Category Archives: General Interest

Facebook shares almost started with losses

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

De zakenbanken die de beursgang van Facebook begeleidden, hebben vrijdag de koers moeten steunen om te voorkomen dat die onder de introductieprijs weg zou zakken.

Dat hebben diverse bronnen tegen Amerikaanse media gezegd. Tot het consortium dat de emissie van de aandelen heeft gegarandeerd, behoren banken als Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley en JP Morgan Chase.

Facebook verkocht vrijdag de aandelen tegen 38 dollar per stuk. Aanvankelijk stegen ze nog flink tot 42 dollar, maar aan het eind van de handelsdag zakten ze ineens weg. Van de winst bleef nog maar 23 dollarcent over. Zonder dat banken de aangeboden aandelen hadden opgeveegd, zouden beleggers op de eerste dag al verlies hebben geleden.

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    Astroid Threat now better known

    Posted on May 18, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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    NASA’s WISE team has now updated their latest field research. See video below.
    NASA’s WISE mission has tracked down 93 percent of the 1 kilometer diameter or larger asteroids whose size could devastate our planet. The project’s asteroid census has revised the total number of NEO’s down from 36,000 to 20,500.
    The new NASA study from this may identifies about 4,700 “potentially hazardous” asteroids near Earth.
    Dealing with the earth rock threats has, especially since the hollywood movies came out, has been a top 5 action item for NASA. Step B, prevention, is now on the books? Meanwhile commercial space exploration looks for mining them? (more…)

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      ESM – an ACTA like treaty

      Posted on May 16, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

      Politicians need to be way more open on which democratic grounds they are making treaties. The above videos talks about the ESM draft. Not sure if that is in the final proposal, but democratic papers shouldn’t even contain such words as immunity. What’s going on exactly?

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        Terugdraaien vingerafdrukken?

        Posted on May 15, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

        Uit onderzoek van PrivacyFirst van maart 2012 blijkt dat de maatregel om vingerafdrukken en andere biometrische kenmerken af te nemen en aan het paspoort toe te voegen, “volstrekt disproportioneel” is. De belangrijkste doelstelling van het toevoegen van biometrische kenmerken aan het paspoort was om look-a-like-fraude te voorkomen. Uit een WOB-onderzoek blijkt nu dat er in 2010 slechts 21 gevallen van deze fraude plaats vonden. De minister probeert met de afname en opslag van vingerafdrukken van 17 miljoen mensen, een fraude die slechts 21 keer voorkomt, aan te pakken. PrivacyFirst noemt dit “volstrekt disproportioneel en een collectieve schending van de privacy van iedere Nederlander”.

        Tweede Kamerlid Heijnen (PvdA) gaat een motie indienen om minister Spies (CDA) te dwingen alles op alles te zetten om van de vingerafdrukken in het paspoort af te komen.

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          Bombardement in Crooswijk, Jonker Fransstraat

          Posted on May 14, 2012 by Vincent Barnhard

          Op 14 mei 1940 rond 13:30 uur voerden de Duitsers in het kader van de Duitse aanval op Nederland in 1940 het bombardement op Rotterdam uit. Een echte Crooswijker vertel in de bovenstaande video over het schuilen voor het bombardement in de Jonker Fransstraat. Zie ook eerdere posts over het bombardement.

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            Klokkenluiders huis eindelijk realiteit?

            Posted on May 12, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog


            Een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer steunt de oprichting van een organisatie die klokkenluiders moet beschermen, vallend onder de ombudsman. Een wetsvoorstel van SP-Kamerlid Ronald van Raak kan rekenen op de steun.

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              Parking Douche

              Posted on May 11, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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                What is Your Klout Score?

                Posted on May 7, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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                It becomes increasingly important for organisations to measure the actual impact of the social presence. The methodology used by Klout is focused primarily on measuring how influential you are in your social networks. When you share, like, retweet in your social networks, you influence people. The more engaged your actions are, the more influential you become. Klout defines Influence as the ability to derive action. Keeping your audience engaged is the key.

                Create a profile in http://klout.com/ and check your influence. [via]

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                  Get Social: Become an Authority in Your Industry

                  Posted on May 6, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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                  There is a fine line between being another active brand on social media as opposed to being an authority.

                  There are many components that are factored into creating a perfect recipe for success – we’ve listed a few key elements your brand can do to establish an authoritative online presence:

                  1. Who Are Your Consumers?
                  2. Quality of Your Network
                  3. Quality Control
                  4. Unique Campaigns

                  Read full post @ Socialmediatoday.com

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                    Soccer is war – About the Orange revolution

                    Posted on May 5, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                    Get Microsoft Silverlight
                    Bekijk de video in andere formaten.

                    EK 2012 gaat bal worden. The second orange revolution is upcoming?

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                      The real Intouchables – Film and true story

                      Posted on May 2, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                      Not everything matched reality in this film Intouchables, but remarkably the most important parts did.

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                        Wordcamp stories – Basecamp

                        Posted on April 29, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                        At WordCamp San Francisco in August, one of the most popular and well-respected sessions was led by Teru Kuwayama of Basetrack.org. On this day of remembrance, I thought it would be good to share the video of his presentation. Not only is it a very cool example of how WordPress can be used in unexpected ways (this is not your father’s Oldsmobile usual blog), it’s a reminder of how much work still needs to be done to move from war to peace. So here is Taking WordPress to War: Basetrack.org. Peace out, yo. (Jane Wells)

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                          Fark founder beating patent trolls – TED

                          Posted on April 27, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                          Curtis shows why the patent system is screwed:
                          DON’T NEGOTIATE WITH THESE TERRORISTS.

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                            Crap … we’re all going to die if Fukushima collapses

                            Posted on April 26, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                            … Ambassador Murata strongly stated that if the crippled building of reactor unit 4—with 1,535 fuel rods in the spent fuel pool 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground—collapses, not only will it cause a shutdown of all six reactors but will also affect the common spent fuel pool containing 6,375 fuel rods, located some 50 meters from reactor 4.

                            In both cases the radioactive rods are not protected by a containment vessel; dangerously, they are open to the air. This would certainly cause a global catastrophe like we have never before experienced.

                            Based on U.S. Energy Department data, assuming a total of 11,138 spent fuel assemblies are being stored at the Dai-Ichi site, nearly all, which is in pools. They contain roughly 336 million curies (~1.2 E+19 Bq) of long-lived radioactivity.

                            About 134 million curies is Cesium-137 — roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident as estimated by the U.S.

                            Read more @ Akiomatsumura.com
                            Dutch article [via] here @ hln.be

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                              LeWeb 2012 coming up

                              Posted on April 25, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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                              GapingVoid making a nice poster for LeWEB London 2012.

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                                Who really wants ACTA?

                                Posted on April 24, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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                                Het is moeilijk goed te relativeren dat in het geval van ACTA, er niet buitensporing middelen worden gehanteerd om wel erg veel ingrepen op de Europese rechtstaten uit te voeren. Hoe het mogelijk is dat het EU parlement uberhaupt er voor kiest om het Europese hof over te slaan (welke kijkt of er grondrechten geschonden worden) in deze is dan ook iets wat de aandacht verdiend.

                                Wachtend op dat verontrustende antwoord, een paar puike observaties in dit toch zo gehate dossier:

                                De zielige toon van de lobby groepen slaat nergens op. Waarom lijkt het transparante Japan (vergeet even TEPCO..) en de VS volgens dit artikel zo tekort te schieten in openheid en dialoog?

                                De Europese Commissie heeft vervolgens ook de onvrede geuit over het feit dat de Verenigde Staten details wel deelt met Amerikaanse bedrijven, maar Europa de juridische middelen niet heeft dat ook te doen.

                                NOTE: Citizens are mostly left out of any detail of ACTA! What’s going on?

                                Met ACTA onderhandeling blijkt dat de VS tijdens de onderhandelingen wel degelijk aandringt op nieuwe wetgeving voor het offline halen van auteursrechtelijk beschermd materiaal. Dat dit niet in de uiteindelijke tekst staat, maakt niet uit. Er is wel aangestuurd op nieuwe wetgeving en de VS verwacht ook dat dit uiteindelijk gebeurt.

                                NOTE: Where’s the judge in those plans?

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                                  Why Google plus infograph

                                  Posted on April 23, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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                                  Not sure, but informative. (more…)

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                                    TEDedu Atom Sized up

                                    Posted on April 21, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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                                      Samsara Trailer (Documentary 2012)

                                      Posted on April 20, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                                      Spirituele mega-scherm docu, visueel boeiend.

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                                        WAXY 10 years

                                        Posted on April 19, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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                                        Ten years ago, I started this site with three simple rules: no journaling, no tired memes, and be original. 18 months later, I added a little linkblog.
                                        In those ten years, I’ve posted 415 entries, including this one, and over 13,000 links.
                                        The decision to start writing here regularly changed my entire life. It’s given me exposure, a place to share my projects and crazy experimentation with technology. It’s created new opportunities for me, directly or indirectly responsible for every major project I’ve gotten involved in. It’s a place to play and experiment with ideas, some of which led to big breakthroughs and passions. And it connected me to people who cared about the things I did, many of whom became lifelong friends.

                                        Congrats Waxy.

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                                          Titanics last picture

                                          Posted on April 15, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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                                            Body languages 101

                                            Posted on April 14, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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                                              Melinda Gates: Birth control back on the agenda

                                              Posted on April 12, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                                              A big solution for many world problems: Everyone wants smaller families and birth control. Why we still don’t score a 100% is strange since everyone wants control over their life in this aspect.

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                                                Forget Viagra, the ‘Cuddle drug’ is IN

                                                Posted on April 8, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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                                                Taking a chemical that helps mothers bond with their babies may not immediately strike you as the best way to improve a man’s libido. But oxytocin, the so-called ‘cuddle hormone’, can dramatically improve male sexual performance, researchers have found – producing results on a par with Viagra. (..) One of the scientists behind the discovery and development of Viagra was so impressed that he described an oxytocin-based treatment as having ‘blockbuster potential’
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                                                Let’s wait for the new kind of spam in our mail folders..

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                                                  Rick Falkvinge: I am a pirate

                                                  Posted on April 2, 2012 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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