Ulrichssons Blog

10:15:02 am on September 8, 2010 | 0 | # |
Schlagwörter:Webcomics, XKCD

The advantages of the stock market.

09:59:35 am on September 7, 2010 | 0 | # |
Schlagwörter:The Wizard of Id, Webcomics

Sometimes, my prejudice deceive me. There was this guy talking, speaking of “us leaders” and “business world” and blaw-blaw, and I thought “oh no, not another one of those successful career people telling me how to be successful” and I was so close to switching to another talk, but then, the talk took an unexpected, but very pleasant turn. Well worth watching:

10:02:20 am on September 3, 2010 | 0 | # |
Schlagwörter:Happiness, TED, Video

03:05:53 pm on August 10, 2010 | 0 | # |
Schlagwörter:Video

News from China,
not found via Google.

By Cain and Todd Benson,
used under cc license

Again, some news from China I foud interesting:

• I Was Almost a Chinese Dating-Show Star (also here)
• China turns a page on independent journalism
• First sex workers protest in China demands legalization of prostitution
• Dalian oil spill fighter’s death photographed in detail
• A Trip to Tibet, With My Handlers Nearby

11:50:06 am on August 6, 2010 | 0 | # |
Schlagwörter:China

This unspectacular video appears so clean, so non-violent. It’s unsettling and horrifying and much more that I can not express, I am at a loss for words. I just wish it weren’t real.

If you can’t bare to watch the whole thing, fast-forward to 13:09.

04:09:37 pm on Juli 23, 2010 | 0 | # |
Schlagwörter:War

10:21:34 pm on Juli 14, 2010 | 0 | # |
Schlagwörter:Webcomics, XKCD

4 – 0 gegen Argentinien!!! Ich fasse es nicht! Für das nächste Spiel bin ich in Berlin!!!

04:58:57 pm on Juli 3, 2010 | 0 | # |
Schlagwörter:WM

And it’s time for some music again. Great song, high on my summer playlist.

12:06:52 am on Juli 2, 2010 | 0 | # |
Schlagwörter:Band Of Horses, Video

Time again for some news from the middle kingdom, selected on a whim:

Chinese Umbrellas

By Express Monorail,
used under cc license

Laptops

• Shanghai Disneyland evictions
• Xu Zhiyong, et al: “The Chinese Citizens’ Pledge”
• Public Recommendation and Direct Elections in Nanjing to Cover Cities and Countryside, Allow People to Wield Rights
• Gun violence in China is on the rise (also here)
• China’s Export Economy Begins Turning Inward
• Tibetan Environmentalist Karma Samdrup Gets 15 Years in Prison

02:54:09 pm on Juni 25, 2010 | 0 | # |
Schlagwörter:China