Er is wel één voordeel van dat hele Corona gebeuren, in allerlei landen hebben De Mensen het fietsen omarmt. In verschillende grote steden worden nieuwe fietspaden geopend. Op bepaalde plekken worden zelfs auto’s geweerd, zodat voetgangers en fietsers met gepaste ruimte kunnen bewegen. Ben benieuwd of dit doorzet, of dat de macht van de autobestuurder toch de overhand krijgt als de wereld weer wat meer naar de oude situatie teruggaat.
Categorie: Links
Decennium
Met het einde van het jaar, komt ook het einde van dit eerste decennium van deze nieuwe eeuw in zicht. Nou ja, het ligt er een beetje aan waar je begint met tellen, maar toch. Dus zoals altijd in december worden we doodgegooid met ‘Beste van het jaar’ lijstjes, maar nu ook nog met ‘Beste van het decennium’ lijstjes. Hier een paar die eruit sprongen..
Yet more links
Just a few things I’ve wanted to mention these last couple of days.
- I’m thinking of buying a scanner, the Scanjet 4600 by HP, to be exact.
- Check out these Weight Watchers recipe cards, circa 1974
- I’ve recently started watching Carnivàle. Such a wonderful creepy atmosphere.
- Did I mention I’m going to see Hans Dorrestein in Zoetermeer tonight? Well, I am.
- And then there are these Textbook disclaimer stickers. Bizar.
Miscellaneous
Just a few things I felt like sharing.
- The upcoming fifth season of Six Feet Under will be the last apparently. Shame.
- And then some election related thing. The last ones, I promise. Check out Fuck the South and Sorry Everybody
- The article God help America. A quote:
An Electoral College voting system that makes the Eurovision Song Contest look like a beacon of democracy and efficiency.
LOL. - Divine intervention in elections, why religious zeal scares me.
- And then there’s The High-Anxiety Alphabet.
Elsewhere
A few links I wanted to mention.
- The Keencyclopedia, beyond the Pogo. Nostalgia o’plenty.
- The Greatest Dutchman (or should that be person?), following the British and a bunch of other countries we will also be choosing our greatest. I just don’t understand some of the options.
- Pronouncing Dutch, with MP3s.
- Like the idea behind Lowercase Tee.
Miscellaneous
A bunch of things I wanted to mention. I installed Workrave just now, to help manage my (micro)breaks. Read this Tricks of the Trade article, which has some interesting tips. And then there’s the LOTR Sting FX Sword from the ThinkGeek newsletter. Very cool.
Black metal and specs
They’re making fun of Black Metal. I do appreciate the music, but the author is right. The look can be hilarious. I just read Why specs matter. Most developers are morons, and the rest are assholes. Gotta love that analogy.
Weekend reading
A bunch of articles I plan to read but don’t have time for at this very moment.
- The Science of Word Recognition or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bouma
- Fool’s World Map, visualizing the world map which many fools in the world imagine.
- Classical Computer Science Texts
- The ones that got away, about movies that were never made. Including info on Kubrick’s fascinating Napoleon project. Starring Jack Nicholson!
- A Crash Course on Irate Calls, for tech-support workers in India
- List of company name etymologies
Most links are taken from kottke.org.
Magnitude
Orders of magnitude is fascinating. Especially the one for area.
One minute
Really like the idea of one-minute vacation. Basically it’s a recording of sixty seconds in a specific location.