Went out to a few old locals with friends tonight, for my second last night in Amsterdam. We copped *major* ongezellig attitude in Harry’s Bar, one of the bar staff actually grabbed my friend by the arm to stop her leaving because he thought we weren’t going to pay. I could put their bad attitude down to wannabe trendiness but there’s no excuse for manhandling customers. Avoid at all costs.

Make your own genetically mutated fish and then write to the FDA to ask them to reject an application to commercialise genetically engineers salmon.

I wrote to Kofi Annan today. You can too. Australia’s trying to play sleazy at the Earth Summit, so I added this to my letter:
“As an Australian living overseas, I particularly urge you to represent my
concerns to the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard.”

From the BBC: A man has been killed in the western Russian enclave of Kaliningrad while trying to remove a booby-trapped sign with obscene writing.

Passenger who made comment about pilots’ sobriety escorted off plane

Fraser said, “it’s the famous ‘somebody fucking a llama’ scene”.

http://www.gapingmaw.com/ comes up trumps with the “The Big Book of Sign Language”.

Nicest internet jargon dictionary I came across while looking for examples of kinds of content that get slashdotted.

A rare Michelangelo drawing worth more than $10m has been discovered in the back room of a museum in New York.

Google have just updated their interface. I mistyped looiersgracht as ‘looirsgracht’, and it gave me the ‘did you mean x’ response, along with no results. Normally, it stops here, but it redirected me to a results page for the search I might have meant.
I’m not sure if this creeps me out or not.