Last year I quite accurately predicted in April Rudimental’s “Feel the Love” would be the summer hit of 2012. This year, I’m willing to make another prediction. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’  ”Can’t Hold Us” featuring Ray Dalton. Enjoy.

On saturday, some nutcase posted this on 4chan. Because I live in Leiden, this sparked my interest. Not only mine, but also that of the police. Every high school is closed today, as the local police is working together with the FBI, as they have experience with dealing with this kind of threat/d (see what I did there?). However, I think this is just some fool trying to look cool. And I have some proof to back it up, after the jump.

If you look for the gun, it is the 11th google search result. It even has the same resolution and has been uploaded a few years ago. However, this is not decisive proof, because there is a lot of metadata when you would take a picture of something, hidden within the picture itself.

The alleged perpetrator says he is behind a proxy (like TOR-browser), which means he is not a run of the mill idiot, and police are right to take this seriously. I do think this guy is all about bragging. If you are smart enough to hide behind a proxy, you are smart enough to delete the metadata from the picture. 4chan is enormously critical of these shootings, sleuthing as many details as possible. Using a standard picture of the gun isn’t going to prove anything, and he wouldn’t have been taken seriously by the community.

Could the threat have been real? Perhaps. The police are right to take this seriously. In the mean time, all Leiden high schoolers can enjoy their day off.

This is a summary of Robert A. Dahl’s book ‘On Democracy’ (1998). It is written in English, due to possible translation issues. 23 pages long.

Follow this link to opend the .doc (office 2003 compatible)

I noticed these pictures on my facebook-feed, made an Imgur-album of them and they are currently featuring on the frontpage of Reddit, just below the news of Thatcher’s death. All credit on these pictures are to Steven for making them, and bringing them to my attention – and subsequently to the attention of the world.

Our good friend, the great leader of the magnificent people of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has passed away. A day of mourning for all of us, but if you’re one of those pesky American pigs, you’ll probably be out in the street celebrating, unshackled of the fear brought upon you by the defiance that was symbolized in this great person, who will be remembered eternally.

I, as a political science major, have tried to be like you, oh great leader. During some elaborate software emulations, I ruined the islands of Tropico. I don’t know how you did it, but you remained in power. That’s more than I can say.

Fighting with rebels, surviving natural disasters, keeping every faction in my country happy… It was hard. You seemed to be perfectly able to balance these things, as if you were born to rule. You defied any foreign interference in your country. You became friends with Fidel and Raul Castro.

You got cancer. You lost your hair. You got even fatter. Somehow, this made the people love you even more. And now you are dead. What is Venezuela going to do now? They are going to be lost without you, oh great leader. You will be missed.

Requiescat in Pace; Felix Dicit.