The new Honda CB1000R (or is it just a Kawasaki Z1000?)
Made with my new iShowU software... ;-)
Kraak & Smaak
Kraak & Smaak, the team of Mark Kneppers, Oscar De Jong and Wim Plug does it again! After their great "Boogie Angst" album, they released Plastic People which is even better funky dance music. Not bad for a couple of guys from Leiden. I really like the song "Ready for Life" - I guess this wil be a huge hit in a couple of..uh..days? listen at www.kraaksmaak.nl
New Zealand's Maori rediscover themselves in tattoos
Traditional tattoos, or ta moko, were once a source of discrimination
against New Zealand’s half a million Maori population, but the art has
been revived amid renewed ethnic pride.
Lots of Maori now are getting tattoos again - but not so much on their faces anymore; shame actually ;-)
Lumix with build in WiFi
Panny's Lumix DMC-TZ50 isn't brand new or anything -- after all, we first caught wind of this WiFi-equipped point-and-shoot late last month
in Japan. Nevertheless, Panasonic is now announcing that said camera
will be heading Stateside with 802.11b/g capabilities, access to
T-Mobile HotSpot service and the ability to upload photos directly to
Google's Picasa Web Albums. Yours for about $450.
Play your Birth Tune
What was the #1 most popular song on the day you were born? Has this question been keeping you up at night? Then today’s your lucky day. On this site,
you can specify your birth month and date. The site will show you which
song was at the top of the Billboard charts on the day your life began.
PS: Mine is Duke of Earl by Gene Chandler...Hmmm ;-)
At the Den Bosch Art fair 2008
The art fair in Den Bosch is always fun because of the quality of the artifacts and the affordability. We went (as usual) with No & Go and they surprised us with a present in the form of a really great print of Alma Tadema which we immediately liked the moment we saw it. I am glad to say that I now hangs pretty in our home :-))
An other picture that struck me at once was Fuel station by the Dutch artist Jan Ros. It looks like a photograph, but actually is a painting. We bought that one as well.
There were some other nice things to see - like glasses from the 18th century at Lameris, but at that time we thought we bought enough and called it a day.
Father and Son Taboo in Bordeaux
The managment of museum d'Aquitaine in Bordeaux removed pictures of Christian Delecluse of fathers and sons, claiming that they could be interpretated as pedophilic porn...A discussion in the Liberation followed. If you see the pics, you ask yourself: what is all the fuss about?
Alfred Hrdlicka's gay Jesus
Pictures depicting Jesus being fondled and the Apostles groping each
other have caused outrage after they were displayed in a museum
attached to Vienna's Roman Catholic Cathedral.The exhibition, entitled "Religion, Flesh and Power" featured works from sculptor and artist Alfred Hrdlicka.
other have caused outrage after they were displayed in a museum
attached to Vienna's Roman Catholic Cathedral.The exhibition, entitled "Religion, Flesh and Power" featured works from sculptor and artist Alfred Hrdlicka.
Vienna's archbishop, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn,
has now ordered the "homosexual orgy" picture, entitled Leonardo's Last
Supper, to be taken down. "This has nothing to do with censorship", said the Cardinal, adding that it was removed with "reverence for the sacred"... ;-)
But
other pictures which have proved also controversial, including one
showing Christ being fondled while on the cross, are still on display.
Erykah rules
Erykah is back with her album New Amerykah and it is really nice. I didn't care so much for her previous albums (the ones after Baduizm - Mama's gun e.g. I really hated. But now she is back!
Elitist Fishing
A great story in the latest edition of "Vrij Nederland" features my buddy Peter Paul as the new elite fishing men.
Parmazan pasta at Gusto
I had dinner with Hans at Gusto - a nice small italian restaurant where they prepare spagetti right in a huge Parmazan cheese.
Mud
As I am preparing my upcoming trip to Israel I found this picture which made me want to go right away... :-)
An elegant 3 STAR dinner in Amsterdam
We had an excellent Gourmet Dinner at No & Go. No spend hours and hours preparing and it was worth every minute of it :-)
With the help of the Cooking books of Dieter Muller (the famous German 3 star chef) she prepared a dinner that could compete with the food Dieter himself makes.
With the help of the Cooking books of Dieter Muller (the famous German 3 star chef) she prepared a dinner that could compete with the food Dieter himself makes.
Peace 50 years later
By now, the little sectioned circle has become so familiar, it feels as if it had no genesis, that it just emerged out of a collective folk culture, like the Star of David or a nursery rhyme. But in fact it can be traced to a single inventor, Gerald Holtom who arrived at the image by combining the semaphore signals for the letters N, for nuclear, and D, for disarmament. The first is a figure with arms held downward and out from both sides; the second, a figure holding one arm above its head while the other points to the ground It debuted on April 4 in London's Trafalgar Square at Britain's first major demonstration against nuclear weapons and it is still going strong (and neccessary I am afraid)
Save Mehdi!
Mehdi Kazemi, 19, came to London to study English in 2004 but later
discovered that his boyfriend had been arrested by the Iranian police,
charged with sodomy and hanged.He fled to Holland because the Britisch Government wanted to sent him back to Iran. Now he has the chance to be sent back to Britain by European Law. Today a vital discussion in Dutch Parlement will decide over his faith.
Check in with your blackberry
Now that the Terminal 5 disaster is almost over we can focus on real progress: electronic checking in without having to print out your boarding pas with an acient barcode. Continental Airlines’ electronic boarding pass pilot program lets a security worker scan the image of a bar code on a BlackBerry.
The technology being tested by Continental uses a two-dimensional encrypted bar code, which is much tougher to copy than the one-dimensional bar code used by many airlines for boarding passes printed online
Mobile devices can so become a crucial part of traveling, that means battery chargers and reliable wireless signals will be even more critical for a stress-free trip though... ;-)
The technology being tested by Continental uses a two-dimensional encrypted bar code, which is much tougher to copy than the one-dimensional bar code used by many airlines for boarding passes printed online
Mobile devices can so become a crucial part of traveling, that means battery chargers and reliable wireless signals will be even more critical for a stress-free trip though... ;-)
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