those were the days... ;-)

16k - wow! (by the way: now also as an app)

build your design home with lego

The new architecture series of Lego is real fun - look at this beautiful Falling Waters model - I really would like to build it. (If I would have/make the time)
Other buildings in the series are:
Farnsworth House™


Burj Khalifa


Empire State Building


Fallingwater®


Rockefeller Center


Sears Tower


Seattle Space Needle


Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum®


White House
Have a look for your self.





All american guy

The return of the (killer)apps

Not sure what is going on but slowly all kinds of apps are creeping back into my life. I thought that I had everything "browserized" - but the contary seems to be the truth...
There are some pretty neat apps out there for the mac and I now have a couple of them running permanently (@space 2). These apps give a far better user experience and look beautiful. Also they remind you of your familiar iphone/ipad apps - so you are already used to them.
These I use most: sparrow (mail), reeder (rss reader), twitter (uh... twitter) and evernote (notes).
With launchpad in Lion I think a whole new wave of apps will come to us - is this the end of the browser then? (and of Google?)

Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward for sale

@bonhams you can now bid for a original Lady Penelope doll as used in the Thunderbirds series. I think I would rather have her pink six-wheeled Rolls Royce, as driven by her chauffeur Parker.

New happy Delft tiles

Logitech G35 - not for PS3

Just to keep things at peace @home I thought it would be a good idea to use a headset for my PS3 gaming. I was thinking of this nice Logitech G35 ones: 7.1 dolby. But unfortunately Sony still doesn't allow us to use USB headsets on the playstation - why is that? So I canceled my order and will start to use my "old" Sennheiser set.

Uppsala: jag kommer!

Det är bara tre veckor när jag ska åka till Uppsala för min sommer course "Svenska". Vädret är mycket fint och det är många saker att se. Jag undrar vem vill bli mina medstudenter och om jag första och talar svenska tillräckligt bra...

All of a sudden I fancy a swim...

Films for the weekend: 3. Mine Vigante

 
After a lot of Hollywood movies it is always nice to relax, dream away and to enjoy a classic Italian movie. It seems that only Italians can do this - beautiful settings, philosophical scripts, beautiful people and a great sound track. This is a film to remember and to cherish. Tomaso has to go to the far southern tip of Italy to help his family out with their pasta business. A trip with lot's of surprises and a warm ending...

Films for the weekend: 2. X-Men First Class

How did it all start? Now we know because of this nice Sunday afternoon flick. But it is just a little bit to long I think, it could do with at least a half hour less of talking and extensive action scenes.. Nice role of Kevin Bacon.

films for the weekend: 1. The HangOver II

Sure it is the same formula, but what a formula it is :-) It's an other 2 hours of senseless humor with the guys. As usual the most fun comes with the end credits...

Time to go to the beach...

Australian HIV Campaign Reinstated

RipandRollAustraliax180 (QCHA) | Advocate.com
The  campaign for HIV prevention targeting gay men in Queensland has been reinstated following an online backlash against the company that removed the ads in response to complaints from an antigay Christian group. More than 25,000 joined a Facebook group to support the “Rip and Roll” campaign from the Queensland Association for Healthy Communities - hurray!

Really offensive - or not?

An HIV-prevention ad featuring a fully-clothed gay couple embracing with a condom has been removed from bus shelters in Brisbane, Australia following complaints from the Australian Christian Lobby...huh?

Heavy Medal?

The medal I got after the "Rock & Run" run was announced as a "heavy medal" medal - in fact it was a very cheapo plastic piece of rubbish - why did they do that?

Pierre & Gilles @ Christies Paris

Today is the long anticipated auction of Pierre & Gilles photographs/paintings @Christies Paris. For a mere €30.000 or so you can pick up an original artwork by the guys, so hurry!

Rock & Run in Amsterdam

I ran the Rock & Run Amsterdam today - it was a pure recreational event, without any time keeping - but it was fun to run freely around the corner over the canals between some very weird dressed other runners...

Pelle Svanslös

Därför jag ska åka till Uppsala i 4 veckor (på att plugga svenska) jag tänkte att det var en mycket bra idé att läsa böcker från Gösta Knutsson. Hans Figurerna i böckerna är katter (huvudpersonen är Pelle Svanlös) men har levande förebilder bland verkliga personer i dåtidens Uppsala. Böckerna avsågs vara en protest mot det alltmer öppna stödet för nationalsocialismen i Sverige... Jag hoppas jag lär mig en liten som Uppsala också.

New Kids Turbo

I wasn't planning to watch this movie, but happened to stumble upon it, and I must admit: It was more fun then I thought it would be. I liked Rikkert (Wesley van Gaalen) most. His relationship with his Opel Manta is classic :-)