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He probably loves itunes for what it accomplished. Remember the music industry before itunes? The way in which it made a lot of things possible and easier? And the whole app store …

Helmets better than no helmets is not necessarily true, strangely. Perhaps on an individual right-now level, but not long term. The reason: the biggest protection you can have as a…

The Dutch think-of-the-children 1970's campaign resulted in the great cycling infrastructure we have now.... A far cry from such a here's-some-body-armour-if-you-want-to-commit-sui…

Big difference with motorbike helmets: those are integral helmets, protecting your entire head. Cycle helmets only help against direct hits on the top of your head. Crashing head-f…

The number of people killed in traffic accidents in the Netherlands has dropped 80% since the 1972 high of 3000+/year. It is now at 640/year. The main reason being given is seat be…

Depend on the country, or more likely on the amount of cyclists. In the Netherlands, they consider the 1000kg steel cars to be the real dangerous threat, not the cyclists. It may s…

What do you do more often? Fall exactly on the top of your head or on your side? In the latter case, the helmet makes your head bigger and can cause your head to rotate. And swift …

The benefit? You're not sending out the message that biking is dangerous. Would you send your kid out cycling if everyone is wearing helmets? When cyclists are called "road warrior…

Hi, I'm the Reinout that made the notes. Yes, it was a live summary and his slides went by very fast. I'm surprised how much I got written down. So I had to leave stuff out, for in…

I made a summary of Kenneth's talk at http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2012/06/06/flask-django-su... , for some this might be nicer to read/scan than slides. The slides are more c…