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Photo: Moscow Station, by Blaauw

De Volkskrant, Retour van de slaaptrein naar Moskou:

“Sinds 1993 heeft Nederland weer een rechtstreekse spoorverbinding met Moskou. De ‘Rollende Rus’ vertrok tussen 1960 en 1993 van Hoek van Holland naar Moskou. Destijds werd de trein te duur, maar nu zien de treinmaatschappijen toch weer brood in deze, en andere nachtverbindingen vanuit Amsterdam.

Elke dag vertrekken drie slaaptreinen. Om vijf uur ’s middags vertrekt de trein naar Milaan, om half negen ‘s avonds gaat de trein naar Zürich. En om 19.03 uur staat de slaaptrein naar Moskou klaar.”

Virgin America Safety Video (YouTube)

night train from waterloo 1, by atomless - “passingby-looking-right”

Passing By:

“Passing By presents two films that piece together brief segments from many different journeys into ever growing sequences of sights-seen-along-the-way, while looking out of the window of a car, a train, a plane or even just pushing a shopping trolley around the local super market.”

Bruce Schneier: “Well, the submissions are in; the blog entry has 334 comments. I’ve read them all, and here are the semi-finalists: (…)”

Pruned: “In between reports from (…) we heard reports of the guy stricken with an extremely resistant type of tuberculosis, under quarantine at a hospital jet-set TB-infected Atlanta lawyer quarantined (in a rehab center of a different kind) in Denver, flown there yesterday with an escort of federal marshals.”

• Will you stand for less room on flights?
  “Airbus has been quietly pitching the standing-room-only option to Asian carriers, though none has agreed to it yet. Passengers in the standing section would be propped against a padded backboard, held in place with a harness…”
  (tags: aviation travel airbus)
• Magnum Photos - Slate - Spaceship Junkyard
  “Scrap-metal dealers wait for a rocket to crash, 2000.”
  (tags: space kazakhstan junk scrapyard)
• On June 15, 1878 Eadweard Muybridge photographed the first successful serial images of fast motion.
• de Volkskrant - Antilliaanse schrijver Tip Marugg (82) overleden
  “De schrijver en dichter werd vooral bekend door zijn boeken ‘Weekendpelgrimage’, ‘In de straten van Tepalka’ en ‘De morgen loeit weer aan’. “
• Stream Recorder - Radio on your iPod
  “Stream recorder (…) records RealPlayer streams as MP3s and imports them into iTunes.”
  (tags: osx Real MP3blog itunes)
• AT5 Amsterdam :: chefs.at5.nl > Kaas als dessert
  Bianca Tan op bezoek bij A. de Kef, Franse kaasmakers te Amsterdam.
  (tags: kaas diner dessert food amsterdam nl cheese recipes at5)

• Ironic Sans: Idea: Advertisements on the overhead bins
  “I admit that it’s ugly as sin. Every bit of empty space in our lives is slowly being taken over by ads, so why would I want even more? “
  (tags: advertising travel planes)
• It’s a great time to start a business - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
  “I say it’s never been a better time to start a business.”
  (tags: startup web business)
• The New Wisdom of the Web - Next Frontiers - MSNBC.com
  “Why is everyone so happy in Silicon Valley again? A new wave of start-ups are cashing in on the next stage of the Internet. And this time, it’s all about … you.”
  (tags: flickr web business)
• Isn’t it semantic? : Articles : Internet : BCS
  Interview with Tim Berners-Lee.
  (tags: web history Berners-Lee)
• Kinkless GTD .83: Enhances Quicksilver and iCal integration, much more
  “The wait is over, kids. Ethan Schoonover has just released his .83 version of Kinkless GTD, and, brother, does it ever bring it.”
  (tags: osx kinkless gtd)