The day I went to the Dark Side

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After 5 years Gilera Runner it was time for a new scooter: The Peugeot Jet Force C-Tech Dark Side. I hope to have just as much fun with this bike in the city as I had with the Runner. It looks pretty cool...

Le jour du Roi - a new novel by Abdellah Taia

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It's been a while since his last novel "Une mélancolie arabe" but the waiting was worthwhile because he won the Prix de Flore 2010 for 'Le jour du Roi. It now arrived in Dutch translation, which hopefully makes it a little bit easier to read for me. 

Andrelon to ask Wilders to stop using product?

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After Abercrombie & Fitch  offered compensation to Michael 'The Situation' Sorrentino, a character in MTV's TV show The Jersey Shore to cease wearing A&F products maybe it is time for Andrelon hair products to ask Geert Wilders to stop using their "Zomerblond" (Summer Blonde) product?

Finally we can fly east with Malaysia again!

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Hurray! It's time to book my next flight with Malaysia! Malaysia Airlines is to ban babies traveling in first class on the airline's new Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-400 fleet. The airline said they have introduced the baby ban after receiving a number of complaints about crying infants from first class passengers...

Organizational charts... (funny)

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(thanks to arnaud for sending this to me)

In the catagory: cars I once need to have/drive

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Lamborghini Aventador - from every angle quite a pretty car...

What's behind the windows in NY?

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Nice illustration of Autumn Whitehurst (nice name too!) in the New Yorker.