fast

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this is worth noting….

Secret Service visits art show at Columbia :
Secret Service spokesman Brandon Bridgeforth said he couldn’t go into specifics about last week’s visit.

“We are doing some inquiries into the art exhibit. We’re just doing some looking into it,” Bridgeforth said.

Columbia College spokeswoman Micki Leventhal said agents were responding to citizen complaints about the artwork, which received some pre-show publicity in Chicago media.

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yep, they should have done this right, but no…. they had to make a scene.