Kinda cool: Akamai have a site where you can see how “news-loaded” certain parts of the world are. Now all I need is a TV that switches on and to BBC World if the global number is over +50%.
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I’m helping to organize a modest “Wireless Tuesday” event at ASCII here in Amsterdam. ASCII is an Internet Workshop in a squatted shop in the “Indische Buurt” area of Amsterdam. I will write more about ASCII soon. For now, ASCII’s address is Javastraat 38hs. If you are interested in wireless stuff, or if you just Click here for more… Some days the speed with which this country is going to hell is astounding even professional pessimists like me. Today I read that the police has requested the complete logs for a website covering the (still unsolved) murder of a political activist that investigated police practices. I also noticed that the christian democrats have taken Click here for more… If you are in orbit and see a dead kosmonaut drifting by the window. Link Ever had trouble writing human-readable text while in the middle of a programming project? Sometimes when I am coding even writing a small amount of English text, such as writing a slightly longer e-mail, becomes a chore. It is as if my brain does not want to re-use some circuitry that is currently in use. But Click here for more… Countries suck. But on this particular day, the federal republic of Germany has scored some points with me. The police has searched the premises of the “Gesellschaft zur Verfolgung von Urheberrechtsverletzungen (GVU)”, the local private copyright enforcement zealots. Apparently they have been paying money for the upkeep of a large distribution warez server so they Click here for more… There’s apparently a subculture of people that likes to explode gunpowder to make iron anvils fly high up into the sky. All just for the fun of it, ofcourse. And given how close they park their cars, they must feel pretty certain the thing will fly straight up. Link The Technology Underground Blog: Extreme Tinkering and Radical Click here for more… After the speech in December my friend Karin Spaink, who was in the audience, stood up and delivered some criticism to what we had said. Our speech, she said, contained way too many undifferentiated references to ‘them’, and ‘they’. And she was right: we should have talked about this ‘them’ issue a bit more. I’m Click here for more… The teacher of one of my kids wanted a blind map of the world so she could point to countries to see if the kids knew which was which. I made a poster that shows the world, Europe and The Netherlands, and printed it in A0 format. As far as I know there are no Click here for more… There’s criticism here in The Netherlands because most municipalities haven’t begun to plan the mandatory “naturalization ceremonies”. As of this month, if you become Dutch they cannot just give you your passport anymore. Instead they must accompany it with some american-styled ‘pledge of allegiance’ ceremony. Why can’t people accept that countries and religions are stupid? And Click here for more… After our ‘We lost the war’ lecture, I was part of a smaller group that stood around and discussed what we had just been talking about. One of the people there was Rena Tangens, a longtime privacy activist from Bielefeld whose work I much admire. And while she said that she agreed with a lot Click here for more… Last night I was at the official goodbye party for Doke Pelleboer, who was general manager of XS4ALL for the past 6 years. I normally hate official goodbye-events: shallow speeches filled with some idiot’s perception of humor, the obligatory giggling coworkers taking way too long to present some homemade gift and maybe a made-for-the-occasion song Click here for more… |
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