internet

My father pointed me out to ‘Pioneers of Computing’. Atanasoff -the Bulgarian inventor of the computer- is 3rd on the list.

On Bieslog there’s a link to an interesting moving face.

It’s always nice to see that other people I know have a website as well. Mirjam started one to keep everybody up-to-date on the daily life of Linda in Suriname. The site is called Mirry’s place.

The VARA has an online competition on your knowledge about polical parties in the Netherlands. You’ll have to play the role of the 8 party leaders and answer a lot of questions about them and their party.The winner of this tournament will get a real (used) parliament seat!

A nice clock.

Today it’s precisely 30 years ago that there was somebody on the moon.

See economists in action… (Flash). There are a lot of other funny Flash things on the website of the creator.
Link sent by Tibi.

Janneke e-mailed me about a project on creating Escher’s paintings with Lego.The small image here shows Escher’s “Ascending and Descending”, with the famous eternal stairs.

There are many computer people addicted to the Star Wars movies. And although I’m not one of them I like this link Mats send me.
It’s a small Star Wars movie, but made using only ASCII characters. The guy making this has been working on it since 1997…
The homepage of the creator is here.

Everybody knows about the famous e-mails coming from Nigeria of ‘troubled business men’ who are in a ‘temporary difficult position’ but with loads of money on a foreign bank account, if only…
Here’s a guy who actually wrote back to one of this e-mails, this time from a ‘poor young African orphan Nigerian Prince’. Funny read. (through Tonie).