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599 GTB Fiorano: Carbeque
SHOCKED showroom driver Martin Bullen faced a tricky phone call to his boss after this £250,000 Ferrari went up in smoke. Martin, 43, was at the wheel as the 599 GTB Fiorano burst into flames at traffic lights.
Via The Sun.
<butthead>Huh-Huh. Carbeque. Huh-Huh. Carbeques are Cool.</butthead>
CNTraveller: Amsterdam Not Capital of Holland
From the Conde Nast Traveller website:
It might not be the capital of the Netherlands, but Amsterdam definitely is the city where all the action takes place in this country.
Dear CN Traveller people. Amsterdam actually *is* the capital of Holland. Duh.
Article For Adformatie (Correct Version)
I’ve been asked to write an article for dutch ad-mag Adformatie about the similarities and differences between the Art Directors Club and Spinawards here in Holland. After I did a final check-before-going-to-press the editor made a big error by replacing the word ‘Goeiemoogle’ with ‘Goeiemoggel’ (here’s a blogpost that explains the Goeiemoggel campaign and the fact that Kong only did the online bit).
‘Hors categorie’ …I wonder what that means?
Anyhow, here’s the right version (in dutch, but with these nifty hyperlinks that everyone’s talking about):
Berners-Lee on The Future of the Interwebs
Interview with Tim Berners Lee on the BBC site, Its mostly about plans by leading internet providers to use Phorm, a company which tracks web activity to create personalised adverts but there’s also some other bits and bobs.
I particularly liked this quote:
There are more websites then there are neurons in your brain.
(I tried embedding the video but that can’t be done - why not?).
Bad Science In Space
(via io9)
My Week In Media
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.