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| Dutch Launch World's Biggest Condom to Teach Youth About STDs |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 4:12 pm |
| Tags: International Education, Condom, Dutch, Health Service, Safe Sex, Std, World S Largest |
| use them.The director of a Dutch health service said "Sometimes when kids play with condoms they blow them up like balloons. (I never did that when I was a kid, did you?)He went on..."I was toying around with that thought and that's when I got the idea to try to make a hot air balloon in the form of a condom."Thus was born a |
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| Where's Bad Publicity Leading for Big Oil? |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 9:37 am |
| Tags: Future Trends, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Global Warming, Newsweek, Royal Dutch Shell, Toyota, Bti, Fslr, Xom, Cvx |
| Mobil, not to mention Royal Dutch Shell (RDS-B) and Chevron (CVX), is that global warming threatens to balloon into the public sphere much faster than smoking-related cancer did. Most people are already aware of the potential problems; worries are mounting every day, along with the threat of backlash from consumers who increasingly see Big Oil |
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| Stranglehold Release Delayed (PS3) |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 11:38 am |
| Tags: Midway, Sony, Been Delayed, Clue, Dutch Website, John Woo, Sony Ps3, Stranglehold, Xbox 360 |
| release has been delayed. Dutch website PS3 Only has received news from Midway that the delay is something that will definitely happen. At this point, we have no clue when the PS3 release of the game will actually happen. Midway says that the game will release this year, but not in September as planned for the Sony PS3. Via PS3 ONLY |
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| Things Around the Web |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 1:34 pm |
| Tags: Grim Reaper, Cat, Current Event, Zebra, Lego Man, Bbc, Dutch, News, Blogging, Life, Blog, Cats, General |
| I wasn’t online very much over the weekend, so this morning before work I spent a little time reading a bunch of my favorite blogs and news sites. I thought I’d share some of the interesting things in my Monday web-romp. |
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| The automatic Bike Dispenser -- like PEZ but good for you |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 10:41 am |
| Tags: Bicycle, Bike, Bike Dispenser, Bikedispenser, Dutch, Holland, Netherlands, Rfid, Springtime, Sprinttime |
| Dispenser" created by the Dutch-based (of course) design agency, Springtime. The concept has actually been floating around since 2005 in The Netherlands but it recently won the Spark Design & Architecture Award causing the world to take notice. The idea here is to offer these RFID-tagged bikes to riders in cities supporting bike rental or |
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| Dutch Watch: Hooked! |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 3:17 pm |
| Tags: Dutch Watch, Prince Gomolvilas, Strange News |
| the Netherlands reeled in a Dutch diver, whose lip got caught by the boy's hook. The hook had to be removed by a doctor.I see this as a clear act of malice on the boy's part, and I advocate for him to be fined, jailed, and sentenced to death. As I have demonstrated time and again, the Dutch are the chosen people, and any act of violence against |
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| Dutch Watch: The World's First Bear Band |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 9:38 pm |
| Tags: Music, So Gay, Dutch Watch, Prince Gomolvilas, Strange News, Video Clips |
| As if all the evidence I have so far submitted to you in order to prove that the Dutch are superior weren't enough, I now give you Bearforce1. It's an Amsterdam-based boy band but with bears, i.e., hairy older men. Your first reaction will be, "Dude, this shit can't be for real." But it is. Oh, yes, it is. Consider this fair warning. |
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| Dutch Watch: Filming Under Women's Skirts Is All in the Name of Journalism |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 3:07 pm |
| Tags: Dutch Watch, Prince Gomolvilas, Strange News |
| to you how great the Dutch are, a couple of Dutch news bloggers were just busted for filming underneath women's skirts in a shopping center parking lot. Apparently, there is a transparent ceiling in the stairwell, so that passersby below can look up and see people who are climbing the stairs. If you happen to be wearing a skirt, you could |
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| Dutch Watch: The Finnish Give the Dutch a Run for Their Money |
| Published: August 21, 2007, 3:23 pm |
| Tags: Music, So Gay, Dutch Watch, Prince Gomolvilas, Video Clips |
| It's sad to think that I will perhaps never ever create anything as unwittingly brilliant as this 1979 cover version of "Y.M.C.A.," sung by a Finnish dude in a garish exercise outfit. You may be horrified and want to turn it off, but at least wait for the amazing back-up dancers who come on 49 seconds into this clip: |
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| Narco Politics |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 6:18 am |
| Tags: Opium, Kabul, Stephen Harper, Marx, Heroin, Kandahar, Cia, Iran, Dutch East India Company, Afghanistan, Karzai |
| The British alternative is what? More civilian deaths from air strikes?British diplomat opposes legalized Afghan poppy cropBritain's top diplomat in Canada has dismissed a poll, commissioned by the international think-tank that is championing the legalization of Afghanistan's contentious opium poppy crop, which shows that Canadians overwhelmingly |
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| Lootzy~ - Search the Dutch web for jobs |
| Published: September 2, 2007, 7:57 am |
| Tags: Web 2 0, Employment, Dutch, Search |
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| Gotomyjob~ - Search the Dutch web for jobs |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 12:11 pm |
| Tags: Web 2 0, Employment, Dutch, Search |
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| Third Pod Hotel Concept for Amsterdam Revealed: CitizenM |
| Published: September 12, 2007, 7:01 am |
| Tags: Hoteliers, News, The Making Of, Coming Soon, Dutch Design, Amsterdam, Hotel Design, Pod Hotel |
| Blogged in the City is a Dutch language Blog about Hotels and E-commerce by Thomas Dieben who has a hotel background and is an E-commerce consultant who first picked up this news. In the CitizenM Press release there is more information. |
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| Dutch Design # 15: The Hague Post Stamp |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 7:06 pm |
| Tags: Design, News, The Hague, Dutch Design, City Marketing |
| post stamp issued by Royal Dutch TNT Post in a series “Beautiful Netherlands” , which did a much better job than the The Hague Municipality itself when it launched its city marketing logo ( see my post Den Haag City Logo Launch). Thanks AD |
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