Maandag 26 Oktober 2009 om 15:27
Small worlds is een mooi, kort spelletje, waarin het het doel is om de wereld te verkennen waarin je bent. Ik ben erg gecharmeerd van de minimale presentatie, waarin toch heel effectief een goede sfeer wordt neergezet. Mooi gedaan!
Vrijdag 23 Oktober 2009 om 10:15
"I wanted to capture a photo in which you would see a wolf in an act of hunting - or predation - but without blood," he told BBC News. "I didn't want a cruel image." With a great deal of patience and careful observation of the wolves' movements, he succeeded in taking the award-winning photograph. Mr Rodriguez used a custom-built infrared trap to snap the wolf as it leapt into the air.
Maandag 21 September 2009 om 12:55
What a squeak! Daring mouse show who's boss as it scares off leopard and steals its lunch
Vrijdag 7 Augustus 2009 om 17:16
Mensen die mij kennen weten dat ik erg van triviale weetjes hou. Links en rechts uit elkaar houden lukt me niet, maar ik weet wel waarom ijsberen geen pinguïns eten[1]. Anyhow, op de volgende pagina staan dagelijkse nutteloze feitjes. Met pareltjes als deze:
19th century biologist Sir John Lubbock experimented on ants by getting them drunk. He discovered that sober ants would carry their drunken ant comrades back to their nest, if they were from the same colony - but they would throw drunk strangers into the ditch.
en deze:
Sigurd the Mighty, a Norse Earl of Orkney in the late 9th century, died after he beheaded an enemy in battle and tied the head to his horse's saddle. One the ride home, his leg was grazed by one of the head's protruding teeth, and he died of a blood infection.
Weird Fact of the Day (that you probably didn't know)
[1] Wie het ook weet, mag het verklappen in de reacties.
Vrijdag 7 Augustus 2009 om 12:57
In Cherrapunji in India is het nat en klef. Veel snelgroeiende planten (zoals in ieder regenwoud) en veel kleine stroompjes. De lokale bevolking heeft lang geleden al ontdekt dat de luchtwortels van de Ficus Elastica gebruikt kunnen worden om levende bruggen mee te maken.
In order to make a rubber tree's roots grow in the right direction - say, over a river - the Khasis use betel nut trunks, sliced down the middle and hollowed out, to create root-guidance systems.
The thin, tender roots of the rubber tree, prevented from fanning out by the betel nut trunks, grow straight out. When they reach the other side of the river, they're allowed to take root in the soil. Given enough time, a sturdy, living bridge is produced.
http://atlasobscura.com/places/root-bridges-cherrapungee
http://rootbridges.blogspot.com/
Donderdag 30 Juli 2009 om 08:41
Vroeger was alles wat je nodig had om erwtjes te schieten een blaaspijp, een broekzak vol erwten en iemand's kont om op te mikken. Tegenwoordig is erwtenschieten een serieuze aangelegenheid.
The crowd at Saturday's World Peashooting Championship looked on in wonder as George, 58, the sport's reigning superstar, languidly lowered his laser-guided shooter. This was no kiddie toy. This was a weapon of mass peastruction.
Woensdag 29 Juli 2009 om 21:26
Afgelopen weekend heb ik Transformers 2 gezien, en wat is dat een vreselijk slechte film. Echt, ze doen maar wat! Volgens mij kwamen ze elke dag op de set, en zei de regisseur: "OK, ren maar wat rond, de rest photoshoppen we er later wel in!"
Dat ik niet de enige ben die een beetje confuus werd van deze film, blijkt uit de verschillende postings op diverse sites over dit wangedrocht. De drie mooiste die ik ben tegengekomen staan hieronder. Als eerste, Roger Ebert: serieus recensent, die meestal in volzinnen praat: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The plot is incomprehensible. The dialog of the Autobots®, Decepticons® and Otherbots® is meaningless word flap. Their accents are Brooklyese, British and hip-hop, as befits a race from the distant stars. Their appearance looks like junkyard throw-up. They are dumb as a rock. They share the film with human characters who are much more interesting, and that is very faint praise indeed.
En als tweede een 'zelfinterview' op Topless Robot: Topless Robot - Transformers 2 F.A.Q.s!
Are there honestly 46 new Transformers in the movie?
I have no fucking clue. It's impossible to tell most of them apart except for Optimus and the Racist Twins (there's another yellow Autobot who I constantly thought was Bumblebee). There could be 46, or there could be 12. I honestly would believe 12 if someone had said that.
Tot slot een artikel van Sci-fi weblog IO9: Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie
Transformers: ROTF is so long, you'll need to wear adult diapers to it. But the movie's pure celebration of the primal urge, and unfiltered living, will make you rejoice in your adult diapers. You'll relieve yourself in your seat with a savage joy, your barbaric yawp blending in with the crowd's screams of excitement.
