[Holland] This week we've got Rutger van Waveren, Founder of Spectives.com, doing an elevator pitch. Spectives.com allows people to use images to keep track of the latest news from their favorite sites. Think of Spectives as a visual RSS, Alltop, or as a kind of Netvibes for visual news. Unlike RSS where you have to scan text headlines for information, you can scan images. Great for a lot of visual...
I have two recent incidents which make me trust the crowds much more than the civil service here in the Netherlands. Incident 1. Travelling back on a KLM plane from Athens we arrive at Schiphol airport right in the middle of a thunderstorm. Schiphol decides it is too dangerous for its personnel to keep the gates open (lightning strikes, etc) and suspends operations. We taxi to a parking area and wait....
Hi all, It's my first Thanksgiving in Amsterdam! After buying a 15 pound turkey for a price that made my poor student head spin, I'm ready to turn my attention to other Thanksgiving staples. However, there's no cranberries in Amsterdam....
"We're already looking towards next year. After all, Borough Market quickly became a weekly event..." Photos: Erin Zimmer When I first visited the New Amsterdam Market on a brutally cold, ice-whipped December day back in 2007, Robert LaValva and Cerise...
TEDx live webcast from Amsterdam. Not sure if TED has streamed the conferences live, we haven't seen them live, so interesting to see. A real treat. This is also one of the few events we have seen streamed live in...
On November 17, Allman Brothers/Gov't Mule guitarist Warren Haynes joined legendary heavy rockers Deep Purple onstage for the classic "Black Night" in Amsterdam, Holland at the Heineken Music Hall, with Haynes and Purple guitarist Steve Morse trading licks. Here's fan produced footage of the jam :
If you’re looking for an exotic, new kind of vacation, consider visiting beautiful Amsterdam. Located in North Holland, this capital city of the Netherlands is the only place on earth where cannabis, or marijuana, is not only legal – it’s sold in coffee shops. Virtually everywhere you go in Amsterdam you will see what locals and [...]
Filed under: Netherlands The Netherlands Board of Tourism and Lloyd Hotel (pictured) have teamed up to bring one lucky winner (and a buddy) to Amsterdam for free -- well, almost free. This contest is about sacrifice: they want to know what you would give for a trip to Amsterdam ... literally. To enter, visit Holland's Facebook page and "submit a photo and brief description of something you are...
Amsterdam, the Netherlands [Photo by MarcelGermain/Flickr] ·How to win a free trip to Amsterdam [Gadling] ·Air Canada to test in-flight wifi until Jan. 29...
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Filmmakers Barry and Felicia Ptolemy (Ptolemaic Productions) and partners, Therapy Studios, make their world premiere at the prestigious International Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s largest documentary film festival, on November 24, 2009 with TRANSCENDENT MAN. The film will compete for the IDFA Award for Best First Appearance. No U.S. distributor is...
From € 90.25 Golden Tulip Amsterdam Centre Nieuwezijdskolk 19, Amsterdam-Centrum, Amsterdam Golden Tulip Amsterdam Centre is ideally situated in the city centre of Amsterdam. The train station is only 5 minutes away. More… Excellent location! Next to shopping street and main railway station. Parking garage next door.… More — Branko (Brussels, BE), November 9, 2009 From €...
ok. seriously behind with the blogging. this is awful. right now i have a tooth ache. it started at the upper rear of my mouth and this evening it's shifted to the lower right side. probably an infection. nothing seems to help the pain except for salt water rinses and that only lasts for a short time. i took some ibuprofin. oh, and a vicodin to help me sleep. i hope i can last well enough through the...
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