A Horse Is A HHHorse

Yesterday, while going through my Google Reader listings (handy for keeping track of lots of websites without having to remember to visit each and every one) I saw a news story with the title: Horse genome unlocked by science.
I know the word genome; I know how to pronounce it. However, now that I’m trying [...]

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Rooms For Rent

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s made the BBC news website, as well, so I figured I’d mention it again. Plus, it never fails to amuse me. The Netherlands has a shortage of criminals — or at least a shortage of ones who are caught and sent to prison — so we’re [...]

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Let Loose The Kraken

There I was thinking I didn’t really have much to blog about these days when suddenly there arose such a clatter that I sprang from my chair to see what was the matter. (Or, you could say that I eventually got up off the sofa to see where the music and yelling was coming from [...]

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Ear Apparant

I couldn’t resist posting this:

Gauguin may have cut off Van Gogh’s ear
Tuesday 05 May 2009
Vincent van Gogh’s ear may have been cut off in a fight with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, British paper the Daily Telegraph reports on Tuesday, quoting German researchers.
Van Gogh is believed to have cut off his own ear as he struggled [...]

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Home Away From Home

Walking along 27th Street in Manhattan meant I passed through the garden district (different, though from the New Orleans Garden District), and I always passed one of the flower shops that had the name New Amsterdam. Now I live near the original flavor.
Although the original settlers wouldn’t recognize their Mana-Hatta today, the Dutch government is [...]

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In the News

Utrecht introduces cycle ambulance
Monday 28 July 2008
Utrecht is the first city in the Netherlands to get a cycle ambulance, reports Monday’s AD newspaper.
The city’s ambulance service RAVU tells the paper that it has been forced to introduce this unusual form of emergency medical aid because of the increasing difficulty of reaching city centre destinations with [...]

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Random Bits

Found in a Dutch News newsletter I receive:
The police were in 21 shooting
incidents last year, compared
with 14 in 2006, according to
the state police force’s annual
report …
Despite the increase, those are mind-bogglingly small numbers when you think about it in US terms.
The weather is beautiful today — maybe around 70F with almost no humidity and the [...]

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