Kerstmis in Cupertino from One More Thing on Vimeo.
Dutch singers Sjarrel & Sjaan wrote a Christmas song for the Dutch Apple website, One More Thing. Oh, and you can buy it from iTunes if you are so inclined. No worries, the English subtitles are very good. The video mostly deals with Jobs’ and Schiller’s eating habits and respective physique, but also touches on Apple’s success and has a lovely image of the duo dancing around “the apple Christmas tree.”
All proceeds go to the Maag Lever Darm Stitching (Dutch Stomach Liver Intestine Foundation).
(Link: networkedblogs)
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Fifty-one percent of all Dutch children think there is too much reporting on swine flu, with only 1% saying there is too little. Seventeen percent say news about swine flu scares them.
Jan H. thought he was playing the Silent Hill video game when he shut down the electricity at the Sophia hospital in Zwolle last Queen’s Day. 
Two scientists from Leiden University, Joke Bouwstra and Robert Rissman, invented a gel that has the same healing properties as “the buttery coating that protects and nurtures a foetus’s developing skin,” reports New Scientist. Apart from helping premature babies, the ‘baby butter’ could also be used for other applications. 
Last Tuesday the mayor of Deurne in Noord Brabant was questioned by the city council about his smoking in a public bar. Since July of this year smoking has been banned in bars in the Netherlands. The ban has met with a lot of resistance, and many smokers openly defy the law. As far as I am aware this is the first time that a public official was caught red-handed breaking the anti-smoking law. A salient detail is that mayor Gerard Daandels of Deurne is a member of CDA, the Christian party that is in the vanguard of the Jihad against fun: it was CDA minister Klink that proposed the smoking ban. 
