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Oyster-type travel card system gradually being rolled out across the entire Netherlands (and not just in the capital like Oyster is here). This will replace the familiar strippenkaart that you might have used on Amsterdam's public transport. There is a disposable "tourist" version that you can pick up in the same places that strippenkaarts are/were sold (they are both available at the moment).

Official and slightly bonkers (in a good way) Dan Rhodes website. Worth a diversion.

Brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant. Where do I sign Tom up?

Potentially useful book for work – goes a bit further than just PVR and includes market perspective. Of course, whether I'd learn much new…

Traditionally, I've used HomeSite to edit web pages. But my coding skillz are not what they once were – I'm both rusty and out-of-date. So I'm considering going over to a robust WYSIWYG editor that would also allow me to tinker with the actual code when I'm feeling brave/foolish. This looks like it might be a good solution and it isn't too expensive. Anyone out there got experience with it?

Don't mess about with the website (although it is excellent). It is much more fun to go down to the store, have a coffee and then spend an hour or so (and possibly lots of pounds) rummaging through the vinyl, CDs and books (and not just music books, but good quality books on all sorts of interesting subjects, particularly music, art, design, fashion, history…)

Excellent photo documentary of the first manned landing on the Moon, 40 years ago this week. via LMG.

It looks like Turkmenistan still holds the title as the most bonkers nation on Earth.

Flash version of the Japanese card game, Hanafuda. It's worth reading the rules first if you've never played before (like me) and then playing a few times to get the hang of it. Really quite relaxing.

Cold water kills hurricanes, apparently. So, all you need is to get cold water to the surface across the western Atlantic and the Caribbean during hurricane season and you'd have no hurricanes. Of course, you'd probably cause mayhem to the global weather system, but at least there would be no hurricanes.

Good list of web design resources, useful for those of us who (sometimes, when time, energy and willpower permit) maintain our own sites.

I remember, many years ago, walking across the fields from my parents' old house towards Felpham with my brother. We got to the Ryebank Rife (here: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/138607), which was (unusually) dry. The stench was amazing and the dry floor of the stream was a carpet of dead eels, left high and dry. I've never seen so many eels, literally thousands, and I doubt I'll ever see that many again.

Nicholas van Hoogstraten cleared by court in Zimbabwe. Apparently, because the police didn't have a warrant to search for illegal pornography (which they didn't expect to find during a search which was to identify evidence related to alleged illegal financial transactions), he can't be guity of a crime. Hmm. Have I missed something here? Coincidentally, Mr van Hoogstraten is a good mate of a certian Robert Mugabe.