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Woonboot!!

I’m going to live in a houseboat! In Amsterdam North, almost within spitting distance of Central Station (if you know Noord: it’s opposite Ot en Sien, the pub a couple of hundred metres up from the ferries). We told the landlord yesterday we’d take it. It’s two stories (decks I suppose — I mentioned that [...]

Evil Fairies

From now on I’m requesting evil fairies every Sunday morning. Via we make money not art, which also has more pics and tries to convince you that this is the work of some “artist.” The discerning reader will doubtless ignore these blandishments and check the fairy traps at once. (More pics at Clapham Art Gallery.)

bicycle technology

Wheeoo, I thought I was past being surprised at Dutch bicycles, but I’ve had to think again! Walking through Amsterdam is sort of technology fair for things bike-related, and you get used to seeing a family of four all hanging off the same two or three wheels, or somebody moving house with all his worldly [...]

now that’s clarity

Forget Excel wizards, this is what every chart should look like. Any questions?

something beautiful

I’m just listening to Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, “Three Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, and am once again amazed at Victor Wooten’s astounding bass performance on the track ‘Monkey See’. Find it, listen to it. Feel your jaw drop.