Categorie: Links
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Links van 10 juli 2016 tot 28 juli 2016
Nicholas Windsor Howard – The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X’s Interface Decline (Introduction)Whether or not Steve Jobs’s absence caused the decline (though I suspect it did), I grow frustrated as I watch each software update further erode one pillar of Apple’s formerly astronomical greatness. De maskers vallen in Turkije – Lukas De VosMaar…
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Links van 1 juli 2016 tot 10 juli 2016
Vegetarians Found To Have More Cancer, Allergies And Mental Health DisordersA cross-sectional study taken from the Austrian Health Interview Survey AT-HIS 2006/07 found that vegetarians are actually less healthy than normal eaters. Subjects were matched according to their age, sex, and socioeconomic status leaving 1320 people – 330 vegetarians, 330 that ate meat but still…
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Links van 27 mei 2016 tot 15 juni 2016
Ramadan 2016: Israel ‘cuts off water supply to West Bank’ during Muslim holy month | Middle East | News | The IndependentAlmost 200,000 Palestinians in the West Bank do not have access to running water, and require permission before collecting it themselves, according to a report by Amnesty International. A few months ago, I brought…
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Links van 5 mei 2016 tot 25 mei 2016
Why Viggo Mortensen Is Off the GridThis summer, the quintessentially un-Hollywood Viggo Mortensen stars in a film about a father of six who rejects the world to raise his kids completely off the grid. How much does this character resemble the actor himself? Let's start with his flip phone. BBC – Earth – The bizarre…
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Links van 27 april 2016 tot 5 mei 2016
Microsoft’s hover gestures for Windows phones are magnificent | The VergeIt's not clear whether Microsoft will ever bring its 3D Touch work to the market. The software giant is largely retrenching from its Lumia Windows phones, and rumors suggest the company is focusing on a "Surface Phone" launch for next year. While Windows Phone might…
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Links van 19 april 2016 tot 26 april 2016
Nokia is buying digital health firm Withings for $191 million | The VergeNokia has announced plans to acquire Withings — a French consumer electronics company focused on digital health — for €170 million ($191 million) in cash. The acquisition will significantly boost Nokia's portfolio of wearables and fitness devices, bringing 200 Withings employees and products —…
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Links van 16 april 2016 tot 18 april 2016
Media Websites Battle Faltering Ad Revenue and Traffic – The New York Times85 cents of every new dollar spent in online advertising will go to Google or Facebook, said Brian Nowak, a Morgan Stanley analyst. (…) Facebook also announced that it would open up Instant Articles — which encourage publishers to post their content directly…
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Links van 12 april 2016 tot 15 april 2016
Hillary wins! Named most corrupt politician of 2015She's in a dead heat with Trump, loses to several Republicans in the polls, and can't seem to shake that pesky Bernie Sanders, but nevermind the bad news, it's time to score a win for Hillary: The nonpartisan watchdog group Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) named…
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Links van 2 april 2016 tot 10 april 2016
Malcolm Gladwell got us wrong: Our research was key to the 10,000-hour rule, but here’s what got oversimplified – Salon.comYes, it takes effort to be an expert. But Gladwell based 10,000-hour rule in part on our work, and misunderstood Mounting data suggest antibacterial soaps do more harm than good | Ars TechnicaWhether you’re coming home…
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Links van 30 maart 2016 tot 2 april 2016
Netanyahu: Anti-Israel ‘slander and lies’ caused Brussels attack | The Times of Israel Allez, dat weten we dan ook, dus: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Saturday that a shooting attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum that killed three people and critically injured a fourth was caused by anti-Israel attitudes in Europe.” Hillary…
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Links van 24 maart 2016 tot 28 maart 2016
Why is David Cameron so silent on the recapture of Palmyra from the clutches of Isis? | Voices | The IndependentIn the end, it was the Syrian army – and its Hizballah chums from Lebanon, and the Iranians, and the Russians – who drove the Isis murderers out of Palmyra So You Wanna Be a Chef—…
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Links van 19 maart 2016 tot 21 maart 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Belgian Intelligence Had Precise Warning That Airport Targeted for Bombing – World News – Haaretz – Israeli News Source Haaretz.com Dus die lekken uit het onderzoek hebben er direkt toe bijgedragen? Goed werk, mensen. “Abdeslam’s arrest was apparently the trigger for Tuesday’s attacks, due to the concern in ISIS that he might give information…
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Links van 12 maart 2016 tot 17 maart 2016
Erdogan claims fighting terrorism outweighs democracy in Turkey | News | DW.COM | 16.03.2016"Democracy, freedom and the rule of law," have "absolutely no value any longer," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told local leaders in Ankara on Wednesday. "Those who stand on our side in the fight against terrorism are our friend. Those on the opposite…
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Links van 9 maart 2016 tot 10 maart 2016
Millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump. Here’s why | Thomas Frank | Opinion | The GuardianNow, let us stop and smell the perversity. Left parties the world over were founded to advance the fortunes of working people. But our left party in America – one of our two monopoly parties – chose long ago…
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Links van 2 maart 2016 tot 8 maart 2016
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Presenting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921-1931) | Open Culturethe Zentrum Paul Klee made available online almost all 3,900 pages of Klee’s personal notebooks, which he used as the source for his Bauhaus teaching between 1921 and 1931 Mystery in Miniature by Christopher Benfey | NYR Daily…