http://www.adamus.nl Life, technology, the internet, gaming, politics, and the rest Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:50:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sometimes you walk past a place you've walked past a hundred times before and suddenly notice something special about that place, and find yourself wondering why you'd never noticed it before. Ever had that? I had that yesterday when I was walking towards my bus stop on my way home. I ... http://www.adamus.nl/?p=1339 Modern day researches have to cope with massive amounts of data. From medicine to astronomy, from computer science to counter-terrorism intelligence, research analysts are sifting through immense heaps of data to find patterns and form hypotheses: medicine A is effective, star B might have 7 planets, user C prefers Dutch ... http://www.adamus.nl/?p=1337 Christopher Hitchens, one of my heroes, is dying. Everybody is dying, but for Hitchens "the process has suddenly accelerated". He's been diagnosed with a particularly ferocious form of throat cancer and is currently undergoing chemotherapy. Yet he still continues to write, and even found time to do a video interview with ... http://www.adamus.nl/?p=1333 You'd think that after 2009's blockbuster no sane producer would dare tackle the Sherlock Holmes mythology for the foreseeable future. After all, any attempt at re-imagining Arthur Conan Doyle's famous 'consulting detective' would inevitably be compared to Ritchie's film, and the final result would have to be damn fine indeed ... http://www.adamus.nl/?p=1331 I've been a member of Mensa now for about two years, both Mensa NL and British Mensa. That's not a very long time, nor have I been a particularly active member, so you can take what I have to say about Mensa as seriously as you're inclined to.Mensa, in case ... http://www.adamus.nl/?p=1327 I enjoy reading books. I buy new books nearly every week, and at any given moment I have anywhere up to five different books on my bedside locker in various stages of reading.I have a preference for certain types of books. Science fiction, specifically. One of my favourite SF authors ... http://www.adamus.nl/?p=1324 I've been eagerly emphasizing the point scholars and sceptics such as Nicholas Carr have been making: that the Internet is changing the way we think.Today it's time to shed light on the other side of the debate. In today's Guardian there's a superb interview with Clay Shirky in which he ... http://www.adamus.nl/?p=1320