56,7 km of snowy hell
Originally uploaded by Kaeru.
Last night I had to get from Den Bosch to Utrecht. Public transport decided to break down, we had a crazy snow storm, and the longest traffic jam total in Dutch history (over 800 km at it’s height). My only option: take a taxi. Together with a south korean business man, who’d already missed his flight four times, I was in traffic for over three hours over a trip that’s less than 60 kms long. Crazy, crazy stuff! Here’s some shots of a snowy A2.
M’n meisje schoot een foto van een mooi bord in Den Haag. De daaropvolgende Google search was dikke pret!
Technorati: uitrengebied, Den Haag
A great site that collects all kinds of computer generated information graphics. Via iaslash.org.
Technorati: Visual Complexity, infodesign, information graphics
“Simple and open wins”
— Dick Hardt, OSCON 2005 Keynote – Identity 2.0
I finally got around to watching this great presentation on the future of identity on the web. The concept is explained in an excellent way and the style is dynamic and humorous. I’d love to pull of a presentation like this some day.
Technorati: Sxip, presentation, open source, identity, web 2.0
Please people. Lay off the Dan Brown. I can’t commute without seeing at least one person reading a book of his. If you’re interested in crackpot theories about templars, Jesus and Sangreal – just pick up Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Brown stole borrowed all his Da Vinci Code ‘revelations’ from that book anyway). If you’re really interested in what conspiracy theories can do to a person, read Foucalt’s Pendulum – a much, much better way to spend your time reading.
Lots of nice things appearing out of the Beeb’s offices these days. Two recent projects that appeared on my radar:
After stumbling across Projectionist and being pleasantly surprised, I started to catch on to this new meme called tumblelog. Basically it’s about blogging small snipets of stuff, from lyrics, to IM transcripts to quotes to anythingh really, but with each bit in its own distinct look & feel.