Cocteau Twins, Fifty-fifty clown, off the Heaven or Las Vegas album, 1990.

Santigold. Go (Featuring Karen O – of the Yeah yeah yeahs)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxlCsVKkvY

That’s right: Daddy Cool. Who’s your daddy?

Linocut. A detail.

Artist unknown.

via Zoori_i.

(You don’t have to tumbl to tumbl)

Yup, that’s what the blog’s been looking like for the past couple of days, while I thought I’d have the time to redesign it all – which, unfortunately, I did not. But I’m definitely on the right path, aiming for an ultra-minimalistic design.

But I realise that I simply do not have the [...]]]> http://insignificances.com/2012/01/12/shiny-and-new/ Three quarters of a year curating other blogs and news sources at eight o’clock sharp every single morning just wasn’t for me, it seems. Which is why I shut down The calculable (the calculable.org domain soon to expire, but content will remain at calculable.wordpress.com) last June, paving the way for the [...]]]> http://insignificances.com/2011/08/31/here-we-go-again/ As an act of compassion for – and in solidarity with – the old media, whose inevitable demise has become painfully apparent over the last couple of years, I have decided to discontinue Insignificances for now, both in its English and Norwegian incarnations.

No, really. But I must admit to ulterior motives, [...]]]> http://insignificances.com/2010/11/02/until-we-meet-again/ http://insignificances.com/2010/09/13/norway-65-percent-oppose-eu-membership/ http://insignificances.com/2010/09/09/how-could-nyt-possibly-fail/ http://insignificances.com/2010/09/08/the-media-democracy-taken-one-step-further/ http://insignificances.com/2010/09/01/norway-freedom-of-speech-at-risk/ The world press went completely bonkers Sunday night, remaining frenzied, in the wake of The Guardian’s, The New York Times’ and Der Spiegel’s publication of extracts from some 90,000 classified logs from WikiLeaks, documenting alleged mistakes and unnecessary civilian casualties, by the hands [...]]]> http://insignificances.com/2010/07/26/potentially-harmful-openness/ I’m not in the habit of indulging in personal matters, not in this blog anyway, but will make a rare exception, as a novelty, if you will, pertaining to my family’s life in the wastelands – or rather; on a semi-desert island, as it were.

You may, upon reading this account, find it hard to [...]]]> http://insignificances.com/2010/06/04/a-bad-case-of-cabin-fever/ I know that I have touched on this subject on numerous occasions, but find it increasingly hard to understand the Israelis’ disbelief when facing foreign criticism. With last year’s Israeli new year offensive still fresh in mind, and Israel’s subsequent offence, and astonishment even, in the international [...]]]> http://insignificances.com/2010/05/31/israel-an-impossible-love-affair/ In a blog post about a year ago, reporting on WW2 revisionist (and Holocaust denier) David Irving’s Oslo visit in May 2009, I quickly found myself at the very centre of the global extreme right movement’s attention, or what to me seemed the centre. Assuming that I [...]]]> http://insignificances.com/2010/05/04/humanising-herr-hitler/ Reading spam comments has become increasingly discouraging over the years (or decreasingly encouraging, depending on your view on the glass half-full/glass half-empty concept). I mean… What ever happened to creativity? Let me illustrate with a handful of samples from today’s catch:

In connection with the Bergen Railway’s 100th anniversary last Friday, the Norwegian Broadcating Corporation (NRK) ran a highly bold experiment during Saturday’s prime time: A spectacular journey from Bergen to Oslo, for the full duration of the approximately seven-hour trip, as seen from the engine driver’s seat.

The programme re-ran in its entirety on [...]]]> http://insignificances.com/2009/11/29/a-spectacular-journey/

It’s been 15 years today since the Norwegian public turned down an EU membership in the 1994 referendum, held on Monday 28 November. After a long and heated debate the nay-sayers drew the longest straw, winning 52.2 percent of the votes, on an 88.6 percent turnout.

As an (extremely) active member of the European [...]]]> http://insignificances.com/2009/11/28/a-day-to-forget/

Imagine, it’s 20 year’s since the Berlin wall fell today! I suppose that, like most, I’m glad it did, but can’t help missing a more lucid world, with us good guys in the West and the bad guys in the East. Very, very bad guys.

Last week I browsed the web for communist memorabilia, [...]]]> http://insignificances.com/2009/11/09/for-cold-war-nostalgists/