Enestående (or in proper English unique, one of a kind) is what Marianne’s grandmother Marie Digre usually called me. I don’t see myself as all that unique, but compliments like that are of course always welcome. 😉 She passed away last saturday from the complications of pneumonia at the respectable age of 98. She will […]
ThinkGeek used to be my #1 favourite online store. Their collection of T-shirts, gadgets and other items which appeal to nerds was a site I frequently visited to admire their latest additions. Not anymore… A while ago they changed their shipping methods, resulting in a $30 shipping charge for a single T-shirt. In other words,
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Here’s a good example of sloppy journalism: An article in Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf about an incident where 91(!) people got hit by lightning during a national championship rallycross in Norway. According to the article the incident happened in Oslo… Wrong, wrong, wrong… Actually the rallycross event was being organized in Flisa, more than 2
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This evening I decided to get away from my 24/7 job for a couple of hours and catch a flick at the nearby Multiplex. I ended up at Fredrikstad Kino and would be watching X files: I want to believe. The ticket I had purchased online earlier today, so all I had to do was
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Thanks to Cali and her Geekbrief I came across a site called Periodic Videos, a site operated by the University of Nottingham. This site combines the periodic table we all know from chemistry class with… fun! In a Mythbusters-way they have made a video about each of the (currently) 118 elements in the periodic table
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Oops, they did it again… 🙁 Borregaard, a large chemical manufacturer on the outskirts of Sarpsborg, Norway, and as such (one of) the largest employer in this area, has (probably) again managed to infect the area with Legionella, causing an outbreak of Legionellosis (also known as Legionnaires’ disease). Back in 2005 they already quite ‘successfully’
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