"Best fans: Holland. Switzerland briefly turned orange when an estimated
150,000 Dutch made their way to Berne, Basle, Zurich and Geneva as Marco
van Basten's team breezed through the group stages. In England's
absence, the Dutch fans proved themselves the undisputed drinking
champions and they took their defeat against Russia with impressive
grace."

Jeremy Wilson, Telegraph Sports

Bamboo Project on the "one sentence journal" as a daily reflection
practice, and how to integrate it into Posterous, Tumblr, Twitter,
whatever.

Mmm...Cruncy Loggs!

Fun facts about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, via Guardian Science:

· The Large Hadron Collider at Cern has been installed in a tunnel 27km
in circumference, buried 100m underground.

· It will produce head-on collisions between two beams of particles
travelling through a vacuum comparable to outer space.

· Each beam will consist of almost 3000 bunches of 100 billion particles
each.

· At full power, each beam will be about as energetic as a car moving at
1600 kph.

· At near light speed, a proton in the LHC beam will make 11,245 laps a
second.

· A beam might circulate for 10 hours, travelling more than 10 billion
kilometres - far enough to get to the planet Neptune and back.

· 3000km of wires and fibres will carry information at the rate of 3200
terabytes per year, equivalent to around 3 billion books.

Brief Guardian interview with University of Edinburgh physicist Peter
Higgs, the "father" of the Higgs boson. If the LHC experiements at CERN
confirm the existence of the particle, Dr. Higgs is in line for a Nobel.

"But never before has football had them out at Puerta del Sol, up at
Colón, and all over Madrid, in Iker Casillas's home town of Móstoles or
the road where Torres lived: Germany Street in Fuenlabrada. No sooner
had the whistle gone and the 320 commentators on Cuatro TV finished
squealing in delight than they were out all over Spain. Including
Catalunya; including, or so we're told, the Basque Country (although the
photo of six blokes in civvies in a bar is far from conclusive proof)."
Guardian

Spain's first championship trophy since 1964.

Its pretty clear that Posterous is going after Tumbr in the
microblogging area. Their angle is that you can post easily via email.
Two thoughts on this. First, is an email client really the best weblog
client? I doubt it. On the other hand, being able to post by email is
usually one of the most requested features early on in the life cycle of
a platform. Mobile users need email posting too, and they seem to be the
core users of a microblogging service. Second, Tumblr has this feature
already. They seem to hide it, though, and they don't allow the user to
password-protect posting access.
That said, I certainly wish Posterous good luck. Competition is good for
the user.

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