{"id":438,"date":"2004-12-15T02:37:11","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T09:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2004-12-15T02:37:11","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T09:37:11","slug":"the-2004-steffies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2004\/12\/the-2004-steffies\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2004 Steffies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I will spend the remainder of the week trying to finish work projects on gl\u00f6gg hangovers before heading off to Ireland for the holidays, my blog will probably be quiet for a whileAny Irish bloggers near Dublin up for a pint? Email me.<\/span>. Don’t expect anything new until after the new year. Unless it’s urgent, of course.<\/p>\n

But there is plenty of old stuff for you to read in the meantime. I’ve collected my favorite posts from 2004 below. And seeing how blog awards are all the rage nowadays, I thought I’d take the opportunity to award myself some in the process. It’s certainly a lot easier than having to go around nominating oneself anonymously and then voting all day.<\/p>\n

Best series: <\/span>Top 10 things I hate about Stockholm.
\nTen: Predatory seating<\/a>
Nine: Culinary relativism<\/a>
Eight: Pre\u00ebmptive planning<\/a>
Seven: Premature mastication<\/a>
Six: Irrational discalceation<\/a>
Five: Radiotj\u00e4nst i Kiruna AB<\/a>
Four: Temporal engineering<\/a>
Three: Tunnelbana vision<\/a>
Two: Sim\u00f6lacra<\/a><\/p>\n

Best sociology post: <\/span>It takes two to sambo<\/a>
\nHow Swedes mate.<\/p>\n

Best physics post: <\/span>Time is discrete<\/a>
\nIn more ways than one. (Two, in fact.)<\/p>\n

Best local post: <\/span>SoFo<\/a>
\nWhen good memes go bad.<\/p>\n

Best blogging post: <\/span>For better blogging…<\/a>
\nHow to torture comment spam with a simple Turing test.<\/p>\n

Best Swedish politics post: <\/span>Swedish Cleavage!<\/a>
\nNationalism vs. internationalism is Sweden’s new wedge issue, replacing left vs. right.<\/p>\n

Best Belgian politics post: <\/span>Vlaams Belang: Not in the Flemish interest<\/a><\/p>\n

Best polemic: <\/span>Insult isn’t injury<\/a> followed by \u00c5ke Green redux<\/a>
\nWhy hate speech should be protected.<\/p>\n

Best philosophy post: <\/span>Three questions for the conventionally religious<\/a><\/p>\n

Best mathematics post: <\/span>The de Bruijn Code<\/a>
\nUnlocking the secrets of the portkod.<\/p>\n

Viewers’ choice award for the most popular post: <\/span>Cold Comfort<\/a>
\nTop 10 reasons why Osama Bin Laden didn’t attack Sweden.<\/p>\n

Worst post: <\/span>Marshall in The New Yorker<\/a>
\nOh, never mind.<\/p>\n

Now, if you were to list your own blog’s favorite posts for the year, I’d certainly be interested in revisiting them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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