Cyclorama

More handlebar-eye views of Amsterdam, again unashamedly stolen from Amsterdamized, here doing the loop from Oud West through the Grachten and then via the Rijksmuseum to the park. All on a lovely summer’s day, and all set to mellow music. Enjoy, especially if you’re desk-bound in the heat.

Worrying but cool

What you can do with a rapid prototyping machine and some imagination. Quite cool as an object, but the mindset that suggest you needs a foldable, collapsable gun in your back pocket “for self defence” is still strange to me. What neighbourhood is so dangerous that you need this kind of firepower to walk your dog?

Via Charlie’s

The pernicious influence of the media’s portrayal of Hillary

That the media was biased from the start of her campaign, and not for any good reason either, against Hillary Clinton is no surprise. That’s the poisonous legacy of the 1990s and the Beltway media’s ongoing obsession with Bill’s member and Hillary’s pantsuits. How bad it is can be sampled in the video below.

Media bias against the Democrats in general and especially the Clintons is no news, but the effects this coverage has had on the psyche of the average American and the image they have of Hillary has so far been somewhat neglected, other than in the context of what it means for her campaign. But now we finally have a good example of what six months of Hillary coverage can do to a man.