Douwe Osinga's Blog: December 2004

Monday, December 27, 2004

Back when I was still running Oberon Medialab, one of the problems was that I always came up with new ideas, usually losing interest long be...

I'm all for helping the Third World. In fact, I think that if we could solve global inequality, most of the other problems would disolve...

It is the little things that are different from country to country. A while ago, I noticed that eggs from free range chickens in the Netherl...

I read somewhere that the chances of being killed in an airplane are actually lower than than being killed by an asteroid that takes out the...

Google just anounced plans to scan in a couple of libraries, among others the Harvard University Library with 15 million books. Google is no...

I don't much like tv, but I do like some programs. So, bittorrent is my protocol of choise. But yeah, getting the programs you want is a...

Germany â€™s economy is in the doldrums. Has been for years and everybody knows why. The Germans work too few hours, the taxes are too high,...