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I'm Milo Vermeulen, a 33-year-old webdeveloper and photographer living in The Hague, The Netherlands. This site is my personal weblog/photolog/code playground.

You can email me at milovermeulen@gmail.com, and find me on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn and last.fm.

January 2012

the best films I saw in 2011

Cirkus Columbia (Danis Tanović, 2010, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Beginners (Mike Mills, 2010, US)
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011, US)
22 Mei (Koen Mortier, 2010, BE)
Illégal (Olivier Masset-Depasse, 2010, BE)
The Troll Hunter / Trolljegeren (André Øvredal, 2010, NO)
True Grit (The Coen Brothers, 2010, US)
The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004, US)
Pinoy Sunday / 台北星期天 (Wi Ding Ho, 2009, TW)
Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009, US)
Mary And Max (Adam Elliot, 2009, AU)
The Borrower Arrietty / 借りぐらしのアリエッティ (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010, JP)
Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011)
Tuesday, After Christmas / Marţi, după Crăciun (Radu Muntean, 2010, Romania)
Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 2011, UK)
Small Town Murder Songs (Ed Gass-Donnelly, 2010, CA)
The Journals of Musan / 무산일기 (Park Jung-bum, 2010, KR)
Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, 2011, US)
Rango (Gore Verbinski, 2011, US)
Whip It (Drew Barrymore, 2009, US)
Attack The Block (Joe Cornish, 2011, UK)
Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 2010, US)

Of these, I saw 8 at IFFR 2011, 2 at other cinemas and 12 at home.

RT @Gelada: Tim Gowers http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfal l/ and Stewart Lee http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/22/stewart-lee-david-ca meron-pinewood-film?cat=commentisfree&type=article go well together on the crushing power of over-commercialisation

RT @mcsweeneys: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-which-i-fix-my-girlfriends-grand parents-wifi-and-am-hailed-as-a-conquering-hero

finally read "Ringworld" by Larry Niven, 1970. fun! #books #scifi

RT @mrdoob: State of the demoscene: 1991 - 2011 http://blog.subsquare.com/state-of-the-demoscene-in-numbers

read "The Stars My Destination (Tiger! Tiger!)" by Alfred Bester, 1956 #books #scifi

RT @waxpancake: Metafilter joins the SOPA/PIPA protest, with a crazy story from @mathowie about Michael Jackson and a DMCA takedown: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/21380/SOPAPIPA-blackout

"Ten Ways to Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow to Anybody", by Adrian Mitchell: http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2000/11/ten-ways-to-avoid-lendi ng-your.html

leuke kaart van de dierenarts

leuke kaart van de dierenarts

prompt [$T$H$H$H$H$H$H] $P$G

RT @ninnx: pre-coffee brain just casually reported "pterodactyl in front of the window". to be fair it was a pretty big seagull.

enjoying @captainward's new Absolute Radio podcast, Film Fandango: http://absoluteradio.co.uk/podcasts/Film-Fandango/

RT @StackMath: Great answer: Do "imaginary" and "complex" angles exist? http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/96151/do-imaginary-and-complex -angles-exist/96159#96159 #trigonometry

Pegg

Pegg

#demoscene RT @pouetdotnet: The top lists of productions from 2011, as dictated by the Pouet users: http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=8536

read "All the Colors of Darkness" (1963) by Lloyd Biggle Jr. #books #scifi

found a new way to quickly turn off my brand new laptop: accidentally jam a headphone jack into the usb port :/ luckily no permanent damage

jongetje tegen ander jongetje op straat: "Ik woon in de Komkommerstraat. Altijd als ik zeg waar ik woon word ik uitgelachen." #overheard

RT @kasthomas: Procedural textures in HTML5 canvas http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2012/01/procedural-textures-in-html5-ca nvas.html

Badass Javascript 2011 year in review http://badassjs.com/post/15082876071/2011-a-badass-javascript-year-in- review

December 2011

Homages, Ripoffs and Coincides - film images in context: http://shotcontext.blogspot.com/ (via http://mefi.us/w/110953 )

lots of interesting reads in this summary of top Hacker News stories for every day of 2011: http://rrrewind.com/assets/yearly/2010hn_comments.html

RT @LeaVerou: Fascinating #UX @smashingmag article: @lukew rethinks the login form and comes up with very creative ideas. http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/22/new-approaches-to-desi gning-login-forms/

RT @LeaVerou: Fascinating #UX @smashingmag article: @lukew rethinks the login form and comes up with very creative ideas. ...

RT @stgramophone: Said the Gramophone's 100 favourite songs of 2011. Oh whatta whatta year. Listen & download here: http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/best_songs_of_2011.php

RT @AlexanderNL: www.niggabitch.nl past wel mooi in het rijtje www.poldertaliban.nl en www.naaktemanmetrauweforelmishandeltschoenenverkoper.nl

RT @fabynou: Another World Code Review: http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/index.php

opened Ricoh GR Digital camera

opened Ricoh GR Digital camera
I crudely disassembled my dusty broken 2006 Ricoh GRD the other day, curious to see the inside. I wonder what the handwritten "8000" means.

Photos taken with the GRD in better days...

RT @jeresig: New Blog Post: JavaScript as a First Language: http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-as-a-first-language/

RT @rosenstok: Can the Dutch Government really be abandoning smokers to their fate? Stevige taal: http://www.skipr.nl/blogs/id963-wetenschap-verbijsterd-over-nederlands -rookontmoedigingsbeleid.html

RT @quarkness: The new great leader Kim Yong Un http://instagr.am/p/aEWvs/

RT @ebertchicago: The Best Films of 2011, sez me: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/12/the_best_films_of_2011.html

advantage of web apps over native apps (3): enables user to pinch-zoom or double-tap to enlarge/reflow content

advantage of web apps (2): able to dl link (mp3s etc) instead of opening it; for some reason impossible in Android Google Reader native app

advantage of web apps over most native apps (twitter, fb, etc): browser has dedicated buttons for back AND forward navigation, not just back

zzz

zzz

comments on @waxpancake UC Davis post http://waxy.org/2011/11/viewing_the_uc_davis_pepper_spraying_from_mult iple_angles are an interesting/scary insight into the minds of police brutality apologists :/

RT @hakimel: How about spending your time and SEO-$$ on curating interesting content that people _want_ to link to instead?

RT @simonpegg: Morning Paris, gonna spend the day looking under photo booths with Audrey Tautou and riding around on a moped at an exaggerated frame rate.

RT @anildash: By request, my list of questions for the Republican candidates: http://2.dashes.com/uRWXoW (Please share & add your own)

Just realized sth annoying about new twitter: it emphasises showing full names before nicknames; other way round would make more sense to me

RT @waxpancake: No copyright intended! I wrote some thoughts on copyright and intent. http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/

RT @xiffy: Voor de liefhebbers van Radio Bergeijk is dit natuurlijk schokkend wereldnieuws: http://www.ed.nl/specials/kerst/10031594/Kerstboom-in-Bergeijk-omgewaa id.ece

RT @ArjAndj: Ondertussen groeit een generatie Nederlanders op die in hun volwassen leven nog nooit een afgebouwd station hebben gezien. #ns

Overheard in the train: "En dat je dan communicatief zegmaar die personen heel groot opblaast."

top albums of 2011 as voted by reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/n0tqc/top_albums_of_2011_as_vot ed_by_reddit_voting_now/

hand-in-hand in Praha

Praha hand-in-hand

RT @textfiles: http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/ Agree. As someone who has been shut off three times, Paypal has the WORST customer service. PERIOD. ...

RT @hubs: What doesn't kill you makes you smaller. ~Super Mario

Tartex, Ungarische Art

fijn potje analoge wordfeud gespeeld (en gewonnen) dit weekend

"This application requires no special permissions to run." Such a rare and special occurrence to see this in Android Market

restoring nandroid backup on rooted and repartitioned HTC Desire, success!
restoring nandroid backup on rooted and repartitioned HTC Desire, success!

my photos of @Rijksakademie OPEN 2011: http://milov.nl/photos/5890/rijksakademieopen-2011 #RijksakademieOPEN

RijksakademieOPEN 2011

RijksakademieOPEN 2011: Feiko Beckers

November 2011

Mandy Patinkin convincingly portrays a hunt-and-peck keyboardist in #Homeland S01E08

RT @waxylinks: Jamie Zawinski on Mike Arrington and the myths of startup success: "When a VC tells you what's good for you, check your wallet, then count your fingers." http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-sell-a-con/

RT @nelson: My neighborhood has both a chiropractor and a homeopath advertising "safe alternatives to vaccination". How many kids will they kill?

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