Een Zuid-Larense website heeft een pagina over 'hun' Berend Botje. Doet me een beetje denken aan die Kuifje-grap waarin de afstammelingen van Scharlaken Rackham 'hun' deel van de schat komen opeisen. Kapitein Haddock legt ze fijntjes uit hoe dat zit.
https://www.dewachter.nl/wordpress/wat-is-er-te-zien-2/berend-botje/
Nice half-hour radio show about the The Cure song Boys Don't Cry - how it came into being, how it influenced people's lives, and about the inhibition some men feel to show emotion:
I use a browser I cannot trust running on an OS I cannot trust running on a PC I cannot trust to access a bank I cannot trust via an ISP I cannot trust. And that is my best option. #welcometothe21stcentury
Creative peeps, the Lens Culture guide to saying 'exposure' without saying 'exposure' has just come out:
https://www.lensculture.com/portrait-awards-2018
TL/DR:
exposure (3×)
exhibition (2×)
opportunity (2×)
engagement
feature
network
portfolio
projection
publication
visibility
Just so you don't have to do the homework for my last toot:
1978: JVC sells first VHS recorder.
1994: Dumb and Dumber out.
1997: Ally McBeal first aired.
1999: 10 gigabyte hard disks widely available.
2001: Bram Cohen introduces Bittorrent.
2002: final Ally McBeal episode first aired.
2003: 30% of Dutch households have broadband.
2003: US DVD rentals exceed VHS rentals.
2004: 25% of all internet traffic is Bittorrent.
2006: IT Crowd's first joke about Ally McBeal's co-ed toilets.
You too can be an archaeologist!
Throwing out my VCR because even in the attic it is taking up too much space. Checking the two unmarked tapes I still had to see if they contained family mementos. No luck. Instead the tapes contained Dumb and Dumber and an episode of Ally McBeal.
I guess that was the broadband watershed. Or maybe the time that hard disks were large enough to store video. Or Bram Cohen had perhaps invented Bittorrent around then.
I accidentally threw some cheese in my coffee. H1: major culinary invention. H0: yuck. We'll see how it goes.
The Cure in Rotterdam in 1979, being lively.
Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) en Partij voor de Dieren (PvdD) op de bres voor racisten:
https://www.nu.nl/amsterdam/5109644/pvda-trekt-zich-terug-anti-racisme-demonstratie.html
Ajax is no longer letting the groundskeeper give the post-match interviews.
An improvement, I say.
Als je me vraagt Nederland in 2 woorden samen te vatten, zeg ik: racisme, tolerantie.
After two hours of installing and configuring SDK's and IDE's, I have managed to display "Hello World" on an emulated Android phone.
Why can't we just have 6502 powered phones?
Oh noes, Every Frame A Painting officially quit.
So far I have watched more than a dozen of the 34C3 talks and there wasn't a bad one among them.
I did stop watching the one about network cards and network speeds, because the speaker was going so fast that I did not have the time to visualise the concepts he was talking about.
Using your mom's car as a video game controller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU7gl1n1tIs
(TL/DW? Scrub to 16m22s.)
The faces of Paris - Roubaix, the dust, the sweat, the cobble stones. Quieted down, almost frozen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1QXKjc1nLY
Golden oldie, but worth revisiting.
Arnoud Engelfriet maakt korte metten met roofondernemers die huilen dat je onder de AVG he-le-maal niets meer mag.
Je mag hetzelfde als voorheen, alleen wordt er nu van je verwacht dat je zorgvuldig met de gegevens van klanten, bezoekers en relaties omgaat. Common sense, dus.
https://blog.iusmentis.com/2018/01/11/wanneer-mag-avg-sollicitanten-nog-wel-googelen/
Trump the Liar (And Now the Racist Also) doesn't want people from 'shithole countries' to move to the US, prefers Norwegians. The internet responds: "why would Norwegians want to swap their beautiful country for the US?" Isn't that sort of reinforcing Trump's point?
A thought about the way diversity in media is often dismissed as being 'shoehorned in'. Terms like this suggest that creating a diverse cast for a comic or tv show requires extraordinary effort and artifice. Nothing could be further from the truth - you could write/draw in a transwoman or put out a casting call for an actor from a Desi background tomorrow.
45m. In accordance with the principles set out in the Pomodoro Technique, I will now take a five minute break.
46m. God I am bored.
47m. Let me toot about this.
