The jailhouse rock
There is a category of social problems for which current solutions just don't work and still we don't really seem to care. We really...
Monday, June 30, 2003
I'm not a roll
Two weeks ago, I opened my blog with: I'm not a roll , and while I'm really not, I meant that I was on a roll, because I had blogge...
Thursday, June 26, 2003
The Matrix Reloaded: beyond meaning
So I went to see the Matrix Reloaded yesterday. In a way I think the movie reached a new level, a level we could have seen coming since the...
Sunday, June 22, 2003
Software with less bugs
According to the NIST about 80% of the time of software developers is spent on finding and fixing bugs. Not that all bugs are found. Think ...
Saturday, June 21, 2003
Making shopping easier
Men generally don't like to shop for clothes. Men usually have their favourite shirt, favourite jeans and a favourite sweater and they a...
Friday, June 20, 2003
Patens and medicine
Do patents work? They seemed to have worked in the nineteenth for getting all those nice technical inventions out there. Pharmaceutical comp...
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Making the world funnier
The simple reason why they play laughter in comedies, is that the jokes seem funnier when more people laugh. The viewers might think the tap...
Sunday, June 15, 2003
Atlantis II
I just added a project sealevel with some code that lets you view the map of Europe at different levels of the sea. Nice to play with.
American Anxiety
A couple of days ago I watched ‘Bowling for Columbine' , a documentary about gun possession and why the murder rate is so high in the Un...
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
The location of Atlantis
I'm on a roll - three postings in three days! The subject for today is atlantis and where it might have been. A lot of theories and the ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2003
Not a children's bible
This weekend I was reading a bit in a children's bible and as always it struck me how far removed the childrens stories are from the cru...
Monday, June 9, 2003
Why languages are complex
Why do have languages all these complex grammatical features? Languages seem to become more simple over the ages, see Lating becoming Italia...
Saturday, June 7, 2003
Why governments always need to cut spending
The Netherlands have a new government. Unfortunately the economy is bad and they need to cut expenditure. It seems logical, but if you think...
Tuesday, June 3, 2003
Google Share
I stumbled on a nice graph component and couldn't resist. GoogleShare , calculating the mind share of something, is a new project. Enjoy.
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