so it turns out that, since last year, they have a marathon in the gaza strip. even better, this is the only marathon which covers the entire coast of a state territory (much like Belgium is the only county in the world that has a tram running along it’s entire coastline). the Volkskrant article that [...]

usually i do not promote products on this page, but i am so happy with my (relatively) new cyclin jacket that i make an exception here. my new kättermusen einride jacket is more or less perfect for a cycling jacket: the einride jacket (which is for some strange reason marketing as a mountaineering/trekking garment) has [...]

so there is this theory that while technology progresses to produce ever more intelligent technology most of humankind are actually loosing intellectual and cognitive capacities as a result of their dependence on these technologies. The obvious example of this is the proliferation of GPS navigation devices that has resulted in most people loosing even the [...]

one of the biggest idiots of our times, ryan air’s Michael O’Leary who has an opinion on just about everything is quoted by the german news website Spiegel online to have claimed that the swine flue ‘only affects people living in slums in mexico and asia’ and that ‘people flying short haul in Europe this [...]

a while ago i got a flickr request by someone from a polish cycling magazine called bikeboard.pl if they could use my ÅŒmiya Keirin keirin photo set to illustrate an article about keirin in their upcoming issue. i said yes and they promised to send me a copy. today i received two copies of the [...]

back during the dot-com craziness of 1999-2000 i worked as a gif animator for a while (at an outfit called interbrand in amsterdam) and i still have a weakness for this particular form of art. != points to this wonderful example that is used as a background effect on the e-l-i-s-e weblog: Technorati Tags: art, [...]

Yesterday evening i found an envelope copy of the book Digitofagia – net_cultura1.0 by Ricardo Rosas and Giseli Vasconcelos on the stairs to my apartment (thanks for the relay Geert!). This book has been in the making for more than 4 years and i had more or less accepted that i would never see it [...]

looks like the czech are a little bit overburdened by the EU presidency [or they are trying to be funny in a kafkaesque way ] [ceske noviny via boing boing]. Technorati Tags: europe, senseless

it is cold outside and there was a little bit of a misunderstanding about the meaning of number 2 with the hairdresser: Technorati Tags: amsterdam, fashion

fotonauts (still in private beta for more information see here) has just made their widget functionality public. i really like these widgets and especially the way they are handling the attribution and license information (which of course is much more relevant on collaborative albums like this one from the isummit). Here is a widget with [...]