Filip merkt dat de tandenborstels weg zijn.

En Anick zit te stressen. Ze weet nu dat het Hanz is. In alle potjes tijdens de duikbrilopdracht zat boter, maar in de Niveapot van Hanz zat nog een plastiekje. Ze gaat hem ermee confronteren. Hij blijft redelijk rustig.

Filip twijfelt echt aan Bianca. Ze heeft hem gezegd gisteren dat ze zeven glazen gedronken heeft, en ze zou niet geweten hebben dat dat meer dan een fles was. Verdacht!

Big Brother. Bert en Bianca hebben alle tandenborstels in zilverpapier gewikkeld en verstopt. De voorfilmpjes lieten een uitval van Anick tegen Kelly zien. Het leek alsof ze heel kwaad was tegen hem, maar het zou ook iets anders kunnen zijn.

Woo hoo. Buffy en Spike sex. ’t Was echt wel duidelijk dat het daar op zou uitdraaien, maar toch: wijs.

OK, het kan dus erger dan “olsen twins naked” (ik sta ondertussen bij Google.com op de zesde plaats met de zoekopdracht “twins nude”! en op drie met “olsen twins naked”!). Daarnet gezien in de referers: “M-kids Tamara sex”. OK, niet verwonderlijk en zo, maar… eikes! Misschien toch nog en paar jaar wachten?

Verder ook leuk vandaag:

• geen-zin-om-te-werken


• hansi hinterseer (van “hast mich heut’ noch nicht geküsst“)


• the tyger+william blake


• “koud” bellen” (ik vraag mij af of dat Peter is die paranoïde aan het zoeken is of ik ergens aan het klagen ben over dat koud bellen 🙂


• igor bogdanoff (geen spoor van grishka)


• eten voor de tv


• christina aguilera naakt (tiens, da’s nieuw, die ene vermelding, in het nederlands, van de rolling stone-fotoreportage is genoeg om hits te genereren, ’t is niet alsof er “nude christina aguilera naked” stond 🙂

Buffy, joepie.

Ik ben sinds een mail van Free op nog iemand meer kwaad dan daarnet. Maar het zal echt moeten wachten tot morgen.

Tocg goed om weten dat het geld in de VS goed gespendeerd wordt:

Army Working on Three-Year Sandwich
[…] Four years later, the Army has come up with formulas for two sandwiches — pepperoni and barbecue chicken — that use chemical and natural preservatives to lock moisture in place and inhibit the growth of bacteria and mold.

Darsch said his sandwiches are designed to be as resilient as the troops they feed. “This bad boy will last a minimum of three years at 80 degrees, six months at 100 degrees. They will travel to the swampiest swamp, the highest mountain, the most arid desert.” [Salon]

Te moe om te schrijven. Ik ben boos op een aantal mensen, maar het kan wachten tot morgen.

Van op de website van de man zelf:

These last few years François Louis has been working on the conception and the creation of the first prototype of a new woodwind instrument: the aulochrome.

The name combines “aulos”, the most important ancient greek instrument consisting of a reed pipe appearing in identical pairs and “chrome” for chromatic and colorated.

The aulochrome ? a chromatic aulos ? is a new polyphonic and chromatic woodwind instrument. It combines two soprano saxophone bodies and uses a revolutionary mechanism, allowing the keys of both pipes to be played either separately or together over the entire range. Thus, any possible interval can be played chromatically, from the lowest note of one pipe to the highest note of the other pipe.

The double mouthpiece is made of two separate elements placed together. The two tone chambers are different, enabling independent harmonisation in the two pipes. The particular attention to the acoustics of this instrument opens up vast new possibilities to saxophonists.

The aulochrome allows to produce differential tones (virtual bass notes resulting from the difference between the frequencies of the two notes of one interval) as well as additional tones, extending the lower register far below the deepest note determined by the length of the pipes.

Also, a tiny “mistuning” of the unison generates beats. Players can control the rhythm of the pulsations.

All of this creates new tone effects by totally acoustic means.

The conception and the construction of this first prototype of the aulochrome are entirely due to instrument maker François Louis. With the support of the Spes Foundation “Brussels 2000”, Sylvain Cambrelin (represented by Darsa) and Orfeo Borgani and with the collaboration of Fabrizio Cassol.

Bah, vier uur geslapen of zo. Ik had gisteren niet naar de bonus disc van ET moeten kijken.

Man arrested after microwaving girlfriend’s dog
Police say Everette Howze, 41, was jealous of the amount of attention his girlfriend was giving the dog, so he put it in a microwave oven and killed it. (State Journal-Register)

O kijk nu gedimme: het was vorige week donderdag precies twee maand dat ik een weblog bij Salon heb.

Rape and Murder: Another Day in Chechnya

The tragic hostage drama in Moscow was a reminder about the unsolved tragedy in Chechnya, but few people in the west get any idea of the horrible atrocities taking place every day at the hands of Russian forces in the rebel republic: mass executions, torture, rape, kidnappings for ransom and plunder.

Strict press censorship and the fact that the world’s attention has been elsewhere since 9/11 last year has given the Russian forces free roam in exercising the worst brutality imaginable, committing horrible atrocities. The Chechen civilians are caught between the hammer and the anvil, as the various armed fractions of Chechen rebels commit the same type and level of cruelty against the population they portray to want to liberate.

After the recent atrocities in Moscow, I doubt people in the west will have more sympathy for the mostly Muslem population of Chechnya. But you do owe it to yourself to read the article “Torture and rape stalk the streets of Chechnya” in Guardian/Observer.

[Secular Blasphemy]

Stand-up Comedian Broken

One of Norway’s most famous stand up comedians, Thomas Giertsen, has managed to obtain a serious injury in a way that will inspire his collegues for months. In a live show, he stated from the stage that he was strong enough to beat any female in the audience in arm wrestling. Somewhat unexpected, one of the women present took his challenge. While arm-wrestling, a bone in the comedian’s upper arm suddenly broke with a loud sound. Giertsen had to be taken to the hospital, where doctors could tell him he had suffered a serious and complicated fracture.

Lessons to be learned:

1. Armwrestling is for neanderthals. Unless you are one; don’t.
   
2. Women are way, way more dangerous than they look like!

(from a Norwegian article in Dagbladet)

[Secular Blasphemy]

Partying while Afghanistan burns. While Westerners dance at end-of-the-world raves, the country slips back toward anarchy — and the Bush administration does nothing. [Salon.com]