This week there was a huge Nato summit/meeting thingie. Finland isn't a part of Nato (yet?) but our president Tarja Halonen was there anyways, because Finland is friendly with Nato. In the paper there was a photograph that caught my eye. It was Tarja and George Bush at a lunch in the summit, sitting at a table. His arm was resting on the back of her chair (kind of an almost-hug) and they were both smiling lightly and looking at each other, as if in conversation). It was pretty nice as a picture. Every once and a while I have this kind of semi-realisation of understanding a little what George Bush has that could probably be attributed to at least some of his popularity when he was elected (twice). I mean in a completely non-political, only emotional, way. He has presence. I've understood he's a pretty poor talker and I reckon that's because he is a tactile - rather than verbal or aural - person. He's often said to be very charismatic when met in person, and I believe that's probably true. Also being a poor public speaker is quite rare amongst the kind of slimy smooth-talking slick politicians that are so common. It makes him appear more down-to-earth, more like one-of-us.

I don't know why I'm writing this. o.O I don't agree with the man's politics, I don't really have any kind of opinion about him. I guess it's just an observation.

Diary-spammy love, courtecy of [Isilando]

Earth Hour

Snowing. It feels like almost a sin to be the first one to walk across a freshly fallen untouched snow. Ruining the virgin perfectness of the ground. If only you could fly...
Snow always makes me blue :3


Poetics aside, I've been thinking of doing a pokemon thing here in ET. Where you either "catch" pokemans by drawing them or trade yours with others' drawings. So you'd have to draw at least one (no professor Oaks here giving you one :P unless you have a friend who would give you one... hmm...) and then trade for different ones. Or you could draw all your own. Or a mix. Now this wouldn't have any kind of battle/level/evolution/anything thing going on (at least I can't think of how to do that - unless maybe have levels indicated by the skillfulness of the drawing?) The obvious problem would be some moose stealing pictures of the nets and thus making it lame for everyone... But hopefully only cool people would be involved. There'd be some kind of size requirement to make all the pictures drawn be a part of it (something like "the image has to be 300px by 300px and plain background" or suchness). I might use the pokedex-wiki for that, it's a bit of a waste of a good name as it is...

Home again. I have finally got my hands on the Finnish translation of Harry Potter 7, so I'll be a bit scarce for a bit (plus tomorrow is Sunday and then in the evening we'll go visit my sister til tuesday, so, uh... don't excpect to see me til then :3)

Travelling went well, my ears hurt like hell on the plane, because I have the beginning of a cold so the pressure in my head was fuct by the snot in my nose and suchness. I haven't even unpacked yet. >_>

*goes back to Harry* So worth the wait <3

Holey camoley, I'm part of an art movement?

Very interesting data-based¹ art

Help me moar with art!¹

New game my lovelies :3
I'm Still Alive.

Go on. Give us a click <3

To my young¹ creative friends:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CccPPDe2JU
This relates to my last diary, and also to the one where I linked you all to the Mesopotamians by They Might Be Giants. If you are new to the Diary of iippo, the Mesopotamians are here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMRTGv82Zo

Today I had a tramping, street-roaming adventure. It'll be a wiki most likely, so you'll just have to wait to be surprised. :)

Also, speaking of wiki, don't forget NumberPedia. It's making wonderful progress, it'd be a shame if it was unfinished. So please help! :D

P.S.
The line that will stop Movie Quote Pants Game₁ for good:
I find your lack of pants disturbing.

_{1 You know the game, like in Lord of the Pants except with any movie quote.}

Something that impressed me:
100 Movies, 100 quotes, 100 numbers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FExqG6LdWHU


Related to this, I would like to take this opportunity to ask for your help. I'm planning to do a piece of wikiart dealing with numbers, and I need facts about numbers, especially numbers between 10-100 (1-9 is welcome too, but I expect those to be easier). Now I'm not sure what kind of facts I want... Not the sort of numerology facts that talk about meanings of numbers or such. More like actual counts (like "the phrase 'Christ on a bike' is mentioned 24 times in the film 'Second Coming'") or physical instances of numbers (like "The house number of Donald Duck is 13"). I was considering limiting the facts to movies, but I won't, I want facts about numbers from all over. But I'd still rather have it as something widely accessible or observable (not something like "on the way to work I saw 45 plastic bags"). I'm not even horribly fust if the number isn't a scientifically proven fact (for example I will use the catch line from the movie 21 Grams for number 21 even though it might not be true) as long as it is accessible in some way.

Hmm, maybe a preparation wiki is in order so I won't lose track of this deal... Let's use NumberPedia.

Those of you who don't read Calico's diary (<diary:1008594>):

http://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html

This is recommended reading.

Moar:

http://rapidshare.com/files/87853321/ManWithAMovieCamera.mp3.html

The absolutely wonderful soundtrack to the absolutely wonderful silent film Man with a Movie Camera. You don't need to have seen the film to listen to this (although I did post a link to a place where you can watch it on the internet - it's somewhere in my old diary, feel free to find it :P)
I guess this file could be divided into tracks, but I never bothered. If you'd prefer it that way, you can talk me into it or download a free program called Audacity that is easy to use and will get the job done.

The Art of Sleep

I am extremely proud to present to you all:

The Listening Machine.

A tremendous art film by Carmen D'avino, called "The Room":
http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/carmendavino/carmendavino.php (it's the very middle one, they're all QuickTime files). I adore it, it's absolutely gorgeous! <3 <3
(On a sidenote, "The Finnish Fable" is very strage <_<)

Two links for you to look at if you're not too busy. :)

http://writersco.com/207.Academic.ReactiveMedia
My reactive media report. I'll upload the program at some point, because it's exciting.

25 skills every man should know
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/upgrade/4223337.html
But I think this goes for women too.

A request:
Please do something nice that will only take a short minute of your time.
Go to quest for girlfriend and email a girl in Belgium to tell her she is pretty. It would be really nice if you did that. Thank you. :)