Category: Amsterdam
Amster Wheel
June 26th, 2008, 2 Comments
Here’s a handlebar-eye view of an Amsterdam morning bike commute, from the bike blog Amsterdamize. There’s some hairy moments and consequently quite a bit of swearing so turn the sound off if at work. He takes a lot more risks than I ever do, but then I have had the misfortune of being knocked off [...]
Offensive? You Decide, Not Some Tight-Arsed Dutch Lawyer
May 18th, 2008, 2 Comments
Whatever your political, aesthetic or other views on his work cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot, like the rest of us, supposedly has the right to free expression of them, even anonymously – or at least the Dutch constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights say he does. Not so, say the Dutch government who arrested him [...]
The Not So Almighty Dollar
March 20th, 2008, 2 Comments
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar’s value is dropping so fast against the euro that small currency outlets in Amsterdam are turning away tourists seeking to sell their dollars for local money while on vacation in the Netherlands. “Our dollar is worth maybe zero over here,” said Mary Kelly, an American tourist from Indianapolis, Indiana, [...]
Amsterdam Police arrest teenager over virtual theft
November 15th, 2007, No Comments
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent The Guardian Thursday November 15 2007 Police in the Netherlands have arrested a teenager suspected of stealing virtual objects inside a popular social networking site, it has emerged. The 17-year-old, who has not been named, is alleged to have tricked players of 3D cartoon world Habbo Hotel before removing a number [...]
All Hail to The Dutch Water Engineers
November 10th, 2007, 2 Comments
Some People Want The Moon On A Stick
October 25th, 2007, 2 Comments
NL-based Pyjamas Media “liberal conservative’ (no, I don’t get it either) member blog The Van Der Galien Gazette has the blegging bowl out: …we want to make this blog one of the major players in the blogosphere. We wish to – as always – offer comments and analyses to and of news, but we also [...]
Little Boxes On The Wharfside
October 13th, 2007, No Comments
I’ve been meaning to do a post about Amsterdam’s shipping container housing for ages, as I see it every time I have to get the ferry. I’ve just been too lazy to get off my arse and write it, even though I’ve even taken photos.. Here’s one of shipping-container student housing at the NDSMverf: Luckily [...]
September 22nd, 2007, No Comments
Ahh, the weekend. Even though I’m mostly at home all the time as I am in want of at least one kidney and preferably two (the live donor for which I must find myself) I still like weekends. This weekend the weather’s good and I can sit in the garden and read. Lovely. It’ll be [...]
Picture Post
September 17th, 2007, No Comments
The last of the Amsterdam summer sun over the Ij, seen from the Wilhelminadok.
Living Dangerously And Liking It.
August 29th, 2007, No Comments
I found this excellent photo diary of a day in the life of Amsterdam bike culture as compared to that of San Francisco, as seen from what appears to be a Nieuwmarkt cafe table, and one of the things the American diarist seems most perturbed by is bikes with multiple passengers. Here in typical Dutch [...]
