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“Kort geleden kreeg ik de persoonsbewijzen van mijn opa en oma uit de oorlog onder ogen. Op beide figureert prominent een vingerafdruk. We hebben het zestig jaar lang zonder zo’n document gered - en Nederland is in die periode niet ten onder gegaan aan misdaad en terrorisme.” Bart de Koning, redacteur van HP/De Tijd, legt uit waarom hij de actie ‘Het Nieuwe Rijk gaat verder dan u denkt’ steunt.

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This is a simple, good infographic that seeks to explain why traffic on freeways slows to a crawl without any apparent reason to drivers. By Stephen J. Beard and Rich Exner in The Plain Dealer. EDIT: Here’s a link to the original article, and a high-res PDF of the infographic.

Via website: Coolinfographics.com

Socialite is a beautiful Mac OS X application, designed to make it easy to stay in touch with the social networks and services that matter to you. From news on Digg, photos on Flickr, statuses and photos on Facebook and Twitter updates, to full Google Reader RSS syncing, Socialite keeps all your social networks in one convenient place.

Website: Socialite.emberapp.com [via]

Now that the conspiracy theorists have blown off steam, it’s time for a more sober analysis of those e-mails and what they mean. I can’t go through all of them, there are far too many, and . So I’ve taken the two that seem to be getting conspiracy theorists most worked up — Phil Jones’s e-mail about “Mike’s Nature trick” and Kevin Trenberth’s e-mail about a “travesty.” I’m glad to see that skeptic websites that cover the science understand what these e-mails actually mean. As you’ll see, very few commentators who jumped on the conspiracy bandwagon even before reading the e-mails mandged to get it right. [Youtube]

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If you think inanimate objects can’t be endearing, try this adorable little piggy bank. From the outside, it just looks like a cardboard box with a plate of fish on it; if you put a coin on the fish, though, you hear a little meow and a cat sneaks its head out of the box and furtively steals the coin away with its paw. [via]

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De Facebook Fail benadrukt een nieuw dilemma waar we als gebruikers van online communicatiemiddelen tegenaan lopen. Als we nu op elk moment aan iedereen alles kunnen melden, rijst de vraag: wat willen we dan vertellen, met welke online tools en met welke onbedoelde gevolgen?

Lees artikel op Frankwatching

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December 6, 2009 on FOX & Friends with Father Jonathan Morris [via]

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We are well-liked by Black people so we’re psyched (since lots of Black people don’t like lots of White people)!! We thought it’d be cool to honor our exceptional status with a ROCKIN’ domain name and a killer website!!

Website: Blackpeopleloveus.com [via Joid bsc Ochblog]

Incredible Speed of a Live Christmas Tree Fire – PSA Video. PSA showing the incredible speed of a live Christmas tree fire. Fire spreads up the tree and gushes across the ceiling, setting the rest of the room ablaze. Smoke engulfs the frame from the top down until all is black. It’s a real eye-opener as to the dangers of a short in a string of Christmas lights. [via]

Wordpress 2.9 has some nice extra features as picture editing, but I think the real big news is coming in the next version (3.0). Already presented in June: With WP 3.0, very likely, WP MU features will come with every standard WP. That’s big.

80% van de beïnvloeding van merkgedrag binnen 5 jaar gebaseerd op conversaties

Volgens mij ligt het antwoord in het integreren van externe kanalen met een communicatieplatform binnen de organisatie, samen met het opstellen van regels.

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I’ve been doing a few interviews to promote my book, The Visual Miscellaneum, and a question keeps coming up. “What makes good information design?”

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