I seems that Flickr has been blocked in China. Well, let’s see whether I can manage to get the same honour. I just checked Google Analytics, and I get a decent amount of visitors from China. Always happy to keep public officials occupied, let’s see whether me posting an image from the 1989 Tiananmen […]

And the number is 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 - apparently a (admittedly revokable) key used on lots of HD-DVD’s. The blog post also points to information on a more permanent hack which seems to indicate that the film industry again hasn’t been able […]

A very short post, this.

The Parody
The Response

Now, if all law schools could please make this a case study in 101 trademark law…
(thanks to Giovanni for pointing out the “Permit and Proceed” letter to me. I was aware of the parody, even made SL tshirts with the logo to hand out in SL…)

After a long wait, the MIT Media Lab released Scratch, a great bit of software that lets kids of all ages work on interactive multimedia. The software was built (in Squeak!) by the Lifelong Kindergarten research group, and is great fun for kids of any age (like me).
Download it, pick the sample projects apart, […]

I’m probably not the first to blog about the Apple iPhone (or whatever it’s going to be called due to Cisco owning the brand name), but I’m going to do this nevertheless.

I’m old enough to remember working with the Mac (the Mac - the very first one) and recalling what a joy it was compared […]

Nature (subscribers only, excerpt here) reports on an experiment whereby experimenters have repeated the Migram Experiment with a 3D modelled victim. As it turns out, the subjects responded both physiologically and emotionally to the stress induced by their virtual reality victim suffering - the news for researchers is that this may open the doors to […]

Ok - I confess. I hang around in Second Life (look for “Marius Maeterlinck”, with a bit of luck I’ll be wearing my Squeak T-shirt later this week ). And I was looking for interesting stuff, when I found out that Sun was holding a press conference over Java’s open sourcing (it’s going to […]

The guys behind The Pirate Bay got around to making a movie of their own, called Steal this Film! (download it with your favorite BitTorrent client from here, if you don’t have a BT client installed check out Azureus). If you don’t know TPB, it is one of the world’s major BitTorrent indexing and tracking […]

The Register shows yet another example of university administrators striving to be politically correct (in this case revoking someone’s web access after he posted a discussion on why vegetarianism is misguided), ignoring centuries of very good reasons why universities must be places where there is freedom of speech and debate. I’d say “fire them”, but […]

Well, the happy times of being a freelancer are over. I’ve let myself being sucked back into the ugly web of white collar slavery, or in other words I accepted a regular job.
Starting next week, I’ll work for Telegraaf Media ICT, which is the in-house IT company of the Telegraaf Media Group, a large […]