Today I noticed that the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport launched a campaign to inform the public that a) you’re required to have a medical insurance, and b) that they’re going to get you if you don’t. That’s all fine and dandy. There’s only one slight problem: the campaign uses comic fucking sans. [...]
Category Archives: The Internet
Best Idea for a Website Ever
November 19, 2010 – 15:03
I just had a fantastic idea. Someone should build a site where every link reads “click here”.
Exposing YouTube's Shortlink with Greasemonkey
June 21, 2010 – 22:41
Last week, I was surprised to find that YouTube does not promote its youtu.be shortlinks prominently on the video pages. Sure, it’s trivial enough to transform the regular url (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ujmb3jQAJE) into its shorter counterpart (http://youtu.be/7Ujmb3jQAJE), but let’s face it, we’re all a bunch of lazy sobs. To cut a long story short, I pieced together [...]
Wallpaper
June 10, 2010 – 19:20
Today Google added a background image to their search page. And since a lot of people really seem to dislike things that change, a lot of people started to complain about this new ‘wallpaper’ feature. All of a sudden, Google isn’t white enough, looks too much like Bing, loads too slow, and blah blah blah. [...]
Let It Be
June 7, 2010 – 23:04
There was a question in my mailbox about the where and when of Meat Loaf’s cover of “Let It Be.” According to the liner notes of the “Not a Dry Eye in the House” single, it was recorded for ABC’s Nightline. But as anyone who knows how to string a few keywords together would have [...]
