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craigslist: brussels online community

Well, what do you know. The legendary Craigslist has expanded all the way tomy neck of the woods.

Posted on 31st January 2005 Details

DH: Gratos pour 124.000 ados

Someone must have been wearing blinkers the day they came up with this idea at the Belgian government: in order to protect teenagers in chat rooms and forums, they willreceive an electronic identity card reader on their 12th birthday. This reader, once connected to their PC, will let them authenticate asgenuine teenagers™ and be protected from Joe the pervert trawling their communities pretending to be a 13-year-old. Several local chat services and forums are supposedly in talks to offer authentication through this system.

Posted on 28th January 2005 Details

NY Times: Behold the Artful Price Tag

The New York Times has an interesting article on, among other things,the balance between design and price; how design, now becoming a commodity, is something you look through, not at.When I manage to gather enough courage to drift through local shopping areas, all I see are signs of a long and twisted road to pervasive design.

Posted on 23rd January 2005 Details

Amazon DevCon - Rael Dornfest

Several well-known technologists and software developers were invited to an internal conference for the development staff at amazon.com headquarters this week. Most corporations would close an event like this to outsiders, which is what Amazon has done also. The major difference being that they’ve beenblogging highlights of the talks to the rest of the worldvia the Amazon Web Services Blog. They’re basically killing two birds with one stone: scoring top marks for openness and simultaneously showing potential recruits the kind of perks that come with working there. They “get it” and also attract people who “get it”.

Posted on 21st January 2005 Details

Monkey Methods: Bill Gates Strikes a Pose for Teen Beat Photospread, 1983

Bill Gates probably cringes significantly when he remembersthis photo spreadwhere he nonchalantly flips his floppies at the camera for a 1983 edition of Teen Beat magazine.

Posted on 16th January 2005 Details

The free spirit sphere

Here’s a holiday home I’d enjoy locking myself into with that pile of books I can’t seem to reach the end of: theFree Spirit Sphere, a 2,9 meter wide suspended spherical treehouse.(via)

Posted on 16th January 2005 Details