Category Archives: Hyperlinks

Earlier, I noticed that a Canadian ISP will stop serving UseNet to its customers. The Globe’s Kapica noticed: I recall one incident, in which a bunch of high-spirited kids decided to invade another newsgroup as a prank. The prank effectively … Continue reading →

There’s a couple of posts sticking in the back of my mind: Alfons’ short reminder of Spain’s political duality (and the younger generation’s push to break the silence) and Alan’s (gigantic) effort to host the Carnival of the Red Ensign. … Continue reading →

Assorted thoughts: Google Base was released earlier this week. It’s a bit of everything, but mostly it’s supposed to be a ‘database’ (base) for everything or something. All, nice and well until the spammers come out. I honestly expected Google … Continue reading →

Earlier, reading (and watching video) Crooks and Liars, I found out about the Toronto Star blogs via this item and the one with video of mrs. Zerbisias adequatly fending off O’Reilly’s daily whine. Good stuff: a newspaper that lets its … Continue reading →

Talking about upgrading: I’ve been promoted to the status of ‘ouwe zeurkous’ (link goes to Dutch only site). That’s because I prefer that people not hotlink to my images, rather that they host it theirselves. Niels (appears to be down … Continue reading →

I was surprised to find out that most people I know are not familiar with the ‘cuckoo’ – bird. While everybody is aware of the word itself (and its negative meaning), it’s the bird’s behaviour that’s of interest: female cuckoos … Continue reading →

I‘m not sure what to think of Google’s Video Search, a place where people can upload videos for everyone to see. Maybe Google is out to kill their competition: America’s Funniest Movies. At least they can afford the monthly bandwidth … Continue reading →

Funny stuff from Bill Maher’s show when highlighting Bush’s speech about a possible avian flu pandemic and the dangers that ‘threaten mankind’. You can watch the video cut at OneGoodMove.

Huh? A classical Winer-diatribe perfectly illustrating that he’s not on top of the issues nowadays. It reads chaotic too: does he mean that he’s pro-Microsoft and he doesn’t care about open formats (XML at that!)? (Note the unusual incoherent reasoning … Continue reading →

An article over at the Independent about a forthcoming book (link to Independent) that will (most likely) attract language lovers in the world: ‘The meaning of Tingo’ from Adam Jacot de Boinod. The article over at the Independent lists the … Continue reading →

A posting over at Sadly, No summarizes a certain paradoxal reasoning of the political right in the US, where bloggers literally prefer to believe the news coming from the Defense department above the ones coming from the ‘disgusting’ mainstream media. … Continue reading →

After so many years of buggy versions, version 0.4.3 of Vegastrike finally made it beyond the startup screen on my computer. I’m not sure about some of the graphics when ‘docked’ (cartoon-like characters), but ‘flying’ out there in space is … Continue reading →

I was wondering what was going to be on CBC’s tonight to find out that the site doesn’t even show this anymore. This must be related to the strike, right? Pathetic point 2: schedules can be downloaded as PDF files, … Continue reading →