my preciousssss

Fan art, by fans for fans. Release may3, 2009 on Dailymotion.

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tooth implants

It starts with some anesthetics. A few pricks to the front of your jawbone. Nothing serious. Then a few jabs in the canopy with the same syringe.
While the weapons of choice are being prepared, the upper part of your mouth goes numb as it should be.
Then there is a small incision and the drilling starts. [...]

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MAKE: wabbit Ikea HHGTTG hacker

A simple Ikea cardboard box, a towel and ready.

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finally

Finally home for a longer period. Obviously I hope to cash in on this time but there is so much to do:

blog a bit
cleaning (a lot of cleaning to do since I skipped this years big spring clean up)
reading (still have over 10 books lying around in different phases of being read)
visiting (not only the [...]

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sunday cooking – soup

Today we will make soup, mainly leak-soup. Actually, only leak soup.
In goes: chopped onions, chopped carrots, leak, some parsnip instead of potato, seasoning, herbs water and sunday afternoon cooking fun.
mmmmm

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I can haz themez?

As of now gmail offers themes.
Go to your settings, choose the themes tab and enjoy.
PS: w00t!!! inbox empty!

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working out

It started out like this:

and then the first cracks in the plaster appeared:

soon it looked like this:

and then the ceiling turned out to contain also some cracks:

Some rewiring of the electrics:

some more rewiring needed:

and this was the magic box …

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Tuymans vs Banksy

A reaction to this boingboing post about an experiment by Klara triggered me to write this post.
The experiment consisted of having Luc Tuymans (million selling Belgian painter) paint a large painting on the wall of a building in a rahter crowder zone with lots of passers by. The wall was hidden behind covers when the [...]

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younison

In the wake of all internet succes some artist recently got, there is now a platform for all musicians to unite and break the stalemate current semi-criminal-but-governement-supported organisations like SABAM hold on copyright, rights collection and distribution.
The campaign is supported by a youtube video featuring Mr. Tim Van Hamel.
(Via Clo)

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collecting images

This afternoon I went to the Antwerp Provincial Museum of Photography. The main purpose was to watch the memorial exhibit of Patrick De Spiegelaere. As expected there was a crowd to see the exhibition, but it was worth it.
On the top floor there is a new kind of exhibition around portraits called FACE ON. In [...]

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want one of these

Now for sale on Ebay : probably the largest and most complete collection of music.
3 million records and 300,000 CDs containing more than 6 million song titles
and also

The new owner of this magnificent collection will also acquire (1) the rights to Spin-Clean, the owner’s patented vinyl record cleaning system, considered the best on the [...]

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the presentation paradox

On googleblogoscoped today:
a perfect explanation of why the good interfaces rarely make it and about the design by commitee that ruins it all.
Read on!

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StSanders Shreds no more

In what is probably a lame and fan-loosing move StSander’s Youtube account is suspended over apparent copyright infirngement claims over his “xxx shreds” parodies.
Probably the über-lame Yngwie Malmsteen is behind this request, talk about a lame looser with sore toes.
But feel free to go see the “Malmsteen shreds”video for yourself here along with some [...]

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housewife

After I decided, yesterday evening, to re-arrange my interior a bit I got to cleaning first this morning. After a few minutes of using my vacuum cleaner, I smelled that familiar “burnt-electro-motor-smell”. The ozone alike odour convinced me not to use the by now 20 years old machine anymore.
So off to the shop.
After staring for [...]

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spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam

To celebrate over 4000 spam comments being trapped by Akismet, some more SPAM for you :

Oh, and 149 other Monty Python clips (by the way: excellent choice of the word “compendium”).

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