Halfweg-Zwanenburg railway station
Bookmarks for October 6th through October 10th
These are my links for October 6th through October 10th:
- THUD: THE VISITORS RETURN… UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT – V, the remake. ZOMG
- Twitter / stephenfry – *follow*
- BlackRapid: RS-1 Strap – Great camera strap (camera moves, strap doesn't)
- Flatshare Fridge: Love It or Hate It? | appliances, Electrolux Design Lab Competition, flatshare fridge | yumsugar – Food, Drink, & Entertaining. – "This creative fridge consists of a base fridge and four stackable pieces that allow each user to have a private fridge. "
- Chris Blackwell rocks – He also disagreed with U2 manager Paul McGuinness and his recent assertion that internet service providers are accessories to theft because they facilitate the illegal downloading of music. “I don’t agree with calling your consumers thieves. If technology has evolved whereby people are able to access what they wish, then it’s the fault of the record companies not to have foreseen and done something about it.
- arizona hardcore punk rock flyer archive 1982-1984 – "An archive of flyers for mostly hardcore punk gigs from the era 1982 to 1984 that took place in Tucson Arizona, Phoenix, and Los Angeles."
- [Voetbal21] – Deel de Passie | Alle clubs, teams en competities van Nederland – Dutch amateur football community
Dutch Twitterati raise cash for One Laptop Per Child
Dutch Twitterati are using Twitter to support the One Laptop Per Child project, brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte. All tweets that mention the words OLPC are counted by the Twitter stats application Twitstat:
With each tweet with ‘olpc’ in it you semi-voluntarily raise 1 euro for the One Laptop Per Child
project. Each laptop is 140 euro. Please make sure @twitstat follows you
before tweeting ‘olpc’. And twitstat doesn’t count you if you have
locked your account.
The fundraiser was started by Dutch journalist Francisco van Jole ( @2525) who sponsored the first few laptops before other people started chipping in as well.
The mission of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one
connected laptop to every school-age child.
(watch the New York Times review of OLPC’s laptop)
The charity drive runs till midnight on Christmas Eve.
Final tally: A total of 2883,50 euro was raised, enough to buy 21 laptops. Full story (in Dutch). Happy Christmas!
Dutch broadcaster launches Lowlands festival mashup
Dutch public broadcaster VPRO’s music portal 3VOOR12 is reporting from the three-day Lowlands Festival in Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands, using a very cool mashup site www.vpro.nl/lowlandsmashup.
The page, a collaboration between 3VOOR12 and Today’s Art combines a live broadcast from the festival, photos from the Flickr Lowlands pool, video reports at Kyte.tv, weather forecasts and a Twitter and Jaiku feed. Viewers at home and audience members as well as professional reporters on site use the Twitter feed to cover the festival.
To post to the Twitter stream, follow Twitter user 3VOOR12, then post your tweets as usual, but start your sentence with #LL07. Alternatively, log in straight from the mashup (bottom menu, click ‘Twitter/Jaiku’ Direct’).
Lowlands 2007 takes place August 17, 18, 19. The festival is sold out.