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	<description>Eyolf Østrem on Dylan, Computers, and then some</description>
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		<title>17. mai-tale i Balestrand, 1983</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is the &#8220;17 May speech&#8221; my father gave in 1983. In Norwegian again, I&#8217;m afraid. * Her følger min fars 17.-mai-tale fra 1983. Det var  årets hovedtale ved 17. mai-feiringen i Balestrand ved Sognefjorden, holdt fra toppen av en gravhaug fra vikingetida, foran alle bygdas gode menn og kvinner, bunadkledde og feststemte, nøyaktig [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sommersamtale med Knausgård</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/08/sommersamtale-med-knausgard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lyssna: Sommar i P1 med Karl Ove Knausgård &#160; Karl Ove Knausgård har vært sommergjest i svensk radio. Det var tenkt som halvannen times uforpliktende småprat om løst og fast, men sånn kunne det selvfølgelig ikke bli. I stedet kom det til å handle om: «hva betyr det å være norsk? Hva vil det si [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why ABB Shouldn&#8217;t Be Roasted Over a Slow-Burning Fire</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/07/why-abb-shouldnt-be-roasted-over-a-slow-burning-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m outraged &#8212; by my own wish that Anders Behring Breivik be treated as a human being. My basest instincts would love to see him fry in a very earthly hell. But although the though of him living on and perhaps even coming out into society 21 years from now, in principle cleared of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Monument of Civilization?</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/07/a-monument-of-civilization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It now seems that the atrocities in Oslo and Utøya were commited by a single person. I think we can rule out completely any kind of organization. Apparently, the killer &#8211; a tall, blond native Norwegian, age 32, who speaks the local dialect &#8211; was taken to the island on the organizers&#8217; own boat. Now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Simple Facts</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/02/four-simple-facts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I&#8217;ve been concerned, these past few weeks, about the future of Egypt, Libya, Tunis, and the other countries where the people (the People? which people? &#8212; Sorry, just a digression) have been revolting; about why the revolters are chanting &#8220;Allah&#8217;u akbar&#8221;; about what is true and what is not about Al-Qaida and the Muslim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bliss, understanding, and power</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/02/bliss-understanding-and-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten points to those who know which important document the following quotation comes from: If one group of people wears white clothes in mourning and another group puts on black, the sentiment of each group will be adjusted according to these two colours, i.e., one group rejects the black colour on such an occasion while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Why don&#8217;t you also block &#8230;?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2010/06/why-dont-you-also-block/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2010/06/why-dont-you-also-block/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I receive a lot of suggestions of other countries to boycott. Turkey, North Korea, Sudan, etc. So why don&#8217;t I also block them? 1. This is not a crusade against every injustice in the world. It is a contribution to the cultural boycott of Israel because of its treatment of Gaza and the Palestinians, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Hamas</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2010/06/anti-hamas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I was going to take a break from this now, but there is one more thing I need to state more clearly, and thanks to all who have reminded me of this (and I&#8217;m not being sarcastic here): Everything I&#8217;ve said about truth, propaganda, and predetermined morals could and should be used against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Boycott &#8212; some reflections</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2010/06/cultural-boycott-some-reflections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week ago, I started my cultural boycott of Israel, in direct response to, but not caused only by, the events surrounding the murders (or war crimes) on the Freedom Flotilla. These are some reflections on the boycott itself and on the reactions it has caused. What is a cultural boycott, and is it fair? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neighbourhood Bully indeed</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2010/06/neighbourhood-bully-indeed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m too enraged to write anything coherent, but beginning yesterday, I&#8217;m running my own private boycott of the state of Israel and anything/-one associated with it, and I urge everyone to do the same. A fascist, belligerent regime is not justifiable by any past, no matter how cruel and injust it has been. A rotten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Stallman: A Hero of the Highest Order</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2010/02/st-stallman-a-hero-of-the-highest-order/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2010/02/st-stallman-a-hero-of-the-highest-order/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m not God — I&#8217;m just a saint.&#8221; Richard M. Stallman The Phoenix &#62; News Features &#62; Tilting at Windows Richard M. Stallman is a legendary figure without whom the world would have looked very different, and one of those few whose initials &#8212; RMS &#8212; is a concept, on a par with JFK and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a Class Traitor</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2009/02/confessions-of-a-class-traitor/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2009/02/confessions-of-a-class-traitor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/?p=95</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;While I was sitting there, drink in hand, separated from the plebs by a heavy curtain, and with servile maidens swirling around me at my slightest wink, every nerve in my body politic was screaming: &#8216;It wasn&#8217;t my fault! It&#8217;s a mistake! I&#8217;m not like this!&#8217; But what could I do&#8230;?&#8221; I was attending this [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>One Laptop Per Child</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2007/10/one-laptop-per-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project I thought, &#8220;Dream on. Nice idea, perhaps a tad imperialistic despite its good intentions, but more than a tad unrealistic &#8212; it&#8217;ll never happen anyway, so not to worry. Nice dream, but dream on.&#8221; The idea was this: a laptop, designed to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adam in Bama</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2007/09/adam-in-bama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[or Myanmar and The Fine Art of Political Correctnessing What do you call that country in South East Asia where the streets are filled with monks in red, protesting 45 years of military rule? Do you call it &#8220;Burma&#8221; and reveal yourself as a post-colonial, pseudo-imperialist aggressor who deep down thinks that it would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dylan the Postmodernist?</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2006/10/dylan-the-postmodernist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had originally thought that I wasn&#8217;t going to write much about Modern Times. I was wrong. What started out as a short, indignant review of the musical borrowings on the album, was then followed up by a somewhat longer discussion of the lyrical borrowings from H. Timrod, which I have now wrapped up in [...]]]></description>
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