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(Ben den Butter)
Thanks for stopping by!
Please don't mind the shitty state my page is currently in, I'm still – yes, still, so what? – working on it. No, I don't like the background on my page either, so if you got something nice, please mail me.
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Well, as you saw (or could've
seen, anyway), my real name is Ben den Butter; "benne" is what
some people call me, and it's my Internet nickname, as well. I was born
on June 12, 1976, which makes me both a Gemini and a Dragon (in Chinese
astrology). My place of birth is Beverwijk, the Netherlands, but at the
moment I live in Schiedam, which is located in the metropolitan area of 
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Rottûrdam, ech wel!
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I'm a first-year student of Cultural Anthropology/Sociology of Non-Western Societies at the Leiden University, about halfway between Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
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About two years ago, I started collecting links to political parties on the Web, not knowing how much work it was to maintain a Web site. Later on I also started to include political youth organizations. Currently I'm in the process of reorganizing the site, which can be found at http://www.luna.nl/~benne/pp/index.htm. For most countries and categories the site is not very up to date, though.
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Another Web page I maintain is Il linguatg retorumantsch sin l'Internet (The Romansch Language on the Internet) at http://www.luna.nl/~benne/rumantsch.html. I'm very interested in minority languages and languages and ethnic minorities in general, but this language, which is spoken by fewer than 60,000 people in Switzerland, I really like. If you know some Latin or any Romance language, you shouldn't have a hard making some sense out of it.
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From September 1994 till June 1995 I was an exchange student at Garden Valley Collegiate in Winkler, Manitoba, Canada. If you ever have the opportunity to go an exchange, DO IT! It's something you can do only once in a lifetime, and the rest of your life you'll profit from it. It was such a great experience to feel like a Canadian, to talk like a Canadian, to freeze my ass off like a Canadian ... (Well, I must say this winter just doesn't seem as cold when I think of that winter in Canada, with temperatures as low as minus thirty degrees, and then to realize that that was just a "mild" winter. Poor friends of mine!)
Some of my favourite sites:
Arctic
Circle
If you're interested in the peoples of the North,
you definitely want to visit this site. It also contains a lot of information
on the environmental problems of the Polar regions.
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American
Indian Movement
When will justice be done for the native peoples
of the "Land of the Free"?
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Cannabis
Canada at Hemp BC
Informing Canada about the wonderful things you
can do with the Holy Herb. First of all you can smoke it, of course, but
what about using it instead of cotton? Or as a raw material for the paper
production?
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Groen
Links (Green
Left Party)
One of the few political parties left that care about
people and about the earth.
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De Lachende Paus ("The Laughing
Pope")
A wonderful store in Rotterdam specialized in biological
psychedelicacies like magic mushrooms, various kinds of marijuana, hash,
herbal XTC. At the moment those mother****ers at the Injustice Department
are trying to steal away from us the right to buy products of Mother Earth
in stores like this one. If that son of a bitch at the Champs Elysées
keeps on bitching about our drug policy and the politicians in The
Hague keep on listening to the demagogues from France, or the United States,
or from anywhere else, soon we won't even be able to peacefully smoke a
joint in our own country.
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One of my favourite bands
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de
Volkskrant op Internet
The on-line edition of my favourite newspaper,
de Volkskrant (in Dutch)
Number of hits since April 25, 1996:
Last update: March 17, 1997
