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Sleepy canada wakes up to the fact that they now need a passport to cross the American border. I’m surprised this wasn’t imposed before. I always used my passport to cross over. The US isnt a province for cripe’s sake.
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Sègolènre just opened her mouth and shoved her foot in it. The first rule of soverainty in Quebec is that there is no soverainty and we’ve kindof accepted that by now even if it sounded nice in the 60s.
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Nice competition on NFC technologies from Timo Arnall’s research group “Touch”
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Dumbest and most uninformed statement ever: “The evolution of the Internet can facilitate this approach, he said. Web 2.0 tools, such as wikis and blogs, make information sharing and content creation easier.”
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Interaction design firm from my 2 friends: Alejandro Zamudio Sanchez and Dana Gordon. Great ideas and crazy design
Archive for January, 2007
links for 2007-01-23
January 23, 2007Quote of the day
January 23, 2007“You do not interfere in the affairs of a friendly country, you do not wish for the dismantling of a friendly country. Canada does not wish for the dismantling of France and France certainly does not wish for the dismantling of Canada.”
Damn shame
January 22, 2007
The building in which i spent a year (should have spent 2) is for rent…. there are no words for the anger and bitterness i feel.
Via the excellent Experientia.
links for 2007-01-19
January 19, 2007-
Interview about the networking event of the year, that's all it is, a repeat of last year with mostly the same speakers. Was nice, but not worth going to twice unfortunately.
links for 2007-01-18
January 18, 2007-
Absolutely beautiful and compelling exhibition on toy production in China. Makes you think: if we ever get “sustainable” will these people be out of jobs and starve? Can we make this idea of “the experience economy” be worthwhile for everyone, and not jus
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Another good one in the ibitch category
I call it iBitch
January 18, 2007So i created a new expression/category/tag for my virtual life… i call it iBitch. So from now on end, anything i find that rants, critiques or talks about Apple products, i will put under that category… no matter if positive or negative, because in the world of blogging, noone’s really right or wrong, its about whether anyone hears you to begin with : )
links for 2007-01-17
January 17, 2007-
I think he meant “men” ;)
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I think ill rename a category of my blog “iBitch” because we’re accumulating quite an interesting number of critical articles on the iPhone now… this one about the price of sms
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Weekly free cultural newspaper of Amsterdam, full of neat things like concert dates, and film hours and nice editorial pieces.
links for 2007-01-16
January 16, 2007-
not really that interesting, but im trying to collect sites about what’s happening in Amsterdam
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Brilliant article by the Guardian on the business of the service society vs the consumer society. Or when objects are cheaper to buy by the dozen than repair.
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Brilliant video explaining the meaning of life in 3d powerpoint charts.
Snailmail sucks
January 16, 2007Snailmail experience of 2006:
Sent package with RoyalMail in London to Bogotà, in Colombia in October 2006 … never made it to it’s destination.
Now in 2007 I get book sent through Amazon.com to the Netherlands, (not Swaziland!) and i get this:
Bastards!
links for 2007-01-15
January 15, 2007-
Very interesting and intriguing talk at MSN talk in Stockolm. I think especially the question session opens up the most possibilities about the future of the social web
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Apprently a great nut roast, keeping this for later.
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Web3.0…. oh boy, here we go…
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Best ad campaign in a long time: for Halo, video conferencing by HP
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I love how the french catch up with everyone else 20 years later. They now have just realised the power of the internet in the political arena for the next elections…sigh
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Very interesting article and should be something i get the students in Antwerp to read before i teach that workshop.
