First of all, the Dutch love color. The archive we visited today is BRIGHT ORANGE, and then royal blue. The building is amazing, it's built into the ground and has drainage pipes in case there's a flood, and a pond outside in case there's a fire that uses recycled water from the toilets, and every single thing about the building is so damn purposeful it's amazing.
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision has an archive of all Dutch broadcasting. So if anyone ever needs a clip from Dutch radio, they are the place to go, with a very nice customer service center who will probably smile and meet the need you have promptly. They also have a super cool experiential component, and somewhere on the Internet is a video of me, Scott, Jonathan, and Maggie all riding the same bike. Perhaps I will post it when Jonathan e-mails it.
Also, there's a pretty great cafeteria, at which we talked about our childhood experiences with eating meat. A surprising number at our table grew up raising chickens and hating them.
And the best part was a lecture from Dr. O, who was absolutely superb in talking about using social tagging to serve user groups better, and also very easy on the eyes. I swear, this country is full of tall handsome people. I should really learn Dutch.
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