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I found this auction on Swedish auction site Tradera (a site owned by eBay by the way) and I found the item description quite funny and thoroughly stupid. Here it is in English for the benefit of those of you who don’t understand Swedish courtesy of Google Translate.

As you can see this is not really a “real” firewall product. It’s just an old computer with Linux and some firewall software installed on it. Why would a firewall have a graphics card and a sound card for example? It wouldn’t.

What I find so amusing is that he says that “sure, you can use it as an ordinary computer but then you’d have to install Windows or similar on it”. Wouldn’t someone bright enough to handle a Linux firewall also know that Linux is perfectly good as a desktop OS as well? The mind boggles.

Jag var på Kjell & Co på Triangeln i Malmö idag och i deras skyltfönster såg jag den tjusiga skylten på bilden till höger intill en router av märket D-Link.

Jag skrattade nästan rakt ut när jag läste D-Links härligt krystade försök att rationalisera alla Sveriges datoranvändare och dela in dem i fyra fina grupper (klicka på bilden och förstora den så ser ni själva). Speciellt rolig är den översta, “Peter – ung dataspelare”. Jag menar, kolla in hans tröja. Den unga och hippa generationen representeras alltså av någon med en T-shirt med texten “Yo!”. Är det någon 19-årig gamer som känner igen sig där? Nä, trodde inte det heller. Jag kan se framför mig hur det sitter några mossiga marknadsstötar på något möte och pitchar idéer om vad som ska finnas på den här skylten. “Vi måste snacka med kidsen på deras språk och se till att de känner igen sig”, säger en snubbe i illasittande kostym som tror att han har koll på dagens ungdom bara för att han kollade på MTV en del på 90-talet och föreslår att den tecknade grabben ska han en tischa med texten “Yo!”. De andra fånarna på mötet applåderar och sen tar de långlunch. Och nån vecka senare står jag på Kjell & Co och försöker hålla mig för skratt.

Dessutom heter det inte “dataspelare”. Det heter om något “datorspelare”. Du spelar på din dator. Data är det som din dator läser och skriver. Sen skiter jag i om SAOL numera bastardiserats till att ange “data” som acceptabel synonym till “dator”. Det är sjukt och fel. Dator heter det. Inget annat.

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Holy. Friggin’. Shit. I almost died from laughing too hard. The japanese certainly are an odd sort of people. Will we see this game in Europe? Probably not.

As reported on Digg today, Google Street View caught a house on fire with their cameras. The picture linked from the article on Digg has however been removed. But the fire is still viewable if you just approach the house from a different angle. Neat.

Oh, and here’s a screenshot:

WTF?

Unfortunately I haven’t had time to actually watch it yet

I couldn’t help but chuckle at this. Also, this is a little what my relationship with my girlfriend is like. Maybe that’s why I found it so amusing.

This totally made my day:

I was watching the latest episode of “Diggnation” and Kevin Rose was talking about the latest iPhone rumours. Apparently there’s gonna be a 3G iPhone pretty soon and it will have two cameras, one of them facing the person holding the phone, so that you can do video-chat.

While Alex Albrecht goes “I’m not so hot for the video-chat because I don’t even do that on my computer” while Kevin, stoked out of his mind, goes like “but how cool would it be to have a friend call you up and do video-chat on your phone?”. Haha, priceless.

Dude, people here in Europe have been doing that for half a decade now. My dad, who’s almost 60, does it. It’s not bleeding edge anymore and it hasn’t been for years. Welcome to the 21st century. I hope you’ll like it here

It just makes me laugh, how a big nation like the US can be so far behind in some areas. 3G is not something new, it’s just that the US hasn’t implemented it with any real success yet. The fact that Apple adds 3G to the next generation of the iPhone doesn’t make it new and exciting. It just means they’re catching up to what Nokia and SonyEricsson have been doing successfully for years.

Personally I’m pretty stoked about a 3G iPhone though, and I’m hoping it turns out real good.

I think the current iPhone is pretty much a waste of hardware since it lacks many of the features my Nokia N80IE has (3G, MMS, video-chat and Bluetooth that isn’t crippled for example) and many of these things I actually rely upon every day. But if they had those features on the iPhone I’d get one for sure.

Also, being the owner of an iPod Touch I know that the touch screen user interface is more than a gimmick. It’s actually pretty usable and neat once you get the hang of it, and the big screen is awesome for watching video podcasts, movies and TV-shows. It’s a really awesome gadget and well worth the $299 it set me back.

So if I could have all of the coolness of the iPod Touch plus the useful features of my 3G-phone naturally I’d go for that. But that basically means ALL of the useful features of my Nokia N80IE, not just a couple. Otherwise I’ll wait until Apple gets it right. If they ever do that is