HOUTEN (ANP) - De politie heeft het rijbewijs en de auto afgepakt van een bestuurder die zondagochtend met bijna 240 kilometer per uur over de snelweg reed. De automobilist werd met zijn Mercedes gelaserd op de A2, waar 100 kilometer per uur de maximumsnelheid is.

De bestuurder kreeg van de politie op de A27 bij Nieuwegein een stopteken, maar dat negeerde hij. De Mercedes ging er met hoge snelheid vandoor en slalomde door het overige verkeer heen, aldus de politie. In Houten werd de auto teruggevonden, maar daar zat niemand meer in. De politie hield daarna wel een ander voertuig staande, waarin de gezochte bestuurder zat. Zijn rijbewijs is ingevorderd en de Mercedes in beslag genomen. Ook wordt een melding gedaan bij het CBR (Centraal Bureau Rijvaardigheidsbewijzen).

On the nature of autobiographical memory [via]

Some highlights from special collections libraries' blogs this week.
Kittintypes: Nineteenth-Century Cats in the Daniel Carter Beard Collection
Philadelphia's Radical Revolution Highlights from a new American Revolution exhibition at the Library Company of Philadelphia
Geomythology and Weather Lore Epic stories of stormy weather.
A Spring Spent in the STC Collection An internship immersed in early English books.

George Russell was left struggling for words after another damaging weekend at the Monaco Grand Prix, which ended with Mercedes team mate Kimi Antonelli extending his championship advantage from 43 points to 68.

Alpine have requested a Right of Review from F1’s governing body, the FIA, following the Monaco Grand Prix, where Pierre Gasly dropped out of the podium positions due to a pair of pit lane speeding penalties.

Yesterday 2026's International Obfuscated C Code Contest concluded, with 22 new winners announced in a special three-hour livestreamed ceremony! Started 42 years ago, it's been described as the internet's longest-running contest, with entrants concocting convoluted programs glorying in the C programming language's subtleties, all while having some fun. And "For IOCCC29, the volume and quality of submissions were at near-historic heights," explains its home page.
There's a "Tetris-optimized" GameBoy emulator with source code that looks like a GameBoy, as well as a quasi-Rogue-like game voted "most likely to teleport." Awards were also given for the best imaginary emulator (a virtual machine in 366 bytes of C) and the best fractional emulator (a maze generator for the Commodore 64). But every one of the 22 winning programs seems wildly creative...

Quine Pong. "Running the program produces the source code to generate the next frame, formatted to display the current frame. By repeatedly compiling and running each successive frame, you can play the game. To move, pass either "w" (up) or "e" (down) as an argument..."

A winning Taiwanese programmer formatted their source code in the shape of a Tardis from Doctor Who — code that displays an intricate ASCII animation of Doctor Who's 1963 opening title sequence.

One winning entry emulates an IBM 7040 mainframe, first converting a program (encoded in whitespace) into ASCII-character drawings of punchcards for a FORTRAN program — and then executing that program to calculate the light visible to an observer looking at black hole, ultimately creating an image. It's all recreating what astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet had to do in 1978 to generate the first-ever simulated photograph of a black hole (on an IBM 7040 mainframe). "The entry can also run other FORTRAN programs — but "they must be provided as a deck of punch cards... Tools have been provided to convert to/from decks and to interpret..."

"We have added fun challenges to this year's winning entries competition..." the web site notes. "After you figure out what a given winning entry does, we encourage you to attempt the fun challenge!"

Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader achowe for bringing the news (who has submitted winning entries in four different decades, starting in 1991 and continuing through 2025) — and who won again this year for a program simulating the Space Invaders-like game from Casio's 1980 MG-880 calculator.


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• Swiss star wins with third fastest time in history

• Hodgkinson targets world record after defeat

On a wild summer’s night in Stockholm, a woman ran the quickest 800m since the darkest days of the cold war. But, staggeringly, her name was not Keely Hodgkinson.

Britain’s 800m Olympic champion had promised she was in personal-best shape, and duly proved as good as her word. But she had no answer to the young Swiss star Audrey Werro, who swooped like lightning across a cloudless sky before crossing the line in 1min 53.98sec.

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Een auto heeft zondagavond schade opgelopen nadat deze op de rotonde met de Nancy Zeelenburgsingel in Prinsenland rechtdoor is gereden. De bestuurder raakte hierbij niet gewond.