This weekend we were invited by our friends at N=5 to join them for a skitrip to pretty Crans Montana in Swiss. I’ve got a few years experience skiing but decided to try snowboarding. Not really my thing - so went back to skiing quite quickly. Apparently skiing is just as cool these days - have a look at this (thanks Marika):
Core Memory - A visual survey of vintage computers is an epic book by photographer Mark Richards. I believe I’ve seen some excerpts from it in WIRED magazine a while ago but forgot about it untill I stumbled upon it again today on the 37 Signals’ blog.
I think I know now what birthday present I’d like. Neat site, too.
Ok so I didn’t want to post this at first. I love the idea, but it is a little bit of a quest to find it and look at, being part of yet another stuffed microsite (this time from Microsoft) with some other bits and bobs which are all part of the ‘Stay-At-Home Server’ campaign they are running.
But luckily Gizmodo (where we found this) did a gallery thats a little better to show this rather nice and funny idea. I’d suggest for next time they just put this on the Stay-At-Home microsite and nothing else. Less = more?
Middledigit tagged me to take part in the ‘week in media’ meme, so here we go:
What I’ve read
I was mostly in Iceland the week of 07/08 so I actually managed to read a few old-school paper books rather then newspapers and blogs and shit. At the airport I picked up ‘Leadership and self-deception - getting out of the box
And I started reading ‘Drie oorlogen’ (which translates as Three wars) by Dutch historian Maarten van Rossum. Great book. Interesting Fact: A few U-Boats more and Nazi Germany might have won. Then there was Iceland Review - a nice glossy on everything Iceland that we found in our hotel room. Oh, and the Mountaintaxi excursion booklet of course. On the way back my girlfriend picked up a free newspaper, ‘De Pers‘, at the airport and found a little article on some work Kong just did. Nice.
What I’ve watched
Zodiac, by David Fincher (on-demand through UPC). Not nearly as good as Se7en, but a fun watch. I don’t really watch TV anymore but Crocodile Hunter on Animal Planet (which I had not seen before) kept me occupied for quite a few hours while in our hotel. Oh what a beauty. Oh what a pearl. I’ve also watched myself reach level 35 in Call of Duty 4 online and seen myself lose a lot playing Sensible World of Soccer on XBLA. I’ve also watched ice. Lots of ice, geysers, ice, more geysers, mountains, moon-like landscapes and ice.
What I’ve listened to
Icelandic people talking Icelandic. I downloaded a load of podcasts to listen to while airborne but the output signal of my ipod nano was too low to match the sound pollution inside a Boeing. So the BBC History podcasts didn’t reach my ears. It meant I had to play some strong stuff, like The Editors, Be[i]kon and the new Radiohead album (which I love).
In my car I seem to exclusively listen to Radio 1 these days (in Holland Radio 1 is national talk radio) and at work it’s usually Soma FM (both Illinois Street Lounge and Groove Salad) and ofcourse Dj Sow The Ungooglable. I’ve also played/listened a little Reason 4. But only just a little bit. For now.
Next on I’d like to tag Sean, Dom, Rubbishcorp and 0++0.
WIRED writes:
Renegade artist and head-hunter the Decapitator has been bombarding the streets of London with a signature style of graffiti tag - eerily removing the heads from major adverts around town, replacing them with ghastly, gory stumps.
The Decapitator is apparently from East-London and has a flickr stream right here.
This blew me away. And no, its not fake:
Here’s another one of DJ Sara on a Freestyle tip:
So I’m back in Holland after a great time in Iceland! Some more updates to follow, but here’s a quick xmas gift from Iceland: ‘Ígulker and Sítt að aftan’ is a vintage clothing and recordshop in Reykjavik. I liked the music they were playing when we walked in so I asked the guy working there what it was and he told me it was a mix he had made that day.
When I asked him if I could buy it he told me I could download it from his blog for free. Nice! Also a bit confusing: go to recordshop -> hear something nice -> say you want to buy it -> get it for free.
The mix is called Árslistinn 2007.
