As the Jacques Brel 2003 celebrations slowly wind down, here are some links that might delight the fans:
Vrije Geluiden: a Jaques Brel performance for Dutch television in 1964 (RealVideo, 58 minuten) – introduction in Dutch, with an explanatory article in Dutch.
Translations of Brel texts and interviews at the launch of Brel 2003 in Amsterdam (Dutch, and original lyrics in French).
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For anyone looking for a gap in the EU job market, EURES (“The European Job Mobility Portal”) is a good place to start exploring. The site also has some good resources on living and working conditions, opportunities for training and labour market information. And, being an official European Commission project, it’s free.
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Is the Java Arcade Emulator the coolest waste of time ever? Quite possibly. JAE is a general emulation engine in pure Java developed since 1998, and the emulated games can be played with Java-capable browsers: Star Trek, Battlezone, Defender, Donkey Kong, Centipede. Ahh, the wasted hours of my youth…
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“The only way we can win is to go unconventional. We’re going to have to play their game. Guerrilla versus guerrilla. Terrorism versus terrorism. We’ve got to scare the Iraqis into submission.”
“Experience continues to teach us many lessons, and we continue to evaluate and address those lessons, embedding and incorporating them appropriately into our concepts, doctrine and training. For example, we recently traveled to Israel to glean lessons learned from their counterterrorist operations in urban areas.”
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“In this incident, if non-combatants surround themselves with thousands of weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition and howitzers and mortars, in a compound known to be used by a terrorist, we are not completely responsible for the consequences.” So the US military crushed six children. After killing nine a few days before. Spend a moment to imagine your own children being crushed. Perhaps they’ll have a chance to call for you. Perhaps you’ll live to remember the look in their eyes as they died. Just don’t blame the US military for their deaths, as they are not completely responsible for the consequences. Vote Howard Dean for president, and stop the insanity.
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Lana Landis is America’s number 1 pinup girl. Now would I lie to you?
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Pornocha brings you porn + bad taste + pop culture, which inevitably leads to funky Flashness. Possibly not safe for work, depending on where you work.
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Great joy, the Philip K. Dick Trust has launched the Official Philip K. Dick Website! But wait, what do you notice? The bloody thing doesn’t work in Mozilla! Or Galeon! Or probably most other non-IE browsers! Shame! Shame!
So I sent them this note:
The kind of people on the Net who are into Philip K. Dick’s writing and philosophy are the kind of people who have ethical problems with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, who adhere to the roll-your-own culture of Mozilla, and see salvation in using a browser that fits their morality and lifestyle.
So you launch a Philip K. Dick website that doesn’t work in alternative (yet high quality and perfectly standards-compliant) browsers…
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