Persoonlijke aantekeningen door Niek de Greef over cultuur, politiek, media en maatschappij. Doorleefde essays over het hedendaagse leven.
From Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls:
Zijn moeder was van nature meegaand en ze rekende het tot haar voornaamste plicht om geen moeilijkheden te veroorzaken.
His mother was compliant by nature, and she considered it her first duty not to cause trouble.
Such a Murakami sentence.
I would love to see this local shopping guide for Amsterdam, or, say, Randstad.
Great idea!
Awesome video by Epic Spaceman on shrinking to atom level without getting disoriented. (Via kottke.org)
Our cat Stanley in a box
I caught our cat jumping in one of the boxes under my desk. Why do cats do this?
One theory is that they feel safe in a box. But just the image of a square on the ground seems to also attract them.
All recent articles on the topic seem to refer to the same study.
More research is required.
Oh, they jump in other boxes and crates, too.
The Indexed blog by Jessica Hagy just just freaking great!
I mean, this can only be created by a beautiful mind: