Amat victoria curam!

Virgin just put out a list of the 11 most bicycle friendly cities arround the world and guess what? Amsterdam is number 1. In my own experience I found it strange to find San Francisco here in the list (ok there is this nice Golden Bridge biking tour – but for the rest of the city, cars rule) and not e.g. Bejing  - remember Katie Melua’s nine million bicycles...

Amsterdam
Portland
Kopenhagen
Boulder
Davis
Sandnes
Trondheim
San Francisco
Berlin
Barcelona
Basel

The new novel of David Leavitt is about Ramanujan, the brilliant Indian mathematician who surprised everyone in the beginning of the 20th century with his  Ramanujan prime and the Ramanujan theta function. The book is however focussed on the relationship between Ramanujan and the guy who brings him to Cambridge, Hardy.
Ramanujan died when he was only 32.

I have been thinking of buying the Sony eBook reader ever since I saw it in Tokyo back in uh..2005 I guess.  The thousands of eBooks now available (via shops or torrents) make it rather interesting to have such a device.
Now however a far superior eBook has surfaced: The iLiad from the Dutch (ex-Philips) company iRex. I have read all the reviews and seen it at the local bookshop and am impressed.
So the iLiad it will be, if only this crazy format war in eBooks would stop. There are dozens of different formats (adobe, Microsoft, gutenberg etc. etc.) which demand there own DRM system and codecs. I found some interesting conversion tools already so let the download begin. Oh, you're right better first buy the iLiad... :-)

At the upcoming auction at Bubb Kuyper a nice print  from Basart called dancing men.

The results of Anton Philips collecting antiques is now for sale at Christies. It is the result of collecting the old fashion way: lots of copper, tin, wood and other stuff that we don't appreciate that much anymore.

Turns out that KPN delivers an ok job. Check out your own speed now!.

I just finished installing leopard on all (3) my macs and it is really cool. Preview, smart folders, coverflow, time machine: you name it. It really makes life easier and so much more fun. So close your Windows: The Leopard is loose!

Michael in his latest movie: "Why did I get married" ...

While  everybody is talking about "green" cars the industry is showings us only white ones... (like cars are a sort of virgins - not capable of any evil... ;-) )

Yale-educated and born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Sam Wagstaff’s transformation from
innovative museum curator to Robert Mapplethorpe’s lover and patron is intensively probed in Black White + Gray. I really would like to watch his documentary by James Crump. Sam became the lover and mentor of Robbert Mapplethorpe, So it is also thanks to him that we have these super duper pictures.
Wagstaff’s collection of over 2,500 masterworks from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries became part of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 1984. He died of AIDS in 1989.

It seems that we have to celebrate every week something ;-)
Today it was because of the launch of zomoto.nl private beta (by invitation only)

Today I had an appointment with Denise my dental hygienist. I always leave with a (white) smile... ;-)

Dumbledore is gay J.K. Rowling revealed today. Some readers are devastated: Laura Mallory, who wants a ban on Harry Potter books said, "The kids
are being introduced to a cult and witchcraft practices," adding, "A
homosexual lifestyle is a harmful one. That's proven, medically."
Maybe Harry knows a spell or two to help Laura...