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Monday, October 1, 2007

Heineken's cold, frothy Dutch beer cartel

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This is my photo of the Heineken brewery at night, caught right when a tram was going past. Artsy, no? I love Heineken beer* In April, the E...
Sunday, September 30, 2007

Soldier of Orange / Soldaat van Oranje

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This photo (from Wikipedia) is a screenshot of Rutger Hauer in the film, Soldier of Orange/Soldaat van Oranje. The real Soldier of Orange di...

Richard Branson / Qurrent / My Solution for Global Warming

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And the winner is... Qurrent. With all the plans out there for reducing carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption, I asked Branson whe...

Cory Doctorow at Picnic

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(credit: silvertje) In blog, and in life, sometimes the quantity overtakes the quality. So this post and the following are dedicated to un-...
Thursday, September 27, 2007

Woody Harrelson

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Woody Harrelson was at the Picnic conference in Amsterdam today. I've always liked Harrelson as an actor. Here's him on his return t...

We just saw it from a different point of view

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Look kids, Big Ben! Parliament! It was a lovely trip to London, dampened slightly by a little trouble with the immigration authorities at Sc...
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Saturday, September 22, 2007

Farewell, but not goodbye

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I'm off to London-town on family business for a few days, which means brief posts, or none, or few. If you're in Amsterdam this week...

Two Passports Toch? The WRR, "dropping science"

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(photo credit: flickr's spatfield. And to quote Michael Jackson's Billy Jean: 'the kid is not my son.') As I was busy packin...
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