This is the web home of Laurens van der Starre a.k.a. Big-L. On this page I write what I think is important for the world to know.

No TV doesn’t make me mad

November 8th, 2009

It’s the third month now. And I’m still not going mad. I don’t even mis it. Well, one time only, but that one doesn’t really count. That had more to do with me being lazy … … anyway I’m talking about TV. I don’t have TV anymore. Well, I do have a TV, but don’t have [...]

OMGWTFBBQ I’ve read teh internetz!~1one

November 1st, 2009

I hardly surf to websites anymore: I subscribe to them in Google Reader. The great thing about Google Reader  -apart from not having to surf to a gazillion websites-, is that the shared items feature and the ability to follow people allow you to constantly encounter new and cool stuff from the interwebs. The new features in [...]

The IKEA shopping travesty

October 30th, 2009

In the not so far away future I’ll have to shop at Ikea again. Not that I have anything against Ikea products (my house is full of that stuff), but the Ikea shops are something that does not tickle my fantasy. Therefore I’ve refined my Ikea shopping strategy. It’s written in pseudo-code, and is fully [...]

The Chinese have found a way to implement “Negative Money”

October 27th, 2009

One particular evening (read: now) I found myself browsing my favourite gadget webshop DealExtreme. And again I found myself wondering how on Earth they would manage to send me a piece of Chinese electronic junk worth just 2US$ by airmail from Hong Kong to the other side of the world for free? “We ship via Hong [...]

Can somebody explain Halloween to me?

October 26th, 2009

The interwebs of the world wide datastreams are buzzing with Halloween the last couple of days. I never noticed it before. Is it really that big a deal? Then again, it’s mainly in the States (of course) but isn’t it a secular thing? Isn’t that herecy in the Holy State of America? We see all kinds [...]