Archive for the ‘ politics ’ Category
Seems like the crisis in our parliament has become global news. Guess “our boys” did some fine things in Uruzgan. Too bad the majority of the country wants to end the war. Anyway. I recently built the election special for www.radio1.nl. I just love how fast I can whip up specials like this in Ruby [ READ MORE ]
I just donated €20 to Wikileaks. Wikileaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational, or religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors. [ READ MORE ]
As an Amsterdammer, and soon to be living-in-the-center-of-Amsterdammer, a trend of our city’s municipality worries me. This is the trend to make Amsterdam squeeky clean, disallow anything fun, noisy and dirty and turn this old town into an amusement park. This is why I endorse Ai! Amsterdam which aims to change some of the absurd [ READ MORE ]
I love parodies. I especially love parodies where big, slow and dying industries are mocked. So I saw this Downfall subtitle-parody. See it, it’s hilarious. The real kicker is that Apple, one of the companies briefly featured in the parody, has refused to publish a link (!) to a blog post showing this video in [ READ MORE ]
I have never made it a secret that I am pro copyright reform. Human culture got where it is now because of people freely sharing ideas and feeding off each other intellectually. The current media cartels are restricting this natural desire and every day, more laws are passed that might land ordinary people in jail [ READ MORE ]
From Slashdot: If I said I didn’t have an incentive to grow oranges unless I could plant a tree in your yard, or if I said I didn’t have an incentive to grow cotton unless I could own slaves on the plantation, most people would see this is these as the worthless shallow arguments that they [ READ MORE ]
Radio 1 in .nl has introduced a new slogan: “een en al nieuws” (one and all news) and there are commercials to celebrate. I think they could have chosen stronger dialog though. [ READ MORE ]
Imagine this prediction twenty years ago: “in 2008, the world’s richest people are Russian, and the US has nationalised its largest private banks”. People would have laughed so hard. [ READ MORE ]
In six weeks time, Holland will join the other developed countries of this world and the smoking ban in bars and restaurants will go in effect. And recently I have found myself more and more annoyed by people smoking. The funny thing is, I never used to be anti-smoking like this. In fact I considered [ READ MORE ]
Dutch union lady Agnes Jongerius proposes a mandatory women-quote for public companies per 2020. Fourty percent of every publicly traded NV’s board should be female. I happen to agree. [ READ MORE ]
