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Very cool Sometimes you see movies that presents a rather cool interpretation of our (possible) future. One of my favorites in that department is Minority Report. I even use examples from that movie in presentations I do for my work because it shows technologies that are just now becoming a reality. For instance in the field of narrowcasting (aka ‘digital signage’) and digital publishing such as E-paper. A friend of mine send me an url to the website of the New York University Media Research Lab where they do all kinds of cutting edge research into new and cool gadgets […]

ALERT! This is an old clip from the Late Night with Conan O’brian show, way back when the new Star Wars episode II movie came out. Triumph the comic Insult dog is seen here at his best insulting all the crazy geeks that gather here. I haven’t laughed as much about something like this in while. The lines he has are just priceless: “Thousands of 35-year old men have gathered here (…) Lonely men, who have never had sex… not even with a Catholic Priest”. “How are you going to explain this to your imaginary girlfriend?”. And, last but not […]

Shit, did I drop my car keys? One of the more fun things to do is to contemplate completely fictious scenarios of things that will never happen. Like: what if your the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons? What would you do to survive? Well, here is another scenario for you: Say zombies are popping up for real. How good are you’re chances to survive? Do you have the faintest clue what you’ll do and how you’ll survive? How long do you think you would survive? What would be your weapon of choice? What would you […]

Christopher Walken There is this Dutch saying that (roughly translated) says: “tickle yourself because others won’t”. Basically it means you need to indulge yourself now and then doing somthing nice or buying yourself something cool. Well, yesterday I indulged myself indeed: I bought myself a couple of things. Most notably I bought myself the DVD ‘King of New York’ starring one of my favorite actors: Christopher Walken. And I bought the 3-DVD set of the famous 90’s TV-series ‘Bottom’ starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmonson. What a blast! I also bought a LED ‘mood-lamp’ that changes color randomly (really cool […]

(censored) I can stand a lot of things. But a few things will tick me off. One of them is mass hysteria over things that are plain stupid. The thing that really ticks me of right now is all the Islamic people protesting and getting out of control over some stupid cartoons a Danish newspaper published last year. While Muslims worldwide are calling for a boycott of Denmark and any other nations whose press reprints the cartoons, Europeans are trying to stand up for Western principles of freedom of speech and not cave in to self-censorship in the name of […]

PM Balkende: spineless jellyfish As was to be expected from our spineless Dutch politicians: they are about to agree on sending some Dutch soldiers over to the province Uruzgan in Afghanistan (come to think of it: not only are they spineless, they also have the mental capabilities and intelect of an amoebe). After debating a few days on the subject all government parties and the biggest opposition party (PvdA) have caved in under the international pressure and fear of losing face. Once again they defy the Dutch people who are against the sending of troops just as they were against […]

Ain’t that true Do you know that joke about Gates comparing the prices of computers with cars? I don’t think he ever really said it, but it is a welknown joke. Supposedly Gates said at a Comdex show: “If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.” According to the joke GM responded to this with some remarks of their own (see the second part of this blog). But seriously now: according to Engadget Microsoft-powered Fiat’s (well, I guess they are not […]