Category Archives: Hyperlinks

Note: today’s the Eurovision songfestival finals, as I promptly announced in my Elsewhere links the other day (Dutch are out, horrors!). Apparently you can follow it online too, but prepare for clogged up Ethernet lines when millions of Europeans and … Continue reading →

Attenborough’s ‘Cry Freedom‘ made a lasting impression on me: the movie tells the (true) story of Stephen Biko, a black politician who was brutally murdered by South African security police in the mid Seventies. Despite photographic proof showing that Biko … Continue reading →

With he dust settling at Parliament Hill, that is after the crucial voting yesterday, there were plenty of interviews with politicians, analysts, experts and others today. Before I go over to today’s stuff, there was one weird moment during last … Continue reading →

Via Waxy, I found this magnificent keyboard: Das Keyboard. It’s a keyboard, yes, without lettering! Brilliant. Since there is no key to look at when typing, your brain will quickly adapt and memorize the key positions and you will find … Continue reading →

I saw that the Liberals survived a vote of confidence: I decided to follow it live on television. Interesting to watch: I always expected a majority to be at least 60% of the votes. In the Canadian House of Commons, … Continue reading →

If David Lynch had directed ‘Return of The Jedi’, would we have seen a different ‘Star Wars’? I wasn’t aware of this fact nugget: that indeed he was asked by Lucas to direct ‘Return of the Jedi’. Lynch’s comment on … Continue reading →

The day before yesterday, my wife happened to receive hundreds of e-mails: yes, she was also one of the millions targeted by Sober.Q virus/spam. The mails received are pretty harmless: all of them link to several German pages expressing the … Continue reading →

Something I noticed the other day: when you leave the XBox running with no game in it, after a couple minutes it starts to talk in some kind of language. Others suggest it’s a demonic language. Really: I’m not making … Continue reading →

I‘ve been reading and watching the Huffington Post the last couple of days, and while it hasn’t had good reviews (Technorati), it certainly has interesting posts and articles. And before people call her full of crap, think of this article … Continue reading →

Yesterday, on a show televised by MTV, Microsoft officially unwrapped the XBox 360 and revealed the specs to the outside world. I’ll just link to the Slashdot discussion thread, where you’ll find links to all the other news sources covering … Continue reading →

Tomorrow, Microsoft is going to unveil its next XBOX platform, supposedly called XBox 360. Gates has mentioned this particular event a couple of times too, convinced as his of the impact it will have on our lives™. Uh. Apparently, the … Continue reading →

The Spiegel illustrates the problem with disaster movies made in Hollywood. In an interview with Spielberg and Cruise about their upcoming ‘War Of The Worlds’ movie, the following fragment sticks out: Spielberg: We wanted to make a film in which … Continue reading →

Via Accordeon Guy, a link to the Indian Superman, apparently not sanctioned by the official copyright and trademark holders. The Indian movie doesn’t particularly impress or something, nor do I think it’s particularly funny. Most likely, the (typical) Indian jokes … Continue reading →