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By Guus , 5 December 2002

C3PO.There are many computer people addicted to the Star Wars movies. And although I'm not one of them I like this link Mats send me.


It's a small Star Wars movie, but made using only ASCII characters. The guy making this has been working on it since 1997...


The homepage of the creator is here.

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By Guus , 4 December 2002

Everybody knows about the famous e-mails coming from Nigeria of 'troubled business men' who are in a 'temporary difficult position' but with loads of money on a foreign bank account, if only...


Here's a guy who actually wrote back to one of this e-mails, this time from a 'poor young African orphan Nigerian Prince'. Funny read. (through Tonie).

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By Guus , 28 November 2002

Tonie pointed out that de Groene Amsterdammer -a Dutch weekly- has put a big part of it's archive online.


You can search all the articles between 1877 and 1940 for free.


Of course I searched on 'Hooimarkt' and I found this nice commercial from 1917:

De Mercuurtegel kraait victorie.

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By Guus , 14 November 2002

Guus Bosman.nl is expanding its audience to outer space. The name Guus Bosman.nl is on a DVD that will be in NASA's Mars Exploration Rover. I have an official certificate to prove it!

"Together, we will journey into space to discover and understand the many wonders of our universe."

Let's hope it works. The previous campaign was a big succes. However, the Mars Polar Lander and its CD-ROM mysteriously disappeared when it was preparing to land on Mars in 2000.

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