At first thought, Henrik Anderson seems crazy for doing something like this, but he's actually attempting to force clarification of the contradicting laws by bringing them in front of a court. He's doing this after his attempts to contact the Danish anti-piracy Antipiratgruppen, their lawyers, and the Association of Danish Video Distributors and discuss the issue were blown off, so he's definitely not just randomly deciding on an extreme approach.

So far no actual arrest has been made, so we'll have to wait to see how the whole thing plays out. Either way, Anderson's protesting an entirely paradoxical set of laws in a pretty ballsy way. [Torrent Freak via Boing Boing]

The kids, from Skjern Technical College, managed to win the Young Enterprise entrepreneurial award for “best product.” Great. You know what this encourages, guys? Next year, you'll see people submitting plans for gadgets that mute your mother-in-law. Or help women become better drivers.

And every blog, news source andDanish Economy Minister will get to rehash the same stupid “According to Jim”-esque jokes we've been making since the dawn of the television. [Crunchgear]

You see, in Denmark, even exhibits about the history and translation of 1000-year-old runes can hope for digitally projected augmentation. This runic stone, when approached by a visitor, commences a story—harrowing, violent, dramatic, etcetera— spectacularly projected onto the stone's textured surface. The effect is cool, but that's not the end of it. As the story continues, the projection leaves the boundaries of the stone, and enters the area of the visitor, where it begs for their input.

Watch for yourselves, and try not to weep next time you're trudging through the silent, static aisles of your local history museum. On display now at the Cultural History Museum in Randers, Denmark, courtesy of the University of Aarhus. [CAVI Digital Experience—Thanks, Jonas]

Steve Holl's two-towers design met with serious criticism after it was chosen as the original winner of the "LM" harbor design. This spawned the response by 3XN. But before counting Holl out, you have to give the team props for coming up with some neat tech features. The buildings will have a solar-screen veil of photovoltaics, which, combined with the wind turbines that line the top of the 65-meter-high pedestrian bridge, would provide electricity for all the public spaces in the whole facility. Not bad.
The 3XN design, basically a rebuttal to Holl, has a proposal filled with yawn-inducing jargon like "complex," "coherent," "diverse," "distinctive" and "flexible", but when it comes down to it, the thing is just plain crazy. In a good way. The pedestrian bridge is still there, but it is hidden as part of the two support structures, a tall building and a short building. No word on the greenness of this particular build, but my guess is, this being Denmark and all, the thing is super green like Holl's.

There you have it, a Danish architectural bitchfight. Can't you just smell the rage? [Design Boom - 3XN and Design Boom - Holl]

Update: A friendly reader named Jakob who presumably lives closer to Copenhagen than I do just shared a link to all of the proposals, including the original ones that Holl went up against and crushed. They're all gorgeous and insane, so have a look here.

The man responsible for Samsø's shift is Søren Hermansen, who after deciding farming wasn't for him, became an environmental sciences teacher, and then a renewable energy expert. Growing up on the island and seeing the impact the people were having on the environment, Hermansen felt he could talk the residents into making some changes. The public response was favorable, and the transformation began. The island now has 11 onshore turbines, a biomass plant, and a straw burning plant, which are invested in by the residents of Samsø, as well as outside, private investors. All the while, this green movement has brought in a constant flow of researchers, scientists and sociologists trying to figure out Samsø's mojo.

And for those in the giant turbine market, I think it's worth noting that giant turbines come with panoramic sunroofs. Not sure about power locks and cruise control, however. [New Yorker]

In the first couple of years of an individual's life, the carbon isotope C-14, discovered in the 40s, forms transparent proteins, or lens crystallines, which enable sight. These remain unchanged—rather like dental enamel— for the rest of a person's life. By measuring the level of C-14 in the person's eye, and comparing it to records of levels in the atmosphere, the corpse can be dated.

The team, from the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus, thinks that, as well as being a forensic breakthrough, the method will be able to tell us more about the behaviour of cancerous cells.

"We think that carbon dating of proteins and other molecules in the body could be used to study when certain tissues are generated or regenerated," says Associate Professor Niels Lynnerup from the Dept of Forensic Sciences in Denmark. "This could, for example, be applied to cancer tissue and cancer cells. Calculating the amount of C-14 in these tissues could tell us when the cancerous tissue is formed and this could further our understanding of such diseases." [Telegraph]

Two hundred and fifty thousand. [Bjarke Ingels Group via Dezeen]

Hurrah for Danish Laydeez Birgitte Smedegaard and Stine Weiss, who have knocked up these Jamo i200 iPod speakers in their garden shed. And they're not too pricey, either—we found them for $149—which is not bad for the crisp sound they will give to your choons. Available in black and white, you can either wallmount it, or stick it on your shelves and have everyone admire it. Remote controlled, the sound system has separate woofers and tweeters, and you can even connect it up to a separate subwoofer should you want more power, Captain.

And while we're at it, hurrah for Brigitte Nielsen too—I'm pretty sure you could wallmount her if you ask nicely. – Ad Dugdale

Product Page [B&H Photo Video via Crave at CNET.co.uk]

Jumping around the grayscale with impressive subtlety, the dustpan is available in charcoal, gray (pictured here), black, and light gray, and its companion broom, which looks like it's doing the bouncy bouncy in the dustpan's convenient finger hole, is made of beech wood with all-natural bristles. Don't know about you, but we like our bristles all-natural. It's $25. – Charlie White

Product Page [Relish, via productdose]