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26 November 2013
À propos of nothing Share some tidbit that you find interesting.
In the Dutch newspaper: the London police apprehended somebody for riding his kids to school in a bakfiets. (apparently the English call a bakfiets a a 'wheelbarrow bike'.)
That kind of thing is incredibly prevalent here. Even our new king has been photographed with his kids in the bakfiets.
Found out today that an Exchange admin just has to put "unsubscribe" in a reply-all quagmire chain and the emails stop. There may have been some black magic behind the scenes but that's what appears to have happened.
I also found out there is an email address that goes to 20k people.
I was touched by the story & video of this american girl singing this Arab song on a talent show in Lebanon. Here's the Guardian article. And the yt clip of her accompanying herself on a middle eastern lute.
Here's the story of a girl from Sierra Leone who was captured by the idea of being a ballet dancer from seeing a picture in a magazine. And later her New Jersey adoptive parents supported her all the way.