Word: finnishness
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...Equally ominous, Finnish security firm F-Secure reported last week that the world's first mobile-phone virus, known as Cabir, had spread from the Philippines to 12 other countries. Cabir, which infects devices with Bluetooth wireless connectivity, is downloaded by unsuspecting users unaware that they're opening a virus...
Sound weird? It is. The site, www.homokasu.org, is run by a Finnish cyber-sect, the Homokaasu, literally “gay gas” in Finnish. According to the site, the name is there for “mythical shock value” only—there is no wider association to the online gay or gassy community. Homokaasu is primarily a forum for strange stuff. The Finnish webmasters have anticipated a wider audience, so all the crazy conspiracy theories and ramblings are conveniently translated into English...
...Rasterbator, which allows you to take any picture you want and turn it into a huge graphic poster. (For free.) Who wouldn’t want the larger-than-life faces of their friends digitally remastered and printed for free? Granted, you have to like graphic art, Finnish sects, and your friends a lot, but if you do it’s an excellent decorating option...
...about $120 million of the museum's $219 million price tag. (The remainder came from private funding, a third of it contributed by Indian tribes.) Inside and out there are passages in this building good enough to bear comparison to the suavely rippling walls of Alvar Aalto, the great Finnish apostle of forms derived from nature. They bring to mind even more strongly the work of Douglas Cardinal, architect of the lyrical swells of the Canadian Museum of Civilization near Ottawa. It was Cardinal, a Blackfoot, who won the original commission in 1993 to design the American Indian museum...
...bleeps, so he tried to talk operators and handset makers into offering a selection of popular hits. But his pleas fell on deaf ears: "The biggest resistance was from the operators, who said, 'Ring tones, what's that?'" After almost a year of failed pitches, Paananen managed to convince Finnish operator Radiolinja that ring tones could help workers in open-plan offices distinguish their own incoming calls from those of others. So in the fall of 1998, Radiolinja launched the world's first commercially available ring-tone service, allowing users to download songs like Smoke on the Water...