What if your cat gets killed in the road, and you decide to bury it in an old and Indian (Native American if you’re so inclined) burial ground. What if it returns the next day, almost brand spanking new but totally different just the same? What if it wasn’t your cat, but your kid?
That’s what [...]
Last week, I wasn’t the only one whose internet connection crapped out.
Unicorns do exist, invisible pink ones too.
Tom Egberts is 50+.
This would be around the right time to invade Belgium: their army is almost out of ammunition.
Apparently, every movie becomes an instant classic once you cut a trailer to Clint Mansell’s Requiem for a Dream [...]
Last wednesday, Bruce Springsteen and his E-Street Band played the Amsterdam Arena. And I was there, for my first Springsteen concert. What a mighty fine gig it was. Sure, it probably wasn’t the best gig I’ve ever seen, but man, that energy, that showmanship, that set list—although my two alltime favorite tracks (”Thunder Road” and [...]
As of about fifteen minutes ago, it’s Firefox 3 Download Day 2008. Just ignore the hype of trying to set the Guinness World Record for most downloaded software in 24 hours and do yourself a solid favor: get your copy this very minute (or the very first minute you can, as, predictably, their servers seem [...]
Crappy internets sucked the blog out of me.
[This is my final post in Dutch on the current embryo screening issue in The Netherlands. That is, until I get worked up about it again.]
Het laatste waar je op moet hopen in het embryoselectiedebakel is een onzalig compromis dat de goedkeuring van de ChristenUnie weg kan dragen. En, als je het mij vraagt, is [...]
There’s this post I am working on. It’s nearly done. When it’s done, it should tie all the loose ends in the embryo screening fiasco (you know, the stuff I wrote about in Dutch) neatly together. But then the largest party in the coalition (finally) announced their position: with certain preconditions, they are “not against” [...]
A selfportrait by Rembrandt that wasn’t discovered until last year when it turned up at an auction—Rembrandt Laughing—can be seen in the Rembrandthuis in Amsterdam until june 29th.
Sunsets on Mars are awesome too.
What all those Christian clichés mean. Also, after seeing this map of heaven, I know for sure it’s not for me.
Big pictures are [...]
The best idea I had for a post yesterday was a simple one-liner: if you wear an orange wig, the terrorists win. And as you can see now for yourself, it isn’t a very good one either. So much for my attempt at posting something every day for a week.
Looking through the statistics, I see [...]
The European football championship is starting on monday. If anyone sees me wearing anything orange or adorn my house with flags and all kinds of orange crap, please, shoot me and put me out of my misery.