E: Missing links 5 – travel

There are so many web pages out there related to traveling, an acvivity which gives me the kicks. I will quickly list a few links I have come across.

The best and most extensive travel guide on the planet, is lonely planet. The web page is also very well done. Nifty facts are also given in the CIA world factbook.
If you wanna see what language they speak where, click here. Or you may wanna check on the country code for phone calls

By the way, this is how you pack: in one bag.

After you go, you can update a map of how many countries you have visited at World66.

If you wanna go abroad and have not been to Norway, this introduction from VisitNorway.com may inspire you. This fun list of things I do not miss about Norway may not.

For you traveling from Norway, going abroad, here is a collection of cheap flight ticket sites.
* Fly billigst
* Omindo
* Kilroy Travels

The remaining list are sites of which I am not as familiar.
* Travellink
* Supersaver
* Reisefeber
* Ticket
* Lavprisfly
* Reisbillig
* Travel Partner
* Restplass

E: Missing links 4 – geography

It has been a while without URL supplements. Thus, new missing links are about.

This fourth issue have resources in regards to geography, maps and additional global knowledge:

* International calling codes and internet codes are always handy.
* CIA world factbook. A very precise, updated and free online encyclopedia on the countries of the world. Countries of the world ain’t bad either.
* On Theodora’s page you can also find an extensive selection of various flags and maps from the entire world, be it in regards to climate, weather, population, language and so on.
* The countries and their capitals can be found here (”only” 194 according to this definition)
* online ruler. With this tool I could measure that there is 15992 kilometers between Oslo and Melbourne.

X: Missing links 3/Lenkesurfing 3

Today's online helpkit contains language tools. The picture is taken from Laurelwood Books.

Freetranslation.com has a list of translating opportunities if you know English; French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese and even Norwegian. The other way around do not have all that many options though. Here you can paste longere texts as well. Do not consider this a safeway to write to other people in various languages as there are a bit of mistakes here and there. But much of the time I am really impressed of the quality of the free option (you can purchase human translating too).

Tritrans has English-Spanish-Norwegian, but only word by word.

Ultralingua has thesaurus and definitions for English and French, and a list of translating combinations between English, French, Spanish, Esperanto, German, Portuguese and even Latin. Yourdictionary.com is also good as thesaurus, while dictionary.com or my favorite Merriam-Webster are the better free dictionaries.

There are tons of guides and helpful sites to help your writing, grammar and creativy. Check out these examples for misused expressions, essay writing or 50 quick writing tools from the journalist site Poynter online.

If you want poetry with rhymes, try Rhyme zone or simply Rhymer.

If you look for slang, there is a Norwegian portal with various slang, including American, British, Irish, Australian and Norwegian of course.

The top of the iceberg is hereby presented.

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Språkverktøy på nett er det mange av. Ettersom de fleste er på engelsk og for å spare litt tid, referer jeg også til teksten ovenfor.

Av norske kilder jeg har lagt meg på minne er ordboka en selvfølge i usikre skrivetider. Og for rettskriving er korrekturavdelingen en klassiker.

Men det finnes mange flere ordbøker der ute. Nordisk skolenett har en skandinavisk ordbok i fall du står fast med svenske og danske ord, og TriTrans har en norsk-engelsk-spansk og utgave. Disse ordbøkene mangler en del oppslagsord, men kan svare for veldig mye.

For slang, har Språkservice en eksepsjonell portal, ikke bare for norsk. Og for de som ikke har vært på Odalizeren til Øyvind Borgenholt er dette et must. Med fikse skript har han laget ”oversettere” av hvilken som helst nettside, også din egen, til enten odøling, trøndersk eller barnespråk. Trykk her for å lese Mastermind på trøndersk. Engelsken blir selvsagt ikke like strålende, men ellers er det nokså morsomt.

En annen liten morsomhet på siden er en samleside for ordtak og sitater med egen seksjon for dumheter uttalt i offentligheten.

X: Missing links 2/Lenkesurfing 2

With this sequal, the series has been properly established. The aim is, as before, to share some of the good links I have located on the Internet for various topics. Today’s issue is telecommunication, and then cellular phone messages in particular.

For the non-Norwegian readers (and users) I must say the options and my knowledge is rather limited an unexplored. Many countries have options similar to the Norwegian ones, with many free SMS per day in exchange for a little tag at the bottom advertising for the site. If you are not aware of these services, and do wish to save time typing messages and money not paying for them, have a go for your country and see what is out there.

For now, these are some links I have stored or heard about with an international perspective. I have not tried many of these, so do let me know if they work (for you), or others that do or don’t:

* We love freebies: Of course I am not the first person with an idea of gathering several SMS options at one site. This site has done a good job.
* World XS has also made a list, for companies in some countries. I have tried none of these.
* Email2SMS This site seems promising and free, but I don’t think I ever made it work when I tried a few years back.
* SMSeverywhere has supposedly a free option to sende messages to US mobile phones.
* Gofreesms seems great if it does what is says it will.
* For Australian mobile subsribers, I have personally used SMSpup.com. The way to get messages, is by clicking ads you get through your e-mail (remember to register with a less important one).

One service I have tried, and do NOT recommend, is SMS.ac. The message service works, but only has limited free SMS and is really tough unsubsribing from.

By the way, if you have not used Skype www.skype.com or simliar talking service, I strongly urge you to. With this you can speak freely to other users online, and call for very cheap rates to any phone around the world (Skypte out). If you do not call landlines (home phones), the prices are a bit higher, though, for your information.


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Med denne oppfølgeren, er lenkesurfing stadfestet som en blogserie. Som sist, er målet å dele noe av nettets godbiter og hjelpemidler. Denne gang er det telefoni, og særlig gratis mobilmeldinger som står for tur.

For norske mobilbrukere, finnes en drøss av muligheter for gratis å sende meldinger over Internett. De fleste som får meldinger fra meg, har skjønt dette. Jeg er nok relativt forbruksbevisst, men hovedmotivasjonen er at når jeg likevel bruker mye av hverdagen (skole, jobb, kommunikasjon) foran en dataskjerm, er det raskere å skrive touch på et vanlige tastatur enn å tomle seg gjennom en lengre melding på en signalsender i lommeformat. Ulemper med tjenestene er at mange har reklamebiter i slutten av meldingene, og/eller begrensede antall meldinger. For enkelte kommer ikke eget avsendernummer i forsendelsen, men dette er svært få aktører som ikke har i dag. En kjapp registrering er obligatorisk. For noen innebærer det at man godtar å få en og annen reklame-SMS fra selskapet en sjelden gang. Noen ganger kan det være treghet i systemet, som forsinker leveringstiden av meldingene, men dette er unntaksvis.

Her er utvalg muligheter, med beskrivelser.
* Ung1881: Ubegrenset SMS med kjapp levering, og avsenderen er deg selv. 130 tegn per melding, med reklametekst på slutten.
* VGpass: 10 gratis SMS per dag (eller færre ”samlemeldinger”), med VG-reklame på slutten. En god kontaktbok-tjeneste. Å melde seg inn her innebærer ikke reklame, men en nyhetsoppdatering per SMS for store nyheter.
* Gule Sider/Telefonkatalogen: har også 10 meldinger daglig. Fordelen er at det ikke er noe reklame i meldingen, og man kan sende flere meldinger samlet.
* Uweb.no: 300 gratis meldinger per måned, der alle meldinger informerer om det hippe, unge nettstedet det sendes fra :) For å få sende meldinger herfra, må man registrere litt data om seg på uwebs profil.
* Andre alternativer
- Inpoc: Her var det engang begrenset antall SMS per dag (mellom 3 og 5). Dette kan ha blitt utvidet.
- FreeSMS: Dette er den enkleste siden i utvalget, og har kun muligheten for tre meldinger per dag.
- Eurobate: Her er det et tak på 90 sms per måned. Fordelen er at man kan sende meldinger til mobiler i hele Norden. Eurobate sender ut en del reklame-SMS.

For meldinger til/i andre land, se den engelske delen.

Et stort apropos er DinSides mobilkalkulator, som har samtlige norske abonnementer i en kalkulator som gjør at du kan finne ut nøyaktig hvilket abonnement som er billigst for deg og ditt forbruk. Det er for øvrig min jobb og ansvar at denne er oppdatert.

Og for deg som ennå ikke bruker Skype til å ringe, da særlig til utlandet, er dette et must. Å ringe til andre datamskiner er gratis. Det å ringe andre (fast)telefoner (fra din datamskin) koster nesten ingenting det heller. Skype finnes både til PC og Mac.

E: Online clips 20

To celebrate reaching the 20 mark with online clips entries, I will publish 10 selected links, rather than the average five.

First up is a technical sections. Your IP (internet protocol) address is a identification tag that than can trace your computer and location. If you want to hide your IP address, this clip shows how. Many people, including myself, uses a laptop as a primary/only computer/mac. Here is how the various components are put together.

So for a more critical section. I saw this the other day on solider misbehavior. I am sure more of this could be revealed if all other countries had the same amount of troops and cameras around, but the US army has used their quota on these things I think now. And if you have forgotten how lucky and well off you are, able to access the internet and able to read, you can see reminder here, labeled poverty.


To finish off, I thought a more fun bit would be suitable. But instead of amusing myself by hitting a knife in between your fingers, or appearing on a Japanese TV show while being chucked out of a trebuchet, I rather bungee jump (done it) or try jumping with a parachute. Fascination for the police squad voice man, Michael Winslow, is better entertainment. Or to have revealed how magician Cooperfield flies (keep in mind that by watching this, such tricks will not be as thrilling to watch no more).

The rest can be found in the compilation list.

X: Missing links/Lenkesurfing

I spend much time online surfing. Enjoying to be systematic and organized, I have an arsenal of (in my view) handy and fascinating web addresses that may be useful for others than me. The ones given in this just established blog series will hopefully be researches saving you time on the various areas listed.
This first set of ”missing links” will be a general selection of important sources for one’s everyday.

* Dictionary (English): Merriam and Webster is by far my favourite for looking up words in English.
* Encyclopedia: Wikipedia is fairly accurate and free.
* World clock: Timeanddate.com has a very handy world clock page which you can personalize by adding your own city and most other big ones around the world to see what time it is here and there.
* Calendar: Also by timeanddate.com. Find your country’s one for now or the future.
* Birthday reminder: Never forget a birthday again with Birthdayalarm.com.
* Counter: A third nifty feature by timeanddate is a counter to count up or down to various happenings. I have for instance lived for 217479 hours now.
* Conversions: How many milligrams is an ounce or how hot is 40 degrees Fahrenheit or Kelvin? Be it weight, distance, pressure, temperature, force, density etc – Unit conversion is the place to convert
* How stuff works: The title says it all. Here you can find out how everything from a car engine to love works. I haven’t used this page much myself, but am intending to.

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Jeg er mye på Internett, altså surfer jeg. Jeg vil kalle det kjedesurfing. Dermed ble en blogserie om nyttige og spennende lenker naturlig nok kalt ”lenkesurfing”. Systematiker som jeg er, har jeg nokså mange (i mine øyne) gode koblinger, og har lite imot å dele disse snarveiene.

Denne første utgaven er dedikert til generelle, viktige ressurser jeg benytter meg av ved ulike høver. Med unntak av den ene ordboka, er alt på engelsk.

* Ordboka: Bokmål og nynorskordboka er den offisielle måten å finne rettskrivingen. Ikke stol på word.
* Leksikon: Wikipedia er nokså korrekt og koster ikke noe.
* Verdensur: Timeanddate.com har en svært hendig klokkeside der man kan legge til de (store) byene man måtte ønske rundt om i verden, slik at man fort kan sjekke hva klokka er de ulike stedene.
* Kalender: Denne tidsoversikten er også fra timeanddate.com. Her er den norske.
* Bursdagskalender: Birthdayalarm.com gjør at jeg har sluttet å glemme bursdager.
* Teller: Dagens tredje kjekke egenskap på timeanddate.com. Her kan man telle opp eller ned til det tidspunktet man bestemmer seg for, med mer. Jeg har for eksempel levd i 217479 timer akkurat nå.
* Konverteringer: Hvor mange milligram er i et pund? Hvor varmt er 40 Fahrenheit? Hvor mange kubikk er en desiliter? Det være seg vekt, distanse, trykk, temperatur, valuta etc – Unit Conversion er kilden man bør oppsøke.
* Hvordan ting fungerer: Howstuffworks.com er en svært tilgjengelig innføring i alskens maskinerier og prosesser, alt fra bilmotorer til kjærlighet. Jeg har ikke brukt siden mye selv, men liker den svært godt.

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I generally dislike TV ads, but one of the ladder by Telenor (the biggest tele company in Norway) for increased braodband speed, had a pretty humurous tone. The dialogue, for non-Norwegian speakers:
Q: What are you doing?
A: Nothing
Q: Who do you think you are?
A: I am the scatman...

Then it is time to have a listen to what is called the world’s funniest laugh. If not the best, he sure has a way of making others crack up.

Bowling is fun to play, but not so fun to watch – unless you see bloopers happening.

Parodies are cool. This is a guy doing voices fairly well, but impresses me greatly with managing to do 101 different ones in less than four minutes.


Last up are two documentary style clips of how toothpicks and paintballs are made. I like these kind of bits of information.

The entire collection of clips can be found clicking here.

E: 1600 times online

If I search for ”Sindre Storvoll” in Google, so-called googling, I get about 1600 hits. That is when searching on my full name with brackets, not just Sindre (909,000 hits) and Storvoll (24,000 hits) by themselves. As far as I know I am the only one on this planet with this name (. No, I do not have any middle names).

The web pages that appear originate from some 50 different domains. I will hereby quickly describe a few of them – responsible for a chunk of hits.

Much has to do with my own composition of text.Blogger.com: Blogger is the host of my webpages Mastermind and the former Dre Down Under. Furthermore, is OSI the club for whose volleyball team I play and write match reports. DinSide is the consumer web page is my main work place for journalistic work and database update. The owner, Aller Internett, is also in charge of ITavisen.no – the computer news website I worked for this summer.

Moreover, Ilimitado ia a support group in connection to some missionaries in Bolivia sent out by the Norwgian Mission Alliances. I know a couple of the missionaries and wrote a bit for the page while in La Paz in January last year, hanging/helping out with the volunteers from Norway at the time.

I have also written for pages like Dyrøyseminaret and Revestreken – the local newspaper for my county Dyrøy.

In other circumstances, I see that articles I have written are quoted of sites I have not heard of before. This I find flattering.

I do not only interview. For a youth page in my region to the sports pages in a Las Vegas news paper, I have given some comments after journalism was digitalized.

I have also played quite a bit of soccer in my life, including many years for my home town Brøstadbotn. I am also registered in the register for people from Dyrøy, my county. My political involvement is poor online, but a visible stand is against the early/materializing of Christmas.

Other reasons for why my name is online is that I have friends with blogs who link to my blog or mention my name. The same happens when I enter various guestbooks, suggestions, comments or competitions comments at personal and commercial pages.

The complete listings are found by doing the search.

The interesting part with this is the discussion about identity, privacy and about impossibility of removing oneself from the Internet. With so many entries online, I do not know if I could just disappear – even if I wanted to. And although Google is a good search engine, maybe the best, there are sites and many a database it does have access to or do not use. A Yahoo-search gives about 900 hits, but have a few that Google does not have - for instance my old blog from Las Vegas (now attacked by ads). Here you also find links to my Melbourne soccer club (Northern Pumas) and various other entries. The Norwegian engines Kvasir and Sesam, "only" came up with 203 and 205.

And there are entries none of the engines will reveal. For instance, Norway is one of the countries with a very extensive availability of names and contact details online, if you do not block yourself. See GuleSider's entry on me.

There are dangers and skepticism in having such world wide access to my information, but for now I thought I would just give it a mention for the sake of updating my blog :)

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When the working gets tough, the fun gets going.

I like hip hop, and am amazed by rappers who can imitate other quick-mouth stars.

Commercials are mainly to convince and cell, but parodies can be really humourous. At least the manly PMS replacement pills is worth a look.

Priests and pastors baptizing have to be prepared for anything – also while baptizing.

Like hunting for men and a motherly care for women, I think finding harmless explotions cool, is a human instinct.

Birthdays is a common event to caputre on film. That is a main reason for having many viewable memories from them, and humorous ones from whom you do not even know.

There battle between democrats and republicans is tense. In this hearing, an opponent of the current president lets out his dissapointment.

See my collections of all online clips.

E: Online Clips 17

Starting today, I put all of this online clips in a list of its own, retrievable from the links menu to the right.

If you think soccer and volleyball are hard; don’t even think about trying this.

Remember the Colombian soccer goalie who did the amazing save against England? Well, a similar deal has been done in handball.

This campaign is my type of campaign; spreading spread peace, joy and love – through hugs.

There is nothing stopping you from be a grandparent and being cool at the same time.

I love traveling. So does Matt. He has danced through the world and made a really neat movie and website about it.

I had laser surgery on my eyes in Bolivia in January last year. If you plan to do it, I say go go go, but you may want to wait to watch this movie from an operation (not mine, but the lasik method is the one I used) until after you are done.

X: Blogging friends/bloggende venner

Inspired by the cyberworld of blogs, I figured out it may appear egosentric to not link to friends who run their own site on the world from their perspectives. Today I created this list which can be found as a link in menu on the right side. I have only included those updating on a fairly regular level. They are all presented in the language in which they write. They are all friends, the brackets specifies the
connection to me. Christian means that we met in Christian setting.

Disclaimer: The Internet contains billions of pages, and I surely have not regiestred that all the people I know well have blogs in business. Do tell me, if you are not on the list.

BTW: The term ”Blogging friends” was snatched from my friend Maia (see below)

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Inspirert av verdensvevens blogger, ser jeg at det kan virke egosentrisk å ikke lenke til andre venner med sine personlige perspektiver på verden. I dag har jeg derfor likegodt laget en liste som vil være tilgjengelig fra menyen til høyre. Med i oversikten er kun de vennene jeg vet har en blog de pleier nokså jevnlig. De er alle presentert i det språket de skriver mest på. Parentesene viser vår forbindelse. Kristen betyr at vi ble (hovedsakelig) kjent i en kristen setting (leir, møte, skolelag etc).

NB: Si fra om jeg har gått glipp av noen.
PS: ”Bloggende venner” så jeg min venninne Maia (se under) bruke først

* Andreas Norbye og Jonas Evensen (Christian/kristne): Lamasnakk.com er fra de solide, kristne, nordnorske guttas ettårige frivillige tjenesteår i Bolivia.

* Andreas Gundersen (Cousin/søskenbarn): Det er fint med familie i Oslo. Andreas er vekter for Securitas.

* Camilla Isaksen (Christian/kristen): Camilla er fra Melen uten for Sjøvegan, nabotettstedet til Brøstadbotn. Gjennom leire, videregående, et kort kjæresteforhold og et kjempelangt vennskap har vi en spesielt god kontakt, selv om vi dessverre ikke får truffet hverandre ofte da hun er i Tromsø og jeg i Oslo.

* Cherrine Chan (Tuturus): Bright Malaysian girl I know from Melbourne. Also a part of the ”Tuturus”.

* Dag Yngve Dahle (Journalism/journalistikk): Vi har begge bodd på Olderbakken, stedet der jeg bodde mine første leveår. Vennskap ble ikke reelt formet før jeg forvillet meg til hovedstaden. Dag Yngve er journalist i Aftenposten, og min mentor i medie- og fotoverdenen, og ellers en trivelig kamerat.

* Håkon Skipenes Østrem (volleyball): Brøstadbotns største volleyballtalent. Bloggen er fra oppholdet på Topp Volley Norge.

* Igor Cristobal Poeblete Torres (High school/videregående): Chilener fra Bardu jeg gikk på videregående sammen med.

* Ingunn Sofie Berntsen Storvoll (sister-in-law/svigersøster): trivelig jente, nå gledeligvis en del av familien. Hva mer kan man si?

* Karsten Heikmann (Las Vegas): An interesting German fellow who was an exchange student in Logandale outside Las Vegas the same time as I was wihin the city (2000-2001).

* Kjartan Ørnes (Christian/kristen): Nordlandsk kompis jeg kan le høyt, tulle rått og dele masse med.

* Lars Olav Karlsen (Christian): Autograf jeger og fotballspiller på Tufte. Vi ble kjent mens han var ettåring (frivillig ungdomsarbeider i menigheten) i Salangen (nabokommunen til min, Dyrøy). Kontakten tok seg opp etter jeg kom til Oslo.

* Luke Stirling (Melbourne): The first person I remember from my stay in Chisholm college at La Trobe University campus. Luke is an intelligent and friendly man from whom I have learned and gotten a good deal of help and fun.

* Onjira "Bell" Niranatkul: (Tuturus): Thai-American girl I know from Australia, a part of this Tututus group mentioned in my blog. We have traveled a fair
bit together in Australia, Thailand and around San Francisco.

* Maia Bakkevold (Christian/kristen): Venn siden ungdomsleirer og start i Laget. Maia bor nå også i Oslo der vi møtes, diskuteres og har det gøy på nett, hjemme hos hverandre eller i byen.

* Norvald Nikolaisen (Cousin/søskenbarn): Mitt kjære søskenbarn er bedre å tenke enn han selv tror - når han tar seg tid.

* Patrick Ho (Melbourne): Another Malaysian in the Tuturus environment.

* Polaputt (“Pete”) Sirodom (Melbourne): Christian Thai friend who I was fortunate to meet in Melbourne and later in Bangkok.

* Rune Torsteinsen (volleyball): Veteran og snart legende i norsk volleyball. Kant på BK Tromsø, men opprinnelig fra Brøstadbotn. Mitt forbilde på volleyballbanen med sine egenskaper, integritet og fortsatt bruk av knebeskyttere.

* Samanta Watanesk (Melbourne): Floormate from Chisholm college during my second semester in Australia. A smart Thai girl with IT education. This page use to come in English, but is now primarily Thai.

* Sathees Mylva (High school/vgs): En reflektert kar og sykepleierstudent fra Sri Lanka. Vi formet et sterkt vennskap i videregåendedagene og har holdt en god forbindelse siden den gang.

* Åshild Kvammen (House mate/medboer Oslo): En snakksalig, reflektert, vennligsinnet og tydelig ung dame som jeg deler tro og hus med i lagskollektivet (2006-07).

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Today’s first clip is Bible re-do of the popular song “Baby got back”. “White BoyDJ” is a Christian who is rapping about “Baby Got Book”. Have a listen and smile of the music video.

Next is a basketball player who spins his way to the basket, twice while airborne before he dunks!

BMX is fascinating. Particularly if you are really really good at it.

If I was to list the various kings of Norway through history, I would tussle with more than a few in either end. A little American girl, who has barely learned to speak, can list all the country’s presidents.

Trick shots on the pool table are simply incredibly remarkable.

One can never get tired of babies – espeically not laughing ones. Try not to giggle with quadruplets.

See all past entries here.

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Like last clip entry, I need to promote some crazy table tennis skills.

Crack up with the program host for this German TV-show. A certain caller just does not get it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oV5-tqtB8k

The evolution of danceis a entertaining and impressive introduction to the history of movement to music.

How many Japanese can fit in one train? Have a look at this astonishing try – from real life rush hour.

I am really keen on buying a Macintosh, but like with PC, it is fun when the big launches and promoting sessions go wrong.

Finallly, this “computer expert” was on his way to a job interview as an accountant, not to a TV interview on BBC.

See all past entries here.

E: Online clips 14

Babies are the most adorable creatures we have. Amusing can they be too, for instance if they cannot make up their mind about being happy or sad.

If you have beaten everyone else in fussball, try mess with this guy. You wouldn’t think there is this much skill to be gained by spinning and pushing some rods back and forth. You table tennis stars out there can reassess your skills with these players. Some of the plays are hilarious.

A very picturesque and strong ad for good reflections beyond the brand of the advertiser. The other ad in today’s clip selection, is one of the coolest ones I have seen in a very long time.

”Ripley’s believe it or not” is a show and museums with a large number of oddities appearing. One amazing story, if true, is from a girl sending a message in a balloon to a certain coming soulmate. The number of coincidences are striking.

See all past entries here.

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This set of clips comprise a recorded evidence of the singing-until-the-glass-breaks method.

I love Jim Carrey. This is one of his funny skits, being a lifeguard for a pool.
I admire people not letting major handicap becoming a set-back. Watch this American wrestler go.

If you want to see the first perfect dart game ever televised, click here. That is some example of precision.

Prison can be bad enough in itself, but will surely get worse if you make beginners’ mistakes. The same can be said for your first time in a vegeterian restaurant.

See all past entries here.

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Time for another amusement break.

In regards to the recent world cup, I found a nice collection of soccer misses and weird goals.

Then watch a brave and lucky mom saving her child on the subway.

One piece of advice: don’t be drafted in the Russian army. The beginning is from a Melbourne prison riot.

Whilst in Russia, if you are to marry a local, make sure he likes to kiss you.

Finally, enjoy this ad for a certain type of restaurant.

See all past entries here.

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Before you go on enjoying today’s clip selection, I want to note that these excerpts are carefully chosen after watching many a terrible uploaded video. So you better laugh or appreciate these ;). Your particular taste (if different from mine) or mood might deter the sensation.

First off is a worst-case-scenario for both a reporter and a potential world record breaker.

Second is a clip from the most fascinating part of a rugby international; the pre-game intimidation.

Third up is slamball, an intensely bouncy version of basketball. It’s looks awesome, but I doubt it will become a major hit.

Fourth is a compilation of various interesting dance scenes.

Fifth, an example of how a race is not over until you passed the finish line. Or as my soccer coach would say; the game is not over until the final whistle blows. Poor guy. See the demonstration of cockiness.

Finally, if you have some time on your hands, and are fascinated by complex domino effects, you should watch these interesting constructions of tiny balls, wagons, hammers and other artifacts causing a stream of actions and reactions.

See all past entries here.

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A bit of random clips this time.

Enjoy a trombone entertainer and watch a skilled camel jumper.

Take delight in a bit of coffee art and view a humorous blindfold tasting test.

Be amazed of how quick a woman can get changed and finally laugh with a German weather reporter.


Nine pages with past linked videos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9.

E: Online clips 9

To balance the recent seriousness, I thought it was time with some more entertaining video clips.

I love hidden camera gigs like this one; What if a little kid you are supposed to watch pulls off a side-mirror of a stranger’s car and then runs away?

How many weird items are you able to swallow – and return – without choking? Talented are also this beatboxer who hums and beat at the same time, and this young soccer juggler with amazing control.

Next is a touching story about a special high school basketball assistant.

Finally, you can meet Mr. Lucky, who just won a car with a scratch-off lottery ticket.

Previous videos to which I have linked:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8.

E: Online clips 8

I am on a online video roll :)

Even if I wasn’t a Liverpool fan, the Champions League final last year must have been one of the most exciting soccer club games ever played. See the highlights.

Combining soccer with break dancing is also pretty cool.

Which is faster you think of morse code or SMS?

In the media world it is often easy find the angle you want. Conspiracy theories about September 11 is done here, but done in a very convincing way, which make you think if it was more to the event than what the mainstream news presented.

Scooters (snowmobils) can be a dangerous vehicle. I mainly included this clip because it’s actually from my region/state in Norway (Troms).

Writing of milder accidents, have you ever heard of Children’s Jackass?


Watch the past seven online clip entries:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7