Author Archives: pollas

Yet another rea­son to love Ham­mer­smith: The OYBike Sys­tem is a street-based rental sta­tion net­work that allows you to hire and return a bicy­cle 24/7 via your mobile phone. The OYBike sys­tem is based on the avail­abil­ity of rental bicy­cles at key loca­tions. Con­tinue read­ing →

After­noon snap­shot: While tak­ing a walk at the har­bour, a Ger­man guy with a huge tray of straw­ber­ries is lean­ing over the side of his ship shout­ing “Gen­mod­i­fizierter Erd­beeren?!” at passer­bys… Con­tinue read­ing →

I’ve been feel­ing bad about the look of my com­pany site (heck, it doesn’t even really qual­ify as a site) for quite some time (you can prob­a­bly guess how long by tak­ing a look). But I want to do it … Con­tinue read­ing →

Ikke et ondt ord om midal­drende jyder i halvtred­serne på Københavner-tur, men man sam­ler alligevel lidt ggod­bid­der op, når man sid­der og stener mor­genkaffe på den lokale cafe. 20 stk. af førnævnte type er netop trådt lar­mende ind, hvilket har­monerer … Con­tinue read­ing →

Today is a spe­cial day. Today the Dan­ish peo­ple will cheer on as yet another for­eign per­son (I thought we didn’t like those?) will get to by-pass laws, will get unlim­ited fund­ing in order to be able to fake inter­est … Con­tinue read­ing →

Hørte plud­selig uhyggelige toner fra TV 2 Sporten, der af uvisse Ã¥rsager var pÃ¥ mit tv: Det danske fod­bold­land­sh­old har vanen tro lavet en slagsang op til en slut­runde, og denne gang er det sket i samar­be­jde med Safri Duo, … Con­tinue read­ing →

Insight­ful com­ment to a post at Jeremy Zawodny The obvi­ous dif­fer­ence between a domes­tic cat and a tiger is one of size, but if you keep the lat­ter as a pet you might notice a qual­i­ta­tive dif­fer­ence around other pets … Con­tinue read­ing →

It looks as if Joel’s apol­ogy is spread­ing to lap­top sleeve wash­ing instruc­tions. Nice one… Update: (note to self) Always check Boing­Bo­ing before post­ing funny stuff, good chance it’s already there… (I found it via some lap­top bag surf­ing). You see, … Con­tinue read­ing →

Caterina.net on Raw Per­sonal Con­tent & Neta: In Japan­ese, “mate­r­ial” for news and sto­ries is called “neta.” The term has strong jour­nal­is­tic asso­ci­a­tions, but also gets used to describe mate­r­ial that can become the topic of con­ver­sa­tion among friends or … Con­tinue read­ing →

Abstract Dynam­ics on The New Rep­e­ti­tion. While I was away did some­one install a sys­tem in all NYC bars and clubs that just plays Van­ity 6’s “Nasty Boy”, Laid Back’s “White Horse” and Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock-n-Roll” on end­less … Con­tinue read­ing →

Nor­mally I tend to think that every­thing is poti­en­tially funny and that you can make jokes of almost every­thing. This bit from Details mag­a­zine sort of had me laugh­ing as well, but I’m not sure it’s all that funny… Or … Con­tinue read­ing →

Another piece on “set­ting the price”. It’s a free­lancer clas­sic; you worry you will lose the client, so you under­charge. I’ve stum­bled across var­i­ous posts on this the last cou­ple of months but some­how for­got to post them (which unfor­tunal­tely … Con­tinue read­ing →