Archive for January 7th, 2008
Norwegian Party Quiz
If I were a Norwegian, I would be a Liberal.
Via Laura McKenna.
PS: My Danish test result from early November also made me a (Social) Liberal.
Ceres
Oh, dear: Århus without Ceres.
Anders Fogh Tag-Clouded
It turns out that the Danish PM’s favourite words are “Denmark”, “Europe” and “the World”. “Afghanistan” is more frequent in his New Year’s Speeches than “Environment”. (Source: Politiken, using the Many Eyes programme)
The same thing has been done for US presidents, btw.
links for 2008-01-07
Facebooked
Holy cows: One of my uncles is on Facebook. So much for FB’s twenty-something image.
1968
Daniel Davies argues that 1968 is A Long Time Ago Now (long time as in forty years):
I therefore declare 2008 to be officially The Year That We No Longer Have The 1960s To Blame.
Albert Camus might have put it more elegantly:
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face
Not that Conservative pundits have learnt something from Mr. C.
Oh, and by the way: Whenever pundits are yakking about the despicable 68′ers, they forget that the most left-wing generation (at least in Denmark and Sweden) is the one born in the 1950s – like Anders Fogh and Bendt Bendtsen. In Denmark, the left reached its peak in 1979, not 1968.