Mevrouw “Lenen bij een vriendin” Leemans heeft een weblog Briljant!
- UX Magazine, currently in beta (apparently even magazines can be in ‘beta’ these days) looks gorgeous, and has a very high check-it-out factor (
Improv Everywhere’s new mission: Suicide Jumper – Trust me, it’s funny, even though the title suggests otherwise.
See also this previous post: Improv Everywhere – Even better than the real thing
Long time no post.
Anyway, here goes:
- I finally checked out what del.icio.us is all about, and became instantly addicted.. Only to have them lose power a few days after I created an account.
- Another not-so-recent ‘discovery’: Metafilter (or MeFi as the young kids seem to call it), and subsite ask Metafilter.
- Quote from the yesterday-evening radio news “Ariel Sharon briefly lost consciousness.” I tought he had permanently lost consciousness years ago.
- In other “politicans gone mad”-news: “The US president tells America Iraq is now a strong ally against terror and a force for democracy in the Middle East.” Yeah right..
- A must-read: “The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East” by Robert Fisk. Not a happy Christmasy holiday book perhaps, but inspiring nonetheless.
Warning: nerdy links ahead
- VMware Player – Think of it as the Acrobat Reader of virtual machines. More info here and here
- BIPT antenna site – check the location of almost every GSM antenna in Belgium, including pictures and plans for the building license. Radio and TV transmitters coming soon. Too bad the interface uses either a slow as hell ActiveX control or a slower as hell Java control. Mmm.. perhaps I should check out the communication between the plugin and the webserver and re-implement this with Google maps or something…