Mood:  a-ok

 Helsinki is a city of dichotomous charms. On the one hand, it is known as the centre for cutting-edge technology

Chaos Communication Camp 2007
The International Hacker Open Air Gathering
8|9|10|11|12th August 2007
Finowfurt near Berlin, Germany (Old Europe)

You can participate! Bring your tent and join our villages. The Camp has everything you need: power, internet, food and fun. The 100.000 square meter areal features enough space to camp, cozy places to hang out and a nice pool and lake to swim and do nautic experiments.

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Mood:  sharp

Now this is just plain cool.

Learn how to stream live audio and video from a Nokia N800 Internet Tablet into the virtual world of Second Life.

Also the N95 allows you to do amazing things, but wouldn't it scare the hell out of you if people went around their offices dressed like that!? (see video below)

Mood:  blue

Also Hungary's entry 'Casual Man' was much liked in Finland, as was Andorra's entry.

Who ever said nothing good came out of ESC? They were wrong.

Mood:  a-ok

Hanoi Rocks has got a new album lined up for release next week, so you'll have a proper medicine waiting for you in the recordshop to relief your ears from too much Eurovision songfestival type of music by then.

Hanoi Rocks is into fashion nowadays and are looking for street team leaders. Ah and they are on myspace nowadays, too.

Did you see the lightshow in the semifinals on eurovision tonight? I'd vote for those guys!

Mood:  surprised

Last year "the TransVision 2006 annual conference of the World Transhumanist Association, Helsinki 17-19 August 2006, organized by the WTA and the Finnish Transhumanist Association, was open to remote visitors in the virtual reality world of Second Life."

The theme of the conference was Emerging Technologies of Human Enhancement.

Mood:  a-ok

Carthography and old maps really are wonderful areas where one can find old artistry. Take this old map of Helsinki for example, dated 1902.

New maps on the other hand typically contain much more numerical data, plenty of which can be found from these Geohack Map sources of the Helsinki Area.

Mood:  quizzical

About the Avastar, from:

http://www.the-avastar.com

"The AvaStar is a professional tabloid newspaper for the residents of Second Life. With the latest news, entertainment, style and advice - the AvaStar keeps its readers informed about the vast, diverse and ever-changing world of Second Life."

So this is a virtual world with its own virtual newspaper containing it's own virtual news from its virtual journalists who carry virtual identities? How virtual does it get? Any idea? You?

Mood:  rushed

A Japanese professor of robotics has created an android that has real hair and even breathes like a human being, called Jeminoid.

Already 6 months ago, a similar android was in the news. 

Radiohead wrote a song about it.

Mood:  don't ask

By now the whole world must have heard about the riots in Tallinn last weekend. 

Not everyone might know that as a result, the sale of alcohol in the estonian capital has been banned until after May 1, and again from May 7 to 10.

Mood:  lyrical

Let's start a special thread to share our musical preferences with eachother. 

If you have any musical tips, favorites or recommendations you'd like to share  this thread is where to do it directly on Helsinki Times! 

Mood:  rushed

Here in Helsinki, it's easy to connect to the internet while traveling by Public Transport in Trams and Metros, whether it's by Wi-Fi, WLAN or bluetooth.

 Whereever else in the world you may be, use this service to find yourself a local wi-fi access provider

Mood:  lyrical

UK based Newspaper The Herald published an article about Finland called 'Learning from the Finnish Article':

Mood:  caffeinated

Starting June 17th, Finnair will offer direct flights to Mumbai 5 days a week as part of its strategy to focus more on Asian countries.

Already in mid-may there will be daily flights.

"Finnair has acquired a new Airbus A340-300E aircraft in its fleet for flights to Tokyo, Nagoya, Beijing and Shanghai, the release said."

Mood:  hug me

An interesting article from Jenny Kleeman over at the Observer about cybervandalism on high profile websites like wikipedia:

 "Since the death of Steve Irwin - the Australian television naturalist who was struck in the chest by a stingray's barb last year - the entry has become one of the online encyclopaedia's most regularly vandalised articles"

with a striking example of how this can play out in practice:

"If you looked up stingrays on Wikipedia last week, you would have learnt that, as well as living in tropical coastal waters and reproducing in litters of five to 10 offspring, the cartilaginous marine fish also 'hate Australian people'"

In short, Wikipedia has been accused of being unreliable, what do you think?