Longtail bikes
Okey, something is making my Firefox freeze so badly that it freezes my whole computer and I have to boot it. I'm thinking that the problem has something to do with NoScript, because Firefox freezes when I allow some site to run scripts (temporarily or for good). But I've been using NoScripts for a long time, at least a year, and I haven't had these sort of problems before. So maybe there's some kind of hick up between NoScript and my other FF extensions. Somehow I've ended up with quite many of them (13 in use at the moment), but I need all of them for one thing or another. If I absolutely have to, I could survive with just Adblock Plus.
Maybe I could disable NoScript to see, if that would make any change. I've just gotten so used to it. I hadn't realized that the majority of sites that I visit use some sort of script, like JavaScript and Flash, until I had installed NoScript. I like the control that using NoScript gives me. Or maybe I'll disable most of my other FF extensions and see, if that would help. I'm really sick of my system crashing.I found an awesome song that I've been looping all evening: Bone Will Break Metal. It's by a Danish band called Ginger Ninja. It's also a great song to dance to.
Ginger Ninja - Bone Will Break Metal @ Youtube
Hmm, apparently Ginger Ninja and Ginger Ninjas are two different bands. Their names are a little bit too easy to mix together. The second one is based in America and they do most of their touring by bicycles. They also power their gigs mostly with bicycles that members of the audience pedal during the gig. Wow, an environmentally friendly way to tour. That had never occurred to me before now. I have no idea what kind of music Ginger Ninjas make but they get a big thumps up for the way that they tour.
From their website I got to looking at bicycles with which you can transport stuff. Ginger Ninjas use Xtracycle while touring. It's basically an extension that you can add to your bike to make it longer on the back and thus able to fit stuff or an additional person on the bike. These sort of bikes are called longtails (pitkähäntä).
The first idea that I had after looking at photos of longtail bikes was that with such a bike I could bicycle to the cottage, either the whole way or take a bus as far as you can and then bicycle the rest of the way. Awesome! Me wants! You might find an Xtracycle, Yuba or Kona Ute in Finland, but they cost somewhere around 500e to 1000e or more. I don't have that sort of money to use on a bike, unfortunately.
You could make your own longtail bike since Xtracycle has put the basics of their longtail design as open source. A project like that is probably a bit out of my league, but if I could get Orasi interested in the project he could help.Last but not least I watched a good documentary tonight: Sokkihoito (The Shock Doctrine). It was based on Naomi Klein's book by the same name. The main idea was that capitalism and free market policies have been pushed forward in many countries in wakes of a crisis like a natural disaster, war or an economic crisis, because otherwise they would've caused too much resistance.
The bit about Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union was quite interesting. I grew up during the times of Gorbachev and Jeltsin, but I had no idea that Gorbachev had tried to steer Soviet Union towards the model of Scandinavian wellfare states from the socialism, instead of the capitalism that Jeltsin enforced after he got in power. I might be biased in this, but the Russian people would probably be better off, if Russia had become something like the Scandinavian wellfare states. Many things are pretty screwed up in Russia even now.
Anyway, I'll have to add Naomi Klein's book The Shock Doctrine to my book list.
[EDIT]
Before someone gets the wrong idea, I wouldn't advice believing everything that Naomi Klein says. I haven't read her books, but they seem a bit too flashy to be completely objective towards their topic.
Maybe I could disable NoScript to see, if that would make any change. I've just gotten so used to it. I hadn't realized that the majority of sites that I visit use some sort of script, like JavaScript and Flash, until I had installed NoScript. I like the control that using NoScript gives me. Or maybe I'll disable most of my other FF extensions and see, if that would help. I'm really sick of my system crashing.I found an awesome song that I've been looping all evening: Bone Will Break Metal. It's by a Danish band called Ginger Ninja. It's also a great song to dance to.
Ginger Ninja - Bone Will Break Metal @ Youtube
Hmm, apparently Ginger Ninja and Ginger Ninjas are two different bands. Their names are a little bit too easy to mix together. The second one is based in America and they do most of their touring by bicycles. They also power their gigs mostly with bicycles that members of the audience pedal during the gig. Wow, an environmentally friendly way to tour. That had never occurred to me before now. I have no idea what kind of music Ginger Ninjas make but they get a big thumps up for the way that they tour.
From their website I got to looking at bicycles with which you can transport stuff. Ginger Ninjas use Xtracycle while touring. It's basically an extension that you can add to your bike to make it longer on the back and thus able to fit stuff or an additional person on the bike. These sort of bikes are called longtails (pitkähäntä).
The first idea that I had after looking at photos of longtail bikes was that with such a bike I could bicycle to the cottage, either the whole way or take a bus as far as you can and then bicycle the rest of the way. Awesome! Me wants! You might find an Xtracycle, Yuba or Kona Ute in Finland, but they cost somewhere around 500e to 1000e or more. I don't have that sort of money to use on a bike, unfortunately.
You could make your own longtail bike since Xtracycle has put the basics of their longtail design as open source. A project like that is probably a bit out of my league, but if I could get Orasi interested in the project he could help.Last but not least I watched a good documentary tonight: Sokkihoito (The Shock Doctrine). It was based on Naomi Klein's book by the same name. The main idea was that capitalism and free market policies have been pushed forward in many countries in wakes of a crisis like a natural disaster, war or an economic crisis, because otherwise they would've caused too much resistance.
The bit about Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union was quite interesting. I grew up during the times of Gorbachev and Jeltsin, but I had no idea that Gorbachev had tried to steer Soviet Union towards the model of Scandinavian wellfare states from the socialism, instead of the capitalism that Jeltsin enforced after he got in power. I might be biased in this, but the Russian people would probably be better off, if Russia had become something like the Scandinavian wellfare states. Many things are pretty screwed up in Russia even now.
Anyway, I'll have to add Naomi Klein's book The Shock Doctrine to my book list.
[EDIT]
Before someone gets the wrong idea, I wouldn't advice believing everything that Naomi Klein says. I haven't read her books, but they seem a bit too flashy to be completely objective towards their topic.