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A really unique thing: the Dutch history television program Andere Tijden found the only existing movie footage of Piet Mondrian (or Mondriaan, as we like to call him in Holland). The movie is found at the same time a two-year research project on Mondrian’s last piece, the Victory Boogie Woogie (pictured below), ended. My final project for my study (the European Master of Media Arts at the Utrecht school of the arts) was a short 15-minute movie about Mondrian, so you might imagine i am quite excited about this discovery.

You can view the 16-second movie clip here.

Victory Boogie Woogie (1944)

Because after one hour on the train, with 10 programs open, including Photoshop, iTunes and NeoOffice my one-year old MacBook still has a 72% filled battery.

Dear editor,
we recently visited Romania, using your ‘Romania & Moldova’ guidebook, 4th edition. As always, your guidebook proved to be an invaluable travel companion. There were, however, a few places where information in the guidebook was outdated or incorrect. We would like to use this opportunity to report those inaccuracies to you.

Below you will find our suggestions.

Regards,
– Hay Kranen, the Netherlands

General remarks

Busses

It might be handy to add that most buses only allow punching a ticket on-board after the motor of the bus has been switched on.

Train

In general, we experienced little problems with pre-booking tickets from the train station, instead of via CFR offices, even 24 hours or more before departure. The ticket sale system in general seems to have been modernized a lot at most places.

Bucharest

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If you haven’t been looking into Remember the milk you should. It’s a web application for tasks (to-do’s) that allows you to organize all of your tasks in a handy list that you can update from any medium or any place, including sms (using Twitter), desktop applications, web widgets, desktop widgets, e-mail and of course the website itself. It also allows you to make a list of tasks public, which might not make a lot of sense for your own tasks (i wouldn’t want to bother with you with the gigantic list of tasks i still need to do for Wikipedia and Wikimedia-related projects) but is very nice for to-do’s you would like to share, such as my list of movies i still want to watch. Here’s a list of all those movies, presented as a Google gadget using a RSS gadget: