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I resisted grabbing the leaked version off Bittorrent for a couple of weeks and waited patiently for the clock to strike 8 pm today (we’re an hour ahead of the Brits here). Expectations were high. Tom Baker, as the fourth doctor, was part of my childhood universe, his successors also making their mark as I grew up to become the mess I am today.

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The first issue of O’Reilly’sMake magazinefinally dropped through my mailbox today. Actually,Magazineis an understatement as it looks more like a paperback. O’Reilly have baptised itmook(magazine/book hybrid).

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Banksy has taken his covert operations to the States this time and managed to surreptitiouslyplace his art along with descriptive plaque in four top New-York museums. You have to admire the guy’s nerve.

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If for some reason you want to help knock earth out of its orbit, sign up tojump on July 20th. They only need 600 million people to succeed.

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I just stumbled ontoWikinations.bewhich is a collaborative encyclopedia of Belgium in the now common wiki format. It’s been active since October of last year and only available in French but well worth digging into and, if you can, adding to also.

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I’ve always been hesitant about biking into the city center due to the fear of having my bicycle stolen (again).The Bike Treeis an ingenious parking solution that defeats many of the problems linked to leaving your bike chained to a lamp post and praying it will still be there when you get back: your bike gets carried up the tree’s “trunk” and stored under a protective dome several meters in the air, well protected from the elements and evil hands.They’ve been adding cycle paths in a seemingly random fashion around Brussels in order to promote the bicycle as a legitimate mode of transport, but if they really want to push bike use I’d suggest adding some of these trees around town. I’d certainly use them.[via]

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