RECENT ENGLISH ARTICLES:
SEGWAY STUMBLES IN EUROPE
{Wired, December 18, 2003}
The Segway Human Transporter isn't making it to the top of many European Christmas lists this year. In addition to costing thousands of dollars, the two-wheeled scooter appears to be illegal in most of the EU. By Jeroen van Bergeijk.
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THE DUTCH RICK ROCKWELL
Multimillionaire blows up overseas
{[Inside], November 7, 2000}
What did they expect? When the Dutch TV network RTL4 recently aired its own version of the ill-fated Fox show Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire, things turned ugly fast. [more]
TO START A DAY AT THE DESKTOP, A CHANCE TO SMILE AND PLAY
{New York Times, July 22, 1999}
There are a lot of procrastinators on the Internet, or at least that is what a Dutch startup called Bitmagic hopes. The company intends to bring entertainment to the Net in the form of computer games, animation and interactive cartoons delivered to the user's desktop each day. [more]
HAILING A TAXI ONLINE
{Wired News, April 16, 1999}
At first sight, there's nothing extraordinary about Clever Da Silva's taxi. The streets of New York are teeming with Yellow Cabs just like his.
But Clever Da Silva (he's named for a famous Brazilian soccer player) is taking people all over the world along for the ride.
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PUBLIC VIEWING OF A PRIVATE LIFE
{Wired News, November 16, 1998}
Alex van Es, a systems analyst from the town of Apeldoorn in the Netherlands, consumed a couple of croissants, an apple, and a cup of tea on Sunday morning. He read a local newspaper and treated his cat to some gourmet cat food.
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ASHES TO ONLINE
{Wired News, November 11, 1998}
After births and open-heart surgeries online, it was only a matter of time before they got around to having the world's first Internet funeral.
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