<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532</id><updated>2012-02-16T12:32:16.946+01:00</updated><title type='text'>ThatsQuiteInteresting</title><subtitle type='html'>Nobody accepts randomness in their successes, only in their failures.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>97</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-544676585629712382</id><published>2009-04-20T18:31:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T18:31:23.038+01:00</updated><title type='text'>NBA Playoffs 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/48109b12d93c4f29/49ecb16923152e7d/49e89deca1ae7eaf/4a6ff66c/widget.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-544676585629712382?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/544676585629712382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=544676585629712382&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/544676585629712382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/544676585629712382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2009/04/nba-playoffs-2009.html' title='NBA Playoffs 2009'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-2260113422851522503</id><published>2008-12-11T23:10:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T23:13:07.463+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The iPod? It's bound to fail (and the other predictions the experts would rather forget)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00100/pg22-ipod-PA_100152t.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 204px;" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00100/pg22-ipod-PA_100152t.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/the-ipod-its-bound-to-fail-and-the-other-predictions-the-experts-would-rather-forget-1061286.html"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-2260113422851522503?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/2260113422851522503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=2260113422851522503&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/2260113422851522503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/2260113422851522503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2008/12/ipod-its-bound-to-fail-and-other.html' title='The iPod? It&apos;s bound to fail (and the other predictions the experts would rather forget)'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-7517758543687575320</id><published>2008-03-21T14:58:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-21T14:59:38.978+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Mutombo Imitations</title><content type='html'>Het is van je ploegmaats dat je het moet hebben. Hilarische video van de Rockets die praten over Dikembe Mutombo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/goSbuA53Iqo&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/goSbuA53Iqo&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-7517758543687575320?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/7517758543687575320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=7517758543687575320&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/7517758543687575320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/7517758543687575320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2008/03/mutombo-imitations.html' title='Mutombo Imitations'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-7776301365707751313</id><published>2008-03-06T19:16:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-06T19:19:22.706+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Drawing by Banksy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.banksy.co.uk/drawing/images/fallofman.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.banksy.co.uk/drawing/images/fallofman.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;check his website! He's worldfamous now but is still relevant.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-7776301365707751313?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/7776301365707751313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=7776301365707751313&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/7776301365707751313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/7776301365707751313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2008/03/drawing-by-banksy.html' title='Drawing by Banksy'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-8267995549581457495</id><published>2007-11-11T20:08:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:13:57.419+01:00</updated><title type='text'>What's happening?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RzdUbJ4nE1I/AAAAAAAACVY/9d5O2vrkz50/s1600-h/iversonufolanding.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RzdUbJ4nE1I/AAAAAAAACVY/9d5O2vrkz50/s400/iversonufolanding.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131663125898531666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wat speelt er zich hier af?&lt;br /&gt;A. Een UFO vliegt binnen in de zaal buiten het zicht van de camera.&lt;br /&gt;B. Allen Iverson heeft een nieuwe tattoo laten zetten op zijn linkerschouder, een portret van David Stern.&lt;br /&gt;C. Iverson heeft uiensoep gegeten voor de wedstrijd.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-8267995549581457495?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/8267995549581457495/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=8267995549581457495&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/8267995549581457495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/8267995549581457495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/11/whats-happening.html' title='What&apos;s happening?'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RzdUbJ4nE1I/AAAAAAAACVY/9d5O2vrkz50/s72-c/iversonufolanding.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-6194245655885846664</id><published>2007-09-27T20:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:13:57.990+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Lookalike 7</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/Rvv-FMcAgdI/AAAAAAAACVA/wYKynAAB_vc/s1600-h/A-59792-1106145064.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/Rvv-FMcAgdI/AAAAAAAACVA/wYKynAAB_vc/s400/A-59792-1106145064.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114961167000830418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/Rvv-FccAgeI/AAAAAAAACVI/gqquefU-FNs/s1600-h/996531_356x237.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/Rvv-FccAgeI/AAAAAAAACVI/gqquefU-FNs/s400/996531_356x237.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114961171295797730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bob Dylan &amp; José Gonzalez&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-6194245655885846664?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/6194245655885846664/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=6194245655885846664&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/6194245655885846664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/6194245655885846664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/09/lookalike-7.html' title='Lookalike 7'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/Rvv-FMcAgdI/AAAAAAAACVA/wYKynAAB_vc/s72-c/A-59792-1106145064.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-6520850024386511779</id><published>2007-09-26T21:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-09-26T21:59:00.458+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Our house... (2)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Eindelijk is het zover, vanavond om 18u werd de definitieve verkoopakte getekend zodat we (eindelijk) ons eigen huisje hebben. Uiteraard leuk voor ons gezien onze lange zoektocht  maar ook meer dan nodig gezien de nakende gezinsuitbreiding ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vorig weekend waren we al begonnen met het wat bij te schilderen (big up to E &amp;amp; haar ma, geen slecht woord over mijn schoonmoeder) en ook al het doenbare reeds te verhuizen (lees:  bijna alles wat ik alleen kan dragen). Rest ons nu enkel nog de grote zaken te verhuizen en als alles dit weekend vlot verloopt slapen we normaal vanaf 1 oktober nog steeds in ons oude bed maar dan wel in ons 'nieuwe' huis...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dus beste vrienden, mocht het jullie passen, steek eens over, jullie zijn meer dan welkom om er ne goeie (of meer dan een) te komen drinken chez nous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peace!&lt;br /&gt;B, E &amp;amp; J&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS Zal ff zonder internet zitten, ik zal technologisch dan ook tijdelijk enkel auditief bereikbaar zijn en pas na 8 oktober evt. ook weer in real-time (alhoewel sommigen zich misschien zullen afvragen of dat nu positief is of niet :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-6520850024386511779?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/6520850024386511779/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=6520850024386511779&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/6520850024386511779'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/6520850024386511779'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/09/our-house-2.html' title='Our house... (2)'/><author><name>bricken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02851726404120287986</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-2281060309481544436</id><published>2007-09-24T19:19:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-09-24T19:23:18.904+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Kartelvorming loont!</title><content type='html'>MSTERDAM - Door illegale prijsafspraken tussen brouwers hebben Nederlandse bierdrinkers jarenlang 1 euro te veel betaald voor een kratje pils. Van 1996 tot 1999 hebben Heineken, Bavaria, Grolsch en het Belgische InBev met hun bierkartel in totaal ongeveer 400 miljoen euro verdiend. De Europese Commissie te Brussel beboette de brouwers in april voor 273 miljoen euro. InBev ging vrijuit omdat de Belgische brouwer de andere drie had 'verlinkt'. De Nederlandse brouwers zijn direct na het horen van de boete in hoger beroep gegaan.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-2281060309481544436?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/2281060309481544436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=2281060309481544436&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/2281060309481544436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/2281060309481544436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/09/kartelvorming-loont.html' title='Kartelvorming loont!'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-8347833402854297552</id><published>2007-09-15T12:58:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-09-15T18:16:22.223+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Our house...</title><content type='html'>Sedert gisteren hebben we de sleutels van onze 'nieuwe' woonst &amp;amp; in afwachting van tekenen van de definitieve akte op 26 sept, kunnen we dan ook beginnen met de nodige werkjes vooraleer we definitief zullen verhuizen ergens in de 1ste helft van oktober...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Binnenkort dan ook house warming party bij ons,  eindelijk kunnen wij dan ook eens meer dan 1 koppel vragen zonder onze hele inboedel te moeten verhuizen...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers all!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B, E &amp;amp; J&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-8347833402854297552?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/8347833402854297552/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=8347833402854297552&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/8347833402854297552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/8347833402854297552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/09/our-house.html' title='Our house...'/><author><name>bricken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02851726404120287986</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-4810800354749076236</id><published>2007-09-06T20:15:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:13:58.282+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey My Name Is...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dghJ-Dyzbvo/RuBVWOYriaI/AAAAAAAAAAM/XuOutca1VJY/s1600-h/IMG_1003.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dghJ-Dyzbvo/RuBVWOYriaI/AAAAAAAAAAM/XuOutca1VJY/s320/IMG_1003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107175817745238434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jasper &amp; hier voer ik een gericht guerilla-aanvalsmanoeuvre uit op mijn lieve &amp;amp; nietsvermoedende papa (let vooral op mijn gefocuste blik...). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Niemand raakte gewond...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;More soon!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Peace. Bricken &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-4810800354749076236?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/4810800354749076236/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=4810800354749076236&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/4810800354749076236'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/4810800354749076236'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/09/hey-my-name-is.html' title='Hey My Name Is...'/><author><name>bricken</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02851726404120287986</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dghJ-Dyzbvo/RuBVWOYriaI/AAAAAAAAAAM/XuOutca1VJY/s72-c/IMG_1003.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-5045153102727258902</id><published>2007-08-21T18:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:13:58.992+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Shield  &amp; The Wire</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RssrrXH5DRI/AAAAAAAABUo/6mUm9pg8qNo/s1600-h/Season02_posterart.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RssrrXH5DRI/AAAAAAAABUo/6mUm9pg8qNo/s400/Season02_posterart.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101219026868702482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/Rssrr3H5DSI/AAAAAAAABUw/ak-QkJmU0y4/s1600-h/Theshield.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/Rssrr3H5DSI/AAAAAAAABUw/ak-QkJmU0y4/s400/Theshield.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101219035458637090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De laatste jaren is het triestig gesteld met de kwaliteit van de langspeelfilms uit de V.S.  Vroeger was er een mix van interessante blockbusters (type Die Hard) en minder commerciële films (type The Usual Suspects) die wel aansloegen bij een groot publiek. Nu krijgen we X-Men 1,2,3 Spiderman 1 tot 3 en de Star Wars draken voorgeschoteld afgewisseld met de zoveelste slasher/gore movie (geeuw!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wil je goeie VS acteurs zien, interessante dialogen en originele scripts dan stem je beter af op één van de series van de onafhankelijke producenten (HBO, FX ). &lt;br /&gt;The Shield en The Wire behoren tot het beste wat ik de laatste jaren heb gezien (persoonlijk ben ik geen fan van The Sopranos, teveel Analyze This, te weinig Goodfellas)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Shield bevat iets meer actie dan The Wire maar beide series zitten vol met echte personages die je na een paar afleveringen gaat beschouwen als je persoonlijke vrienden, aartsvijanden of maitresses   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The stuff is addictive, most def!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-5045153102727258902?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/5045153102727258902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=5045153102727258902&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/5045153102727258902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/5045153102727258902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/08/shield-wire.html' title='The Shield  &amp; The Wire'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RssrrXH5DRI/AAAAAAAABUo/6mUm9pg8qNo/s72-c/Season02_posterart.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-4179008422290968184</id><published>2007-07-06T22:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-06T22:12:32.529+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Keepintime in Brasil</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://brasilintime.com/#events"&gt;&lt;img src="http://mochilla.com/brasilintime/img/BT_Event_Web_Flyer_Sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.keepintime.com"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-4179008422290968184?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/4179008422290968184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=4179008422290968184&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/4179008422290968184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/4179008422290968184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/07/keepintime-in-brasil.html' title='Keepintime in Brasil'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-4058670009325239854</id><published>2007-06-20T22:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:13:59.109+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Cool Graph</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RnmiMWuCOAI/AAAAAAAAAho/r-9kja7FlAA/s1600-h/ppgopg.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RnmiMWuCOAI/AAAAAAAAAho/r-9kja7FlAA/s400/ppgopg.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5078268387977738242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This has got to be the coolest graph I've seen on NBA stats. On the vertical axis the number of points per game are shown for all the nba players with a sufficient amount of playin time. The horizontal axis shows all the other contributions by a player (other than points) , added together and divided by the number of games. There is also a color code on the graph.  &lt;br /&gt;When you look at the outliers on the graph, you get a good idea of which players are special . Check out Garnett for instance.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-4058670009325239854?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/4058670009325239854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=4058670009325239854&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/4058670009325239854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/4058670009325239854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/06/cool-graph.html' title='Cool Graph'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RnmiMWuCOAI/AAAAAAAAAho/r-9kja7FlAA/s72-c/ppgopg.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-3095256309868460601</id><published>2007-06-18T19:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:13:59.604+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ieper regio: poverty's fields</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RnbTlmuCKNI/AAAAAAAAABg/pexi62dRte8/s1600-h/AMNPJR00.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RnbTlmuCKNI/AAAAAAAAABg/pexi62dRte8/s320/AMNPJR00.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077478272909060306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leterme werd twee weken geleden de populairste politicus van Vlaanderen en de Ieperling mag dan wel gezien worden als een voorbeeld van 'goed bestuur'maar in zijn eigen 'backyard' of 'hood' hebben ze nog niet veel gezien van zijn &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;goe bestier.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vandaag verscheen de nieuwe rangschikking (aanslagjaar 2005) van de rijkste en armste gemeenten van het land .&lt;br /&gt;Mesen, Lo-Reninge staan opnieuw in de top tien en zijn de armste gemeenten van Vlaanderen. Schaam op jou, Yves.   Er staat trouwens maar één WestVlaamse stad/gemeente in de Top 10 rijkste (Koksijde  niet Knokke !),&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hoezo rijke WestVlamingen????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Top-20 van de gemeenten met hoogste gemiddeld fiscale inkomen per inwoner (in euro)  &lt;br /&gt;1 Sint-Martens-Latem 19,223 &lt;br /&gt;2 Keerbergen 18,984 &lt;br /&gt;3 Lasne 18,730 &lt;br /&gt;4 Dilbeek 18,283 &lt;br /&gt;5 Hove 18,116 &lt;br /&gt;6 Lubbeek 17,964 &lt;br /&gt;7 Oud-Heverlee 17,891 &lt;br /&gt;8 Herent 17,840 &lt;br /&gt;9 Aartselaar 17,822 &lt;br /&gt;10 Schilde 17,808 &lt;br /&gt;11 De Pinte 17,788 &lt;br /&gt;12 Meise 17,495 &lt;br /&gt;13 Steenokkerzeel 17,454 &lt;br /&gt;14 Grimbergen 17,361 &lt;br /&gt;15 Bonheiden 17,287 &lt;br /&gt;16 Kortenberg 16,888 &lt;br /&gt;17 Boortmeerbeek 16,858 &lt;br /&gt;18 Bierbeek 16,798 &lt;br /&gt;19 Koksijde 16,794 &lt;br /&gt;20 Zemst 16,781 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Top-20 van de gemeenten met laagste gemiddeld fiscale inkomen per inwoner (in euro)  &lt;br /&gt;1 Sint-Joost-ten-Node 6,897 &lt;br /&gt;2 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek 8,620 &lt;br /&gt;3 Sint-Gillis 8,918 &lt;br /&gt;4 Farciennes 9,306 &lt;br /&gt;5 Schaarbeek 9,343 &lt;br /&gt;6 Lo-Reninge 9,532 &lt;br /&gt;7 Momignies 9,723 &lt;br /&gt;8 Mesen 9,770 &lt;br /&gt;9 Colfontaine 9,959 &lt;br /&gt;10 Alveringem 10,158 &lt;br /&gt;11 Brussel 10,162 &lt;br /&gt;12 Dison 10,214 &lt;br /&gt;13 Quaregnon 10,214 &lt;br /&gt;14 La Roche-en-Ardenne 10,262 &lt;br /&gt;15 Chimay 10,334 &lt;br /&gt;16 Daverdisse 10,349 &lt;br /&gt;17 Vleteren 10,355 &lt;br /&gt;18 Anderlecht 10,373 &lt;br /&gt;19 Rendeux 10,395 &lt;br /&gt;20 Froidchapelle 10,440 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bron: Algemene Directie Statistiek en Economische Informatie - FOD Economie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-3095256309868460601?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/3095256309868460601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=3095256309868460601&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/3095256309868460601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/3095256309868460601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/06/ieper-regio-povertys-fields.html' title='Ieper regio: poverty&apos;s fields'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RnbTlmuCKNI/AAAAAAAAABg/pexi62dRte8/s72-c/AMNPJR00.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-5259329590369038094</id><published>2007-05-24T22:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:13:59.814+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Can I keep my jersey?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RlYG_9gRBCI/AAAAAAAAABY/NxDkjmGPmYs/s1600-h/nba_shirleybook_195.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RlYG_9gRBCI/AAAAAAAAABY/NxDkjmGPmYs/s320/nba_shirleybook_195.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068246126563492898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We vergeten maar al te vaak dat 90% van de professionele sporters geen miljonairs zijn en ook moeten knokken. Paul Shirley is één van die sporters. Hij maakte een blog, ondertussen een boek, van zijn basketbal-odyssee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paul Shirley has played for 13 pro basketball teams, including three NBA teams -- the Chicago Bulls, Atlanta Hawks and Phoenix Suns. Paul can be found at myspace.com/paulshirley. His blog, "Can I Keep My Jersey?", can be found &lt;a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=shirley_paul&amp;page=Journal-48"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-5259329590369038094?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/5259329590369038094/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=5259329590369038094&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/5259329590369038094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/5259329590369038094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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value='http://youtube.com/v/sc4yz__akIU' name='movie'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/sc4yz__akIU'&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Op Youtube vind je gemakkelijk 4, 5 filmpjes waar Bruce Bowen opzettelijk iemand kwetst (Francis, Ray Allen, Nowitzki, Crawford, ....)  crapuleus;  levenslang moesten ze die gast schorsen&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-7296376048618504863?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/7296376048618504863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=7296376048618504863&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://youtube.com/v/WxGAJH-gcVg' name='movie'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/WxGAJH-gcVg'&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Droge humor voor een Amerikaan&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-7135779509655182140?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/7135779509655182140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=7135779509655182140&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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href="http://www.garagetv.be/video-galerij/walter/El_Gringo_Jump.aspx"&gt;GRINGO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-2135336226807450891?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/2135336226807450891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=2135336226807450891&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/2135336226807450891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/2135336226807450891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/04/talk-to-hand.html' title='Talk to the hand....'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-6606384027891372200</id><published>2007-04-03T21:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:14:00.403+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Effe dimmen met die liberalisering Deel 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RhK6XI0sRYI/AAAAAAAAABI/kl1j4nHEh_k/s1600-h/MY_PEGASUS_large.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049303038903993730" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RhK6XI0sRYI/AAAAAAAAABI/kl1j4nHEh_k/s320/MY_PEGASUS_large.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RhK6XY0sRZI/AAAAAAAAABQ/v3BYlcsmfeI/s1600-h/homeless.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049303043198961042" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RhK6XY0sRZI/AAAAAAAAABQ/v3BYlcsmfeI/s320/homeless.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;OECD study links countries' child mortality rate with level of inequality.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DEATH RATES, Ten worst states in the OECD for mortality in children under five &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;FRANCE 5.5 (deaths per 1,000) &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;NETHERLANDS 5.50 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;PORTUGAL 5.50 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;SWITZERLAND 5.50 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;AUSTRALIA 6.00 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;IRELAND 6.00 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;NEW ZEALAND 6.00 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;CANADA 6.50 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;UNITED KINGDOM 6.50 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;UNITED STATES 8.00 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;The results show that the child mortality rate, based on the number of children dying before the age of five per 1,000 live births averaged over a four-year period, was below five in the top six countries - Sweden at 3.25, followed by Iceland (3.75) Norway (4.00) Denmark (4.25) Japan (4.50) and Finland (4.75). The bottom six were New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland (all 6.0), UK and Canada (6.5) and the US (8.0).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The researchers also calculated income inequality in each country by comparing the income share of the top 20 per cent with that of the bottom 40 per cent. The ratio was lowest in Luxembourg, Japan, Finland and Norway, where the income of the top earners 20 per cent was only 1.5 times greater than the bottom 40 per cent. But the ratio was 2.5 in the UK and 2.8 in the US."There is a very strong association between income inequality and under-five child mortality among the wealthier OECD [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] countries,'' said the report.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;David Collison, who led the study, said: "All the Anglo-American countries do pretty badly. It is clear that inequality is linked to the poor position of the UK and elsewhere."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little"  Franklin Roosevelt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-6606384027891372200?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/6606384027891372200/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=6606384027891372200&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/6606384027891372200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/6606384027891372200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/04/effe-dimmen-met-die-liberalisering-deel.html' title='Effe dimmen met die liberalisering Deel 2'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RhK6XI0sRYI/AAAAAAAAABI/kl1j4nHEh_k/s72-c/MY_PEGASUS_large.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-5672301145238815609</id><published>2007-04-03T21:08:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:14:00.579+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Eco nieuws uit de UK</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RhK2yo0sRXI/AAAAAAAAABA/mlZi32WpD2I/s1600-h/smog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049299113303885170" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RhK2yo0sRXI/AAAAAAAAABA/mlZi32WpD2I/s320/smog.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Air pollution in major cities is potentially more damaging to health than being exposed to the radioactive fallout of an atomic bomb, according to a report published earlier this week.&lt;br /&gt;The study suggests that high levels of urban air pollution cut life expectancy by more than the radiation exposure of emergency workers sent into the 19-mile exclusion zone around the Chernobyl disaster.&lt;br /&gt;Although 30 people died immediately in the two explosions at Chernobyl and up to 16,000 deaths have been linked to the radiation plume that spread across Europe, the research found that moving from Inverness to London could have a worse effect on your health than moving to Chernobyl. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jim Smith, a scientist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, who carried out the research, assessed the health risks faced by those at Chernobyl directly after the explosion and those who set up home in the exclusion zone afterwards. He compared them with air pollution, obesity and passive and active smoking.&lt;br /&gt;He concluded the Chernobyl group absorbed radiation equivalent to more than the amount emitted during 1,200 chest x-rays, which was likely to cause one extra death in a hundred by increasing the risk of cancer.&lt;br /&gt;The health risks associated with air pollution and passive smoking appear more severe. Pollution in central London increased mortality due to heart disease by 2.8 per cent compared with Inverness, Britain's least polluted city, while living with a smoker increases mortality by 1.7 per cent, the study found.&lt;br /&gt;Writing in the journal BMC Public Health, Dr Smith said: "It is well known that radiation can potentially cause fatal cancers in people, even at relatively low doses. But our understandable fear of radiation needs to be placed in the context of other risks. The study follows a report last month from The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, which said air pollution was responsible for 24,000 premature deaths in Britain every year. Sir John Lawton, chairman of the commission, said the Government had consistently failed to tackle rising levels of chemicals in the atmosphere of cities. Other findings showed that women living in areas of higher pollution were at greater risk of heart disease and death, while children living within 500 metres of motorways suffered more permanent lung damage and lower life expectancy, probably because of their greater exposure to pollutants in vehicle fumes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-5672301145238815609?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/5672301145238815609/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=5672301145238815609&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/5672301145238815609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/5672301145238815609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/04/eco-nieuws-uit-de-uk.html' title='Eco nieuws uit de UK'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RhK2yo0sRXI/AAAAAAAAABA/mlZi32WpD2I/s72-c/smog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-6587521647378259148</id><published>2007-03-01T12:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:14:01.149+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Simple mathematics</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/Rea8S-DeQfI/AAAAAAAAAAY/IZ3Z9WsvVMo/s1600-h/pic09122.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036920267341709810" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/Rea8S-DeQfI/AAAAAAAAAAY/IZ3Z9WsvVMo/s320/pic09122.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/Rea8TeDeQgI/AAAAAAAAAAg/11oBc4o8Yh4/s1600-h/pic21055.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036920275931644418" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/Rea8TeDeQgI/AAAAAAAAAAg/11oBc4o8Yh4/s320/pic21055.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/Rea8TeDeQhI/AAAAAAAAAAo/5g94JPpAaZo/s1600-h/pic28458.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036920275931644434" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/Rea8TeDeQhI/AAAAAAAAAAo/5g94JPpAaZo/s320/pic28458.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-6587521647378259148?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/6587521647378259148/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=6587521647378259148&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/6587521647378259148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/6587521647378259148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/03/simple-mathematics.html' title='Simple mathematics'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/Rea8S-DeQfI/AAAAAAAAAAY/IZ3Z9WsvVMo/s72-c/pic09122.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-2266873102324555139</id><published>2007-01-02T22:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T20:14:01.390+01:00</updated><title type='text'>2007: You Gots To Chill!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RZrcw8_TZiI/AAAAAAAAAAM/msiNBzcKWQ0/s1600-h/TEST4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015563868593940002" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RZrcw8_TZiI/AAAAAAAAAAM/msiNBzcKWQ0/s320/TEST4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;An investment banker was taking a few days off near a small coastal Mexican village, where he came upon a fisherman.&lt;br /&gt;The banker complimented the fisherman on his catch, and was astonished to learn that it didn't take long for the fisherman to complete his daily work. The banker then asked the fisherman what he did for the rest of his day.&lt;br /&gt;'I sleep late', the fisherman replied, 'fish a little, play with my children, take a siesta with my wife, stroll around the village with my friends, sip some wine, play a little guitar. I keep myself occupied, senor'.&lt;br /&gt;The investment banker scoffed. 'I have an MBA from Harvard', he proudly exclaimed. What you need to do is spend more time fishing. With the extra proceeds buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from that boat, buy a few more. Then, instead of selling your catch to a middleman, you would be able to sell directly to a processor. You'll be so successful that you could end up running your empire from New York'.&lt;br /&gt;'But senor,' the fisherman asked, 'how long will all that take'. '15 - 20 years', came the reply. 'And then what, senor ?'. The investment banker laughed. 'Then, my friend, you'd do an IPO, sell stock in your company, and make millions'. 'Millions, senor. Then what ?'.&lt;br /&gt;'Then', said the banker, 'you'd retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village. You'd sleep in late, fish a little, play with your children, take a siesta with your wife, stroll around the village with your friends, sip some wine, play a little guitar'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-2266873102324555139?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/2266873102324555139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=2266873102324555139&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/2266873102324555139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/2266873102324555139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2007/01/2007-you-gots-to-chill.html' title='2007: You Gots To Chill!'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CSgfZoRvclY/RZrcw8_TZiI/AAAAAAAAAAM/msiNBzcKWQ0/s72-c/TEST4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-3061307257022181380</id><published>2006-12-01T23:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-01T23:10:36.476+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/2868/1217/1600/970785/amateur.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/2868/1217/320/970279/amateur.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Funnier than neveneffecten. &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo&amp;mode=related&amp;amp;search="&gt;Amateur -Lass Gjertsen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-3061307257022181380?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/3061307257022181380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=3061307257022181380&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/3061307257022181380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/3061307257022181380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/12/funnier-than-neveneffecten.html' title=''/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-7341378830401228749</id><published>2006-12-01T22:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-01T23:14:42.976+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Amazing Rap Impersonations</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/2868/1217/1600/293059/1441606035_thumb1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/2868/1217/320/483161/1441606035_thumb1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&amp;amp;videoid=1427771169"&gt;This cat's da bomb. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-7341378830401228749?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/7341378830401228749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=7341378830401228749&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/7341378830401228749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/7341378830401228749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/12/amazing-rap-impersonations.html' title='Amazing Rap Impersonations'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-5772262079376811086</id><published>2006-11-18T22:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-18T22:32:12.762+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Mea culpa from a consumer.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/2868/1217/1600/598410/_40221381_earthb_ap_203.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/2868/1217/320/462862/_40221381_earthb_ap_203.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I evade my personal responsibility for the things I choose to do. I blame the government, the oil companies, George Bush, the economy, the wealthy and anybody else I can think of for the destruction that my lifestyle causes.&lt;br /&gt;I put my comfort, my convienence and my conformity ahead of the lives and livelihoods of thousands of future generations, and I try not to think too much about my daily contribution to the destruction of the world that was left to me by thousands of past generations. I put myself far, far ahead of my ancestors and decendents and take from them for the most trivial of reasons.&lt;br /&gt;I ignore the real human pain, suffering and death that my behaviour causes. I turn the page, switch the channel, and change the topic of conversation. I pretend that the science isn't definitive yet, or that there's no point in changing before others do, and I convince myself that 'scientists' will come up with a technological solution that will make my lifestyle and me OK.&lt;br /&gt;I avoid, I deny, I justify and rationalise, I pretend, I project, I squirm and sqeeze and do whatever I can to maintain my concept of myself as a good person while still doing what I do. I evade my moral responsibility a day at a time in the hope that reality will somehow be different tomorrow morning.&lt;br /&gt;I steal from those who live far away from me, and who I do not know because I see their pain as cartoon pain, and not fully real. I casually destroy what future generations will depend upon to live because they have yet to be born and it is only me, and my time and my normalcy that is important.&lt;br /&gt;I am like those who, sixty years ago, did their jobs and lived their normal lives and didn't ask questions about where their jewish neighbours had gone. I am like those who participated in slavery and other atrocities, except that the effects of my crimes will outlast all those others.&lt;br /&gt;And it is OK, because today I am normal, and busy, and have other things on my mind and, if what I do is really so bad so many people wouldn't be doing the same, would they?&lt;br /&gt;But when, in the hours before I die, I think back upon my life and what it has meant, I must do one thing. I must hope and hope and pray and pray that there is nothing beyond life and beyong time and beyond myself, that there is no blance, no karma, no morality and no justice.&lt;br /&gt;Because if there is, and I do what I do, knowing what I know.... Well, lets not think about that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-5772262079376811086?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/5772262079376811086/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=5772262079376811086&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/5772262079376811086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/5772262079376811086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/11/mea-culpa-by-consumer.html' title='Mea culpa from a consumer.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-116164214542167335</id><published>2006-10-23T23:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:45.669+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Lookalike 6</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/wentworthmiller.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/wentworthmiller.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/stevemcqueen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/stevemcqueen.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wentworth Miller III (Prison Break) vs Steve McQueen (The Great Escape)&lt;br /&gt;And if you're wondering, I am not gay.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-116164214542167335?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/116164214542167335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=116164214542167335&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/116164214542167335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/116164214542167335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/10/lookalike-6.html' title='Lookalike 6'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-116078055845092393</id><published>2006-10-13T23:49:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:45.602+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A day in Koln</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/frischgezapft.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/frischgezapft.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week I went to Koln, to personally view two basketballmatches of the NBA Europe Live Tour, featuring the Phoenix Suns and Philadelphia 76ers.. The event took place in the Kolnarena, with a max. capacity of 20,000 as close as you can get in Europe to an NBA size stadium. My buddy and me had a great time, behaved like the real deal, bought the jerseys, drank the 50cl pints of beer, and eyed the cuties that were present at the time. The only bummer was the trip back in the bus, with no legroom, arriving at 4.30AM. And having to get up at 6.30AM wasn't a picknick either.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-116078055845092393?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/116078055845092393/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=116078055845092393&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/116078055845092393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/116078055845092393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/10/day-in-koln.html' title='A day in Koln'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-115633085847976170</id><published>2006-08-23T11:57:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:45.396+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Zelfs ik was geshockeerd...</title><content type='html'>...door dit nieuwsbericht. Ik vond het beeld van die jongetjes die mee het plein opliepen met de profvoetballers altijd zo vertederend... nog een illusie aan diggelen...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Britse voetbalmascottes moeten flink betalen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;LONDEN - Zelfs kinderdromen worden tegenwoordig duur betaald. Om als mascotte het veld op te lopen met de spelers van Everton dient men bijna 5300 euro te betalen. Everton is weliswaar de duurste, maar lang niet de enige club in de Britse Premier League waar de ouders van de kinderen moeten betalen. Slechts bij zeven van de twintig topteams is het gewoon nog een aardig gebaar. Daaronder zijn Liverpool, Arsenal en Manchester United. Bij kampioen Chelsea moet wel worden betaald, maar in tegenstelling tot het peperdure imago van de club valt het bedrag hier nog mee: 260 euro.&lt;br /&gt;Het slimst is Tottenham Hotspur van Martin Jol, dat iedere speler met een kind aan de hand het veld op laat rennen. Afhankelijk van de tegenstander dient dan 300 tot 450 euro per kind te worden neergeteld, zo meldt het blad 'The Sunday Times'.&lt;br /&gt;De clubs verdedigen hun praktijken door erop te wijzen dat er van alles vastzit aan het meelopen met de sterren. Zo krijgen familieleden gratis kaartjes, is er voor de wedstrijd een maaltijd, worden er foto's gemaakt, is er een rondleiding door het stadion en mogen de spelertjes het tenue houden.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-115633085847976170?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/115633085847976170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=115633085847976170&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115633085847976170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115633085847976170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/08/zelfs-ik-was-geshockeerd.html' title='Zelfs ik was geshockeerd...'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-115581956293538572</id><published>2006-08-17T13:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:45.336+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Insider Trading</title><content type='html'>In Israël is beroering ontstaan over de stafchef van het leger, generaal Dan Halutz. Die heeft aandelen verkocht net voor de gevechten in Libanon onder zijn leiding losbarstten, meldde de krant Maariv. Hij verkocht zijn aandelen op 12 juli, drie uur na de ontvoering van twee Israëlische soldaten door de Hezbollah, op het moment dat de Israëlische artillerie stellingen van Hezbollah begon te bestoken. Op 12 en 13 juli ging de belangrijkste index op de beurs van Tel Aviv 8,3 procent achteruit. De generaal, die door Maariv wordt geciteerd, geeft toe dat hij de transactie heeft gesloten voor een bedrag van 120.000 shekels (26.000 euro).    Bij de beursjongens van Goldman Sachs ging waarschijnlijk een belletje rinkelen van zodra de ene na de andere Israëlische bobo zijn verkooporders doorgaf. Kijk, zo wordt mijns inziens circa 90% van alle beurswinsten verdiend, de verliezer is meestal de kleine belegger die rechtstreeks geïnvesteerd zit in aandelen of via de pensioenfondsen. Knowledge is power (and money) .... Cash Rules Everything Around Me&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-115581956293538572?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/115581956293538572/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=115581956293538572&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115581956293538572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115581956293538572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/08/insider-trading.html' title='Insider Trading'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-115335226092207397</id><published>2006-07-20T00:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:45.262+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Air Up There</title><content type='html'>Ik maak hier weinig woorden aan vuil. See for yourself. 720° DUNK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xpcgthwdp0"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xpcgthwdp0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-115335226092207397?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/115335226092207397/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=115335226092207397&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115335226092207397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115335226092207397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/07/air-up-there.html' title='Air Up There'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-115300410208427887</id><published>2006-07-15T23:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:45.198+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Lookalike 4</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/pg2_a_kidrock_65.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/pg2_a_kidrock_65.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/pg2_a_landis_65.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/pg2_a_landis_65.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Floyd Landis , Kid Rock&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-115300410208427887?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/115300410208427887/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=115300410208427887&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115300410208427887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115300410208427887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/07/lookalike-4.html' title='Lookalike 4'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-115231370087177120</id><published>2006-07-07T23:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:45.136+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Lookalikes #2 en 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/michael_ballack_65.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/michael_ballack_65.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Michael Ballack vs Matt Damon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/matt_damon_65.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/matt_damon_65.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/gattuso.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/gattuso.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/wouterv.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/wouterv.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gennaro Gattuso vs Wouter Verschuere&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-115231370087177120?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/115231370087177120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=115231370087177120&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115231370087177120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115231370087177120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/07/lookalikes-2-en-3.html' title='Lookalikes #2 en 3'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-115231285821343877</id><published>2006-07-07T23:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:45.063+01:00</updated><title type='text'>News round-up 08/07: The Medical Files</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/Untitled1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/Untitled1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Een vrouw uit het Noorden van Engeland spreekt Jamaicaans na beroerte. Dat moet ongeveer als volgt klinken: &lt;em&gt;'Pass me da shepherds pie man, me feelin irie'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A Geordie woman has apparently developed foreign accents after waking up following a stroke. Linda Walker awoke in hospital to find her distinctive Newcastle accent had been transformed into a mixture of Jamaican, Canadian and Slovakian. The 60-year-old may have Foreign Accent Syndrome, where patients speak differently after a brain injury.&lt;br /&gt;Researchers at Oxford University have found that patients with Foreign Accent Syndrome have suffered damage to tiny areas of the brain that affect speech.&lt;br /&gt;The result is often a drawing out or clipping of the vowels that mimic the accent of a particular country, such as Spain or France, even though the sufferer has limited exposure to that accent.&lt;br /&gt;The syndrome was first identified during World War II, when a Norwegian woman suffered shrapnel damage to her brain. She developed a strong German accent, which led to her being ostracised by her community. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Man ontwaakt na 19 jaar coma. Let op de spooky data in de brontekst.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In 1984, on Friday the 13th, Terry Wallace, then 19 years old, and a friend were involved in a major car accident in Mountain View, Arkansas. Terry's passenger was killed while Terry suffered major injuries and was found comatose. Terry's wife and 1 month old daughter waited, hoping he would recover quickly. The family carried him home from the Stone County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and back during the next 19 years hoping Terry would regain consciousness.&lt;br /&gt;Terry remained comatose until June 13, 2003 (yes, also on Friday the 13th) when he awoke in his hospital bed and uttered his first words. His daughter was now 19 years old. His mother and father are still alive. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Doctors are puzzled by the recovery but state that it seemed to begin when Terry reacted to the news that his medical bill was in the 6 figure range.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Karel Vinck veroordeeld voor dood van Eternit arbeiders&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; (bron: Knackblog). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Jammer genoeg is er België nog geen gerechtigheid voor de asbest slachtoffers.&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"The grisly toll now stands at 116 dead and 49 sick, out of the 250 people working for the Belg-Swiss Eternit group subsidiary when it shut down"&lt;a href="http://hesa.etui-rehs.org/UK/newsletter/files/Pages35-38-News29UK2-13.pdf"&gt;http://hesa.etui-rehs.org/UK/newsletter/files/Pages35-38-News29UK2-13.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-115231285821343877?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/115231285821343877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=115231285821343877&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115231285821343877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115231285821343877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/07/news-round-up-0807-medical-files.html' title='News round-up 08/07: The Medical Files'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-115166296073833497</id><published>2006-06-30T08:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:44.993+01:00</updated><title type='text'>News round-up 30/06</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/bargnani.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/bargnani.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NBA Draft&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afgelopen donderdagnacht vond de jaarlijkse NBA draft plaats waarbij de ploegen die laagst geëindigd zijn in het voorbije seizoen, mogen kiezen uit de nieuwe lichting basketbaltalent, meestal afkomstig uit de Amerikaanse high schools of colleges. Maar dit jaar - en dit is bij mijn weten de eerste keer - werd een Europese speler gekozen als Nr.1 pick. Het gaat om de Italiaanse Bargnani,21j, 6ft.11inches, ongeveer 2.10m. Eigenlijk zegt de Nr.1 status nog niet veel want de eerste 5 zijn aan elkaar gewaagd qua talent en de uiteindelijke rangschikking hangt ook af van welke ploeg eerst kiest. Zo koos Toronto voor Bargnani omdat hij een goede aanvulling is bij hun jonge kern (Chris Bosh en Charlie Villanueva). GM van Toronto is Bryan Colangelo die vorig jaar vertrok bij de Phoenix Suns en met een neus voor internationale spelers. Bij Phoenix haalde hij bijv. Boris Diaw, Leandro Barbosa, Amare Stoudemire (wel VS natuurlijk) en Steve Nash binnen. Niet slecht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Portugal- Nederland WK Duitsland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D'ollanders liggen er vroeger uit dan ik gedacht had. Ze hebben zelf door hun onnodig harde fouten in de beginfase de kiem gezaaid voor hun nederlaag en de 16 gele kaarten. De stamp op het dijbeen van Ronaldo verdiende rood. Sneijder en Vandervaart halen duidelijk niet het niveau van spelers zoals Seedorf,Davids of De Boer. Mijn favoriet voor goud is Brazilië, die gasten hebben tot nu toe op 60-70% gespeeld.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cruyff vergezocht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Johan Cruyff, de Nederlandse Eddy Merckx, zei dat Minister Verdonk van Integratie, medeverantwoordelijk was voor de uitschakeling van Oranje omdat voetballer Kalou geen Nederlands paspoort heeft gekregen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China: business as usual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mensen die in China berichtgeven over rampen of crisis situaties zonder toestemming van de overheid kunnen tot 8000$ boete krijgen. Dat is vooruitgang want vroeger werden ze opgesloten.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-115166296073833497?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/115166296073833497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=115166296073833497&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115166296073833497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115166296073833497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/06/news-round-up-3006.html' title='News round-up 30/06'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-115099941123932617</id><published>2006-06-22T18:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:44.928+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Dan's news round-up.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/phoenix.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/phoenix.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dagelijks worden we overspoeld door een overvloed aan info &lt;em&gt;courtesy of the media&lt;/em&gt;. Dan Steely wil graag zijn warhoofd als filter laten fungeren in deze datalawine via deze (misschien wekelijkse) news round-up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Phat Pockets (Bron: Financial Times).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De superrijken hebben het niet makkelijk. Ze moeten voortdurend nieuwe luxespeeltjes vinden om elkaar te overtroeven. Met een jacht moet je niet meer komen aanzetten vandaag de dag, dat is so nineties als je miljardair bent. De nieuwe rage is duikboten, en ik heb het hier niet over die tweezittertjes die je op National Geographic soms ziet. Op &lt;a href="http://www.ussubs.com"&gt;www.ussubs.com&lt;/a&gt; kan je er eentje bestellen als je wilt. Op de foto zie je de Phoenix die te koop is voor een democratische 78 miljoen USD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Miami Heat NBA kampioen nondedju@!@#!!##!!¨^¨ (bron: ESPN.com)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Voetballiefhebbers herinneren zich wellicht de voetbalwedstrijd België-Brazilië van het WK2002. De scheids keurde toen een geldig kopbaldoelpunt van Wilmots af en onthield ons zo van een reële kans op een historische overwinning tegen de sambavoetballers. Herinner je dat wrange gevoel dat je daaraan overhield? Datzelfde gevoel heeft zich nu van me meester gemaakt omdat de Dallas Mavericks bestolen werden in deze Finals. Het begon al voor de series met de 6 daagse schorsing van 'onze' DJ Mbenga. En de schorsing in Game 5 van Stackhouse voor een doordeweekse 'no easy lay-up' fout op Shaq . Dwayne Wade (een fantastische speler, daar niet van) kreeg vanaf Game 3 systematisch hulp van de hoofdscheids bij zijn drives naar de ring. In Game 5&amp;6 kreeg Wade van de refs op twee na evenveel vrijworpen als heel de ploeg van Dallas. Een neutrale basketfan in NY verwoordde het als volgt: &lt;em&gt;"I think I farted twice on the couch during this series -- and I was called for two fouls against Dwyane Wade." &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Leeuwenhosen (Bron: &lt;a href="http://www.oranje.nl"&gt;www.oranje.nl&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;De macht van sponsors krijgt stilaan beangstigende trekjes. Voor de wedstrijd Holland-Ivoorkust moesten een aantal fans hun Oranje fanbroek , de Leeuwenhosen, uitdoen omdat het merk Bavaria niet voorkwam op de officiële sponsorlijst. En kenners beweren dat Ronaldo enkel speelt onder druk van de sponsor (Nike) en ook (te) vlug is moeten revalideren van zijn knieblessure op bevel van de sportgigant uit Oregon, USA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/leeuwenhose.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/leeuwenhose.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-115099941123932617?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/115099941123932617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=115099941123932617&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115099941123932617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115099941123932617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/06/dans-news-round-up.html' title='Dan&apos;s news round-up.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-115040177793479310</id><published>2006-06-15T20:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:44.862+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Dikke voetballers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/baseggio.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/baseggio.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/janmolby.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/janmolby.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/maradonna.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/maradonna.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Ronaldo beweegt als een dikke pad' verwoordde Danny Blind het treffend na de eerste match van Brasil op het WK. Dat bracht me op het idee om een lijstje op te stellen met mijn favoriete dikke voetballers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Jan Molby, sterkhouder bij Liverpool in de jaren '80. Zijn body contrasteerde vooral mooi met dat van superspits Ian Rush. Grobbelaar en Barnes waren ook van die figuren die je vandaag te weinig ziet in het moderne voetbal.&lt;br /&gt;4. Henny Meijer, speelde o.a. bij Ajax, Groningen en 1x voor Oranje. Was niet te stoppen als hij een rush deed naar de goal; kon hele legioenen verdedigers afhouden van de bal met zijn enorme achterwerk.&lt;br /&gt;3. Walter Baseggio, de Frank Vandenbroucke van het Belgische voetbal maar dan wat volslanker&lt;br /&gt;2. Horst Hrubesch, Duitse spits ex Standard, das Ungeheuer&lt;br /&gt;1. Diego Armando Maradonna, google eens 'maradonna warming up' bekijk de ronde man in actie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-115040177793479310?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/115040177793479310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=115040177793479310&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115040177793479310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115040177793479310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/06/dikke-voetballers.html' title='Dikke voetballers'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-115030507841594668</id><published>2006-06-14T18:07:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:44.784+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Lookalikes #1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/dirk_nowitzki5_65x90.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/dirk_nowitzki5_65x90.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/shaggy_65x90.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/shaggy_65x90.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Als een 'tribute' aan Deng, start ik mijn reeks 'Lookalikes'. We beginnen met Dirk Nowitzki en Shaggy van Scooby Doo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-115030507841594668?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/115030507841594668/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=115030507841594668&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115030507841594668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115030507841594668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/06/lookalikes-1.html' title='Lookalikes #1'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-115030481290248588</id><published>2006-06-14T17:45:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:44.716+01:00</updated><title type='text'>WK vs NBA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/nba_a_oneal_195.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/nba_a_oneal_195.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De belangrijkste sportgebeurtenis van het moment : WK of NBA ? ik ben bevooroordeeld dus laat ik maar beide becommentariëren in deze weblog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dallas-Miami staat na gisteren gelukkig 2-1 want anders was de Finals voorbij (4 winnende matchen) voor hij goed en wel begonnen was. Dirk Nowitzki  zet de volgende stap naar wereldfaam en wordt in de VS zelfs vergeleken met Larry 'Legend' Bird en dat wil wat zeggen gezien het yankeechauvinisme. We maken ook de val mee van Shaquille O'Neal , zijn leeftijd (34j) begint duidelijk te wegen.&lt;br /&gt;Over gewicht gesproken, heb je Ronaldo gezien gisteren? Wat een afgang, hij liep bijna even traag als Walter Baseggio ;) eigenlijk speelde Brazilië 2/3 van de match met 10 tegen 11. Rubinho stond er pas een paar minuten op en zorgde ei zo na voor een goal. Ik denk niet dat we den 'dikken' nog terugzien dit WK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ik sluit af met een paar rake one-liners van respectievelijk Shaquille O'Neal en Ronaldinho Gaucho (coole naam hé ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The setting: Last week before Game 1 of the 2006 Finals&lt;br /&gt;The situation: Shaq's favorite interviewer of all-time might be Dallas radio personality Corby Davidson, who always barrages O'Neal with a series of inventive -- and often politically incorrect -- questions whenever Shaq hits town. On this occasion, Davidson asks: "Let's just say that a snake bit your mom right here, right on the chest area, would you be willing to suck the venom out to win the title?"&lt;br /&gt;The Shaq Smack: "No, but I would with your wife."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ronaldinho in Humo deze week op de vraag of hij soms foutjes maakt op het voetbalplein:&lt;br /&gt;'Soms geef ik mijn doorsteekpasses een beetje te hard maar door de klasse van Eto'o, Giuly of Messi kunnen zij er nog een goal van maken. Dan komt iedereen me feliciteren met mijn sublieme pass maar ik weet wel beter!'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be continued...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-115030481290248588?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/115030481290248588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=115030481290248588&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115030481290248588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/115030481290248588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/06/wk-vs-nba.html' title='WK vs NBA'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-114868378294646925</id><published>2006-05-26T23:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:44.640+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Naughty Scotty.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/scotty.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/scotty.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Captain Kirk: 'Very funny Scotty. Now beam down my clothes'.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-114868378294646925?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/114868378294646925/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=114868378294646925&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114868378294646925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114868378294646925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/05/naughty-scotty.html' title='Naughty Scotty.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-114798305715755857</id><published>2006-05-18T20:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:44.570+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Robland poging 2.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/rob-groot.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/rob-groot.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enquête onder een duizendtal VTM kijkers: de kleine helft vindt dat het VB geen enkele verantwoordelijkheid draagt in de Antwerpse schietpartij. Dit resultaat mag niemand verwonderen en spreekt boekdelen over de doorsnee VTM kijker. De onverwoestbare populariteit van het VB brengt mij op een idee (&lt;em&gt;'a cunning plan'&lt;/em&gt;) Om de desastreuze kijkcijfers van Robland wat op te krikken , kan je VanOudenhoven vervangen door Rob Verreycken (a.k.a. 'rob-klopterop') en een modelstaat op VB leest maken i.p.v. dat softe gedoe nu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Robland is vendelzwaaien de nationale sport, verbreken we alle handelsrelaties met ons communistisch buurland Wallonië, wordt het recht op wapendracht in de grondwet opgenomen en houden we wekelijks een nationale boekverbranding.&lt;br /&gt;De VRT wordt geprivatiseerd en wordt de uitvalsbasis voor Fox Europe. Er wordt nog één krant en weekblad toegestaan (de opvolgers van 't Pallieterke en Trends) , 100% in handen van Roularta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minister van Cultuur wordt Paul Beliën, Annemans op justitie, Johan Demol op Binnenlandse Zaken, Francis Vandeneynde op Buitenlandse Zaken en 'Eva Braun' Morel op Economie/begroting.Het Departement Sociale &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/naamloos.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/naamloos.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Zaken wordt afgeschaft wegens te links en overbodig. Alle straathoekwerkers moeten verplicht in Vlaanderen's 3 nieuwe kerncentrales gaan werken. Alexandra Coolen wordt Minister van Gezinszaken en voert een wet in die lijfstraffen in scholen verplicht maakt. Dedecker wordt Minister van Sport en wijst 95% van zijn budget toe aan gevechtssporten (de andere 5% gaat naar vendelzwaaien).&lt;br /&gt;Alle bedrijfsleiders die het Warande manifest ondertekenden en het VB sponsorden, krijgen de volledige eigendom van de nog te privatiseren delen van de samenleving (bv. NMBS, gezondheidszorg, onderwijs) en de verdeling van deze inboedel gebeurt door Feryn van Feryn Kantelpoorten.&lt;br /&gt;Ten slotte : Antwerpen wordt de hoofdstad van Vlaanderen… sorry hier stop ik want dit laatste is niet grappig meer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;'That joke just isn't funny anymore , it's too close to home, it's too near the bone.' &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-114798305715755857?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/114798305715755857/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=114798305715755857&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114798305715755857'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114798305715755857'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/05/robland-poging-2.html' title='Robland poging 2.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-114676702054249329</id><published>2006-05-04T18:43:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:44.436+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ik mis mijn DENG</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/DVTVekeman.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/DVTVekeman.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sinds DENG is opgedoekt, lacht er niemand meer met het kapsel van Christophe Vekeman. Dit geeft de jonge god van de Vlaamse literatuur nieuwe energie. Dit weekend was hij in DM nog de vloer aan het vegen met de immer bescheiden kunstenaar (sic) Jan Decock (look who's calling who arrogant?)en woensdagavond zag ik hem op Morgen Beter. Een programma dat hard probeert om een boeiende talkshow te zijn maar er zelden in slaagt. De gasten waren (naast onze Christophe)Etienne Vermeersch, Kristien Hemmerechts en de opgezwollen beursnerd Paul Dhoore. Het onderwerp was de verloning van topmanagers. Christophe zat er heel verveeld bij en zei dat de verloning de gewone mensen inderdaad de ogen uitsteekt maar tegelijk noemde hij Vandelanotte een demagoog.&lt;br /&gt;Ik schrok me een aap zo groot als Jan Decock's ego wanneer Vermeersch (die meestal twee minuten achter was op zijn gesprekspartners) het volgende zei: 'we zitten in een fundamenteel amoreel , soms ronduit immoreel systeem maar er valt gewoon niks aan te doen'. Waarop Kristien zei: 'Redelijk fatalistisch voor een ethicus'. Ik dacht niet dat ik dit ooit zou schrijven, maar KRISTIEN RULED!&lt;br /&gt;Conclusies:&lt;br /&gt;- Vermeersch moet dringend op pensioen als opiniemaker&lt;br /&gt;- de moderatoren van Morgen Beter moeten dringend op stage bij Jeroen Pauw&lt;br /&gt;- Paul Dhoore moet dringend op dieet&lt;br /&gt;- Christophe Vekeman moet dringend naar de kapper.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-114676702054249329?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/114676702054249329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=114676702054249329&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114676702054249329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114676702054249329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/05/ik-mis-mijn-deng.html' title='Ik mis mijn DENG'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-114651184289665105</id><published>2006-05-01T20:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:44.276+01:00</updated><title type='text'>RIP Joe</title><content type='html'>Wat mij het meest frappeerde aan alle commentaar op de brutale roofmoord in het Centraal Station is het feit dat de meeste (of de luidste) commentatoren zo enorm geobsedeerd zijn door de etnische afkomst van de dader. Het zal de ouders van het slachtoffer niet veel uitmaken of hun zoon door een Vlaming, Waal, Noord-Afrikaan of Pool met zigeunerbloed werd ontnomen. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Naarmate de economische globalisering tastbaarder wordt, en de wereld meer één dorp (of beter : één shopping mall) wordt, gaat men zich hier meer en meer blind staren op je etnische afkomst. Verhofstadt weigert om sociologische redenen te zoeken achter dergelijke moorden, terwijl dat wel ruim ondersteund wordt door wetenschappelijk onderzoek, maar de associatie misdaad - ras dat kan er wel lekker door.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-114651184289665105?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/114651184289665105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=114651184289665105&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114651184289665105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114651184289665105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/05/rip-joe.html' title='RIP Joe'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-114440434323080752</id><published>2006-04-07T10:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:44.191+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Mo&amp;Grazz: album out now!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/moandgraz.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/moandgraz.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DJ Grazzhoppa en zijn eega Monique Harcum hebben een ijzersterke debuutCD afgeleverd, die gemakkelijk de beste Belgische plaat van 2006 kan worden genoemd.&lt;br /&gt;Er staat vanalles op: triphop (eat your heat out Alex Callier), UK acid jazz, cool souljazz, backpackhiphop en goed gedoseerde scratches. Grote klasse . I can't wait to see them live.&lt;br /&gt;En na het creatieve kindje is Mo nu ook zwanger van een echt kindje. Grazz is al productief geweest in OhSix.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-114440434323080752?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/114440434323080752/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=114440434323080752&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114440434323080752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114440434323080752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/04/mograzz-album-out-now.html' title='Mo&amp;Grazz: album out now!'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-114236981667408249</id><published>2006-03-14T21:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:44.103+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Effe dimmen met die liberalisering</title><content type='html'>Ruim twee derde van de Nederlandse bevolking (69 procent) wil dat het huidige beleid van liberalisering wordt afgezwakt. De verzelfstandiging van de Nederlandse Spoorwegen moet volgens 63 procent zelfs worden teruggedraaid. Ruim de helft (54 procent) wil dat de privatisering van de energiesector ongedaan wordt gemaakt. &lt;br /&gt;Bron: ANP&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-114236981667408249?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/114236981667408249/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=114236981667408249&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114236981667408249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114236981667408249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/03/effe-dimmen-met-die-liberalisering.html' title='Effe dimmen met die liberalisering'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-114207810580513439</id><published>2006-03-11T12:49:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:44.026+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Turntablelab</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/mourinho_chelsea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/mourinho_chelsea.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De wereldberoemde Turntablelab heeft ook een coole blog, waar ze o.a. dit schrijven over de coach van Chelsea&lt;br /&gt;"Mourinho is truly a beyotch. I always thought Jose Mourinho was a slickly dressed, cool strategist, but the European media sniffed him out a while ago. He's a little brat. Barcelona coach Rijkaard, with his Jeri Curl perm, is the real deal. By the way José, loose that scarf tied mommy-style"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-114207810580513439?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/114207810580513439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=114207810580513439&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114207810580513439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114207810580513439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/03/turntablelab.html' title='Turntablelab'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-114207564930023777</id><published>2006-03-11T12:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:43.964+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Mittal &amp; Arcelor</title><content type='html'>Het overnamebod van staalgigant Mittal op Arcelor zal waarschijnlijk succesvol blijken. Premier Verhofstadt is al aan het onderhandelen met Lakshmi Mittal zelf om garanties los te krijgen voor behoud van banen. Is Guy op de hoogte van wat zich afspeelde bij één van de vorige overnames van Mr. Mittal in de Europese staalindustrie?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In 1996 nam de firma Ispat, eigendom van Mittal, het noodlijdende Irish Steel over voor een symbolische pond, omdat het met £27mln aan schulden zat opgezadeld. Het bedrijf kon nog enkele jaren draaiende worden gehouden door genereuze overheidssubsidies. Uiteindelijk werd het in 2002 geliquideerd, met 400 werknemers op straat en tientallen miljoenen euro's schulden aan crediteuren. De terreinen liggen er zwaar vervuild bij, met radioactieve en andere schadelijke afvalstoffen. Nu de leasecontracten vervallen zijn, mag de Ierse staatskas opdraaien voor de opkuis. John Mulvihill, een lokale politicus verwoordde de passage van Mr. Mittal als volgt: “ISPAT bought the plant for £1, got grants of millions, made money out of the plant and then walked away after five years with a fat wallet.”&lt;br /&gt;http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2003/01/23/story958513472.asp&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Sidmar in 2011 of zal het zo lang niet duren?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-114207564930023777?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/114207564930023777/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=114207564930023777&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114207564930023777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114207564930023777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/03/mittal-arcelor.html' title='Mittal &amp; Arcelor'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-114021397793484240</id><published>2006-02-17T23:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:43.899+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Last chance...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/275px-Karlhead.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/275px-Karlhead.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...to catch the Ricky Gervais show nxt week. Karl Pilkington is a phenomenon, a 'global village idiot' as Steven Merchant said himself. He's got his own entry in Wikipedia.&lt;br /&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pilkington&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-114021397793484240?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/114021397793484240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=114021397793484240&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114021397793484240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114021397793484240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/02/last-chance.html' title='Last chance...'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-114021363494922136</id><published>2006-02-17T22:56:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:43.837+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Privatisation kills.</title><content type='html'>The health of thousands of NHS patients could be at risk and one woman is reported to have died as a result of problems with the privatisation earlier this month of the NHS home oxygen supply service. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A spokeswoman for the Department of Health (DoH) described as "a sad case" the death of Alice Broderick, 63, from Carlisle after reports that her oxygen delivery from one private provider came too late to help her overcome breathing difficulties at her home. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mrs Broderick died last week, reportedly after waiting in vain for six hours for an emergency oxygen delivery. A supply was only delivered to her home after she had been rushed to hospital, where she later died.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The DoH admitted last night that the transfer to four private companies of the service which delivers supplies to patients' homes has resulted in a shortage of oxygen. Around 60,000 patients in the UK rely on deliveries of oxygen to their homes, which have been hit by the transfer of supplies to the new privately managed Home Oxygen Service at the start of this month. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The privatisation plan was announced last summer by health minister Jane Kennedy who said patients would enjoy "round the clock access to expert advice and support in making the best use of the latest equipment".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-114021363494922136?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/114021363494922136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=114021363494922136&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114021363494922136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114021363494922136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/02/privatisation-kills.html' title='Privatisation kills.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-114021319863794798</id><published>2006-02-17T22:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:43.772+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Cartoon Mania</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/1600/cartoons2.0.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2852/750/320/cartoons2.0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Er is al veel inkt - en jammer genoeg ook bloed - gevloeid n.a.v. de Deense cartoons. Dan Steely kan natuurlijk niet achterblijven met een mening.Ik doe dit aan de hand van one- en two-liners om te bewijzen dat je met de juiste slogans ook genuanceerd kan zijn (tip voor JM Dedecker :)&lt;br /&gt;****&lt;br /&gt;De meeste van de cartoons in kwestie haalden het niveau van 't Pallieterke. Maar daar gaat het niet om, want blijkbaar zijn alle afbeeldingen van de profeet verboden. Was hij het allereerste slachtoffer van de paparazzi?&lt;br /&gt;****&lt;br /&gt;Trouwens de meeste zaken die zijn verboden door de Koran/Bijbel/Thora staan er in werkelijkheid niet eens in maar zijn de opportunistische interpretaties van de mollahs/kardinalen/rabbis.&lt;br /&gt;****&lt;br /&gt;ik ben geen grote fan van georganiseerde religie. Ten eerste zijn de monotheïstische godsdiensten per definitie exclusief, de anderen hebben altijd ongelijk. Telkens ze in de VS 'God bless America' scanderen, zeggen ze er eigenlijk ook bij '… and to hell with the rest'. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;****&lt;br /&gt;de halfbakken, lafhartige houding van sommige linkse media stoten me tegen de borst, de Guardian en de Morgen voorop. &lt;br /&gt;****&lt;br /&gt;Het gevolg is dat de rechtse en extreemrechtse actoren het debat monopoliseren. Willen we echt dat iemand als Paul Belien onze belangen vertegenwoordigt in deze materie? check de links uit op deze site, naar namen als 'Pat Buchanan' en 'Grover Norquist' ; de neocons zijn te soft voor deze mensen!!! &lt;br /&gt;http://www.brusselsjournal.com/paulbelien&lt;br /&gt;http://www.amcon.be/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-114021319863794798?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/114021319863794798/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=114021319863794798&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114021319863794798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/114021319863794798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/02/cartoon-mania.html' title='Cartoon Mania'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-113801757337136299</id><published>2006-01-23T12:56:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:43.656+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Iedereen naar de beurs!!!</title><content type='html'>Het rusthuis Trebor in Tamines (bij Namen) wil nog voor de zomer een notering op de beurs , om op termijn een keten van rusthuizen op te starten.&lt;br /&gt;Het is te hopen dat dat niet lukt gvd!! Dat de SPa daar eens tegen fulmineert i.p.v. die halfbakken en fake 'wij zijn de boeman van de olie-industrie en komen op voor de kleine man' houding. Stelletje poserende salon-socialisten!&lt;br /&gt;Sommige zaken moeten uit de verderfelijke marktwerking worden gehouden en gezondheidszorg is één daarvan. Beste bewijs is de V.S.: meest geprivatiseerd en toch met voorsprong voor de overheid de duurste gezondheidszorg ter wereld, die alleen de rijken kunnen betalen. Zo wordt bijv. nog amper natuurlijk bevallen aldaar simpelweg omdat er een hogere 'operationele marge' gehaald wordt op een keizersnede. Het is niet belangrijk wat het beste is voor de patiënt , wel wat meest opbrengt voor het ziekenhuis en de verzekeraar in kwestie.&lt;br /&gt;Er zijn paralellen te trekken tussen het Faust verhaal en de vele bedrijven die het noodzakelijk achten om naar de beurs te stappen. Eens binnen heb je niks meer te vertellen en wordt de hebzucht van je aandeelhouders de enige motivator van al je bedrijfsbeslissingen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Twee voorbeelden van afgelopen week illustreren dat prima. De Amerikaanse technologiebedrijven Intel en Yahoo! lieten voor het afgelopen boekjaar een winstgroei van respectievelijk 19 en zelfs 125 procent zien, en werden beiden afgestraft op de beurs omdat ze toch niet voldeden aan de verwachtingen van analisten. &lt;br /&gt;Stel u nu eens het volslagen ondenkbare voor: dat die winstgroei gewoon nul procent zou bedragen. Beeld u eens in dat zo'n bedrijf exact evenveel winst zou maken als vorig jaar, of misschien zelfs een beetje minder. In beurstermen zou dat een regelrechte catastrofe zijn, met een aandeel dat in vrije val gaat en wellicht een topman die de deur wordt gewezen. In objectieve termen zou Intel nog steeds 7,5 miljard dollar hebben verdiend bovenop hetzelfde bedrag dat het bedrijf vorig jaar binnenhaalde. Voor Yahoo! zou dat 840 miljoen dollar zijn. Mooi, toch? Om die redenering door te trekken: waarom zou zo'n bedrijf eens geen winst mogen maken die minder bedraagt, bijvoorbeeld slechts de helft van die van vorig jaar, omdat het eventjes wat minder gaat of omdat er zwaar is geïnvesteerd? Moet toch kunnen?&lt;br /&gt;Stel je voor dat iedere middenstander of kleine zelfstandige ook zo begint te redeneren. &lt;br /&gt;de slager om de hoek: "Ik moet deze week minstens 15% meer winst maken op bloedworst en paté dan vorige week van mijn aandeelhouders, casu quo mijn schoonouders die me een lening gaven voor mijn nieuwe vleestoog. Ik heb een consultant ingehuurd en die vertelde me dat ik een herstructureringsronde moet doen. Aangezien mijn vrouw de enige werknemer is , betekent dat dat ik haar ga ontslaan en haar taken outsourcen naar India of Oekraine"&lt;br /&gt;de begrafenisondernemer: " om mijn nieuwe objectieven te halen, geef ik de klanten een korting op onze doodskisten , als ze hun comateus familielid euthanaseren tijdens de maand januari'.&lt;br /&gt;de 'hairdresser': "sinds kort bied ik aan mijn klanten ook een 'pubic grooming service' aan om de klantenrelatie te verbreden '&lt;br /&gt;Als jullie nog suggesties hebben, laat maar komen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-113801757337136299?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/113801757337136299/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=113801757337136299&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113801757337136299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113801757337136299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/01/iedereen-naar-de-beurs.html' title='Iedereen naar de beurs!!!'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-113692319373226301</id><published>2006-01-10T20:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:43.592+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Dewael, Sharon, Congo, gas</title><content type='html'>Dan Steely heeft bedenkingen bij het recente nieuws: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Minister Dewael zegt dat wie illegalen helpt een misdrijf pleegt. Voorts noemt hij de houding van de kiezers '&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;heel dubbel&lt;/span&gt;' want '&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;enerzijds vinden ze dat ze allemaal weg moeten, behalve als het om de eigen buren gaat&lt;/span&gt;'. En wat vindt Patrickske de belangrijkste evolutie van 2005 in de eindejaarsvraagjes van Humo ?: '&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;dat in de hoofdstad van Europa en van ons land nog steeds mensen op straat sterven van kou en ontbering, en het groeiende besef dat zoiets onaanvaardbaar is.&lt;/span&gt;'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuff said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Zijn er nog onbesneden mannen zoals ikzelf die de media-aandacht rond Ariel Sharon (de Israelische Roland Lommé) een tikkeltje overdreven vinden? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Maak van Afrika's hart een moordkuil.. &lt;br /&gt;Veel minder zendtijd en krantenpagina's worden besteed aan de horror in Congo daarentegen. In 'The Lancet' verscheen een rijtje bloedstollende cijfers: sinds 1998 zijn er 4 miljoen Congolezen gedood tijdens de burgeroorlog, het equivalent van de Waalse bevolking, of twee tsoenami's per jaar geconcentreerd in 1 land. Binnen 5 jaar zullen de bobo's van de EU en VN wellicht over elkaars voeten vallen om zich te excuseren en te beloven dat 'dit nooit meer zal gebeuren' net zoals ze een paar jaar terug deden in Rwanda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Rusland - Oekraïne: it's a gas, gas , gas…. &lt;br /&gt;Beiden hebben boter op hun hoofd ; dit is een goeie 'appraisal' van de situatie door de Guardian: &lt;br /&gt;'&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Energy prices are high globally because demand is strong and there are justifiable concerns about supply in the short and medium-term. It is absurdly wasteful and damaging to the environment for the Russians to sell gas at subsidised prices. From the perspective of anybody concerned about global warming, the idea that Ukraine should be receiving gas at one-fifth of the price it costs in western Europe and an eighth of what it costs in the US is the economics of the madhouse.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Tot slot deze dijenkletser: Rusland wordt verweten door de VS dat ze energie gebruiken als politiek drukkingsmiddel.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-113692319373226301?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/113692319373226301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=113692319373226301&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113692319373226301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113692319373226301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2006/01/dewael-sharon-congo-gas.html' title='Dewael, Sharon, Congo, gas'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-113467974346940044</id><published>2005-12-15T21:19:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:43.531+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Freya</title><content type='html'>Is iedereen blind? Het ligt er toch bovenarms op dat Freya goed wist wat ze zei tijdens het interview van Vrij Nederland en even goed wat de reactie ging zijn. Indien ze zich enkel had gehouden aan inhoudelijke kritiek had niemand het opgemerkt. Nu hebben de mensen ook gehoord dat het beleid van het kabinet Balkenende zowel economisch als ethisch behoorlijk rechts is*. 'Don't hate the media, play the media' is Freya's motto.&lt;br /&gt;*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- Gerrit Zalm , de ongelooflijk arrogante Min. V. Financiën, is de lagere en middenklasse aan het uitzuigen dat zelfs demente Maggie Thatcher er jaloers op is. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- Gezondheidszorg wordt geschoeid op Amerikaanse leest, d.w.z. minder efficiënt en toch stukken duurder. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- Wanneer uitgeprocedeerde asielzoekers teruggestuurd worden naar land/hel van herkomst, wordt doodleuk meegedeeld aan de regering in kwestie dat de 'asielzoekers' terug zijn. Haal die testikelklemmen alvast maar uit de kast, sergeant!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tot slot dit: heb je een Nederlandse politicus van de CDA of VVD al eens een interview zien geven in het journaal?  Geen jota snap je van wat die gozers zeggen, en vooral niet op de vraag antwoorden hé. Dan mogen wij nog van geluk spreken dat we kleurrijke politici hebben. In Vlaanderen zou Pim Fortuyn Johnny Sjans heten en zou hij een onbekende backbencher zijn die misschien al eens een wetsvoorstel voor homo-adoptie heeft mee ondertekend. En bovendien zou hij nog leven.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-113467974346940044?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/113467974346940044/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=113467974346940044&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113467974346940044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113467974346940044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/12/freya.html' title='Freya'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-113408119498805806</id><published>2005-12-08T23:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:43.472+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Find the band names.</title><content type='html'>This is for my fellow popmusic buffs. Follow this link and you will see an illustration with 74 band names hidden in it. &lt;a href="http://ad-rag.com/125761.php"&gt;http://ad-rag.com/125761.php&lt;/a&gt;   Let me know how you' re doing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-113408119498805806?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/113408119498805806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=113408119498805806&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113408119498805806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113408119498805806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/12/find-band-names.html' title='Find the band names.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-113328961639717080</id><published>2005-11-29T19:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:43.410+01:00</updated><title type='text'>GWB: the Great Discriminator</title><content type='html'>In a recent trip to China, U.S. President Bush appealed to Beijing to improve religious freedom, but as usual his comments reveal favoritism.&lt;br /&gt;His most cited quotes : 'May God bless the Christians in China' and 'My hope is that the government of China will not fear Christians who gather to worship openly'. &lt;br /&gt;What about the other religions being clandestinely practiced in China? Is President Bush tacitly condoning the persecution of China's many Buddhists, muslims, followers of Falun Gong, and other non-Christian religions?&lt;br /&gt;Most people are taught that God loves every creature, great or small. Every time the President of the world's superpower utters the phrase 'God bless America', the rest of the world feels excluded.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-113328961639717080?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/113328961639717080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=113328961639717080&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113328961639717080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113328961639717080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/11/gwb-great-discriminator.html' title='GWB: the Great Discriminator'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-113328909870211443</id><published>2005-11-29T19:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:43.350+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Respect to the single parent.</title><content type='html'>Since two weeks, my lovely wife has been hospitalized and last Thursday gave birth to two healthy boys, Leon &amp; Just. Very exciting ofcourse , I can't wait until they can come home and we can be one big happy family again. For the last two weeks, I have been taking care of my other two kids, Arnout (nearly 5yrs) and Maurice (3yrs). The experience has been great but exhausting and I have gained a deeper insight in what it's like to be a single parent.&lt;br /&gt;Most nights, I feel like something the cat dragged in; I am convinced it's tougher than being CEO of a big European bank because there is no delegating, outsourcing or outside consulting to do your work for you. There are no meetings which means you have to take the decisions yourself instead of 'per committee' and you can't go looking for a scapegoat when something goes wrong. The financial rewards are shite (zero actually) and there is no army of dedicated followers nodding yes to every remark you make , no matter how stupid. &lt;strong&gt;Parenthood is the least hyped activity one can do (it's not even considered to be 'work') and still it's the most important job you will ever do.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-113328909870211443?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/113328909870211443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=113328909870211443&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113328909870211443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113328909870211443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/11/respect-to-single-parent.html' title='Respect to the single parent.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-113144654201814802</id><published>2005-11-08T11:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:43.287+01:00</updated><title type='text'>How many species live on or in the human body?</title><content type='html'>The short answer is about 200, including 80 in the mouth alone. The total number of bacteria excreted by the body every day ranges from 100 billion to 100 trillion. Every square centimetre of human bowel is home to around 10 billion microbes. Some 10 million organisms occupy every square centimetre of flesh. The most densely populated areas of the human body are the teeth, throat and alimentary tract, where the concentrations are increased by a thousand compared to bare skin. But while such figures seem huge, it has been calculated that the amount of bacteria on the skin of the average human would be the same size as a pea.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-113144654201814802?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/113144654201814802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=113144654201814802&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113144654201814802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113144654201814802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-many-species-live-on-or-in-human.html' title='How many species live on or in the human body?'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-113111532995468913</id><published>2005-11-04T15:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:43.221+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Dictionary of BS</title><content type='html'>This is taken from the 'Dictionary of BullShit' by Nick Webb. My kind of humour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Customer service (np.) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With a few exceptions, companies lose interest after the sale. Nothing dramatises this more than the anguish of the telephone call you attempt to make after the newly acquired dishwasher or computer has gone wrong. The call will lead you to an automated voice management system designed to direct you with maximum speed to the right department. The phone will play you homogenised Mozart or - even worse - cover versions of rock 'n' roll. Every two minutes an automated voice will thank you for your patience and assure you that your call is important. You yell, but in voice management space there is nobody to hear you scream.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Public Relations/PR (np.) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Satan wasn't so bad; he just had a bad press. Corporations are similar. It's often easier to fix the perception of the problem than the problem itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accountability (abstract n.) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A mysterious virtue that all politicians claim to possess until the time comes to demonstrate it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Buy one, get one free (enduring sales pitch) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buy twice as many as you want at a price that still gives the retailer a profit, if only because the supplier has been bullied into funding the promotion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Designer (n. and adj.)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can buy a pair of jeans in a supermarket for as little as £4, or you can pay 25 times that much for a "designer" pair. Both are made in factories in the Far East by nimble-fingered women and girls working long hours on minimal wages. Possibly they are made in the same factories. The difference between the jeans lies in the stitching over the pockets, possibly the weight of the cotton and certainly the boost to the self-esteem of those who can afford the expensive versions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Instant classic (marketing hype)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An oxymoron. (in Dutch: 'pleonasme')&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grow as a person (v. phrase)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a good thing to do. Growing as something else would not be so good.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-113111532995468913?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/113111532995468913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=113111532995468913&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113111532995468913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113111532995468913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/11/dictionary-of-bs.html' title='Dictionary of BS'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-113094447102091619</id><published>2005-11-02T16:11:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:43.146+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Does beheading hurt?</title><content type='html'>Yes, but it's over quickly.:)&lt;br /&gt;A medical study in 1983 concluded that no matter how efficient the method of execution, a few seconds of pain is inevitable when losing one's head. The guillotine, considered one of the more "humane" methods, relies on severing the brain and spinal cord after cutting the surrounding tissues. Even so, at least two to three seconds of intense pain cannot be avoided. There are many accounts of the heads of executed people continuing to show movement or expression long after the final blow. One particularly gruesome experiment in 1905 involved a French physician who called out the name of the condemned man in the seconds after decapitation. The response was for the eyelids over the severed head to slowly lift up and then the pupils focused on the doctor before then slowly closing again. The doctor claimed that when he repeated the dead man's name, the same actions took place. It was only at the third attempt that the head gave no response. The exact of amount of pain of course relies on the proficiency of the executioner. When Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded in 1587, the axeman took three attempts to sever the head and even then had to finish the job with a knife.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-113094447102091619?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/113094447102091619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=113094447102091619&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113094447102091619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/113094447102091619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/11/does-beheading-hurt.html' title='Does beheading hurt?'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-112923370489200786</id><published>2005-10-13T20:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:42.965+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The first man.</title><content type='html'>A couple of nerdy questions keep popping up in my head lately.&lt;br /&gt;Who was the first guy (or girl) to eat an oyster? He/she must have been really really hungry...&lt;br /&gt;and when was the kiss invented? Was there a logical progression from a kiss on the cheek to a tongue-twisting French slopper, or was it the other way round? &lt;br /&gt;(Maybe my pal BigBuddha can shed some light on this, given his infinite knowledge on large primates and his degree in history.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-112923370489200786?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/112923370489200786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=112923370489200786&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/112923370489200786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/112923370489200786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/10/first-man.html' title='The first man.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-112811026207380295</id><published>2005-09-30T20:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:42.851+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Flipper the firing dolphin</title><content type='html'>This is the post-Katrina story with the highest &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;ThatsQuiteInteresting&lt;/span&gt; rating of them all. &lt;br /&gt;Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico. Their coastal compound in Louisiana was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea.&lt;br /&gt;Divers and surfers risk attack from bottlenose dolphins carrying 'toxic dart' guns.&lt;br /&gt;Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The navy launched the classified Cetacean Intelligence Mission in San Diego in 1989, where dolphins, fitted with harnesses and small electrodes planted under their skin, were taught to patrol and protect Trident submarines in harbour and stationary warships at sea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I smell a Hollywood screenplay.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-112811026207380295?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/112811026207380295/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=112811026207380295&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/112811026207380295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/112811026207380295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/09/flipper-firing-dolphin.html' title='Flipper the firing dolphin'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-112681188165168251</id><published>2005-09-15T20:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:42.770+01:00</updated><title type='text'>What's your UCR?</title><content type='html'>I picked up an amusing concept on ESPN2.com , the UCR or Unintentional Comedy Rating. &lt;br /&gt;This is a rating you give to people who are funny, without realizing it. For instance, in the eighties, the late Arafat, had a high UCR when he adressed the Tv cameras in his broken English. So did the late pope Karol Woijtila, when he said 'Dankoe foor de blumen' during his annual Urbi et Orbi speech. &lt;br /&gt;In sports, the basketball players Dikembe Mutombo and DJ Mbenga, who were both born in Congo, have some of the highest UCR scores. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a list of other people who score high on the UCR scale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUTINA: goalkeeper from FC Bruges. His interviews and interventions during corners are hilarious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EDDY WALLY: I am still not sure if he realises he's so funny or not. Either way, his best years are behind him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GERT VERHEYEN: anybody who has seen this guy play, knows what I am talking about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ETIENNE VERMEERSCH: the ethics professor from Ghent. His greasy hairstyle does it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JAN HOET: the Czar of Art.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WACKO JACKO: when he keeps his hands of little children he has a high UCR.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ARNO HINTJENS: c-c-c-c-cool&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GW BUSH: only when you don't think about how much harm he can do. A lot of comedians are jealous of his wide array of idiotic facial expressions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MARGARET THATCHER: the same condition as above applies. Her voice is classic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STEVE BALMER: Microsoft geek. Anyone who hasn't seen these videostreams yet, should do so right away. It's also a bit scary actually. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.tarmo.fi/arc/monkeydance.mpeg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-112681188165168251?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/112681188165168251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=112681188165168251&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/112681188165168251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/112681188165168251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/09/whats-your-ucr.html' title='What&apos;s your UCR?'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-112551988788351536</id><published>2005-08-31T21:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:42.703+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Newton was wrong?</title><content type='html'>Inspired by their recent succes with the 'intelligent design' theory , it seems the US creationists are taking it a little too far with their latest theories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A museum in Arkansas tells it visitors that, contrary to common belief, dinosaurs actually walked the world with humans, and that Noah took , albeit small, dinosaur species with him on the Ark.&lt;br /&gt;http://www.moeh.org/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in Kansas, scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling. &lt;br /&gt;http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they keep this up, pretty soon the US will be an Intelligent Country.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-112551988788351536?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/112551988788351536/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=112551988788351536&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link 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past months by why of a personal (s)hit list. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biggest thrill/scare: when my darling wife told me she was pregnant with twins. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biggest disappointment: the weather&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biggest festival: the Pope festival in Köln&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biggest Anthem: Washin Up by Thomas Anderson (tiga remix)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biggest hype: evacuation of jewish colonists in Gaza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biggest shock: London tube bombings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biggest violation of human rights: shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes in London in the aftermah of the bombings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biggest accident waiting to happen : Iraq&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biggest Woman : Cindy Sheehan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Smallest President: GW&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-112543659800479311?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-112309847890327423</id><published>2005-08-03T20:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:42.557+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ancient beliefs.</title><content type='html'>I apologise for the summer &lt;em&gt;lull&lt;/em&gt; in my blog. :]&lt;br /&gt;Here are some quintessential QI facts (courtesy www.qi.com).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three tribes in the world- the Ainu of Northern Japan and two tribes in the Pacific North-West of America- believe that the world is supported on the back of a giant trout. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Columbus believed the world was pear-shaped. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Descartes asserted that monkeys and apes probably were able to talk but kept quiet in case they were asked to do any work. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alexander Graham Bell believed moonlight was dangerous. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bertrand Russell believed that if a man was away from his wife for more than three weeks it was acceptable for him to have sex with other women.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-112309847890327423?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/112309847890327423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=112309847890327423&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/112309847890327423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/112309847890327423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/08/ancient-beliefs.html' title='Ancient beliefs.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-112143183347149025</id><published>2005-07-15T13:40:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:42.488+01:00</updated><title type='text'>One dollar, one vote.</title><content type='html'>#1 Schwarzenegger, the governator of Calli, signed a contract to "further the business objectives" of two body buildingmagazines on 15 November 2003 - just two days before he was sworn in as governor of the Golden State. He's being paid more than $8million over five years. Most of the advertisements in the magazines come from the 'performance-enhancing substance' industry. We all know that those bodybuilders don't stick to Aquarius to help them train.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last year, the governor vetoed a bill by a state senator that would have required sports coaches to take a course in performance-enhancing supplements, created a list of banned substances for school sports and barred supplement manufacturers from sponsoring school events. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Schwarzenegger's office has argued that there is no conflict of interest. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#2 The global steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal (owner of the world's biggest steel producer), one of Britain's richest men, announced yesterday that he had given £2m to Labour funds - making him the party's biggest donor alongside Lord Sainsbury, the supermarket tycoon turned science minister. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that's how modern democracy is supposed to work.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-112143183347149025?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/112143183347149025/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=112143183347149025&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/112143183347149025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/112143183347149025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/07/one-dollar-one-vote.html' title='One dollar, one vote.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-112059555403923711</id><published>2005-07-05T21:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:42.416+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Degussa Degassa</title><content type='html'>Fact #1: During WWII, Degussa, the German chemical company, provided Zyklon B to the nazi death camps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact #2: in 2005, Degussa provided the anti-graffiti coating for the Holocaust Memorial sculpture in Berlin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conclusion: This example of business strategy will probably feature in the courses of the prestigious U.S. business schools. &lt;em&gt;Chapter 1. How do I get paid twice for assisting a genocide?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-112059555403923711?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/112059555403923711/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=112059555403923711&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/112059555403923711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/112059555403923711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/07/degussa-degassa.html' title='Degussa Degassa'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-111964757322680076</id><published>2005-06-24T22:10:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:42.341+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Choosing between two (d)evils.</title><content type='html'>The Iranians have a tough choice to make in the upcoming second round of the presidential election.&lt;br /&gt;Either they pick the 70yr old billionaire Rafsanjani who ruled between 1989-1997 and robbed the country blind in the process&lt;br /&gt;or they pick the mayor of Teheran, 51yr old Ahmadinejad, who wants to segregate the sidewalks for men and women and who also wants to outlaw double beds (!?).&lt;br /&gt;Like John Travolta said in Face-Off: 'What a predicament!'&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-111964757322680076?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/111964757322680076/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=111964757322680076&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111964757322680076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111964757322680076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/06/choosing-between-two-devils.html' title='Choosing between two (d)evils.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-111851980978980420</id><published>2005-06-11T20:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:42.277+01:00</updated><title type='text'>WK Voetbal tot 20j</title><content type='html'>I was reminded of the stupidity of the human race when I was watching the world championship football for players aged 20 or under on Dutch television. Before the match Australia-Benin kicked off, there was a minute of silence for the deceased keeper of the Benin team. During the qualifying stages he was stoned to death after he had a bad game. I bet Tristan Peersman is happy he wasn't born in Benin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Dutch team has an awesome player in its ranks: Quincy and then something (he should shorten his name to Quincy, like the Brazilians)&lt;br /&gt;The kid playes like Ronaldo Squared (the one from PSV/Madrid and the one from Man U)and makes Arjen Robben look like a snail (and Baseggio like he's running backwards)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tonight/ Argentina vs the U S of Aaaaaa, featuring 16yr old Freddy Adu, the next Pele.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-111851980978980420?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/111851980978980420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=111851980978980420&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111851980978980420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111851980978980420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/06/wk-voetbal-tot-20j.html' title='WK Voetbal tot 20j'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-111773601276343118</id><published>2005-06-02T18:57:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:42.214+01:00</updated><title type='text'>EU in tatters?</title><content type='html'>What's all the negativism around the NO verdicts delivered by the French &amp; the Dutch in the EU constitution referenda?  Some commentators are acting like we're doomed. Wake up and smell the coffee! This is how democracy is supposed to work , not by ramming political decisions down people's throats. There is only so much change people can take in a certain amount of time. Let's see...&lt;br /&gt;1999: a new currency; that's quite a huge change , affecting everybody's lives&lt;br /&gt;2004: EU-15 becomes EU-25, former communist countries (some piss poor) join the club&lt;br /&gt;2005: Turkey is about to join and a constitution of 480 pages is drafted&lt;br /&gt;no wonder people voted for a time-out.&lt;br /&gt;Did you know that the constitution contains passages minutely describing the wages and severance packages of the EU bureaucrats? Does that belong in a constitution?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The referenda will restore part of the public's lost confidence in politics and may benefit the political project called EU in the long run. &lt;br /&gt;As the French would say: &lt;em&gt;Reculer pour mieux sauter.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-111773601276343118?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/111773601276343118/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=111773601276343118&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111773601276343118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111773601276343118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/06/eu-in-tatters.html' title='EU in tatters?'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-111695920877089748</id><published>2005-05-24T19:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:42.155+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Monsanto is not worried about mon-santé.</title><content type='html'>Researchers at Monsanto tested rats and covered that their GM MON 863, a modified corn already grown and eaten in the US and Canada, causes the rodents to develop kidney disease and low blood count . The results weren't supposed to come out and when they did, Monsanto dismissed the results as meaningless and due to chance, reflecting normal variations between rats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I still would like some more testing done please, preferably by a third party, before the EU grants permission to sell Monsanto's products to my kids. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Six years ago Dr Arpad Pusztai , a British scientist and a GM fan, already found disturbing evidence that the GM potatoes he was studying damaged the immune systems, brains, livers and kidneys of rats. He mentioned it briefly in a TV interview and at the same time threw his career out the window. Read what happened to him in this article: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=640402&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-111695920877089748?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/111695920877089748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=111695920877089748&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111695920877089748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111695920877089748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/05/monsanto-is-not-worried-about-mon-sant.html' title='Monsanto is not worried about mon-santé.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-111653869437085600</id><published>2005-05-19T22:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:42.093+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Mystery Piano Man</title><content type='html'>You have probably read or heard about the Mystery Piano Man, that guy who showed up April 7 in Kent, England, wearing a drenched suit. All the lables from his clothes had been removed. He hasn't uttered a word since but give him a piano and he plays concertos for four hours straight or he draws detailed pictures of wing pianos. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm calling David Lynch tonight to pitch him this idea I have for a new movie:)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-111653869437085600?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/111653869437085600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=111653869437085600&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111653869437085600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111653869437085600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/05/mystery-piano-man.html' title='Mystery Piano Man'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-111566057116871467</id><published>2005-05-09T18:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.942+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Naked in the rain.</title><content type='html'>Wassup with this Spencer Tunick hype and the nude people he photographed in Bruges over the weekend? Every newsshow and paper had an item on it and especially women around 40 seem to find his 'art' very provocative, hip &amp; interesting. I don't get it.&lt;br /&gt;Tunick is a one-trick pony. Is it art simply because they're naked? If everybody wore fleshcoloured or white spandex jumpsuits would it still be considered as high art and more importantly: would the media cover it??&lt;br /&gt;Come on Spence, time to move on to something new...&lt;br /&gt;If you want to see some real art check the post right below  www. banksy.co.uk&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-111566057116871467?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/111566057116871467/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=111566057116871467&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111566057116871467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111566057116871467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/05/naked-in-rain.html' title='Naked in the rain.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-111542108629399705</id><published>2005-05-07T00:07:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.872+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Guerilla Art</title><content type='html'>Check this guy out: http://www.banksy.co.uk &lt;br /&gt;Next level graffiti. He clandestinely hangs some of his stuff in art galleries between 'real' art.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-111542108629399705?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/111542108629399705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=111542108629399705&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111542108629399705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111542108629399705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/05/guerilla-art.html' title='Guerilla Art'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-111537078818171123</id><published>2005-05-06T10:07:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.797+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Why not privatise public transport? Here's why not</title><content type='html'>British commuters pay up to five times more than rail passengers on the Continent, a study has found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While an annual season ticket from Hemel Hempstead to London costs £2,504 for a 23-mile journey, the equivalent would cost just £510 in Berlin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The news emerges after the Government announced price increases above the inflation rate. On some London commuter routes up to one out of every four trains runs late. It is also thought that further increases are in the pipeline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bob Crow, the general secretary of the RMT, argued that the private companies involved in the rail network were siphoning off profit and ensuring that rail fares in Britain were higher than in most Continental countries. "The Rail privateers are taking out a billion pounds a year from the railways and £2m a week from the Tube - is it any wonder that commuters are paying through the nose for season tickets?" he said. "Commuters in countries where the railways remain in public hands pay a fraction of season ticket costs here. The time has come to draw the line under privatisation and bring our rail and Tube back into the public sector."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-111537078818171123?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/111537078818171123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=111537078818171123&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111537078818171123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111537078818171123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/05/why-not-privatise-public-transport.html' title='Why not privatise public transport? Here&apos;s why not'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-111445021053713930</id><published>2005-04-25T18:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.718+01:00</updated><title type='text'>It's been a long time...</title><content type='html'>...since I left you with a dope post to step to.&lt;br /&gt;Sorry but I've been too busy lately and lacking inspiration...&lt;br /&gt;The DJ in Dan Steely (DJ Gaucho) dusted off the cobwebs of his SL1200s last week to perform on a partyboat in Ghent. Thx again to my DJ buddies (Curteez, Buddha and Bricken) for providing me with their hottest discs , which I needed badly since I spinned non-stop from 20.30h till 02.30h. I'm still feeling the aftermath (I forgot how physically demanding those DJ groupies can be :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now 4 something completely different:&lt;br /&gt;The New Pope Papa Ratzi; doesn't he look kinda demonic, especially when he smiles, and his eyes are jeepy-creepy.If you ask me something went wrong when he conducted his last exorcism: the devil jumped bodies.&lt;br /&gt; I think the Vatican picked a 78-year old cos they were pleasantly surprised by all the media attention (the OldPope/NewPope soap received a wider coverage than the Tsunami ; for real!)&lt;br /&gt;They want to do the same thing every five years now (dominating the airwaves and selling loads of memorabilia) to keep their brandname alive.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-111445021053713930?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/111445021053713930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=111445021053713930&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111445021053713930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111445021053713930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/04/its-been-long-time.html' title='It&apos;s been a long time...'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-111264460984842785</id><published>2005-04-04T20:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.650+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Quite Interesting News</title><content type='html'>BREAKING NEWS! Next series of QI returns this May! THE HIT, BAFTA NOMINATED COMEDY SERIES HOSTED BY STEPHEN FRY! The man himself will once again join some of the biggest names in comedy in this hit BBC2 show! Top comedy guests guaranteed! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;QI Fact of the Day&lt;br /&gt;Alexander Graham Bell believed moonlight was dangerous.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-111264460984842785?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/111264460984842785/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=111264460984842785&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111264460984842785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111264460984842785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/04/quite-interesting-news.html' title='Quite Interesting News'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-111212939985287905</id><published>2005-03-29T21:27:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.594+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Z-religion.</title><content type='html'>Christians believe that God created the world in six days. Zoroastrians* believe it took Him 3,000 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*: Zoroastrians are the followers of the first revealed religion of mankind taught by a great thinker (Manthran) known to Greeks as Zoroaster and to the Persians as Zarathushtra. His teachings span back to the early dawn of civilization some 3500-3700 years ago. His was an enlightenment of a life of Good Conscience (Daena Vanghui) that in time was encoded into a Divine doctrine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you tried Christianity, took a stab at Judeaism, dabbled with Islam? why don't you give the Z-religion a go? Their God is called Ahura Mazda. Cool stuff. &lt;br /&gt;Zarathushtra was the bomb far back in the days, and quite a leftwinger too. In essence the basic ethical tenets of Zarathushtra were/are:&lt;br /&gt;# To think Good, (Humata)&lt;br /&gt;# To speak Good (Hukhta)&lt;br /&gt;# To act Good (Huvreshta)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Easier to remember than the 10 Commandments.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-111212939985287905?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/111212939985287905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=111212939985287905&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111212939985287905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111212939985287905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/03/z-religion.html' title='The Z-religion.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-111083347268982179</id><published>2005-03-14T21:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.536+01:00</updated><title type='text'>California behind bars.</title><content type='html'>California's jails house a total of 163,000 prisoners, which is more than France, Germany and the Netherlands combined. More than 30,000 are serving life.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-111083347268982179?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/111083347268982179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=111083347268982179&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111083347268982179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111083347268982179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/03/california-behind-bars.html' title='California behind bars.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-111057553622821709</id><published>2005-03-11T21:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.472+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Big Man in Dallas.</title><content type='html'>In Belgium, there is a lot of buzz surrounding DJ Mbenga , the first 'Belgian' player to play in the NBA. He's not a factor yet with his team, the Dallas Mavericks, but give him some time.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My personal favorite 7-footer is the superstar of the Mavs, German Dirk Nowitzki. Read the entertaining linked article about him. &lt;br /&gt;www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/mavericks/2005-03-10-nowitzki-unstoppable_x.htm&lt;br /&gt;This is my favourite excerpt : 'On Being ambidextrous: "&lt;em&gt;I can knock down six of 10 16-footers left-handed, but I don't have the confidence yet to shoot those in a game&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creepy stuff. 16-foot is only one step inside the European three-point arc.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-111057553622821709?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/111057553622821709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=111057553622821709&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111057553622821709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111057553622821709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/03/big-man-in-dallas.html' title='Big Man in Dallas.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-111057210009928120</id><published>2005-03-11T21:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.413+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Picanol: the dirty numbers.</title><content type='html'>Remember Patrick Coene, the ex-CEO of Picanol NV, who was paid roughly €25mln in three years on the job, which is about a quarter of Picanol's listed stock value?&lt;br /&gt;Well, PriceWaterhouseCoopers finished their audit of the company and it seems that old Coene just took his cue from the owners of Picanol, the family Steverlynck, which he already knew from his college days at the Vlerick School. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is what De Tijd, the Belgian business newspaper reported on the audit which ran from 2001 to mid-2004 (11/03).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Annual wages (all gross amounts)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Patrick Steverlynck:620.000€&lt;br /&gt;Michel Steverlynck: 322.000€&lt;br /&gt;Yves Steverlynck: 174.000€&lt;br /&gt;On top of this fixed payment they receive 3099€ per meeting of the Board of Directors plus a bonus dependent on Picanol's results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now comes the really disgusting part, the personal expenses of the family paid for by &lt;br /&gt;Picanol: a whopping total of 1,227 million € (yes that's 1.2bln€) including 220.000€ for hunting trips (that's a lot of duckshooting!). Patrick also receives €300.000 per year for the 'accueil' of customers in his mansion. (Note: he pays Picanol a  ridiculously low rent of €327 per month for the stately mansion)&lt;br /&gt;€150.000/year for the house of the elderly Emmanuel Steverlynck (who lives in another house in Switzerland by the way).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week the new CEO Van Nevel announced that workers would receive a one time gross amount of €250 + two extra holidays to compensate for all the hassle surrounding the company and the PwC audit. Wow, thanks very much. That didn't make me puke yet, but the reaction of the labour unions at Picanol caused me to regurgitate my lunch stante pede.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The spokesmen of the so-called socialist ABVV and the christiandemocratic ACV both hoped that the newsstories surrounding the Steverlyncks would not cause their departure because they are necessary for keeping jobs. Unbelievable!!!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who will foot the bill for this fraud? (which in all likelihood will not be punished as harshly as the social fraud hated so badly by Rik Daems )&lt;br /&gt;1. the employees (who are worried about their job and who haven't seen any decent pay hikes in ages).&lt;br /&gt;2. the shareholders (although I only feel sympathy for the smalltime investor)&lt;br /&gt;3. last but not least the taxpaying citizens.(Picanol can deduct the €1.2bln from their profits and they don't have to pay VAT (=BTW) on those amounts). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ofcourse the mainstream media wants you to believe that Picanol is an anomaly (just like Enron, WorldCom, Parmalat etc). All the other family-owned companies are squeeky clean!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-111057210009928120?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/111057210009928120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=111057210009928120&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111057210009928120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/111057210009928120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/03/picanol-dirty-numbers.html' title='Picanol: the dirty numbers.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110979417909443661</id><published>2005-03-02T21:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.358+01:00</updated><title type='text'>White House cries Wolf</title><content type='html'>At our workplace we can read the Financial Times. Some of the stuff in there is quite funny, like this excerpt from today's issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"The news that Paul Wolfowitz, the US deputy defence secretary and neo-conservative hawk, is a leading contender to head the World Bank has sent a frisson of fear down the spines of development experts across the globe.&lt;br /&gt;So great is the predicted backlash that one might almost suspect he is only there to secure Europe's acquiescence to a rival candidate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It also points to a worrying trend. Wolfowitz would not be the first Pentagon alumnus to go from bombing bridges to building them. In 1968 Robert McNamara, Lyndon B. Johnson's defence secretary, went straight from spearheading the Vietnam conflict to a lengthy stint as bank president.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Wolfowitz's regime change policy could work wonders: instead of vainly trying to alter the approach of corrupt rulers, why not simply topple them?&lt;br /&gt;There is the thorny issue of whether the World Bank's charter precludes such direct political action as, say, invasion. No doubt Alberto Gonzales, the US attorney-general, will find a way round it: perhaps by dubbing the interventions "coercive aid projects" rather than combat operations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110979417909443661?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110979417909443661/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110979417909443661&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110979417909443661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110979417909443661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/03/white-house-cries-wolf.html' title='White House cries Wolf'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110979387825419377</id><published>2005-03-02T21:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.298+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Posting comments.</title><content type='html'>As of now ANYONE can post comments on my blog. You don't have to register anymore. That's especially for you, Steven R. and Peter M.!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110979387825419377?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110979387825419377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110979387825419377&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110979387825419377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110979387825419377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/03/posting-comments.html' title='Posting comments.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110970430624306927</id><published>2005-03-01T19:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.237+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Human Polar Bear</title><content type='html'>I take the train to work every weekday and there is one guy I see on the platform who is freaking me out big time.&lt;br /&gt;He's the first human being I know who wears exactly the same clothes in the summer as he does in the winter. For several days now it's been freezing: at 7.00am this morning I reckon that the 'feel' temperature must have been something like -10°C (officially it was -4°C today but this doesn't factor in the chilly wind). Everybody is wearing a heavy coat or anorak, mittens and hats and still shivering like hell, but the guy - I call him the Polar Bear - is wearing a shirt with the top unbuttoned and a flimsy blazer and that's it! What really scares me is that he never flinches even when a gust of Arctic wind rips across the train platform in Deinze. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.: He drives a huge Mercedes to the train station (which also seems kind of strange)so he can't be too poor to buy winterclothes. I hope I can gather the courage to talk to him one of these days and ask him what his secret is.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110970430624306927?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110970430624306927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110970430624306927&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110970430624306927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110970430624306927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/03/human-polar-bear.html' title='The Human Polar Bear'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110970323595231979</id><published>2005-03-01T19:46:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.162+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Labour's share of the cake is getting smaller.</title><content type='html'>Corporations in the U.S. and elsewhere have rarely had it this good. &lt;br /&gt;In 2004, after-tax corporate profits in the U.S rose to 14% as a proportion of GDP, the highest for 75 years and in Europe and Japan, corporate profits are the highest in 25 years. That's why you see so many big corporations paying out huge dividends to their shareholders and even buying in their own shares on the stock market. Big banks with pockets full of money like HSBC and Citigroup are looking to use their cash reserves to buy up competitors, probably sparking another wave of 'wealth-creating' mergers  (numerous studies have shown that over 70% of big mergers turn out to be economically unprofitable)&lt;br /&gt;What's the problem, you say, this must be good for the economy as a whole, since the employees surely also benefit.&lt;br /&gt;Well, actually they don't. Officially, U.S. corporate profits have risen 60% over the past 3 years, opposed to 10% for wage income. But this does not take into account the fact that extralegal benefits such as healthcare and pension plans have been slashed over the last few years. In certain areas, wages have actually fallen  (NYTimes 28/02/05: 'Last year, the real wages of hourly workers, who make up about 80 percent of the work force, actually dropped for the first time in more than a decade')&lt;br /&gt;The economic theory goes that eventually these higher corporate profits will be syphoned away to the pockets of workers through lower prices as firms compete with each other to grab market share. The problem is that in most sectors, there is a concentration in the making that will lead to less competition, not more. &lt;br /&gt;When you confront a neoliberal economist with a real, actual problem or negative side-effect of the capitalist economy, he always produces the economic theories of Adam Smith, Milton Friedman or Hayek: &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;don't regulate and the problem will work itself out&lt;/span&gt;. But they never say how long it is going to take and also conveniently forget to mention that the many assumptions of the classic economic theories (perfect information, perfect competition...) are never fullfilled in the real world. &lt;br /&gt;I have a question for the rightwingers in the U.S.; why is the evolution theory by Darwin only a theory and why are the theories of Smith, Friedman, Hayek considered to be laws of nature???&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110970323595231979?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110970323595231979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110970323595231979&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110970323595231979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110970323595231979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/03/labours-share-of-cake-is-getting.html' title='Labour&apos;s share of the cake is getting smaller.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110910571001571791</id><published>2005-02-22T21:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.101+01:00</updated><title type='text'>We're running out of toiletpaper.</title><content type='html'>It seems like everyday we receive warnings in the media of how the economic rise of the superpower China will deplete the world's resources. Most fear oil shortages but how about this newswire as food for thought?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 15 - UPI:  &lt;em&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;An official from the Shanghai Paper Trade Association said China's consumption of wood pulp for toilet tissue was worrisome, China Daily reported&lt;/span&gt;... Wood pulp used to produce various kinds of paper has become China's third largest import after petroleum and steel... The country consumed 8.2 million tons of wood pulp in 2004, of which slightly more than 6 million tons were imported.  'While I am happy to see many young people adopt paper tissue for its convenience, a sign reflecting our social development and helping improve our industry to some extent, I am beginning to worry about our large wood consumption,' Wang said."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So that's why Japan has those hightech WCs with sprays and fountains. They were planning for the toiletpapershortage all those years!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110910571001571791?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110910571001571791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110910571001571791&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110910571001571791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110910571001571791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/02/were-running-out-of-toiletpaper.html' title='We&apos;re running out of toiletpaper.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110910470458317173</id><published>2005-02-22T21:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:41.031+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Don't believe the hype!</title><content type='html'>Barroso and many fellow politicians (Bolkestein, Blair, McCreevy, Verheugen, Kroes, Van Rompuy, Daems, Berlusconi , Balkenende, the list goes on &amp; on) want the European labor market to take their cue from the U.S. because it's much more dynamic and flexible. After all, the official unemployment rate in the euro area is 8.8% , compared to only 5.5% in the U.S .However, the official figures are painting a rosier picture than the actual job market situation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;the number of Americans without a job for more than 6 months has more than doubled over the past 3 yrs to 1.6mln&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the share of unemployed without work for more than 6 months has stayed above 20% for the past 18 months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The U.S. manufacturing sector has lost 2.8mln jobs over the last year&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Since spring 2003 the average duration of unemployment is 19 weeks, the longest since 1948!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;5.5% is the official unemployment rate but over 12% of Americans live below the poverty line; many people need to take up 2 or even 3 jobs to keep their heads above water, they are called the 'working poor'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Economic liberals rightly claim that it is not fair if people are on welfare and they don't have to work because they live off the fruits of labor of all the others. But what about all those people who do work in the U.S. and who are still poor? Isn't that even less fair??&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The article below by George Monbiot illustrates that the wellfare state canbe effective, as the example of Sweden shows.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/01/11/punitive-and-it-works/"&gt;http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/01/11/punitive-and-it-works/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110910470458317173?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110910470458317173/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110910470458317173&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110910470458317173'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110910470458317173'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/02/dont-believe-hype.html' title='Don&apos;t believe the hype!'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110867775495138907</id><published>2005-02-17T22:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:40.965+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Nuclear energy</title><content type='html'>Politicians in Europe have put nuclear reactors back on the agenda now that Kyoto has gone into effect. Granted, a nuclear reactor does not emit CO2 but it happens to produce an even more lethal byproduct for mother Earth. Until he/she can answer the following questions, no politician is allowed to discuss the relaunch of the nuclear industry in my vicinity!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;What are you going to do with the millions of tons of nuclear waste, with its cute radioactivity that lasts for a kazillion years? Oh, and shooting it into space is not an option.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;What if uranium runs out in say 50 years? &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do you really want to have nuclear reactors spread out all over the European mainland, offering an inviting canvas to airplane flying terrorists?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wonder what the solar energy industry would look like today with the kind of funding the nuclear industry received over the past 50 years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110867775495138907?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110867775495138907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110867775495138907&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110867775495138907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110867775495138907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/02/nuclear-energy.html' title='Nuclear energy'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110849338510886974</id><published>2005-02-15T19:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:40.897+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Philosophical Joke</title><content type='html'>As the buddhist said to the hot dog vendor:&lt;br /&gt;'Make me one with everything'&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110849338510886974?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110849338510886974/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110849338510886974&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110849338510886974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110849338510886974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/02/philosophical-joke.html' title='Philosophical Joke'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110849329838967471</id><published>2005-02-15T19:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:40.814+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sorry Dutch speakers</title><content type='html'>as of today I am switching from Dutch to English. I have a feeling there won't be many complaints, since only 1 person sofar has commented on my posts. Maybe it says more about the knowledge of my mother tongue than my English, but I feel more at ease using the language of Shakespeare as opposed to the language of Hendrik Conscience.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110849329838967471?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110849329838967471/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110849329838967471&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110849329838967471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110849329838967471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/02/sorry-dutch-speakers.html' title='Sorry Dutch speakers'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110798314327607560</id><published>2005-02-09T22:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:40.727+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Rice on the Rise</title><content type='html'>Nu dat Condoleezza Rice gepromoveerd is tot Minister v. Buitenlandse Zaken komt ze nog meer voor de camera's. Misschien ligt het aan mij, maar 'that woman scares me!'. Ze ziet eruit als een kruising tussen Rob de Nijs en Whoopi Goldberg. Ik verdenk haar ervan synthetische verjongingsdrankjes te nemen want ze lijkt 15 jaar jonger dan haar ware leeftijd (geb. 1954). Naar verluidt heeft ze een huizenhoog IQ waarmee ze baas geworden is van Stanford University vóór ze voor GWB ging werken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ze hebben natuurlijk wel wat slimme mensen nodig in het Witte Huis om het gemiddelde peil omhoog te trekken wanneer George thuis is. Zouden ze veel lachen met hem als hij er niet bij is?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eigenlijk zouden ze ipv oorlog te voeren tussen naties op de ouderwetse manier, de zaken kunnen oplossen met kwisavonden, waarbij verschillende teams tegenover elkaar gaan zitten in het decor van  de Pappenheimers. Maar dan wel met de huidige regeringen en niet met de beste kwissers van het land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die kerel van NoordKorea zou goed scoren in vragen over Hollywood, en Putin in vragen over de Berlijnse underground new wavescéne. Berlusconi weet alles over Frank Sinatra en Las vegas van zijn dagen als crooner op een cruise schip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De Belgische regering zou haar mannetje staan me dunkt. Verhofstadt mag je alles vragen over sport en wijn.  Vandelanotte en Landuyt zijn degelijke allround kwissers maar articuleren is de boodschap. Zeker in de finale. Aan Waalse zijde , zal het vooral moeten komen van Rudy Demotte. We kunnen winnen van Holland met onze vingers in de neus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En wie gaat er de finale winnen denk je?&lt;br /&gt;Mijn geld staat op Zweden. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110798314327607560?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110798314327607560/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110798314327607560&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110798314327607560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110798314327607560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/02/rice-on-rise.html' title='Rice on the Rise'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110787522459561894</id><published>2005-02-08T15:56:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:40.661+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Citaat in Humo nr. 3358</title><content type='html'>Sven Nys, wereldkampioen cyclocross (veel leuker woord dan veldrijden): 'Mijn zoontje Thibau doet mij gewoon vergeten dat ik voor het ogenblik de beste veldrijder van de wereld ben'. (Thibau was zeker niet aanwezig bij het interview)&lt;br /&gt;Als Sven niet langer de beste veldrijder ter wereld is , hoop ik voor hem dat Thibau dat ook doet vergeten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110787522459561894?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110787522459561894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110787522459561894&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110787522459561894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110787522459561894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/02/citaat-in-humo-nr-3358.html' title='Citaat in Humo nr. 3358'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110735114082531295</id><published>2005-02-02T14:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:40.589+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Fact of the day</title><content type='html'>75% of Icelanders believe in elves, but only 40% will admit to it when sober.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110735114082531295?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110735114082531295/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110735114082531295&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110735114082531295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110735114082531295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/02/fact-of-day.html' title='Fact of the day'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110660306475455683</id><published>2005-01-24T22:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:40.523+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Topsport is ongezond.</title><content type='html'>Welke sporttak in de V.S. wordt het meest geplaagd door chronische kwetsuren na het beëindigen van de actieve sportloopbaan?&lt;br /&gt;Niet &lt;em&gt;football&lt;/em&gt; of boksen zoals ik dacht maar wel &lt;em&gt;cheerleading&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Volgens mij zijn het die &lt;em&gt;high kicks&lt;/em&gt; die het hem doen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110660306475455683?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110660306475455683/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110660306475455683&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110660306475455683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110660306475455683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/01/topsport-is-ongezond.html' title='Topsport is ongezond.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110633561581336078</id><published>2005-01-21T20:19:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:40.451+01:00</updated><title type='text'>NBA fans</title><content type='html'>Hoi,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;aan alle NBA fans met een gevoel voor humor: check deze column van Bill Simmons van ESPN! http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/050111&lt;br /&gt;Bij sommige passages moest ik zoveel lachen dat het pijn deed. En dat van een Amerikaan die niet Michael Moore heet! In de column geeft hij trouwens toe dat Dirk Nowitzki de MVP van het moment is in de NBA maar hij stelt ook dat een niet-Amerikaan niet kan in aanmerking komen voor de officiële MVP titel. Quelle chauvinisme. Stel je voor dat wij de Gouden Schoen telkens aan een Belg moeten geven.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110633561581336078?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110633561581336078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110633561581336078&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110633561581336078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110633561581336078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/01/nba-fans.html' title='NBA fans'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110565406238917980</id><published>2005-01-13T22:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:40.378+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Undercover marketing.</title><content type='html'>Nieuw voor mij dit begrip, &lt;em&gt;undercover marketing&lt;/em&gt;. Het gaat om een marketingtechniek (in de VS natuurlijk, where else?)waarbij reclamebedrijven acteurs betalen om in de nabijheid van potentiêle consumenten te 'stoefen' met een produkt. Bij de lancering van een nieuw drankje (Blue Bull bijv.) worden een paar 'leaners' in een trendy club losgelaten, die aan de bar ostentatief vragen naar  Blue Bull. De andere klanten kennen dit natuurlijk niet en informeren de 'leaners' naar het nieuwe drankje. Zo wordt er een hype gecreeërd en twee uur later drinkt de helft van de aanwezige fuivers Blue Bull.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je zal natuurlijk zeggen dat het bij ons nog niet toegepast wordt maar ondertussen ben ik wel wantrouwig geworden van vreemden die in mijn buurt een produkt aanprijzen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110565406238917980?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110565406238917980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110565406238917980&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110565406238917980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110565406238917980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/01/undercover-marketing.html' title='Undercover marketing.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110503989092633384</id><published>2005-01-06T20:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:40.195+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Spiders on drugs.</title><content type='html'>Hoi fellow bloggers,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;de titel van deze blog is geïnspireerd door mijn favoriete TV-kwis 'QI' op BBC2. Als je het nog niet gezien hebt, zeker doen. Eén van de vragen betrof een experiment uitgevoerd door NASA op spinnen, meer bepaald onderzocht men wat er gebeurde wanneer je spinnen drugs toedient en dan een web laat weven. De resultaten zijn op zijn minst verrassend te noemen en kan je bekijken op &lt;a href="http://www.missblackwidow.com/drugs.html"&gt;www.missblackwidow.com/drugs.html&lt;/a&gt;. Vooral wijlen Timothy Leary zou trots zijn op het feit dat onder invloed van LSD, de spinnen quasi perfect geometrische webben weven. Het slordigste web (de vliegen lachten zich een breuk) kwam tot stand met caffeïne, de meest gebruikte drug in de wereld. Misschien moeten we die koffieautomaat op ons werk maar vervangen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nagedachte: welke drugs hebben ze uitgedeeld bij NASA dat ze op het idee komen om zoiets te onderzoeken?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110503989092633384?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110503989092633384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110503989092633384&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110503989092633384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110503989092633384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/01/spiders-on-drugs.html' title='Spiders on drugs.'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9972532.post-110495649506318104</id><published>2005-01-05T20:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T23:18:40.102+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Een nieuwe blogger is geboren!</title><content type='html'>Gegroet collega-bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toen ik zoëven mijn allereerste blogaccount aan het aanmaken was, gebeurde er één van die dingen die de meeste mensen toeval zullen noemen, maar waar ik graag meer achter zie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mijn vrouw (de nieuwsgierige schat!)vroeg zich luidop af wat ik aan het doen was op de PC, waarop ik bekende een 'blog' te beginnen.&lt;br /&gt;'Blog?' zei ze.&lt;br /&gt;In een paar minuten vertelde ik haar het weinige wat ik weet over weblogs en hun groeiende populariteit. Tevreden met mijn uitleg, zette ze zich voor de TV en zapte naar Canvas, waar Phara de Aguirre een reportage over weblogs en hun groeiende populariteit inleidde. Echt gebeurd!&lt;br /&gt;Now is that some &lt;em&gt;Twilight Zone&lt;/em&gt; doodoo or what?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ik had nergens gehoord of gelezen van de reportage op Canvas en ik aarzel al een paar maand om een blog te beginnen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meer heb ik niet te zeggen in mijn 'maiden post' ; vergeef me , ik ben nog wat verlegen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tot binnenkort,&lt;br /&gt;DS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9972532-110495649506318104?l=thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/feeds/110495649506318104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9972532&amp;postID=110495649506318104&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110495649506318104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9972532/posts/default/110495649506318104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thatsquiteinteresting.blogspot.com/2005/01/een-nieuwe-blogger-is-geboren.html' title='Een nieuwe blogger is geboren!'/><author><name>Dan Steely</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14499376780592543494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
