Category Archives: Hyperlinks

Via MetaFilter (original discussion thread), the Hungary-based ‘AlertMap’, a service that shows current events in a “Google Maps” map. Not really original, but effective and (as it seems) close to ‘real-time’1. I need to add that the AlertMap heavily relies … Continue reading →

Via Paul Miller’s, , I was reminded that I saw the same birds flying around freely in Deventer last year. Apparantly, these birds enjoyed their freedom by hanging around the cages of their ‘jailed’ cousins in a bird park close … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I noticed that The Singing Fish has (officially) become part of AOL: it now redirects to Video@AOL.com. I generally stay clear from everything AOL, but the original Singing Fish was actually a good site to find audio fragments. Over … Continue reading →

This week’s most interesting story goes to this Slashdot discussion: “How can we convert the US to the Metric system”. Most likely the question popped up, because of NASA’s recent announcement to go completely metric for their future mission(s) to … Continue reading →

I read that the WSJ invited two bloggers to discuss and debate the state of uh-Microsoft. Who did they invite? Dave Winer and Robert Scoble. The best pals in the world. That never works, and it shows too. Debate? That’s … Continue reading →

A couple of notes: The first link that I ran into this morning was a bookmark at Digg with the title ‘This is what happens when you let developers create UI’ (actual blogpost). I have a problem with the ‘insinuation … Continue reading →

For no particular reason, I was looking for images of Leopard tanks, when I noticed that the majority of the photos show the tanks moving from right to left (or rather, the picture taken from the left side). This appears … Continue reading →

Rumour has it that I plan to move this blog to its own separate domain to offload the traffic on this domain. Heavy traffic (unrelated to above) also came from fark today, because someone thought it was nice to include … Continue reading →

Earlier, I read about the ball-point pen at BBC. Revolutionary? Probably not, but definitely groundbreaking: how many generations have used the ball-point pen since it’s invention in 1938 by the Biro brothers? How many of your pens have been stolen … Continue reading →

As you may have found out: xsamplex made it to the second round of the CBA 2006 awards. Congrats to the others who made it through. For the ones that didn’t make it: that was quite a narrow margin. The … Continue reading →

So, yeah, just today, I found out that my blog was added to the list of nominees for Best Sci/Tech blog 2006, courtesy of My Blahg. In the same category, the competition consists of A View From The Isle, Amber … Continue reading →