Apparently I’m not the only one to see similarities between the autism clock and eugenics. www.autistics.org reacted pretty much the way I did, only they have graphics.

The good citizens of the US can now peruse an Autism Clock. Is it just me, or does this remind you of eugenics? When are they going to attack the crippled and the old?

I’m upgrading a friend’s laptop to Debian Sid, as I write this. It’s so much more fun to upgrade somebody else’s machine instead of your own.

I did check the bug reports first, though.

My pointing out Bobby Fischer’s home page, below, does not mean that I condone his views, especially those pertaining to his anti-semitic tirades that are, at best, tiring. Fischer is a tragic figure, more to be pitied than hated. His views may be offensive, but he is basically harmless and should be remembered for his chess rather than his outbursts in later years.

The same cannot be said of Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, who has publicly, and repeatedly, claimed that the Holocaust is a “myth”. The only thing tragic in his case is that he was elected in the first place. And, I suppose, that many innocent people could die if he is allowed to continue.

The travel lottery scam I wrote about is picking up speed here in Sweden. Another wave of phone calls from the Haifa area in Israel hit us and at least one lady was relieved from about 8,000 SEK in “travel taxes” from her VISA card, according to Swedish morning paper GP.

If you want to call Best US Promotions and tell them how you feel about travel scams, the number is +9724900000.

Chess-related items belonging to former chess world champion Bobby Fischer are up for sale in an eBay auction, with bids starting at $15,000. How the collection ended up on eBay isn’t entirely clear but Fischer’s version is on his home page. The page is rather large so search for “Ellsworth”, about halfway down.

I’d urge anyone interested in chess and with the necessary cash to buy the items and return them to Fischer.

Fischer is now a resident of Iceland, after a year-long detention in Japan.

I’m Swedish, as those of you who’ve read my profile may have noted. Therefore, I also write a Swedish blog, where I usually focus on matters of interest in, you guessed it, Sweden, and have thus added a link there.

So how’s your Swedish?

What’s criminal about it? Now, there’s an amusing phrase.

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

What good does it do in the war against terrorism to kidnap innocent people outside your own jurisdiction, against local, international, and US laws? How does it help to transport them across the globe to torture then in secret prisons, in a supposedly “liberated” third country?

I was kind of hoping that the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would have at least some answers, but unfortunately, her European PR tour has given preciously few answers so far. See, some of us stupid, backwards Europeans think that people, even suspected terrorists, are innocent until proven guilty. Many of our laws build on that assumption. We think it’s important, a cornerstone of what we think is fair and just.

I guess what I’d really like to say is f*** you, Ms Rice (and Mr Bush, now that I think of it), but this is a family-oriented blog, thank you very much, so I won’t.