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I've re-arranged my links page, parting up the heap of resources, books, weblogs and miscellaneous stuff into more specific categories. You don't have so many links, so why bother? Well, I suspect there are more a-coming. I'm furnituring this website to be just that, a site and not just a page, meaning community and interactivity has to be prioritized. Links are probably the most important part of it.

Contruary to alot of webpages (esp. personal ones) ALL my links opens up in the main window (THIS WINDOW, e.g. target="_top"), because I want my readers to have control over the content and the way they choose to read it. If you want to stay on Sigg3 dot net while entering one of my links, which I highly appreciate, just hold SHIFT down while you click.

Link of the day: « Cheap Cigarettes Sale »
Over 20 premium tobacco products at the best prices on the Internet. The site also has a news section with Tobacco related news and best of all: a link to a page with Smoker's Rights related organizations. (Note: They mostly don't ship outside the US, allthough some manufacturers may.)

Why is this smoker-friendly page the link of the day? Do you smoke? Communist bastard?

Guilty as charged.
I smoke the Norwegian roll-your-own-cigarettes tobacco: Eventyr 3. It has a great aromatic taste while still keeping it strong. And, contruary to what people believe or trendsetters try to propose, smoking still kicks ass. Just look at this picture:

Nuff said.

People are having their summer holidays around this time, and I was wondering how do you spend it or did spent it? You can add comments (below) for additional information, such as level of sunburns or number of romances. Thanks for sharing:)

Poll #12: « How do you spend your vacation? »

During my inspection of the troops, my statistical research on the Sigg3 dot net readers, I've come to realize what kind of group I target: 1) the ones who drop by, having found something interesting somewhere on the site and 2) people who like to read and most probably read my blog (this one.. yeah, the one you're reading:). Here are the pollresults on How much do you read?

A book a day: 0% (Thank you. I feared people would frenzy on this one)
1 to 3 books in a week: 76%
1 to 3 books in a month: 20%
1 to 3 books in six months: 0%
If Playboy counts, I read alot: 3%
I read subtitles during foreign films: 0% (Subconsciously I think we all do)
Number of votes: 30

Thanks for participating!

Note: Explizit language in this post

Gatas Parlament, a couple of old time hip-hop'ers from the underground of Oslo, has re-grouped and are ready to strike back on capitalism, political oppression and what else this brilliant rap duo must find proper to throw good shit about.

Again teamed up with DonMartin from Alarmclock-connection they're releasing a pretty exclusive mixtape of old and new material called 'Bootlegs, b-sider & bestiser'. It's available at Stress and Blackout in Oslo, but if you're eager to get your hands on this tape, you'd better just go online and drop an order to martin-@-gatasp-.-no (without the -'s).

Goodshit Radio broadcasted by DonMartin live from Oslo is also revived, and you can check it out thru FM99.3 on Mondays (2200-2300) or online @ http://www.gatasp.no/goodshit.m3u. (Listening as I type:)

Old, but great, tracks from Gatas Parlament can be downloaded from their webpage: www.gatasp.no.
AND shit from DonMartin can be found at his Lyrics & Discography page.

The full Alarmclock-Connection crew and Gatas Parlament alike will naturally hit the stage in Oslo's Interstate festival this fall, featuring other rappers like 50-cent, G-unit, Equicez, Paperboys and alot more..

Thanks to Wedge for giving this link.
This book was written in 1910 by Wallace D. Wattles, one year before his death.

Wikibooks.org: «The Science of Getting Rich»

From Chapter I, The Right To Be Rich: "WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich."

I received this campaign manifesto this morning:

Did you know that we Norwegians eat whale? Did you know that the Norwegian government eats whale? And that it supports whale-hunting on a national basis?Then what do you think of the recent decline of whale births in the global seas? Could you live with the guilt on your name? Could you see a harmonic world without the likes of whales? We know you can't! The Clinton administration and Vice President Al Gore tried to make Norway stop by introducing the idea of economic sanctions against this, the richest of all nations in the world. Higher education in Norway is pretty common, yet these savages have whalegumbo at sunday on a regular basis. Did you know that vegetarians are treated like mentally challanged persons in Norway?

I didn't know all of this, but now that I do I want to help! But what can I do?
The answer is pretty simple! Greenpeace in cooperation with Amnesty International and the United States of America has launched a campaign against Norway this spring! This time we don't need an excuse! This time there are no spooky weapons of mass-destruction! This one is for the whales! Carpet bombing was never an alternative, the means of the intelligent is the means of the peaceful, which is why we're attacking the Kingdom of Norway in a completely other way: We're flying out whales from Norwegian marine territories to be adopted by YOU! In addition to being the most intelligent species on the face of the earth they make for excellent housepets and don't mind children at all!
You know you want one! Adopt a whale to-day! Save the world a little..

That giving someone the finger should be consider highly sophisticated and why? Well, it has a long historical tradition. This is what I cut and pasted from Wikipedia's article: The Finger

The origins of this gesture is highly speculative. It is identified as the "impudent finger" in Ancient Roman writings. It was defined there as a gesture intended to insult another. It has been noted that the gesture resembles an erect penis. Ancient Romans considered an image of an erect phallus as a talisman against evil spells. As a consequence, displaying this gesture to another may not have been a pseudo-sexual insult but rather a insulting statement along the lines of – "I'm going to protect myself against your witchcraft, before you even start."

The last thing I've heard during my investigation of t.A.T.u's mysterious disappearing was that they've parted up hating each other's guts. The sources I questioned were drunk, I was drunk, but is there a slight possibility that we can take this, as we say here in Norway, as good fish? Is it true?

This is what I found on the 'net just now: PREGNANT singer from Tatu off to London reports the Pravda.ru netzine: "The scandalous image of the group will be changed. We will not see the girls in knee-length socks and white panties. They firmly abandoned the image of lesbians. Moreover, the girls decided to possess the revenues from their singing by themselves.Tatu producer Boris Rensky leased one of the best record studios and hired the entire creative group to develop the new image for the star Russian female duo. Tatu singers have to record their voice parties in a hurry as Yulya is going to have delivery soon."

There's pictures, as well: One naked t.A.T.u gal | One pregnant t.A.T.u gal and t.A.T.u on the Rolling Stone mag

Wow. Okay. I've been @away for a long time, apparantly.
I see now the error of my ways. Hoping that these gals, who also participated in last year's Female of the Year actually were a russian lesbian duo, was probably too much to hope for. What next? What's going to top this? Mongolian transexuals covering STOMP? We can only wait and see..
(Don't like nudity? Read my disclaimer!)

(Gotto write this quick, 'cause the pizza is in the oven:)

I've been fooling around with Cascading Stylesheets the last couple of days, beginning what I've decided to call the Small File Project. Yep, pretty inventive, right? Can't even begin to think what's it all about, can you?

Well. Sigg3 dot net as it is today is pretty darn untidy when it comes to the World Wide Web Consortium's coding STANDARDS, and I'm always interested in approving my out-of-date coding. Today I've learned that current "CSS oriented" designers think HTML and design in an entirely new fashion, refreshing! Instead of thinking table-build-ups (like this page's design is all about) you've got to think boxes defined in the css file. Not following?

Well, have a look at my current results:
Smallfile#1: b3.php (stolen design) and the div-based Smallfile: b5.php. As you can see, they too extract the blog data from my database, still appearing to be completely other sites. These are just experiments, but sooner or later I'll re-do sigg3.net. That's the plan, if nothing. First pizza. (Comments not working on test-designs, mind you)

That's it. You've worked an entire day, from the moment you got up and had to write those lines down, till you've returned home after a visit at the folk's, and it is Friday night, but your friends have gone on vacation elsewhere. That's just it, you know.

That's when you pour that glass of chilled Guinness Draught, desperately combating yourself in the question of how much party you could be able to squeeze out of your neighbours happening to be muslims. That's just about it.

A record is put on, one of your countless favourites, and you are fully aware of the threat of it setting the mood for the rest of the night, and even though your social consciousness pukes out statistics showing that you're well below the thin, red line defining "anti-social", you also wish to be left alone and drunk. Really drunk.

During an experiment with chalky, white tablets and Heinecken your body gives up and throws a fit manifested in vomit all over your desktop, and the well-kept picture of a girl you loved when you were fifteen. You clean it up, repressing the hallucinations that begins to crawl in front of your eyeballs; dark cloths of memoryless bliss, persuasive demons and angels in disguise.

That's it, you may think, and decide to go to bed. Or you search for your roommate's long saved liquor, redwine from the 1930's which you swallow with a sour grin. There is no tomorrow, there is no yesturday, nothing is but the release in itself. That's it.

Your body falls asleep before your consciousness, and you witness your drool run down your used-to-be white pillow before walls become plains where your own, honest laughter fills the soundscape and you'd swear that the heat from the sun on the blue-purple fantasy dream sky is real. You fall asleep.

.. Or you read a book and go out dancing. The choice is yours.

This link is great. I've been surfing there during the whole day. It's the same page, the same, simple message on all pages, and the file is the same, BUT the css file differs. Look at how amazing the original CSS Zen Garden page can look:

• Art Deco by Marc Trudel
• Webzine by Vincent Valentin
• punkass by Mikhel Proulx
• Wiggles the Wonderworm by Joseph Pearson
• (Turbo CSS (DOS look) by Jeff Robertson)*

It's just magnificent. I've been reading alot on CSS today, and I'm working on a couple of layouts like these (alot worse, of course), which will probably come with the scheduled Just another weblog v.1.05. Stay tuned!

*(The last one is an adaption)

It's been pretty silent over at Richard's Years of the Sheep, Days of the tiger until this notice came up: Welcome to the relaunch of Sheepy-Tiger. Not that any one actually read the old sheepy tiger, but as you can see from the archives, I did try. Not very hard or for very long, but hey whatever.

Here's what he wrote in response to MSN's What women want to know.

"Why can't I drive?"
You can. In fact, please do, I hate driving, and don't even have a license at the moment.

"Do guys ever really talk about the important things with their friends?"
Of course we do. Why just last week, we discussed whether the smurfs could beat the fraggles in a bar brawl.

It's a good read. Go check it out!

BEIJING, July 16, (Xinhuanet) -- Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has back-pedalled on his arguments that a black hole swallows up everything that falls into it, according to a report on CRIENGLISH.COM on Friday. The world-famous author of a "Brief History of Time" says he and other scientists had gotten it wrong, the galactic traps may in fact allow information to escape.

He says a black hole only appears to form but later opens up and releases information about what fell inside. Hawking reckons this means scientists like him can be sure of the past and predict the future.

The other theory is that a black hole is a region in space where matter is compressed to such an extent that not even light can escape from its immense gravitational pull.

Phew.. I thought they'd never get it right.

(Source: CRIENGLISH.COM)

Pauly wrote:
Hey Sigge, do you need a roommate? Know any cool Norwegian girls who like snarky American writers with questionable substance abuse problems? Anyway... I just read this article: Norway Best Place to Live on Earth. It seems that in a recent United Nations study, Norway was selected once again for the fourth straight year.

And with all those wild stories about more public sex, Oslo seems like the perfect place for me to relocate and write my fifth novel!

I wrote:
Well, the rents are high, everything is taxed and we do really want to keep our girls for ourselves. Uhm, I want to keep all the girls for myself:D

The same day UN Development Programme's results came our Prince told that we would probably NOT be on the top if "the best place on earth" was rated after cultural liberalism. We've got a fascist party here, called the FRP, who get too much support, making it difficult for me to say that Norwegians are more worth than crap.

Cows' crap you can snif and get high.

Still, we've got plenty of fresh water, a pretty nice (and to you communistic, perhaps) welfare system and great internet providers.

Apart from that we're just a group (4 million) of wankers who accidently found some oil during the 80's.

It's raining again...
The Norwegian weather gods are pretty schizophrenic at the moment. You wake up to a slight cold, recieve a great summer day's sun at lunch and later on the rain pours down. And I left my umbrella at home. Oh, well.

Tonight I'm going to see Woody Allen's ZELIG (83) over at Cinemateket after a beer. Can't wait. It's a mockumentary about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and lacks a personality of his own.

.. was brought to you by 4H Florida:)

Click here: «4H, 1954 boys with Chicken»

It's really big. But scary.

Sanguinarius.org is allegedly the greatest online resource for real vampires. Yep. I thought this would be a fitting Link of the Day: Fun Vampires Have

Here's what the intro says:
Do vampires have fun? Yeah, despite all the problems we have, we still manage to have some fun. We have more fun than blondes. Here's some of the fun we have, some of the silly situation we sometimes find ourselves in...

You should remember to stop by the Vampire Store, if your fangs are getting itchy or you need a new leather cape.
A good read as well, is the Vampire guide book. I mean, if you're out there vampireing without knowing these facts, you might get yourself some problems. Vampire issues, that is. Like how to treat your fangs after brushing your teeth with garlic-toothpaste. Always tricky, that one.

Injured seagull gets Barbie-doll leg: A badly injured seagull was saved after its wounded leg was amputated and replaced with parts from a Barbie doll.

Shy moose given assertiveness training: [...] when Kenwood was put in the moose enclosure he was immediately bullied by a female called Winya. "She's a real bitch," said biologist Agaath Kooi. "She ran after Kenwood and kicked and bit him wherever she could. And although Kenwood is much bigger than her, he let it all happen." Kooi decided to take Kenwood out of the enclosure and put him in a barn with a big, friendly moose called Icmu to give him more self-confidence.

Toy firm markets talking Jesus action doll: A US toy firm has created a talking action doll of Jesus Christ which recites the Ten Commandments.

Stay tuned for more:)

That's right. *snif*
My mother's Volvo 940 was sold on Thursday this week. This is the car I used to roam the desolate roads of Northern Norway with about a year ago. Down here in the city I haven't been behind the wheel at all. Why should I? If I need to go somewhere, I can catch a bus, use the subway or sneak onto the tram. If matters are complicated I can always walk or order a cab (if the immediate economical situation allows it).

Look at it. It's a beauty. Saved my life a couple of times, that car. I am sure going to miss it. Pedal to the floor with Neil Young's Harvest going on for full, singing along on the top of my voice, and cutting the curves like a Formel 1 driver. That was the days, eh? Damn fine car. Gonna miss it.

Due to the lack of incoming FOY nominations Sigg3 dot net has been forced to proceed with desperate measures. This particular nomination is then an exception to the rules. I'd be glad if you could take this a bit more seriously. "The world ends tomorrow and you may die!"

The March girl in our Female of the Year 2004 competition is none other than actress and filmlegend Audrey Hepburn. The 31st of May this year she was crowned to be the most naturally beautiful woman of all time by an expert panel seated in Australia. (Read more about the election and see the list over here)

She was without a doubt one of the most characteristic actresses and women at the time which makes her an obvious choice for nominees. I congratulate with her natural nomination and also being the first deceased participant of Sigg3 dot net's annual FOY.

Read more about her here.
See some more photos (by google).