http://www.tweak.net.au/plonk/rss/ RSS 2.0 feed for miscinumptions en-us Copyright 2012 Karl Birch RSS Feed Generator v1.0 http://www.tweak.net.au/plonk/rss/../cgi-bin/frame.cgi?date=2012_04_13_07_58_09 Icelanders love names, so they keep good stats on name changes. First name added, first name dropped, first name swapped. Adding a family name as a middle name, adding a middle name. Last name changing from patronymic to matronymic, matronymic to patronymic, (after two years*), adding second parent's name, adding a family name to match parents, replacing patronymic with family name, dropping a family name and returning to a patronymic, taking up a family name, dropping the family name of your ... Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:58:09 EST http://www.tweak.net.au/plonk/rss/../cgi-bin/frame.cgi?date=2011_12_17_22_46_15 Össur clearly didn't get my memo. Different picture of amputee climber, same problem. They photoshopped the rope out, but left all of his gear in. Which, if you missed it the first time, is only useful if you have a rope. Source: Fréttablaðið, 10 December, 2011 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:46:15 EST http://www.tweak.net.au/plonk/rss/../cgi-bin/frame.cgi?date=2011_11_23_19_51_17 From the classifieds section, under "classes". Someone's offering lessons and training in ladder code! This is like teaching someone cobol. There's still lots of it around, and there'll be jobs in it for a while yet, but really? do you really _want_ to go and learn how to do that? Source: Fréttablaðið, Monday, 21 November, 2011 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:51:17 EST http://www.tweak.net.au/plonk/rss/../cgi-bin/frame.cgi?date=2011_10_09_14_08_21 This is the response page from changing a password on VSO Rádgjöf, a consultancy company in Iceland. Bad choice of icon. Showing a BIG YELLOW EXCLAMATION MARK when, actually, the text says, "password changed successfully" Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:08:21 EST http://www.tweak.net.au/plonk/rss/../cgi-bin/frame.cgi?date=2011_10_06_21_49_28 So, your company sends people out delivering newspapers in the early morning, while it's still dark. Instead of your staff having lights, you're asking the entire country to leave their lights on all night for you? No. Wrong. Source: Fréttablaðið, 4 Oct, 2011 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:49:28 EST http://www.tweak.net.au/plonk/rss/../cgi-bin/frame.cgi?date=2011_06_04_09_47_05 Össur, no. I love and respect your work, and it always warms my heart to see amputee climbers. But all that gear he's got around his waist? He only uses that if he's climbing with a rope. Which you photoshopped out. Source: Job ad in Fréttablaðið, 4 June, 2011 Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:47:05 EST http://www.tweak.net.au/plonk/rss/../cgi-bin/frame.cgi?date=2011_04_11_08_40_10 Sorry vodafone, that's not how it works. Part of a full page ad, in Fréttablaðið, 5 April, 2011. They're advertising how good they are to their customers by making sure that global roaming data charges are capped at 50€. Howevever, this was forced on them by european law, not something that was done willingly. Also, there's nothing to say that 50€ will actually get you a useful amount of data, just that they will cap you at 50€ until you ask for more. Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:40:10 EST http://www.tweak.net.au/plonk/rss/../cgi-bin/frame.cgi?date=2010_09_02_09_03_35 Noise complaints from the neighbours of Players, a bar in Kópavogur. Except.... Players is in a commercial area. I can't think of where their nearest neighbours are, but it must be a good 200m away at least? Source: Fréttablaðið. 2010-09-01 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:03:35 EST http://www.tweak.net.au/plonk/rss/../cgi-bin/frame.cgi?date=2010_08_28_12_18_15 "Kids can climb" :) Ásmundarsafn, the museum of sculputr Ásmundar Sveinsson, is a great museum. Great sculpture for one, but also, because kids are allowed to climb on the sculptures and appreciate the different viewpoints. The artist let kids do it when he was alive, and the museum keeps that tradition. Only rule is no climbing on white statues shorter than a person. Source: Fréttablaðið, 2010-08-28 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:18:15 EST http://www.tweak.net.au/plonk/rss/../cgi-bin/frame.cgi?date=2010_07_19_15_21_29 Halldór, the new(ish) editorial cartoonist has been on fire this week. This image really shows the massive elephant in the room whenever we talk about the natural resources of Iceland. There's been a LOT of noise recently about a canadian company (Magma) taking effective control of one of the local power companies, with a 65+ year lease, and how this is a terrible loss of sovereign rights that we need to "fix". What's NEVER mentioned is the fishing quota owners, who have (time) unlimited rig... Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:21:29 EST http://www.tweak.net.au/plonk/rss/../cgi-bin/frame.cgi?date=2010_07_19_15_16_25 Blue ninjas! Turning up randomly around town last week. This was the front page of Fréttablaðið, 2010-07-16 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:16:25 EST