The Corner Blog Archives: February 2007
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22 February 2007
Grand theft: The thieves took several thousand kilos of …
Finnish police is investigating a theft of rocks. Some one stole several tons of street pebbles from the centre of Helsinki. The rocks would’ve covered area of 20 square meters. The police is now trying to get hints of how the rocks look and checking if any of the surveillance cameras have footage of the […]
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22 February 2007
Cornerblog 30 years ago: Racquetball hits the wall
Once again a “new old” game is introduced to us. This ingenious game which is now so “hip” that everyone who is somebody or anyone willing to be someone wanting to be someone who is somebody should play, is imaginatively called racquetball, pronounced as racketball. Our reporters, who naturally surf on the wave of everything […]
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21 February 2007
Finnish SDP has solved the unemployment problem
As the Finnish general election is coming closer the biggest Finnish party Social Democratic Party (SDP) has announced that they will make things better for workers, elders, families, mid-class, poor, rich, disabled and the unemployed by using good old “stick and a carrot method”. The previously mentioned ones will get the “carrot”. Students and singles […]
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19 February 2007
Fox brings out stupidity and populism to a new level
The Fox News Milwaukee has made a new benchmark for stupidity and populism their article of the threats of Nintendo DS/DS Lite has reached a level no one thought would be possible to reach. “Yes, a wireless signal when connected tries to maintain the connection, depending on the `wireless noise´ level. Specially with 802.11b (which […]
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15 February 2007
US answer to global warming: smoke and giant space mirrors
Global warming has been cancelled - again. The Bush administration has announced the plan [link to actual Bush Administration plan] to solve global warming for good. The plan was actually innovated after watching a popular TV-series, Futurama, and consists of sending a giant space mirror to the atmosphere to reflect the sunlight.
The Bush administration has […]
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14 February 2007
H&M bikini ad = pedophilia? Not
Pedophilia. Hah, got your attention now not to mention loads of google hits. Pedophilia has lately been widely broadcasted in Finnish media. Specially the pedophilistic material one can so easily find in the wild wild internet. I think it has something to do with the fact that the elections are coming to town. According to […]
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14 February 2007
33% fresher look - now in colours and with a hint of lime
In case some one didn’t notice, I updated the TCB’s look to something bit more modern /*and it only took for six months! damn I’m fast*/. I decided that we needed a facelift to something more webzine -ish /*really -ish*/ The new look allows more flexibility, is fairly future proof for all of our expected […]
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14 February 2007
Global warming cancelled for bad weather
Global warming, a phenomenon that has been fairly widely broadcasted around the media, has been cancelled for bad weather.
The researchers apologise for the inconvenience and promise that they will fully refund all who registered as participants beforehand. They will try to re-organize global warming event in the “immanent future”.
The sudden cancellation has caused chagrin, […]
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8 February 2007
All about the f*cking dollar…
Woah. Check this out.
I believe the Swedish historian and author Peter Englund wrote a similar story, about what happened before the invasion. The US was paying good, hard cash for any (and I do mean *any*) evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and they were also shelling out a fair bit of money in […]