Wifi hotspots in airport terminals -- way too much paella -- wonderfull frappucino at Starbucks -- temperatures never below 30° Celsius -- trees of stone -- every board game in a Spanish Lord of the Rings edition -- houses for dragons -- art everywhere in a clean city.
Some of the fading memories of our trip to Barcelona, Spain.
There's a very interesting Slashdot interview with Charles Seife, who writes for Science magazine and is the author of "Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe". Charles gives a detailled round-up on the current state of cosmology, the study of the universe.
It's rather strange to see that some of the problems of 30 years ago, still exists. Such as the question on the infinity of space. There are people who believe that space is (mathematical) infinite. However, in that case, it is very possible (almost certain) that in this infinite universe, there's a mirror of you reading this mirror website on a mirror internet, located on a mirror earth, located somewhere else in space. The question of parallell worlds is nicely described in this Scientific American article, about the so-called multiverse.
Here's Scientific American carrying a new article about the multiverse case.
Most people know about Mozillas ability to block popup windows. But Mozilla can do more : it blocks images from certain advertisment sites, or, if you want a less aggressive approach, only shows 1 loop of animated images (or stop the animation at all). But the most exciting feature is a plugin that blocks Flash animations. This site has more coverage of ad and Flash blocking in Mozilla.
KinderTV.org is a wonderfull trip down to memory lane, packed with pictures and sounds of the Dutch and Belgian TV series that filled your childhood. Who doesn't remember series like Wicky the Viking, Beertje Colargol, Peppi and Kokki, and Ren je Rot ? During the seventies, I remember sitting glued before the television on Wednesday afternoons, watching these shows.
Unfortunately, most of the sound fragments on the site are in the Linux unfriendly Windows Media format...
It's way too hot to blog, so here are some quick links :