Sure we all visited the google search engine to find some stuff on the internet. It’s a webapp albeit a simple one. You can type your search query and than you have to move the mouse and click shit. Next page. Next page. Click on one of the search results.
Point and click may be your thing but I’m a hardcore commandline junkie. And although I never thought of the concept of accessing a search engine through a commandline it actually works pretty well. Try for yourself. Over at goosh.org you’ll find the unofficial Google shell. Thanks Karel for pointing me towards this. I have a new homepage.
Once again a great video on YouTube. The video contains amateur footage shot by Rosalind Stevenson who was a friend of Lou Reed. It shows Lou Reed, Moe Tucker and John Cale writing the song “Sunday morning” for their debut album (The Velvet Underground & Nico).
Unique footage I have never seen before. Finding all this while I was just looking for the song “Sunday morning” to match the rainy Sunday morning mood. YouTube is really cool!
Now here’s a nice streetview discovery. A dude is riding his bicycle down the street where the Google streetview camera car is taking pictures. Unfortunately for the biker he falls and is captured on photo while doing so.
Here’s the biker on his bike oblivious of the embarrassment that awaits him.
Do you have to write up those non-sense “say nothing” corporate statements? After ten of those do you run out of bullshit? Then this is for you! My good buddy Karel Kubat created a bullshit generator for all our enjoyment. You can download the software and datafile and write up your own value-added, synergy enhancing strategy to focus on your target channels while leveraging on maximization of your core-business bullshit!
Asjemenou?! Wim de Bie onderhoudt al meer dan zes jaar een blog voor de VPRO (Bieslog) maar daar lijkt gisteren een einde aan gekomen te zijn (voorlopig althans). Wim vindt dat het tijd is voor vernieuwing en daar gaat hij de komende maanden hard over nadenken. Als hij nieuwe inspiratie vindt dan komt hij terug en anders…
Anders moeten we afscheid nemen van een geweldig blog met goed geschreven artikelen en verhalen. Dus ik hoop van harte dat Wim de Bie terugkeert met of zonder nieuwe ideeën. Van mij mag Bieslog nog jaren doorgaan in de huidige opzet. Wim bedankt en succes met het vinden van nieuwe ideeën en of inspiratie. Ik heb genoten.
Obama? Clinton? No, no, no. This is not about the democratic candidate election this is about important stuff. Last night the Webby Awards winners were announced. As you might know my good friend Sander was nominated with his excellent Rube Goldberg machine viral for Hema.
Now is a good time to put on your party hats: Sander has WON THE WEBBY!!
Well now, this blog exists for six months now. I tried to waste your time with 253 posts and you returned the favor by posting 366 comments. Luckily the spam filter caught 803 spam comments with only a few false positives and only two or three comments required manual spam flagging. The adsense counter already reaches $30.30 which is a stunning $5.05 per month. I still enjoy formulating provocative and highly biased statements so don’t expect me to quit anytime soon.
Unfortunately most statistics over 2007 are lost. I did recover some of it using google adsense. However from 2008 on I keep some statistics around. Over the first 4 months over 2008 the server got 75406 requests for articles (278571 total requests) from 8566 different IP addresses.
Now this struck me as a joke however this is dead serious. A German publishing company (Random House, part of the Bertelsmann group) is going to print & release the German Wikipedia on paper. Who in their right minds would want a fully cross-indexed, clickable online encyclopedia on dead paper?
I really feel this is a step in the wrong direction. We have to move away from publishing and printing on paper anyway. I do realize that a lot of people still prefer paper version of documents and books but an encyclopedia is all about references and links. Just click and you’re there!
Would you buy a static, dead version of wikipedia on paper?
Yes! A Webby award nomination. No! Not for this stupid blog of course. My good buddy Sander is winning prizes with his Rube Goldberg viral animation. Now the viral is nominated for a Webby. The nomination in itself is a recognition for his work. But let’s help Sander to win the Webby we all know he deserves. Voting can be done here. We keep our fingers crossed. Good luck Sander!
True, true, I don’t like Python all that much. I don’t like programming languages where whitespace matters. Give me brackets, lots of brackets. Anyway this demo is very cool. Recently Google launched Google App Engine. An application hosting engine where everyone can create and upload their application. Here’s a small demo of how simple it is to use Google App Engine. Brett Slatkin uses Python to quickly create a small web application for shouting out messages (twitter anyone?). Nice to watch and makes you want to program something, really just anything. Where’s my editor?
Vorig jaar november liet mijn goede vriend Sander zijn nieuwste creatie zien. Een Rube Goldberg machine gemaakt voor de Hema. Deze prachtige animatie is genomineerd voor een Spin Award en deze zijn gisteren in de Heineken Music Hall uitgereikt. Sander heeft zilver gewonnen in de categorie “beste online campagne”. GEFELICITEERD Sander!!
Sander mocht met anderen op het podium de prijs in ontvangst nemen. Helaas geen directe link. Even op nummer 6 klikken (06. beste online campagne). Sander heeft een groen/beige T-shirt aan.
Since a couple of days I integrated twitter status updates in my blog. Just for the fun of it. Now I need something easy to post new status messages to twitter. Sure there is the twitter website that you can use to do that but it requires me to logon and then type the status etc. I get tired of just thinking about all that. To ease the pain I added SMS as a channel and added twitter to my instant messenger program. So instead of chatting to a person I can send an update to twitter. This is already much better but I’m really lazy. Basically I want just a small commandline tool that sends the argument I specify as status message to twitter.
Due to the twitter API this is really easy using wget (or you could use curl if you more into that). The script is basically a one-liner that posts the message to twitter. Put the script below in a file (I put it in a file called ‘twitter’). Replace USER with your twitter username and replace PW with your password. Make the file executable and you are ready to go. Here it is:
#!/bin/sh
wget --post-data="status=$@" -q -O - \
"http://USER:PW@twitter.com/statuses/update.json"
De F1 (Formule-1) is alweer twee wedstrijden onderweg in het nieuwe seizoen. Vanaf de derde race gaat het RTL GP Manager spel weer van start. Je hebt dus nog héél even om je in te schrijven. Stel je eigen team samen. Kies twee coureurs, één chassis, één motor en een pit-crew. Je budget is beperkt (€100.000,-) dus je kunt niet twee top-coureurs inhuren in een ferrari chassis met een ferrari motor. Je moet creatief zijn. Gaandeweg het seizoen verdien je punten en dus geld en kun je jouw team wijzigen. Nieuwe motor of nieuw chassis, misschien een andere coureur? Net wat je nodig hebt. Het F1 seizoen wordt er net even spannender door. Geef je snel op en kijk nog even na de ‘read more’. Daar staat een foto van het ergste ongeval dat ooit de F1 is overkomen.
Eindelijk is er een site waar je digitaal je excuses kunt aanbieden voor de film Fitna van Geert Wilders. Je kunt ’sorry zeggen’ door je foto te uploaden. Deze is voor de hele wereld zichtbaar en daarmee ziet de wereld dat jij zo slecht nog niet bent. Op nu.nl staat een artikel over de site www.sorryforthefilm.com. De Nederlandse makers zeggen in te spelen “op de behoefte van Nederlanders om de mening over ons land in de rest van de wereld te nuanceren”.
Onder dat motto kunnen we wel bezig blijven. We kunnen onze excuses aanbieden voor het slechte spel van het Nederlands elftal. De inzending naar het Eurovisie songfestival en ga zo maar door… Maar hoe zinnig is het om je excuses aan te bieden voor iets dan een ander gemaakt heeft? Is het een krampachtige poging om roomser dan de paus te zijn? Lekker boeiend allemaal: u kunt foto’s bekijken van mensen die hun excuses aanbieden voor de film van Wilders. Een aantal opmerkelijke inzendingen:
Liveleak removed Fitna from their site. The clips have been replaced with three frames of text with the explanation:
Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers.
This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realised LiveLeak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one.
Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one anothers culture.
We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high.
Fortunately the pages with reactions are still there.
The AEL (Arab European League) released a movie to counter Fitna called “Almouftinoun” (I could not find a translation). In this movie Wilders is exposed as a racist and zionist. We see images of crimes against moslims and citations from the Talmud.
Once again a great video on YouTube. The video contains amateur footage shot by Rosalind Stevenson who was a friend of Lou Reed. It shows Lou Reed, Moe Tucker and John Cale writing the song “Sunday morning” for their debut album (The Velvet Underground & Nico).
Obama? Clinton? No, no, no. This is not about the democratic candidate election this is about important stuff. Last night the Webby Awards winners were announced. As you might know my good friend Sander was 