jan20021

  

I just wanted to know

' Although candles create a warm, inviting feeling within the home during the holidays and throughout the year, there is research showing that candle usage can create problems for your home's interior. ' How To Minimize Indoor Pollution From Candles

[telt 39 wurden]

jan20022

  

The day after

Nothing worse than a Wednesday that feels like a Monday.

[telt 10 wurden]

jan20023

  

Eenmalige truc

Hij keek wel erg opgewekt, voor iemand die geen gulden meer bezat.

[telt 12 wurden]

jan20024

  

Ragnarok [1883]

Science Fiction from 1883, describing what caused the ice ages. Primitive art included as illustrations.

[telt 15 wurden]

jan20024

  

De onuitgesproken belofte van de techniek

Word bevat volgens Westendorp een basisfout, die bijna alle moderne apparaten dwars zit en daarmee de gebruikers. 'Wat ik een fout vind - ik vertel dat ook altijd tijdens colleges -, is wanneer bij een apparaat alle functies standaard "aan" ...

[telt 106 wurden]

jan20025

  

Ex-Neerlands Hoop

Bram Vermeulen als-ie wakker wordt: ' Onderschat de kracht van woorden niet. Mijn mantra is vreugde. 's Morgens, voor ik opsta, werk ik een heel rijtje af. Ik begin met: I'm filled with vital energy. En dan: I'm all that a ...

[telt 223 wurden]

jan20025

  

American Science & Engineering

New and improved

[telt 3 wurden]

jan20026

  

Euro

Ik betrap mijzelf er ineens op guldens aan te duiden als "Nederlands geld".

[telt 14 wurden]

jan20027

  

The darts competition not seen on Dutch television

' Taylor has revolutionised the game of darts too. Technically, he has mastered a flatter trajectory on his shot so his dart doesn't enter the board at a dipping angle. A flatter shot means more triple 20s, as less darts ...

[telt 46 wurden]

jan20028

  

Why we don’t marry

' People still value marriage; but it is only that value�and very little social pressure or legal obligation�that sustains it. ' via Arts & Letters Daily

[telt 25 wurden]

jan20029

  

Current read: Letters to Wendy

Joe Wenderoth's book is made up of a series of comments written over the course of a year on customer-feedback cards of fastfood restaurant Wendy's. October 3, 1996 I love being in a little girl's special place. That's how I look at ...

[telt 179 wurden]

jan200210

  media

XXVII-12. Role of freelancers

'This last suggestion merits some additional consideration. If the media system of the target area depends to a large extent upon freelance journalists, it may be a particularly effective one. In some foreign areas, even newspapers are dependent upon freelancers ...

[telt 204 wurden]

jan200210

  

Letter to Wendy’s ii

Gaat in dezelfde week dat ik over de fastfood-keten Wendy's lees eigenaar David Thomas dood. Mijn postje van gisteren was dus een eerbetoon, zonder dat ik het wist.

[telt 28 wurden]

jan200211

  

Het universum is groen

Al was er ooit een blauwe periode.

[telt 7 wurden]

jan200212

  

Love Me Little, Love Me Long [1859]

TO MY MALE READERS. I SEE with some surprise that there still linger in the field of letters writers who think that, in fiction, when a personage speaks with an air of conviction, the sentiments must be the author's own. (When ...

[telt 213 wurden]

jan200213

  

Geek

The top ten search terms on TechEncyclopedia are: DSL OEM ASP XML Napster DVD dynamic RAM Athlon MP3 cracker I don't need the Encyclopedia to tell what any of them means. Which makes me a geek. That word is probably in it as ...

[telt 41 wurden]

jan200214

  

War and Peace

" Children should be taught as little as possible," he declares in so many words, for it is much worse that they should get "educational indigestion and come to detest education." He would take especial care to free the children ...

[telt 162 wurden]

jan200215

  

Oudpapierdag

Ik pak mijn oude kranten in alsof het cadeautjes zijn; dubbelgevouwen stuk krantepapier om de stapel en een paar stukjes plakband op strategische plekken om de boel bij elkaar te houden. En dat alleen maar om de stapels makkelijker naar ...

[telt 59 wurden]

jan200215

  illústraasjes

Scenes from the Slaughterhouse



[telt 1 wurden]

jan200216

  

Boekenkast

Hoeveel boeken heb ik gekocht in de hoop er over een paar jaar wel iets mee te kunnen aanvangen?

[telt 19 wurden]

jan200216

  

My first Euro

So if Sweden is the drooping cock of Europe in this design, what would that make Finland? What would that make Europe, for that matter?

[telt 25 wurden]

jan200217

  

The Great Gatsby

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this ...

[telt 254 wurden]

jan200218

  français

But why are essays on humour never funny themselves?

The first point to which attention should be called is that the comic does not exist outside the pale of what is strictly HUMAN. A landscape may be beautiful, charming and sublime, or insignificant and ugly; it will never be ...

[telt 191 wurden]

jan200219

  

Martin Amis reviews

' Voices of Revolution, 1917 is a formidably boring book � which is itself of some interest, given the desperate fascination of the historical moment. 'review

[telt 26 wurden]

jan200220

  

How to read a paper

The basics of evidence based medicine.

[telt 6 wurden]

jan200221

  

In Praise of Bad Habits

' It is this sense of balance - the essential ingredient of our success as a species, and one which is so often expressed in what are now defined as 'bad habits' - that we are now in serious danger ...

[telt 62 wurden]

jan200222

  

Smart machines

So what would an intelligent car be like, for example? Well, there may never be such a thing. But we used to have intelligent cars; they were called horses. And they used to know stuff that our cars don't know. They ...

[telt 100 wurden]

jan200225

  

list viii – non-fiction

Peter Watson's ten favourite non fiction books: 1. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (1900) The book that introduced the idea of a systematic unconscious, created the psychological age and changed the way we think about ourselves.

[telt 36 wurden]

jan200225

  

list ix – designer reality books

Douglas Rushkoff's top ten of favourite designer reality books. ' 1. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R Buckminster Fuller Bucky Fuller's most concise and compelling argument for how humankind might be able to survive and transcend its own compulsion for increased ...

[telt 92 wurden]

jan200226

  

Brick by brick

The Bible in Lego.

[telt 4 wurden]

jan200228

  

Dat was het dan



[telt 1 wurden]

jan200229

  Deutsch

Regeln für den Menschenpark

' Bücher, so hat der Dichter Jean Paul einmal bemerkt, sind dickere Briefe an Freunde. Mit diesem Satz hat er Wesen und Funktion des Humanismus quintessentiell und anmutig beim Namen genannt: Er ist freundschaftstiftende Telekommunikation im Medium der Schrift. Was ...

[telt 172 wurden]

jan200229

  

The Accused, the accusers

The famous speeches of the eight Chicago anarchists in court when asked if they had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon them. On October 7th, 8th and 9th, 1886, Chicago, Illinois. [NOTE.-Mr. Parsons' speech was eight hours ...

[telt 53 wurden]

jan200229

  

Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone

Science Fiction, overtaken by time.

[telt 5 wurden]