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Wednesday, December 31, 2003
OK,
since blogging was down & since I am preparing
"oliebollen" now, the big 2003 posting will be for tomorrow.
See recipe for oliebollen (pronounce OHH-lee-BOL-uh; "oil balls", & that`s what it is, man...) here.
Personally I don`t soak the raisins, I also add "sukade" (can`t find the English word; a kind of fat skinned citrus of which the peel is boiled in sugar water), I use 3/4 of white wheat flour & 1/4 of buckwheat flour, I use cane sugar & NEVER add lemon juice...
Belgians do it finer; they first simmer the milk with a split vanilla bean, they add the yolk of the eggs first & just before frying they add the whipped whites.
Comics & such
Speedy Gonzales
Banned (& wav files)
Site with lots of pics (bottom of page)
Site with other pages on Bugs Bunny etc.
Basque language
again
In the mentioned earlier posting (see next message) I linked to a page on Basque language and to one with the grammar
Found two more links
The Royal Academy (in Basque with link to English translation)
Basque Country links page
Music
Basque Country
In an earlier posting you can find links on Basque cuisine, sports etc.
Basque music now. Trikitixa (pronounce x as sh)
Introduction
Listen here (click 16 or 32k`s)
Tuesday, December 30, 2003
& last but not least:
Fireworks!
The UK Firework Review
Pics (scroll down)
PyroPage links
Safety starte here (also see this)
& if you have a real fast internet connection see a virtual firework here
Photo Pages
Four nice PBase albums today
Angkor
Asia
Lisbon architecture, old & modern
Los Angeles architecture, modern
Animals
Searching for Piranha
Not much either; see this pic
But I did find a real nice site on the skull with Piranha a.o.
Popular Culture
The Klompendans (Dutch clog dance)
Searching for it, first I found little; see this pic
But then I found a site where you can see them dance.
In Brazil & next to a windmill too...
Monday, December 29, 2003
Talking
Serendipity
About once a week I go here to try to fool it, which is not that easy
Once I not only fooled it, the result was real serendipity
The word in my head was Greenpeace
20Q came with this when it gave up:
Is Greenpeace the same as...
- an ear infection
- a green bean
- a turnpike exit
- a spacesuit
- a mosquito repellent
- a spaceship
- infinity
- a figurine
- a strawberry
- a cranberry
- cranberry juice
- strawberry jam...?
A PS to
The History of Aviation
General site but including the Chinese kite flying soldiers that I overlooked
General also but including Cayley and Lilienthal (see for Lilienthal here)
Another nice centennial site
Another nice Wright model site
Various slide shows, including the AAW
Serendipity,
Matt wrote in a comment
What is Serendipity?
Serendip Society
Serendip Blog
Serendip Country
Serendip Project
Cuisine
The Dutch Tosti!
Very popular fastfood served in bars
Looks like this
How is it made? Take two slices of bread, put cheese & boiled ham between & toast
In the old days in a kind of waffle iron, & nowadays in electric stuff like waffle irons or like a sandwich toaster
You don`t have a thing like that? No problem; read how students do it
Put butter on two slices of white bread; put cheese & ham in between BUT with butter outside; melt butter in a low skillet, put tosti in & put a small pan with water (weight about one pound) on top of tosti; fry till underside of tosti is golden brown; turn tosti (if you can`t find it it`s adhered to the underside of the pan), put pan on again etc.
Very good: put strong mustard on the bread too (inside), sprinkle with tarragon en prepare with cheese only
Other tosti`s`: cheese & pineapple; cheese & salami
Original recipes: Croque Monsieur & Croque Madame
Stats
again,
or at least that is the reason of this posting
Yesterday I had four visitors, provider "NIPR", country "US Military" (very strange: two times the same IP, once with Windows NT, once with Windows 3.X)
And yesterday I found some nice pages on Saddam Husein
So: The Mother of All Saddam Blog Postings today.
First, for earlier posting see Indict site
& ABC news
& Saddam Husein Village
& Mother of All Dental Fillings Found!
Before Saddam
BBC Timeline (short)
World History (detailed)
Counter-Terrorism page
CIA Declassified
The National Security Archive (with Rumsfeld Shaking Hands video)
PBS Frontline page (with interesting photo album & video)
PBS before the war
PBS November 2002
Tony Benn Interview
Inner Circle
Qusay
Uday
Photo gallery of American POW`s
Photo gallery of Civilian Iraq war victims (shocking!)
Photo gallery of Got him!
Teheran Webcam
Order Official Most Wanted Cards here
& of course, this could not fail
Saddam Homepage
Saddam from Iraq
Real Hussein
Punch Saddam & many others
Sunday, December 28, 2003
History of Aviation
(Last)
1969: Concorde supersonic passenger plane (See October 25 posting for two more links)
1969: Boeing 747 largest passenger plane
1981: Lockheed F-117 first stealth
1986; Rutan Voyager first nonstop round the world
1989: Antonov AN-225 biggest
1989: Northrop B-2 first 100% computer designed
2003: Helios first solar powered
2005: Airbus A380 next largest passenger plane
Very
Various
Danny Kaye
Fabergé Eggs
The Paris Metro
Along one of the canals of Utrecht you can find the Gesloten Steen, the Locked Stone, "locked" because the devil tossed it from one bridge to another at night... See Utrecht canals here
Searching for
the Felix Hess interactive robots
I only found this soo let`s Boomerang
Boomerangs
Argentinian boomerangs
How it works
Found this too
& this
& this!!
Animals
& other things
The Rotterdam Zoo has since some weeks a basin with herrings. This may not sound spectacular but it is, since herring is very difficult to keep in an aquarium. & as a matter of fact having these herrings there it was discovered that they communicate by farting.
See Rotterdam Zoo English homepage here; The ZooFun pages are nice, other links cannot be found.
(Which book was it again in which an allien lands near a farm on fire, wants to warn the farmer but since the allien communicates with farts & tapdancing he gets shot by the farmer?)
Some herring recipes
Herring in Dutch is Haring, so searching I found this
How about
some fine Paris restaurants today?
Ducasse
Taillevent
La Tour d`Argent
Le Train Bleu
Maxim`s
La Coupole doesn`t have a site but see here
Same thing for my favourite Laserre ("Laserre, Toit Ouvrant", Laserre, Opening Roof; when it gets too hot inside the roof opens for a moment)
Of Le Boeuf sur le Toit (The Ox on the Roof) some nice old pics here. The name is that of a farce by Jean Cocteau, with music by Darius Milhaud.
Saturday, December 27, 2003
Cuisine
for this time of the year:
Fondue de fromage
(A similar but much less known thing: Raclette)
Or how about a Fondue Bourguignon?
Or a Mongolian fondue?
Or Vietnamese, dipping fish (or tofu!) in hot stock?
Or how about Fondue as a desert? (Chinese? We did that 50 years ago, dipping strawberries in melted chocolate...)
HTML
The second most derided tag ever:
First one being Blink but that doesnt work here
See for a good HTML guide here
More tonight
but first a less sad posting
Jaques Tati (very nice flash site; take some time for it & try to find the links)
Victor Borge(empty bars: hoover over)
Father Damian
died 104 years ago
Father Damian was a Belgian missionary who cared for the lepers at Moloka`i (click the pics; some are very touching)
What is Leprosy?
I have to add something here, having worked with leper in Indonesia.
Father Damian died of lepra, so was I not afraid of getting lepra?
No, a healthy person will not be affected. Affected are those that live in poverty, are not well fed & live surrounded by dirt.
We set up small villages for these people (who were thrown out of theit native villages) where they learned to keep clean, to grow vegetables & to raise chicken.
In the beginning we were obliged to have barbed wire around these villages as to prevent the lepers from escaping.
The whole thing became a succes, also because the Indonesian government, in one of their few acts that made sense, started a campain about lepra not being contagious.
(The main base of this campain was to force schools to accept children with lepra.)
I wrote that the whole thing became a succes & indeed, when the barbed wire was not obliged anymore we left it there as to prevent people from outside stealing the chicken.
We also had the food in the catholic Medan hospital prepared from the products from the leper villages, telling every patient where the food came from.
History
of The Match
1] Henning Brand discoveres Phosphor, boiling down urine in search for gold
2] Robert Boyle discoveres what Phosphor & Sulphur can do together
3] The first matches
4] & again later a man called Dasch (not much to find on the web) invented the matchbox
5] Ever heard of Phillumeny)
Stats again
No visitors from Finland or The Balkan
so let`s publish something
Finland
The Sauna
The Reindeer Sledge
The Balkan
The Mostar Bridge
The Baklava
Some nice links
from Matt`s blog (see link at right)
History
The French Revolution
The Russian Empire in photographs
(Might as well add a page on the Russian Revolution here)
Music
Classical Composers Database
Sounds of Harpsichords & related instruments
Various
Topher`s Cereal Character Guide
Confess online!
Photo Pages
Four nice PBase ones today
Protests in The Netherlands but don`t get a wrong idea of our peaceful country!
The Arab Christian neighbourhood of Haifa, Wadi Nisnas
Waterfalls
The Face Touchers
In my stats
I saw I had a visitor from the Cocos Islands
Let`s have a look
Now these are the "Cocos (Keeling) Islands", not to be confused with the Cocos Islands
My visitor came from the Keeling ones; see facts here
(Found this site on National Flags)
News
Iran
The Quake on Iranian site
& if al this misery were not enough, the Bam citadel has been destroyed too
(See various Iran pics here)
Friday, December 26, 2003
Might as well
post a message...
On Counters
As far as I know by now there are three kinds, as far as freeware is concerned:
A] Counter is shown on page & visitors can see statistics; see Retro Stats; I dont`t have that but see Matt`s site; link at the right
B] Counter is shown on page but statistics cannot be seen by visitors; see SeeHits & see button at the right (number of visitors can be hidden too)
C] Nothing to be seen & thus no statistics for visitors either; see NedStat
I have NedStat too, & after commenting with Matt we came to a simple conclusion: one should have them all; they all have their pro`s & contra`s (AND different stats...)
As you can see,
I have added the comment thing now
Just now, so for the moment old post doesn`t have comments.
One thing: you only need to enter a name for leaving a comment; email & URL are NOT neccesary!
Botany
The Wollemi pine
Matt posted a news page on it & I became very interested
Find a complete site here
More Web & such
Virus
Good & free anti-virus: Grisoft
First virus: Brain NET (read under History)
Symantech`s DeepSight
IBM publications (Sarah Gordon`s are good)
Any questions? Ask alt.comp.virus
Let me add a correction to an earlier posting here.
I wrote "First run Ad-aware, then run Spybot".
But after upgrading Ad-aware yesterday it`s the other way around that is more effective.
Suppose I should say "First run the one with the most recent update".
The Web
& such
Don`t take your passwords to the grave
Gunning Google
The do-not-spam list
Interactive Xmas tree
Caution over computerised world
News
Well, news...
I mean, yesterday evening I found my ex on the web (as you might guess I mean the sitting woman)
Always was a brave reporter; see here (search for Petra) where you can download an article she wrote (in German); she had walked through Munich dressed in a Burka to see the reactions. Waw, in Munich of all places...
Thursday, December 25, 2003
Games
on the web
Boxing, wrestling...
PhotoPlay
Driving lessons
Office karate
Donkey Kong
Rudolf`s Nose Job (see Links too)
Row
in The Netherlands
A drunk soccer fan in The Hague put an arm around mayor Deetman`s shoulder and had a pic taken.
The mayor didn`t like it very much but he didn`t want to spoil the drunk`s fun.
But what he didn`t know was that the drunk wasn`t "properly dressed".
The pic (haha, pik being Dutch for dick) was published in popular Dutch blog Geen Stijl ("no style" meaning bad taste).
Anyway, other popular blog Xelca wrote it was Photoshopped, which it wasn`t.
See our Prime Minister here (in Xelca`s "Weird Hair" contest) and see Xelca`s "original pic" here.
More fine Photoshopping at Xelca.
See our royal baby here;
see our Queen here;
& see Xelca`s"Royal baby born with lots of hair" here.
After receiving Matt`s comment on this posting ("The row posting is funny - but who the hell is major Deetman, anyway? ..hey nothing surprises me, you had one named Wim Kok , didn't you? hahahahahahaha") I shall add that Deetman is the mayor of The Hague (I know Matt, I wrote "major"; have corrected that) & Kok the former Prime Minister.
We also had a famous psychologist called Prick. A very strange man. He thought there should be no women at the university & always started his lectures with "Good morning gentlemen". One day the students played him a trick; only girls present. He then said "Well, since nobody showed up I better leave".
Matt`s comments on these additions:
"Good, read yr correction! And in the interests of fairness, you might add that some could find humor in having a "Bush" for prez, (that being the colloquial for pubic hair, of course..)"
Done Matt. & yes, I shall add the comments thing here soon. Would you mind mailing this nerd how it worked again? Thanks.
The colloquial in Dutch is bonnet, as a matter of fact.
Photo Pages
PBase
Saint Petersburg
Yung Gang caves
Madrid
Not many but great architecture pics
(Elder PBase galleries in archives may not exist anymore, if trial subscription)
& what did I eat last night?
Yes!
Sauerkraut!
But: I made it the Dutch way
To be more specific: start frying small pieces of smoked striped bacon in pork fat; add onions, garlic & some chili; add crushed caraway, split juniper berries, some Colman`s mustard powder & laurel.
Fry, stirring a bit; add sauerkraut & fry a bit too, mixing with the rest in the pan, with two forks.
Add salty stock & dry white wine. Mix again & let simmer, with lid, for three hours.
Prepare mashed potatoes (with milk, butter, salt, white pepper & nutmeg).
Mix sauerkraut with mashed potatoes, put in ovendish, oint with melted butter and spread very fine breadcrumbs over the top.
Brown in hot oven.
(Joined those Sauerkraut guys & if you go to my posting there, you can see what it should look like.)
Serve with stewed "old" partridges, the stewing broth of which serves as the mentioned stock. (Roast partridges for 15 minutes in a hot oven; put in cold water with usual stock making ingredients; bring to the boil slowly; let simmer for 45 minutes.)
And serve with Gewurtztraminer. German Gewurtztraminer of course... (It`s Gewurtztraminer with dots on the u but today that doesn`t work here)
Similar recipes: cut black pudding (sausages I mean) or fresh chorizo lengthwise & push in mix (cut side up) before applying the breadcrumbs; not only use bacon but also pieces of dry chorizo; put browned chicken legs on mix (that also contains pieces of pineapple); put thick slices of salmon or turbot (or similar), ointed with butter, on mix.
More sauerkraut recipes
Kapusta
Make it yourself but better use less salt & add some sour milk too
Huh?
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
Christmas greeting
to you all!
Last time I was at a Christmas party is over 10 years ago now, living in Indonesia & permanently staying in this hotel in northern Sumatra
Was invited to a Christmas party in the Rumah Sakit Rehabilitasi Harapan Jaya (House Sick Rehabilitation Hope Future; mainly for children; no website)
Christmas tree, cotton snow, outside 42° C / 108 F, inside not much less
An old missionary sat next to me, asked me if I had ever been at this Christmas party, No I said, says he You better be prepared; this is going to take three hours. At least.
Five minutes later he had fallen asleep, his head on my shoulder.
The party was a kind of revue; the play by the children that just could move a bit on crutches, the songs by those in wheel chairs
Took the full three hours but I shall never forget...
Find my Christmas greeting here (with lots of Christmas links)
Forgot the Christmas tree there; see a mysterious one here, like one as you remember from your childhood...
The History of Aviation
continued
1944: First operational jet ME 262
1947: The sound barrier Bell X-1 flown by Charles "Chuck" Yeager, also the first one to shoot down a ME 262
1949: First commercial jet Havilland Comet (operational in 1952)
1959: Fastest plane ever North American X-15
1959: First cheap plane Cessna
To be continued...
Netherlands
The flood of 1953 followed by the Delta Works
The Netherlands before the flood
The flood
Pictures from the Provincial Zeeland Newspaper
Two more pictures
Three more pictures
General information
Water
More water
The Delta Works
Now believe it or not, I cannot find a better site in English on the Delta Works
Some pics
Some more
The different dams & such (For Brabant read Zeeland)
Tuesday, December 23, 2003
The Web
& its technology
Link Collectors Portal (It`s lonely at the top, Matt...:-)
(The last one there is great)
Search engines & Blogs
Search Indexing Robots
Referrers
Trackback
Backlinks
Bookmarks
More news again
Israel
PBase Separation Wall gallery updated
Guinness Book of Records: Mordechai Vanunu, longest total separation (click Back to the Story, as from the home page the current page cannot be reached)
Music
Hot stuff in Argentina now
Cumbias Experimentales
(Play did work this morning & not now; maybe later again)
Mathematics
News
New largest prime, 2 million digits longer then the last calculated one
Still not long enough to win the Electronic Frontier Foundation contest (100.000 US$; should be over 10 million long)
See for general information on primes here & see my November 30 posting
Dutch essayist Rudy Kousbroek (short biography with creepy pic here, decent pic here) once wrote "If a new bigger prime is calculated in two different countries in the same week, this means it should have existed somewhere already"; metamathematics...
My theory on primes is simple; it is not a mathematical thing
Monday, December 22, 2003
Some more cuisine
Dutch empanadas
There is nothing like pie or empanada in traditional Dutch kitchen. Just two things that are a bit like that.
See this site for typical Dutch food explained & search for Saucijzebroodje (sausage bread).
It`s made in the north & with puff pastry.
In the south & in Belgium it`s made with bread dough, "worstebrood", (much better, less fatty) but I cannot find a site on that.
Similar thing made in Luxemburg but between the sausage & the dough there is Riesling jelly. Got a small "window" on top & thus looks like a submarine. Very good!
Cuisine
It`s all the same thing
Italy: Calzone
France: Chausson
Spain & the America`s: Empanadas or small ones, Empanadilla
Germany: Pastete
England: Fidget pie
France: Quiche (shall make that of these days!)
More from
Matt`s blog (see link at right)
World Heritage: Sussex Castles
Fun: Make your clown
Animals: Reptiles & Amphibians
Museums: The National Music Museum
History: Old advertisements
Botany: The Wollemi pine
To be continued (nice sites Matt!)
History
of Aviation
The first passenger plane was the Aérobus, built in 1911 by Blériot. It was not succesful although Blériot built better planes in the 20 years after that. I have not found a good pic of the first Aérobus
1915: Sopwith Triplane the first bomber (for Zeppelins see December 6 posting)
1917: Fokkker Dr-1, Germany`s aswer to the Sopwith
1919: Junker F-13, first full metal passenger plane; just found two reasonable pics, also this one
1927: The Spirit of St. Louis
1932: Amelia Earhart
1934: Douglas DC-2, the first "modern" streamlined airplane
To be continued...
More Photo Pages
PBase galleries
Sidney Opera House
Gruyère again (the village)
Kenya
India again
Jelly fish & such
Photography
Julius!
Nice story
Some years ago a Dutchman gave Julius, then 12 years old and living in the Nairobi slums, a cheap camera & money for films. This was part of a project by Dutch television, in which children that live in slums or countries at war are followed for several years.
Julius took hundred of pics during the years, sending the films to The Netherlands.
In Maastricht there is an exhibition of his work (scroll & click Julius! & then click De Foto`s; some work but so touching).
See TV program on Julius here; click smalband for slow connection, breedband for fast (actual part on Julius starts at 1 minute 45 seconds from beginning; before that short review of other children that were followed some years) and click reactie for a reaction to the prorgam makers.
Sunday, December 21, 2003
Cuisine
Switserland: The four big ones
Gruyère (skip loading pics of 1st 2 pages)
Emmentaler goes flash!
Tilsit (smallest one, smallest site)
Appenzeller which is my favourite
Saturday, December 20, 2003
Some remarks
on Matt`s blog
First of all: great, the comment of Dave Mitchell!
Find his poetry here
On your posting about Urban Legends (click here), which in Dutch we call Sandwich Apemeat Stories, I would like to comment this urban legend
Now this man (I mean John of course) was a very good friend when I lived in northern Spain
He was married to Pamela (search here for Pamela)
Now John may tell stories; see foreword of The Penguin Book of Wines on him, under "his son John" (you might need the first edition because he was trying to get the text corrected; I remember him saying "I have a Jewish laywer")
But Pamela doesn`t make up stories, & once she told me that she was traveling with John in Spain together with Pam`s? John`s? mother etc. etc. Mother was in the back of a station car, car was stolen when they were inside a police station as to report.
One more thing.
You had this link on Black Death & Dancing Mania (Saint Vitus`s Dance).
Saint Vitus`s Dance has nothing to do with Black Death
It might have something to do with rheumatic fever but generally it`s Ergotism (the funghus produces ergotamine which is related to lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD)
A similar infection as of the rye happens in China with rice, which red rice is turned into a delicacy soaking it for a long time in a very strong brine (which kills the parasite) and then conserving small pieces of tofu in that brine
The exact recipe is a secret but one might ask Katie
Anyway, buy it here
OK, stockfish well cooked now
& nice postings Matt!
Cuisine
Cod since I am cooking stockfish (dried cod) right now
The Cod
The Rush
2004 (Can tell you one thing: it`s paid its weight in gold nowadays...)
Recipes for fresh cod
Maybe you remember Cod Liver Oil (I hope you don`t!)
The problem. Don`t believe recipes that state "soak for 24 hours, cook for 25 minutes". They mistake dried cod for salt cod. It should soak for at least four days, changing the water once. When it stinks like hell, it`s well soaked. Boil as long as neccesary (as to be edible). Goes well with mustard.
Stockfish recipes (& never buy pre soaked stockfish!)
Also popular in the north of Italy: Stoccafisso
Salt cod now; Bacalao, Bacalhão
My fav recipe: a la Vizcaina (Basque country)
Portuguese recipe
Famous Italian recipe eaten at the village square on Friday night
Planes again
History of Aviation
For the Wright brothers (1903) see December 7 posting
1906: Santos-Dumont who already in 1901 flew a zeppeling round the Eiffel tower
1909: Blériot, first commercial flight (see site on the Blériot XI replica here)
1911: Voisin brothers, also with first seaplane
Later today some more Cuisine & tomorrow the rest of the history of aviation...
Some more
from Matt`s blog
Every week I try to steal some nice links there, had a lot of work for the last two weeks, so finally going through it yesterday I found a lot
Today a bunch of interesting photo pages, the rest tomorrow
Nice kid`s photo contest: Space Shoot
Very nice "tribal" photographs: Tribalphoto.com
American pictures by Jacob Holdt
Caves, Caves & Caves
Two more galleries, that might contain pictures that could shock you
Animal exploitation
Vincent Crudelle
Matt`s blog
ExtremeWebSurfs
(see link at right) some days ago had a link to a mummy page (a dry mummy, not a loving one) & I found some more
Lets first see some Italian mummies
Matt`s link
Italy, The Dark Side (see links in left frame)
KidzWorld mummies
Best page I found
Now for some Portuguese Capelo dos Ossos (Chapel of Bones)
No sites found, just some pics, all from the Evora chapel
Evora mummy hanging in front of bones built chapel wall
Bone pillar
Altar
Bonus
All these pics came from Dutch sites, which is less strange then one would think because there is a very good guide to Portugal, written by Jose Rentes de Carvalho, a former member of the Portuguese embassy in The Netherlands, which book mentions all these strange places
The Evora chapel was used as the place were girls would officially enter the adjoining nunnery which is why one wall of the last room you pass before entering the chapel is covered with long black ponytails
Not only in southern European countries mummies can be found; see one of the mummies in the church of the Frisian village of Wiewerd here
As a supplement to earlier posting on
Parapsychology:
World of Alternatives
See list of therapies here (no links but might you be interested in say Auriculoacupuncture, just copy the word & paste in Google toolbar...)
The Web
Sophisticated Dutch web work
At last also in English: the famous Nobodyhere
Fine design & art at Dutch virtual gallery Ixgallery
Friday, December 19, 2003
Cuisine
Jewish cooking
Jewish Food Recipe Archive
Mimi`s Cyber Kitchen (includes kosher recipes)
Sephardic cuisine & annoying music
Related: Armenian cuisine
(Also see The Extreme Non Kosher Recipe! Pork, & braised in milk too...)
Some more
World War II planes
Started with the Spitfire yesterday & didn`t finish
Spitfire again
Stuka
Hurricane
Heinkel
Lancaster
Various allied planes
The Web
Very popular now:
Friendster
Wallop
(Dutch copy of the idea so popular that it`s out of the air for the moment)
History
World War II
Warsaw bombing
Rotterdam bombing
Coventry bombing
British strategy
Dan Hall`s memoirs
Hamburg bombing
Dresden bombing
Thursday, December 18, 2003
No Cuisine
but Champagne
I prefer this (nice site!) when I cannot afford this
No Moët for me; they don`t like customers (mind you: the link is to their homepage!) [24 hours later: page has been changed; Enter is there now but they forgot to remove the Thank you for your visit...]
So, which champagne for you?
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Cuisine posting
continued from the day before yesterday
Pork
Horse (I dont have much English visitors...)
Africa again
Alaska
Canada (QuakO recipes)
Canada: Québec
(Vive le Québec libre!)
(Download old fool here)
TexMex
Southern US food
Gumbo!
Mejico + music!
Brazil
(To be continued...)
Promised
Cuisine posting coming right now,
but first something else
Bought a book today, 850 pages, & on the first page it says there is someting in common between Freud, Mahler and Lenin
Now what would that be?
Well, they all liked reading the Max Havelaar (scroll down for English text)
I don`t like Lenin or Freud, & Mahler, well... But the Havelaar is one of the best books written ever. Such good Dutch that it will be very difficult to translate as it should.
Book I bought? The new biography of Douwes Dekker (=Multatuli = "I suffered much")
World Heritage
Unicef list
The Woudagemaal (Wouda pumping station)
Because of heavy rain, combined with a wind that pushes the water inland, the Woudagemaal has been started up yesterday
See pictures of the Woudagemaal here
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Art
Popart
Rosenquist
Less nice site but fine artist: Oldenburg
Nice site! Rauschenberg (click car)
& last but not least Warhol
Monday, December 15, 2003
Talking Newspapers:
See Danish ones (Thanks Martin!)
Jyllands Posten (nice pic of Saddam`s kitchen, at least the day I posted this)
Berlingske Tidene (Landsdækkende dagblad; suppose this means Country Covering newspaper)
Politiken (I dont know what dømme means; in Dutch domme means dumb. Its all close by. Gamle means old; in Dutch gammel means nearly breaking down)
Cuisine
Anything for your Christmas dinner here?
Apples
Koya Tofu (How To pages)
Puff pastry
Shrimps
Salmon
Beef
Lamb
To be continued...
Sunset
seen from
my garden
(Click here to see my neighbour making a mess of it, driving his vintage red convertible Porsche around there...)
Saddam
Suppose these people are feasting
instead of updating their site
Hope they have updated by the time you see it...
Photo Pages
PBase various
Lisbon again
China (tons of pics)
Korea (design & patterns)
The Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia)
Nice pics of animals
European Newspapers:
Comparing them
Today is a good day for that (some might not be available untill say London midday time)
United Kingdom: The Times
Netherlands: NRC
Belgium: Le Soir
France: Libération
Spain: El País
Portugal: Diário de Noticias
Germany: Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung
Switzerland: Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Russia: Pravda
Sunday, December 14, 2003
Last thing for today:
Old news (50 years ago)
Nobel prize winner Zernike & the Phase Contrast Microscope
Science
& The Web
Ginsparg
Another web-based attempt of breaking Nature & Science domination
See ArXiv site here
Saturday, December 13, 2003
Art
Keith Haring
whom I could not avoid searching for the herring pic (Dutch: haring); see official site here
See Haringkids here
World Heritage a bit too
Niehove village in northern Netherlands
How it looked in 1920 or such
How it looks today
I had a little party there in the local, and was very happy to find lots of smoked eel, cured herring and grey shrimps (no good pic found) on the table...
(When searching for the old pic of the village I found it in this site; see lots of other old school posters there)
Photo Albums
PBase
Yellowstone & Grand Teton
Danish Birds
Funghi but no porcini
Monuments in my beloved town Lisbon
When posting on lynching yesterday, I forgot the
KKK
The Knights
More brave Knights
On the web of course lots of sites can be found where these morons are attacked, though sometimes less subtle
World Heritage
Normandy
Mont Saint Michel
Where Mont Saint Michel is located, the difference between low & high tide is 15 meters (50 feet). At high tide the mountain is surrounded by the sea, which at low tide can be as far as 15 kilometers (10 miles) away. This provoces that when high tide starts, the water can advance with a speed up to 25 kilometers per hour (over 16 miles).
Normandy is famous for its crêpes (thin pancakes; see pic here).
Friday, December 12, 2003
Animals
The Animal Kingdom
Classification Lab page
In fact I was looking for something else, the old Chinese classification system, which I didnt find (slimy, tough, caressable, intouchable & such). Dutch author Rudy Kousbroek, who in real life looks less like a Jinn then on this page, once wrote that the French have the most simple system of animal classification; edible or not.
Museums
Saint Petersburg`s Hermitage museum can also be found in Amsterdam since February, now exhibiting "Love"
(The Amsterdam canals are often compared with those of Saint Petersburg, the latter being much less of a mess)
Thursday, December 11, 2003
Religion or politics
The Veil
This is a page on France from September & today a report was presented to the president, proposing all religious manifestations (veil, keppel, cross) to be banned from public schools
This page, which I found yesterday, made me think. Don`t know how, but there it was: The Veil
1: Islam Online
2: CS Monitor
3: Columbia University page
4: Comments (Denmark)
5: Some history
6: Afghanistan
7: MWL
8: Spain
9: The Levy Sisters
10: Egypt
11: France
You must have made up your mind by now...
Arts & Crafts
Rietveld (found some better pages)
The Red & Blue Chair
Crate Furniture & such
The Schröder House (Portrait with the model)
More Animals
News
Read Legal Notice at the SHAC homepage; the news is that they moved the mentioned activities to The Netherlands now
Searched the following three pages for comments on that: ALF, Arkangel and PETA
Nothing can be found of course...
Round the World
The Sea & such
Remember Heyerdahl? Strange theories...
Remember Cousteau? Prooved not to be too honest (click here for Cousteau hoax)
More strange theories: Atlantis; more on Atlantis in The Active Mind
Atlantis, The Movie
Cinema
In America
Description (opening that page in The Netherlands the right frame says I can get a Green Card maybe)
Trailer
News
Great news
Found a pic of myself on the web (scroll down to the cook!-)
Above me the captain, my friend Steve, better known as Captain Hook; hook or not, he is at the top of the big mast faster then the skipper or the sailor that stand next to him
See more of the ship here
Philosophy
Two philosophers & a kind of economist
The phylosophy of Kant lead to the philosophy of Hegel which lead to Marx (see this page)
We should not forget to mention here also Schopenhauer (see December 6 posting) and Nietzsche
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Religion
Zen
Great site (How long have you been able not to click the mouse?)
Zen guide
Virtual library
News
Art
De Nachtwacht (The Nightwatch) removed from the Dutch National Museum for some years because of mayor reconstruction works
Rembrandt & others at same site
Associations
Ol`Man
Thought of this movie ("Whats got four eyes & still can`t see? Mississippi")
Found this on the river & searched for steamboats
Around the World
Basque Country
General information
The language & its grammar
Sports & more sports (special pages on wood cutting & on Jai-Alai)
The famous Basque anthropologist & my archaeology teacher Barandiarán & another page on him in which you can exercise your Basque
Another famous Basque
Basque Cuisine & Wine
& another aspect of Basque Country
Very
Various
Skepticism
Explore History
Learning English
Josephine Baker who became popular appearing on stage "dressed" with just some bananas (can be the other way around too)
2001:
A Space Odyssey
The Movie
About
HAL Transcripts (download my fav here)
This all leads us to Odysseus which leads us, or better: me to Oedipus who inevitably leads us to The Viennese Quack
Cuisine
Various
Jellied Moose Nose & such
Tons of Foodpics
Very fine pages on Italian made foodstuffs
All you need to know of Escargots
French fries? Belgian fries!
Famous Herb & Spices site
All about Okra
& everything you always wanted to know about the Durian, apart from that it stinks like hell
Tuesday, December 09, 2003
World Heritage
The Santiago Route
General page
The Camino (chopped up)
More pics (slow loading but worth it; other information too)
Links (scroll down)
Various
Some days ago Matt posted links to various Royal Families (see a link to his blog under archives)
But he forgot this family, the only one that did a real great job for their country, bringing it democracy
See December 3 posting on the Spanish Civil War
Click here for a small page on Franco and here for a silly one hosted by the Falange
Click here for a pic of the Tejero coup
Franco`s agony lasted for months & months (most Spaniards keeping a bottle of champagne cold) & the most famous joke from those days told that Franco was brought to Lourdes in secret to get a dip in the holy water; he was put in that very cold running water & died in the act whereupon the nuns that accompanied him ran outside crying Miracle! Miracle!
Art
Old & Modern
Nice Museum
(The Google links at the top of the page are not bad at all; found this one there & even the Koons one)
Turner Prize shortlist (Perry won)
Late posting today, Blogger having been down
Lets start with some nice PBase Albums
The Teotihuacan pyramids
Fine photography from Laos
Huge album with Australian "writing"
Two albums on Belgium; Brussels and nice countryside pics (not many but good)
Monday, December 08, 2003
Mathematics
The history of Division
Egyptian division
Division with Roman Numerals
The Scratch method
I suppose I don`t have to explain Long division to you...
Various
Very various as usual
The Journal of Irreproducible Results
Expatica
Brain size again
62 years ago: Pearl Harbour (for the movie click here)
Julefest which appears to be a kind of Saint Nicholas too, even in Malaysia; for a recipe of the traditional Julegroed click here
Art
Magic Realism
Magic realism came to my mind when I found this site
Very popular in The Netherlands in the seventies and popular again
The great masters are Willink, Koch and my favourite Ket
Of course we must not forget to mention Hopper here
Literature
García Lorca
Photo & Dali portrait (& some poems)
Biography
Nice idea, this page, as Lorca`s poetry is based for a good deal on the region shown
News
Dutch Princess born if you don`t mind me, as a Dutchman, mentioning that here
You can find a link to the site of the Dutch Royal Family in English here but today the server is too bizzy; for today only see a pic here
Sunday, December 07, 2003
Animals
Horses
Fotki contest (I voted for 6)
More horses The Pottok
More horses The Appaloosa
Zeeland horse
No horses but...
No horses either
Something else? Yes there is
Science
The Gut Brain Swap
In Primates the trunk has the form of an upside down V to give room to a relative large intestinal system, needed because they are herbivorous or fructivorous (most of them strict, some mostly)
This is also the case with Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis)
Modern humans, and already Homo ergaster, have a barrel shaped trunk and larger brains
Now what was first? Better food, the brain using 20% of all our energy? Larger brains to get (and also prepare!) better food? That`s what the discussion is about...
Molluscs, which not only are easy to find and available all seasons, provide good brain food; see prehistoric shell mounds here
See an animal with large brains and a barrel shaped trunk here & another less known one here
Anyway, there are other theories apart from the Gut Brain Swap one too of course
Science
(Science?)
The Lobotomist
Dont miss the 2nd page of this article & remember One Flew Over...
Saturday, December 06, 2003
Philosophy
Schopenhauer
Introductory page
Portrait
Excerpts from Parerga and Paralipomena
Quotes
(The Dog shoots man story would have pleased Schopenhauer, a vigorous hater of people that kept pets)
History
Zeppelins
The Hindenburg
Hindenburg, The Movie
The Great Zeppelins
(Nice site found while searching: Radio News)
Music
& for the moment last thing on Indonesia (I added a nice site on making Ikat in the Decorated Fabrics posting of last Thursday)
I forgot the Anklung
Download Anklung music at this page (close new window that appears)
(Searching I found this nice page)
Friday, December 05, 2003
Tip
Links in this blog
might be loading slow when recently published; try a bit later (my blog is too popular ¦¬]
One more Cuisine & I shall stop; forgot this Today I had thing for weeks
Three days ago
I made malloreddus (see pics here), put them in an oven dish (after cooking of course), topped with strips of smoked salmon & topped that with Provence shallots ("Banana shallots", see pic here although these are very short) stewed in white wine (+ garlic &c...)
Cuisine
The day before yesterday
I had Merguez (see pic here), with Nasi Kuning & it all topped with onion, garlic, corn & baby figs (searched for a pic but only found cosmetics) stewed in Sake (which is a sin; never combine sake with rice) (which is like what Bible Belt people in The Netherlands say about eating cheese on buttered bread: Zuivel op zuivel / dat haalt je de duivel; dairies on dairies fetches you the devil)
Cuisine
Today
I shall make this, with lontong (see link); no chicken but tofu (so: no chicken broth but a very good vegetable broth brought to taste with Marmite or better petis); no kemiri but kencur (pronounce can`t sure); veggies = + white cabbage
Tip if you can get kencur. Make eggnog and if possible substitute brandy for arak and sugar for palmsugar; mix in ground kencur & let stand a day in a cool room; mix again before drinking
Cuisine
Yesterday
I had Hasselback potatoes, covered (when nearly done) with white wine stewed onion, garlic & sweet red peppers (+ herbs & spices) and after five minutes in the oven gratinated with Brie, oops, Brie
Matt: just had a quick look at your blog ("Dutch Monarchy") & 5 minutes later saw this cartoon in the newspaper
Round the World
Things that come to my mind when I think of Indonesia
Traditional art from Papua New Guinea
Traditonal architecture of the Minangkabau (Pic 1: locally known as Sukarno`s Last Erection)
The Toraja of Sulawesi; more pics of the Tau Tau here
The giant bronze drum The Moon of Pejeng is indeed difficult to see but see second pic here
The Komodo island Dragon
The Hornbill
And finally the Krakatau
World Heritage
Wayang
Deep digging site on Wayang (scroll down for pics)
Wayang Kulit
See Wayang Kulit puppets here
Much rarer Wayang Klitik puppet (flat also but made of wood)
Wayang Golek
Various sites where Wayang Orang can be found
World Heritage
Gamelan
Some days ago my friend Matt wrote on Gamelan in his blog
A link can be found there that gives general information
Another one enables you to virtually play the Gamelan instruments
Let me add two things here; download Gamelan music here and see the function of the Gamelan music here
It acompanies Wayang theatre
Photo Pages
After some days with nothing worth mentioning very nice PBase albums today
Superb photography of Petra
Darjeeling & Sikkim
Japan
Guatemala
Thursday, December 04, 2003
World Heritage
destroyed
Last Sunday I wrote on La Reine Morte & mentioned the king not letting his son marry a certain girl. The king himself had choosen Blanca de Navarra as a bride for his son (you can find Blanca on this interesting page, searching for Queen Regnant Blanca). The castle where Blanca lived is shown under these lines, dominating the Navarra village of Ujue.
Anyway this village, which still maintains its 10th century structure, became a Spanish national monument in the late seventies. The picture was taken then. By now nearly all traditional roofs have been changed into horrible terraces, stone houses have have gotten extra floors in brick &c., national monument or not...
When the photo was taken I was standing in a window (I lived there for some years) looking at the plane. Draw a line from the tower to the bottom right corner and follow that line downwards some 75%. Little window, plant growing out of the wall just at left under the window, tiny white spot in the window. Thats me;-)
History
Margarethe von Tyrol
Better known as Margaret the Ugly
Quenten Massys portrait
Maultasch in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Make her even uglier here dragging with left mouse button (slow loading page but worth it)
Art & Craft
Decorated fabrics
Basic: Tie-dying
See some antique tie-dy here
Next step: Ikat which is (generally) ty-dying the warp on the weaving frame (see process here), while for making double ikat both warp & weft are ty-dyed
Completely different technique: Pre-Columbian textiles, which were made by weaving colored threads into a fabric, which same method is used for making Tapestry and Kelim
Completely different again: applying the colors directly to the fabric as in Batik
Finally: Persian carpets which are made by working knots of colored threads into a fabric
Wednesday, December 03, 2003
Art
Picasso
The On-line Picasso Project
The Official site
The unofficial site
The Málaga Museum
Olga`s Gallery
The Black Picasso
You must have seen enough now to make your own
Space
Some spacecrafts
Voyager
Voyager & the Termination Shock
Nimbus ozon watcher pics
Remember Laika?
Animals
Cloning
Remember?
& this is our Herman (well, clone, transgenetic or something)
& here no animals but a hoax
History
The Spanish Civil War
History
Broad informative site
Marxism Archives page including the well known tune
Vs Anarchism
Children`s drawings
Photography
Posters
Very
Various
In this mornings newspaper I read that this is a typical Dutch thing (for hot food I mean); here its called "eating from the wall" (also see next pic)
(Home page of this nice site)
Very special pinhole photography
Lip augumentation overdone
Test your Digital IQ
Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Monday, December 01, 2003
Dylan Thomas
dies 50 years ago
Swansea site
Other Swansea site
Some texts here
Lots of information & more texts
News