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Monthly Archives: February 2012

So You Think You Can Dance Theater Tour Rotterdam

By Kris | Published: February 4, 2012

Het vierde seizoen van So You Think You Can Dance is kort geleden afgelopen. Gelukkig kunnen we nog nagenieten dankzij de Theater Tour. Ik was er bij op 31 januari in het Nieuwe Luxor Theater in Rotterdam. Dansers Nina, Anna, Meysam, Anthony, Celine, Yuvat, Sedrig, Stephanie, Gianni en Marissa gaven het beste van zichzelf. Het [...]

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Saint Carr

By Kris | Published: February 3, 2012

Yesterday Facebook filed the preliminary prospectus for its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO). The company is seeking to raise a whopping $5 billion. That is pretty massive and one of the greatest IPO filings ever. Facebook is so valuable because it has 850 million active users, of which half returns every day. As part of [...]

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The threath of Information Thieves

By Kris | Published: February 2, 2012

You know what’s cheap in the 21st century? Compute time. You know what’s expensive? Human judgment. And they’re not interchangeable. Humans are good at understanding things, computers are good at counting things, but humans suck at counting and computers suck at understanding.  – Cory Doctorow, Pester Power This blog is becoming increasingly an asylum for [...]

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The movies of 2011

By Kris | Published: February 1, 2012

I have watched many movies in 2011. But because I have such a bad memory, I decided to keep track of them – it should be fairly complete. Some I saw in the theater, some at home. Here an overview and some words on each of them. The American. With George Clooney: thoughtful story, but [...]

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