Unfortunate URLs for: Pen Island, Therapist Finder and Lumberjacks Exchange. (Through mr. Weinberger.)

If you have never used a web forum, you probably don’t know much about them, so here is a quick introduction. A web forum is a website or part of a website where people interested in its topic can start written discussions. Each discussion takes place in a topical forum, and each discussion is called … Read More

Tonight I made a mushroom-cream sauce: cut up a lot of mushrooms (the non-hallucicogenic kind you hippies!) and bake them, add a bit of finely chopped onion and carrot, and add in some cream later, together with finely chopped paprika; let it simmer for a few minutes. Serve with schnitzel. I also added a little … Read More

Jimmac has some useful tips for creating wallpapers (you know, those things on your computer desktop?).

In some respects Dutch copyright law is not as advanced as its American counterpart. For instance, in the US publications of the federal government are in the public domain. This is for example why people get to know so much about space: anyone can republish images that were originally published by NASA. In the Netherlands, … Read More

This years Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded in the following categories to the following people for the following reasons: – Agricultural history, to James Watson, for the study into “The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley’s Exploding Trousers”. – Physics: John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell for dripping tar at a rate of one … Read More

There is this great film database that invites visitors to leave reviews, but on their terms and using their interface. There are also several book databases that invite you, again, to review books at their site ([1], [2], [3], and [4], for example), but with similar problems, and with the added complication that the conscientious … Read More

I downloaded this new series of people being forced to give up smoking, and how each of them is coming to terms with that. Battlestar Galactica (the new series) gets many things wrong, but it also gets many things right, and in the end that’s what counts. There are a lot of movies and series … Read More

Ik ben op zoek naar mensen die voor een experimentje een of twee alinea’s willen vertalen uit The Tell-Tale Heart van Edgar Allan Poe. Ik wil zien of meerdere mensen die aan een vertaling werken een consistente stijl kunnen opleveren. Maak je niet druk over taalfouten of literair niveau; dat zijn dingen van later zorg. … Read More

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