so the big non-news of last week has been the release of the long anticipated ‘anti-islam’ movie ‘fitna‘ by the dutch clown/politican Geert Wilders. not only was he too stupid to release the movie via bittorrent (which would have scaled with demand much better & allowed for better quality) he also actually confirmed what i [...]

although i have a well documented faible for CFLs and i maintain a growing collection of CFL pictures in one of my flickr sets, all the photos i have taken so far originate from the middle east (the CFLs usually found in the west are pretty uninspiring). Fortunately a young entrepreneur (who is otherwise in [...]

just back from a week in New York (taking benefit of the favorable dollar to euro exchange rate) which was amazing in a number of ways. one of the more interesting culinary discoveries was the Sichuan hot-pot. If you like honest spicy food than you should try one if you have the chance. It consists [...]

CCTV Birdbox – designed by Cèline Shenton ‘Big bird is watching you’ is a birdbox that looks like a CCTV camera. It works just like a dummy camera, but on closer inspection, it offers a great refuge for birds in need of a new home. Inside the box is a little camera that films the [...]

was in brussels for a 3 days earlier this week (some pictures here0. as i have pointed out before brussels is one of the my favorite cities in europe. not only because i really like the roughness of the place, but also because seemingly endless imagination of the eurocrats that are based there! On the [...]

some thoughts on the Nine Inch Nails record release over at the KL blog Technorati Tags: copyright, creativecommons

so since two weeks or so the counties’ biggest super market chain (albert hein) is having some stupid action where you get a plastic smurf every time you spend more than €15 on groceries. plus the stores are full of smurf themed advertisements and they play stupid smurf music in the background and there is [...]