Energie Is Veel Duurder Dan We Denken
Energie Is Veel Duurder Dan We Denken
Als reactie op een opiniestuk van Maria Vossen in Trouw van 4 januari, waarin zij betoogt dat energie toe is aan nieuwe taal, schreef ik voor Trouw van vandaag een repliek. Nieuwe taal is een doekje voor het bloeden; we hebben ook nieuw denken nodig. Lees mijn hele opinie hier.
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The Rise of Skywalker, The Fall of Abrams
Meh. (Minor spoilerettes ahead.) Much like The Force Awakens, as a movie, and even as a Star Wars movie, it’s hard to find fault with how Skywalker rises. Granted, J.J. Abrams seems terrified of showing any emotion, judging by the way he cuts off any meaningful exchange before it finds too much depth. And–again like […]
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Schaamteloze Anti-Journalistiek Op NOS Radio 1
Heel Nederland staat op zijn kop vanwege een terugroepactie vleeswaren van supermarkt Jumbo. De besmette vleeswaren zijn allang uit de schappen en Jumbo heeft netjes een lijst gepubliceerd van producten die klanten mogen terugbrengen. Maar dat verhaal is voor de NOS niet smeuïg genoeg. Opgetekend uit de monden van een “journalist” van de NOS voor […]
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Why I Don’t Debate Climate Change Deniers Anymore, But Unfriend Them
Earlier today, I came close to unfriending a guy on Facebook over climate change. He wasn’t even too rabidly fundamentalist about the topic. Nevertheless, his way of arguing his climate change point of view had all the hallmarks of the widespread climate change denial disinformation strategy. Which is why I refuse to engage in this […]
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SurveyMonkey Business
Some twelve hours after I blogged about SurveyMonkey’s theft of 60 euros of my money, and a couple of hours after I mentioned in these pages that they’d doubled down by changing the price for everyone, SurveyMonkey has apparently relented. Late Thursday night I received an email from Kaleigh with apologies, an explanation, the announcement […]
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The Shamelessness Of Monkeys
Update 2: SurveyMonkey has caved under the pressure of hundreds of page hits, shares, and retweets of this blog post, and granted me a full refund and a 6-month complimentary subscription. In zoos, I’ve seen monkeys fornicate and masturbate in public, eat their own vomit, and even dine without the benefit of cutlery–or clean hands. […]
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SurveyMonkey Steals Your Money
Update 2: SurveyMonkey has caved under the pressure of hundreds of page hits, shares, and retweets of this blog post, and granted me a full refund and a 6-month complimentary subscription. Update: SurveyMonkey has reacted to my complaint by restructuring their entire pricing model. Repeat after me: Sur – Vey – Mon – Key Steals […]
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Even Science Mags Murder Science
When even a scientific magazine like Wetenschap in Beeld (Science in the Picture) makes huge errors like this, errors in their thinking as much as in their facts, it’s no wonder that less and less people really understand science, and more and more people lose faith in it. In their April issue, WiB printed an […]
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George And The Winged Dragons?
A very extensive review appeared in The Levant yesterday of Robert N. Stephenson’s anthology Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, Vol.IV. The reviewer had some surprising things to say about my story The Life and Death of George Hayes: This is a very good story. It’s beautifully written and deals with the Faustian choice […]
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How Shazam Worked Before Shazam
Last week, while waiting for my train, I heard a song that I just had to identify. I held up my phone, tapped Shazam, and in seconds, I knew it was Music Box Dancer by Frank Mills. In an seemingly unrelated thread of my life, I decided that I wanted to learn to play the little […]
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