So what if José Bono has called Blair a dickhead and an imbecile? Bono may be the leading candidate to lead the Spanish socialists after their almost certain defeat in the March generals, but the party is so enthusiastically engaged in auto-defenestration at the moment that it’s difficult to see them achieving anything constructive even…
The two reports this morning of sudden waves of deaths in Russia in December from cold and/or respiratory complaints and Klebsiella pneumonia both sound more like residual incidences of pneumonic plague. As far as I’m aware (visibility down to three metres this morning), kids don’t usually get Klebsiella (which resembles the plague), and both cases…
Mayank Jain, Madhya Pradesh state police superintendent, is apparently going round giving colleagues with a moustache 65c and telling everyone else that men with what look like two rats disappearing into their nasal cavity get taken more seriously (cf Gol Maal). What about the hypothesis that men with an exaggerated sense of self-importance tend to…
From a BBC article re Channel 4’s reality TV show, Shattered: [O]n leaving the show, contestant Craig North said: “It was like torture being deprived of sleep. It’s not every day you try to spend 180 hours without any sleep.” I hereby accuse Mr North of a being a little green man from Pluto, where…
Just a warning that the site may be even more chaotic over the next couple of days. This is because I’ve taken a deep breath and decided to do stuff like kick out virtually all non-data tables in favour of CSS2-based layouts (= quicker site + more display/media options) and switch to UTF-8 (= more…
This is absolutely revolutionary: la Real Academia Española, the Spanish version of l’Académie Française, is going to include internet in its new dictionary. It was felt that such a move would have been premature when the previous revision was made in 2001.
You can do night-time walks in some places, but not round Torre Baró (blogged here, walk here). This week it was the turn of a part-time teacher of guitar and sevillanas, murdered next to his car and sleepy girlfriend with a 9 mm Civil War pistol for reasons presumably unrelated to his left-hand technique. Honestly,…