The building was the district switchboard for the dutch phone company (PTT) The cellar was build like a bombshelter, housing the phoneswitchboard for the dutch government. The room was completely covered with copper plating (to prevent damage due to an EMP pulse). The building now is closed and the bunker will be closed off indefinate….Read more
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A twitter alternative
If you want to participate in the socialmedia bandwagon, but you don’t want your data to be owned by Twitter or one of the other companies. Have a look at Mastodon. This is a distributed social media platform. Lot’s of people or organisations have setup their own Mastodon server. Most of them have their own…Read more
Deaf movies
I’ve created a page containing a list of movies where it’s plot relates to deafness. If I’ve seen it then I’ve sorted it according to my preference. You can find it also on the bottom of this page.
Respect
Breathing life into a very old meme, physics student Sairam Gudiseva Rickrolled his teacher in spectacular fashion, inserting every word of Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up into an essay. Getting each word to line up with the margin would be no mean feat with any piece of writing, let alone an assessment of…Read more