Fair trade is a consumer movement that has gained some momentum the last year or so. The concept is simple and ethically sound: essentially it is that what we take from developing nations, we also give back. Currently it’s more profitable for many countries to continue abusing the developing nations, and Fair Trade aims at removing that unfairness.

A few days ago my parents visited us. This was to celebrate my birthday, but they also grabbed the opportunity to spend some time downtown shopping and having a relaxed day. We discovered a fair-trade coffee-place in one of the malls, and there I found this can of cola, which made me laugh a bit.

Ubuntu is to me a Linux-distribution, which was the cause of my sudden hilarity. But Ubuntu is also a common word in Africa, essentially meaning “Humanity towards others”. Thus, Ubuntu is also a perfect name for a Fair Trade-cola. Tasted nice as well, a lot more fruity than most other Colas.

So, if you’re interested in bettering your karma while quenching your thirst, go out and grab some of these. More information about Ubuntu Trading (which makes this Cola) is available at their website.

This is easily the weirdest news I’ve read in a long time.

First off, to understand how weird this is, you really need to have seen the movie “Idiocracy” directed by Mike Judge. He’s the guy that created Beavis and Butthead as well as directed “Office Space“, the cult movie about frustrated cubicle-dwellers.

Here’s the story. Mike got badly burnt by Fox after directing Office Space for them. They didn’t market the movie and it sank from public view quite quickly. Thankfully it gained cult-recognition in the small screen, and is one of my many favorite movies. Despite being so disrespectfully handled by Fox he agreed to make another movie for them - Idiocracy. This is easily one of the darkest comedies I’ve ever seen, right up there with masterpieces such as Dr Strangelove. Anyone with a brain-stem needs to see it, and hopefully understand why it’s so funny and scary at the same time.

But, fairly unsurprising, Fox abandoned Idiocracy and let it sink without a trace just like they did with Office Space. Which sucks, since it’s a brilliant movie.

And this is where it gets really weird. In the movie there was an energy-drink called Brawndo. It was marketed with the slogan “The Thirst Mutilator” and supposedly contained “electrolytes”. The company behind it was so successful in it’s marketing that it managed to get water banned from usage, and this in turn caused a world-wide famine since the morons of the future were instead using Brawndo to water plants - which of course promptly died since electrolytes is salt.

Fox, in it’s infinite lack of wisdom has now chosen to make this drink a reality and profit from it. It’s pretty much as it was in the movie, the same name, the same slogan and also claiming to contain “electrolytes”. All the while giving Mike the shaft.

If this is not the ultimate bitter irony, then I don’t know what is.

(Via: Slashdot)

I like stand-up comedy. Without a doubt one of the most hilarious things I’ve seen was Robin Williams dvd “Live on Broadway“. I’ve seen that thing somewhere around four or five times and the thing never gets boring. Pretty much anyone who’s seen it have laughed until they had problem breathing. This is a good score, since this type of comedy normally have to be experienced as part of an audience. Laughing ones ass of at a recording of it is a good benchmark.

I’ve never known who Jim Breuer was until about five minutes ago when I stumbled upon this clip on YouTube. I’d say the guy has potential, and he takes a somewhat controversial subject (alcohol) and makes fun of it.

The number of superlatives used to describing the item stands in direct proportion to how interesting it really is. Also, the number of exclamation points used in connection with the description accentuates this fact.

Är det bara jag som tycker DN’s val av bildtext i kombination med bilden är lite komiskt? Jag såg den igår, men trodde DN skulle se humorn i det hela och byta ut bildtexten, men icke. Den kvarstår.

Så är det bara jag som fnissar åt den?

… så är det här min nya policy rörande datorfrågor.

Källa: okänd.

Jag tror att jag nämnt tidigare att jag gillar politiska skämtteckningar. Det är nånting med det mediet som tillåter en att belysa aktuella (såväl som inaktuella) åsikter och händelser med en någorlunda skämtsam ton som även visar tydligt vad tecknaren/skaparen själv tycker om ämnet.

Här är två stycken som jag hittade som flutit runt nätet och som jag nu helt skamlöst publicerar. Enjoy.

(Och för de som precis som jag var lite förvirrad över vad Plymouth Rock är så vet Wikipedia mer.)

Öppna en terminal och kör “apt-get moo”. Jag avslöjar inte resultatet, men det är fullständigt ofarligt och fick åtminstone mig att fnissa lite. Bör funka i alla Debian-deriverade distributioner som använder APT. Det är också möjligt att hela världen förutom jag kände till detta tills nyligen, om så är fallet får ni ursäkta att jag är lite sen till festen.

(Nu är det fritt fram för Windows-fanboys att börja skrika “åååh, vilket slöseri med resurser, sådär hade Microsoft aaaaldrig gjort” och liknande saker.)

… hade jag nog sett ut ungefär så här:

Tyvärr fanns det inget bra skägg i väljaren, så det blev utan skägg. Skapad med funktionen som finns på Simpsons The Movie-hemsidan. Jag lägger upp den som en PNG här eftersom den bild man fick redan var relativt sönderkomprimerad JPEG.