[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zIxlsDZOmM] We will return to the Arco station every week to peacefully block the Fell St. entrances until BP plugs the holes in the Gulf and until the City plugs the dangerous driveways on Fell and makes it safe for … Continue reading → | Continue reading
I am truly speechless. It turns out that Janel Sterbentz, one of the organizers of last Friday’s protest at the Fell/ Divisadero Arco station, and whose “Women who Ride” interview for the Bike NOPA blog was suppressed because she said … Continue reading → | Continue reading
What an incredible, inspiring protest yesterday in San Francisco. Truly in awe at the raw energy from the neighborhood residents who have clearly had enough of this dangerous and awful situation that the city has failed to correct- where cars … Continue reading → | Continue reading
With all the terrible news coming out of the Gulf and the distressing dysfunctionality with which humans are relating to other species on the planet, here is a nice respite. I was on Caltrain yesterday travelling with my bicycle from … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Bart Vander Sanden Freelance app and web developer in Leuven, Belgium Home Web Development Photography Blog English Nederlands Home › Blog › Going down the stairs Going down the stairs Posted on 09 June 2010. About me Hi, I'm Bart, a freelance web developer based in Leuven, Belgi … | Continue reading
jQueried is a Safari 5 extension in the same vein as the jQuerify bookmarklet. jQueried adds jQuery to the current webpage, a task which can be very useful for debugging. After finishing my first extension, simple as it is, I am impressed with the simplicity of Safari's extension … | Continue reading
This is a protest I’m helping to organize with some friends. If you are in the Bay Area, come join us this Friday. And SPREAD THE WORD. Link to Facebook page here. TOP KILL: PARTY TO SHUT DOWN BP/ ARCO … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Milton Glaser's 1966 poster of a folk-rock icon captured the psychadelic dazzle of the flower-power era | Continue reading
While Bike NOPA declined to publish the following interview with Janel Sterbentz, on account of the fact that she dared to mention how unpleasant, stinky and dangerous cars are, On the Level is happy to publish Janel’s words. As you … Continue reading → | Continue reading
A friend of mine- Janel Sterbentz- recently volunteered to be featured on the San Francisco based Bike NOPA blog in their “Women who Bike” series. She submitted her responses to the questions, but the editor of Bike NOPA, Michael Helquist … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Almost a year and a half after I posted it, Sustrans has still not publicly or privately responded to my article, The Problem with Sustrans: How a Grassroots Phenomenon Has Turned into a Private, Unaccountable Corporation. The piece generated thousands … Continue reading → | Continue reading
From time to time, it's good to raise your head over the rim of your cubicle and take a look around. In a daring attempt to fulfill my desire for an overdue escape from day-to-day work, I ventured to Frankfurt and this year's ADC Summit Expo with projekt-pr's Rüdiger Hahn and Ank … | Continue reading
It seems unfair that the first Jonathan Kellerman book I review should be Evidence, as I am a huge fan of Kellerman’s Alex Delaware series and this is not one of his best. I have been reading his books since I was a teenager, which goes to show you how long they have been around. … | Continue reading
So a few weeks ago Chevron- one of the biggest oil companies in the world- took the plunge and set up shop on Facebook, spinning yarns about its corporate social responsibility and how it is helping the world in so … Continue reading → | Continue reading
If you’re using the placeholder attribute in a form input element, and want to change how the placeholder text looks using CSS, use the -webkit-input-placeholder pseudo-element, like so: ::-webkit-input-placeholder { … } The placeholder attribute works in the latest Firefox … | Continue reading
Despite not having posted here for almost two years now, I’m not dead yet…It’s been a year now, I joined Terracotta to work on their Hibernate second level cache implementation. A lot as happened since: Terracotta acquired Ehcache and Quartz, which gave the transparency team I jo … | Continue reading
File: PDF Size: 58.93 Kb | Continue reading
An experimental font created with sugar cubes, dissolved with coffee, one of the most common ways to wake up these days. Filmed and reversed. Watch the clip on Youtube | Continue reading
After a week of confronting a rising tide of nauseating greenwash in the City, it’s nice to be back out in the wild. The life with whom we share the planet has a lot to say, if only we would … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Last week, we finally found a second apprentice at webfactory and completed our team lineup for 2010. Simon Mönch will be joining us from May 1st to learn the craft of software development and Jessica Lazarus starts her apprenticeship for digital media design on August 1st. Cheek … | Continue reading
Some small tests with NodeBox, an application to generate images by simple coding. It gives designers the opportunity to create complex visuals in mere seconds. | Continue reading
This video was recorded Wednesday evening April 14th at 111 Minna, San Francisco before any of the protests or disruptions at the carbon conference that ensued on Thursday or Friday. There is no doubt that there is massive denial about … Continue reading → | Continue reading
File: PDF Size: 47.23 Kb | Continue reading
No inspiration? Try my webpage that puts 2 random words together to get weird associations. Visit Random Relations | Continue reading
I made this after taking a workshop in school where we had to create a grid with Processing. I linked the position of the mouse with the colors to create a nice dynamic color scheme. | Continue reading
Bart Vander Sanden Freelance app and web developer in Leuven, Belgium Home Web Development Photography Blog English Nederlands Home › Blog › My desktop... My desktop... Posted on 04 March 2010. About me Hi, I'm Bart, a freelance web developer based in Leuven, Belgium. I create we … | Continue reading
I just moved to this new site, so feel free to have a look around. | Continue reading
When I was last in Florida, I enjoyed a few marvelous moments of unexpected urban birding. As I was heading back at the end of the day, I spotted a Great Egret (Ardea alba) just outside of the hotel where I stayed. This would make a fine advertisement for the hotel. 15 December 2 … | Continue reading
While his name is Tiresias, I do not expect him, after being transformed into a woman for a finite time, to report that the female Zebra Finches enjoy sex 10x more than the males. Tiresias is not only blind; he hatched without fully developed eyes. This is a case of congenital un … | Continue reading
Himalayan Greenfinch (Carduelis spinoides) Saffron’s day out, 25 October 2009 His name is Saffron (and to avoid confusion, at least in my mind, I refer to the Saffron Finches as the “Flaveolas.”) He was purchased at Bird Crazy about 4 years ago, at a significant discount owing to … | Continue reading
A DC Bird Blogger wrote: “It is important to look up to see birds, but some interesting sights are at your feet, too.” He was referring to ice crystallization patterns, and unless he was trying to back out temperature and humidity from ice microstructure, I do not know for what s … | Continue reading
The first* (and second) positively identified bird of the New Year for me was a Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia), spotted alongside Hwy 160 on the way to Wolf Creek ski area. And that was the first time, to my conscious memory, to see them! This was not the first sighting. Thi … | Continue reading
Have you ever had habichuelas con dulce? Well, then be prepared to be pleasantly surprised by this amazing Dominican sweet cream of beans. This is a strange combination of ingredients for a dessert, but we Dominicans absolutely love this Lenten tradition! The post Habichuelas con … | Continue reading
Have you ever had habichuelas con dulce? Well, then be prepared to be pleasantly surprised by this amazing Dominican sweet cream of beans. This is a strange combination of ingredients for a dessert, but we Dominicans absolutely love this Lenten tradition! The post Habichuelas con … | Continue reading
It has always surprised us that of all our recipes, Habichuelas con Dulce is the most popular. This is a strange combination of ingredients for a dessert, but Dominicans love it! | Continue reading
The objective of StarFighter is to fly and blast through asteroids and space debris, making it to the end of the level with a high score. The ship is controlled entirely with the mouse. Lasers are fired by clicking the mouse button. The ship can also launch bombs by holding down … | Continue reading
Last week, I was at the 3rd ICMOBT in Clearwater Beach, FL. There, I finally met Professor Julian Vincent, whom I knew until then only from his text. He is a biologist among mechanical and materials engineers who, after having spent quite some time studying insects, has crossed i … | Continue reading
Here's an idea that is just begging to be implemented as a Firefox extension. You know how there's a while-you-type spell checker that's al... | Continue reading
Bart Vander Sanden Freelance app and web developer in Leuven, Belgium Home Web Development Photography Blog English Nederlands Home › Blog › Class Class Posted on 07 December 2009. About me Hi, I'm Bart, a freelance web developer based in Leuven, Belgium. I create websites and ap … | Continue reading
Having discovered that my mother’s cockatiel, Tookie, is a choreographic prodigy, we contacted Dr. Aniruddh Patel, who led the study of Snowball’s moves. He and Dr. John Iversen of the Neurosciences Institute took an interest in Tookie’s stylistic and selective interpretation of … | Continue reading
A quick review of current unix distributions. Ubuntu was the best of those tried for a novice desktop. FreeBSD was the only other system with network card support. | Continue reading
My latest CS184 project is now complete and ready for viewing. We had to take in Bezier patches and use tessellation to create triangles using OpenGL. But I know what you really want to see: videos. | Continue reading