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Last login: 2 hours agoTommi is a 21 year old single guy from Jyväskylä, Finland.
I am a Finnish math student and roleplayer. Emphasis on the latter.
Researchers conclude piracy not stifling content creation - Ars Technica...
Jun 21, 10:09am    (1 review)  p2p, music-industry, file-sharing, piracy, piratismi  http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/0...
Yet more academic research preaching the truth. Yet less reason for overtly long copyrights and for keeping piracy illegal.
Official Shrub.com Blog & Blog Archive & "Check my what?" On privilege...
Jun 14, 10:47am    (1 review)  feminism, racism, white-privilege, privilege, ism  http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2...
A good and illustrative explanation of privilege and of various nasty -isms.
Eco - &Eternal Fascism: 14 Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt&
Jun 5, 12:49pm    (19 reviews)  liberties, rights, fascism, umberto-eco, politics  http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_bla...
Pretty scary, especially in the context of Orwell's 1984, which shares more commonalities with the text than are stated therein.
Perfect math gadget & The Unapologetic Mathematician
Jun 5, 12:15pm    (1 review)  mathematics, math, humour, analysis, maths  http://unapologetic.wordpress.com/2008/0...
This might save a bit of time and lots of trouble...

Chaotic Evil | JonnyDigital.com
Jun 5, 11:55am    (26 reviews)  http://www.jonnydigital.com/chaotic-evil
I recommend playing with people you like and having compatible goals for that play.
librarian.net : five technically legal signs for your library
Jun 5, 11:40am    (114 reviews)  library-resources, privacy, usa, fbi, us-politics  http://www.librarian.net/technicality.ht...
It is getting worse in rest of the world, too.
DnD Flaws - D&D Wiki
Jun 5, 11:30am    (1 review)  roleplaying-games, 3e, d-d, flaws, dungeons-and-dragons  http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/DnD_Flaws
Some are useful, many are amusing. Fear of breaking the fourth wall indeed. Of balance I would not speak.
http://www.msxnet.org/humour/girls-are-evil.jpg
May 21, 8:15am    (1257 reviews)  http://www.msxnet.org/humour/girls-are-e...
Old, and trite. It does say that evil is always non-negative (since one can take its square root) and given that girls equal evil also girls must be non-negative.

Conflicting messages.
Victim One, Victims All by Tamarack Song
May 10, 1:17pm    (1 review)  self-improvement, helping  http://archive.tamaracksong.org/view.htm...
Somewhat suspicious and agenda-filled in places, but certainly worth reading.
What Is the Value of Algebra?
May 5, 12:36am    (3 reviews)  education, mathematics, math, maths, algebra  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
This is quite horrible. Mathematics does teach reasoning. Further, most mathematicians are capable of writing - the quality of writing in math course material tends to be fairly high when compared to several other subjects.