Joutilas's blog, page 1

Last login: 8 hours agoJoutilas: Joutilas is a guy from Finland.; Likes 6,478 pages, 205 videos, 928 photos • 69 fans • Received 17 reviews; Member since Aug 01, 2005

Favorites » His Blog

http://i33.tinypic.com/2yor21y.png: Aug 27, 10:48pm 1 review
http://i33.tinypic.com/2yor21y.png

http://i28.tinypic.com/2m7xd85.jpg: Aug 26, 11:32pm 133 reviews internet
http://i28.tinypic.com/2m7xd85.jpg

Giant's Causeway: Ancient Volcanic Eruption Creates Natural Wonder: Aug 26, 2:44am 9 reviews photography
http://slorker.com/giants-causeway/

Swedish government makes it illegal for schools to teach religious doctrine as i…: Aug 25, 9:18am 7 reviews religion
http://politicalbunker.com/swedish-government-makes-it-illegal-schools-teach-...; From the page: "The Swedish government has announced plans to clamp down hard on religious education. It will soon become illegal even for private faith schools to teach religious doctrines as if they were true. In an interesting twist on the American experience, prayer will remain legal in schools - after all, it has no truth value. But everything that takes place on the curriculum's time will have to be secular. "Pupils must be protected from every sort of fundamentalism," said the minister for schools, Jan Björklund."

Do Plants Live and Die According A Precise Scale? New Research Says "Yes": Aug 25, 7:58am 3 reviews science
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/08/do-all-plants-l.html; From the page: "In a striking revelation, scientists have discovered that all plants live and die by a precise and simple rule. Scientists have found for the first time that plants can self-regulate their populations to maintain stability and optimize their lives, and that the lengths of their lives are precisely related to their mass. Even more incredible, a single scaling power for lifespan holds true across the entire spectrum of plants, from minute single-celled phototrophs to the massively majestic redwoods."

West Africa's coastline redrawn by climate change: experts - Yahoo! News: Aug 24, 6:18am 2 reviews science
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080822/wl_africa_afp/africaclimatecoastun; From the page: "Rising sea levels caused by climate change will brutally redraw a 4,000-kilometre (2500-mile) stretch of west African coastline from Senegal to Cameroon by century's end, experts were told AFP Friday.
ADVERTISEMENT

"The cost of Guinea will cease to exist by the end of this century," said Stefan Cramer, a marine geologist and head of German green group Heinrich Boll Stiftung's operations in Nigeria."

Rogge rips the wrong guy - Olympics - Yahoo! Sports: Aug 22, 2:51am 3 reviews sports
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/track_field/news;_ylt=AswV6V59V2cahF...; From the page: "Jacques Rogge is so bought, so compromised, the president of the IOC doesn't have the courage to criticize China for telling a decade of lies to land itself these Olympic Games.

All the promises made to get these Games" on Tibet, Darfur, pollution, worker safety, freedom of expression, dissident rights" turned out to be phony, perhaps as phony as the Chinese gymnasts birthdates Rogge was way too slow to investigate.

One of the most powerful men in sports turned the world away from his complicity. Instead, he has flexed his muscles by unloading on a powerless sprinter from a small island nation.

Rogge's ripping of Usain Bolt's supposed showboating in two of the most electrifying gold-medal performances of these Games has to be one of the most ill-timed and gutless acts in the modern history of the Olympics."

IOC Rips Bolt for Lack of Respect - AOL Sports: Aug 22, 2:32am 1 review sports
http://sports.aol.com/olympics/story/_a/bbdp/ioc-rips-bolt-for-lack-of-respec...; The IOC, who awarded the Olympics to a country that censored internet access, faked aspects of the opening ceremonies, built walls to hide certain neighborhoods in Beijing, and is now supposedly arresting people who had the temerity to apply for permits to protest, is upset because Usain Bolt didn't appropriately congratulate his opponents? Perhaps someone needs to get a little perspective.