December 2009
5 posts
I’m sorry but we blew up your laptop... →
At least they build them sturdy.
100 Best Albums of the Decade →
Rolling Stone magazine’s album charts of the 00’s. Feel free to disagree :-)
Is the Tata Nano Really "The People's Car"? →
“Anyone who has driven in India knows there is a remarkable efficiency on her chaotic streets. Every square inch of road gets used as scooters sneak in between gaps between cars. Dangerous? Sure. But it maximizes people per square mile in a way that boxy automobiles never could. Turning all of those scooters into Nanos would create a traffic nightmare.”
He sure has a point there.
The Fire this Time: Copenhagen and the War for the... →
Yes.
Vincent van Gogh - The Letters →
The Van Gogh museum Amsterdam has now published over 900 of van Gogh’s letters on a website. You can retrieve them by period, by correspondent or by place, and they also display the many sketches included in the letters, as well as the original Dutch transcript and an English translation. A very ambitious and extremely well-implemented project.