Skanska og Ikea har i fællesskab udviklet byggekonceptet Bo Klok. Ideen i byggeriet er at lave boliger til den enlige mor med to børn, til pensionisten og til den studerende. Boliger der lever op til deres krav og drømme, men til priser de kan betale. Lejlighederne vil være ca. 30 procent billigere end traditionelt byggeri. Besparelserne opnås ved de store indkøb, og ved at flere elementer gøres færdige på fabrikker. Det er i realiteten Ikeas møbelkoncept, der er overført til byggeriet. Salget er netop begyndt i Norge, På åbningsdagen stod 300 nordmænd i kø til for at se på selve huset, 30 boliger blev solgt på 45 minutter. mere her og her

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"IKEAs nyeste påfund: Saml selv huse" fra rommenet.dk ;-)

The inventor of easyJet, the British no-frills airline, is taking his idea to sea with a venture called easyCruise. At present the cruise industry is an all expenses paid trip which lasts a week (or specified length of time) where passengers embark at point A and then get off at point A at the end of the cruise. Typically round trip charter flights are included in the package. The result is that the cruise industry appeals only to wealthier, older customers who have time on their hands. easyCruise will un-bundle this package and offer rooms on board the ship on a night by night basis, so that customers can cruise for as many or as few days and nights as they wish. They will be expected to make their own way to the ship. The Mediterranean-based ship would set sail in the mornings, land at port in the late afternoon and stay though the night to give passengers the opportunity to eat and search out evening entertainment, gambling, bars and clubs on land. Food and beverage will be available from the ship's restaurant and shop on a "pay as you go" basis so that passengers can purchase according to their appetite and budget. EasyCruise will visit three countries and 14 cities in a 14-day round trip. The route will take in Nice, Barcelona, Majorca, Ibiza, Malaga, Corsica, Rome and Naples. Cabin prices will start at £29 a night

Forestil dig en grund midt i byen. Den er forurenet af olie og tjære men nu plantet til med pil og poppel, der langsomt renser jorden. Hævet over beplantningen er der gangbroer, der også forbinder den moderne bolig - fri af jorden på søjler. Små lejligheder - eller boenheder - og større fællesrum, der er spændt ud i en membran, der tilpasser sig vejret. Projektet hedder BOASE. Men det er ikke bare en vision om fremtiden, for projektet bliver realiseret på Nørrebro i København færdig til udlejning i 2006. fra Berlingske 26-3-2004

Computers are really good at making copies of things. In a "Napster World" where every time someone expresses a market signal about the value of a song by downloading a copy of it; instead of there being one fewer copies of that song, there's now one more copy of that song; this is a really different economic proposition. This is a commons where the sheep shit grass. The more you graze the more you get.
from In Conversation With Cory Doctorow (Download his first novel)

"'The Google button. It's your trusted link to relevant information anywhere.' This concept moves Google from World Wide Web to world-at-large. It positions Google as a global infrastructure that provides a physical, context-aware link to relevant information. By taking advantage of context, Google can provide targeted information in almost any capacity." from Wired.

In his text - which was written especially due to the CeBIT 2004 - Bill Gates writes among others:

* TVs, DVD-players and other equipment will look the same in future but will be more intelligent and will have access to the Internet

* till 2010 there will be 2 billion computers (mostly in "embedded" form - as part of other devices)

* computers will be smaller and smaller and will be using much less power (what a revolutionary discovery!) and they will react to handwriting and voice

* memory chips that will be able to store terabytes (one terabyte can store 600 hours video recording) of information are coming and will be very tiny

* aritificial intelligence in machines is still far away

* battery-less computers are coming - they will take energy from room temperature or from moves (when carried)

... but he is not mentioning Microsoft powered cell phones (MS Smartphone and Pocket PC phone)... so it is clear again: this man has no vision for cell phone industry. copy and pasted from MsMobiles

Interessant koncept: tryk på en børnesikring, drej på vandhanen og vupti kogende vand i stedet for varmt vand. Det kogende vand kommer fra en vakuum isoleret beholder, som er tilsluttet og monteret under køkkenbordet.

Forh�r i sagen Konkylie vs Havet. - - - mere

It was bound to happen. Given that you can buy a Victorinox Swiss Army Knive with just about every gadget known to man, from horse-hoof awl to Hubble Space Telescope lens polisher. Victorinox is now offering cutting tools plus USB flash memory stick. The USB Swiss Army Knife is available with 64 or 128MB memory, plus all the usual extras - knife, corkscrew and tin-opener. copy and pasted from The Register

Basiq Air: 1 rute til Rotterdam.

EasyJet: 4 ruter til Bristol, London, Newcastle og Berlin.

Iceland Express: 1 rute til Reykjavik.

Nordic Airlink: 1 rute til Stockholm.

Mærsk Air: 18 ruter til Athen, Barcelona, Færøerne, Lissabon, London, Venedig, Lyon, Nice, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Alicante, Mallorca, Madrid, Malaga, Bruxelles, Paris og Gran Ganaria.

Snowflake: 13 ruter til Alicante, Ankara, Beograd, Istanbul, Malaga, Mallorca, Pristina, Sarajevo, Beirut, Lissabon, Malta, Skopje og Split

Sterling: 14 ruter til Alicante, Barcelona, Gran Ganaria, Nice, Malaga, Milano, Oslo, Rom, Stockholm, Paris, Prag, Kos, Kreta og Mallorca.

V-Bird: 1 rute til Dusseldorf.

Virgin Express: 1 rute til Bruxelles.

(RyanAir flyver fra Malmø)

se også En lavprisfly søgemaskine

flere weblogger er blive truet af Antipiratgruppen, efter at de har linket til Grey Tuesday.

Det har fået en del andre webloggers op af stolen, nu er de også begyndt at linke til Grey Tuesday: se erlando, rockland, oschlag, og pollas

Politiken har en god bagrund artikel om Grey Tuesday: En grå dag for musikken

Politiken Online har også en artikel om "Keld Bach's sag" Netdagbog angribes af antipiratgruppen

Læs Keld Bach egen historie. Læs også Keld Bach sagen for begyndere

Amerikanerne har Electronic Frontier Foundation. Men i Danmark står internet brugeren alene, det er på tide at vi skaber en lignende organisation her i Danmark !!

"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation

[Disclaimer(som jeg har stjålet fra classy): Bortset fra links til Keld Bachs weblog (som jeg fandt på blogbot.dk) optræder kun links i denne post som blev fundet på Google ved den mest naive søgning på info om The Grey Album - det kan et barn finde ud af. Der er ingen yderligere spredning af nogetsomhelst i at foretage den research. Enhver påstand af den art er dybt tåbelig)]

Karaoke, dance-offs, beer and pizza at the in-flight pub will be among the attractions of the world's first low-cost, long-haul budget airline, BackpackersXpress. The new airline is slated for launch this June, and is going (you guessed it) after the backpacking party crowd looking for cheap flights headed to and from Australia. Roughly half a million budget travellers flock to Australia from the northern hemisphere every year, Stopovers will include Delhi and Bangkok. "We're configuring it for fun and one class," Mr Millen said. "Our cabin features are designed around the backpacking culture." Backpackers-Xpress will offer open-ended return tickets from Manchester to Melbourne for $1290 starting in June 2004. Flight attendants have been expressly trained to "stimulate passenger interaction". Thanks to the help of some young Aboriginals, the staff will also be at the ready with trivia about indigenous culture, as well as loaded with tips on traveling. The airline has agreed to carry up to 20 tonnes of freight per flight and display the VB beer logo on the engine cowlings in a bid to lower its cost base.... copy and pasted from here and here.