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Comfortable living and travel in comfort.
Guy

Ceci n'est pas un vrai rib.

Ceci n'est pas si simple.

Ceci n'est pas comme nouvelle.

Ceci n'est pas Juliette.

Ceci n'est pas un arbre.

Ceci n'est pas un gramophone.

Ceci n'est pas amusant.

Ceci est Ben van Eck avec son Leica.

Elle n'est pas ordinaire.

Ceci n'est pas une mauvaise plaisanterie.

Ceci n'est pas Alice.

Ceci n'est pas lentement.

Ceci n'est pas vert.

Vendredi.
Ils ne sont pas de la Frise.

The Zuidas on a calm, cloudless night.

Under reconstruction.
Guy

Perfect weather for a vacation,
if it wouldn't rain now and then.

Room for the next caravan.

"Keep your feet on the ground dear."

"The sidewalk is safe but not for pedestrians."

Thursday.
Tram's coming.

Rembrandt Tower.
Bart van Dijk

Is the bird in need of some oil?
Lewis

"What will it sound like?"
Guy

"It's not the rain, but the seat."
Guy

Wednesday.
"We gotta get through."
Guy

Boeing Sugar Volt looks to the skies in the year 2035. Double bubble aircraft design would use 70 percent less fuel. The contribution of aircraft to greenhouse gas emissions has been well documented and while biofuels are being trialled in an effort to combat the issue, an expected doubling in air traffic by 2035 suggests that a fundamental shift in technology is needed to make real progress. That's the starting point for the D “double bubble” – a design concept presented to NASA by an MIT led research team which promises a 70 percent improvement in fuel economy, reduced noise, lower nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions and the ability to use shorter runways. More.

Surveillance: two rare glimpses into who's watching you, and how. If it hasn't become apparent to you yet, you are living in an age when your every online step is being monitored. The notion of communications privacy has been steamrolled in the interests of security, and the occasional tiny chance we get to peek back at the people who make it their business to watch us is truly frightening. Two new stories from America this week give a rare glimpse behind the curtain at just how closely you're being watched, and by whom. More.