feb20041

  

Under eights review classic rock

The Who: Substitute (1966) What the grown-ups say "Substitute is an ironic comment on the gulf between image and reality, set to one of Pete's trickiest little riffs, all driven along by a ringing open D string. A bona fide pop ...

[telt 55 wurden]

feb20041

  

This much I know

You're only as old as your knees.Shirley Conran

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feb20042

  boeken/books
skiednis/history

Silence is a commons

Silence, according to western and eastern tradition alike, is necessary for the emergence of persons. It is taken from us by machines that ape people. We could easily be made increasingly dependent on machines for speaking and for thinking, as ...

[telt 108 wurden]

feb20044

  illústraasjes

A Polish Poster Gallery



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feb20044

  

Namoc

[C]ould the rapidly accelerating warming that we are experiencing actually hasten the onset of a new ice age? A growing body of evidence suggests that, at least for the UK and western Europe, there is a serious risk of this ...

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feb20045

  

Maugham

I am rereading William Somerset Maugham's autobiography The Summing Up at the moment. And I still think it is a delightful book, full of sarcasm and useful remarks about writing. But, I have been rereading it for more than a ...

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feb20045

  illústraasjes

Fiep Westendorp [1916 – 2004]



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feb20046

  

Fay Weldon

Yesterday's truth is today's lie. Ibsen gave the process 20 years and he was right. Feminism started as a revolution, succeeded, and turned into an orthodoxy.This much I kow.

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feb20046

  media

The Loom of the Link

Writing for the web reveals to me some of the illusions that ordinary writing can create. History--particularly the history of ideas--does not proceed in a linear fashion like lines of words across a page. It is more like an expanding ...

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feb20047

  

Op de extra ledenvergadering van de PvdA

Eerst begonnen de bestuurders hun tweeslachtige manoeuvres tijdens de crisisdagen rond Oudkerk moeizaam uit te leggen. Vanuit de zaal kon regelmatig een forse bres in hun verdediging worden geschoten. Dan waren er de goedbedoelde, maar o zo pijnlijke interventies van enkele ...

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feb20048

  

Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram's controversial book about literally everything is readable on-line right now as well. A New Kind of Science is what the title says it is about. And as science is as much socially constructed as it is invented, Wolfram's ...

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feb20048

  Deutsch
illústraasjes

Kuhalarm in der Sparkasse



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feb20048

  poezy|poetry

Ignorance

Strange to know nothing, never to be sure Of what is true or right or real, But forced to qualify or so I feel, Or Well, it does seem so: Someone must know. Strange to be ignorant of the way things work: Their skill at finding ...

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feb20049

  

Voetje van de vloer

Zit u rustig, achter uw bureau? Til dan uw rechtervoet enkele centimeters van de vloer, en laat uw voet met de klok mee cirkeltjes beschrijven. Toe maar. Til nu uw rechterhand van de muis, en laat die het cijfer zes schrijven ...

[telt 66 wurden]

feb20049

  

Curious George, the Clichémeister

Of the experience of teaching a doctoral seminar in Geneva for twenty-five years, Steiner, with characteristic overstatement, remarks that this was "as near as an ordinary, secular spirit can come to Pentecost." He then pulls out one of the two ...

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feb20049

  

Kant als elektronisch gespeicherter Datensatz

Beim 200. Todestag, das Bonner Kant-Korpus.

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feb200411

  media

Die Weerzinwekkende Media

Als je er goed over nadenkt dan begrijp je gauw dat het bijna altijd hun schuld is en daarom moet je nooit aan zelfkritiek doen. Niets toegeven of opbiechten, niet de hand in eigen boezem steken. Hef je vinger op ...

[telt 136 wurden]

feb200412

  

Taartdiagram

Tweederde van het gebak bestaat uit nat gebak (gebakjes, taarten, punten).

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feb200413

  

What to do now the Windows source code can be found on-line?

Search MS source code for evidence of theft from open source projects; Search MS source code for evidence of antitrust violations ("Windows isn't finished until * won't run"); Reverse engineer MS souce code for greater compatibility with all sorts of open source ...

[telt 90 wurden]

feb200414

  

Maak uw eigen Valentijnshart

hier

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feb200414

  poezy|poetry

i like

i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body ...

[telt 97 wurden]

feb200414

  

È morto Pantani [1970 – 2004]



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feb200415

  

Store your cd’s and dvd’s vertically, like books

And other tips for care and handling. Most cd's and dvd's will last 30 years or longer, if they're handled with care.

[telt 22 wurden]

feb200415

  poezy|poetry

È morto Pantani [1970 – 2004] ii

Pull A String, A Puppet Moves each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter ...

[telt 93 wurden]

feb200416

  frysk

Nij

In nije mooglikheid fan dizze webside is dat fanôf hjoed in part fan 'e ynhâld ek fia de opsje "seleksje" oproppen wurde kin. Kies "frysk", en dan ferskynt der in side mei alle Fryske postjes dy 't ik oait skreaun ...

[telt 55 wurden]

feb200416

  illústraasjes

Shirin



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feb200416

  

PNG and Internet Explorer ii

As I wrote on January 23, Microsoft's Internet Explorer can't handle transparent PNG's. So the logo of this website would look good in any browser, but a dull grey in IE. At last, I'd found a javascript that could bring a ...

[telt 98 wurden]

feb200416

  

Paul Auster

'Sometimes,' he says, sounding suddenly reflective, 'I think of that wonderful line by George Opren, the great American poet, that I used in The Invention of Solitude. He's talking about the apparent suddenness with which we grow old, and he ...

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feb200417

  Deutsch

Schopenhauer

Zum Denken sind wenige Menschen geneigt, obwohl alle zum Rechthaben.

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feb200418

  illústraasjes

Minor White

Masters of Photography

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feb200418

  

V.S. Naipaul on writing

The late Philip Larkin -- original and very grand, especially in his later work -- thought that form and content were indivisible. He worked slowly, he said. "You're finding out what to say as well as how to say it, ...

[telt 144 wurden]

feb200419

  skiednis/history

Philip Kitcher on Science

Philosophy of science has made great progress in tackling problems of the special sciences. Much less has been done to come to terms with science as a social phenomenon, to understand the ways in which scientific claims are affected ...

[telt 113 wurden]

feb200420

  illústraasjes

Erlbruch

Writer and illustrator Wolf Erlbruch and what has influenced him

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feb200421

  Deutsch

Schopenhauer ii

Durch viele Zitate vermehrt man seinen Anspruch auf Gelehrsamkeit, vermindert den auf Originalität, und was ist Gelehrsamkeit gegen Originalität? Man soll Zitate also nur gebrauchen, wo man fremder Autorität wirklich bedarf.

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feb200422

  illústraasjes

Another Alice

Wolf Erlbruch names Tenniel's illustrations of Alice in Wonderland as an influence on his website. I happen to like Arthur Rackham's paintings better. Even though Rackham clearly has been a major influence on Dutch illustrator Anton Pieck, who abused the ...

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feb200422

  Deutsch

Schopenhauer iii

Man muß denken, wie die wenigsten und reden wie die meisten.

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feb200423

  

Kletsomgewing

Welke algemeen in het Nederlands gebruikte woorden horen bij de volgende Afrikaanse alternatieven: kletsomgewingterug-knoppieaflaaieposlysnaakwareinpropprogram Betreklike Goeie PrivaatheidporskynrealiteitstemposwebbedienerwebtuisteOfwel, hoe het Afrikaans zich tegen Engelse insluipsels te weer stelt.Via het Volkskrant Weblog.

[telt 29 wurden]

feb200424

  frysk
media

Relderel

Der is in grutte rel in Fryslân! Wol Brussel it aaisykjen dochs wer ferbiede? Folle slimmer noch. De amtners op it provinsjehûs dy 't Frysk leare wolle, moatte dochs harren boeken sels keapje. Moatst net de gek mei my ha. Wat kin der dan ...

[telt 275 wurden]

feb200425

  Deutsch

Schopenhauer iv

Das Leben ist eine missliche Sache: ich habe mir vorgesetzt, es damit hinzubringen, über dasselbe nachzudenken.

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feb200425

  

King William’s College Quiz ii

The answers to this quiz have been on-line since almost a month now. It would have been nice if the Guardian had mentioned it somewhere. On January 2, my answers to the questions under number 7 were: 7.1 Arnhem, operation Market Garden ...

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feb200426

  

Ping

Blo.gs is immediately pinged when something new is posted on this website, from now on. And Weblogs.com as well. But I'm wondering about the RSS-feed, though. If I change my settings, will this only take effect the next time I post?

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feb200426

  

Logo of the Day



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feb200426

  frysk
media

Relderel ii

Wat my fuortendaliks al tsjinstie yn dy hiele diskusje is dat it wer ris net om prinsipes gong, mar om jild. Wol eamelje dat de Ljouwerter in hiel minne krante is, mar dan net ferjitte wolle dat it in rike ...

[telt 137 wurden]

feb200427

  

Stallman en de perversiteit van de massa

Stallman: "Software kan bestaan uit 1 miljoen onderdelen, en dan is het nog niet eens een enorm project. Zoiets kan met niks anders, omdat programmeurs niet te maken hebben met wat ik de 'perversiteit van massa' noem. Alles bestaat uit ...

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feb200427

  

Logo of the Day ii

source unknown

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feb200428

  Deutsch

Schopenhauer v

Jedes überflüssige Wort wirkt seinem Zweck gerade entgegen.

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feb200429

  

Kuurne – Brussel – Kuurne

In het sportprogramma op de VRT wordt even nagepraat over de wielerwedstrijd Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne. Ineens de opening van het klassieke wielerseizoen, nadat zaterdag de Omloop Het Volk niet doorging door de sneeuw. Noord-Hollander Steven de Jongh won vandaag, en moet zijn dikke ...

[telt 143 wurden]

feb200429

  

Logo of the Day iii



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