2010
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By Bruce van der Kooij on October 5, 2010
From the Wikipedia article on the issue: On July 19, 2010, Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign from her position as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture after blogger Andrew Breitbart posted video excerpts of Sherrod’s address at a March 2010 NAACP event to his website. The NAACP [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged journalism, ouch, that's not ok, this is some serious stuff, usa-number one |
By Bruce van der Kooij on October 4, 2010
Found through a comment at this article in Trouw.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged cycling, fashion |
By Bruce van der Kooij on October 3, 2010
(The news report above is from a WJW, channel 8, a Fox-affiliated television station in Cleveland, Ohio. You can view the security footage by itself on YouTube, posted there by The Akron Beacon Journal) The officer involved in the incident, deputy Jason Kline, alleges in his report that the prisoner, David Malcolm, swung his head [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged be better than good-be great, media, news, that's not ok, usa-number one |
By Bruce van der Kooij on October 3, 2010
No Pressure is composed of scenes in which schoolchildren and office workers are summarily and gruesomely executed for not pledging a reduction in their carbon emissions to participating educators and employers. The film ends with the words “Cut your carbon by 10%. No pressure.” So if this isn’t a “false flag” effort (which would really [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged don't believe the hype, false flag, what the fuck |
By Bruce van der Kooij on October 2, 2010
Als je geen geld en tijd hebt om op vakantie te gaan, maar toch verlangt naar het geluid van de rits van de tent en de geur van gemaaid gras, ga dan op avontuur in je eigen stad! Een week lang kampeerden we in de binnenstad van Utrecht, in parken, bermen, hofjes en op onbestemde [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged funny, real-life |
By Bruce van der Kooij on October 1, 2010
I’m trying to figure out what I want to achieve with this blog.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged announcement |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 29, 2010
Martijn Kieft, Pieter van der Wielen en Chris Vijn onderzoeken op een actieve manier waar ons geld terechtkomt of waar het blijft hangen. Door zelf deel te nemen aan het economische verkeer ondervinden zij wie de winnaars zijn en wie de verliezers. Volg je de meute dan wordt je gepiepeld, dus wat kunnen de verslaggevers [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged documentary, journalism, linkdump, media |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 29, 2010
Rondeel heeft aan alle facetten aandacht besteed, dus ook aan het eierdoosje. Het blijkt dat consumenten bij eieren door de bomen het bos niet meer zien: allemaal verschillende eieren in uiteindelijk ongeveer hetzelfde doosje. Rondeel heeft deze boodschap opgepakt en heeft gekozen voor een opvallende, ronde verpakking, gemaakt van het biologisch afbreekbare materiaal ‘restkokosvezels’. Het [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged environment |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 29, 2010
Ik ben erg onder de indruk van de openheid en transparantie van de initiatiefnemers achter het Rondeel concept. Wellicht vooral te denken aan een knap staaltje marketing en communicatie, want je zou denken dat biologische kippen bij biologische boeren het toch net zo goed hebben? De kippen uit het Rondeel halen hun pensioen overigens niet, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged agriculture, animal welfare, news, real-life, this is some serious stuff |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 29, 2010
Waarom is biologische kip zo duur? Steeds meer mensen eten biologisch eten. Daardoor komt er ook steeds meer aanbod. Van boeren en producenten maar ook het aantal biologische winkels zie je overal verschijnen. Dat is mooi, want dan kan de prijs naar beneden, zou je zeggen. Maar met kip is iets vreemds aan de hand. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged animal welfare, real-life, say it ain't so, this is some serious stuff |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 28, 2010
The Electronic Arts logo has undergone few changes in the company’s history. EA’s classic Square/Circle/Triangle corporate logo, adopted shortly after its founding and phased out in 1999, was devised by Barry Deutsch of Steinhilber Deutsch and Gard design firm. The three shapes were meant to stand for the “basic alphabet of graphic design.” The shapes [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged design, graphics, typography, video games |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 28, 2010
This song reminds of some other song, maybe something from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Anybody have any ideas?
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged lazyweb, music |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 28, 2010
Lockdown is a television series appearing on the National Geographic Channel. The series offers a look into various issues related to the United States penitentiary system. The man in the picture above is Donovon Green, a guy in his late thirties who spent 14 years of his life in jail convicted of armed robbery. A [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged culture, media, responsibility, society |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 28, 2010
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged funny |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 28, 2010
I’ve gone ahead and dropped all categories in favor of just using tags, which makes more sense to me.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged announcement, wordpress |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 28, 2010
The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. His images were to be a photographic survey of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged culture, history, society |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 28, 2010
China’s central bank is not subsidizing the Chinese exporter but the American importer. Furthermore, ongoing inflation will only hurt both the Chinese consumer and the Chinese saver, as prices go up and savings are confiscated by depreciating their value. The People’s Bank of China increases the supply of yuan as a way of devaluing it, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged business, economics, this is some serious stuff |
