How to become a republic
The Netherlands is a kingdom. I'm no fan of that. I'm not dead against it, but like they say, you wouldn't invent it, if it wasn...
Sunday, August 31, 2003
Saturday, August 30, 2003
Children do not learn languages fast
Yesterday, I got into a little discussion about how fast children learn languages. Lost of people seem to be amazed by the fact that a four ...
Friday, August 29, 2003
How much is a billion?
The american deficit might reach a cool 500 billion next year . Sounds like a lot? It is. But I wonder how many people have an idea just how...
Thursday, August 28, 2003
Bentham's Panopticon is here
Bentham proposed a panopticon , a building where everybody was visible for some centrally positioned person. In many ways, the panopticon is...
Wednesday, August 27, 2003
The right to tinker
Recently I have been trying to convince people that the European IP Enforcement directive is bad. There are a lot of things bad about it an...
Saturday, August 23, 2003
Why the blackout was no problem
After the recent blackout in North America, there is a lot of talk again about the pro's and contra's of privatisation and deregulat...
Wednesday, August 20, 2003
.ianal top level domain
I think it is time for a .ianal top level domain. This I-am-not-a-lawyer part of Internet should be like the Internet was before the suits s...
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
The unreliability of Internet
Internet is a great medium for knowledge. If you want to know something, Google is a click a way and if you're lucky the answer just one...
Monday, August 18, 2003
Seinfeld on a telephone
Yesterday I got my new phone to play an episode of Seinfeld. I took the episode and let RealOne prepare it for mobile use. Even if the reso...
Friday, August 15, 2003
Big Brother for President
The California recall may seem like a wild circus with actors, porn stars and various lunatics joining the race to become the next govrnor, ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2003
There's something rotten in Brussels
On account of not having a tv, I don't catch the Dutch 8 o'clock news everyday (I do view it on the Internet, just not everyday). An...
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
How to save the Wizard World
Just like half the planet, I've read the latest in the Harry Potter series. I did like the book, though it is more of the same (and rath...
Sunday, August 10, 2003
Not all deeds are selfish
Yesterday I got into a familiar discussion with a friend of mine about the nature of selfish deeds. Egoism is a valid moral theory . If e...
Saturday, August 9, 2003
The invention of the Nation.
Germany and Austria have been fighting about whether Mozart was German or Austrian. The whole thing is really silly, of course. Mozart was b...
Thursday, August 7, 2003
Why Linux is mostly good for big companies
Tim O'Reilly of oreilly.com fame, has observed that the true killer app of open source is not an application at all. Rather, it is the...
Tuesday, August 5, 2003
Euler, Laplace and Archean
I received a friendly mail from John Hallam about my Archean project : Off the top of my head, what you have described sounds like an Euler...
Monday, August 4, 2003
Third World Aid
Development aid is a rather untractable problem, like education or the punishment of criminals by jail terms . We realize that the current ...
Sunday, August 3, 2003
Rightin Corectli
Some ideas are so simple that nobody wants to take them seriously. Lots of language communities spend enormous amounts of time to decide how...
Friday, August 1, 2003
RIAA: winning battles, losing wars
So the RIAA is starting to sue individual Kazaa users . And right they are, these people (okay, I'm one of these people) are breaking th...
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