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		<title>Early Sandbox Style Computer Game Environments</title>
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Wizardry for Apple II (1981) is perhaps the most influential of the early sandbox-style computer RPG games. There was no plot to speak of, but the gameplay mechanics were revolutionary compared to earlier computer adventure games. I got a serious nostalgia overload while watching a youtube clip of the gameplay.
The almost complete lack of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/550_early_sandbox_style_computer_game_environments/</link>
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		<title>iPad, SchmiPad</title>
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OK, let me begin this post with a disclaimer: I am an Apple fanboy, there&#8217;s no denying it. I&#8217;ve been using their products practically for all of my life and, professionally speaking, I&#8217;m not sure what I would be doing without them.
After the iPad announcement there has been a lot of posts in the blogosphere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/534_ipad-schmipad/</link>
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		<title>Is Your Body Temperature a Privacy Issue?</title>
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I stumbled upon this highly iconic and symbolic image while I was checking the daily news stream. Those target crosses and the numeric temperature values just take a whole new meaning in this context. A cross is a universal symbol for disposal or erasure. And how about those numbers.. if they are too high, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/514_is-your-body-temperature-a-privacy-issue/</link>
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		<title>Zen and the Art of Cool Maintenance</title>
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One of the most universal aspects of various subcultures in the Western civilization is appreciation and pursuit of everything that is &#8220;cool&#8221;. There are dozens of different kinds of cool: Steve McQueen cool, Miles Davis cool, Snoop Dogg cool, James Bond cool, Bjork Cool, Steve Jobs Cool, Kaurismäki Cool etc. The difficulty to precisely define [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/513_zen-and-the-art-of-cool-maintenance/</link>
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		<title>Extra-sensory Synesthesia</title>
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Synesthesia is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. A popular example is seeing colors while listening to music. Anyone can experience it in it&#8217;s adventitious form while using psychedelic drugs. There is also another form of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/512_extra-sensory-synesthesia/</link>
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		<title>Solio solar charger</title>
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My tropical hideout for this Christmas only has electricity from 6pm to 9pm, so I decided to get a Solio to charge my cell phone and digital camera. So far I&#8217;ve been very satisfied with this little gadget. You can charge it from a small wall charger or aim it to the sun for 10 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/266_solio-solar-charger/</link>
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		<title>Asunto Oy Ulrikasborg Bostads Ab</title>
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This fine building is incidentally also the headquarters of Nodium. I&#8217;ve been a board member for a while now and volunteered to make a web site for the house. There is a really nice section on the history of the building written by Kirsti Toppari&#8230; all in finnish though. It is based on the 100th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/511_asunto-oy-ulrikasborg-bostads-ab/</link>
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		<title>Introduction to Digital Cinematography</title>
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Being able to digitally capture moving images with an apparent quality of 35 mm film has been the proverbial Holy Grail of many people for a long, long time. Independent movie makers with a micro budget, art students, video artists, video production companies and a whole bunch of other organizations and individuals would love to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/471_introduction-to-digital-cinematography/</link>
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		<title>Spring Awakening</title>
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I produced a micro website for the finnish version of the Broadway musical Spring Awakening. In addition to information about the musical itself, the site contains a grungy typographic motion graphics Flash intro produced in Final Cut Pro and a web form to invite your friends to watch yourself on the unique stage seats on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/510_spring-awakening/</link>
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		<title>Magsafe Connector Shrink Tube Fix</title>
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The Magsafe connector on the Macbook Pros works really well, but the connector on the power supply cable doesn&#8217;t have adequate support and will eventually fail if used roughly. I decided to add an additional support structure to the connector using shrink tubing and a champagne bottle cork. While at it, I documented the procedure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/509_magsafe-connector-shrink-tube-fix/</link>
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		<title>Year of the Earth Rat</title>
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The Year of the Rat, 2008, in the Hsia calendar, is symbolized by two elements – with earth sitting on top of water. According to the cycle of birth and destruction, which governs the inter-relationship between the elements, earth is the conqueror of water. Therefore, earth sitting on water is a symbol of control.


Zodiac Location	1st
Ruling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Message from Earth</title>
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On the 16th of November in 1974 an crude 1679 pixel image was broadcast to space from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. It included simple, low resolution images of human beings, solar system and the formula of DNA.
After 34 years another message is being broadcast towards an earth like planet called Gliese 581C. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/507_a-message-from-earth/</link>
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		<title>Kiirava</title>
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Practically all apartments being sold in Helsinki center are actually shares of housing companies: 

Housing companies are a typical housing system in Finland. The shares in a housing company confer on their owner the right of possession of a specific apartment. The shares are treated as personal property and can be sold and used as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/354_kiirava/</link>
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		<title>You Are Not Your Name</title>
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In 1982 Steven Spielberg bought the Rosebud sled used the film Citizen Kane


Substance:
That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding part of any existence, in distinction from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/506_you-are-not-your-name/</link>
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		<title>Valentina Tereshkova</title>
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Some time ago I started a series of entries called Where are they now? with a little blurb about Paul Hardcastle
Here comes the part two&#8230; drum roll..
Where are they now?
Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Tereshkova was born to a peasant family in the Yaroslavl&#8217; region of the former USSR in 1937. Yaroslavl is now a part of Russia.

Soon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/377_valentina-tereshkova/</link>
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		<title>Pleistocene Park</title>
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The summer is nearing it&#8217;s end and I have crawled back to my keyboard, so I guess it&#8217;s time to restart this blog.
In the latest edition of my &#8220;Where are they now?&#8221; series, please let me introduce&#8230; The American Bison!
Pleistocene Park
Pleistocene Park in the Sakha Republic in northern Siberia is an attempt by Russian researcher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shanghai Travel Tips</title>
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Again, in no particular order.. a few suggestions of places to visit if you happen to find yourself in Shanghai one day.

The magnificent buffet at Westin Bund hotel

Donghu Hotel is located in a very nice area close to Shan Xi road subway station

The subway system is quite efficient and cheap. 3 RMB for a short [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/504_shanghai-travel-tips/</link>
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		<title>Non-Human Play Behaviour</title>
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Cetacean intelligence &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dolphins are known to engage in complex play behaviour, which includes such things as producing stable underwater toroidal air-core vortex rings or &#8220;bubble rings&#8221;. There are two main methods of bubble ring production: rapid puffing of a burst of air into the water and allowing it to rise to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/503_non-human-play-behaviour/</link>
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		<title>Viktor &amp; Rolf Boutique in Milan</title>
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As a follow-up to the article below about &#8220;low&#8221; and &#8220;high&#8221; culture, I decided to write a few words about the relationship between fashion and art. I visited the Espoo Museum of Modern Art last Sunday. The main reason for the visit was the Claude Monet exhibition which is on show over there, but I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/502_viktor-rolf-boutique-in-milan/</link>
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		<title>Töölönlahti Music House vs. Palast der Republik</title>
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		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/501_toolonlahti-music-house-vs-palast-der-republik/</link>
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		<title>Pointy Ears with Cosmetic Surgery</title>
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Modern Plasztikai Sebészet

The philosophy and technics of the operative procedure was developed only a few years ago, but our experiences on more than one thousand ears revealed the fact, that the operation is safe and well-tolerated by patients. We perform the operation as a one-day-surgery, mostly under local anaesthesia.
The procedure itself means a very careful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/500_pointy-ears-with-cosmetic-surgery/</link>
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		<title>Real Life Computer Game Scenery</title>
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As computer games get increasingly photorealistic, it is sometimes difficult to discern between screenshots of modern games and actual photographs. Well, we are not there quite yet, but it is a fun conceptual idea to play around with. I formed a Flickr Group called Real Life Computer Game Scenery to have a little archive of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/499_real-life-computer-game-scenery/</link>
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		<title>Professional Adventurers</title>
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Every once in a while, while reading any random newspaper, one stumbles across a story about an expedition to the North Pole or some other extremely remote location. The stories usually make the international news treshold if a) an expedition has just started or b) they have just succesfully made it to the destination or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/498_professional-adventurers/</link>
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		<title>Gaia</title>
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Occasionally I do redesigns of existing websites. This one was for a small association that promotes networking between executive business women. It was a demanding project which involved a lot of integration and consolidation of various data sources. Membership information is synchronized to an external database via a XML/SSH pipe cronjob. Most of the legacy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/497_gaia/</link>
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		<title>Nam Dae Mun</title>
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When general Yi Song-Gye overthrew the Goryeo (Koryö) dynasty in 1392, he transferred the capital from Gaeseong to Hanyang (Seoul) and had a defensive wall built around the  city.  It was finished in 1398 after three years of work.  In keeping with East Asian precedent there was a gate at each of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/6_6/</link>
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		<title>Switchback Rugged Ultramobile PC</title>
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Switchback is a rather appealing product if your work involves performing tasks with a computer in adverse weather conditions. It&#8217;s water and dust resistant and can operate at -10 degrees celsius with the solid state hard drive option. You can also get an optional wireless package that includes a civilian GPS module. The display is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/496_switchback-rugged-ultramobile-pc/</link>
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		<title>Soviet Arcade Games Museum</title>
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Музей советских игровых автоматов

There are moments when you want to come back in the childhood for a short while, because there were so many interesting things that remember cordially till now. From our Soviet childhood they are Souzmultfilm’s cartoons, Olympic Bear, planetarium, Sportloto lottery, football at the yard. They are pioneer camps at the Black Sea, horn sounds, walking-tours and songs near [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/495_soviet-arcade-games-museum/</link>
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		<title>Thermo Electric Mobile Charger</title>
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I was seriously considering to build a charger like this myself. After googling around a bit, I found a company (Thermo-Gen) that has already designed a commercial product that allows you to keep low power mobile electronics charged up in the wilderness. It works with water, a heat source and the Peltier effect to generate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/463_xml-test-2/</link>
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		<title>Sir Edmund Hillary</title>
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Sir Edmund was apparently so shy that he even proposed to his wife with a message via her mother.
In the years that followed his famous ascent, he shunned the celebrity that had become his overnight.
On the 50th anniversary of his achievement, he even turned down an invitation from the Queen, so that he could instead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/494_sir-edmund-hillary/</link>
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		<title>Fire-Resistant Wilderness Shelter</title>
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During my last hike in Lappland I realized what a difference a little bonfire can make to a camp site. It immediately increases the general comfort level of a wilderness camp. You can cook food, dry your gear and stay warm much more easily when you are staying next to a fire. Unfortunately modern ultralight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/462_fire-resistant-wilderness-shelter/</link>
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		<title>Godless Compass</title>
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I usually don&#8217;t write negative reviews, but either it was the brain washing of the Vatican or perhaps Golden Compass is just a bad movie. The plot keywords made me salivate in anticipation, but as soon as the lights went out and the endless trailers and commercials had ended, I quickly found out that this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/493_godless-compass/</link>
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		<title>Christmas</title>
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It is that special time of year again. Here&#8217;s a collection of images from my archives to enhance your holiday spirit.
If that didn&#8217;t help, try one of the Christmas radios
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		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/464_christmas/</link>
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		<title>Redrum</title>
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Well, I finally made it to redrum last night. To warm up for a night out, we doped up with some cava (Conde de Haro) and a nourishing meal at Grotesk. The tuna pastrami appetizer at Grotesk was excellent, by the way. Grotesk is a fancy fine dining place with relatively high prices on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/492_redrum/</link>
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		<title>Philips Brilliance CT</title>
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Philips, Computed Tomography &#8211; Brilliance CT &#8211; 64-channel configuration

The Brilliance 64-channel configuration breaks through previous boundaries in CT imaging, providing large volume, thin-slice coverage to improve diagnostic confidence, image quality and productivity.

With 40mm of thin-slice coverage, the 64-channel broadens horizons in cardiac imaging, allowing for unprecedented coronary artery evaluation. The 64-channel configuration also provides breakthrough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/491_philips-brilliance-ct/</link>
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		<title>Feasibility of Galileo</title>
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Reuters &#8211; EU agrees public funding for satellite project

Supporters say it is a vital technological platform for Europe, but critics say it could be a costly white elephant because the U.S. system already has a dominant market position and Russia and China are working on their own systems.

Berlin had been blocking the use of unspent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/490_feasibility-of-galileo/</link>
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		<title>Paper Christmas Tree</title>
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A designer friend of mine, Tuija Järvenpää,  has come up with the idea of selling pictures of Christmas trees.
She&#8217;s been working with the concept of disposable objects of art for quite some time now. One of her earlier projects was a paper wedding dress. The works are dancing around in the gray area of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/489_paper-christmas-tree/</link>
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		<title>Here Comes the Sun</title>
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Sunshine

The director also considered the story of Sunshine as an appropriate counterintuitive approach for the contemporary issue of global warming, with the death of the sun being a threat. Originally, Sunshine was scripted to begin with a voiceover talking about how parents tell their children not to look into the sun, but once told, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/488_here-comes-the-sun/</link>
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		<title>Next Generation Military Pilot Helmets</title>
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Scientists develop Terminator-style helmets which allow fighter pilots to see through their planes &#124; the Daily Mail

A futuristic helmet which allows fighter pilots to see through the walls and floor of their aircraft has been developed by scientists.
The high-tech head gear is attached to cameras on the outside of the aircraft, which project pictures of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/487_next-generation-military-pilot-helmets/</link>
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		<title>Eye-Fi Wireless Card</title>
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Eye-Fi Wireless Card
Eye-Fi uses home wireless networks to eliminate the time-consuming chore of dealing with cables, card readers or software plug-ins associated with uploading photos. Users simply turn on their digital camera and their pictures are wirelessly uploaded. The Eye-Fi Card works with existing and new SD-compatible digital cameras and stores photos like a conventional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/486_eye-fi-wireless-card/</link>
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		<title>Micro-Compact Low E-Home</title>
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Micro-Compact Low E-Home

The micro-compact low e-home is all-electric and powered by photovoltaic solar panels of 8 sqm with a small diameter vertical axis wind generator.

Day-time excess power is diverted into the grid. Night-time power is provided by the wind turbine and reserve batteries. Heating and air conditioning is ducted to each of the four function [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nodium.com/articles/485_micro-compact-low-e-home/</link>
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