Jacob Christensen

Brandts in Odense has an exhibition/installation featuring Poul Henningsen’s blackout lamp. Also: Somebody has been dreaming of my house. Very David Lynch-like.

Thanks to Kim Bach and Henriette Weber for dragging me across the street.

Well, almost:

Here is the advice given to Henry Farrell who thought Apple gave computers away. They don’t, but he’s stuck.

And here is a list of Mac apps for academic tasks.

Bonus story: I always make a mess out of connecting my battered 2005 PowerBook, DVA to VGA adapter included, to the projector in the classroom in order to run Keynote presentations (usually, the PB just gives me a blue screen until I restart the thing). Last Tuesday this led one of my students to ask:

Isn’t that a lot of trouble for using a creative computer?

Well…

In case you’re not already subscribing to the Thinking Allowed podcast, hurry over to the BBC and listen to Laurie Taylor’s interview with Antje Bednarek about the elusive species Young Scottish Conservatives and how to study them.

Podcast (programmes are unfortunately only available for one week after the original broadcast)

Also: In Our Time with Melwyn Bragg.

Because everybody else are posting this: Jon Stewart on the horrors of Sweden.

Yes, Robin only has one TV. The US will obviously be doomed if they continue down the road to socialism. They may even get moose on the roads.

Shopping Environment with a Vengeance, 1970s style, originally uploaded by jacobchristensen.

Say what you will, but back in the 1970s they really knew what to do with a bunch of concrete.

Impressive, but you really shouldn’t try this at home. Or in a street near you.

Financial Times considers the effects of the economic crisis on women and men: [1]. [2]

Will it be time to update the old children’s games?

If it hadn’t been for Tyler Cowen, I would surely have missed this wonderful case of compound words in German. Piano included. But you will probably have to pay for the beer at Rhababerbarberabarbarenbartbarbierbierbarbärbel for yourself.

Die Zeit has the pictures comparing provincial Bonn with – what: imperial? big? noisy? – Berlin.

As it is, Bonn is a nice medium-sized town which is easily reached from Cologne. Worth a day’s visit if you’re in the area.

Believe me: Odense did not look like this last Friday. (We had 15 degrees C)

But I’m not the least surprised that Umeå did.