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päivi is gone off to iceland and london for 16days. i am here on my own for all that time. so the next few days should be fine, before i descend into primordial behaviour – i’ll start to make a fort in the bedroom out of socks and old tshirts. then i’ll somehow form my…

defined by the new yorker as “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the internet era”, creative commons founder, stanford law professor larry lessig is visiting helsinki, and kindly agreed with super-short notice to give a talk on the topic “the future of copyright, culture and creativity” to aula members and anyone interested. the…

i love randomly finding shows on television late at night. bbc2 after newsnight was great for it, but there doesnt seem to be as many interesting programmes (for english speakers) here. last night i found a programme on swedish television (broadcast in english with swedish subtitles) in whicc a (i think) danish documentary film maker…

elections in finland are different to those in ireland. i cant vote here for parliamentary elections as i am not a citizen, so i didnt take too much time to look into the mechanics of the elections last time around (march 2003). however, the general atmosphere surrounding them was very much different from those in…