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	<description>collateral knowledge</description>
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		<title>kabul tourist guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[the city of Kabul (and Afghanistan in general) is still pretty high on my list of places i want to visit. Unfortunately, the closest place to Kabul that i got to so far is Delhi. Fortunately, however, there is the fabulous internet where Safi Airways &#8216;the international airline of Afghanistan&#8217; is publishing PDF versions of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=446</link>
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		<title>what is a bike messenger?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[couple of days ago boingboing ran a post about a SF bike messenger who claims to work while tripping on LSD. today i finally read the whole text (as opposed to just the short quote on boingboing which focusses on his cycling while tripping experience). turns out that the his entire rant is rather amusing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=444</link>
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		<title>best cycling jacket ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[usually i do not promote products on this page, but i am so happy with my (relatively) new cyclin jacket that i make an exception here. my new kättermusen einride jacket is more or less perfect for a cycling jacket:

the einride jacket (which is for some strange reason marketing as a mountaineering/trekking garment) has the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=441</link>
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		<title>resilience &#124;ri&#712;zily&#601;ns&#124;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[last week thursday night someone tried to break in to our offices on the fourth floor of a building on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. in order to gain access to the office the wannabe-burglar(s) kicked in the door, pushing one of the wooden door panels into the room. it appears that they then waited to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=436</link>
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		<title>publishers are stupid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[so imagine this scenario: you are on an isolated tropical island that does not have a bookstore, you are out of books, but you happen to have an electronic reading device with you that is wirelessly connected to the internet and that is tied to you credit card account (which is not maxed out). This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=432</link>
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		<title>Annick van Hardefeld meorial race</title>
		<description><![CDATA[yesterday i raced in the 11th edition of the annual Anniek van Hardeveld memorial race (see my pervious reports here and here). this race is held annually on the 4th of may in remembrance of Annick van Hardeveld, a 21 year old courier for the dutch resistance who was shot dead on the 4th of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=430</link>
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		<title>looking at the crisis from inside the belly of the beast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[one of the more notorious/famous places in São Paulo is the boutique department store (Villa) Daslu. According to wikipedia &#8216;the boutique is known as the &#8216;fashion designers mecca&#8217; of Brazil as it houses more than 60 labels plus 30 store-in-stores and is the place where Brazilian socialites, ranging from multi-millionaire soccer players to conglomerate bigwigs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=424</link>
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		<title>apparently the dutch had video telephony well before i was even born&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[last year i spend a fair amount of energy to get the open video platform openimages.eu off the ground, but so far the videos that have been uploaded there (mainly from the polygoon collection of the institute of sound and vision have utterly failed to impress me.
now after 4 month of operation there is finally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=419</link>
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		<title>WTF? area secured by DNA spray</title>
		<description><![CDATA[thursday night when cycling home from the north i spotted this sign on a lamp pole at the beginning of Ferdinad Bol straat close to where i live:

area secured by DNA-SPRAY &#8211; the police
i am not even sure how many things are wrong with this sign, but here are a few that went through my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=417</link>
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		<title>the motorized mountain bike(s) of damascus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[back in december when walking through damascus i ran into this mountain bike rigged up with small combustion engine:

 mountain bike fitted with a combustion engine on Khalid ibn al-Walid street in central Damascus [photo taken from a different perspective here]
if you ask me this is quite a marvel of engineering and although i never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=415</link>
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