Tag Archives: netherlands

8 Jun 09

USA Flood control system Should Go Dutch

Flood control systems in the Netherlands are built to withstand storms of a severity seen once in 10,000 years, in the US the levees are built to stand up to storms of a severity anticipated once in a century. (via) As storm season comes around in the USA Mary Landrieu a Senator from New Orleans [...]
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14 Dec 06

I amsterdam

I love Amsterdam. I lived there for two years, and fell in love there. The city is a fantastic backdrop to life which contains wonders for anyone and everyone, from the cross eyed French teenagers stumbling out of their coffee shops we sometimes bumped into outside our front door to rich retired couples shopping for [...]
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19 Aug 05

The best Dutch Zombie movie ever

The web is full of new things to sign up for, some more or less usefull. This is my favourite for a long time though…You can sign up here to be a zombie extra in ‘the best dutch zombie movie not yet made’. Technically I think you’ll actually be a German-football-hooligan-nazi-zombie but well you will [...]
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1 Jul 05

Dutchtub

My friend Jurgen emailed me the other day about a great new dutch product which I think would just about fit in our back garden.He was sitting on a roof terrace bar on the thirteenth floor which had some installed in central Amsterdam. Brings back memories of our two years we lived there.
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