This summer, the mobile network of the largest Norwegian telecom company, Telenor, had some downtime. A matter of mere hours of downtime, but still an event that grew significant in the national news coverage which eventually drew on top politicians. A few weeks later, the website of the Norwegian Universities and Colleges Admission Service crashed as a time-sensitive application form was released. This happened last year and the year before as well, and also this event was covered in national media. Both crashes were direct results of physical structures being run over capacity. Read more

A dark terror has descended upon Oslo and something must be done before it absorbs us completely. Read more

Muammar Gaddafi was killed near his hometown Sirtre yesterday morning. After his convoy was attacked by a French airstrike, an US Airforce drone and ground forces, he took refuge with several of his bodyguards in a drain underneath a road west of the city. The exact circumstances of his capture and killing are unclear, but evidence suggests that he was beaten and then shot soon after his capture. Read more

There are rumors that the anthropologist is drinking and that this will ruin his life. Read more

It is tempting - though it may not be a very fruitful approach - to analyze the attacks on the United States of America on the 11th of September 2001 semiotically: to interpret the meaning, wherever it comes from, of the Twin Towers, of New York City, of Pentagon and Washington, the grey dust, the orange balls of flame and the blue sky on that particular day. The blue sky that reminds you of what you thought on the day when you drove through the sunshine of the Nevada desert and Alan Jackson was playing 'Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)?' on the radio: How could anyone do anything like this to these nice people?! Read more