- The Crossrail omnishambles: “There were times when there was no design for anyone to work from.”
- “Oerknal: now that’s clear language”: an appreciation of the disappearing scientific words of Dutch [NL]α
- The Netherlands could become the second country where you can be legally unreachable in your free timeβ [NL]
- A third thumb, controlled by pressure sensors in the foot: okay, now where do i buy one of these?
- The North Paw: an ankle bracelet that vibrates to tell you which way is north. Intriguing, but no longer in stock — and wearing it would probably make you look like you’re meant to be on house arrest
- River Runner: Click to drop a raindrop anywhere in the contiguous United States and watch where it ends up — absolutely entrancing, nine-year-old me would have loved this
"River Runner" reminds me of a story I wrote back in elementary school that followed an evaporated drop of water as it became a cloud, drifted the rockies, snowed, and entered the Pacific Ocean. 9 year old me would've also loved this !