Everyone‘s getting excited about the following advert for El País, Spain’s principal socialist-atavist newspaper, sourced here, which says something along the lines of “A day is enough for a lot. Imagine what can happen in three months”: Revolting, but excellent advertising: it makes clear to those who were secretly rather pleased by 9-11 that El…
Taken from the back cover of Donald K Burleson’s new Oracle9i UNIX Administration Handbook, this has to be the worst ever, worse than the lounge at Luton, worse even than divorcee cruises out of Miami, although possibly not as hard on the liver: More shortly on the highlight.
I don’t normally read David de Ugarte, but this is strange: Las asociaciones de periodistas declaran como objetivo “luchar contra el intrusismo profesional”, conocidos comunicadores braman contra “los que pretenden hacerse pasar por periodistas” en la web y nuestras saturadas facultades alertan a sus estudiantes de que sus futuros puestos de trabajo están en peligro…
If the gentleman opposite were to imitate Stefan@MemeFirst’s excellent unlicensed extension of the 1776ft Freedom Tower scheme, he’d be able to give his building two names: for official purposes, The Tiberias Building Building, and in recognition of the illegal storey he has balanced on top, The Fidenae Stadium Collapse Building.
This morning’s revelations of a depression Prozac symbiosis are nothing more than a variation on the old Guinness-is-good-for-you pub therapy industry. The trick is to recognise it as such and manage it effectively. While it is evident that Hank Williams failed in the latter respect, I think that one of his songs contains a remarkable…
Andreu@Raïms notes moves by the local train companies to crack down on the 60% (source?) of travellers who under-declare the number of zones crossed, to say nothing of the large number who don’t pay anything at all. What surprises me is that I haven’t yet heard anyone use the words “fascist aggression”.
Our present troubles may seem like extremely dark shadows in what I am convinced is otherwise a remarkably beautiful picture, but I wish AP had put this slightly differently: A deadly car bombing outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta left bloody corpses and severed human remains strewn across the busy commercial street. [snip] “I can’t…
The Bombay-based Life Insurance Corporation says that a eunuch called Janaki is ineligible for cover because he (the BBC uses “she” for some reason) is neither man nor woman. If I were an actuary, I’d be more worried about Janaki’s fortune-telling skills.