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me

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, Tumblr and last.fm.

April 2012

The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia's Source Code http://wired.com/gamelife/2012/04/prince-of-persia-source-code/?pid=24 80&viewall=true /cc @nvh

March 2012

RT @ignorethecode: iPhoto's Mystery Meat Gestures http://ignco.de/433

RT @DaveGorman: @glinner @jackofkent updated post on the DMCA/Degban/@Flickr thing: http://gormano.blogspot.com/2012/03/oh-flickr-youve-been-degbanned.htm l Long. The Degban stuff = ridiculous.

http://kottke.org redesign, 2012 version http://kottke.org/12/03/kottkeorg-redesign-2012-version (via @kottke)

RT @codinghorror: Kon Boot: if you have physical access to the computer, passwords aren't relevant http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/01/kon-boot-getting-into-a-clients-c omputer-without-using-a-portal-gun/

February 2012

RT @Pinboard: My pal Aaron (a former flickr-r) has posted his own talk on parallel-flickr from #pda12; highly recommended! http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2012/02/14/incentivize/#pda2012

RT @daraobriain: What a bunch of whiny fools... RT @guardianscience: Why we sued Simon Singh: the British Chiropractic Association http://gu.com/p/35jek/tf

RT @codinghorror: "take yourself out of your first world techie social media smart-shoes for a second [and] imagine this" http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210

RT @Teunvandekeuken: "ik ben een kwart MOE- lander" Mijn #Paroolcolumn van vandaag: http://teunvandekeuken.nl/teunschrijft/2012/02/moelander/

RT @waxpancake: This week on Wired, I dig into the risks of using apps that access your Gmail: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/02/perpetual-window-into-gmail/ Think before you oAuth!

January 2012

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

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

December 2011

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

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

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

November 2011

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 @anildash: Facebook is gaslighting the web. Here's the evidence, and how to fix it: http://2.dashes.com/sCmaE9

RT @RobHeerdink: Oxysept geeft 1 van zijn even zeldzame als briljante updates: werken voor de bank. http://www.maarwatishet.com/werkenvoordebank.html

September 2011

Alien 3: The Lost Tale Of The Wooden Planet http://empireonline.com/features/alien-3-tale-of-the-wooden-planet/

RT @drogersuk: New blog: 'QR codes and security - my take' http://blog.mobilephonesecurity.org/2011/09/qr-codes-and-security-my-t ake.html #mobile #security #qr

RT @paulrouget: I bought a WebOS device and went to Taiwan, what I have learned: http://paulrouget.com/e/mobilewebapps/

July 2011

The Funambulist: Learning from Doom, cyber-archeology http://thefunambulist.net/2011/07/26/guest-writers-essays-05-learning- from-doom-by-viktor-timofeev/ (v/ MeFi)

If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault http://dashes.com/anil/2011/07/if-your-websites-full-of-assholes-its-y our-fault.html (by @anildash)

RT @jeresig: Wrote up some back story regarding Hiroshige's classic print 'Sea off Satta Point' for Museum Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/museum/comments/ifxg3/hiroshige_sea_off_satta_ point_1859/c23hovy?context=3

May 2010

Wikipedia - Diegesis - Film sound and music

Sound in films is termed diegetic if it is part of the narrative sphere of the film. For instance, if a character in the film is playing a piano, or turns on a CD player, the resulting sound is "diegetic." If, on the other hand, music plays in the background but cannot be heard by the film's characters, it is termed non-diegetic or, more accurately, extra-diegetic. The score of a film is "non-diegetic" sound. Some examples...

February 2010

On MicroSD Problems - interesting forensic investigation by Chumby hardware developer Bunnie [via]

Conversation with Metafilter Founder Matt Haughey [via]

January 2010

The Things by Peter Watts

December 2009

The Year in Media Errors and Corrections | Regret the Error [via]

Vice Magazine interviews The Wire's David Simon [via]

ASCII by Jason Scott / ARC/ZIP Perspective by Dean W. Cooper

Cardus - You Had Me at 'Hello' [via]

November 2009

Frickin’ Lasers! (and Pico Projectors) « random($foo) [via]

Cartogrammar.com | Blog » Flickr as a paintbrush [more] [via]

Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark] [via]

Greg Knauss - An Addict is a Sad Thing

October 2009

ST(O) : If all stories were written like science fiction stories [via]

September 2009

Your Post Box Is Too Small - trenchant.org [via]

In praise of the sci-fi corridor - Den of Geek [via]

August 2009

The Most Interesting New Tech Startup of 2009 - Anil Dash

June 2009

Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames - Anil Dash

December 2008

BLDGBLOG: Nuclear Urbanism [via]

Edge Online - The Making of... Dune II [via]

November 2008

The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry - Don’t Mind Your Language… [via]

October 2008

One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence [more] [via]

August 2008

A Fistful of Euros - Adventures in European subtitling [via]

July 2008

the nonist - Crows and Coins [via]

June 2008

May 2008

Built-in Windows Command-Line Security Tools [more] [via]

Kleine Dingen - Top 10 van mooiste namen in de filmwereld [more]

Coding Horror: Oh Yeah? Fork You! or why resizing the text window in Pidgin doesn't work anymore [related] [via]

iRi - What Every Programmer Needs To Know About Encoding [more]

April 2008

DadHacker - Donkey Kong and Me [more] [via]

February 2008

Haruki Murakami interview with GQ Korea
Offline. [via]

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