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Gadgets: Segway Ferrari Edition
Still looking for the latest geeky present (for your son / daughter) and a Ferrari is out of reach…
Well how about this one: The Segway PT i2 Ferrari Limited Edition
Segway has together with the famous Italian car maker Ferrari created a special limited edition version of
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Video: Ne me quitte pas
Jacques Brel’s ultimate classic covered in many languages from Afrikaans to Greek…
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Quote of the Day: Foreign Policy
Yee-ha Is Not a Foreign Policy… seen on a wall inside the Emerald City, Baghdad, Iraq …is this the end of the yellow brick road…
Video: P-Funk documentary
When you like funk, this one hour documentary on George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic is a must.
… What’s your funk aptitude, bobba?
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Data Visualization: Doctors of the World
The image below was created as a poster for Dutch doctors to hangs on the wall of their waiting rooms. With 170 inhabitants per doctor Cuba is still the world leader on that chart. Not unsurprising other (former) communist countries follow on the next positions (in some of those countries the numbers have already started to deteriorate).
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Quote of the Day: Joseph Gerrald
From a sign in the Sydney Botanical Garden put up close to the place where Joseph Gerrald’s (one of the “Scottish Martyrs”) grave once was:
For myself, my friend, whatever destiny awaits me, I am content. The cause which I have embraced has taken deep root, and must, I feel, ultimately triumph. I have my reward. I see through the cheering vista of future events the overthrow of tyranny, and the permanent establishment of benevolence and peace. It is as silent as the lapse of time, but as certain and inevitable.
Joseph Gerrald, 17 May 1795
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