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Pistachio nuts Too cool! Tamara's boyfriend, Peter, has written a book that's just out. Dagens Nyheter has published this review, where they applaud him. The book is titelled "Pol Pots leende. Om en svensk resa genom Röda khmerernas Kambodja" (which roughly translates as "Pol Pot's Smile: On a Swede's trip through Cambodia of the Khmer Rouge") and is available here.

I love it when people are open, like Roger Ebert where he writes that he cannot understand how "Crash" won the Oscar for "best picture", over "Brokeback Mountain". Read that column. Ebert says what he thinks - and I cannot praise him enough for doing that. Unlike Apple, where people are fired for reading poetry, when they're asked to do so.

Here's a little interesting article on how OpenOffice compares with MS Office.

"I usually finish my homework at school," he explains to a visitor, "but if not, I pop a book open on my lap in my room, and while the computer is loading, I'll do a problem or write a sentence. Then, while mail is loading, I do more. I get it done a little bit at a time."

"You just multitask," she explains. "My parents always tell me I can't do homework while listening to music, but they don't understand that it helps me concentrate."

This is a quote from this article, courtesy of Ars Technica, on techno-stress and what perennial multi-tasking does to people. Interesting. I felt it.

I just ordered this t-shirt as threadless had a sale.

If you feel you would like to know more on what "web 2.0" is, read this terrific article that deals with the subject effortlessly.

What better way to end a collection of links with a freaky cat?